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问题 1: 1. In countries like China, Russia and Japan, English is treated as __________.

选项:

A. a foreign language

B. a second language

C. the national language

D. a second foreign language

答案: a foreign language

问题 2: 2. _____ is generally regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.

选项:

A. Ben Jonson

B. William Shakespeare

C. Edmund Marlowe C. John Donne

答案: William Shakespeare

问题 3: 3. In Middle English period, ________ replaced English as the official language in England.

选项:

A. Greek

B. Old Norse

C. Latin

D. Old French

答案: Old French

问题 4: 4. The Old English is derived from__________.

选项:

A. Old Norse

B. Englisc

C. Celtic

D. Latin and Greek

答案: Englisc

问题 5: 5. In the period of _________, English had its spelling and grammar fixed.

选项:

A. Old English

B. Middle English

C. Modern English

D. Englisc

答案: Modern English

问题 6: 6. English is a universal lingua franca.

选项:

答案: 正确

问题 7: 7. The development of English can be divided into Old English, Middle English and Modern English.

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问题 8: 8. The works of Geoffrey Chaucer were written in Old English.

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问题 9: 1. Which of the following is American English?

选项:

A. travell

B. theatre

C. analyze

D. colour

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问题 10: 2. The term of American English was coined by______

选项:

A. Samuel Johnson

B. Noah Webster

C. William Caxton

D. Washington

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问题 11: 3. RP is __________.

选项:

A. American English

B. Standard British English

C. Canadian English

D. Australian English

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问题 12: 4. The first American dictionary is ________

选项:

A. An American Dictionary of the English Language

B. Oxford Dictionary of English

C. The American Heritage Dictionary

D. the Merriam Webster Dictionary

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问题 13: 5. Which of following statements is British English?

选项:

A. on the week end

B. Monday through Friday

C. I rent a Flat.

D. go on vacation

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问题 14: 6. English has developed many varieties around the world.

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问题 15: 7. British English and American English are largely different.

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问题 16: 8. In American English, “r”sound is rhotic both in front of a vowel sound and a consonant sound.

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问题 17: 1. The largest part of Great Britain is _____.

选项:

A. England

B. Scotland

C. Wales

D. Northern Ireland

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问题 18: 2. The largest lake in Britain is ______.

选项:

A. Loch Lomond

B. the Lough Neagh

C. Windermere

D. Ullswater

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问题 19: 3. Which statement is NOT the principal feature of British climate?

选项:

A. The frequent fog occurs in winter.

B. There are a large number of rainy days every year.

C. The climate is instable and changeable.

D. The summer is hot, and the winter is cold.

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问题 20: 4. The majority of British people are descendents of _______

选项:

A. Celtics

B. Greeks

C. Anglo-Saxons

D. Vikings

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问题 21: 5. The longest river in Britain is _______.

选项:

A. River Thames

B. Severn River

C. Clyde River

D. the Nile

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问题 22: 6. The UK is separated from the rest of Europe by the ____

选项:

A. English Channel

B. North Sea

C. Irish Sea

D. Atlantic Ocean

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问题 23: 7. _______is called “the Athens of North”

选项:

A. Cardiff

B. London

C. Plymouth

D. Edinburgh

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问题 24: 8. The official name of UK is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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问题 25: 9. The immigrants make Britain one of the most culturally diverse countries in Europe.

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问题 26: 10. On the island of Great Britain, there are four political divisions-England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

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问题 27: 1. The Romans led by Julius Caesar launched their first invasion on Britain in ____.

选项:

A. 200

B. C. B. 55 B.

C. C. 55 A.

D. D. 410 A.D

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问题 28: 2. Under William the Conqueror, the _____ were at the bottom of the feudal scale.

选项:

A. knights

B. lesser nobles

C. freeman

D. serfs

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问题 29: 3. Under _____, the feudal system in England was completely established.

选项:

A. HenryⅡ

B. William Ⅰ

C. Richard Ⅰ

D. Henry Ⅴ

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问题 30: 4. The feudalism was ended by ______

选项:

A. the Wars of Roses

B. the Hundred Years War

C. the English Civil War

D. the Glorious Revolution

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问题 31: 5. The Romanization was not so successful in _________

选项:

A. roads

B. baths

C. religion

D. language

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问题 32: 6. Caesar’s death is still a mystery today.

