- The first President of the United States, George Washington, was a member of the Republican Party.
- Devolved government in Edinburgh has removed focused on Scottish identity
- The Vikings began to attack the English coast in the 8th century.
- The national Energy Policy enacted by Canadian government in 1980 caused heated debate and angered the resource-rich western provices.
- Pennsylvania was founded by the Quakers.
- A great economist in the Industrial Revolution Era was an Englishman named Adam Smith.
- Many people objected to the idea of the corporation because it is less personal than sole proprietorship and partnership.
- Emerson’s “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” asserts great influence on such social activist as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr..
- The Bloc was the largest party in Quebec and campaigned actively mainly within the province during federal elections.
- The West of the USA is a region of scenic beauty on a grand scale, and much of the West is densely populated.
- Education in Canada is compulsory for children from age 5 to age 16.
- Of all the English universities, Oxford and Cambridge are the most prestigious.
- Public schools in Canada are the same with those in the UK which are top private schools.
- Industry in Cnanda can be divided into three main groups: primary industries, secondary industries, and tertiary industries.
- When selecting a college or university, undergraduate students have a great concern for its size, location and academic quality.
- 40% of Canada’s minerals are located in the Great Lakes.
- The Anglo-Saxons came to Britain in the 5th century.
- The white area on the Canadian national flag represents its large territory.
- The Scarlet Letter explores the themes of evil, guilt, sin and emotional repression in New England.
- Canada has over 2000 lakes.
- The British Queen is a part of the parliament and can make laws.
- Since the 15th century, the girls did attend school to learn how to read, write and do sums.
- Americans prize success that comes from individual effort and initiative.
- The purpose of executive branch is to interpret the laws.
- Canada was founded as a nation based on peace, order and good government.
- The first fleet of 11 ships arrived at ______ in 1788 in Australia.
- In Canada, ________ is the law-making body.
- Which was the major historical event that resulted in the separation of the Protestans from the Roman Catholic Church?
- Which of the following statements about Australia is NOT true?
- Alberta is Canada’s leading producer of ______.
- The English Civil War broke out in 1642 between ______.
- Which of the following is NOT mentioned in American higher education?
- Fishery is highly developed in the following regions except ?
- The first factory in the United States was a cotton textile mill in Pawtucket, in the state of ______.
- Which of the following statements about Canadian post-secondary education is NOT correct?
- Which of the following about the Parliament is NOT true?
- John Donne's poems are unconventional in ideas and poetic methods as compared with his contemporary Elizabethan poets. Which of the following labels is used to describe his poetry?
- Which of the following events did NOT happen during the Tudor period.
- _____ is a more deliberate kind of realism, involving a view of human beings as passive victims of natural forces and social environment.
- ___is usually taken as the Father of English poetry.
- Which of the following is NOT characteristic of British political system?
- About of American crops are for export.
- The following inventions took place during the “second industrial revolution” except .
- Who circumnavigated Australia and mapped the entire coast for the first time?
- Easter commemorates:
- Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Canadian post-secondary education?
- Which of the following is NOT among the most influential works by the Beat Generation?
- During the Second World War, Japan began its air raids on ______ in 1942.
- Virginia Woolf and James Joyce use a unique technique to display the sequence of thoughts and impressions in a character's mind. It is___.
- Which country is NOT the major trading partners of Canada?
- Which statement is NOT true about Australia?
- Australian Parliament consists of three components: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.
- Australia enjoys a worldwide reputation for academic excellence. Generally, its higher education system follows a similar model to the US, and the students have different range of choices if they decide to pursue education.
- Which of the following does Australia NOT belong to?
- Australia’s system of government is founded in the ________tradition.
- The Australian Democrats , founded by former Liberal Don Chipp in 1977, became one of the most enduring of all minor parties in Australian political history.
- Australia's per-capita GDP is lower than that of the UK, Canada, Germany and France in terms of purchasing power parity.
- Which of the following is NOT considered as part of the service industry?
- Which position is the President of the Federal Executive Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Defence Force.
- Australia has the eighth-highest total estimated value of natural resources.
