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美国概况

1. In area, the United States is the ____ largest country in the world.

A 2nd B 3rd C 4th D 5th

50th state in America is ____

A Alaska B Texas C Hawaii D Rhode Island

3. Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, is located in ____

A Hawaii B Alaska C Texas D Perth

4. Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 because of ____.

A the Great Depression B the Black Power Movement C the Watergate Scandal D the Isolation policy

the following universities are located in New England EXCEPT____

A Yale B Harvard C MIT D Berkeley

United States has less than 6% of the world’s population; yet it produces about ____ of the total world output.

A 20% B 25% C 30% D 35%

forms a natural boundary between Mexico and the United States?

A The Rio Grande River B The southern Rocky Mountains

C The Colorado River D The Gulf of California

8. The US formally entered the Second World War in ____

A 1937 B 1939 C1941 D 1943

9. The Presidents during the American Civil War was .

A Andrew Jackson B Abraham Lincoln

C Thomas Jefferson D George Washington

10 The emblem of the Democratic Party is ____.

A elephant B donkey C bear D bull

答案及解析:

1.C 按领土面积计算:美国是继俄罗斯,加拿大,中国之后的第四名。

2.C 1959年,Alasica和Hawaii分别为第四十九个和第五十个加入美国的州。

3.A Mauna Loa(摩纳罗亚山)是世界上最大的活火山。位于美国Hawaii(夏威夷)。

4.C 尼克松总统辞职是由于轰动一时的丑闻“水门事件”。水门事件指美国共和党政府在1972年总统竞选运动中的非法活动暴露后的政治丑闻。

5.D Berkeley(伯克利),是加利福尼亚大学分院,位于美国加利福尼亚西部。而新英格兰地区包括美国的.六个州,由北至南分别为:缅因州、新罕布夏州、佛蒙特州、麻萨诸塞州、罗德岛、康乃狄克州。

6.B 美国人口低于世界人口总值的6%,但是美国经济生产总值占世界25%,是高度工业化国家。

7.A The Rio Grand River(格兰德河)形成了美国与墨西哥的自然分界线。

8.C 1941年的珍珠港事件把美国带入了第二次世界战争,与苏联,英国共同对战法西斯。

9.B Abraham Lincoln是美国第十六届总统,带领美国人走过美国内战,解放奴隶,但是在战争结束不到一周被暗杀。

10.B 19世纪70年代,在美国的《哈泼斯周刊》上,曾先后出现了政治漫画家托马斯·纳斯特的两幅画,分别以长耳朵的驴和长鼻子的象比拟美国民主党和共和党。后来,纳斯特又在一幅画中同时画进了象和驴,比喻当时的两党竞选。自那以后,驴和象就逐渐成为美国两大党的象征,两党也分别以驴、象作为党徽的标记。

英国文学

1.____refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.

A Allegory B Conflict C Irony D Flashback

2.___was recognized as the greatest poet of Victorian England.

A Tennyson B Robert Browning C ning D Robert Burns

s Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT____

A Dubliners B A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man

C Jude the Obscure D Ulysses

h of the follwing poets is different from the others?

A John Donne B John Keats C Lord Byron D Percy Bysshe Shelley

iam Wordsworth is an English ____

A poet B novelist C playwright D critic

compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is _____

A Joseph Addison B Richard Steele C Samuel Johnson D Laurence Stern

Last Duchess is a monologue poem written by ____

A William Shakespeare B Robert Browing C Ben Jonson D Robert Herrick

8. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ____

A John Keats B William Blake C William Wordsworth D Percy Bysshe Shelley

dise Lost is a masterpiece by ____

A Christopher Marlow B John Miltom C William Shakespeare D Ben Johnson

10. James Joyce mostly wrote about his hometown ____

A London B Dublin C New York D Edinburgh

答案:

1.D irony 是指“反讽”,揭示事物表面与真相的差别。

2.A Aflred Tennyson 被称为维多利亚时代最杰出的英国诗人。他的主要作品为:The Princess,Maud 和短诗 Break,Break,Break。

3.C Jude the Obscure是Thomas Hardy的作品。

4.A 除了John Donn是玄学派诗人外,另外三位为浪漫主义派诗人。

5.A William Wordsworth是英国前浪漫主义诗人。

6.C Samuel Johnson(1709-1784)编写的《英语字典》是之后所有英语字典的基石。

7.B Robert Browning(1812-1889)擅于写独角剧,他的代表作是My Last Duchess和Meeting at Night。

8.A Beauty is truth, truth beauty是John Keats的写作宗旨,他用尽毕生精力追求能够表达一切美丽事物的诗篇。

9.B 《失乐园》和《复乐园》均为John Milton所做。

10.B James Joyce出生于爱尔兰的首都都柏林,主要作品有:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,Ulysses。故事合集Dubliners。