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问题 33: 7. Roman Civilization influenced Britain slightly.

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问题 34: 8. British Feudalism lasted much longer than that of China.

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问题 35: 1. _______ is Known as “the father of the British navy”.

选项:

A. Canterbury

B. Westminster

C. Edward

D. Alfred

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问题 36: 2. Celts were different groups of ancient people who came originally from___ .

选项:

A. France

B. Denmark

C. Ireland

D. Germany

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问题 37: 3. Who invaded and conquered Britain for the first time in 55 BC____?

选项:

A. Emperor Claudius

B. Julius Caesar

C. King Alfred

D. King Ethelred

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问题 38: 4. ____was above all responsible for the religious reform of the Church.

选项:

A. HenryⅡ

B. Henry Ⅳ

C. HenryⅥ

D. Henry Ⅷ

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问题 39: 5. British recorded history begins with the ____ Invasion

选项:

A. Norman

B. Roman

C. Anglo-Saxon

D. Viking and Danish

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问题 40: 6. When did the Hundred Years’ War start?

选项:

A. 1733

B. 1453

C. 1337

D. 1357

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问题 41: 7. It was the Angles who gave their name to England and the English people.

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问题 42: 8. The Anglo-Saxon Conquest was important in English history because it laid the foundation on which the English nation was to be formed.

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问题 43: 9. The Great Charter was signed in 1215 by HenryⅡ.

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问题 44: 10. Acturally, the 1990s were a period of tragedy, transition, controversy, and continuity in the UK.

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问题 45: 1. The First Industrial Revolution is marked with_______

选项:

A. steam power

B. electricity

C. automobile

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问题 46: 2. Britain’s dominance in economy was challenged for the first time in ______.

选项:

A. The First Industrial Revolution

B. The Second Industrial Revolution

C. The Third Industrial Revolution

D. After World War Ⅱ

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问题 47: 3. The Third Industrial Revolution began in ________

选项:

A. the USA

B. the UK

C. Germany

D. the Soviet Union

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问题 48: 4. Which statement is NOT the feature of the Second Revolution?

选项:

A. development of electricity

B. the use of chemicals and automobiles

C. mass production

D. semiconductors

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问题 49: 5. Britain declined in _________

选项:

A. The First Industrial Revolution

B. The Second Industrial Revolution

C. The Third Industrial Revolution

D. The Fourth Industrial Revolution

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问题 50: 6. Britain was the first country to start the Industrial Revolution which contributed to the establishment of the British Empire.

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问题 51: 7. The Second Industrial Revolution turned Britain into the “workshop of the world”.

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问题 52: 8. The Third Industrial Revolution took place after World War Ⅰ.

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问题 53: 1. As a revising chamber, the House of Lords is expected to ________ the House of Commons.

选项:

A. rival

B. complement

C. criticize

D. inspect

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问题 54: 2. Generally speaking, the British Parliament operates on a ________ system.

选项:

A. single-party

B. two-party

C. three-party

D. multi-party

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问题 55: 3. The Party that wins the majority of ________ will form the government.

选项:

A. votes in Parliament

B. votes in the general election

C. seats in the House of Lords

D. seats in the House of Commons

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问题 56: 4. In Britain, the parliamentary general election is held every ________ years.

选项:

A. three

B. four

C. five

D. six

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问题 57: 5. The Monarch has formal power but not real power while the Prime Minister does otherwise.

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问题 58: 6. The British Parliament is the law-making body of the Commonwealth of Nations.

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问题 59: 7. Th Members of the House of Commons are appointed rather than elected.

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问题 60: 8. The British Prime Minister is the leader of the majority party in Parliament.

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问题 61: 1. The current British Royal Family are members of the House of_______ .

选项:

A. Tudor

B. Plantagenet

C. Stewart

D. Windsor

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问题 62: 2. Nowadays the monarch of UK is _______ .

选项:

A. Elizabeth I

B. Elizabeth II

C. Victoria

D. Mary I

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问题 63: 3. Margaret Thatcher was the _______ female Prime Minister in British history.

选项:

A. first

B. second

C. third

D. fourth

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问题 64: 4. Westminster Abbey is a church used by the English monarchs for the following occasions EXCEPT _______ .

