2023年英国部分英美概况题库.doc

The United Kingdom
I. Multiple Choice
1. The was “the greatest progressive revolution that mankind had so far experienced, a time which called for giants and produced giants—giants in power of thought, passion, and character, in universality and learning” (Engels).
a. Renaissance
b. Industrial Revolution
c. Reformation
d. Bourgeois Revolution
2. is regarded as the first English Prime Minster.
a. Duke of Willington
b. William Gladstone
c. Benjamin Disraeli
d. Sir Robert Walpole
3. The official head of Parliament is .
a. the Prime Minister
b. the Monarch
c. the Speaker
d. the Chancellor
4. The present sovereign of Britain is .
a. Elizabeth I
b. Elizabeth II
c. Elizabeth III
d. Edward II
5. is a day to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
a. Christmas
b. Good Friday
c. Easter Monday
d. Boxing Day
6. published his book On the Origin of Species which caused a stir in Victorian times.
a. Adam Smith
b. Charles Darwin
c. Thomas More
d. Francis Bacon
7. The largest section of Great Britain is .
a. Scotland
b. Wales
c. England
d. Northern Ireland
8. The Lake District is well known for .
a. its wild and beautiful scenery
b. its varied lakes
c. the Lake Poets
d. all above
9. The highest peak in Great Britain is .
a. Ben Nevis
b. Cross Fell
c. Snowdon
d. Cheviot Hill
10. The capital city of Wales is .
a. Edinburgh
b. Belfast
c. Cardiff
d. Londonderry
11. The part that receives the largest amount of annual rainfall is .
a. the east lowlands
b. the northern part of England
c. the northwestern part of Scotland
d. Wales
12. The longest river in Britain is the .
a. Thames River
b. Severn River
c. Clyde River
d. Tyne River
13. The largest lake of the United Kingdom is in .
a. England
b. Wales
c. Scotland
d. Northern Ireland
14. The vast majority of the people of the UK are .
a. Roman Catholics
b. Presbyterians
c. Anglicans
d. Methodists
15. The English are mainly descendants of .
a. Celts
b. Anglo-Saxons
c. Vikings
d. Norman Conquerors
16. A cockney is a .
a. typical Englishman
b. typical Londoner
c. typical Briton
d. native London dialect speaker
17. The Welsh came to Britain .
a. earlier than the English
b. later than the English
c. together with the English
d. in the 13th century
18. Which word is not exact to describe the Welsh?
a. Musical.
b. Emotional.
c. Cheerful.
d. Suspicious.
19. Most of the Scotsmen now speak .
a. English
b. Celtic
c. Gaelic
d. both English and Gaelic
20. A typical Scotsman is usually depicted in the following word except .
a. brave
b. hard-working
c. economical
d. extravagant
21. Most people in Northern Ireland are .
a. Catholics
b. Protestants
c. Presbyterians
d. Nonconformists
22. The earliest known settlers on the British Isles were .
a. Celts
b. Iberians
c. Gaels
d. Anglo-Saxons
23. The real Roman conquest of Britain began in .
a. 55 BC
b. 54 BC
c. AD 43
d. AD 96
24. Which part of Britain was radically transformed by the Romans?
a. Scotland.
b. Wales.
c. England.
d. London.
25. Christianity was first brought to England by .
a. Romans
b. Anglo-Saxons
c. Celts
d. Danes
26. Which of the following tribes first came to Britain?
a. Anglos.
b. Saxons.
c. Jutes.
d. Teutons.
27. King Ethelred was called Ethelred the Unready because .
a. he was always unready for fighting
b. he lacked military preparedness
c. he failed to make preparedness
d. he failed to follow good advice
28. The greatest achievement of William the Conqueror was .
a. the establishment of the legal system
b. the introduction of the feudalism
c. the spreading of Norman-French
d. the compiling of the Domesday Book
29. The Domesday Book included all the following points except .
a. all land and property of then England
b. the rights of landowners
c. the duty of every court
d. the power of the king
30. The last of the true Norman Kings was .
a. William Rufus
b. Henry I
c. Henry II
d. Robert
31. The founder of the English legal system and the Common Law was .
a. Henry I
b. Henry II
c. Stephen
d. Matilda
32. The Great Charter includes all the following points except that .
a. no tax should be made without the approval of the council
b. no freemen should be arrested except by the law of the land
c. if the king attempted to free himself from law the vassals had the right to force the king to obey
