第一届英语社会文化百科知识竞赛预选赛试题
Part I Choose the answer that best completes the statement （70%）
1. The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, _______.
A.1774 B. 1778 C. 1775 D. 1776
2. The largest lake in Britain is ____________.
A. Loch Lomond B. the Lough Neagh C. Windermere D. Ullswater
3. The origin of the American party system can be traced to __________.
A. the struggle between the Royalists and revolutionaries in the war of Independence
B. the constitutional debate between the Federalists and the anti-Federalists
C. the struggle between those who upheld slavery and those who opposed slavery
D. the struggle between the elections of President
4. The second largest state of the United States is ________
A. Texas B. Alaska C. California D. Hawaii
5. American presidents are elected _________.
A. every two years B. every four years
C. every five years D. every six years
6. The US formally entered the Second World War in _________.
A. 1937 B. 1939 C. 1941 D. 1943
7. When Oliver Cromwell died in 1658, and was succeeded by his son_________, the regime began immediately to collapse.
A. Henry B. Hamilton C. Richard D. Charles
8. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Prime Minister in Britain?
A. He is appointed by the Queen. B. He is Minister for the Civil Service.
C. He sits in the House of Commons. D. He is elected every four years.
9. The election of _______ made Margaret Thatcher to power and she became the first woman prime minister.
A. 1979 B. 1980 C. 1982 D. 1992
10. Natural gas was discovered in __________ in Britain.
A. English Channel B. Irish Sea C. Lake Noah D. the North Sea
11. Sears Tower is in_________.
A. Boston B. New York C. Chicago D. Los Angeles
12. 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
13. Oxford is on______________.
A. the Thames River B. River Clyde
C. the Severn River D. the Great Lakes
14. What is NOT true for Britain’s temperature?
A. It is generally mild and temperate. B. It has frequent changes.
C. It is of the maritime type D. It often has extremes of temperature.
15. Among the most typical English sports, _____ has been in existence since the 16th century?
A. rugby B. soccer C. cricket D. boxing
16. The earliest institution of higher learning set up in America was________.
A. California University B. Yale University
C. Harvard College D. Chicago University
17. Which of the following tribes first came to Britain?
A. Anglos B. Saxons C. Jutes D. Celts
18. On the island of Great Britain, there are_________.
A. four political divisions, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
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
19. The theme of thanksgiving has always been __________.
A. friendship and happiness B. peace and plenty, health and happiness
C. cooperation and rich reward D. love and happiness
20. In Britain only about _______ of the population are farmers but they manage 70% of the land area.
A. 2% B. 3% C. 4% D. 5%
21. _______ brought the new religion, Christianity to Britain
A. The Celts B. The Anglo-Saxons C. Jutes D. The Romans
22. The Grand Canyon in the north-western________ is one of nature’s most impressive sights.
A. Utah B. Arizona C. Nevada D. Idaho
23. The Bill of the Rights is the term used for ________ to the Constitution of the United States.
A. the first ten amendments B. the last five amendments
C. the tenth amendment D. the most important amendment
24. The “ basics ” taught in the America elementary school are ________.
A. social studies, arithmetic and reading B. science, reading, writing and arithmetic
C. reading, writing and arithmetic D. physical education, reading and writing
25. The largest lake situated entirely in Canada is ________.
A. the Great lakes B. Great Bear Lake
C. Great Slave Lake D. Lake Winnipeg
26. The Norman Conquest of _______ is perhaps the best-known event in English history.
A. 1063 B. 1064 C. 1065 D. 1066
27. To its full sense, the British Parliament consists of ___________.
A. the House of Lords and the House of Commons
B. the House and the Senate
C. the Queen and the House of Lords
D. the Sovereign, the House of Lords and the House of Commons
28. Which of the following statement is true about The Commonwealth of Nations?
A. It is a voluntary, free association of 50 independent sovereign states.
B. There are a large number of British immigrants in each of the Nation.
C. All the countries lived under the British law and government.
D. All the countries fought on the side of Britain in the two world wars.
29. Each of the fifty states of the USA elects ________ senators
A. 10 B. 4 C. 3 D. 2
30. The United States has less than 6% of the world’s population; yet it produces about ________ of the total world output.
