23春《英語國家概況（I）》作業(yè)1

試卷總分:100  得分:100

一、單選題 (共 10 道試題,共 50 分)

1.Australia is called＇a country on the sheep back＇ because ________.

A.it has the best species of sheep in the world

B.Australians ride on sheep back

C.Australians eat a lot of mutton

D.it makes a lot of profit from the sales of wool

2.New Zealand’s climate is generally（　　?。゛nd seasonal differences are not so great.

A.dry and cold

B.mild and moist

C.hot and wet

D.windy and cold

3.The sharp increase in the Australian population after W.W.II was partly because__________.

A.a large postwar immigration program was carried out

B.the Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders were not included in the census before W.W.II

C.more British convicts were transported to Australia

D.Australian soldiers came back from the War

4.______is not considered a characteristic of London.

A.The cultural centre

B.The business centre

C.The financial centre

D.The sports centre

5.The modern games of tennis originated in（　　?。﹊n the late 19th century.

A.Scotland

B.Ireland

C.England

D.Wales

6.Which of the following is NOT a neighbouring country of Australia?

A.Indonesia

B.Papua New Guinea

C.Thailand

7.Who wrote the long poem Paradise Lost?

A.Shakespeare

B.Chaucer

C.Milton

D.John Cabot

8.Which of the following is NOT true about the British monarchy?

A.It is the oldest institution of government.

B.It goes back to at least the 9th century.

C.It has maintained the continuity over the past thousand years.

D.It seems that it enjoys no real power today.

9.In Britain, thanks to the militant feminist movement of the suffragettes before the First World War, votes were granted to women over（　?。﹊n 1918.

A.20 B.25

B.30

C.35

10.The original inhabitants of New Zealand are called___.

A.Eskimos

B.Aborigines

C.Indians

D.Maoris

二、判斷題 (共 10 道試題,共 50 分)

11.The word “Ireland” is used ambiguously to mean both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

12.The Governor-General acts only on the advice of the Executive Council that comprises himself and the Cabinet.

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.

14.While the English are largely protestant, the Irish of the Republic largely belong to the Roman Catholic faith.

15.In the 1950s and 1960s in an Irish family there were 2 or 3 children on average.

16.Charles Dickens is one of the most famous of English Modernist writers.

17.Northern Ireland is the smallest of the four nations, but is well-known in the world for its most famous landmark.

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.

19.The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy: the official head of state is the Queen.

20.Strictly speaking, the Parliament today consists of two parts: the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

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