- Rice has always been a big part of the Australian diet
- Which statement about didgeridoo is NOT true?
- During Gold Rush , many Chinese people came to Australia.
- Sydney is the second largest city in Australia.
- The original immigrants that came to Australia were scattered in different tribes but spoke the same language
- The original migration into Australian land was said to start from ____.
- How many parts Australian National flag consists of：
- There are 15 per cent of Australians speak other languages, such as Italian, Greek, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Chinese with their families at home
- The capital of Australia is：
- Which city/cities has/have hosted the Olympic Games in Australia?
- All the French speakers in Canada live in Quebec.
- Which of the following provinces is the manufacturing heartland of Canada?
- Which of the following industries account for more than half of the GDP in Canada?
- The Free Trade Agreement came into effect in 1989, with a schedule of removing traffic protection on most items by 1990.
- National voting is available to Canadian citizens aged 18 or older who reside in Canada or have been abroad for shorter than five years.
- ________ is the largest party in Canadian parliament.
- ________ is the Head of State in Canada.
- The federal form of government in Canada was patterned after the United Kingdom.
- Which of the following is NOT a reason that students go to Canada to study?
- Post-secondary education is compulsory in Canada.
- The self-governing Dominion of Canada was not established on July 1, 1867.
- Canada is a country born from the European fascination with exploration, imperialism, and colonization that began in the century.
- The Five Great Lakes form a connected system that is the world’s largest body of fresh water.
- As one of the Aboriginal peoples, the majority of _____ live in the Prairie Provinces.
- In 1841, Britain passed , which created the United Province of Canada.
- The three main groups of Aboriginal people do not include________.
- The largest geographical feature in Canada is ___________.
- From west to east, Canada encompasses five time zones.
- The largest lake fully within the Canadian borders is ________.
- In the 1830s, Canada enter a considerable period of political unrest, with a well-organized group of Reformers, led by mostly middle-class and Catholic professionals, against the corruption .
- The United States has a national system of education.
- If the President refuses to sign a bill, then the bill would never become a law.
- The American educational system is based on the idea that as many people as possible should have access to as much as education as possible.
- Mark Twain was a great realist as well as a regionalist, or local color writer.
- The United States’ economy suffered severely from the two World Wars in the 20th century.
- In order to go to university, secondary school students must meet the following requirements EXCEPT that_____.
- Which of the following does NOT belong to formal education in the US?
- The United States produces as much as half of the world’s .
- The “American system” of mass production was first used in .
- Which of the following is NOT one power of the President?
- Like many other countries, the United States has an identity that depends on ethnic continuity.
- The Senate is composed of 100 Senators who are elected to serve for a term of 2 years.
- The current population in America is less than 315 million, rendering it the world’s third largest population, following China and India.
- The first permanent British settlement in North America was ______.
- The majority of the population of the United States is of ______ origin, with the largest groups having primary ancestry traceable to the United Kingdom, Germany, and Ireland?
- The USA is a Federal republic made up of 50 states, with 48 states located on the mainland
- Which day is the Independence Day in the United States?
- It’s believed that the idea of “the Great Melting Pot” first originated in ______.
- Geographically, the United States can be divided into six regions which share similar culture and history: The Mid-Atlantic, The South, The Midwest, The Southwest, the West and ______ .
- Among the 50 states, ______ is the largest in terms of size, and Rhode Island is the smallest.
- The end of the Wars of the Roses led to the rule of .
- The Group of Seven does NOT include .
- Britain was the first industrialized nation in the world.
- The British economy achieved global dominance by the .
- Public schools, such as Eton College and Harrow School, are open to all in Britain and a large percentage of population can attend the schools.
- Limited resources and high unemployment rate were persistent problems that prevented rapid economic development in Britain.
- The British government is characterized by a division of powers between three of the following branches with the EXCEPTION of the .
- The political system in the UK is a constitutional monarchy.
- Generally speaking, the British Parliament operates on a system.
- The British Queen is supposed to reign but not rule.
- The landscape of England is more rugged in the north and the west.
- The UK has a history of small-scale Non-white immigration, with______ having the oldest Black population in the country dating back to the 1730s during the period of the African slave trade.