选项:

A. coronation

B. wedding

C. burial

D. entertainment

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问题 65: 5. British royal family is one of the royal families which have the longest history in the world.

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问题 66: 6. Victoria is the longest-reigning monarch in British history.

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问题 67: 7. The role of the royal family is symbolic, ceremonial and unpolitical.

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问题 68: 8. The Buckingham Palace is forbidden to the public.

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问题 69: 1. Which of the following books is written by Geoffrey Chaucer?

选项:

A. The Canterbury Tales.

B. Beowulf

C. King Lear.

D. Morte D’Arthur.

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问题 70: 2. Several gifted women played a significant part in the 19

选项:

A. Virginia Woolf

B. Emily Bronte

C. Jane Austen

D. Charlotte Bronte

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问题 71: 3. Which of the following writers was NOT associated with Modernism?

选项:

A. D.H. Lawrence

B. E.M. Forster

C. Charles Dickens

D. Virginia Woolf.

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问题 72: 4. _______ is a representative of English Critical Realism in the 19

选项:

A. Robert Louis Stevenson

B. John Milton

C. Joseph Conrad

D. Charles Dickens

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问题 73: 5. The Canterbury Tales is a representative work of the Old English period.

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问题 74: 6. Beowulf was sea monster killed by a Swedish warrior.

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问题 75: 7. Robinson Crusoe tells the story of a shipwreck and solitary survival.

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问题 76: 8. Virginia Woolf is a well-known novelist of the stream of consciousness school.

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问题 77: 1. Which literary form flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature?

选项:

A. Novel

B. Essay

C. Drama.

D. Poetry

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问题 78: 2. Which of the following is a tragedy written by Shakespeare?

选项:

A. Doctor Faustus

B. King Lear

C. Frankenstein.

D. The Tempest

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问题 79: 3. Which of the following is a comedy written by Shakespeare?

选项:

A. Pride and Prejudice

B. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

C. The Pickwick Papers.

D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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问题 80: 4. Shakespeare’s works cover the following EXCEPT _______.

选项:

A. comedies

B. tragedies

C. history plays

D. musicals.

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问题 81: 5. The Renaissance is characterized by admiration of the Greek and Latin.

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问题 82: 6. William Shakespeare is a great poet and much is known of his life.

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问题 83: 7. William Shakespeare and his business partner built their own theater on the south bank of the Thames River, which they called the King’s Men.

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问题 84: 8. Besides the influence on literature, Shakespeare also contributed a lot to the development of modern English.

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问题 85: 1. Which of the following did NOT belong to Romanticism?

选项:

A. Keats.

B. Shelly

C. Wordsworth

D. Defoe

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问题 86: 2. _______ is viewed as Romantic poetry’s “Declaration of Independence.”

选项:

A. I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud

B. Don Juan

C. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads

D. Prometheus Unbound

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问题 87: 3. In 1798 Wordsworth published the “Lyrical Ballads” with _______.

选项:

A. Coleridge

B. Keats.

C. Shelly

D. Alexander Pope

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问题 88: 4. Wordsworth was at his best in description of the following EXCEPT _______.

选项:

A. mountains and rivers

B. flowers and birds.

C. children and peasants.

D. the royal family

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问题 89: 5. Writers of romantic literature are more concerned with imagination and feeling than with the power of reason.

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问题 90: 6. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge brought the Romantic Movement to its height.

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问题 91: 7. William Wordsworth was a Poet Laureate of his times.

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问题 92: 8. The Poet Laureate is awarded the position for life.

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问题 93: 1. In Britain, children between the ages of ____ to _____ must receive the compulsory education.

选项:

A. 5,16

B. 16, 5

C. 6, 15

D. 15, 6

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问题 94: 2. Which of the following statements is true?

选项:

A. The purpose of British education is only to provide children with literacy and the other basic skills.

B. Independent schools get money mainly through the private sector ad tuition rates, with some government support.

C. Grammar schools select children at the age of 11 and provide them with a general education.

D. The state seldom interferes with the decision of when, where, how and what children are taught.

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问题 95: 3. All children in the UK should have at least ______ years of compulsory full-time education.

选项:

A. 7

B. 9

C. 11

D. 13

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问题 96: 4. The Advanced level of GCE examination is important because ________________.

