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1、英语国家概况试题全国自考2008年7月英语国家概况试题湖北自考网11月14日整理课程代码：00522请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上。全部题目用英文作答I. Multiple Choice Questions. (50 points, 1 point for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are 50 unfinished statements or questions. For each of the unfinished statements or questions, four suggested answers marke
2、d A, B, C and D are given. Choose the one that you think best completes the statement or answers the question. Write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space on your Answer Sheet.1. Which of the following statements about the Commonwealth of Nations is NOT true?;A. It has
3、no special powers.;B. It has 50 member countries in 1991.;C. Its member nations are joined together for military purpose.;D. It is a free association of independent countries that were once colonies of Britain.2. Which of the following tribes came to Britain first?;A. The Jutes. ;B. The Gaels.;C. Th
4、e Angles. ;D. The Saxons.3. King Alfred made a treaty with Danes allowing them to keep the northern and eastern parts of England, which later became known as _.;A. Wessex ;B. Sussex;C. Normandy ;D. the Danelaw4. _, king of England initiated the long, drawn-out struggle with France called the Hundred
5、 Years War.;A. Edward I ;B. Edward II;C. Edward III ;D. Henry III5. William replaced _, the council of the Anglo-Saxon kings, with _.;A. the Witan, Parliament ;B. the Grand Council, the Witan;C. the Witan, the Grand Council ;D. the Grand Council, Parliament6. Under Edward I, Henry IIIs son, _ was co
6、nquered (1277-1284) and came under the English Crown.;A. Wales ;B. Ireland;C. Scotland ;D. England7. Magna Carta was a statement of the feudal and legal relationship between _, a guarantee of the freedom of the church and a limitation of the powers of the king.;A. the Crown and the barons ;B. the Cr
7、own and the church;C. the Crown and Parliament ;D. Parliament and the working class8. _ summoned in 1265 the Great Council to meet at Westminster, a meeting which has been seen as that of the earliest parliament.;A. King John ;B. Henry III;C. Prince Edward ;D. Simon de Montfort9. The purpose of Henr
8、y VIIIs reform was all the following EXCEPT _.;A. to alter theology in any way;B. to get rid of Papal interference;C. to make an independent church of England;D. to get rid of the English Churchs connection with Pope10. The Restoration of the House of Stuart happened in the year 1660. The monarch wh
9、o restored was _.;A. Charles I ;B. Charles II;C. James I ;D. James II11. On their acceptance of _, William and Mary were crowned jointly in Westminster Abbey. Thus the age of constitutional monarchy began.;A. the Test Act ;B. Magana Carta;C. the Bill of Rights ;D. the Petition of Right12. The Englis
10、h Renaissance was largely literary, and its finest representative dramatists were the following EXCEPT _.;A. Ben Jonson ;B. Geoffrey Chaucer;C. William Shakespeare ;D. Christopher Marlowe13. After the Opium War in 1840, China ceded Hong Kong to Britain and opened five ports to British trade by _.;A.
11、 the Treaty of Paris ;B. the Treaty of Beijing;C. the Treaty of Nanjing ;D. the Treaty of Tianjin14. Which of the following is NOT considered a characteristic of farming in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?;A. The “open-field” system.;B. A system of crop rotation.;C. Introduction of artificial
12、 fertilizer.;D. Introduction of new agricultural machinery.15. Tories were traditionalists who were certainly against _.;A. hereditary monarchy ;B. Parliamentary reforms;C. the Church of England ;D. strict maintenance of law and order16. The Privy Council remained powerful until the 18th century whe
13、n most of its work was taken over by _.;A. Parliament ;B. the Cabinet;C. the House of Lords ;D. the House of Commons17. Which of the following statements about UKs monarchy is NOT true?;A. The Sovereign reigns, but doest not rule.;B. The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy.;C. The continuity
14、 of the monarchy has been broken only once.;D. The monarchy is the oldest institution of government, going back to at least the 7th century.18. Except that _ may not be a Roman Catholic, public offices in Britain are open without distinction to members of all churches or of none.;A. the Lord Chancel
15、lor ;B. the Prime Minister;C. the Home Secretary ;D. the Attorney General19. The University Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge has been rowed on the Thames almost every _ since 1836.;A. spring ;B. summer;C. autumn ;D. winter20. The Royal National Eisteddford, which dates back to 1176, takes plac
16、e in _ for a week annually.;A. Wales ;B. London;C. Scotland ;D. Edinburgh21. Between the end of the civil war and 1880, there was a big population movement in the United States, with people moving _.;A. from the rural areas to cities;B. from the core cities to the suburbs;C. from the Northeast to the South and the West;D. from the densely-populated east coast to the sparsely-populated west22.
