英美文化试题

英美文化试题
1. The executive power is in the hands of ________.
A. Parliament
B. the House of Commons
C. the Cabinet headed by the Prime Minister
D. the Queen
2. In Britain, government cannot spend any money without the permission of _______.
A. the Queen
B. the Primer Minister
C. the House of Lord
D. the House of Commons
3. The general election in Britain is held every _______ years.
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
4. The famous “Scotland Yard” refers to _______.
A. CIA
B. CID
C. New Scotland Yard
D. Greater Londo n
5. Which of the following is not one of the functions that Parliament plays?
A. To serve as the final court of appeal in civil cases and criminal cases.
B. To make laws.
C. To control and criticize the executive government.
D. To control the raising and the spending of money.
6. The British government is established on the basis of ______.
A. federal system
B. central system
C. constitutional system D constitutional monarchy
7. _______ is in power in Britain now?
A. Labour party
B. Conservative Party
C. the coalition of Labour Party and Liberal Democratic Party
D. the coalition of Conservative Party and Liberal Democratic Party
8. The President of the United States exercises the ______ power.
A. legislative
B. executive
C. judicial
D. veto
9. How many continental states were there at the time of independence of the United States?
A. 35. C. 48.
B. 13. D. 50.
10. Representatives in the United Sates are elected ______.
A. annually
B. every two years
C. every three years
D. every four years
11. The congress of America consists of the Representatives and _____.
A. parliament
B. the House of Commons
C. The House of Lords
D. Senate
12. The Constitution of the United States says that only ______ can declare war upon other nations.
A. the president
B. Congress
C. Department of Defence
D. the National security council
13. The General Election in the United States is held every ______. Year.
A. three
B. four
C. five
D. six
14. The newly elected president takes up on ______.
A. January 10th
B. January 20th of the next year
C. march 10th
D. April 20th of the next year
15. There are two major parties in USA, one of which is Democratic Party, and the other is______.
A. Green party
B. Republican Party
C. the Federal party
D. Conservative party
英美文学复习试题
1. When appreciating a piece of literature, readers are more likely to read the ______ the meanings that attach to words in order to have a deeper understanding.
A. denotative
B. connotative
C. objective
D. precise
2. When reading a piece of literature, a reader should pay attention to the way the author uses language, which includes the following EXCEPT ________.
A. choice of words
B. the sentence structure
C. the sound qualities
D. the appearance of the character
3. Which of the following terms does NOT belong to the forms of poetry?
A. ballad,
B. sonnet
C. fiction
D. ode
4. Which of the following is NOT one of the four great tragedies written William Shakespeare ?
A. Hamlet
B. King Lear
C. Macbeth
D. Romeo and Juliet
5. The most important effect of the fictionallity(虚构) of literature is to create a ______ between the readers and
the material presented, physically and psychologically, for the sake of free rein of emotional control.
A. distance
B. fear
C. sympathy
D. surprise
6. There are many kinds of literary genres (文体) in English literature. Which of the following is NOT one of
them ?
A. fiction
B. drama
C. stanza
D. essay
7. What is the key note of English Renaissance?
A. optimism
B. humanism
C. pessimism
D. romanticism
8. The famous saying,“Knowledge is power” , is quoted by ______.
A. Francis Bacon
B. William Shakespeare
C. Karl Mark
D. Jane Austen
9. ______was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.
A. The Renaissance
B. The Enlightenment
C. The Religious Reformation
D. The Chartist Movement
10. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The sentence is the beginning of Shakespeare’s _____.
A. comedy
B. tragedy
C. sonnet
D. poem
11. Francis Bacon is best known for his _____ which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.
A. essays
B. poems
C. works
D. plays
12. Which of the following sequences correctly tells the English history of literature?
A. the Roman Period, the Celtic Period, the Anglo-Saxon Period
B. the Anglo-Saxon Period, the Celtic Period, the Roman Period
C. the Celtic Period, the Roman Period, the Anglo-Saxon Perio d
D. the Celtic Period, the Anglo-Saxon Period, the Roman Period
13. “To be, or not to be _____ that is the question; whether’tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and a rrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?” Who said these words?