选项:

A. it helps children to find a job

B. it helps children to enter an independent school

C. it enables children to pursue higher education

D. it enables children to graduate from middle school

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问题 97: 5. Which is NOT true about the British educational system?

选项:

A. It is funded by the state.

B. It is run by the state.

C. It is supervised by the state.

D. It is affected by state policy.

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问题 98: 6. __________ and __________ are the oldest and best universities in Britain and their two widely admired features are the college system and tutorial system.

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A. Cambridge , Buckingham

B. Oxford , Loughborough

C. Oxford, Cambridge

D. Cranfield, Cambridge

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问题 99: 7. About six percent of the school population attend ____. Grammar schools B. comprehensive schools Public schools D. independent sch

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问题 100: 1. Which of the following is the British oldest daily newspaper?

选项:

A. The Telegraph.

B. The News of the World.

C. The Guardian.

D. The Times.

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问题 101: 2. Which of the following statements is TRUE about the British media?

选项:

A. They supply people with news, keeping them informed of what is happening in the world.

B. They are mainly interested in making huge profits by publishing advertisements.

C. They help little to shape British culture.

D. They provide no side effect.

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问题 102: 3. Which of the following about the BBC is TRUE?

选项:

A. There is no advertising on any of the BBC programmes.

B. The BBC is funded by license fees paid by the government.

C. The BBC has four channels.

D. The BBC have caused severe cultural conflicts in the world.

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问题 103: 4. The tabloids cover the following content EXCEPT?

选项:

A. Sports stars.

B. Gossip.

C. Junk food news.

D. Voting.

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问题 104: 5. Which of the following is the world''s oldest Sunday newspaper?

选项:

A. The Times.

B. The Guardian.

C. The Observer.

D. The Financial Times.

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问题 105: 6. Which of the following is a quality paper?

选项:

A. The News of the World.

B. The Sun.

C. Daily Mirror.

D. The Guardian.

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问题 106: 7. Which of the following about the tabloids is NOT true?

选项:

A. They are big format newspapers.

B. They are often called “ the gutter press”.

C. They mainly deal in scandals and gossip about famous people.

D. They carry stories with color photos and catchy headlines.

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问题 107: 8. Most advertising in Britain is carried _________.

选项:

A. in newspapers

B. in magazines

C. on television

D. on radio

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问题 108: 1. One of British tradition is celebrated in countries with British heritage, that is ___________.

选项:

A. Boxing Day

B. Bonfire Night

C. Easter

D. Queen’s Birthday

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问题 109: 2. Bonfire Night is also called __________.

选项:

A. Easter

B. Guy Fawkes Night

C. Boxing Day

D. St Patrick’s Day

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问题 110: 3. Christians go to church to commemorate Jesus’ _________ on Easter Day.

选项:

A. birth

B. death

C. resurrection

D. sin

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问题 111: 4. What is the national flower of Northern Ireland?

选项:

A. Rose

B. Mistletoe

C. Daisy

D. Shamrock

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问题 112: 5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

选项:

A. Christianity came to Britain after the Roman conquest in the late 6

century

B. Religion is an important part of British life.

C. Easter an important Christian festival in the UK. It occurs in the winter.

D. Christmas is the biggest and best loved religious holiday in the United Kingdom.

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问题 113: 6. Two of the most important events in the Christian calendar, ________ and __________, are major public holidays in the United Kingdom.

选项:

A. Easter, Christmas

B. Halloween, Easter

C. Boxing Day, Christmas

D. St Patrick’s Day, Guy Fawkes Night

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问题 114: 7. Among these Christmas traditions particularly British, which one is NOT true?

选项:

A. To hear the Queen’s Christmas message over the television and radio.

B. Traditionally, people gave Christmas gifts to their staff or servants on Boxing Day.

C. On Boxing Day, people go out shopping, go to cinemas and theatres.

D. Boxing Day is related to the sports of Boxing.

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问题 115: 8. St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated on _____________.

选项:

A. November 5

B. December 25

C. October 31

D. March 17

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问题 116: 1. The following are the reasons why Britain wants to exit from E.U EXCEPT___

选项:

A. Britain was the last world leader

B. Briain puts itself outside of the European continent.

C. The British think that they are British, not European

D. After joining the EU, the U.K. gets on well with theE.U

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问题 117: 2. Among the EU Member States, all the countries use the euro except Britain. Why?

