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英语知识50题

1.There are __C____ political divisions on the island of Great Britain.

A. one

B. two

C. three

D. four

2. Magna Carta had altogether 63 clauses of which the most important matters could be seen in three of the following except ___B____.

A. no tax should be made without the approval of the Grand Council;

B. no serf should be arrested, imprisoned or deprived of his property except by the law of the land

C. London and other towns should retain their ancient rights and privileges

D. There should be the same weights and measures through - out the country.

3. The first steam engine was devised by Thomas Newcomer at the end of the 17th century, and the Scottish inventor ____B____ modified and improved the design in 1765.

A. Abraham Darby

B. James Watt

C. John Kay

D. Richard Arkwright

4. In some areas factory farming methods are used, particularly for ___D_____.

A. growing crop

B. producing milk

C. catching fish

D. rearing poultry

5. By tradition, the leader of the majority party is appointed ___A___ by the Sovereign in the United Kingdom.

A. Prime Minister

B. Member of Parliament

C. Lord of Appeal

D. Speaker of the House

6. Under the Anglo - Irish Treaty, Britain established ___B____ with dominion status in Ireland in 1921.

A. the Anglican Church of Ireland

B. the Irish Free State

C. the Irish Republican Army

D. the Anglo - Irish Intergovernmental Council

7. Irish broadcasting began in ___C___ in a small studio called Dublin Broadcasting Station.

A. 1906

B. 1916

C. 1926

D. 1936

8. ___D____ realized that he could win support for the Union at home and abroad by making the war a just war against slavery.

A. Frederick Douglass

B. George Washington

C. John Adams

D. Abraham Lincoln

9. But even after the abolition of slavery, organized or individual discrimination was practiced against ___D___.

A. Chinese - Americans

B. American Indians

C. Japanese - Americans

D. black Americans

10. From 1948 to 1966 average yearly growth in real spendable earnings was ___B___ percent in the United States.

A. 1.1

B. 2.1

C. 3.1

D. 4.1

11. After a period of prosperity (1920 ~ 1929), government involvement in the economy increased ____A_____.

A. during the Great Depression

B. after the WW I

C. after the WW II

D. during the Cold War

12. The United States grows nearly ___B__ of the world's grain and supplies

a half of all the exports of grain in the world.

A. one third

B. one fourth

C. one sixth

D. one seventh