英语国家国情试题库-英国与爱尔兰

英国与爱尔兰Part One Multiple Choice1.Which of the following is not a name people use to refer to the UK? BA. Great BritainB. The British IslandC. The United KingdomD. Britain2.is the capital city of Wales. DA. BelfastB. EdinburghC. AberdeenD. Cardiff3.According to a 2005 estimate, Britain now has a population of over ________ millions. CA. 160B. 600C. 60D. 164.The two landmarks of London are _________. AA. Guildhall and St. Paul’s CathedralB. Guildhall and Covent GardenC. City Hall and St. Paul’s CathedralD. City Hall and Covent Garden5.Among the four parts of the United Kingdom, is the smallest. DA. EnglandB. ScotlandC. WalesD. Northern Ireland6.The largest lake in the UK is located in ________. DA. EnglandB. WalesC. ScotlandD. Northern Ireland7.English belongs to the group of Indo-European family of languages. CA. CelticB. Indo-IranianC. GermanicD. Roman8.In the early part of 11th century, ________ replaced English as the official language in England. BA. GermanB. FrenchC. CelticD. Indo-European9.English was standardized because of the ________. AA. introduction of printing pressB. first industrial revolutionC. reins of William the ConquerorD. French retreat from England10.The introduction of Christianity to Britain added the first element of ________ words to English DA. Danish and FinnishB. Dutch and GermanC. French and ItalianD. Latin and Greek11.Standard English is based on the speech of the upper class of ________. BA. southeastern EnglandB. southwestern EnglandC. southern ScotlandD. northern Wales12.At present, nearly of the world's population communicate in English. BA. halfB. a quarterC. one thirdD. one fifth13.Julius Caesar and his ________ troops invaded the British islands in year 55 BC. AA. RomanB. ItalianC. GreekD. Germanic14.The attack on Rome ended the Roman occupation in Britain in 410. DA. NormanB. DanishC. CelticD. Germanic15.By the late 7th century, became the dominant religion in England. DA. Celtic ChristianityB. Anglo-Saxon ChristianityC. Germanic ChristianityD. Roman Christianity16.All the coronations of the British nation have been held in ________ since the 11th century. BA. the City HallB. Westminster AbbeyC. the King’s CouncilD. Buckingham Place17.Westminster Abbey was built at the time of ________. BA. St. AugustineB. Edward the ConfessorC. William the ConquerorD. Alfred the Great18.________ improved the courts of justice, introduced the jury system and institutionalized common law in Britain. CA. Edward the ConfessorB. St. AugustineC. Henry IID. Duke William19.The marked the establishment of feudalism in England. DA. Viking invasionB. signing of the Magna CartaC. Norman ConquestD. Adoption of common law20.The Magna Carta protected the basic principles for the protection of ________ in Britain. AA. individual rightsB. feudal systemC. traditional rightsD. class system21.The two houses of parliament, instituted by the mid-14th century, was an effort to gain the support of ________. AA. middle classB. noblesC. clergymenD. lords22.The Hundred Year’s War was a series of wars fought between ________. CA. England and ScotlandB. England and WelsC. England and FranceD. England and Ireland23.During the Wars of the Roses, the White Rose was the badge of the ________. BA. House of LancasterB. House of YorkC. House of ValoisD. House of Tudor24.The end of the Wars of the Roses led to the role of . DA. the House of ValoisB. the House of YorkC. the House of TudorD. the House of Lancaster25.The direct cause for the Religious Reformation was King Henry VIII's effort to ________. AA. divorce his wifeB. break with RomeC. support the ProtestantsD. declare his supreme power over the church26.The English Civil War broke out in 1642 between . BA. Protestants and PuritansB. Royalists and ParliamentariansC. nobles and peasantsD. aristocrats and Christians27.The monarchy was abolished and England was declared a commonwealth after the execution of ________. BA. Oliver CromwellB. Charles IC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth I28.The Bills of Rights was passed by the Parliament directly after ________. BA. the Civil WarB. Glorious RevolutionC. Religious ReformationD. the Hundred Years War29.That ________ is not one of the Reasons for the industrial Revolution breaking out in Britain. CA. Britain had a huge marketB. England acquired wealth from India and AmericaC. England won more religious freedom from RomeD. enclosure movement deprived small landowners of property.30.Britain faced strong challenges in its global imperial dominance by the beginning of the ________ century. DA. 17thB. 18thC. 19thD. 20th31.The King or Queen is the head of state in Britain. Their powers are ________. AA. symbolicB. enormousC. moderateD. supreme32.The British government is characterized by a division of powers between three of the following branches with the exception of the ________ CA. judiciaryB. legislatureC. monarchyD. executive33.The British Constitution is made up of three main part with the exception of ________. DA. Statutory LawB. Common LawC. ConventionsD. the Unwritten34.The importance of the British monarchy can be seen in its effect on ________. DA. passing the billsB. advising the governmentC. political partiesD. public attitude35.British Cabinet works on the principle of ________ AA. collective responsibilityB. individual responsibilityC. defending the collectivismD. defending the individuals36.The house of Commons performs three functions except ________. DA. drafting new lawsB. scrutinizing government actionsC. supervising financeD. forming new cabinet37.