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北京第二外国语大学试卷（2004） 综合考试（英美文学）作家及作品等(40%)语言学部分(30%) 英美概况：(40%) 翻译：(40%)（汉译英20%，英译汉20%）I.Answer all the following questions.(10%) Explain the following : 1.the Pilgrims (1) In England, there had been a group of people called Puritan who had broken away from the Church of England and formed their own churches. Later they fled to Holland to escape the persecution in their native land. (2) Several years passed when they were again threatened by religious suppression, they thought of moving, and this time to American. (3) They began to call themselves Pilgrim because of their wanderings in search of religious freedom. (4) In 1620, they crossed the Atlantic in the ship Mayflower and settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts. 2. Boston Tea Party (1) In the years following the French and Indian War, British Government enforced several acts which were bitterly opposed by colonists.(2) In order to ease tensions, British government removed all the new taxes except that on tea. (3) In 1773, a group of patriots responed to the tea tax by staging the Boston Tea Party. Disguised as Indians, they boarded British merchant ships and tossed 342 crates of tea into Boston harbour. (4) British parliament then passed “ the Intolerable Acts”, and in response to this, the First Continental was held in Sep.1774. II. Choose the correct answer in each of the following(15%) 1.美国独立有几个洲（35 13 48 50） 2.哪一个不是New England 的洲（Connecticut New York State New Hampshire Vermont） 3.哪个州是最晚加入（Kentucky Pennsylvania Arizona Alaska） 4.下列那个名称不在New York City（Hollywood Broadway Rockefeller Centre Harlem））III．（15%）Explain the characteristics of the uniformity in American culture and give your own evaluation.）Today, Northerners and Midwesterners are attracted to the West because of good business opportunities and a mild climate. 2. Separation of powers Influenced by Montesquieu’s theory of division of powers, the US Constitution ruled that political structures should share out political