英美概况1.The British industry is operated by many different types of firms

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英美概况（一）16秋在线作业1
一、单选题：
1.The British industry is operated by many different types of firms --- at one extreme is the small family business, and at the other extreme the great(    ) corporation operating numerous plants.          (满分:3)
    A. national
    B. public
    C. industrial
    D. corporate
2.Around 3000 B.C., some of(    ) from the Mediterranean lands settled in Britain.          (满分:3)
    A. Iberrians
    B. Celtics
    C. Anglo-Saxons
    D. Vikings
3.The(    ) is the most famous of all British papers and the oldest at that.          (满分:3)
    A. Sun
    B. Times
    C. Mirror
    D. Observer
4.The British slave traders also got a lot of money in their(    ) trade．          (满分:3)
    A. foreign
    B. oversees
    C. triangle
    D. Indian
5.(    ) is regarded as the most English of games.          (满分:3)
    A. Football
    B. Tennis
    C. Baseball
    D. Cricket
6.(    ) is the center of the British financial system.          (满分:3)
    A. The Bank of Ireland
    B. The Bank of England
    C. The Bank of Britain
    D. The English Bank
7.The doctrine of Christianity is the(    ).          (满分:3)
    A. Koran
    B. the Bible
    C. the Booklet
    D. the doctrine
8.The Industrial(    ) started during the last part of the 18th century, in the same period as the American and the French Revolutions.          (满分:3)
    A. Movement
    B. Drive
    C. Process
    D. Revolution
9.After the close of the war, twenty-seven victorious nations(including China) attended(    ) on January 18th, 1919.          (满分:3)
    A. the London Conference
    B. the Tokyo Conference
    C. the Paris Conference
    D. the New York Conference
10.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.          (满分:3)
    A. Cabinet
    B. wife
    C. son
    D. administration
11.Adolf Hitler was a fascist dictator. He advocated that the(    ) was superior and the Jews and the Slavic people were inferior.          (满分:3)
    A. Roman race
    B. fascis race
    C. Saxon race
    D. Germanic race
12.There are three academic degrees in Britain: the(    ) degree, Master's degree and Doctor's degree.          (满分:3)
    A. Bachelor's
    B. College
    C. University
    D. High
13.The First World War broke out on July 28th,(    ) and ended on November 11th, 1918.          (满分:3)
    A. 1911
    B. 1915
    C. 1916
    D. 1914
14.The present sovereign is Queen(    ), 11th generation of the House of Hanover and the head of state of the country.          (满分:3)
    A. Elizabeth III
    B. Elizabeth II
    C. Elizabeth
    D. ElizabethI
15.Overseas commodity trade alone accounts for about(    ) of the country's national income.          (满分:3)
    A. one sixth
    B. one third
    C. half
    D. one fourth
16.During the dark early days of the War, economist William Beveridge put forward proposals for postwar “(    )” social security.          (满分:3)
    A. life-long
    B. cradle-to-grave
    C. family
    D. complete
17.Any child in UK may attend, without paying fees, until they are eighteen. Education at this stage is(    ).          (满分:3)
    A. compulsory
    B. optional
    C. free
    D. expensive
18.On December 7th, 1941, Japan's planes from carriers at sea made a swift and sudden raid on the United States' naval base at(    ).          (满分:3)
    A. sea
    B. island
    C. Pearl Harbor
    D. US
19.The UK is bordered by four seas: to the east by the(    ), to the west by the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.          (满分:3)
    A. South Sea
    B. North Sea
    C. Weastern Sea
    D. Eastern Sea
20.(    ) bored beneath the English Channel now links the UK with France.          (满分:3)
    A. The Channel Tunnel
    B. the English Tunnel
    C. the Ocean Tunnel
    D. the French Tunne
三、判断题：
1.William I ordered in 1086 the Domesday Book to be drawn up.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
2.The Crusades were a series of military expeditions made by the Christians of West Europe in between the 11th century and the 13th century to recover Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Moslems.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
3.A general election in UK is held every four years.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
4.The constitutional Monarchy started at the end of the 17th century.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
5.Immediately after the war, the Labor government struggled to deal with many problems: to improve standards of living, for one.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
6.In sports, to play with respect for the rules and the opponents and to win with modesty and lose with good temper is regarded as sportsmanship.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
7.Immediately after the war, the Labor government struggled to deal with many problems, for example, move to a "mixed economy".          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
8.Constitutionally the Queen does not seem to have great power.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
9.The number of Nobel Prize winners in science before the Second World War in UK is the largest in the world.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
10.UK exercises a two-party system.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
11.The Central Powers during the World War I refer to countries including Germany, Austria and Japan.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
12.Lake Poets refer to three English Poets, Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth, who lived in the Lake District of England          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
13.The Norman Conquest was in effect a French conquest.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
14.The Wars of the Roses were a series of civil wars.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
15.Darwin was a British naturalist who revolutionized the science of biology by his demonstration of evolution by natural selection.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
16.British achievements in scientific research have all been turned into productive forces so far as most of the industries are concerned.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
17.The British labor force is remarkably homogeneous.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
18.The life of Parliament in UK is fixed at four years.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
19.Mrs. Thatcher was not the first female Prime Minister in the nation's history          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确
20.“Grocer’s daughter”is another nickname of Mrs Thatcher.          (满分:2)
    A. 错误
    B. 正确