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英语国家概况课程习题 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. \29. In area, Canada is the _second_______ country on earth.
30. Canada consists of ___10_______ provinces and ____3____territories. 第一卷选择题答案
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