湖北中医学院英美概况试题答案

湖北中医学院《英语国家概况》期末考试试题答案（A卷）

(07-08学年第1学期2008.01)

I: Choose the best answer from A, B, C, and D for each item. (20%, 1×20)

1-5: DDBDB 6-10: BBDDB 11-15: CBADA 16-20: CDCAB

II: Fill in the blanks with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1×20)

1. Union Jack

2. the central government

3. the monarch

4. the Prime Minister

5. privatization

6. Christianity

7. Thomas Becket 8. Joan of Arc

9. The Enclosure Movement 10. Divine Right of Kings

11. the Munich Pact 12. William Wordsworth

13. The Declaration of Independence 14. Treaty of Wangxia

15. isolationism 16. international peace

17. the Atlantic Charter 18. World Trade Center

19. Walt Whitman 20. George W. Bush

III: T ranslate the following Chinese phrases into English and English into Chinese. (20%, 1×20)

1. 贵族院(上议院)

2. 经济学中的凯恩斯学派

3. 大宪章

4. 末日审判书

5. 君权神授

6. 清教徒前辈移民

7. 参议院8. 中央情报局

9. 门罗主义10. 门户开放政策

11. the Constitutional Monarchy 12. the Tudor Monarchy

13. the Glorious Revolution 14. the European Union (EU)

15. the British Commonwealth of Nations 16. the melting pot

17. the social welfare programs 18. the Watergate Scandal

19. the Katrina Hurricane 20. the war on terror (the counter-terrorism war)

IV: Decide whether the following statements are true [T] or false [F]. (10%, 1×10)

1-5: TFFFT 6-10: TFFTT

V: Briefly answer the following questions. (No more than 120 words for each question) (30%, 5×6)

1. How does the British climate influence the characters of British people?

Other countries have a climate, but in England they just have weather. This statement, often made by Englishmen to describe the peculiar meteorological conditions of their country, is both revealing and true.

In no country other than England, can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day. The snag is that we never can be sure when the different types of weather will occur. This uncertainty about the weather has had a definite effect on the Englishman’s Characters; it tends to make them cautious (reserved). The foreigners may laugh when they see the Englishmen setting forth on a brilliantly sunny morning wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella, but he may regret his laughter in the later day! The British weather also has helped to make them adaptable. It has been said that one of the reasons why the English colonized so much of the world was that, whatever the weather conditions they met abroad, they had already experienced something like them at home.