Примерные зачетные тестовые задания.

Настоящие задания (А Вариант 1 и А Вариант 2) могут быть использованы и в качестве тренировочных тестов, поэтому к ним приводятся ключи для самопроверки. Пожалуйста, обратите внимание, что успешное выполнение задания А Вариант 2 возможно, как правило, лишь после усвоения материала, предназначенного для самостоятельного изучения.

Вариант 1

1. The reigning monarch is ...

a) head of state

b) head of government

c) head of the House of Lords.

2. Whitehall is...

a) the seat of government

b) the seat of Parliament

c) the seat of the Court of Criminal Appeal.

3. Westminster is ...

a) the seat of government

b) the seat of Parliament

c) the official residence of the Prime Minister.

4. Parliament is the supreme .. body of the state.

a) executive

b) legislative

c) judicial

5. If a Member of Parliament resigns, dies or is made a peer during the lifetime of a
Parliament,... must be held.

a) a general election

b) a by-election

c) elections to the European Parliament

6. A draft law takes the form of a(n)...

a) Act of Parliament

b) parliamentary bill

c) royal assent

7. Voting in Britain is ...

a) compulsory

b) not compulsory

8. Britain's electoral system is based on ...

a) the "first-past-the-post" principle

b) proportional representation

9. Acts of Parliament form ...

a) statute law

b) common law

c) Roman law

10. The legal system of England and Wales ... a criminal code.

a) has

b) does not have

11. Courts of first instance in England and Wales are known as ...

a) magistrates' courts

b) Crown Courts

c) courts of appeal

12. Crown Courts are ...

a) inquisitorial

b) adversarial

13. In order to become a barrister, a candidate must obtain entrance to ...

a) one of the four Inns of Court

b) the Law Society

c) the Chancery Division

14. "Taking silk" means:

a) being elected to Parliament

b) being appointed a Queen's Counsel (QC)

c) early retirement

15. The legal system of England and Wales assumes that a person is ...

a) innocent unless he or she has been proved guilty

b) guilty unless he or she has been proved innocent

16. The legal system of England and Wales has ... professional judges than most other
countries.

a) fewer

b) more

17. At the time of its introduction the poll tax was extremely ...

a) unpopular

b) popular

c) easy to collect

18. The British population is one of the ... in Europe.

a) oldest

b) youngest

19. The middle class embraces ...

a) only civil servants

b) senior professionals

c) almost all people who earn their living in a non-manual way

20. Britain has a deeply ... society.

a) individualistic

b) collectivist

21. The National Health Service was set up in ...

a) 1945

b) 1948

c) 1965

22. General Practitioners (GPs) are ...

a) consultants

b) specialists

c) family doctors

23. People ... obliged to use the National Health Service.

a) are

b) are not

24. Free and compulsory education, funded by the state and guaranteed by law, became
available in ... for children aged from 5 to 10

a) 1837

b) 1848

c) 1870

25. By 1980 almost all state secondary schools were ...

a) grammar schools

b) comprehensive

c) secondary modern schools

26. The academic year at English schools is divided into ... terms.

a) four

b) two

c) three

27. "Public schools" in the narrow sense are ...

a) the major boarding schools

b) comprehensive schools

c) grammar schools in big towns and cities

28. The Open University was devised ...

a) specially for foreign students

b) to satisfy the needs of working people of any age who wish to study in their spare time
for degrees

c) for retired people who do not want to work for diplomas or degrees

29. The great majority of students are in universities ...

a) abroad

b) of their home towns

c) far from their homes

30. In most respects Oxford and Cambridge ...

a) are similar to each other

b) have nothing in common with each other

31. All over Britain most people read ... papers.

a) "national"

b) provincial (local)

