英美文化3000句(英文)

I,American culture 600

II,British culture 377

III,Other countries‘ culture 200

IV. Intelligence test 100

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Part I American Culture

1. Versailles Treaty System was the result of Paris Conference in North America.

2. The stock market crash was the beginning of a long economic depression in the U.S.

3. In 1932, in the depth of the depression, the American people chose Franklin as their next president who promised to get America out of the depression.

4. By the year of 2050, American population is expected to climb to 383 million.

5. The 1920s in the United States has been described by many historians as a period of spiritual frustration.

6. The decision on setting –up of a world organization: the United Nations was made at Yalta（雅尔塔）Conference.

7. Cotton is the leading commercial crop in the South of America.

8. The first blacks were brought to North America as slaves in 1619. Most blacks were slaves before 1863.

9. The Civil Rights Movement in the US was take place in 1960s.

10. The slavery was legally abolished in 1865 by the thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

11. The ―first Americans‖ were the Indians.

12. Puritan tradition was mainly developed in Massachusetts Bay colony.

13. The Civil War cost America 618,000 lives.

14. After the Civil War, the United States saw great developments in agriculture.

15. The Constitution was first ratified by Delaware in December 1787.

16. In September 1774, the First Continental congress was held in Philadelphia, which encouraged Americans to refuse to buy British goods.

17. American victory at Saratoga was a great turning point of the war, leading directly to an alliance between the U.S. and France.

18. After President Jefferson brought the Louisiana territory from France, there was a desire for territorial expansion among many frontier men.

19. The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to be a free state.

20. President Lincoln was shot dead five days after General Lee, commanding general of the Confederate army surrendered his troops.

21. Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing racial and ethnic group in the United States.

22. During the 13 years of Indian wars after the War of Independence, the Americans forced England to give up the old Northwest.

23. The US Constitutional was officially adopted on March 4, 1789.

24. The United States had a more or less open-door policy to immigration from independence until the 1960s.

25. The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.

26 The United States did not join the Second World War directly until Pearl Harbor incident in December, 1941.

26. There were four great population movements in the history of the United States.

27. The largest land that the U.S. got from France was the Louisiana Territory.

28. Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution formally ended the slave system.

29. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the southern states broke away and found the Confederate States of America.

30. The American Civil War broke out in 1861 and ended in 1865 .

31. The Vietnam war turned out to be America‘s longest war it ever fought.

32. The War of Independence started in 1775 and ended in 1783.

33. Alaska and Hawaii were accepted into the United States of America in 1959.

34. Each of the fifty states of US elects 2 senators.

35. There are 9 judges in the Supreme Court of America.

36. The first ten amendments added to the constitution in 1791 was called the Bill of Rights.

37. The Constitution determines the government and divides the power of the government into three branches.

38. The parties in the US choose all their candidates for election, except for president, as ―primary election ‖.

39 In American history 4 presidents have been assassinated.

40. The president who was first assassinated in 1865 was Abraham Lincoln.

41. There are 12 persons in the Jury.

42. There are 100 members in the Senate.

43. According to the Constitution, the president should be a citizen born in the US territory.

44. The two main parties are the Democratic and the Republican Party.

45. The general election in America is held every 4 years.

46. The symbol of the US Democratic Party is donkey.

47. The number of Congressmen from each state varies depending on the size of the population.

48.There are 13 departments in American Government.

49. All states in America have the legislative branch of two houses except the state Nebraska .

50. In each state there are about 60 counties on average.

51. It was Columbus who first discovered the America in 1492.

52. The Indians living in America are all red skinned and dark-haired.

53. The First World War broke out on July 28th in 1914 .

54 In 1620 some English Puritans sailed to Plymouth on a ship called Mayflower.

55. Lexington Fire was the prelude of the War of Independence.

56. In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France .

57. The U.S.- Spanish War broke out in 1898.

58. The Great Depression of 1929 - 1933 shook the United States and the whole capitalist world to its foundation.

59.. The Cold War policy went into effect by the spring of 1947 when Truman Doctrine came forth.

60. The Confederate Union of America consisted of 11 southern states.

61. By the end of 19th century, the U.S. had become the most powerful country in the world.

62. The U.S. bought the area of Alaska from Russia in 1867.

63. During Washington‘s administration Thomas Jefferson was appointed Secretary of State .

64. President John Q. Adams was the son of the second president, John Adams.

65. The forming of the Holy Alliance was to suppress the South American revolution.

66. The first great tide from 1840 to 1860 in America was the Westward movement.

67. The famous novel ―Uncle Tom‘s Cabin‖ by Mrs. Stowe aroused a great and universal hatred for slavery.

68. Only the Supreme Court has the right to interpret the constitution.

69. The U.S. bought the area of Alaska from Russia in 1867.

70. The Federal Constitution consists of 7 articles and 26 amendments.

71. The balance is always kept among the three branches of the power of the government and this is called the ―System of Checks and Balance‖.

72. In1607 the first group of English colonists came to America.

73. Impeachment is the only way in which the president can legally be removed from office.

74. A man named John Brown began a rising which aimed at solving the slavery trouble by force.

75. In American history, only president Reagan survived an assassination of being shot.

76. Andrew Jackson was the first president who developed the power of veto into one of the means of making laws.

77. In the US the chief function of Congress is to make laws.

78. During Washington‘s administration Thomas Jefferson was appointed Secretary of State.

79. The forming of the Holy Alliance was to suppress the South American revolution.

80. The head of he House of Representatives is called the Speaker.

81. The bourgeois democratic personages headed by Thomas Jefferson, were opposed to the Constitution. They were called anti-federalist _.

81. The seat of the American Federal Government is the District of Columbia.

82. The eastern part is made up of the highlands formed by the Appalachian Range.

83. The famous Yellowstone National Park is located in the northwestern part of Wyoming.

84. The western part of the central plain is also called the ―Great Plains _‖.

85. The Mississippi River flows from the Great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

86. The lowest point in the whole of North America is Death Valley _.

87. The world-known Colorado Valley lies in northern Arizona, which is cut by the Colorado River.

88. The largest island salt lake in North America is the Great Salt Lake.

89. The United States includes50 states and a federal district, the District of Columbia.

90. The two main tributaries of the Mississippi River are the Missouri River and the Ohio River.

91. The five Great Lakes lie between the boundary of Canada and the United States.

92. Through the middle of the country, north and south, runs a line which is known as the 50 centimeter Rainfall Line.

93. The South region in America has in general, a warm climate. People often call it the ―Sunny South ‖.

94. The largest state, Alaska, is famous for its glacier, waterfall and ripples.

95. ABC, CNN, CBS are U.S. news and cable network.

96. Associate‘s degre e is offered in community colleges in the United States.

97. U.S. presidents normally serve a four-year term..

98. By the end of 19th century, the U.S. had become the most powerful country in the world.

99. Harvard University was founded in 1636.

100. The state to which the Mayflower sailed is Massachusetts.

101. The U.S.A is known as a ―Melting pot‖ for its mixture of nationalities.

102. In the Civil War, Lincoln issued the famous The Emancipation Proclamation.(解放黑奴宣言)

103. Thomas A Edison had the title ―the Wizard of Menlo Park‖.

104. The first American President who inaugurated in Washington City was Thomas Jefferson.

105. The ―Big Stick‖ Policy was advanced by President Theodore Roosevelt.

106. The British established 13 colonies along the east coast of north America.

107. In Jan. 1918, American President Woodrow Wilson prepared his ―Fourteen Point‖ as a basis of peace negotiation.

108. Jone Wycliffe took up the translation of the Bible into English for the first time.

109. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a well-known policy called the New Deal.