A. 20% B. 25% C. 30% D. 35%
31. Australia has always been a continent with few people mainly because________.
A. Australia is too far away from Europe
B. Australia is the least mountainous and most level of the world’s continents
C. Australia is separated from the rest of the world by sea
D. Most of the continent is hot and dry
32. __________ came into the throne at the age of 25 and reined the country for 45 years while remaining single.
A. Elizabeth I B. Elizabeth II C. Mary D. Victoria
33. In area, the United States is the _______ largest country in the world.
A. 2nd B. 3rd C. 4th D. 5th
34. The Black Death, which ravaged England in 1348-1849, carried off_________.
A. three fourths of the population B. one fourth of the population
C. one fifth of the population D. one half of the population
35. What is the most important economic activity in Canada?
A. Manufacturing B. Farming C. Mining D. Forestry
36. The Backbone of North America refers to the _______.
A. Appalachian Mountains B. Rocky Mountains
C. Cascade Mountains D. Sierra Nevada Mountains
37. Apart from a break during the Second World War, the BBC has been providing regular television broadcasts since_________.
A. 1935 B. 1936 C. 1937 D. 1938
38. In the 1960s pop music underwent a revolution when _______ became world famous and turned their hometown of Liverpool into a place of pilgrimage.
A. the Beach Boys B. the Rolling Stone C. the Animals D. the Beatles
39. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence was________.
A. Benjamin Franklin B. George Washington
C. Thomas Jefferson D. John Adams
40. Who is chiefly responsible for the education in the US?
A. The federal government. B. The state government.
C. The county government. D. The Ministry of Education.
41. The tenure of office of federal judges is _____________ in U.S.
A. 4 years long B. for life C. 8 years long D. 5 years long
42. Christopher Columbus who first discovered the New Continent came from________.
A. England B. Ireland C. Spain D. Italy
43. In the United Kingdom, the party, which wins the __________ number of seats in the House of Commons, becomes the official opposition.
A. largest B. second largest C. third largest D. fourth largest
44. At first Australia was settled by the British as a colony_________.
A. to receive free settlers B. to supply Britain with wool and food
C. to receive convicts from Britain D. to expand the British imperial power
45. The emblem of Democratic Party is ___________.
A. elephant B. donkey C. bear D. bull
46. The Mississippi, which is sometimes called _______, has played a vital role in the history of the United States.
A. “Old Man River” B. “Moon River”
C. “Old Father River” C. “Mother of the United states”
47. Australia is located in ____________.
A. the southern hemisphere B. the northern hemisphere
C. the Atlantic Ocean D. the Arctic
48. Nearly ________ of the land in Canada has no permanent population.
A. 68% B. 79% C. 89% D. 98%
49. In America, the three biggest newspapers are of the following EXCEPT __________.
A. New York Times B. Reader’s Digest
C. Washington Post D. Los Angels Times
50. Of all the symbols, which are considered to represent fertility and new life and are most frequently associated with Easter?
A. The pumpkin and the turkey. B. The lamb and the beef.
C. The spring peas and the potatoes. D. The egg and the rabbit.
51. Of all the following issues, _________ is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary history?
A. Puritan morality B. human bestiality C. noble savages D. divinity of man
52. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possibly read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT _______.
A. malignancy B. beauty C. adultery D. God
53. Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of ________, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
A. blank verse B. heroic couplet C. free verse D. iambic pentameter
54. In __________, Washington Irving agrees with the protagonist on the preferability of the past to the present, of a dream-like world to the real world.
A. “Young Goodman Brown” B. “Rip Van Winkle”
C. Daisy Miller D. The Confidence-Man
55. Emily Dickinson was sometimes curious about the feeling of death and in one of her poems she wrote about the ________ of death, the title of the poem is “I heard a Fly buzz when I died”.
A. moment B. suffering C. happiness D. meaning
56. Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary _________ which emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.
A. naturalism B. realism C. determinism D. humanism
57. After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom’s buddy Huck in a book called __________.
A. Life on the Mississippi River B. The Gilded Age
C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
58. Emily Dickinson’s verse is most aptly characterized as ___________.
A. exposing the evils of the society
B. paving the way for the following generation of free verse poets
C. sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman
D. exhibiting a sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience, such as love, death, immortality etc.
59. “For I have had too much / Of apple-picking: I’m overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired”. From these lines we can conclude that the speaker _________.
