目录
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习10 (1)
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习11 (6)
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习12 (8)
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习13 (14)
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习14 (20)
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习15 (26)
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习16 (31)
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习17 (36)
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习18 (41)
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习10
Part of USA
1. The annual population growth rate of the 1990s was ______.
A. 1%
B. 0.9%
C. over 1%
D. under 1%
2. A major source of population growth is ________.
A. immigration
B. baby boom
C. rising birth rate
D. larger number of young people
3. The immigrants spread unevenly across the country, with ______having the
largest percentage of immigrants.
A. Northeast
B. the West
C. Midwest
D. the South
4. ________was an important immigration spot in late 19th century and early 20th century.
A. Ellis Island
B. San Francisco
C. Hawaii
D. Miami
5. The three states that have seen the fastest growth in population in the
past 20 years are ______.
A. California, Arizona and New Mexico
B. California, Florida and Nevada
C. New Mexico, Texas and Florida
D. Arizona, Nevada and Florida
6. One of the reasons for the growth of population in Florida is because of
its _________.
A. expanding economy
B. large number of Cuban-Americans
C. climate
D. exotic food
7. More than _____of the population in the United States lived in city areas
in 1988.
A. 60%
B. 75%
C. 90%
D. 50%
8. The population between the age of 25 and 44 increased by 28.1% from 1980 to 1989 because ___________.
A. this was the period of large inflow of young immigrants
B. this was the birth age of the baby boomers.
C. the large number born during WW II reached this age bracket
D. those who were born in the period of baby boom reached this age
bracket
9. Up to the end of WW II, there were ______waves of large-scale emigration to the United States.
A. four
B. two
C. three
D. None of the above
10. Between 1845 and 1854, about 1.5 million Irishmen emigrated to United States because of __________.
A. famine
B. English oppression
C. war
D. Both A & B
11. During the third wave of immigration from 1890 to 1910, many came from ____.
A. Britain and the Netherlands
B. Austria-Hungary and Russia
C. Japan and China
D. Mexico and Cuba
12. According to historians and specialists in demography, there are _____ great population movement(s) in the history of the United States.
A. four
B. three
C. five
D. None of the above
13. In the last great population movement, a large number of people moved to ______.
A. the Northwest
B. the sunbelt areas
C. the South
D. the Southwest
14. Between 1960 and 1990, a large number of people moved from_____.
A. core cities to the suburbs
B. rural areas to cities
C. small cities to large cities
D. None of the above
15. The current situation of African-Americans presents ________.
A. a favorable picture
B. a negative picture
C. a mixed picture
D. an encouraging picture
16. Although legal, official discrimination has been abolished _______.
A. discrimination in employment still exists
B. discrimination in university admission still exists
C. poverty rate of the blacks is the highest among all racial and
ethnic groups
D. inequality and subtle discrimination still exist
17. The Cuban-Americans have done very well_________.
A. in Florida
B. in business with Cuba
C. politically7
D. economically
18. The most important obstacle to Hispanic success in the labor market is ______.
A. the language problem
B. their low education
C. their low education
D. discrimination
19. Some people Asian-Americans owe their success to the Asian tradition
of_______.
A. education
B. family and hard work
C. education
D. B and C
20. One of the signs of the awakening of the American Indians is ________.
A. the reappearance of the "powwow"
B. the legal steps they are taking to recover land and resources that
have been grabbed form them illegally
C. their refusal to live on reservations
D. None of the above
1.C
2.A
3.B
4.A
5.D
6.C
7.B
8.D
9.C 10.D11.B 12.A 13.B 14.A 15.C16.D 17.D 1 8.B 19.D 20.B
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习11
1. The result of the War with Mexico in 1846 was _______.
A. American annexation of California and New Mexico
B. the independence of California and New Mexico
C. a payment of 15 million U.S. dollars to Mexico for the annexation of
California and New Mexico
D. a payment of 15 million U.S. dollars to Mexico
2. During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the drafting
of the Constitution, the issue of Negro slavery was _____.
A. not raised
B. raised but voted down
C. bitterly debated
D. raised but because of strong southern opposition it was put aside
for greater objective
3. 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 plantation economy in
the south
D. the north world not allow slavery to spread into their states
4. In the early 1850s, with the westward movement, the slavery issue became
a serious political issue endangering the unity of the country because
_____.
A. whether the future states formed as a result of the westward
movement should be free or slave world affect the balance of power
in the Senate
B. the south insisted that slavery should be allowed to spread into all
new territories.
C. the north refused to let slavery spread into new territories.
D. the north wanted to put and end to slavery
5. Why did President Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
A. Because President Lincoln himself was an abolitionist.
B. Because he wanted to punish the slave-owners in those states which
broke away form the union.
C. Because he had no other alternative.
D. Because he realized that in order to win the war, he should make it
a just war against slavery so as to rally as many people as
possible under the banner of the Federal government.
