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И.о. заведующего кафедрой _______________А. В. Прадун
Вопросы к экзамену по дисциплине «Страноведение»
Специальность 1-02 03 07-01 Иностранный язык (английский). Белорусский язык и литература
Курс – II
Семестр – IV
1. Describe the UK in general: what comes to mind first?
constitutional monarchy
United Kingdom, the UK, and Britain
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
the Gulf Stream
London
2. Describe the USA in general: what comes to mind first?
the United States
Alaska, Texas, California.
Rhode Island, Wyoming
the Mississippi
the Great Lakes
The Niagara Falls
Yellowstone National Park
Mesa Verde National Park,
Mount Rushmore
New York, Washington D.C
the Capitol
the Lincoln Memorial
the Washington Memorial
the White House
the Statue of Liberty
3. Speak about British contribution to civilization.
colonial empire
Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh
Captain James Cook
David Livingstone
Robert Falcon Scott
the Industrial revolution
James Watt and George Stephenson
Isambard Brunel
Francis Bacon
Sir Isaac Newton
Edward Jenner
Michael Faraday
Charles Darwin
Alexander Fleming
Ernest Rutherford
Ian Wilmut
4. Speak about American contribution to civilization.
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
the Wright brothers'
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Alva Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Microsoft Corporation
July 20, 1969
the Space Shuttle
5. Speak about British contribution to culture.
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Joanne Rowling
Sir Edward Elgar
Arthur Lloyd Weber
John Lennon.
British architecture
the Tower of London
Sir Christopher Wren
the middle class
clubs and hobby groups
sports
the BBC radio and television
Charles Babbage
Tim Berners-Lee
6. Speak about American contribution to culture.
"patchwork quilt"
Fennimore Cooper
Herman Melville
Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway
landscape painting
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
George Gershwin and Aaron Copland
Elvis Presley
Isadora Duncan
George Balanchine
the American Dream
Walt Disney
7. Describe English, one of the world languages.
a world language
Received Standard English
American English
Pidgin English
Estuary English
Cockney pronunciation.
Borrowings
8. Describe America as a "melting pot of nations".
Native Americans
Reservations
immigration
Afro-American
Ebonics
American English
Noah Webster
"political correctness"
9. Give a talk on the early history of Britain.
Gaelic
Brythons
the Belgic tribes
Stonehenge
Julius Caesar
Claudius
Boadicea
the Hadrian’s Wall
Albion
Londinium
the Jutes, the Angles and the Saxons
10. Give an outline of the Anglo-Saxon period.
Wessex
“England”.
Court of King Arthur
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Sir Thomas Malory
Danes
Alfred
Battle of Maldon
the Catholic Church
St Patrick’s Day, 17 March.
Саnterbury
Hastings, October 14, 1066
11. Speak about the formative centuries in British history, 1066 – 1500s.
William the Conqueror
the Doomsday Book
Richard the Lionhearted
Runnymede
Magna Carta or Great Charter
Parliament
William Wallace
Robert the Bruce
the Black Death
Wat Tyler
the War of the Roses
Richard III
William Caxton
12. Describe the events of the British Renaissance.
Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn
the Act of Supremacy
Sir Thomas More
Utopia
Reformation Protestantism
'Bloody Mary'
Mary, Queen of Scots
the Elizabethan era
Shakespeare
Francis Bacon
Edmund Spenser
Christopher Marlow
the Spanish Armada
13. Speak about the events of the English Puritan Revolution.
William Tyndale
The King James Version of the Bible
the Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes Night, November 5
the Petition of Rights
Puritans
Cavaliers
Roundheads
January 30, 1649
Oliver Cromwell
the Commonwealth
the Instrument of Government
14. Give a talk on the Restoration period in Britain.
the Restoration
the Great Plague
the Great Fire of London
the Tories and the Whigs
the Revolution of 1688
colonizing foreign lands
British colonial empire
15. Give a talk on the early history of America's discovery.
the Vinland Map
the New World
October 12, 1492
Amerigo Vespucci
Conquistadors
Montezuma
John Cabot
Jacques Cartier
Robert La Salle
Louisiana
Henry Hudson, Peter Minuit
Manhattan Island
Roanoke Colony
Jamestown
Captain John Smith, Pocahontas
16. Give an outline of the beginning of Puritan America.
Puritans
the Pilgrims
the Mayflower
the Massachusetts Bay Company
Thanksgiving Day.
congregationalism
John Harvard
witchcraft
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Boston
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Harriet Beecher Stowe
17. Speak about the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
the Enlightenment
Isaac Newton
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Samuel Johnson
Sir Christopher Wren
William Blake
the Industrial Revolution
the workshop of the world
the textile industry
James Watt,
George Stephenson
Isambard Brunel
Battle of Trafalgar
the Great Eastern
18. Speak about the Enlightenment in America.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard’s Almanac
the Declaration of Independence
Autobiography
Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
March 4, 1801
the Louisiana Purchase
19. Give a talk on the American Revolution and the War of Independence.
the Boston Tea Party
the Continental Army
the War of Independence
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
July 4, 1776.