110. The Declaration of Independence was drafted by Thomas Jefferson.

111. On Aug. 14, 1941, the U.S. and Britain issued a joint communiqué called the Atlantic charter.

112. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution was called The Bill of Rights.

113. ―The Lost Generation‖ refers to the young people in the post-WWI era.

114. The period of the ―Cold War‖ began when the Truman Doctrine came forth in March 1947.

115. The largest public library in the US is Library of Congress.

116. The 1920s in the United States has been described as a period of loss of purpose.

117. During the Civil War Lincoln took two important measures, one was the Homestead Bill, the 24. The American policy towards the Soviet Union after the Second World War was containment.

118. Jazz is considered America‘s unique contribution to music.

119. Galileo was the first to apply the telescope to the study of the skies.

120. The New Frontier was put forward by Kennedy.

121. The Library of Congress is in the city of Washington.

122. New England is located in the northeastern corner of the country.

123. The Cold War policy went into effect by the spring of 1947 when Truman Doctrine came forth.

124. American senators are elected every six years.

125. The functions of institutions of higher education in the US are teaching, research and public service. 126. The largest religious group in America is Protestants.

127. Christopher Columbus landed on one of the Bahama Islands in 1492.

128. Mississippi River is the longest and the most important river in the system of Gulf.

129. The Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.

130. Philadelphia has been called the ―cradle of American liberty‖.

131. The United States is the third most populous country in the world.

132. Baseball is supposed to be America‘s national sport and used to be call ―American‘s favorable pastime‖. 133. The last one of the 13 colonies was _ Georgia ___, which was established in 1733.

134. New York, called the ―Big Apple‖, is the largest city in the United States, and the financial, manufacturing and transportation center.

135. the longest road in the world connects the US and Canada.

136. in which holiday do people light Jack-O-Lantern? Halloween

137. the national flower of the US is rose

138. the most popular religion in the US is Christianity.

139. ―king of Rock‘n‘Roll‖ is Elvis Presley.

140. name three famous drink brands in the US: Cocacola,Pepsi, Sprite, Seven-up,

141. name 2 famous US car brands: Buick, Hummer, Chevrolet, 福特(Ford)、林肯(Lincoln)、Thunderbird, 142. name 2 powerful parties in the US: Republic and Democracy

143. the president who got involved in the Watergate scandal is Nixon

144. ―I have a dream‖ is a famous speech by Martin Luther King

145. the first African American president is Obama

146. Obama is 44th US president.

147. Obama belongs to Democratic party

148. in the tragic 9.11 the world trade center and the pentagon were attacked.

149.The most influential newspaper in the US are Los Angeles Times, the Washington post and New York times

150.colors in the US national flag are red, white, and blue

151.The natives of the continent of the America are the Indians.

152.Presidential election is held every four years in November in the U.S.A.

153.in 1979, the United States and China established diplomatic relations.

154.new Orleans is the state where jazz came into being.

155.Philadelphia is called the ―cradle of American liberty‖.

156.The symbol of the US Republican Party is elephant.

157. Broadway is the centre of theatres in America.

158. The New World was named after Amerigo Vespucci.

159. The First World War broke out on July 28th in 1914.

160. In 1620 some English Puritans sailed to Plymouth on a ship called Mayflower

161. On July 4th, 1776, the document called the Declaration of Independence was accepted by the American Congress.

162. The first English colony was Virginia.

163. In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France _.

164.The U.S.- Spanish War broke out in 1898.

165. The Constitution Convention lasted 13 weeks from May to September, 1787

166. The Constitution drawn up at the end of Independence War is called the Articles of the Confederation. 167. The Constitution of 1787 established the dictatorship of the America bourgeoisie big capitalists and big slave owners.

168. The Truman Administration decided to provide aid for Greece and Turkey -to avoid these two countries fall into the hands of Soviet Union in 1947.

169. Revenue bills must first come from the House of Representatives.

170.After the Second World War，both the US and the Soviet Union first attempted to exercise control over Eastern Europe.

171. During the Missile Crisis，Soviet Union not sent long-range missiles to Cuba.

172. The United States and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations in __1979

173.On June 5，1947，George Marshall suggested that the US should offer economic aid to Western Europe so as to protect the region from Soviet expansion.

174.McCarthyism was a full-scale，anti-Communist hysteria in the United States in the 1950s.

175.Marshall Plan was announced on June 5，__1947

176. Education was made a function of the state under the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

177.Under the pressure of the Anti-war Movement，Johnson decided not to run for the presidency for a second term.

178. The Standard Oil Company was founded by Rockefeller

179. Abraham Lincoln belonged to the Republican Party

180. The V oting Rights Act of 1965 was meant to guarantee the blacks and others the right to vote.

181. The President cannot veto a law if Congress passes it by a two-thirds vote at the second time.

182. By vote of Congress in 1968，the third Monday of every January is now a federal holiday in the honor of Martin Luther King.

183.The American Constitutional was went up to in 1791.

184. Kennedy proposed the program of New Frontier.

185. The president of the United States is the head of the executive branch.

186. The community college made its appearance in the early 1900s.

187. The aim of President Roosevelt's New Deal was to ―save democracy‖.

188. The Truman Doctrine was directed against Communism.

189. Woman obtained voting right from the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

190. Presidential election is held every four years in November in the U.S.A.

191. In America，the constitution provides that Vice President shall be President of the Senate.

192. The heads of the various executive departments form a council of advisers generally know as the President's Cabinet.

193. The slavery was legally abolished in 1865 by the thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

194. The Constitution allows the President to give reprieves and pardons(特设) in federal criminal cases. 194. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution formally ended the slave system.

195. The Cuban Missile Crisis happened in 1962

196. President Truman made the open declaration of the containment policy.

197.In December，1956，the Supreme Court declared Alabama 's segregation laws unconstitutional. 198. The United States has a free market economy with a dominant private sector.