6. President Lincoln was shot dead five 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.
7. The rapid development of American economy after the Civil War was due to
______.
A. the stable political environment and availability of capital
B. large pool or labor force because of free slaves, immigrants
C. scientific invention and government policy
D. All of the above
8. At the end of the 19th century. One of the strong trends in American
economy was ______.
A. the emergence of big trusts
B. the predominance of small factories
C. the frequent intervention in business by the government
D. the influence of foreign corporations
9. The place that Christopher Columbus landed was _______.
A. India
B. island in Asia
C. the current territory of the United States of America
D. islands in the now West Indies
10. 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 for adventure
D. A and B
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习12
1. What was the main cause of the Second World War?
A. The main cause was big power struggle for control of the world.
B. It was the worldwide economic crisis.
C. It was the military expansion of Japan, and Germany.
D. Both B and C.
2. The consequence of the three neutrality acts of the United States was____.
A. to make the United States gain time to arm itself
B. to actually help the aggressors by making clear that the United
States would not intervene
C. to get the United States involved in the war
D. to prevent the United States form being dragged into the war
3. American war time objectives were ______.
A. the total defeat of Axis powers
B. the establishment of a postwar world order under American leadership
C. coordination of war efforts of the Soviet Union, Britain and the
United States
D. Both A and B
4. Overlord is a code name for ______.
A. American lend-lease assistance to the Soviet Union
B. the summit conference at Teheran
C. the allied landing at Normandy, France in 1944
D. the North African campaign
5. One of the important decisions at the Yalta Conference was ______.
A. the allied landing at Normandy
B. the setting-up of a world organization, the United Nations, to
manage peace and security after the war
C. coordinated efforts in war against Japan
D. None of the above
6. The most important features in the growth of American economy in the early 20th cenruty were ______.
A. the use of steam and electricity as chief energy, the development of lare corporation and the development of railway
B. the development of large corporation, urbanization and the employment in production of new technology
C. the appearance of airplane, the use of electricity on a large scale
and urbanization
D. the rapid development of industry, railway and large cities
7. The Progressive Movement was ______.
A. an organized campaign with definite goals
B. a movement aiming at exposing the dark sides of society
C. not an organized campaign with efforts to improve people's living standard
D. a number of diverse efforts aiming at achieving political, social
and economic reforms
8. In the political area, the Progressive Movement wanted to ______.
A. improve the living conditions of urban poor
B. reform the national government
C. change election systems in city and state governments and check corruption
D. check corruption in city and state governments
9. The Progressive Movement wanted to ______ in order to stop big business control.
A. initiate strict government regulation
B. have the government to fix prices
C. break up all the big businesses
D. do away with rebates
10. 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 conservation
D. in urban renovation
11. 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
12. The 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
13. The essence of the Paris Peace Conference was .
A. to bring peace to Europe
B. to carve up the colonies 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
14. typically represented the world pattern between the two world wars _____.
A. The Versailles Treaty System
B. The Versailles Treaty System and the Washington Treaty System
C. The collapse of the German, Austro-Hungary and the Ottoman colonial systems
D. Both B and C
15. Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death and executed because ______.
A. of their radical political views
B. they were guilty of killing two people
C. they were members of KKK
D. they stole $ 16,000
16. One of the serious weaknesses in American economy in the 1920s was _____.
A. uncontrolled speculation in the stock market
B. tariff protection
C. huge profits of big businesses
D. too much control over the banking system
17. The serious economic crisis in the late 1920s and 1930s first brought
about by ______.
A. bank failures
B. serious unemployment
C. farm foreclosures
D. the stock market crash
18. The Hoover Administration ______ to deal with the economic crisis.
A. took effective measures
B. did not take any measure
C. asked the private sector
D. refused to take strong government action
19. 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 and lessen
the personal sufferings of the people
D. prevent further worsening of the unstable political situation
20. The purpose of the New Deal measures was to ______.
A. save American democracy and the capitalist system
B. check the worsening of the economic situation
C. help people tie over the difficulty
D. increase American export
1.A
2.B
3.D
4.C
5.B
6.B
7.D
8.C
9.A 10.C11.C 12.D 13.B 14.B 15.A 16.A 17.D 18.D 19.C 20.A
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习13
1. Conflicts arose between the United States and the Soviet Union because___.
A. their common enemies Nazi Germany and Japan were 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 Untied States refused
2. The idea of containment was first brought up by ______.
A. Harry Truman
B. Franklin D. Roosevelt
C. Marshall
D. George Kennan
3. The essence of the Truman Doctrine was ______.
A. to provide economic and military support for any country which was fighting internal Communist rebels or external Communist pressure
B. to provide aid for Greece and Turkey which were fighting against Communism
C. to provide economic aid to needy countries
D. to give moral support to the struggle of free people
4. As a result of American economic aid under the Marshall Plan, Western Europe _____.
A. managed to tie over the difficult years in the late 1940s
B. succeeded in solving the food problem
C. recovered from war destruction and its economy began to develop
D. became prosperous
5. It was _____ which started the Berlin blockade.
A. the Soviet Union
B. the United States
C. Britain
D. France
6. Why did the United States decide to go ahead and set up a separate German state?
A. Because the United States wanted to rearm the Germans.
B. Because only in this way could German economy be reinvigorated.
C. Because the United States realized it was impossible to have a
unified Germany under American influence.