________ can force a government to resign by passing a Motion of No Confidence. DA. The Cabinet C. the MonarchC. House of LordsD. House of Commons38.The main duty of the British Privy Council is to ________. BA. make decisionsB. give adviceC. pass billsD. supervise the Cabinet39.In Britain, the parliamentary general election is held every ________ years. CA. threeB. fourC. fiveD. six40.The two parties in the British political system are ________. AA. the Conservative and the LaborB. the Conservative and the UnionC. the Labor and the DemocratD. the Union and the Democrat41.The policies of the Conservative Party are characterized by pragmatism and ________. DA. government interventionB. nationalization of enterprisesC. social reformD. a belief in individualism42.The Labor Party affected the British society greatly in that it ________. AA. set up the National Health ServiceB. improved public transportationC. abolished the old tax systemD. enhanced the economic43.The national election in Britain usually lasts for _______ and then the counting begins. AA. one dayB. one weekC. two weeksD. one month44.In 2005, the Commonwealth became an organization composed of ________ countries. DA. 23B. 33C. 43D. 5345.The British economy achieved global dominance by the ________. CA. 1860sB. 1870sC. 1880sD. 1890s46.The ________ in the early 1970s worsened an already stagnant economy in Britain. AA. oil crisisB. high inflation ratesC. large importsD. unemployment problem47.Of the following practices, ________ does not belong to Thatcher's social welfare reform. CA. reducing child benefitsB. shortening the unemployment benefits periodC. reducing the unemploymentD. lowering old age pensions48.The Blair government has been successful in all the following aspects except ________. DA. limiting government spendingB. keeping inflation under controlC. reducing unemploymentD. reducing inequality49.Britain’s agriculture is not characterized by________. DA. small farming populationB. high degree of mechanizationC. advanced machineryD. high dependence on import50.The traditional energy industry in Britain is ________. AA. coal miningB. oil industryC. nuclear powerD. wind energy51.________ is not one of the top ten British companies in oil industry. DA. ShellB. BPC. BGD. GM52.The three major trends in the British economy since the war have been the following except ________. DA. the decline in the agricultural sectorB. the reduction in the industrial sectorC. the expansion of the service sectorD. the growing in the secondary industry53.The three principle financial centers of the world are ________. AA. London, New York and Tokyo.B. London, New York and Hong KongC. London, New York and ParisD. London, New York and Berlin54.The car industry in Britain is mostly ________. AA. foreign-ownedB. state-ownedC. joint-ventureD. privately-owned55.Of the following sectors in Britain, _______ has experienced spectacular growth since the end of World War II. CA. agricultureB. energy industryC. service industryD. manufacturing industrycation in Britain is compulsory for all children between ________. AA. 5 to 16B. 6 to 18C. 7 to 16D. 7 to 1857.Partially funded by central government grants, the British universities receive their remaining funds from all the following sources except________. BA. tuition feesB. loansC. donationsD. corporate contributions58.In Britain, the equivalent of the A-levels is the ________. AA. GNVQsB. GCSEC. GCSSD. GNSS59.Of the following, ________ is NOT a basis of admission to Britain's universities. AA. result in national entrance testB. A-level resultC. an interviewD. school references60.The only privately-financed university in Britain is ________. CA. OxfordB. CambridgeC. BuckinghamD. University of London61.In Britain, it is no exaggeration to say that the media can ________. BA. shape the public opinionsB. promote people’s moral standardsC. influence the rule of a governmentD. determine people’s political orientation62.The oldest national newspaper in Britain is ________. CA. The TimesB. The GuardianC. The ObserverD. The Daily Telegraph63.Among Britain's quality press, the following newspapers are regarded as the "Big Three" with the exception of ________. CA. The TimesB. The GuardianC. The ObserverD. The Daily Telegraph64.The top pay television provider in Britain is ________. DA. ITVB. BSBC. SkyTVD. BSkyB65.Of the following, ________ is NOT a common feature of all the British holidays. DA. families getting togetherB. friends exchanging good wishesC. friends enjoying each other's companyD. families traveling overseas66.The following Christmas traditions are particularly British except ________. AA. Trooping the ColorB. Queen's Christmas messageC. Boxing DayD. Christmas pantomime67.In Britain, for churchgoers, the most important Christian festival is _______. AA. EasterB. ChristmasC. Boxing DayD. Remembrance Sunday68.The most important work by authors in the Middle English period is _______. BA. BeowulfB. The Canterbury TalesC. The Tragic History of Dr. FaustusD. Areopagitica69.Shakespeare’s 37 plays fall into three categories except _______. CA. comedyB. tragedyC. fantasyD. historic play70.The most significant achievement of the English Renaissance is ________. BA. poetryB. dramaC. novelD. pamphlet71.Gulliver’s Travel was written by ________. AA. Jonathan SwiftB. John MiltonC. Alexander PopeD. Daniel Defoe72.The major “second generation” of Romantic poets included the following except ________. DA. Lord ByronB. Percy ShelleyC. John KeatsD. William Wordsworth73.