199. There are over 2000 universities, colleges and other institutions in the United States.

200. VOA Radio Station was established in 1894.

201. Harvard is the earliest university in America.

202. American children usually begin their school at the age of 6 .

203. There are four grades in universities. They are freshman, sophomore, junior and senior.

204. In the year 1958 the first satellite was launched in America

205. The Metropolitan Museum and other two museums located in the city of New York .

206.The year 1969 saw the success of human‘s first lunar landing by Apollo 11.

207.The Vietnam War lasted 12 years.

208.The largest group of Asian-Americans is the Chinese-Americans.

209.The first successful English colony was established in 1607.

210.On July 4, 1776, held the Second Continental Congress .

211. The Republican Party is sometimes featured as an elephant .

212.The Louisiana Purchase, in 1803, removed the French presence from the western border of the United States .

213.The Monroe Doctrine, expressed in 1823, proclaimed the United States' opinion that European powers should no longer colonize or interfere in the Americas.

214.President Woodrow Wilson declared U.S. entry into World War I in April 1917 .

215.The inventor of the telegraph codes was Samuel F B Morse .

216.On December 7, 1941 Japan launched a surprise attack on the American naval base in Pearl Harbor.

217. In USA the removal of Justices can only be done through impeachment.

218. The American Congress is formed by the Senate and the House of Representatives.

219.The relationship of the American government three branches can be described as checks and balances. 220.To be successful, a candidate for the Presidency must receive 270 votes.

221. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

222.The depression years refer to the 1930s.

223.In the presidential election of 2008, Senator Barack Obama ran on a platform of "Change".

224. An elected senator is supposed to serve for six years.

225. The presidential election is held in November each leap year.

226. The Constitution of the USA was drawn up in 1787.

227. The Constitution of the USA came into effect in 1789.

228.Members of the Representative House are elected by first-past-the-post voting in every state except Louisiana and Washington.

229.In 1997, American space shuttle that was manufactured by human beings for the first time landed on Mars. 230. The Senate is the upper chamber in the bicameral legislature known collectively as Congress.

231. The largest single religious group in the USA is Roman Catholics.

232. The Supreme Court consists of nine Justices: the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices.

233.The Justices are nominated by the President and confirmed with the 'advice and consent' of the Senate. 234. the biggest train station in the world is in New York Station

235. The Supreme Court is the highest court in the United States.

236. The Vietnam War began in 1962.

237. The famous Wall Street _ is known as the financial centre, the symbol of the American monopoly capitalism.

238. The nickname of Pittsburgh is the Iron and Steel City.

239. Chicago is the second largest in population in the U.S.

240. The area of the Pacific coast is known for its growth of fruits, vegetables and wheat, especially in California.

241. Most of the inhabitants in the U.S. are of European _ origin.

242. Negro slaves were first brought to America at the beginning of the 17th century.

243. The Death Valley is 85 meters below sea level.

244. The Statue of Liberty Island in New York harbor.

245. Pearl Harbor is the base of the Pacific Fleet of the U.S.A.

246. _ Rhode Island is the smallest state in size and the most densely populated state of the U.S.A.

247. From a geographical point of view, the fifty states are grouped into 8 regions.

248. The nickname of Houston City is Space City.

249. Hawaii became the fiftieth state of the United States in 1959.

250. The capital of Massachusetts is Boston.

251. The Five Great Lakes are Lake Michigan, Superior, Erie, Huron and Ontario.

252. The Niagara Falls are 1240 meters wide, the drop averages 49 meters.

253. New York City and San Francisco are two, important Chinatowns.

254. Indian Reservation refers to the barren desert regions where only Indians live exclusively.

255. New England consists of six states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

256. The New World refers to North and South Americas.

257. The Old World refers to Europe, Asia and Africa, especially Europe.

258. New England is featured with mountains, valleys, and rivers.

259. The Mountain States are Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico.

260. The Pacific Coast States are Washington, Oregon and California.

261. Mount McKinley is 6187 meters high.

262. Mount McKinley is on the middle of the Alaska, the highest peak on this continent.

263. English and Hawaiian are both official languages in the state of Hawaii.

264. The Mississippi River is the longest river in the USA.

265.The most numerous minority in the US is the black people.

266. Texas is the second biggest state in America and it is famous for its cowboys.

267. Washington is also called the Evergreen State .

268. The last two states to join in America were Alaska and Hawaii.

269. Rhode Island is the smallest state in America.

270. Alaska is the biggest state in America.

271. Florida is called the “Sunshine State”in the United States.

272. The Kennedy Space Center is located in the state of Florida.

273. Washington is the only state named after the president of the United States.

274. Florida is famous for its theme parks, it has the world‘s largest theme park--- Walt Disney World.

275. The name Minnesota means “sky-colored water”.

276. The Pentagon is the largest office building in the world.

277. The Pentagon has the offices of the U.S. Department of Defense.

278. Alaska is the largest state in America.

279. Hollywood, the centre of American movie industry, is closest to Los Angles

278. The traditional dividing line in America between ―east‖ and ―west‖ is The Mississippi River .

279. Before 2000, the largest minority group in the United States is African Americans.

280. The four major regions of the United Sates are Northeast, South, Midwest and West.

281. To the west of mainland American lies the Pacific Ocean.

282. The north-eastern part of the United States ――New England enjoys a typical continental climate.

283. The term “Father of Waters”is used to refer to the Mississippi River.

284. The Missouri River is the dividing line between the South and North.

285. The largest city in Washington is Seattle.

286. The United States was rated the fourth in the world in terms of land areas.

287. The state of California is on The Pacific Coast

288.The south-eastern states are sometimes harassed by hurricanes which are often called by a girl‘s name.

289.Statehood was granted to Hawaii and Alaska in the year 1959 .

290.There are 4 time zones in the United States.

291. The Potomac River is the clearest dividing-line between north and south in the United States.

292. The six states in the north-eastern part of the US are together referred to as New England.

293. The city Washington DC is on the border between south and north.

294.The territory of the capital Washington DC was taken from the states of Maryland and Virginia.

295.The central plain of the US is bounded by the Appalachian mountains and the Rocky mountains.

296.Besides the 50 states and the capital Washington DC, the US also includes some overseas territories, such as Puerto Rico.

297.The boundary between the US and Canada is open and undefended.

298.Of the five Great Lakes, Lake Michigan belongs to America completely.

299. The world‘s largest freshwater lake is Lake Superior.

300. The state of Alaska is rich in fishing and trapping.

301. The District of Manhattan is in the city of New York.

302. The United States produces as much as half of the world‘s soybeans and corn.

303. Mauna Loa, the world‘s largest active volcano, is located in Hawaii

304. The Rio Grande River forms a natural boundary between Mexico and the United States.

305. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is 35th president.