选项:

A. The status of British pound is much higher than that of the new euro

B. The UK does not want to be integrated with the EU.

C. Both A and B

D. Euro was not launched officially.

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问题 118: 3. After the financial crisis in 2008, many EU member states are getting worse.Britain doesn’t help other smaller members, because____.

选项:

A. Briatin has its own difficulty

B. Britain does not use Euro

C. Britain is not a member of the organization

D. Britain is afraid to make mistakes

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问题 119: 4. Originally, E.U was only limited to coal and steel.

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问题 120: 5. On April 8, 1965, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg signed the Brussels treaty.

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问题 121: 6. April 18, 1951, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and West Germany signed the 50-year Treaty on the establishment of the European Coal and steel community.

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问题 122: 7. If Britain leaves the EU, it will not receive any bad effect on itself.

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问题 123: 8. On January 1, 2000, the European Union officially launched the euro.

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问题 124: 1. Of the following practices, _______did not belong to Thatcher’s social welfare reform.

选项:

A. reducing child benefits

B. shortening the period of employing benefits

C. reducing unemployment

D. lowering old age pensions

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问题 125: 2. The Blair government was successful in all the following aspects except________

选项:

A. limiting government spending

B. keeping inflation under control

C. reducing unemployment

D. reducing inequality

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问题 126: 3. Britain has devoted about ______of its land area to agriculture.

选项:

A. 50%

B. 60%

C. 70%

D. 80%

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问题 127: 4. The car industry in Britain is mostly ________.

选项:

A. Foreign-owned

B. State-owned

C. Joint-venture

D. Privately-owned

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问题 128: 5. Of the following sectors in Britain, __________has experienced spectacular growth since the end of World War Two.

选项:

A. Agriculture

B. The energy industry

C. The service sector

D. The manufacturing industry

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问题 129: 6. Coal mining industry in Britain provides _________of the energy consumed in the country.

选项:

A. one-third

B. one-fourth

C. one-fifth

D. two-thirds

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问题 130: 7. By the 19th century, the British economy had achieved global dominance, producing one-third of the world’s manufactured goods, half of its coal and iron.

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问题 131: 8. Britain's agricultureT is highly centralized, highly mechanized and highly efficient: 1.5% of the working population can meet about 60% of the food needs.

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问题 132: 9. There is an English idiom” to carry coal to Newcastle”, which means to help somebody in time.

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问题 133: 10. Thatcher’s revolution turned out to be a great success in dealing with all the British economic and social problems.

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问题 134: 1. The United States is ________largest country in the world.

选项:

A. the first

B. the second

C. the third

D. the fourth

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问题 135: 2. Which city is the most populous city in the United States?

选项:

A. Washington D.C.

B. Los Angeles.

C. New York City.

D. Philadelphia.

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问题 136: 3. The official language of the US is ____, and the second most spoken language is ____.

选项:

A. English; French

B. English; German;

C. English; Spanish

D. French; English

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问题 137: 4. ______ is known as the Father of Waters in the US.

选项:

A. The Missippi River

B. The Missouri River

C. The Ohio River

D. The Columbia River

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问题 138: 5. Some of the world-famous universities like Harvard, Yale and MIT are located in __________

选项:

A. the South

B. the West

C. New England

D. the Midwest

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问题 139: 6. _______ is the symbol of the US.

选项:

A. the Statue of Liberty

B. Hollywood

C. Wall Street

D. Golden Bridge

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问题 140: 7. The United States is a federal republic consisting of _______states.

选项:

A. 48

B. 50

C. 56

D. 46

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问题 141: 8. The United States is situated in the central part of North America, except Alaska and Hawaii.

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问题 142: 9. Hawaii is an island state of the United States.

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问题 143: 10. The climate of the United States is varied.

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问题 144: 1. _______ are making headway in areas such as business, and suffered from a higher poverty rate than the general population.

选项:

A. Latinos

B. Asian America

C. African America

D. American Indians

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问题 145: 2. Among the Asian Americans, _________ have proved to be more industrious, intelligent and doing fine today.

选项:

A. Korean Americans

B. Indian Americans

C. Japanese Americans

D. Chinese Americans

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问题 146: 3. The United States is the _____ most populous nation in the world.