A. King Lear
B. Romeo
C. Antonio
D. Hamlet
14. Bacon’s achievements mainly lie in the following fields except ______.
A. philosophy
B. science
C. essay writing
D. poem writing
15. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Who is the author of this line?
A. John Keats
B. John Donne
C. Percy Bysshe Shelley
D. William Shakespeare
16. In 1798, the publication of the 2nd edition of_____, the Preface to which by Wordsworth serves as the
manifest of Romanticism.
A. Lyrical Ballads
B. Jane Eyre
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. David Copperfield
17. The following are some kinds of drama EXCEPT_______.
A. melodrama
B. romantic drama
C. tragedy
D. comedy
18. In Aristotle’s definition, “tragedy” refers to the imitation of an action that is serious and complete and of a
certain magnitude achieving a catharsis (陶冶，净洗，宣泄) (purification) through incidents arousing pity and ______.
A. tears
B. sympathy
C. fear
D. astonishment
19. Senecan tragedy is also called _______.
A. Romance Tragedy
B. Tragedy of Blood
C. Tragicomedy
D. Social Tragedy
20. Which one of the following is NOT one of the great playwrights in ancient Greece?
A. Aristophanes
B. Euripides
C. Sophocles
D. Aeschylus
21. The idea of “Oedipus Complex”comes from a Greek mythology, from which ______ wrote his famous
tragedy “Oedipus”.
A. Aristophanes
B. Euripides
C. Aeschylus
D. Sophocles
22. Which one of the following is NOT one of the four great comedies of William Shakespeare?
A. As You Like It
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. The Merchant of Venice
D. The Twelfth Night
23. Hamlet is the Prince of ________.
A. England
B. Scotland
C. Holland
D. Demark
24. Which one is NOT a role in Hamlet?
A. Gertrude B Ophelia C. Claudius D. Cordelia
25. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to _____.
A. 1798---1832
B. 1836---1901
C. the Romantic Period
D. the Neoclassical Period
26. Washington Irving was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation and regarded as
_____.
A. Father of the American drama
B. Father of the American poetry
C. Father of the American literature
D. Father of the American short stories
27. The author of the work “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is _____.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C.Samuel Johnson
D. Francis Bacon
28. Which of the following writings is by Hemingway described the novel the one book from which “all modern
American literature comes?”
A. Tom Sawyer
B. Huckleberry Finn
C. The Gilded Age
D. Life on the Mississippi
29. In the English history, who is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist?
A. Leopold Bloom
B. E.M. Forster
C. James Joyce
D. D.H. Lawrence
30. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “______.”
A. free verse
B. blank verse
C. alliteration
D. end rhyming
31. It is ______ who put forward the method of psychoanalysis which emphasizes the importance of
unconsciousness or the irrational in the human psyche.
A. Karl Jung
B. John Locke
C. Sigmund Freud
D. Karl Marx
32. Which the following authors is NOT one of the masters of Stream of Consciousness?
A. Virginia Woolf
B. James Joyce
C. William Faulkner
D. D. H. Laurence
33. “In a Station of th e Metro” is a classic _____ poem written by Ezra Pound.
A. Symbolic
B. Imagist
C. Realistic
D. Romantic
34. “Cantos“is the masterpiece of ______ which is an amalgam混合物of various languages and cultures,
revealing the chaotic and meaningless world.