- In Wales, there are cultural and political differences between Welsh-speaking Wales in the north-west and center and English-influenced Wales in the east and south-west.
- The Romans occupied Britain for about 400 years.
- Which of the following is the largest of the UK?
- The United Kingdom is the second-largest in the Commonwealth.
- Stonehenge is a prehistorical site located in Wales.
- Wales is the smallest country in the UK.
- Which of the following events promoted the concept of English nationalism and the development of the textile industry?
- The capital and largest city in Wales is ______?
- Canada doesn't have favorable conditions for farming, so agriculture has stopped being an important part of Canadian economy.
- Shakespeare's tragedies are full of humanist ideas in a philosophical exploration of life and death, of the mingled sordidness and glory of humanity, revealing the dilemma of human existence.
- US Congress has two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by Oscar Wilde.
- People go to the Open University without having any formal school qualifications.
- The first formal academic institution that a child attends is called kindergarten.
- Pakistanis, according to the 2011 Home Office Census, are the largest minority ethnic group in the UK.
- Women in the United States won the right to vote in 1920.
- US Electors refers to all of the American citizens.
- During the administration of John A. Macdonald, Canada's economy fell more deeply under the influence of the United States.
- Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal are all members in the British Upper House.
- The British monarchy has never been interrupted throughout the history.
- The stockholder make profits even when the company loses money.
- Canada has one of the best education systems in the world.
- Self-praise in the UK is felt to be impolite.
- The Magna Carta was designed to protect the rights of both the privileged class and the townspeople.
- Members of the House of Commons are elected from political parties representing various regions throughout Canada.
- The Glorious Revolution established the constitutional monarchy in Britain.
- George Bernard Shaw provocatively examined moral and social issues in his so-called problem plays Mrs. Warren's Profession, Major Barbra, and Pygmalion.
- The contemporary British are a homogeneous people with the same identity.
- At present, which of the following areas has the largest farms in Canada?
- Canada began negotiating with the US on dismantling tariff barriers under the government of .
- The most popular sport in the United States is
- Which of the following writer’s work expresses the cultural values of the rising bourgeoisie through the image of its hero?
- Which of the following statements about Aborigines is NOT true?
- Which of the following does NOT belong to the area of “New England”?
- To get a bachelor’s degree, an undergraduate student is required to do the following EXCEPT ______.
- The United States had the first standard paper currency in .
- Who has extolled the virtues of farmers?
- One of the innovations of Walt Whitman’s poetry is _______.
- The ______ in the early 1970s worsened an already stagnant economy in Britain.
- The Bush administration practiced the policy of ______.
- Which of the following subjects are NOT offered to elementary school students?
- The poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge may be characterized by its___.
- In which year was the United States rated No. 1 in terms of production capacity in the world?
- Britain has devoted _______ of its land area to agriculture.
- During the Victorian period, Britain controlled about _____ of the world’s landmass.
- Who invented basketball?
- Britain is the world's leading exporter of poultry and dairy products.
- One reason for America's affluence is that a lot of people have inherited wealth from their parents.
- The Constitution of the United States is the world’s oldest and shortest written constitution.
- Strong domestic demand is one fator contriubting to America's affluence.
- Many American leaders have extolled the virtues of farmers.
- William Faulkner uses the technique “stream of consciousness” to present the inner states of his character.
- John Bull is a national personification of the United States, with the first usage of the term dating from the war of 1812.
- Higher education in the US has the function of public service.
- In 1803, President Jefferson negotiated the purchase of Louisiana from Mexico.
- All universities in Canada offer undergraduate Bachelor’s degrees.
- Independent agencies are also part of the Executive Office of the president.
- Although the campaign includes a series of planned activities， they are not money-consuming
- The UK has a written constitution.
- All American children are offered 12 years of compulsory public education.
- Cricket is a popular summer sport which is played between 2 teams, each of 11 people.
- Which of the following writers discussed colonialism in some of his works_____.
- The United States was rated in the world in terms of land area and the size of populatoin. .
- In the United States school systems, which of the following divisions is true?
- What major natural resources are found in each province and territory of Canada?
