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英语国家概况  Exercises I  答案
英语国家概况  Exercises I  答案

Exercises I

I. Choose the correct answer and circle the letter before it.

1. The highest mountain peak in Britain is in

A. England

B. Scotland

C. Wales

D. Northern Ireland

2. The longest river in Britain is

A. River Severn

B. River Thames

C. River Mersey

D. River Humber

3. The largest lake in Britain is located in

A. England

B. Scotland

C. Wales

D. Northern Ireland

4. The highest mountain peak in Britain is called

A. Ben Nevis

B. Cross Fell

C. Snowdon

D. Scafell

5. The English people are descendants of

A. Celts

B. Romans

C. Anglo-Saxons

D. Danes

6. The Lake District is well-known for__.

A. Its wild and beautiful scenery

B. its varied lakes

C. the lake poets

D. all of above

7. Which of the following is not the feature of British climate?

A. coldness

B. more rainy days

C. changeability

D. More fogs

8. The capital city of Wales is _________.

A. Belfast

B. Birmingham

C. Edinburgh

D. Cardiff

9. Who were the ancestors of the English and the founders of England?

A. The Anglo-Saxons.

B. The Normans.

C. The Vikings.

D. The Romans.

10. Which of the following is NOT considered a characteristic of London?

A. The cultural center.

B. The business center.

C. The financial center.

D. The sports center.

11. The majority of the current population in the UK is decedents of all the following

tribes respectively EXCEPT _________.

A. the Anglos

B. the Celts

C. the Jutes

D. the Saxons

12. William, Duke of Normandy, fought King Harold of England at the Battle of

Hastings in ____.

A. 1066

B. 1086

C. 1381

D. 1035

13. Which of the following is NOT one of the Germanic tribes that came to Great

Britain in the 5th century?

A. Anglos.

B. Saxons.

C. Jutes.

D. Celts.

14. On the island of Great Britain, there are ______________.

A. four political divisions: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Island

B. four political divisions: England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland

C. three political divisions: England, Scotland and Wales

D. three political divisions: England, Scotland and Northern Ireland

15. Britain was by 1830 the “workshop of the world” because of _____________.

A. agricultural revolution

B. industrial revolution

C. colonial expansion

D. invention of steam engine

16. Big Ben is the nickname of _____________.

A. Sir Benjamin Hall

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. 315-foot Clock Tower

D. Sir Charles Barry

17. Between 1337 and 1453, the __________ took place in Britain.

A. Wars of Roses

B. Black Death

C. Hundred Years? War

D. Peasants Uprising

18. The English Civil War can also be called ____________.

A. the War of Independence

B. the Puritan Revolution

C. the War of Roses

D. the War of Liberation

19. The war between the House of Lancaster and the House of York from 1455 to 1485

in Britain was termed by Walter Scott as ______________.

A. Wars of Roses

B. Hundred Years? W ar

C. Indian War

D. War of Great Britain

20. During the reign of ____________, the British Empire reached its peak.

A. King John

B. Queen Elizabeth

C. King Edward

D. Queen Victoria

21. The Irish and Scottish people are mainly descendants of the __________.

A. Anglos

B. Celts

C. Jutes

D. Saxons

22. The English people and the English language were born from the union of ______.

A. the Angles and the Saxons

B. Germanic conquerors and the Norman Frensh

C. Danes or Vikings and the Norman French

D. Norman conquerors and the defeated Anglo-Saxons

23. In Britain ___ of the population is urban and ____ is rural.

A. 90%, 10%

B. 80, 20%

C. 70, 30%

D. 60, 40% C.

24. The ancestors of the Welsh were the ancient ____.

A. Celts

B. Romans

C. Normans

D. Britons

25. During the fifth century when the Roman Empire fell, the Gemanic ____ invaded

and conquered Britain.

A. Angles and Celts

B. Angles and Picts

C. Angles and Brythons

D. Angles and Saxons

26. The upper class in Britain consists of all the following except____

A. peerage

B. Gentry

C. Landowners

D. Professionals

27. The British Empire was replaced by the British Commonwealth or the

Commonwealth of Nations in_____.

A. 1921

B. 1931

C. 1945

D. 1950

28. The mountain system the Pennies is often called the backbone of ____.

A. England

B. Scotland

C. Great Britain

D. Ireland

29. Which of the following statements about the climate in Britain is NOT True?

A. Britan?s climate is of the maritime type.

B. Summers in Britain are cool

C. Winters in Britain are extremely cold

D. Britain is warmer than Harbin in winter

30. The average population density in Britain is ____ people per square kilometer.

A. 250

B. 370

C. 800

D. 500

31. Roman Britain lasted until the year of ____ whe all Roman troops went back to the

countries.