306. On July 16, 1969, after traveling 239,000 miles into space, the Apollo 11spacecraft slowly circled around the moon.

307. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States.

308. Franklin Roosevelt was president for twelve years, he was the thirty-second president of the United States. 309. In 1964, Martin Luther King was the youngest person to get the Nobel Peace Prize.

310. In American history there was a president whose nickname was teddy, he is Theodore Roosevelt.

311. Edison invented wax paper, fire alarms, the battery, and motion pictures.

312. Sewing machine changes people‘s life, it is invented by American people.

313. The first American president to be elected from the Republican Party was Abraham Lincoln.

314. The statue of liberty was given to American people by France as a gift in 1884.

315. The economic problem caused by the depression in 1929 was eventually solved by World War II.

316. Thomas Jefferson prepared the draft of the Declaration of Independence.

317. In the mid-nineteenth century, the pioneering led American settlers to travel westward.

318. The US formally entered the Second World War in 1941.

319. The Presidents during the American Civil War was Abraham Lincoln.

320. The New Deal was started by Franklin Roosevelt.

321. Martin Luther King delivered the famous speech ―I have a dream‖ on Washington in 1963.

322 The most notorious terrorist group against black civil rights workers in the South was Ku Klux Klan. 323. Britain recognized the independence of the USA in 1783.

324. Columbus discovered the New World in 1492.

325. Brothers Wright designed and invented the first airplane in the world

326. The first group of English colonists found a way to earn money by growing tobacco.

327. In 1620, a group of Puritans, called the Pilgrims, crossed the Atlantic in the ship Mayflower.

328.In September 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, recognizing the independence of the US.

329. To ensure individual liberties, the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution in 1791.

330. In April 1865, General Lee surrendered to General Grant, marking the end of the Civil War.

331. In 1803, the huge territory Louisiana was bought from France for $15 million.

332. The state to which the Mayflower sailed is Massachusetts.

333. The important thing done in the Second Continental Congress was that Washington was appointed commander of the army.

334. It‘s generally known that the ―First book of American‖ is A True Relation of Virginia by John Smith. 335. Harriet Beecher Stowe is most famous for her Uncle Tom‘s Cabin that spoke for blacks.

336. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin is the master work of Mark Twain.

337. The Sun Also Rises describes the drifting life of American exiles in Europe.

338. Jennie Gerhardt (珍妮姑娘) was written by Theodore Dreiser who also wrote Sister Carrie.

389. An American Tragedy is a masterpiece of Theodore Dreiser.

340. The Gift of the Magi (麦琪的礼物) is a short story by O. Henry.

341. The film “A Streetcar Named Desire”(欲望号街车) was adopted from the play written by Tennessee Williams.

342. In 1949 Arthur Miller won a Pulitzer Prize with Death of a Salesman and achieved an international reputation.

343. A group of American poets and novelists of the 1950s and 1960s on romantic rebellion against the culture and value system of American was called beat generation.

344. Gone with the Wind is written by Margaret Mitchell.*

345. Love Story is written by Erich Segal.

346. The God Father is written by Mario Puzo.

347. Hemingway use d Gertrude Stein‘s remark that ―you are all a lost generation‖ as a motto in his novel the Sun Also Rises.

348. Leaves of Grass was written by Walt Whitman .

349. The Call of the Wild was written by Jack London.

350. A Farewell to Arms was written by Ernest Hemingway.

351. The Old Man and the Sea was written by Ernest Hemingway.

352. Ernest Hemingway once won the Nobel Prize.

353. The Color Purple was written by Alice Walker.

354. The Piano Lesson was written by August Wilson.

355. The Grapes of Wrath was written by John Steinbeck.

356. The Sound and the Fury was written by William Faulkner.

357. The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

358. Sonny's Blues was written by James Baldwin.

359. The Waste Land was written by T. S. Eliot.

360. The only American playwright awarded Nobel Prize of Literature is Eugene O‘Neil.

361. Literary criticism written from the perspective of women, reflecting female attitudes, concerns and values is regarded as Feminist Criticism.

362. J. D. Salinger‘s Catcher in the Rye (麦田守望者) is often linked with Mark Twain’s The Adventure of hackberry Finn by critics.

363. The only black woman writer awarded Nobel Prize of Literature is Toni Morrison.

364. The first novel of stream of Consciousness written by a black writer Jean Toomer was Cran (甘蔗).

365. In Faulkner‘s ―The Sound and the Fury‖, he used a technique called stream of consciousness.

366. The First American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was Sinclair Lewis, who was a sharp social critic. 367. Eugene O‘Neill experimented freely wrote Beyond the Horizon, The Hairy Ape, Desire Under the Elms, where in The Hairy Ape is a drama in the styles of realism and expressionism.

368. The term ―Lost Generation‖ was first used by Gertrude Stein, one of the leaders of this group.

369. Maggie: A Girl of the Street that relates the story of a good woman‘s downfall and destruction in a slum environment was written by Stephen Crane.

370. As a poet, Ezra Pound is best known for his active involvement in the poetic revolution.

371. The Wings of the Dove was written by Henry James who also wrote A Lady‘s Portrait.

372. The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

373. Nature was written by Ralph Waldo Emerson(拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生).

374. Edgar Allan Poe has sometimes been considered the father of the modern short story.

375. In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named Santiago who shows triumphant even in defeat.

376. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is Walden.

377. Philip Freneau has been entitled the "Father of American Poetry".

378. Father of American Literature refers to Washington Irving, the first American to achieve international literary reputation.

379. Franklin‘s best writing is found in his masterpiece Autobiography.

380. The Spy was written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1821. It is a novel about American Revolution . 381. American fiction in the 1960s is referred to as black humor .

382. William Faulkner is the author of Sound and Fury _.

383. Rip Van Winkle is a short story written by Washington Irving.

384. The Legend of Sleeping Hallow is a short story written by Washington Irving.

385. Cooper‘s Leather Stocking Tales consists of 5 stories.

386. Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper‘s Leather Stocking Tales .

387. The Purloined Letter is a detective story by Edgar Allan Poe .

389. The Romantic Period in American Literary history started with the publication of Washington Irving‘s The Sketch Book .

390. ―The American Renaissance‖ is the period of Romanticism in the history of American literature.

391. Romanticism was a reaction to the ideas of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment.

392. The Raven is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe .

393. The Philosophy of Composition was written by Edgar Allan Poe who also wrote The Poetic Principle. 394. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. When her poems were published in England, she became know as the ―Tenth Muse‖ who appeared in America.

395. In his inaugural speech, Franklin said that ?the only thing we have to fear is fear itself‘.

396. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel Farewell to Arms

397. In the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway described the dignity and courage of the common people during the Spanish Civil War.