D. Because the Soviet Union first set up a separate German state in its occupied zone.
7. The purpose of Marshall's mediation in China in 1945 and 1946 was ______.
A. to support the Kuomintang in starting a civil war
B. to pressure the Kuomintang into forming a coalition government with
the Communist Party as an equal partner.
C. to bring the two sides together for negotiations
D. to bring the Communist Party into a coalition government dominated
by Kuomintang and put Communist led troops under the command of the coalition government
8. The Chinese government changed its timetable of liberation of Taiwan in 1950 because ______.
A. the Korean War broke out
B. the United States sent the 7th Fleet into the Taiwan Straits.
C. the Soviet Union did not support China's liberation of Taiwan then
D. the United States army was approaching the Yalu River
9. The Chinese Volunteers crossed the Yalu River and fought side by side
with the North Koreans until an armistice was signed in ______.
A. July 1952.
B. July 1953.
C. July 1954.
D. June 1953.
10. President Truman on March 21, 1947 issued an executive order, initiating
a comprehensive investigation of the loyalty of all federal employees.
This was the beginning of ______.
A. McCarthyism
B. Clearing out Soviet spies
C. widespread persecution of Communists and progressive people
D. persecution of federal employees
11. The trial of Alger Hiss proved ______.
A. that he was a Soviet spy
B. that he did not tell the truth in court
C. that he provided Soviet agent with secret information on atomic
weapon
D. None of the above
12. The Supreme Court played a role in whipping up the anticommunist hysteria by ______.
A. upholding the constitutionality of the Smith Act
B. convicting 11 high-ranking Communist leaders
C. supporting the trial of Alger Hiss
D. supporting President Truman's executive order
13. What did the Little Rock Incident refer to?
A. It referred to a violent outburst of a thousand white in Clinton, Tennessee against school desegregation.
B. It referred to an incident in Alabama in opposition to Supreme Court decision on school desegregation.
C. It referred to Arkansas governor's use of state National Guard to prevent African-American students from going to an all white school
in Little Rock and Federal government intervention to carry out
court decision.
D. It referred to Arkansas governor's use of state National Guard to prevent African-American students from going to an all white school
in Little Rock.
14. The pillar industries for the postwar economic boom were ______.
A. information, space and biotechnology
B. textile, automobile and construction
C. defense, information and housing
D. automobile, housing and defense
15. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, there was ______ a nuclear war.
A. little danger of
B. grave danger of
C. real intention for
D. earnest preparation for
16. When ______,this was the beginning of American involvement in Vietnam.
A. the United States decided to provide France with military aid in
their fight in Vietnam
B. the United States started to provide aid for the South Vietnamese government after the Geneva Conference in 1854
C. the United States sent more and more military advisers to South
Vietnam
D. the United States began to Americanize the war in Vietnam
17. The Paris Agreement was signed by the U.S. and North Vietnam in Jan. 1973 and the fall of Saigon was in ______.
A. April, 1973
B. April, 1975
C. Jan, 1975
D. None of the above
18. The conditions the People's Republic of China set for the establishment
of diplomatic relations with the United States were ______.
A. the withdrawal of the 7th Fleet from the straits and the end of
diplomatic relations with Taiwan
B. the cancellation of the mutual defense treaty and the end of
diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
C. the stop of 7th Fleet patrol in Taiwan straits, the cancellation of
the mutual defense treaty and the end of diplomatic relations with
Taiwan
D. the withdrawal of all military forces from Taiwan, the cancellation
of the mutual defense treaty and the end of diplomatic relations
with Taiwan
19. New Frontier and War on Poverty were programs initiated by ______.
A. President Kennedy
B. President Johnson
C. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson respectively
D. Presidents Johnson and Kennedy respectively
20. The Watergate Scandal refers to ______.
A. the break-in at the Watergate apartment-office complex in
Washington,D. C.
B. the break-in and Nixon's secret taping
C. the break-in, the cover up and Nixon's involvement in the cover up
D. Nixon's resignation
I. B 2.D 3.A 4.C 5.A 6.C 7.D 8.B 9.B 10.C11.D 12.A 13.C 14.D 15.B 16.A 17.B 18.
D 19.C 20.C
2010年自考英语《英语国家概况》冲刺练习14
1. The United States ranks ______ in the world in the total value of its economic production.
A. first
B. second
C. third
D. fourth
2. The following are the factors that have contributed to the development of the U.S. economy except ______.
A. the vast space and resources of the land
B. the ideals of freedom and economic opportunity
C. English as its national language
D. hard work by the people
3. Which of the following is not true of the U.S. economy?
A. It is based largely on a free enterprise system.
B. There is little government involvement in the economy
C. It is one of the least regulated economies in the world.
D. Many of the nation's basic industries are represented by only a few major corporations.
4. The United States has vast expanses of fertile soil that is well suited to ______.