选项:

A. first

B. second

C. third

D. fourth

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问题 147: 4. ______is the most populated region, with about half of the American population.

选项:

A. The Northeast

B. The Great Plains

C. The South

D. The West

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问题 148: 5. The first people on the American continent came from ______as early as 12,000 years ago.

选项:

A. Europe

B. Africa

C. Asia

D. South America

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问题 149: 6. In the United States, the dominant culture group is African American.

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问题 150: 7. The United States is used to be called a “melting pot”, but it is more recently called a “salad bowl”.

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问题 151: 8. Three Asian traditions best explain the success of Asian-Americans: education, hard work, and family.

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问题 152: 1. The term “the American Dream” was introduced in _____.

选项:

A. 1776

B. 1931

C. 1920s

D. 1964

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问题 153: 2. ________ granted the American Dream’s equal voting rights of women.

选项:

A. President Wilson

B. President Lincoln

C. President Roosevelt

D. President Johnson

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问题 154: 3. _________supported the legal benefits of the marriage contract regardless of sexual orientation.

选项:

A. President Wilson

B. President Obama

C. President Roosevelt

D. President Johnson

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问题 155: 4. In the 1920s, the American Dream started from the right to create a better life to the desire to acquire material things, which was described in the novel _______

选项:

A. Epic of America

B. The Great Gatsby

C. the American Dream

D. Ragtime

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问题 156: 5. The American Dream is achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking, and hard work, rather than by chance.

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问题 157: 6. The idea of American Dream was rooted from the Declaration of Independence.

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问题 158: 7. There is a particular definition of the American Dream in the United States.

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问题 159: 8. The American Dream never changed in American History.

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问题 160: 1. Georgia, the last of the original 13 colonies, was settled in_______

选项:

A. 1731

B. 1732

C. 1733

D. 1734

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问题 161: 2. This first successful English colony in North America was found at_______ in _____.

选项:

A. Jamestown, Louisiana

B. Boston. Massachusetts

C. Jamestown, Virginia

D. Plymouth, Georgia

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问题 162: 3. The policy of the United States was______ at the beginning of the two World Wars.

选项:

A. neutrality

B. fully involvement

C. partial involvement

D. appeasement

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问题 163: 4. President _____ introduced the New Deal to deal with ? the problems of the Great Depression.

选项:

A. Wilson

B. Truman

C. Roosevelt

D. Kennedy

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问题 164: 5. Abraham Lincoln issued the ______ to grant freedom to all slaves.

选项:

A. Declaration of Independence

B. Constitution

C. Emancipation Proclamation

D. Bill of Rights

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问题 165: 6. “No taxation without representation” was the slogan of _________.

选项:

A. the settlers of Virginia

B. the people of Pennsylvania

C. he colonists in New England

D. the people of the 13 colonies

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问题 166: 7. According to Truman Doctrine, the US aimed to establish its hegemony I the world, thus began __________ between America and the Soviet Union.

选项:

A. the Cold War

B. the Civil War

C. the War of Independence

D. the Korean War

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问题 167: 8. It is supposed that the first people to live on America were from Asia.

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问题 168: 9. America was named after Christopher Columbus.

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问题 169: 10. The Civil War in America abolished slavery and made America a single, indivisible nation.

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问题 170: 1. Presidents cannot .

选项:

A. serves as commander in chief of the country’s military forces

B. pass laws

C. appoint most of the country’s judges

D. negotiate and sign treaties

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问题 171: 2. The Constitution divides the government into three branches. Which one of these is not a branch?

选项:

A. Legislative

B. Executive

C. Judicial

D. Commercial

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问题 172: 3. What is the Bill of Rights?

选项:

A. First Ten Amendments to the Constitution

B. Last Ten Amendments to the Constitution

C. The first paragraph of the Constitution

D. The main ideas in the Declaration of Independence

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问题 173: 4. What is the most important weapon in the hand of Supreme Court?

选项:

A. Veto.

B. Overriding a veto.

C. Impeachment.

D. Judicial review.

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问题 174: 5. Congress can override the president’s veto by a _____ vote.

选项:

A. two-thirds

B. three-fourths

C. single majority

D. four-fifths

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问题 175: 6. The United States has a federal system, in which power is shared between national government and state government.