398. The 1920s in the United States has been described as a period of material success and spiritual frustration. 399. Whitman published his first edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855.

400. Dover Beach is written by Mathew Arnold.

401. The Catcher in the Rye is written by J.D. Salinger .

402. As a philosophical and literary moment, transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.

403. Poe‘s first collection of sto ries is Tales of the Goteque and Arabesque.

404. Stephen Crane‘s style has been called realistic, naturalistic and impressionistic.

405. The finest example of Hawthorn‘s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in The Scarlet Letter. 406. The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is Ralph Waldo Emerson .

407. Transcendentalists recognized intuition as the ―highest power of the soul‖.

408. The American Scholar is regarded as the ―Declaration of Intellectual Independence‖.

409. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was Emily Dickinson.

410. Robert Frost is a famous poet .

411. The realistic period is referred to as ―the Gilded Age‖ by Mark Twain .

412. ―The Lincoln of our literature‖ is Mark Twain.

413. A central poem of modernism which reads like a manifesto of the ―Lost Generation‖ is The Waste Land. 414. The founder of modern American drama is Eugene O‘Neill.

415. The Civil Rights Act was passed by Congress sign into law by President Johnson in 1964.

416. Toni Morrison is the first African-American writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?

417. The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by Washington Irving.

418. Jack London became pessimistic and committed suicide at the age of 40.

419. The dominant trend in various Protestant sects is fundamentalism.

420. The nucleus family is a family usually composed of a father, a mother and two children.

421. The blue collar workers are the workers who do manual labor.

422. The white collar workers are the workers who do mental labor.

423. The king of the Pop is Michael Jackson.

424. The oldest federal building in the capital of USA is The White House.

425. January 15 is a National holiday, on which day Martin Luther King was born.

426. Labor Day in America is always the first Monday in September. Most people do not go to work on this day. They have a three-day weekend.

427. Father‘s Day is always the third Sunday in June.

428. The “Stars and Stripes”is a popular name for the red, white, and blue flag of the United States.

429. The number of the Representatives from each American state depends on the population.

430. Blacks enjoy the worst social and economic conditions.

431. The natives of the continent of the America are the Indians

432. Of the fifty states of America, 38 states now have the death penalty as punishment.

433. The Easter egg and the hare, two of the symbols most frequently associated with Easter, are considered to present fertility and new life.

434. ―Trick or Treat‖ is a phrase that children often use when they celebrated Halloween.

435. Americans celebrate Memorial Day on the last Monday in May to honor those who have given their lives for their country.

436. In the United States, primary education requires Six years.

437. Most college students in the United States are in Public institutions.

438. The New England Region‘s culture character was shaped largely by Puritan spirit.

439. Halloween is celebrated on 31 October.

440. The emblem of the Democratic Party in the US is donkey.

441. Uncle Sam is the nickname of the U.S.A.

442. Protestant as religion has the most believers in America.

443. In 1882, the US government passed a law banning immigrations from China.

444. Today immigrants from Asia and Latin America each accounts for about 40% of the total annual immigrants into America.

445. The black slaves were brought into America between 1619 and 1808.

446. The civil rights movement forced the US Congress to pass laws banning racial discrimination in every field.

447. A legal immigrant may apply for American citizenship after living in America for 5 years.

448. The US Congress can remove a President by a special kind of political trial called impeachment.

449. To the east of the White House stands the Capitol, the building which houses the US Congress.

450. The Vice-President has the function to preside over the Senate.

451. Four major religious groups in the US are the Protestants, the Roman Catholics, the Orthodox Churches and the Jewish Church.

452. The principle of freedom of belief or disbelief was established in the Bill of Rights in the US Constitutions.

453. Many Church of England people came to America in the 18th century and are often called Anglicans. 454. Churches‘ techniques of persuading people to give mon ey are borrowed from commercial advertising. 455. The largest Protestant denomination is the Baptists.

456. The first Catholic President in the US was John Kennedy.

457．Canada has been America‘s most important trading partner.

458. The theory of American politics and the American Revolution originated mainly from John Locke.

459. The expenditure in American public schools is guided or decided by boards of education.

460. The term ―British disease‖ is now often used to characterize Britain‘s economic decline.

461. The theme of Thanksgiving has always been Peace and plenty, health and happiness.

462. .―Show me the money!"‖ is taken from the movie Jerry Maguire.

463. ―Tomorrow is another day‖ is taken from the novel Gone with the Wind.

464. ―Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.‖This is taken from Forrest Gump.

465. The fact that many citizens take drugs – heroin makes New York the ―City of Heroin‖.

466. Washington D.C. is named after both George Washington and Christopher Columbus.

467. In America the academic year lasts nine months, from September to June, with winter and spring vocations..

468. Ronald Reagan was an actor before he became the President.

469. On the 30th of April 1789, George Washington took the oath of office in New York, which housed the government then.

470. Henry Ford was the first man to mass-production.

471. ―That government of the people, by the people, for the people, ‖ were the words by Abraham Lincoln . 472. There are over 2,000 universities, colleges and other institutions in the United States.

473. The first public library was founded in 1731 in Philadelphia .

474. VOA Radio Station was established in 1894 .

475. It was the Scandinavian immigrants in the mid-19th century who introduced skiing into the United States. 476. At the end of WWII the art centre of the world moved from Paris to the new world.

477. The most popular sport in America is baseball .

478. Junior college in America is two years .

479. In America about 1/4 of the universities and colleges are private.

480. Readers‘ Digest is a biweekly magazine which is published in 15 languages and 39 editions.

481. From 1901 to 1978, 117 Americans won the Nobel Prize, holding one-third of the world Nobel Prize winners.

482. Blues is a music of strong rhythm, which was originally sung by Negroes .

483. There are four grades in universities. They are freshmen, sophomore , junior and senior.

484. VOA Radio Station is in the city of Washington .

485. In 1965 the U.S.A launched the first communication space satellite Early Bird .

486. The Metropolitan Museum and other two museums located in the city of New York .

487. Before the 1960‘s many Negroes had not been given the right to receive education.

488. The rate of divorce in America ranks first in the world.

489. BLT in America is a kind of sandwich .

490. Over three fifths of all American religious people are Protestants.

491. In the US about half of all the property is in the possession of one-tenth of the population.

492. Urban Hermits refer to shopping-bag ladies in big cities .

493. A hamburger is usually made from beef.

494. Sometimes two couples go out together. This is known as double dating.

495. Texas has become the most important state in the growth and production of cotton.

496. All American children are offered 12 years of free public education.

497. The saying ―Every son must rise above his father‖ reflects American Dream.

498. Before the Constitutional Convention met in 1787, the 13 states were governed by the Articles of Confederation.

499. Harvard University was founded in 1636.

500.Yale University was founded in 1701 .

