北京第二外国语学院《综合考试（英2）》历年考研真题及详解.pdf

2010年北京第二外国语学院812综合考试（英2）真题及详解 Part One英美社会文化(50分) I. Fill in the blanks with proper words: (每题 2 分) 1 In 1215, some feudal baro
and the Church forced King _________ to sign the _________ to place some limits on the King’s power. 2 The British Co
titution co
ists of statute law, _________ and _________. 3 There are three major parties in the UK: _________, the Labour party and _________. 4 The two oldest unive
ities in Britain are _________ and _________. 5 The US federal government co
ists of the following three branches: the executive, _________ and _________. 6 “WASP” stands for _________. 7 According to John Locke, the right to govern comes from an agreement or _________ voluntarily entered into by free people. 8 The Three Faiths in the US refer to Protestant, _________ and _________. 9 The fi
t Catholic president in the US was _________. 10 Some of the programs to equalize educational opportunities for all groups by giving special preference to membe
of minority groups are called _________. 答案： 1 John, Magna Carta 2 common law, conventio
3 the Co
ervative party, the Liberal Democratic party 4 Oxford, Cambridge 5 the legislative, the judicial 6 White Anglo-Saxon Protestant 7 Social contract 8 Catholic, Jewish 9 J.F. Kennedy 10 affirmative action programs II. Tell what you know about the following in your own words: 1 The Bill of Rights of 1689 答案： The Bill of Rights of 1689 In 1688, King James II’s daughter Mary and her husband William were invited by the politicia
and church authorities to take the throne, on condition that they would respect the fights of Parliament. The Bill of Rights was passed in 1689 to e
ure that the King would never be able to ignore Parliament. 2 The Commonwealth 答案： The Commonwealth In the author’s opinion, the Commonwealth is a voluntary association of states which is made up mostly of former British colonies. There are 50 membe
of the Commonwealth: many of these are developing countrie