英语专业八级人文知识国家概况总结

英语专业八级人文知识

美国概况

1. In area, the United States is the ____ largest country in the world.

A 2nd

B 3rd

C 4th

D 5th

2. The 50th state in America is ____

A Alaska

B Texas

C Hawaii

D Rhode Island

3. Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, is located in ____

A Hawaii

B Alaska

C Texas

D Perth

4. Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 because of ____.

A the Great Depression

B the Black Power Movement

C the Watergate Scandal

D the Isolation policy

5.All the following universities are located in New England EXCEPT____

A Yale

B Harvard

C MIT

D Berkeley

6.The United States has less than 6% of the world’s population. yet it produces about ____ of the total world output.

A 20%

B 25%

C 30%

D 35%

7.What forms a natural boundary between Mexico and the United States?

A The Rio Grande River

B The southern Rocky Mountains

C The Colorado River

D The Gulf of California

8. The US formally entered the Second World War in ____

A 1937

B 1939 C1941 D 1943

9. The Presidents during the American Civil War was .

A Andrew Jackson

B Abraham Lincoln

C Thomas Jefferson

D George Washington

10 The emblem of the Democratic Party is ____.

A elephant

B donkey

C bear

D bull

答案及解析

1.C

按领土面积计算：美国是继俄罗斯，加拿大，中国之后的第四名。

2.C 1959年，Alasica和Hawaii分别为第四十九个和第五十个加入美国的州。

3.A Mauna Loa（摩纳罗亚山）是世界上最大的活火山。位于美国Hawaii（夏威夷）。

4.C 尼克松总统辞职是由于轰动一时的丑闻水门事件

水门事件指美国共和党政府在1972年总统竞选运动中的非法活动暴露后的政治丑闻。

5.D Berkeley

（伯克利），是加利福尼亚大学分院，位于美国加利福尼亚西部。而新英格兰地区包括美国的六个州，由北至南分别为：缅因州、新罕布夏州、佛蒙特州、麻萨诸塞州、罗德岛、康乃狄克州。New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

6.B

美国人口低于世界人口总值的6%，但是美国经济生产总值占世界25%，是高度工业化国家。

7.A The Rio Grand River

（格兰德河）形成了美国与墨西哥的自然分界线。

8.C 1941年的珍珠港事件把美国带入了第二次世界战争，与苏联，英国共同对战法西斯。

9.B Abraham Lincoln

是美国第十六届总统，带领美国人走过美国内战，解放奴隶，但是在战争结束不到一周被暗杀。

10.B 19世纪70年代，在美国的《哈泼斯周刊》上，曾先后出现了政治漫画家托马斯·纳斯特的两幅画，分别以长耳朵的驴和长鼻子的象比拟美国民主党和共和党。后来，纳斯特又在一幅画中同时画进了象和驴，比喻当时的两党竞选。自那以后，驴和象就逐渐成为美国两大党的象征，两党也分别以驴、象作为党徽的标记。

1.In 1620, 201 Pilgrims, to escape religous presecution, sailed to the New World in a ship called Mayflower. They arrived at ____.

A New York

B Georgia

C Virginia

D Plymouth

2.The earliest institution of higher learning set up in America was ___

A California University

B Yale University

C Harvard College

D Chicago University

3.The Grand Canyon in south-western ____ is one of nature’s most impressive sights.

A Utah

B Arizona

C Nevada

D Idaho

4.American presidents are elected ____.

A every two years

B every four years

C every five years

D every six years

5.In America the judicial is headed by ____.

A the President

B Congress

C the Supreme Court

D the Secretary General

6.In the United States, the first larges immigration movement took plane ____

A right after the War of Independence