d. the vassals had the sole power to levy a tax on people
33. The first “Prince of Wales” in English history was .
a. Henry III
b. Edward I
c. Edward II
d. Edward III
34. The Parliament of was known as “model parliament”.
a. Henry III
b. Simon de Monfort
c. Edward I
d. Edward II
35. Wales was conquered by .
a. Edward I
b. Edward II
c. Henry III
d. Richard I
36. The chief demand of the peasants during Tyler’s Rising of 1381 was .
a. to punish the lawyers
b. to raise wages
c. to free villeins
d. to reform the church
37. The War of the Roses ended in 1485 with the accession of , the first king of the House of Tudor.
a. Henry VII
b. Henry VIII
c. John of Gaunt
d. Edward IV
38. Under Henry VII, the justices of the Peace had all the following powers except .
a. trying cases
b. the care of roads and bridges
c. training lawyers
d. the control of guilds
39. John Cabot was sent to discover new way to the East by .
a. the Pope
b. the King of Spain
c. Henry VII
d. Henry VIII
40. Which is not proper to describe the Church of Middle Ages?
a. It was a religious body that had a political power.
b. It was a body that had a legal power.
c. It was a branch of national government controlled by king.
d. It was like an upper-state organization that was very powerful.
41. The external pretext for the Reformation in England was ‘s divorce case.
a. Henry VII
b. Henry VIII
c. Clement II
d. Charles V
42. Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope in .
a. 1558
b. 1571
c. 1586
d. 1603
43. Who was a Catholic among the following kings and queens?
a. Henry VIII
b. Edward VI
c. “Bloody Mary”
d. Elizabeth I
44. Spanish Armada was defeated in .
a. 1558
b. 1588
c. 1600
d. 1603
45. In drama the most shining representatives of the Elizabethan Age were the following ones except .
a. Christopher Marlowe
b. Edmund Spenser
c. William Shakespeare
d. Ben Jonson
46. Guy Fawkes was .
a. a Protestant
b. a Presbyterian
c. an Anglican
d. a Catholic
47. Which is incorrect to describe King James I?
a. He believed that kings were responsible to parliament.
b. He believed that king derived his authority from God.
c. He tried to make the Church of England subservient to his will.
d. He was quite learned and was remembered by the English for the compiling of the Authorized Version of the Bible.
48. The trouble of Charles I, which led to the first Civil War, came at first when he .
a. dissolved Parliament
b. persecuted Protestant
c. asked people for “loans”
d. wanted to reform the Presbyterian Church in Scotland
49. Which group in the following were inclined to support the King during the Civil War?
a. Merchants.
b. Yeomen and artisans.
c. Catholics.
d. Extreme Protestants.
50. Charles I was tried by the High Court mainly because .
a. he was an absolute king
b. he waned to reform the Church of Scotland
c. he started the Second Civil War
d. he wanted to establish Presbyterianism in England
51. The Rump Parliament was dispersed by Cromwell in .
a. 1649
b. 1651
c. 1653
d. 1658
52. The Great Fire of London broke out in .
a. 1660
b. 1665
c. 1666
d 1667
53. The Glorious Revolution marked the .
a. beginning of the crown supremacy over parliament
b. end of the Civil War
c. failure of the Parliament
d. beginning of the constitutional monarchy
54. England and Scotland were constitutionally united in .
a. 1603
b. 1688
c. 1702
d. 1707
55. After the French and Indian War, Britain got control of .
a. Canada
b. India
c. the Ohio Valley
d. all above
56. When American colonies were fighting for independence, the King of Great Britain was .
a. George I
b. George II
c. George III
d. George IV
57. Britain completed her railway system by .
a. 1800
b. 1820
c. 1850
d. 1870
58. According to the Reform Bill 1832, who got the right to vote?
a. The male workers in cities.
b.. The middle class.
c. The women.
d. Te farmhands.
59. The People’s Charter includes all the following points except .
a. the universal manhood suffrage
b. the abolition of property qualification for MPs
c. the abolition of payment of MPs
d. voting by secret ballot
60. The 19th century economic thinking stems chiefly form .
a. Thomas Malthus
b. David Ricardo
c. Robert Owen
d. Adam Smith
61. The “principle of population” was formulated by .
a. Thomas Malthus
b. David Ricardo
c. Robert Owen
d. Adam Smith
62. Who was probably reluctant to abolish the corn laws?
a. The Tories.
b. The Whigs.
c. The workers.
d. The urban middle class.
63. The incorrect comment on Gladstone is .
a. He stood for laissez faire in economics.
b. He favored economy in public expenditure.
c. he adopted an aggressive foreign policy.
d. He adopted gradual parliamentary reform.
64. The incorrect comment on Disraeli is .
a. He was the founder of the Liberal Party.
b. His policy was to expand the British Empire.
c. He made Queen Victoria Empress of India.
d. Under him the second Reform bill was passed.