________ is viewed as Romantic poetry's "Declaration of Independence". CA. "I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud"B. Don JuanC. "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"D. Prometheus Unbound74.In the Victorian era, the leading form of literature was ________. CA. poetryB. dramaC. novelD. pamphlet75.The distinguished English women novelists of the 19th century are the following except ________. DA. Jane AustenB. the Bronte sistersC. George EliotD. Virginia Woolf76.Of the following statements, ________ is NOT correct in terms of Neo- Romanticism. CA. It prevailed at the end of the 19th century.B. The writers were dissatisfied with the social reality.C. The writers believed in "Art for Art's Sake".D. Treasure Island was a representative work.77.Of the following statements, ________ is NOT correct about Virginia Woolf. DA. She was a central figure of the "Bloomsbury Group".B. She experimented with stream of consciousness.C. She was an influential feminist.D. Her masterpiece was The Rainbow.78.Of the following writers, ________ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner. BA. Samuel BeckettB. James JoyceC. William GoldingD.V.S. Naipaul79.The island of Ireland is separated from mainland Europe by ________. AA. the Celtic SeaB. the Irish SeaC. the North SeaD. the English Channel80.The largest city in Ireland is ________. AA. DublinB. CorkC. WaterfordD. Galway81.________ established a unified Irish culture and language in the 6th century BC. BA. Hunter-gatherers from BritainB. Celtic tribesC. British invadersD. Viking Danes82.The ________ resulted in the Irish Civil War. CA. Act of UnionB. Unilateral Declaration of IndependenceC. Anglo-Irish TreatyD. Anglo-Irish Agreement83.Under the leadership of Prime Minister John A. Costello, a series of legislation was passed in Ireland in order to ________. AA. reduce inflation and living costB. reduce secondary industry and productionC. establish better social welfare systemD. build closer political relation with the UK84.By 1980, the following except ________ were all serious problems in the Irish society. BA. inflationB. budget deficitC. unemploymentD. foreign debt85.Ireland declared itself a republic in ________, completely independent of Britain. CA. 1900B. 1939C. 1949D. 195986.In 1985, after successful negotiation with the British Prime Minister ________, Ireland signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement with the UK. AA. Margaret ThatcherB. Tony BlairC. Mary RobinsonD. Albert Reynolds87.Ireland is called "the Celtic Tiger" because of its ________. BA. aggressive foreign policiesB. rapid economic growthC. growing emigrationD. vigorous economic reform88.Ireland has four main political parties including ________. BA. Fianna FailB. the Democratic PartyC. the Labor PartyD. Fine Gael89.In Ireland, most people are ________. AA. Roman CatholicB. ProtestantC. MuslimD. Orthodox Christian90.In Ireland, the head of state is the ________. BA. Prime MinisterB. PresidentC. British monarchD. General GovernorPart Two True or False1.The island of Great Britain is geographically divided into three parts: England, Scotland and Wales. T2.People in different parts of Britain like to use the name England to refer to their country. F3.The name of Britain came from a Celtic tribe----the Britons. T4.The Anglo-Saxons came to Britain in the mid-5th century. T5.Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal are all members in the British Upper House. T6.The members in the House of Commons are appointed rather than elected. F7.Britain is the world's leading exporter of poultry and dairy products. F8.The fishing industry provides more than 50% of Britain's demand for fish. T9.The BBC World Service broadcasts only in English throughout the world. F10.Some British holidays are celebrated to mark the important events of the Christian calendar, and others are related to local customs and traditions. T11.Hamlet depicts the hero's struggle with two opposing forces: moral integrity and the need to avenge his father's murder. T12.Alexander Pope was a great English poet who also translated Homer's Iliad. T13.In Ireland, both the House of Representatives and the Senate have the power of making laws. F14.English is the only official language in Ireland, because the majority of people speak it as their mother tongue. F15.London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom. T16.The King James Bible is considered to be in Modern English. T17.Magna Carta was made in the interest of the lower class. F18.The British Civil War broke out in 1642 between the Royalists known as the Cavaliers and Parliamentarians known as the Roundheads. T19.Britain is both a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy. T20.The Parliament is supreme decision-making body in the British government. F21.Before World War II, the leadership of Britain was almost continually in the hands of the Conservative Party. T22.The British Empire is the successor of the Commonwealth of Nations. F23.During Thatcher’s leadership, the power of the trade unions was curbed. T24.In Britain, there are two parallel school systems for primary and secondary school. One is the state system. The other is the occupational system. F25.The Boxing Day falls on the day after Easter. F26.Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English Critical Realism at the turn of the 19th century. T27.T. S. Eliot was the leading figure of the modernist movement in English poetry. T28.After WWII, Ireland had slightly a better economy when Britain and mainland Europe experienced economic devastation. F29.Fianna Fail, originally part of Sinn Fein, is the largest party in Ireland. T30.Ireland is the second country with the lowest population density. FPart Three Blank Filling1.The Great Britain is geographically and historically divided into three parts: England, Scotland, and_Wales_.2.During the period of William the Conqueror, _French_, spoken by the Normans, replaced English as the official language in England, while English was only used by thelower class.3._The Hundred Years' War_ (1337-1453) was a series of wars fought between England and France over trade, territory, security and the throne.4.the _enclosure movement_ (圈地运动) deprived many small landowners of their property. This new class of "landless laborer" now had to seek paid employment from thelarge landowner or to find work in the rapidly growing industrial areas.5.The _Industrial Revolution_ began in the textile industry and was marked by a series of important inventions, such as the Spinning Jenny.6.Britain refused to join the European _Economic_ Community (EEC) when it was founded in the 1950s.7.As a parliamentary democracy, the British government is characterized by a division of powers among the legislature, _the executive_ and the judiciary.8.The _House of Commons_, though often referred to as the Lower House, is the center of parliamentary power.9.The government is made up of the _Prime Minister_, the Cabinet ministers, and assistants to the ministers.10.The headquarters and the standing bodies of the Commonwealth of Nations are all located in _London_.11.Now, education in Britain is divided into four stages: primary, secondary, further education and _higher education_.12.The _British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (英国广播公司)_, affectionately referred to as the "Beeb" or "Auntie Beeb", is Britain's main public service broadcaster.13.One of Britain's most impressive and colorful festivals takes place on the second Saturday in June, when the Queen's official birthday is officially celebrated with_"Trooping the Color''_ around Buckingham Palace in London, which is also known as the Queen's Birthday Parade.14.The capital city of Ireland is _Dublin_, which straddles the mouth of the River Liffey, which flows through the city center.15.There are two dominant official languages in Ireland, _Gaelic(or Irish)_ and English.16.Edinburgh, the capital of _Scotland_, is famous for the University of Edinburgh, one of the largest universities in Britain.17.At present, nearly _a quarter_ of the world's population use English. It has become a universal lingua franca.18.After Richard I, son of Henry II, was killed in France, his brother John ascended the throne in 1199. Dissatisfied with John's leadership, the lords forced him to sign the_Magna Carla(大宪章)_, or the Great Charter, as it is more commonly referred to, on June 15, 1215.19.The _Wars of the Roses_ (1455-1485) was a series of civil wars between two great noble families: the House of York (约克王室), whose badge was a white rose, and theHouse of Lancaster.20.The process of decolonization transformed the British Empire into _the Commonwealth of Nations_.21.Besides Oxford, _Cambridge_ is one of the oldest universities in the world and one of the largest in Britain.22.At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, _Romanticism_ appeared in England as a new trend in literature. It is a revolt against the prescribed rules of Classicism.23.The 20th-century English literature can be roughly divided into two periods: Modernism and _Postmodernism_.24._James Joyce (1882-1941)_, an Irish novelist, is another of the novel Ulysses.25.The island of Ireland is the _second_ largest island in Europe.26._Sinn Fein (新芬党)_ was founded at the beginning of the 20th century by Arthur Griffith, leader supporting Irish home rule. By 1910, it had become the country'sdominant political party.27._Standard English_ is based on the speech of the upper class of southeastern England, adopted as a broadcasting standard in the British media. It is also called Queen'sEnglish or BBC English.28.The full name of Britain is the _United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland_.29._England_ is the most populous and wealthiest part of Britain.30.In Britain, the majority of the population is descendants of _the Anglo-Saxons_, a Germanic people from Europe who went to England between the 5th and 7th centuries. Part Four Short-Answer Questions1.How many periods can the development of the English language be divided into and what are they?The development of the English language can be divided into three periods: Old English, Middle English and Modem English.2.Why did Britain cooperate closely with the United States after WWII?Because they were allied during the war and shared the same worries about the former Soviet Union.3.What are the three functions of the House of Commons?The three functions are: to draft laws, to scrutinize, criticize and restrain the activities of the government, and to influence future government policy。