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17秋《英语国家概况》(II)作业1
试卷总分：100 测试时间：--
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单选题 判断题
一、单选题（共 10 道试题，共 50 分。）
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1. What is the idea behind checks and balances?
A. To help the president get more power
B. To restrict governmental power and prevent its abuse
C. To help the Congress to derive more authorities
满分：5 分
2. Which of the following American values did NOT come from Puritanism?
A. Separation of state and church B. Respect of education
C. Intolerant moralism
D. A sense of mission
满分：5 分
3. The author of the novel The Scarlet Letter is_________.
A. Hawthorne B. Emerson
C. Hemingway
满分：5 分
4. Who first introduced the \
A. Eli Whitney
B. Samuel Slater
C. Henry Ford
D. Adam Smith
满分：5 分
5. Do you happen to know of the name of George Washington? Is he_________?
A. one of the founding fathers of the United States
B. the first Governor of the State of New York
C. the author of the Declaration of Independence
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6. The U.S. government consists of three branches:___________.
A. the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch B. the State Department, the Department of Defense, and the Energy Department
C. the White House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court
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7. Who is Abraham Lincoln? What was he famous for?
A. Uncle Tom's Cabin
B. The Federalist Papers
C. The Emancipation Proclamation
满分：5 分
8. The following were the main Reformation leaders except ___________.
A. Martin Luther B. Martin Luther King
C. John Calvin
D. The English King Henry VIII
满分：5 分 9. Alexander Hamilton was 。
A. The first Secretary of Treasury of the USA
B. The first president of the USA
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10. Lord Baltimore's feudal plan failed because ___________.
A. there were more Protestant than Catholics in Maryland
B. the wilderness of the continent made the plan impossible C. there was plenty of land while labor was scarce
D. the English king did not like the plan
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1. After the president vetoes a law, Congress may override the veto by a three-fourths vote of both houses.
A. 错误
B. 正确
满分：5 分
2. Two-third of the cropland in the United States is planted in crops destined for export-to Europe, Asia, Africa and LatinAmerica.
A. 错误
B. 正确
满分：5 分
3. It was in 1954 that the Supreme Court ruled that the practice of segregating blacks into separate schools was unconstitional.
A. 错误
B. 正确
满分：5 分
4. At the end of the 18th century, elementary education throughout the United States was in local hands.
A. 错误
B. 正确
满分：5 分
5. In 1863, the United States created a truly national banking system with a standard paper currency.
A. 错误
B. 正确
满分：5 分
6. The first factory in the United States was a cotton textile mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, which combined carding,roving and spinning operation.
A. 错误
B. 正确
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7. New York City is the second largest city of the United States.
A. 错误
B. 正确
满分：5 分
8. Leaves of Grass, writen by Walt Whitman in 1855, is a gound-breaking book in American literature.
A. 错误 B. 正确
满分：5 分
9. After World WarⅠ, many novelists produced literary works of disillusionment. Some of them lived abroad and were knownas the“Beat Generation”.
A. 错误
B. 正确
满分：5 分
10. In the United States, every church is a completely independent organization,and concerned with its own finance and itsown building.
A. 错误 B. 正确
满分：5 分
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