2011年4月山东自考英语国家概况真题00522

全国2011年4月高等教育自学考试

英语国家概况试题

课程代码：00522

I. Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each unfinished statement or question, four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D are given. Choose the one that you think best completes the statement or answers the question. Write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (50 points, 1 point for each)

1._______ is NOT a political division on the island of Great Britain.

A. Ireland                                                 B. Wales

C. England                                                D. Scotland

2._______ , King of Wessex, is known as “the father of British Navy” who founded a strong fleet which first beat the Danes at sea.

A. Alfred                                                  B. Henry

C. Edward                                                 D. William

3. The _______ Conquest in 1066 is perhaps the best known event in English history.

A. Roman                                                 B. Viking

C. Anglo-Saxon                                         D. Norman

4. _______was the modern name given to the deadly bubonic plague, an epidemic disease spread by rat fleas in the 14th century.

A. Cholera                                                B. Malaria

C. Black Death                                          D. Yellow Fever

5. The name Wars of Roses was, in fact, coined by the great 19th century novelist_______.

A. Walter Scott                                          B. Ben Johnson

C. Francis Bacon                                        D. Edmund Spenser

6. Winston Churchill was heavily defeated at the general election of 1945 because _______.

A. he did not act as a great war leader

B. he failed to lead his country to victory

C. people wanted Britain to return to the politics of the 1920s and 30s

D. the Conservative Party’s traditional principles seemed old-fashioned