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单项选择

1 How many members are there in the House of Commons?

A 650

B 524

C 72

D 651

2 Which of the following people didn’t use to be the British Prime Minister?

A Margaret Thatcher

B Winston Churchill

C Horatio Nelson

D John Major

3 By tradition, the leader of the majority party is appointed _____ by the Sovereign in the United Kingdom.

A Prime Minister

B Member of Parliament

C Lord of appeal

D Speaker of the House

4 The Tories were the forerunners of _____, which still bears this nickname today.

A the Labour Party

B the Conservative Party

C the Liberal Party

D the Social Democratic Party

5 In the United Kingdom, the party which wins the ____ number of seats in the House of Commons becomes the official Opposition.

A largest

B second largest

C third largest

D fourth largest

1 D, 下议院共有651名议员。

2 C, 撒切尔夫人，丘吉尔和梅杰都曾经做过英国首相;而纳尔逊(1758-1805)，英国海军统帅，因作战负伤，右眼失明，失去右臂。后任地中海舰队司令，在特法尔加角海战中大败西班牙联合舰队，本人受重伤阵亡，号称 Viscount Nelson。

3 A, 在英国，按照传统，多数党的领导人由君主任命为首相，首相从本党内部挑选一些领导人担任各部部长职位。

4 B, 托利党是英国保守党的前身。

5 B, 在英国，在下议院中赢得第二席位的政党为反对党，它也有它自己的领导和影子内阁(shadow cabinet)。[page]

6 The term “British disease” is now often used to characterize Britain’s _____ decline.

A political

B educational

C military

D economic

7 The 1980s was remembered as the decade of _____.

A globalization

B nationalization

C privatization

D competition

8 Today, in Britain, ______ is called a “sick” industry.

A coal mining

B iron and steel

C textiles

D shipbuilding

9 The first steam engine was devised by Thomas Newcomer at the end of the 17th century, and the Scottish inventor ____ modified and improved the design in 1765.

A　Abraham Darby

B James Watt

C John Kay

D Richard Arkwrightthe

10 _____ created the industrial working class, the proletariat, and it later led to trade union  ism.

A The Chartist Movement

B The Industrial Revolution

C The French Revolution

D The Glorious Revolution

6 D, 现在“英国病”这一术语经常用来指英国经济上的衰退。

7 C, 正如20世纪40年代被看作是国有化的时代一样，20世纪80年代被看作是私有化的时代。包括英国石油、航空、钢铁、电讯在内的几乎40% 的国有公司实现了私有化。

8 A, 英国煤矿业被称为生病工业。英国的煤产量在一战前达到顶点，如今的英国的煤矿业衰退，从而导致矿工的数量、煤矿的总产量大大下降。

9 B, 第一台蒸汽机是 Thomas Newcomer 在17世纪末设计的，后来苏格兰发明家瓦特在1765年对原有的设计进行了改进提高，生产出了第一台高效的蒸汽机并应用到纺织和其他机械业中。

10 B, 工业革命产生了工人阶级，即无产阶级。后来形成了工会制度。

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