- Buckingham University is a(n) _____ university which was established in 1973.
- The Commonwealth of Australia was established in the year of ________.
- The realism in Henry James’s works is often called __________.
- The expenditure in American public schools is guided or decided by ______.
- A voter should meet the following requirements EXCEPT ________.
- The usual route to university and college is through the A level system, depending on the grades attained in these examinations.
- Edinburgh is the capital as well as the largest city of Scotland.
- If a Canadian does not belong to any political party, he/she can not run for the federal election.
- It takes at least four years to get a bachelor’s degree from an institution of higher learning in the US.
- The members in the House of Commons are appointed rather than elected.
- Canada is similar with the United State which also has two party system.
- Britain has always been culturally and ethnically diverse. There are many differences between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and distinctive ways of life and identities within each nation at national, regional and local levels.
- Public Schools refer to a group of old, expensive and exclusive private independent schools, which admit children aged 13 to 18. These were once boys’ boarding schools.
- Australia was the only penal colony of the UK.
- The climate of the UK is considered temperate weather despite its latitude. However the UK is known for being very cloudy and rainy throughout much of the year.
- Employment is the only standard for class-divisions in the UK.
- Today, many Welsh people feel that they are struggling for their national identity against political power in London and the erosion of their culture and language by English institutions.
- Bitter satire is not a typical feature of Jonathan Swift's writings.
- Although Britain remains a mainly Christian nation, most Britons do not go to church regularly or engage in Christian worship.
- Britain is an important oil exporter since its oil industry has a long history.
- _______ is NOT included in the top three major cities of Canada.
- The Bill of Rights was passed in ______.
- 7. Britain’s important fishing areas include all the following except _____ .
- Which of the following people established the English language now referred to as Old English?
- Which of the following is NOT a major political party in the UK?
- The Magna Carta was signed in ______.
- Of the following practices, _____ does NOT belong to Thatcher’s social welfare reform.
- Forestry accouts for of Canada's GDP.
- The Blair government has been successful in all the following aspects except _______.
- Which of the following about the House of Lords is NOT true?
- The first permanent European settlement in North America was Spanish.
- During WWI, Britain was a member of the Central Powers.
- Aborigines lived on the Australian land as hunters and gatherers.
- Canadian political system has placed emphasis on equality and inclusiveness for all its people.
- In 1891, basketball was invented by the Canadian American sports coach and innovator James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- "America is a Melting Pot" emphasizes the distinct divide between people in America.
- The highest point in the UK is Ben Nevis in England.
- Yale university is the second eldest institution of higher learning in the US.
- In the 1970s, the Australian government adopted a policy to restrict immigration of colored people.
- The Chinese American community is the largest overseas Chinese community in North America.
- Cabinet members are chosen by the Prime Minister from various political parties in Parliament.
- The Republicans are considered conservative both fiscally and socially.
- The top 10 states which have a large Black population are New York, Florida, Texas, Georgia, California, North Carolina, Illinois, Maryland, Virginia and Ohio.
- The Auto Pact between Canada and the US, which erected heavy tariffs on the import of US cars, was sighend in 1965.
- In order to become a law, a bill must be approved by the majority of each house of Congress and by the president.
- ________ is the largest and longest river system in Canada.
- Only those pupils with the highest marks in the “eleven plus” examination can go to _____ schools.
- Which of the following statements about Canadian education is NOT correct?
- Which of the following is NOT included in the upper class statistically?
- Which of the following is NOT a federal holiday?
- Which of the following statements about boomerang is NOT true?
- In order to go to university, secondary school students must meet the following requirements EXCEPT that ______.
- Christmas is the biggest and best loved British holiday.
- Despite certain consistent ideological principles such as individualism and egalitarianism, the American culture has a variety of expressions due to geographical scale and demographic diversity.
- New Year’s Day celebrates the beginning of the Gregorian calendar year.
- Australia strengthend its alliance with the US after World War Two.
- The economic approach adopted by Tony Blair is different from that of the Labor party and the Conservative Party.
- The British economy experienced a relative decline during the postwar period.
- There are three levels of education in Canada: elementary, secondary and post-secondary.
