[外语类试卷]专业英语八级美国国家概况(美国历史)模拟试卷1及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语八级美国国家概况(美国历史)模拟试卷 1及答案与解析 一、 PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. 1 In American history, the Pilgrim fathers to those who came to Plymouth on board of_. ( A) a French ship ( B) a British
2、 ship ( C) Mayflower ( D) an Italian ship 2 The chief reason for early settlers to come to the New Continent was_. ( A) to seek better opportunity ( B) to escape religious persecution ( C) to satisfy the urge of adventure ( D) Aand B 3 Which of the following US presidents held the longest presidenti
3、al term in American history? ( A) Abraham Lincoln ( B) Franklin Roosevelt ( C) George Washington ( D) Thomas Jefferson 4 The history of the U.S. is generally agreed to have begun in_. ( A) 1620 ( B) 1607 ( C) 1776 ( D) 1492 5 What was the cause of War of Independence? ( A) The development of colonia
4、l economy led to demand for more power to determine their own business. ( B) The cruel exploitation of the colonies by the British government. ( C) The sale of slaves in the colonies. ( D) A and B 6 The clash at Concord and Lexington was_. ( A) the beginning of the War of Independence ( B) the begin
5、ning of the second Continental Conference ( C) a minor clash between the British and the colonists with no significance ( D) none of the above 7 The following states are among the first thirteen colonies except_. ( A) Maryland ( B) South Carolina ( C) Delaware ( D) Colorado 8 The Declaration of Inde
6、pendence was drafted by a committee including_as head. ( A) George Washington ( B) Thomas Jefferson ( C) Benjamin Franklin ( D) James Madison 9 _was the British king when colonial Americans declared their independence. ( A) King George I ( B) King George II ( C) King George III ( D) King George IV 1
7、0 _, signed in 1783, recognized the independence of the United States. ( A) The Treaty of Paris ( B) Westminster Statute ( C) British North America Act ( D) The Act of Union 11 During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the drafting of the Constitution, the issue of Negro slavery was
8、_. ( A) not raised ( B) raised but voted down ( C) bitterly debated ( D) raised but, because of strong southern opposition, was put aside for greater objective 12 The Bill of Rights Amendments_. ( A) dealt with procedural matters ( B) included not only procedural guarantees but also guarantees of ba
9、sic rights for the individual ( C) were adopted merely to satisfy those who opposed the Constitution ( D) were reluctantly accepted by the Federalists 13 The first ten amendments, known as_, were added to the Constitution in 1791. ( A) the Bill of Rights ( B) the Articles of Confederation ( C) Civil
10、 Rights ( D) the Confederation Act 14 1_was the first American President who was inaugurated in the city of Washington. ( A) John Adams ( B) Thomas Jefferson ( C) James Madison ( D) Benjamin Franklin 15 The U.S. won the_and completely got rid of the British control. ( A) War of 1812 ( B) Civil War (
11、 C) War of Independence ( D) War of Seven Years 16 Slave labor was widespread in the south because_. ( A) the cold weather in the north was not suitable for Negro slaves ( B) Negro slaves could not cope with machines in factories in the north ( C) Negro slaves were best suited for the kind of planta
12、tion economy in the south ( D) the north world did not allow slavery to spread into their states 17 When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the southern states broke away and formed a new nation called_. ( A) the Southern States of America ( B) the Federalist States of America ( C) the Confedera
13、te States of America ( D) the Anti-confederate States of America 18 During the Civil War, President_issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the abolition of slavery. ( A) Abraham Lincoln ( B) Andrew Johnson ( C) Ulysses S. Grant ( D) James Buchanan 19 President Lincoln was shot dead fiv
14、e days after_. ( A) he made a speech at Gettysburg ( B) General Lee, commanding general of the Confederate army surrendered his troops ( C) the adoption of the thirteenth Amendment ( D) a military victory of the Union force at Gettysburg 20 The war in which America lost more soldiers than any other
15、war in American history is_. ( A) the Civil War ( B) the War of Independence ( C) the World War I ( D) the World War II 21 One of the contribution of Theodore Roosevelt as President was_. ( A) the banning of child labor ( B) the giving of voting right to women ( C) in the field of natural conservati
16、on ( D) in urban renovation 22 One of the contributions of Woodrow Wilson was_. ( A) natural conservation ( B) the construction of irrigation projects ( C) the setting-up of the Federal Reserve Board and twelve Federal Reserve Banks ( D) the introduction of tariff increase and a low income tax 23 Th
17、e policy the United States actually pursued in the first two years of WWI was_. ( A) impartial neutrality ( B) partial neutrality ( C) firm support of the Allies ( D) Pro-Ally partial neutrality 24 The essence of the Paris Peace Conference was_. ( A) to bring peace to Europe ( B) to carve up the col
18、onies of the defeated countries and to get war compensation for the victors ( C) to settle the colonial problem of the Ottoman Empire ( D) to put the Fourteen Points into Practice 25 The serious economic crisis in the late 1920s and 1930s first brought about by_. ( A) bank failures ( B) serious unem
19、ployment ( C) farm foreclosures ( D) the stock market crash 26 Most of the measures F.D.Roosevelt took in the first hundred days he was in the White House were to_. ( A) stop bank failures ( B) prevent radical actions in the United States ( C) prevent the further worsening of the economic situation
20、and lessen the personal sufferings of the people ( D) prevent further worsening of the unstable political situation 27 The Great Depression of_to_shook the U.S. and the whole capitalist world to its foundations. ( A) 1929, 1933 ( B) 1933, 1937 ( C) 1924, 1929 ( D) 1937, 1941 28 The President F.D.Roo
21、sevelt proposed a policy called_to save the economic situation. ( A) Good Neighbor Policy ( B) the Open Door Policy ( C) the New Deal ( D) the Budget-cut Policy 29 The Red Scare in 1919 and 1920 was a typical example of American_. ( A) religious intolerance ( B) intolerant nationalism ( C) Progressi
22、ve Movement ( D) Deregulation of big trusts 30 The notorious Prohibition of 1920 was to outlaw the consuming of_. ( A) tobacco ( B) drugs ( C) alcohol beverages ( D) guns 31 In the early 1930s, the American foreign policy was Isolationist, but the_suddenly changed the whole situation, which propelle
23、d the U.S. into the Second World War. ( A) Pearl Harbor attack ( B) bombing of Guam Island ( C) seizing of American merchant ships ( D) sinking of American passenger ships 32 Conflicts arose between the United States and the Soviet Union because_. ( A) their common enemies Nazi Germany and Japan wer
24、e defeated ( B) they had very different concepts of postwar world order ( C) the United States wanted cooperation with the Soviet Union but the Soviet Union refused ( D) the Soviet Union wanted cooperation with the United States but the United States refused 33 The idea of containment was first brou
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