"all men are created equal"
Saratoga and Yorktown
George Washington
the Constitution of the United States
a system of checks and balances
the Bill of Rights
the House of Representatives
the Senate
20. Describe the history of the USA in the XIX century
the District of Columbia
Moby Dick
the White House
Fort McHenry
“The Star-Spangled Banner”
Samuel Colt
Isaac Singer
Samuel Morse
Robert Fulton
the Erie Canal
intensive immigration
the Californian gold rush
21. Give a talk on the Victorian Age in Britain.
Queen Victoria
the Great Exhibition
Charles Dickens
Rudyard Kipling
Luddites
the Chartist movement
the woman-suffrage movement
Emmeline Pankhurst
Robert Owen
the Salvation Army
Florence Nightingale
the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
William Morris
the Crystal Palace
22. Dwell on the Civil War in the USA (1861—1865).
the abolitionist movement
Uncle Tom's Cabin
John Brown
the Battle Hymn of the Republic
Abraham Lincoln
a “house divided”
the Confederate States of America
Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861
Gettysburg
The Gettysburg Address
E Pluribus Unum
the Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
23. Describe the period of Reconstruction in the USA.
Reconstruction
Sharecropping
the Ku Klux Klan
Promontory Summit, Utah (1869)
Wounded Knee Creek
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Wilbur and Orville Wright
December 17, 1903
Haymarket Square Riot
Joe Hill
24. Give an outline of British geography and economy.
the British Isles
the English Channel
the Pennine Mountains
the Cumbrian Mountains
the Lake District
the Highlands
Ben Nevis
Loch Lomond
the Severn
the Thames
the Gulf Stream
the rain-shadow
mineral resources
25. Give an outline of US geography and economy.
New England
the Mid-Atlantic region
the South
the Midwest
the Great Lakes
the prairie area
the Great Plains
the Southwest area
the Rocky Mountain Region
the Pacific Northwest and Alaska region
California and Hawaii
chemicals and industrial machinery
electronic equipment
processed foods
the Silicon Valley of California
26. Give a talk on the First World War and the 1920s in Britain.
First World War
the Treaty of Versailles
the Easter Rebellion
the Irish Republic
the League of Nations
the British Commonwealth of Nations
Alexander Fleming
John L. Baird
27. Give a talk on the First World War and the 1920s in the USA.
The Lusitania
the "lost generation"
Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
the Nobel Prize for literature
the Roaring Twenties
Jazz music
The Great Gatsby
Hollywood
Charlie Chaplin
Mary Pickford
The Jazz Singer
28. Describe World War II and the events after it in British history.
September 1, 1939
Sir Winston Churchill
the Blitz
D-Day
the United Nations Organization
Mohandas Gandhi
the Suez Canal
Queen Elizabeth II
Mary Quant
the Beatles
the European Union
29. Describe the Great Depression and World War II in American history.
October 29, 1929
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
the New Deal
September 1, 1939
December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
D-Day, June 6, 1944
Nagasaki, August 6, 1945
30. Speak about the US role in international politics in the 1950s – 1960s.
the Marshall plan
the United Nations
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Eleanor Roosevelt
the Cold War
the Iron Curtain
the Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
the NATO
the Warsaw Pact
the Korean War
Joseph McCarthy
the Cuban missile crisis
31. Describe the events in the US domestic life in the 1950s.
Baby and Child Care
the "baby boom"
Jonas Salk, April 12, 1955
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.
The Power of Positive Thinking (1952)
the civil rights movement
Jim Crow signs
the Little Rock Nine
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr
“I Have a Dream”
John F. Kennedy
32. Give an outline of US history in the 1960s –2000s.
Alan Shepard, May 5, 1961
the Vietnam War
The Quiet American (1954)
"All we are saying is give peace a chance"
apolitical counterculture
the Woodstock Festival
the Moon landing
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”
a joint Soviet-American space mission
April 12, 1981
the Challenger
The Gulf War, the Yugoslav Wars
September 11, 2001
the War on Terrorism