北京语言大学《英语国家概况（I）》作业1答卷VIP

1、20秋英语国家概况（I）作业1试卷总分:100 得分:100一、单选题 (共 10 道试题,共 50 分)Australia is calleda country on the sheep back because _.it has the best species of sheep in the worldAustralians ride on sheep backAustralians eat a lot of muttonit makes a lot of profit from the sales of wool答案:D2.New Zealands climate is general

2、ly（）and seasonal differences are not so great.dry and coldmild and moisthot and wetwindy and cold答案:C3.The sharp increase in the Australian population after W.W.II was partly because_.a large postwar immigration program was carried outthe Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders were not in

3、cluded in the census before W.W.IImore British convicts were transported to AustraliaAustralian soldiers came back from the War答案:A4._is not considered a characteristic of London.The cultural centreThe business centreThe financial centreThe sports centre答案:D5.The modern games of tennis originated in

4、（）in the late 19th century.ScotlandIrelandEnglandWales答案:C6.Which of the following is NOT a neighbouring country of Australia?IndonesiaPapua New GuineaThailand答案:C7.Who wrote the long poem Paradise Lost?ShakespeareChaucerMiltonJohn Cabot答案:C8.Which of the following is NOT true about the British mona

5、rchy?It is the oldest institution of government.It goes back to at least the 9th century.It has maintained the continuity over the past thousand years.It seems that it enjoys no real power today.答案:C9.In Britain, thanks to the militant feminist movement of the suffragettes before the First World War

6、, votes were granted to women over（）in 1918.20 B.253035答案:C10.The original inhabitants of New Zealand are called_.EskimosAboriginesIndiansMaoris答案:D二、判断题 (共 10 道试题,共 50 分)11.The word “Ireland” is used ambiguously to mean both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.答案:正确12.The Governor-General

7、acts only on the advice of the Executive Council that comprises himself and the Cabinet.答案:正确13.Whistle-blowers are often experts in both senior and lower levels of bureaucracies who, discovering that their branch of the organization is in some way corrupt and inefficient, try to expose this problem

8、.答案:正确14.While the English are largely protestant, the Irish of the Republic largely belong to the Roman Catholic faith.答案:正确15.In the 1950s and 1960s in an Irish family there were 2 or 3 children on average.答案:错误16.Charles Dickens is one of the most famous of English Modernist writers.答案:错误17.North

9、ern Ireland is the smallest of the four nations, but is well-known in the world for its most famous landmark.答案:错误18.Ireland had long been dominated by Britain, but Irish desire for an independent Irish state was never lost. In late 19th century, there was a campaign in parliament called “home-rule”- Irish political control of Irish affairs.答案:正确19.The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy: the official