501.The United States of the American is the third most populous county in the world after China and India 502.Almost 20 million people or 7.8% of the total population were immigrants in 1992.Between 80% and 90% of immigration to the United States now is from Asian and Hispanic countries.

503.The first immigrants in the American history cane from England and Netherlands

504.One in five American moves to a new home every year seeking new job opportunity, a better climate of other goals.

505.The first blacks were brought to North America as slaves in 1619.

506.Three major Hispanic groups historically have had the greatest influence on the United States. They are Mexico-Americans of Chicanos, the Puerto Ricans and the Cuban-Americans.

507.The Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing racial and ethnic group in the United States.

508.Traditionally, the mainstream American was called WASPs, that is, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

509.Alaska and Hawaii are the two newest states in American.

510.Of all states of American, Alaska is the largest in area and Rhode Island the smallest. But on the mainland Texas is the largest sate of the country.

511.The Rockies, the backbone of the North American Continent, is also known as the Continental Divide. 512.The two main mountain ranges in American are the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky mountains. The Mississippi has been called "father of waters‖ or "Old Man River"

513.The most important lakes in the United States are the Great Lakes.

514.Superior is the largest fresh water lake in the world.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/ef18888509.html,ke Michigan, the only entirely in the U.S.

516.Chicago the largest and busiest port on the Great Lakes is the largest industrial and commercial center of the area.

517.New Englanders were originally knows as Yankees, which came to stand for all American.

518.Detroit is known as the automobile capital of the world.

519.Omaha is known as the agricultural capital of the United States.

520.Colorado has been called the steel city of the west

521.Tourism is Hawaii‘s most important industry.

522.Honolulu is the capital of Hawaii.

523.Pacific Ocean lies to the west of America and Atlantic Ocean l ies to its east.

524.The Hundred Years‘ War refers to the war between England and France that lasted intermittently fro m 1337 to 1453.

525.National anthem of America is : Star-Spangled Banner

526.National flag of America is: Star - Spangled Banner. 50 stars and 13 strips.

527.There are 435 members of the House of Representatives

528.Barack Obama is the first African-American president of the United States.

529.George Washington is the first president of the United States.

530.George Washington took his oath on April 30, 1789,

531.George Washington is the regarded as ―Father of the United States of America.

532.The first successful English colony is Jamestown in Virginia.

533.The Pilgrim Fathers took the ship Mayflower in 1620 to America.

534.Mayflower compact was the first formal agreement for self-govement.

535.The first Continental Congress is in 1774

536.July 4, 1776. is the Independence Day of the United States.

537.Pacific Ocean lies to the west of America and Atlantic Ocean l ies to its east.

538.The Constitutio n of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States.

539.Abraham Lincoln is the 16th US President.

540.Valentine‘s Day is February 14

541.Thanksgiving Day is on the third Thursday in November.

542.The 1st Thanksgiving Day lasted 3days.

543.I ndependence Day is July 4

544.April Fool‘s Day is April 1)

545.Mother‘s Day on the second Sunday in May.

546.Father‘s Day on the third Sunday in June.

547.All Soul‘s Day is November 2.

548.Christmas is the most important festival in the U.S.

549.The Indian taught the Pilgrims how to hunt fish and grow food.

550.The first Christmas gifts in tradition were those that the 3 Wise men brought to the infant Jesus.

551.The federal government has three branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial

552.The American education system requires that pupils from 6 to 16 must go to school to complete 12 years of primary and secondary education prior to attending university or college

553.There are 4 kinds of American‘s degree: Associate degrees, bachelor's degrees, master's and PhD degrees 554.There are more than 3000 institution in the U.S.

555.All American children are offered 12 years of free public education.

556.Harvard University, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

557.The college sport American football can stir the most national interest.

558.Six presidents of the United States--were graduates of Harvard.

559.In the 18th century, many Church of England people began to come to America.

560.Now, the largest software company is Microsoft.

561.Since 1980s, information industry turned into the largest industry in the US.

562.The year 1969saw the success of human‘s first lunar landing by Apollo11.

563.Steamer was invented by Robert Fulton.

564.The most numerous minorities in the U.S. are the black people.

565.The Vietnam War began in 1926 and lasted 12 years.

566.The Vietnam War is the most important factor killing American optimism.

567.The statement ―All men are created equal‖ appears in the declaration of Independence.

568.Puritans called themselves Pilgrims.

569.After Mayflower arrived, The Indians of Massasoit‘s tribe came to help the Pilgrims.

570.Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee

571.The depression years refer to the 1930s.

572.The U.S. is called the ―melting pot because of divers races and cultures.

573.To be Successful, the candidate for the Presidency must receive 270 votes.

574.The Watergate Affair‖ scandal drove Richard Nixon out of office.

575.President of the United States is the head of state and head of government.

576.Thomas Jefferson Signed drafted the Declaration of Independence.

577.Roosevelt took ―the New Deal after elected as the president in1932. ‖

578.Federal and state elections generally take place within the lines of a two-party system,

579.American politics has been dominated by two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party 580.The elected senator is supposed to serve for 6 years.

581.The Great Seal was finalized and approved on J une 20, 1782.

582.The rose became the official flower of the United States in 1986.

583.In 1900 America joined the Eight -Power Alliance to suppress the anti-imperialist Boxers Movement in China.

584.The formal name of the The Statue of Liberty is Liberty Enlightening the World.

585.The Lincoln Memorial Located on the National Mall in Washington, DC,

586.The media of the United States consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based Web sites

587.American radio broadcasts in two bands: FM and AM.

588.The U.S. does not have a national paper.

589.The U.S. has three leading weekly newsmagazines: TIME, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report. 590.National advertising has created national tastes in consumer goods.

591.The American Indians started a social movement for Red Power in the 1960s.

592.The American dream symbolized the American belief in opportunities.

593.The invention of television marked the begging of the Age of Visual Information

594.Thomas Edition had the title of ―the Wizard of Menlo Park‖

595.Silicon Valle y was sponsored by the government to compete with Japan in international market.

596.What is ―soap opera‖?

597.What are the 3 faith?

598.what does academic year refer to?

599.what‘s the requirement for earning a Ph.D degree?

600. what is the power of the US president?

Part II British Culture

1. What is the anthem of Great Britain?

―God Save the Queen‖

2. Which is the largest city in Britain?

London

3. Which is the mother river in England?

The Thames

4. Why is Alfred known as ―the father of the British navy‖?

He founded a strong fleet and is known as ―The father of the British navy‖.

5. What is IRA stand for？

The full name for IRA is Irish Republican Army.