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问题 176: 7. American president has no vote in congress.

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问题 177: 8. The number of senators from each state depends on the size of the state's population.

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问题 178: 1. Washington established many forms in government still used today, such as the ___________ and inaugural address.

选项:

A. military system

B. judicial system

C. legislative system

D. Cabinet system

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问题 179: 2. Belittle was first used by ____________.

选项:

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. George Washington

C. James Madison

D. Benjamin Franklin

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问题 180: 3. __________ is the only president that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

选项:

A. George Bush

B. John F. Kennedy

C. Ronald Reagan

D. Barack Obama

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问题 181: 4. Before becoming president, Obama did several occupations EXCEPT _______.

选项:

A. a lawyer

B. a college professor

C. a writer

D. a dentist

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问题 182: 5. _________ is the youngest elected president in U.S..

选项:

A. George Washington

B. Franklin K. Roosevelt

C. John F. Kennedy

D. Jimmy Carter

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问题 183: 6. Thomas Jefferson was the Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

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问题 184: 7. George Washington has been widely hailed as the “ father of his country”--- even during his lifetime.

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问题 185: 8. Barack Obama established the Peace Corps, and masterminded the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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问题 186: 1. In U.S. manufacturing businesses don’t include_______.

选项:

A. plants

B. factories

C. mills

D. housing

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问题 187: 2. Every dollar spent in manufacturing adds $____ to the economy, including retailing, transportation, and business services.

选项:

A. 2.74

B. 2.33

C. 11.3

D. 2.4

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问题 188: 3. In 2010, China is the ____ largest manufacturer in the world.

选项:

A. first

B. second

C. fourth

D. fifth

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问题 189: 4. The biggest reason for U.S. decline of manufacturing is a shift to a _____-based economy.

选项:

A. banking

B. finance

C. hi-tech

D. service

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问题 190: 5. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Manufactured goods comprise 50% of U.S. exports.

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问题 191: 6. According to a 2018 report, nearly 90% of manufacturers are leaving jobs unfilled because there were no qualified applicants.

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问题 192: 7. Trump's "America First" policy is based on economic nationalism, but it excludes other forms of protectionism.

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问题 193: 8. Some people argue, after U.S. being pulled out of TPP, some Asian countries will rely more on USA than China.

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问题 194: 1. Television in the United States is regulated by ____________.

选项:

A. American Broadcasting Service

B. the Federal Communications Commission

C. Columbia Broadcasting system

D. Public Broadcasting Service

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问题 195: 2. _______ is the most famous radio station in the United States.

选项:

A. HBO

B. BBC

C. VOA

D. ABC

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问题 196: 3. ________ is the first weekly news magazine in the United States.

选项:

A. Time

B. National Geographic

C. Reader’s Digest

D. The Washington Post

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问题 197: 4. Which is NOT one of the largest newspapers in the United States ?

选项:

A. USA Today

B. the Washington Post

C. the New York Times

D. People

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问题 198: 5. Of the following, ___________ is NOT among the three major radio and TV networks in America.

选项:

A. the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

B. the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

C. the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

D. the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

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问题 199: 6. With a very few exceptions, all the newspapers in the US are state owned.

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问题 200: 7. No other country in the world has more daily newspapers than the U.S.

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问题 201: 8. CNN can be received on a television only after arranging for a subscription and paying a fee.

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问题 202: 1. In late September 1621 in order to celebrate , the Pilgrims wanted to thank God and the Native Indian.

选项:

A. their first harvest

B. tlement in the new

C. their friendship with the native Indians

D. the end of severe winter

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问题 203: 2. Each year huge crowds of people celebrate New Year’s Eve in __________ in New York City.

选项:

A. The Fifth Avenue

B. The Broadway

C. Times Square

D. The Wall Street

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问题 204: 3. The National Day of the United states falls on ______ each year.

选项:

A. June 4

B. July 14

C. July 4

D. June 14

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问题 205: 4. The Christian also celebrate ___________ ---two holidays of Easter Season.

选项:

A. Bad Friday and Good Sunday

B. Good Friday and Easter Saturday

C. Good Friday and Easter Sunday

D. Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday

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问题 206: 5. There are many traditions of Halloween EXCEPT ______.