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Ezra Pound
D. John Steinbeck
35. The most important feature of American literature is _______.
A. long history
B. religious tendency
C. multi-cultural
D. political inclination
36. Which of the following writers does not belong to the Age of Realism ?
A.Mark Twain
B. Stephen Crane
C. Henry James
D. William Dean Howells
37. The Civil War (1861-1965) brought to an end, and came into existence.
A. the Colonial Period; the Romantic Period
B. the Romantic Period; the Colonial Period
C. the Age of Realism; the Romantic Period
D. the Romantic Period; the Age of Realism
38. William Faulkner made the history of the _____ the subject of the bulk of his work, and created a symbolic
picture of the remote past.
A. Deep South
B. Midwest
C. New England
D. Europe
39. In 1954, was a warded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D. William Faulkner
40. ______is the period stretching roughly from the settlement of North America in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th century .
A. The Romantic Period
B. The Period of Enlightenment
C. The Colonial Period
D. The American Puritanism
1. The First Continental Congress was held in _____ in September, 1774.
A. Philadelphia
B. Boston
C. New York
2. The American War of Independence started in _____ and ended in _____.
A. 1776, 1784
B. 1775, 1783
C. 1706, 1714
3. During the Civil War Lincoln issued the _____, which declared the abolition of slavery.
A. Homestead Bill
B. Emancipation Proclamation
C. Both A and B
4. The First World War broke out on July 28th, _____ and ended on November 11th, _____, lasting for about four years.
A. 1913, 1917
B. 1914, 1918
C. 1915, 1919
5. The _____ was the treaty signed at Versailles, near Paris in France in 1919.
A. Paris Treaty
B. Versaills Treaty
C. Teheran Treaty
6. The _____ broke out in June 1950 and ended in the summer of 1953.
A. Vietnam War
B. Cold War
C. Korean War
7. The Second World War broke out in September, _____ and ended in August _____.
A. 1939, 1945
B. 1937, 1943
C. 1938, 1945
8. The President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a policy called _____ to save the economic situation.
A. Good Neighbour
B. the Open Door Policy
C. the New Deal
9. In Feb. _____ came President Nixon’s historic visit to China.
A. 1979
B. 1972
C. 1973
10. The Declaration of Independence was drafted by a committee including _____ as head.
A. George Washington
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. both A and B
11. _____ was the only American president who was re-elected three times in succession.
A. Theodore Roosevelt
B. George Washington
C. Franklin
D. Roosevelt D. Thomas Jefferson
12. Among the five Great Lakes, only _____ is wholly within the United States.
A. Erie
B. Superior
C. Michigan
13. _____ part is the most densely populated region in America.
A. The southern
B. The northeaster n
C. The western
14. _____ has been called the “cradle of American Liberty”.
A. Philadelphia
B. Plymouth
C. Boston
15. The highest mountain in the U.S. is Mount _____.
A. Appalachian
B. Mekinley
C. Rocky
16. Hawaii is in the _____ Ocean.
A. Atlantic
B. Indian
C. Pacific
17. _____ is the largest state in area in the U.S.A.
A. Florida
B. Louisiana
C. Alaska
18. The _____ were the original inhabitants in America.
A. blacks
B. Indians
C. Puerto Ricans
19. In _____ people can find the historical spot, the Independence National Historical Park.
A. Philadelphia
B. St. Louis
C. San Francisco
20. England occupies the _____ portion of the U.K.
A. northern
B. eastern
C. southern
21. London is situated on the River of _____.
A. Parret
B. Thames
C. Spey
22. Edinburgh is the capital of _____.
A. England
B. Scotland
C. Wales
23. The three Germanic tribes that invaded Britain include the following except _____.
A. the Angles
B. the Saxons
C. the Picts
D. the Jutes
24. The capital city of Northern Ireland is _____.
A. Cardiff
B. Belfast
C. Leith
25 Celtic tribes began to settle in Britain from about _____ B.C.
A. 410
B. 750
C. 300
26. Scotland occupies the _____ portion of Great Britain.
A. southern
B. northern
C. western
27. _____ includes London，the centre of government for the whole nation.
A. Scotland
B. Northern Ireland
C. Wales
D. England。