东北师范大学英语专业《英美概况（一）》作业及答案2
搜题
1、Buddhism was originated in ____ about 500 B.C.
A.China
B.India
C.Tibet
D.Japan
本题答案：
B
B
2、Any child in UK may attend, without paying fees, until they are eighteen. Education at this stage is ____.
A.compulsory
B.optional
C.free
D.expensive
本题答案：
A
A
3、The vital power lies in the Prime Minister and his ____. They make the real decisions, lead the departments of the government and manage the affairs at home and abroad.
A.Cabinet
B.wife
C.son
D.administration
本题答案：
A
A
4、Sir Francis Bacon heralded a new age of learning in the early ____ century.
A.sixteenth
B.fifteenth
C.eighteenth
D.seventeenth
本题答案：
D
D
5、With the publication of Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton bound together the whole of nature by one universe force, ____.
A.wind
B.rain
C.water
D.gravity
本题答案：
D
D
6、The King or the ____ is the head of state, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, the head of the Judicature in the UK, and the temporal head of the Established Church of England.
A.the son of the King
B.Queen
C.Prince
D.Princess
本题答案：
B
B
7、Around 3000 B.C. some of ____ from the Mediterranean lands settled in Britain.
A.Iberrians
B.Celtics
C.Anglo-Saxons
D.Vikings
本题答案：
A
A
8、In July 1978, British doctors at London's Oldham Hospital created the worlds first “____ baby”, Louis Brown.
A.man-made
B.artificial
C.test
D.test tube
本题答案：
D
D
9、The system of individual tuition organized by the colleges is referred to as ____ system.
A.tutor
B.tutorial
C.mentor
D.guidance
本题答案：
B
B
10、By the end of the 7th century England was divided into a number of kingdoms, considered by historians to have been seven and therefore the ____.
A.“Heptarchy”
B.the Seven Kingdoms
C.the Kingdoms
D.the Seven Kings
本题答案：
A
A
11、On July 7th, 1937, Japan began an all-out attack on ____.
A.China
B.Taiwan
C.Korea
D.Russia
本题答案：
A
A
12、In the 1945 general election the ____ Party returned to power with a huge majority.
A.Democratic
B.Republican
C.Communist
D.Labor
本题答案：
D
D
13、The northern tribes began to come to England from the continent in the middle of the 5th century. They were the Germanic tribes: the Angles, ____ and Jutes.
A.the Celtics
B.the Vikings
C.the Germans
D.Saxons
本题答案：
D
D
14、On December 7th, 1941, Japans planes from carriers at sea made a swift and sudden raid on the United States naval base at ____.
A.sea
B.island
C.Pearl Harbor
D.US
本题答案：
C
C
15、The Church of England today is all-inclusive, having the ability to be both Protestant and ____.
A.Catholic
B.Buddhist
C.Daoist
D.Tibetan
本题答案：
A
A
16、The British economy was the ____ to have been fully industrialized.
A.first
B.second
C.third
D.last
本题答案：
A
A
17、In 1455 the Duke of York tried to displace the Lancaster King, and the wars of the ____ broke out
A.Flowers
B.Roses
C.year
D.Duke
本题答案：
B
B
18、Overseas commodity trade alone accounts for about ____ of the country's national income.
A.one sixth
B.one third
C.half
D.one fourth
本题答案：
A
A
19、The most important religious denomination in UK is the Church of ____.
A.Ireland
B.Scotland
C.England
D.Britain
本题答案：
C
C
20、Later, about 122 A.D. in order to keep back the Picts and Scots, the Romans built a wall, called ____.
A.Great wall
B.Wailing Wall
C.Hidden Wall
D.Hadrian Wall
本题答案：
D
D
21、William I ordered in 1086 the Domesday Book to be drawn up.()
A.错误
B.正确
本题答案：
B
B
22、Historically, less people in Britain have lived in the lowland zone rather than in the harsher highland zone.()
A.错误
B.正确
本题答案：
A
A
23、A substantial number of Scandinavians settled in Great Britain and Ireland during the 9th century.()
A.错误
B.正确
本题答案：
B
B
24、Mrs. Thatcher exercised tight economic control.()
A.错误
B.正确
本题答案：
B
B
25、The BBC is not financed by payments from all people who possess TV sets.()
A.错误
B.正确
本题答案：
A
A
26、Complete “package” is a financial policy that the bank adopts when the economy and finance are weak.()
A.错误
B.正确
27、The two results of the Enclosure Movement are the primitive accumulation of capital and the continuation of the supply of cheap labor that paved the way for the development of capitalism.()
A.错误
B.正确
28、The Enclosure Movement forced thousands of peasants to leave their land and become vagabonds and beggars.()
A.错误
B.正确
29、The Thames is only 346 km (215 miles) long. It is England's longest river and the second longest river in the United Kingdom.()
A.错误
B.正确
30、On August 6th and 9th, 1945, the US dropped two atom bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 200000 Japanese people.()
A.错误
B.正确
31、On Christmas Day 1066 Duke William, known in history as William the Conqueror, was crowned in Westminster Abbey.()
A.错误
B.正确