选项:

A. Carving pumpkins

B. Making the jack-o-lantern

C. Bobbing for apples

D. Watching the “Ball Drop”

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问题 207: 6. People celebrate on the 3rd Monday in January to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King’s Death .

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问题 208: 7. Thanksgiving Day falls on the fourth Tuesday in November.

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问题 209: 8. People commemorate the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on Presidents Day.

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问题 210: 1. Of the following writers, ͟͟ ͟ ͟ are from the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods.

选项:

A. Benjamin Franklin and Edgar Allan Poe

B. Edgar Allan Poe and Jonathan Edwards

C. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson

D. Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving

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问题 211: 2. ͟͟ ͟ ͟ is regarded as the “father of American literature”.

选项:

A. James Fenimore Cooper

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Thomas Jefferson

D. Washington Irving

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问题 212: 3. Of the following, ͟͟ ͟ ͟ is considered Herman Melvile’s masterpiece.

选项:

A. The Last of the Mohicans

B. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

C. Moby Dick

D. Daisy Miller

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问题 213: 4. Of the following, ͟͟ ͟ ͟ is NOT characteristic of Marktwain’s works.

选项:

A. colloquial speech

B. a sense of humor

C. a realistic view

D. an idealistic view

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问题 214: 5. Of the following, ͟͟ ͟ ͟ is NOT included in the group of naturalists.

选项:

A. Stephen Crane

B. Frank Norris

C. Theodore Dreiser

D. Herman Melville

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问题 215: 6. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel is ͟͟ ͟ ͟ , and its theme is about ͟͟ ͟ ͟ .

选项:

A. The Great Gatsby, the American Dream

B. Tender is the Night, love

C. Tales of the Jazz Age, the loss of oneself

D. The Beautiful and Damned, the evil of human nature

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问题 216: 7. Of the following writers, ͟͟ ͟ ͟ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.

选项:

A. Alice Walker

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. William Faulkner

D. Eugene O’Neil

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问题 217: 8. ͟͟ ͟ ͟ is the first African-American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

选项:

A. Ralph Ellison

B. Toni Morrison

C. Richard Wright

D. James Baldwin

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问题 218: 1. Which theme among the four was the LEAST relevant to Ernest Hemingway’s works?

选项:

A. War

B. Romance

C. Death

D. Disillusionment

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问题 219: 2. Which one among the following writers was an African American?

选项:

A. Arthur Miller

B. Toni Morrison

C. Mark Twain

D. J.D. Salinger

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问题 220: 3. Which of the following is NOT an African-American author?

选项:

A. Phillis Wheatley

B. Harriet Wilson

C. Toni Morrison

D. Alan Ginsberg

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问题 221: 4. The following writers represent new American voices except ͟͟ ͟ ͟ .

选项:

A. Toni Morrison

B. Alice Walker

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Maxine Long Kingston

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问题 222: 5. In the 1920s Harlem in New York City became the center of black culture.

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问题 223: 6. The first African-American novel published in the United States was Richard Wright’s Native Son.

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问题 224: 7. Langston Hughes is known as the most important literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

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问题 225: 8. Jewish American Literature refer to literary works written by Jewish writers in America.

选项:

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问题 226: 1. in the American school system, there are twelve levels called _____.

选项:

A. classes.

B. grades.

C. divisions.

D. high school.

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问题 227: 2. The combined elementary and high school levels of education last for _____.

选项:

A. 8 years.

B. 10 years.

C. 12 years.

D. 14 years.

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问题 228: 3. Among the following universities, which is not a member of Ivy League?

选项:

A. Columbia University.

B. Brown University.

C. University of Pennsylvania.

D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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问题 229: 4. Public and private colleges depend on three sources of income: student tuition, endowments and _________.

选项:

A. Government funding

B. Parents

C. Loans

D. friends

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问题 230: 5. The following are all characteristics of American public schools EXCEPT ________.

选项:

A. religious teaching

B. locally controlled

C. coeducational

D. publicly supported by taxes

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问题 231: 6. According to US laws, American children must go to school until they are at least 16 years old.

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问题 232: 7. Two-year colleges, or “junior” colleges, also grant bachelors’ degrees.

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问题 233: 8. American public schools are supported by taxes and controlled by the federal government.

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