6. What‘s the full name of Great Britain?

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

7. Great Britain is made up of four parts. What are they?

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

8. What is the capital of Scotland?

Edinburgh

9. What is the longest river in England?

Severn River

10. Who is the first ―king of the English‖?

Egbert

11. What is the nick name of England?

John Bull

12. Who is the author of Utopia?

Thomas More

13. What does ―Utopia‖ mean?

It means ―no where‖.

14. When did English Renaissance arise?

It arose in the 16th century.

15. What is the nick name of 315-foot Clock Tower?

Big Ben

16. Where is the world famous ―Speakers Corners‖?

It is inside Hyde Park.

17. What is No. 10 Downing Street?

It is official residence of Prime Minister.

18. Who was once the president of the Royal Society fro twenty-three years?

Isaac Newton

19. Whose hometown is Stratford-on-Avon?

William Shakespeare

20. What is the oldest university in Britain?

Oxford

21. What is the most famous broadcasting company in Britain?

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

22. What is the oldest Sunday newspaper in Britain?

The Observer

23. What is the most well-known news agency of Britain?

Reuters

24. What is the biggest and most well-known church in London?

St. Paul Cathedral

25. What festival is celebrated on Feb. 14th?

St. Valentine‘s Day

26. What is the population of the U.K.?

The English, the Welsh, the Scottish and the Irish.

27. What language do people speak in Scotland?

Gaelic language

28. What are the three Germanic tribes who form the basis of the modern British people?

The Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes.

29. Generally speaking, what are the two systems of primary and secondary education in Britain?

The state school and public school

30. How many years does a pupil study at a primary state school?

Six years

31. Which type of schools enroll the top pupils in secondary education?

Grammar school

32. Which two universities are the most famous ones in the U.K.?

Oxford University and Cambridge University

33. What is the most popular sport in Britain?

Association football or soccer

34. Which sport is regarded as the most English of all games?

Cricket

35. List three greatest novelists in Britain.

Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift 36. What is Daniel Defoe‘s representative work?

Robinson Crusoe

37. How many plays did William Shakespeare write?

37

38. What are four greatest tragedies by William Shakespeare?

Hamlet, King Lear, The Macbeth and Othello

39. Who is the father of English poetry?

Geoffrey Chaucer

40. What is George Gordon Byron‘s finest work?

Don Juan

41. Who is the writer of the work Ode to the West Wind?

Percy Bysshe Shelly

42. As a playwright, who advocated the theory of ―art for art‘s sake‖?

Oscar Wilde

43. Where does Sightseeing in London begin for most travelers?

Westminster Abbey

44. Where is the monarch‘s present London home?

Buckingham Palace

45. What is the popular betting sport in England?

Horse Racing

46. Which is the most famous and oldest British daily?

The Times

47. What does G.C.E. stand for?

General Certificate of Education

48. Which mountain is the highest in the U.K.?

Ben Nevis, 1343 meters high

49. What percentage of the country‘s water requirements are obtained form underground sources?

38%

50. What‘s the feature of British lead ores?

Containing silver

51. __ In Britain, _b__ has the ultimate authority of legislation. A the Queen B the House of Commons C the House of Lords D the Prime Minister

52. __ The following plays are comedies by Shakespeare EXCEPT _d__. A A Midsummer Night‘s Dream B As You Like It C The Merchant of Venice D Romeo and Juliet

53. Which of the following is NOT a U.K. newspaper?b

A. The Guardian.

B. Christian Science Monitor.

C. The Daily Telegraph.

D. The Times.

54. James Joyce was a famous__b__ whose masterpiece Ulysses has been highly eulogized in the Western literary world as one of the greatest works in the 20th century.

A.Essayist.

B. novelist.

C. poet.

D. playwright.

55. Which of the following is Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s most noteworthy novel in the world?d

A.Gone with the Wind.

B. For Whom the Bell Tolls.

C. American Tragedy.

D. The Scarlet Letter

56. Where is Belfast?c

A.In Ireland.

B. In Wales

C. In Northern Ireland.

D. In Scotland.

57. General election for the House of Commons is held in Britain at least every __c____ years

A. 3

B. 4

C. 5

D. 6

58. My Last Dutches is a poem by ___b______

A. Shakespeare

B. Robert Browning

C. Ben Johnson

D. Robert Harrick

59. Which of the following writing is not the work by Charles Dickens?d

A. A Tale of Two Cities

B. Hard Times

C. Oliver Twist

D. Sons and Lovers

60. Mark Twin is most famous for ___b____

A. poems

B. novels

C. dramas

D. science fiction

61. George Bernard Shaw was a(n) _a_.

A. playwright

B. poet

C. novelist

D. essayist

62. The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by_d_.

A. Henry James

B. O. Henry

C. Harriet Beccher Stower

D. Mark Twain

63. Between 1337 and 1453 the _c__ took place in Britain.

A. Wars of Roses

B. Black Death

C. Hundred Years‘War

D. Peasants Uprising

64. James Watt created a _b__ in 1769?

A. Spinning Mule

B. Steam Engine

C. Power Loom

D. Spinning Jenny

65. __a_ Who led The Peasants Uprising in Britain?

A. Watt Tyler

B. Henry Turner

C. Richard

D. Stephen

66. __b_ In English individualistic culture, one should bother Englishmen without a good reason and making appointment beforehand seems to be important. It is best reflected by an English proverb ___?

A. as welcome as a storm

B. an Englishman‘s house is his castle

C. do not wear out your welcome

D. outstay one’s welcome

67. _ d___ is the first weekday after Christmas, a legal holiday in English, Wales, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

A. Thanksgiving Day

B. Anzac Day

C. St. Valentine‘s Day

D. Boxing Day

68. _c__ The Bible was originally written in ___.

A. Latin

B. English

C. Hebrew

D. Arabic

69. _b__ Which of the following king was executed in the civil war?

A. James I

B. Charles I

C. James II

D. Charles II

70. _a__ Which of the following particularly happens on the Quee n‘s Birthday?

A. Trooping the Color

B. the Eisteddfod

C. bonfires

D. masquerades

71. The whole of Ireland was colonized by England in __A___?

A. 1169

B. 1066

C. 1266

D. 1368

72. __B____, Lord Protector of Britain, crushed rebellions in Ireland, and settled English and Scottish Protestants there by giving them land.

A. Charles I

B. Oliver Cromwell

C. William the Conqueror

D. James II

73. The Celts were different groups of ancient people who came originally form ____C_.

A. Spain

B. Britain

C. Germany

D. France

74. ―Mac‖ or ―Mc‖ in many Scottish names, like ―MacDonald‖ and ―McCorny‖, means__A__.

