自考英语国家概况2011年7月真题及答案解析

Constitutional Monarchy

the Bill of Rights of America

the Federal System of America

the Chartist Movement

In terms of land area and population, which is the biggest state and which is the smallest state in Australia?

What are the two active volcanoes in New Zealand?

When was the name of the country officially changed to Ireland?

Who are easy to immigrate to Canada now?

What does Mark Twain want to put across in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Which are the five biggest cities in terms of population in the United States?

What are the three branches of the American government?

What questions did Elizabeth I treat as personal and private?

What were the two events in the world which most alarmed the British ruling classes in the closing decades of the 18th century?

How many political divisions are there in Britain? What are they?

As far as Australian culture is concerned, the history of Australia can be divided into the following phases EXCEPT ____.

____ is described as a “living fossil”.

In New Zealand, the highest peak is in the centre of the mountain range, which is called ____.

Why has Australia always been a continent with few people?

All services provided by the Canadian federal government are available in ____.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people constitute ____ of Australia’s population.

Who founded the first permanent settlements at Quebec and Montreal on the St. Lawrence River?

Ireland is one of the most ____ countries of Europe.

In Canada, nearly ____ of the land has no permanent population.

Easter Sunday is the most important religious holiday for commemorating ____.

The Republic of Ireland is bounded by all the following EXCEPT ____.

Which of the following is NOT true about the reasons for the rapid growth of community colleges?

The Waste Land, written by ____, is considered the manifesto of the “Lost Generation”.

In the 1920s, Black literature developed into an upsurge, which has come to be known as ____.

According to the U.S. Constitution, education is mainly a function of ____.

When the delegates met at Philadelphia in 1787, their task was ____.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President as the candidate of ____ in 1860.

____ visit to China ended twenty-three years of hostility and led to the establishment of diplomatic relations in January ____.

After long and difficult negotiations in Paris, the U. S. and ____ signed a cease-fire agreement on January 27, 1973.

Which of the following is NOT true of U.S. foreign trade?

In his inaugural speech, ____ said that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

As a result of American economic aid under the Marshall Plan, ____ recovered and began to show signs of development.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the two superpowers stared at each other, with the possibility of ____ looming large.

The Paris Conference which began on Jan 18, 1919 was dominated by the Big Four including ____.

Rushed by the Progressive Movement, ____ put forward his program of New Freedom.

After President Jefferson bought the ____ Territory from France, the territory owned by the United States almost doubled.

President Abraham Lincoln issued the ____, because he realized that he could win support for the Union at home and abroad by making the war a just war against slavery.

The features of the early colonists which have strong influence on the formation of American character are all the following EXCEPT ____.

The three states that have seen the fastest growth in population in the past 20 years are ____.

In American history, ____ refer to those who came to Plymouth on board of Mayflower.

Of the following four sports, ____ has the longest history in Britain.

The day following Christmas Day is known as____, for on this day gifts are given to servants and tradesmen.

In Britain, ____ is directly responsible for the NHS.

In the House of Commons, all speeches are addressed to ____ who is elected at the beginning of each new Parliament to preside over the House and enforce the rules of order.

About ____ daily and Sunday newspapers are published nationwide in Britain.

____ has the ultimate authority for law-making in Britain.

Which of the following is NOT considered a characteristic of farming in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries?

The present British monarch, Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ was crowned in ____.

In Britain, ____ abolished “rotten boroughs”.

As a result of the Industrial Revolution, Britain became the ____.

____, excluding any Roman Catholic from the succession, confirmed the principle of parliamentary supremacy and guaranteed free speech within both the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

In the Glorious Revolution the Catholic king, ____ was driven out of England.

The chief demand of the peasants during the Peasant Uprising of 1381 was ____.

The significance of the Wars of the Roses was all the following EXCEPT that ____.

____ is one of the comedies of Shakespeare.

When Mary Tudor became Queen, at least 300 ____ were burnt as heretics.

The spirit of ____ was the limitation of the powers of the king, keeping them within the bounds of the feudal law of the land.

____ built the Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall to keep ____ out of the area they had conquered.

Who were the ancestors of the English and the founders of England?

Which of the following statement is NOT true?