65. Which reform bill granted women suffrage?
a. The Reform Bill of 1832.
b. The Reform Bill of 1867.
c. The Reform Bill of 1884.
d. None above.
66. The labour Party was founded in .
a. 1893
b. 1899
c. 1900
d. 1906
67. Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India in .
a. 1837
b. 1876
c. 1898
d. 1901
68. The first dominion of Great Britain was .
a. Canada
b. New Zealand
c. Australia
d. the Union of South Africa
69. The Boers in South Africa were from .
a. the Orange Free State
b. Transvaal
c. Germany
d. Netherlands
70. The causes for Britain to join the “Triple Entente” in 1907 were the following ones except .
a. the failure of the British rapprochement with Germany
b. the skillful diplomacy of the French ambassador to Britain
c. the German policy to build a large navy
d. the British splendid isolation policy
71. Britain declared war on Germany in Aug. 1914 when Germany invaded .
a. France
b. Poland
c. Belgium
d. Serbia
72. According to the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, Britain got .
a. most of the Germany’s remaining merchant ships
b. Palestine and Mesopotamia from Turkey
c. German colonies in Africa and in the Pacific Ocean as mandates of the League of Nations
d. all above
73. The British Communist Party was founded in .
a. 1918
b. 1919
c. 1920
d. 1921
74. Mrs. Margaret Thatcher agreed in to return Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
a. 1983
b. 1985
c. 1988
d. 1990
75. The chief cause that led to Mrs. Thatcher’s resignation in 1990 was the .
a. imposition of property taxes
b. imposition of a per-capita tax
c. cutting public expenditure
d. denationalization of private enterprise
76. Anthony Blair became Prime Minister in .
a. 1994
b. 1996
c. 1997
d. 1998
77. Which document, for the first time in English history, forced King to take the advice of nobles?
a. The Petition of Right of 1628.
b. Habeas Corpus Act.
c. Magna Carta.
d. The Bill of Rights of 1689.
78. Elizabeth II succeeded to the throne in .
a. 1951
b. 1952
c. 1953
d. 1954
79. Among the following members the first one to succeed to the throne is .
a. the King’s brother
b. the Catholic son
c. the Protestant daughter
d. the Protestant son
80. The Monarch’s eldest daughter is usually called .
a. Princess of Wales
b. princess royal
c. Princess daughter
d. female Prince of Wales
81. Which is not right to describe the Prime Minister?
a. The head of Cabinet.
b. The head of civil service.
c. The leader of the Party in power.
d. The head of the country.
82. Most of the practical work of the government is done by .
a. the Prime Minister
b. the Cabinet ministers
c. the heads of departments
d. the civil servants
83. A civil servant must be .
a. a member of the Party in power
b. a MP
c. active in politics
d. politically neutral
84. The smallest governmental unit in England is .
a. county
b. district
c. parish
d. community
85. The English Parliament was formally divided into two Houses in .
a. the 13th century
b. the 14th century
c. the 17th century
d. 1688
86. The House of Commons has become more important than the House of Lords since .
a. 1642
b. 1660
c. 1688
d. 1832
87. Now the House of Lords can prevent a bill from passing into law for .
a. three months
b. six months
c. one year
d. two years
88. Among the following ones who cannot vote in parliamentary election?
a. Girls of 18 years old.
b. Civil servants.
c. The judges.
d. The hereditary peers.
89. The general election normally takes place every year.
a. three
b. four
c. five
d. six
90. The High Court of Justice includes the following divisions except the .
a. Queen’s Bench Division
b. Criminal Division
c. Chancery Division
d. Family /Division
91. Which one in the following is usually dealt with by the Chancery Division?
a. The case of murder.
b. The case concerning mortgages.
c. The case of tort.
d. The case concerning divorce.
92. Most of the civil cases are actually tried by .
a. Magistrates’ Courts
b. County Courts
c. High Court of Justice
d. Crown Court
93. The Whig took the name “Liberal”, while the Tories became the Conservative after .
a. 1760
b. 1830
c. 1832
d. 1916
94. The Labour Party became one of the two major parties after .
a. 1916
b. 1922
c. 1930
d. 1945
95. The Conservative Party supports the following policies except .
a. denationalization
b. free enterprise
c. extending the social service
d. cautious social reform
96. Which one is not correct to comment on the Labour Party?
a. It is a party of anti-Communism.
b. It is in favour of social and economic equality.
c. It is less radical in dealing with foreign affairs.
d. It is a real socialist party.
97. the Labour Part