- In 1947, major oil and natural gas reserves were discovered in the western, mainly agricultural province of Alberta.
- Memorial Day, which falls on the last Monday of May, honors the people killed in the American Civil War.
- The Super Bowl is the most popular single-day sporting event in the United States.
- Among the Great Lakes, only ________ is totally within the United States.
- Which of the following about the House of Commons is NOT true?
- According to the author, the investigation shows that people are more____ about the family future.
- Which of the following expressions represents the core value of the mainstream society in the USA?
- Moby Dick examines such themes as obsession, the nature of evil, and human struggle against the elements.
- Before federation, Australia consisted of 5 seperate colonies.
- The best-known stock exchange is the New York Exchange located in the Wall Street area of New York City.
- Conventions are regarded less important than common law in the working of the British government.
- As the third largest city in the USA, Los Angeles is best known for the Hollywood film industry.
- Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, in its realism, portrays the character of both the rising bourgeoisie and the overseas colonialism.
- After Christianity, Judaism is the second most-identified religious affiliation in the US.
- There is no centralized coordinating body for US higher education.
- Canada has the world longest coastline.
- The true royal sport in Britain is cricket.
- Many Catholic Nationalists feel Irish and would prefer to be united with the Republic of Ireland.
- In Britain, the parliamentary general election is held every ______ years.
- “Break, Break, Break” is a mourning poem by___.
- Henry James wrote many novels on the “international theme”--the complex relationships between naive Americans and cosmopolitan Europeans.
- Canadian education has a national curriculum.
- English and French are the official languages in Canada.
- The social and economic standing of the African Americans has been improved since the Civil Rights Movement.
- During Pierre Trudeau's administration, a "Third Option" was explored to develop stronger trading relations with Japan and south-east Asian coutries.
- In 2004, Barack Obama became the first African-American to be elected president of the United States.
- Which of the following about the Queen is NOT true?
- The House of Burgesses was first founded in ______.
- Canada is the largest country in the world by total area.
- The First Party System of the United States consisted of the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party.
- Industry in which the processing of raw material makes them more valuable are called value-added industries.
- The first American poets, in the true sense of the term, was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allan Poe.
- Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language and the Anglo-Saxon epic.
- The House of Representatives comprises 453 Representatives.
- The national public health service includes two parts:
- What was the "Third Option " proposed by the Trudeau government?
- Britain faced strong challenges in its global imperial dominance by the beginning of the _____ century.
- The concept of “the white gentleman” when refers to the British has been the stereotype lagging out of the epoch.
- Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated on November 5th.
- Wales was once conquered by the Anglo-Saxons.
- Education in Britain is compulsory for children aged 5 to 16.
- Further Education goes beyond what has been achieved in previous compulsory education but which are not at degree level.
- In Canada, the leader of the political party that wins the most seats in the House of Commons becomes Prime Minister.
- Alexander Hamilton was the third presiden of the United States.
- The United States joined the Allied Powers from the very beginning of WWI.
- British people were the first Europeans to come to Australia.
- Australia participated in the two world wars, as well as the Korean war and the Vietnam war.
- The Methodist Church is the largest Protestant group in the United States.
- The British middle class primarily consists of white-collar workers and their families living in less affluent suburbs.
- The American culture is primarily a Western culture, but is influenced by Native American, West African, Asian, Polynesian, and Latino cultures.
- Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism, a manifesto of English neo-classicism, advocated the imitation of classics of Homer, Virgil and Horace in a polished manner.
- It is as difficult to find an English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish person who conforms to all or even some of their assumed national stereotypes as it is to find a typical Briton.
- Slavery originated in the state of Massachusetts.
- The core values identified by Robin M. Williams, Jr. can represent every one in the American society.
- The British Prime Minister is the leader of the majority party in Parliament.
- Americans place a high value on personal achievement, especially outdoing others in competitions.
答案:错
答案:对
答案:对
答案:对
答案:对
答案:对
答案:对
答案:错
答案:对
答案:错
答案:错
温馨提示支付 ￥5.00 元后可查看付费内容,请先翻页预览!