A. son of

B. father of

C. child of

D. mother of

75. Writers of the Old English period used __A___ scripts.

A. Latin and Germanic

B. Celtic and Latin

C. Danish and Spanish

D. Spanish and Germanic

76. Middle English began in __B___?

A. 967

B. 1066

C. 1381

D. 1453

77. By the end of the Old English period, English contained a vocabulary of ___C_ words.

A. 10,000

B. 20,000

C. 30,000

D. 40,000

78. Middle English is a blend of ____A__, English and _____.

A. French, Latin

B. German, French

C. French, Danish

D. Spanish, Latin

79. Modern English started from about ____C___ A.D.

A. 1300

B. 1400

C. 1500

D. 1600

80. In some place names such as ―Manchester‖ and ―chester‖ are Latin in origin, meaning__D___.

A. city

B. port

C. gate

D. fortress

81. All William Shakespeare‘s works are in ____A___.

A. Old English

B. Middle English

C. Modern English

D. Standard English

82. The style of speech of __C___ announcers is usually recognized as Standard English.

A. ABC

B. NBC

C. BBC

D. CNN

83. Conferring honors such as peerage and knighthoods is part of the job of the queen of Britain. She usually does this upon the advice of __A____.

A. Prime Minister

B. Foreign Minister

C. Home Minister

D. Defense Minister

84. The cabinet of the Opposition Party in Britain is known as the ___A___ Cabinet.

A. Shadow

B. Window

C. Ruling

D. Coalition

85. The real centre of power in Parliament is ___B____.

A. the Queen

B. the house of Commons

C. the House of Lords

D. the Cabinet

86. __A___ Where is the best agriculture land in Britain?

A. In the southeast of England

B. In the southeast of Scotland

C. In the northeast of England

D. In the northeast of Scotland

87. __C____ Which of the following is the oldest and most basic of all industries in Britain?

A. Steel and ship-building

B. Textile

C. Coal-mining

D. Oil exploitation

88. The two very important crops in Britain are __D____.

A. barley and corn

B. wheat and rice

C. barley and oats

D. wheat and barley

89. Britain was a world leader in shipbuilding during the middle of the __C____ century.

A. 17th

B. 18th

C. 19th

D. 20th

90. Under Margaret Thatcher, Britain experienced __C______.

A. economic expansion

B. economic recession

C. economic decline

D. economic depression

91. _d___ is the core of the English Government.

A. the Sovereign

B. the House of Lords

C. the House of Commons

D. the Cabinet

92. Which of the following novels was NOT written by Charles Dickens?d

A. David Copperfield

B. The Pickwick Papers

C. Oliver Twist

D. Women in Love

93. The Romans brought _c___ to England after they invaded the British Isles.

A. Buddhism

B. Islamism

C. Christianity

D. Catholicism

94. The Chartist Movement took its name from __c__

A. The Agreement of the People

B. The Bill of Rights

C. The People‘s Charter

D. The Great Chart

95. _b___ was written by Jane Austin.

A. Jane Eyre

B. Emma

C. Wuthering Heights

D. Middlemarch

96. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Prime Minister in Britain?d

A. He is appointed by the Queen

B. He is Minister for the Civil Service

C. He sits in the House of Commons

D. He is elected every four years

97. George Gordon Bylon was famous for the following works EXCEPT _b___.

A. Child Harold‘s Pilgrimage

B. Queen Mab

C. Hours of Idleness

D. Don Juan

98. _a___ is D.H Lawrence's semi-autographical novel.

A. Sons and Lovers

B. Women in Love

C. Rainbow

D. Lady Chatterley's lover

99. Oxford is on _a___

A. the Thames River

B. River Clyde

C. the Severn River

D. the Great Lakes

100. Today, the City of London is the business centre of London where you can find _c__.

A. big supermarkets

B. theatres and cinemas

C. large financial organizations

D. restaurants and cafes

101. One of the most far-reaching consequences of the Second World War brought to Britain was that __a__.

A. it hastened the end of Britain's empire

B. it made the country fall into ecnomic depression

C. it stimulated the development of the country

D. it made the country become the world's leading country

102.The Tories were the forerunners of __c__ , which still bears this nickname today.

A. the Liberal Party

B. the Labour Party Day

C. the Conservative Party

D. the Social Democratic Party

103. Among the most typical English sports, __b__ has been in existence since the 16th century.

A. rugby

B. soccer

C. cricket

D. boxing

104. The island of Lilliput can be found in _b__

A. Robinson Grusoe

B. Gulliver's Travels

C. Adventures of Tome Sawyer

D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

105. In the late 16th century, _b____ ruled England.

A. Henry V

B. Elizabeth I

C. Queen Marry

D. Elizabeth II

106. Dickens and Thackeray, who are most famous for their novel, lived in the period of __d__.

A. Queen Elizabeth I

B. Henry VIII

C. Charles II

D. Queen Victoria

107. ___a__ takes London as the setting in most of his novels.

A. Dickens

B. Hardy

C. Thackeray

D. Defoe

108. Christmas is usually connected to ___a_.

A. the reunion of a large family

B. the eating of Easter eggs

C. the resurrection of Christ

D. the forgiving of other‘s sins

109. The British establish _c___ colonies along the east coast of North American between 1667 and 1733.

A. 11

B. 12

C.13

D.14

110. The Romans led by Julius Caesar launched their first invasion on Britain in _c__?

A. 200

B.C B. 55 A.D

C. 55 B.C

D. 410 A.D

111. The statement ―You can not step twice into the same river‖ was said by __b_?

A. Aristotle

B. Heracletus

C. Socrates

D. Pythagoras

112. The greatest names in European philosophy are Socrates, _d__, and Aristotle, who are active in Athens in the 5th and 4th century B.C.

A. Pythagoras

B. Heracleitus

C. Herodotus

D. Plato

113. The first Civil War in Britain lasted from _c__ to ___.

A. 1600 --- 1604

B. 1640 --- 1644

C. 1642 --- 1646

D. 1646 --- 1650

114. The largest lake in Britain is _d__?

A. Ullswater

B. Loch Lomond

C. Windermere

D. The Lough Neagh

115. Which culture reached a high point of development in the 5th century B.C.?

A. Roman Culture

B. Greek Culture

C. Chinese Culture

D. Egyptian Culture

116. The founder of scientific mathematics is _d__.

A. Aristotle

B. Heracleitus

C. Socrates

D. Pythagoras

117. ―A Red, Red Rose‖ was written by __b_.

A. Alexandra Pop

B. Robert Burns

C. William Blake

D. John Keats

118. Pip is the character of Charles Dickens‘ novel _d__.

A. Oliver Twist

B. David Copperfield

C. A Tale of Two Cities

D. Great Expectations

119. Sense and Sensibility is a _b__ by ___.

A. play… Jane Austen

B. novel… Jane Austen