A. is happy about the harvest B. is tired of the work of apple-picking
C. is not tired when seeing the harvest D. becomes indifferent of the job
60. Chinese poetry and philosophy had great influence on __________.
A. Robert Frost B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Ezra Pound D. Emily Dickinson
61. _____is a folk legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes; it is a long poem of over 3000 lines and the national epic of the English people.
A . Beowulf B. Sir Gawain C. The Canterbury Tales D. King Arthur and His Knights
62. The father of English poetry, the author of Troilus and Criseyde is also the one of ____.
A. Romeo and Juliet B. The Faerie Queen C. Tamburlain D. The Canterbury Tales
63. In his tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare eulogizes _____.
A. the faithfulness of love B. the spirit of pursuing happiness
C. the heroine's great beauty , wit and loyalty D. both A and B
64. Which of the following are regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies?
A. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear
B. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth
C. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
D. Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens
65. Which of the following is not the work of Francis Bacon?
A. Advancement of Learning B. New Instrument
C. Songs of Innocence D. Essays
66. At the beginning of 17th century appeared a school of poets called metaphysics by Samuel Johnson; ____is the founder of metaphysical poetry.
A. Ben Johnson B. John Milton C. John Bunyan D. John Donne
67. Daniel Defoe is a famous____.
A. poet B. novelist C. playwright D. essayist
68. “He has a servant called Friday.” “he” in the quoted sentence is a character in______.
A. Henry fielding’s Tom Jones
B. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal
D. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
69. Gulliver’s Travel was written by____.
A. Daniel Defoe B. Charles Dickens C. Jonathan Swift D. Joseph Addison
70. William Wordsworth is generally known as a ____poet.
A. romantic B. realistic C. naturalistic D .neo-classic
Part II. Fill in the blanks （30%）
1. The smallest state of the United States is _______.
2. The English Civil War is also called ___________.
3. Australia is the world’s largest exporter of ___________.
4. Britain is separated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel in the _______and the North Sea in the east.
5. The longest river in Britain is the__________.
6. In 1608, French explorer, Samuel de Champlain established his habitation in _______.
7. In America, the judicial is headed by __________.
8. The world’s largest freshwater lake is Lake ________.
9. The British people hold _______ as the festival to remember the people who died in the two World wars.
10. With regard to its size, Australia is ________ country in the world.
11. Of Human Bondage is a novel by _____________.
12. The British oldest daily newspaper is _______________.
13. The oldest national Sunday newspaper in Britain is ____________.
14. Which sport is supposed to be America’s national sport and used to be called “American’s favorable pastime”? ________
15. The largest city in New Zealand is _______.
16. ______is the largest state in terms of size and population in America.
17. The first American president to be elected from the Republican Party was______.
18. The general election in Britain is held every ____ years.
19. The first Puritans came to America on the ship _____.
20. The tern “Father of Waters” is used to refer to _____.
21. ___________ is greatly honored as the American Goldsmith for his literary craftsmanship.
22. Byron wrote many other great works, but ________, the long satirical epic is generally considered his masterpiece.
23. The most clearly defined literary movement in the American Romantic Period is generally agreed to be __________________.
24. In most of the American Romantic writings, a new emphasis was put on the ______________qualities of literature.
25. The stream of consciousness technique is one of several experiments that modern writers did in which ___________ is applied to literature.
26. Shakespeare was a man of the late Renaissance who gave the fullest expression to ______ideals.
27. In a remote period of Greek history, probably around 1200 B.C., a war was fought between________, this is the war that Homer refers to in his epics.
28. The traditional dividing line in America between “east” and “west” is___________.
29. The earliest part in America to be found and taken over by early settlers is ________.
30. The largest racial group in the whole population of U.S.A is________.
西北师范大学 外国语学院 翻译系
第一届英语社会文化百科知识竞赛预选赛试题答题卡
Part I Choose the answer that best completes the statement （80%）
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Part I. Fill in the blanks (20%)
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西北师范大学 外国语学院 翻译系
第一届英语社会文化百科知识竞赛预选赛试题答案
Part I Choose the answer that best completes the statement （70%）
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Part II. Fill in the blanks （30%）
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13. The Observer 14. baseball 15. Auckland 16. California
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24. imaginative and emotional 25. psychology 26. humanist
27. Greece and Troy 28. The Mississippi River
29 .The Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain 30. Non-hispanics white
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