(完整版)英语国家概况课程习题(附答案)

英语国家概况（1）模拟试题1

I. Fill in the blanks:

1.Britain consists of _4___ nations, including England,_Scotland____,

_Wales______ and Northern Ireland______.

2.The Anglo-Saxons began to settle in Britain in __5th______ century.

3.The capital of Britain is ___London___ which has great influence on the UK in

all fields including______government_, _finance______and __culture_____ 4.The capital of Scotland is _Edinburgh_____, which is well-known for its

natural

5._Egbert______, the ancestor of the present Queen, Elizabeth 11, united England

under his rule in 829.

6.In Britain, the official head of state is the Queen_______ while the real centre of

political life is in the House of Commoms______

7.The British Constitution consists of _statute law______, __common law_____,

and ___conventions____.

8.The most important function of the Parliament is to ___pass laws____._______,

9.Strictly speaking, the Parliament today consists of the Queen _______, the

House of Lords_______and the House of Commons_______.

10.Life peers should be nominated by _the Prime Minister______ and appointed

by _the sovereign______.

11.The UK is divided into __651_____ constituencies with each of them

represented by a member in _the parliment________

12.The party which wins the majority seats in parliament forms _the

goverment______and its party leader becomes _prime minister________

13.Normally, a government can be in power for __5_____ years, and then it has to

resign and hold a general election.

14.There are three major parties in the UK: _the Conservative__Party____ the

Liberal ANDDemocratic party_______ and the LabourParty_______.15.From 1979 to 1997, ___the _Conservatuve Party___ won 4 consecutive

elections and was in power for quite a long time.

16.The two oldest universities in Britain are__Cambridge_____ and _Oxford______.

17.Australia, as the World's _SMALLEST______ continent and .

largest_______island, has a population which is__small_____ in relation to its size.

18.Geologically, Australia can be divided into three parts: _the Eastern

highlands______ , which is also know as the_Great DividingRange______ , and which runs almost parallel to the eastern coast from northern Queens land to southern Tasmania; the Central Eaetern lowlands_______, which extends from the Gulf of Carpentries in the north to _Eastern SouthArstralia______ and the western Victorian coast; and the Great Western Plateau, which covers most of Western Australia_______, much of the Northern Territory_______ and South Australia, and part of __Western Queenlands_____.

19.New Zealand is in the ____south-west Pacific___ Ocean. ___Australia____ is its

nearest neighbour. The __North Island_____ and the __South Island_____ are its two main land masses. They are separated by __Cook Strait_____

20.The Head of State of New Zealand is _Queen Elizabeth 2______. She is

represented in New Zealand by a __Covernor-General_____ whose most important task is to call upon the leader of the _majority_party_____ to form a government after an election.

21.Columbus discovered the New World in the year of _1492_______

22.The first permanent settlement in North America was established in today's

Virginia_______ in the year of ___1607____

23. A federal system is one in which _power______ is shared between __a central

authority_____and its constituent parts _______with some rights reserved to each.

24.The U.S. federal government consists of the following three branches: the

executive_______, __the legislative_____ and __the judiciary_____

25.The Congress is divided into the House of representatives_______ with_435______ members who serve two-year terms, _the senate_______ with_100_ lawmakers who serve six-year terms.

26.Groups who try to persuade Congressmen to vote for or against a bill are known

as __lobbies_____

27.The Supreme Court is composed of _one______ chief justice and 8~ associate

justices.

28."WASP, stands for _White Anglo Saxon__Protesant____.

29.In area, Canada is the _second_______ country on earth.

30.Canada consists of ___10_______ provinces and ____3____territories.

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