A. A.D. 400

B. A.D. 410

C. A.

D. 445 D. A.D. 449

32. In A. D. 43 Romans under ____conquered Britain.

A. Julius Caesar

B. Claudius

C. Augustine

D. The Pope

33. Which of the following was NOT a thing of value left behind by Romans.

A. Welsh Christianity

B. The Roman Roads

C. Cities

D. Roman Settlements

34. By the end of _____ century all England had been Christianized.

A. 5th

B. 6th

C. 7th

D. 8th

35. Which of the following kingdoms was set up by the Jutes?

A. Kent

B. Sussex

C. Wessex

D. Essex

36. In the late _____ century the Danes or Scandiavians began to attack the English coast.

A. 9th

B. 6th

C. 7th

D. 8th

37. Edward has promised his kingdom to _______ in Normandy, but on his deathbed

he changed his idea and gave the kingdom to _____.This led to the Norman Conquest of 1066.

A. William, Harold

B. Harold, William

C. Metilda, Stephen C. Stephen , Metilda

38. Doomsday Book was in fact a record of each man?s _______.

Al. Experience B. Behavior C. Property D. Reputation

39. The War between Matilda and Stephen resulted in the establishment of the House of ________.

A. Tudor

B. Normandy

C. Plantagenet

D. Lancaster

40. The Great Charter was mad in the interest of _____.

A. the King

B. the feudal lords

C. The townsmen

D. The merchants

41. The first British parliment was summoned in the year of ___.

A. 1215

B. 1265

C. 1295

D. 1343

42. _____ launched the Hundred Years? War.

A. Edward I

B. Edward II

C. Edward III

D. Henry III

43. Which of the following statements was NOT true?

A. Hundred Years? War was a feudal war.

B. Hundred Years? War was a trade war.

C. Hundred Years? War lasted for one hundred years

D. Hundred Years? War is one of the historical events taht marked the decline of feudalism in Britain.

44. From ___ onward, Parliament was divided into two chambers.

A. 1337

B. 1343

C. 1453

D. 1455

45. Black Death to some extent brought _____ to villains.

A. higer wages

B. Greater freedom

C. bitter life

D. Both A and B

46. In 1381, peasants in _____ , led by Wat Tyler, first rebelled.

A. Sussex

B. Essex

C. Wessex Kent

47. Wars of Roses were fought _____ between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists from

1455 to 1485.

A. Constantly

B. Irregulary

C. Continuously

D. intermittently

48. The House of Tuduor was founded in ______.

A. 1455

B. 1465

C. 1475

D. 1485

49. The British Bourgeois Revolution took place in the _____century.

A. 15th

B. 16th

C. 17th

D. 18th

50. Which of the following statement about th eRenaissance is NOT true?

A. The renaissance owas a revival of interest in many things that the early Middle

Ages had cared about.

B. The renaissance was a cultural movement by humanists

C. The renaissance spread into England under the Tudors.

D. During the reaissance ,the theatre attained great popularity under Elizabeth.

51. The two centuries just before the outbreak of the Bourgeois Revolution were a

period of _____.

A. capital accumulation

B. Colonization abroad

C. Foreign territorial expansion

D. enlightnment

52. Charles I ruled without Parliament for ______ years.

A. 10

B. 11

C. 12

D. 13

53. The king?s men at the beginning of the First English Civil War were called ______

A. Cavaliers

B. Roundheads

C. Puritans

D. Presbyterians

54. Which of the following statements is NOT true of the Commonwealth period?

A. Cromwell suppressed the diggers.

B. Cromwell killed Levelers in teh army

C. Cromwell conquered Ireland

D. Cromwel restored the House of Stuart.

55. The “Glorious Revolution” of 1688 put _____ on the throne.

A. Charles I

B. Charles II

C. James II

D. William of Orange

56. The British Industial Revolution first began in the ____ industry.

A. iron and steel

B. Textile

C. Coal mining

D. Ship-building

57. To sustain large-scal machine production and greater economic specialisation,

______ invented the steam engine, marking a high point in this development..

A. James Hargreaves

B. Richard Arkwright

C. Edmund Casrtwright

D. James Watt

58. After Ann, for over a century until 1830, Great Britain was ruled by kings of _____

from Germany.

