97. In the 18th century, there appeared ____ in England, which owed a great deal to the
invention of machines.
A. the Industrial Revolution B. the Bourgeois Revolution C. the Wars of the Roses D. the Religious Reformation
98. English colonial expansion began with the colonization of _____ in 1583.
A. Canada B. Australia C. India D. Newfoundland
99. _____ was famous for his abdication because of his marriage with a divorced American:
A. Edward VIII B. Edward VII C. George VI D. George VII
100. In January _____ Britain became a member of the European Economic Community.
A. 1957 B. 1967 C. 1973 D. 1979
二、名词解释题
101. the Church of England 102. the Labor Party
103. the Hundred Years’ War 104. public school
105. William the Conqueror 106. Whigs and Tories 107. the Great Charter 108. Oliver Cromwell 109. Puritans
110. Roman Invasion 111. separation of powers
112. the Second Continental Congress 113. New England
114. the Confederate States of America 115. WASPs
116. comprehensive high school
117. the “Second American War of Independence” 118. Louisiana Purchase
119. the National Security Council 120. the Mississippi River
三、填空题2
121. Britain is separated from the European continent by_____, North Sea and_____.
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122. The chief ranges in England are the _____, and the ______.
123. Some of the large fishing ports in Britain are____, Grimsby and ____.
124. Parliament is the supreme legislative authority in Britain and consists of the House of ___,
and the House of ____.
125. The early settlers on the British Isles were the ___ and ____.
126. In 1381, the peasants in ___ rebelled. They were determined to abolish___.
127. The American Industrial Revolution began in the year of ___ with its ___ industry. 128. American education is mainly classified into _____, ____ and higher.
129. The Enlightenment in America provided the colonists with a ___ and ___ weapon against
the British rule.
130. President Nixon visited China in Feb, 19 ____. In the year of ___ the US established
diplomatic relations with China.
131. The present sovereign of Britain is ______, and Prince ____ is the heir to the throne.
132. The Cabinet is composed of the most ____ ministers who meet regularly under the ___ of
the Prime Minister.
133. From the middle of the 5th century three Teutonic groups, Anglos, Saxons and ____ began
to migrate from the region of ____.
134. The 15th and 16th centuries were marked by the ___ of feudalism and the ___ of
capitalism in English history.
135. The British Empire began with the founding of ___ in 1583, and fell after the ___ World
War.
136. The Constitution of the United States follows two principles: the __system and the __ of
powers.
137. In legislation the President of U.S. has a ___ power over bills passed by ___.
138. By the mid-19th century, the territory of the US had reached over ___ million square
kilometers, about ___ times the size of the total area of the original thirteen states.
139. The Conservative Party developed out of the ___ Party, while the Liberal party developed
out of the ____.
140. The ancestors of the English ______, while the Scots, Welsh and Irish the ______.
141. The Central Lowlands of Scotland include the valleys of the _____, _____ and Forth
rivers.
142. The British did not adopt rational reforms such as____ system until 1975, and the ____
system until 1971.
143. The Hundred Year’s War was a war against ___ for the French crown and for the industrial
city of ___.
144. Geographically speaking, the north and west of Britain are _______, while the east and
south-east are mostly______.
145. The English Bourgeois Revolution exerted great influence on___ and the ____ revolutions
in the 18th century.
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146. The South's lending industries are those that make use of the _______ supply of natural
resources and _____ materials.
147. Congress consists of the ____ and the House of _____.
148. In terms of their political administration, the thirteen British colonies can be divided into
three types: the ____ colonies, the central colonies and the ____ colonies.
149. The three kinds of local governments under a state government are ____ governments, city,
town, or ____ governments and local governments of districts set up for special purposes.
150. The Senate serves a term of _____ years, and every two years, _______ of the Senators
stands for re - election.
151. The farmland in the eastern half of Britain is used for raising ___. Its chief agricultural
products are wheat,_____, oats and potatoes.
152. The so-called “Glorious Revolution” was actually a bloodless ___ by the bourgeoisie in
the year of ___.
153. The ___ conflict between the bourgeoisie and the Monarchy and the persecution of ___
constituted two of the major causes of the bourgeois revolution.
154. The Industrial Revolution was a revolution in both the ___ of production and the relations
of production. It began in the ___ industry in the 1760s and lasted until 1830.
155. The Open University is so called because it is ___ to people of ___ages.
156. In the ____century a large number of Chinese were shipped to America as “____”
157. The earliest inhabitants in America were ___, who had come over from Asia by crossing
the land bridge across the present ___ Strait.
158. The French and Indian War was fought between the ___ and the French, who were
contending for the ___ Valley.
159. In February 1861, six of the slave states that had seceded from the Union formed the ____
and elected ___ as their president.
160. Secondary education in the US takes place in a variety of junior and senior high schools,
which can be distinguished as vocational high school, ___ and ____.
161. ___ who gets the majority of the ___ votes is elected President of the US.
162. Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in the year of ___. He called the native
Indians because he believed the islands to which he had come were off the coast of ___.
163. Oxford and Cambridge were the only universities in ___ until the ___ century.
164. In _____, the English Civil War broke out. The Cavaliers supported the king, while the
Roundheads supported _______.
165. The highest point in Wales is ____ in the ____Mountain Range.
166. At the primary stage of the general election, the voters elect ___ to the national ___ of the
two parties in each state.
167. In the first two decades after World War II the US government adopted a policy of Cold
War and ___ in its relationship with the Soviet Union. This policy was later replaced by the policy of ___ for world hegemony.
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168. According to their year of study, undergraduate students are called freshman, ____, junior
and ____ respectively.
169. After the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell declared England a ______, later, he became
_________.
170. Canada's early economic development was founded on a number of resource - based
______: fishing, forestry, _______ and mining.
四、简答题 （略）……
一、单选题 1. D 2. B 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. C 7. C 8. A 9. D 10. B 11. A 12. D 13. B 14. B 15. D 16. C 17. D 18. D 19. D
答案
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