A. George

B. Henry

C. William

D. Elizabeth

59. The Great Fire of London in 1666 was one of the important evens in the _______.

A. English Civil War

B. Industry Revolution

C. Glorious Revolution

D. The Restoration period

60. Which of the followings are not in the Georgian Britain?

A. The War of Spanish

B. The Seven Year s? War

C. The Act of Union of 1800

D. The Reform Bill of 1867

61. Who was the first woman prime minister in Britain? ________________.

A. ElizabethⅠ

B. ElizabethⅡ

C. Margaret Thatcher

D. Diana Princess of Wales

62. A number of Catholics attempting to blow up the parliament building during the

reign of the first king from House of Stuart was a famous event named____.

A. the Divine Right of King

B. the Gunpowder Plot

C. the English Civil War

D. the Petition of Right

63. The Reform Act of 1832 had changed the ways that the two major politic parties _____.

A. the conservative and the Labor

B. the Democratic and the Republic

C. the Whig and the Tory

D. The Fabian Society and the Labor Party

64. In response to Hitler?s military expansion in the 1930s, British Prime Minister _________had adapted an appeasement policy to try to avoid a European war.

A. Churchchill

B. John Major

C. Chamberlain

D. Harold Wilson

65. The British Commonwealth of Nations is a ____ organization.

A. military

B. cultural

C. economic

D. Phony

II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write “T”if it true, write “F” if it is wrong.

1. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island is located in northern Europe.

2. England is one of the two large islands in the Britain Isles.

3. The British Isles are made up of three large islands and hundreds of small ones.

4. Wales lies on the east coast of the island of Great Britain.

5. The Commonwealth of Nations is a free association of independedt countries that all used to be colonies of Britain.

6. Britain’s climate is influenced by the Gulf stream, a warm ocean current that sweeps up from the equator and flows past the British Isles.

7. People of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi origin are the largest group of immigrants in Britain.

8. Scottish Gaelic is the official language in Scotland.

9. Britishness is associated with political, historical, technological, sporting, and

cultural achievements in Britain.

10. The successful Roman invasion took place in AD43, headed by the emperor Julius

Caesar.

11. The Magna Carta set out the rules which were to form the basis for the Parliament

which operates in England today.

12. The Black Death ravaged England, carrying off three fourths of the population.

13. Queen Mary was a follwer of the Church of England and was determined to make

Engtland once again a protestant country.

14. The establishment of the british East India Company in 1600 was a case of

economic penetration.

15. Jame s?s son, Charles I, who succeeded him in 1625, also thought that his right to

rule was God-given.

16. Social class in the UK lays more emphasis on money and property.

17. As a result of land enclosure, a new class hostility was introduced into rural

relationship. 18. The Wars of the Roses were in the main a great contest for Crown betwen the rival

houses of York and Lancaster.

19. The name “England”derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic bribes who

came to England in the 5th and 6th centuries.

20. During Edward III?s reign, the war with France known as the Hundred Years? War

began.

21. Compared with the rest of the world, the UK has a smaller percentage of older

people and a higher percentage of younger people.

22. One of the distinctive features about the British class system is that it has also

retained a hereditary aristocracy.

23. Britain is no longer an imperial country.

24. Great Britain includes 3 constituent countries: England, Scotland, and Wales.

25. The term …parliament? was first officially used in 1066 to describe the gathering of

feudal barons and representatives from counties and towns.

26. Ireland is part of Great Britain.

27. There are about 60 members of the Commonwealth of Nations.

28. By the end of World War II, Britain had gone heavily into debt in order to develop

its manufacturing industry and borrowed large amounts from the US and France.

29. The English language is the predominant language in Northern Ireland.

30. London and England as a whole have great influence over the rest of the United

Kingdom because of their large population.

31. The title of Prince of Wales is held by a Welsh according to tradition.

32. The working class staged the popular Chartist movement to urge reform in

parliament election.

33. London?s underground was the world?s first underground railway.

34. Florence Nightingale who organized the care of soldiers wounded in the Crimean

War, was a doctor.

35. 1901-10 was basically called the Edwardian period.

36. Edward VII abdicated in 1936, wishing to marry American divorcee, Mrs. Wallis

Simpson.

37. The British Empire was almost completely dismantled in 1947 with the

independence of India and Pakistan.

38. The UK integrated into the European Economic Community during 1990s.

39. Tony Blair was succeeded by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Cameron.

40. The Labor Part in the UK once prevailed after the WWII.

III. Answer the following question within 100 words.

1.In What sense did Tudor Britain serve as a transition to modern times?

2.Give a brief account of Roman Influence on Britain.

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