c) American

32. Mass-circulation popular papers are commonly called ...

a) tabloids

b) quality papers

c) national papers

33. English people traditionally prefer to live in ...

a) apartment blocks

b) tenement buildings

c) houses with their own front doors

34. The United Kingdom is ...

a) a federal state

b) a confederation

c) a unitary state

35. England has been divided into ... for more than 1,000 years.

a) communes

b) constituencies

c) counties

36. A magistrates' court normally consists of three ...

a) high court judges

b) Justices of the Peace

c) Jurors

37. Normally prisoners are released after serving ... of the time for which they were
sentenced.

a) less than one third

b) about two thirds

c) about 90 per cent

38. The National Health Service was set up by a ... government.

a) Conservative

b) Labour

39. The Labour Party was founded by ...

a) the trade unions

b) liberal-minded intellectuals

c) land owners

40. The Church of England has ... as its head.

a) the Queen

b) the Archbishop of Canterbury

c) the Pope

Вариант 2

1. An official report setting out the government’s policy on a matteг being discussed in Parliament is called a/an …

a) white paper

b) act of Parliament

c) statute

2. The British national flag, more commonly known as the Union jack, combines St. Georges cross of (A) …, St. Patrick’s cross of (B) … and St. Andrew’s cross of (C) …

a) (A) Scotland, (B) Ireland, (C) England

b) (A) England (B) Ireland (C) Scotland

c) (A) Ireland (B) England (C) Scotland

3. Shamrock is the national emblem of (A) … and the equivalent in this respect of the (B) … rose, the (C) … leek and daffodil and the (D) … thistle.

a) (A) Ireland, (B) English (C) Welsh (D) Scottish

b) (A) Scotland (B) English (C) Welsh (D) Irish

c) (A) Wales (B) English (C) Scottish (D) Irish

4. A shop steward is a(n) …

a) owner of a shop

b) shop assistant

c) trade union leader in a factory or other local work force

5. The official signing of an Act of Parliament by the sovereign is known as …

a) royal assent

b) royal privilege

c) prorogation

6. A daily or Sunday newspaper that aims at the educated reader and contains detailed news coverage and comment, as well as authoritative editorials and a wide range of topical features, is known as a …

a) popular paper

b) quality paper

c) tabloid

7. ‘Poppy Day’ is a popular name for …

a) a polling day

b) Remembrance Sunday

c) The Queen’s official birthday

8. A nursing home is …

a) private hospital or home usually for old people or invalids

b) a nursery school

c) a garden centre

9. Oxfam is …

a) the same as Oxbridge

b) an authoritative dictionary

c) a well-known charity providing practical relief in developing countries

10. Further education is …

a) the same as higher education

b) any kind of education after secondary school

c) any kind of education after secondary school, but not including university education

11. Gaelic, is its different forms, is spoken by some people in …

a) Ireland and Wales

b) Scotland and Wales

c) Scotland and Ireland

12. The Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular are the styles of …

a) Norman architecture

b) Gothic architecture

c) painting

13. Guy Fawkes’ Night is celebrated annually on the evening of …

a) 4 November

b) 5 November

c) 11 November

14. A ‘hung parliament’ is one in which …

a) the centre parties have a majority

b) no single political party has overall power

c) either the Labour or the Conservative Party has a 2/3 majority

15. The professional body, founded in 1825, which registers solicitors and investigates complaints about their conduct, is called …

a) the Law Society

b) the Inns of Court

c) the Law Lords

16. ‘Hot cross buns’ are traditionally eaten …

a) on Good Friday

b) at Christmas

c) on Guy Falkes’ Night

17. An annual Welsh national bardic festival of music, literature and drama is know as (a/an) …

a) eisteddfod

b) Sinn Fein

c) tartan

18. The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) was set up in 1975 to eliminate …

a) racial discrimination

b) sex discrimination

c) religions discrimination

19. The Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church and the Baptists belong to the so-called …

a) ‘established’ churches

b) Free Churches

c) General Synod

20. A zone of farmland, parks or woodland surrounding a town, created in order to prevent unnecessary building development, is called a …

a) grey area

b) green belt

c) Greenfield site

21. The Bloomsbury Group was a group of … living and working in the early and working in the early 20th century in the London district of Bloomsbury.

a) writers, artists and intellectuals

b) religions reformers

c) conservative politicians

22. A ‘blue-collar worker’ is a nickname for …

a) a senior civil servant

b) any industrial worker who does hard or dirty work

c) anyone employed by a borough council

23. The National Curriculum was introduced into the education system in …

a) 1949

b) 1979

c) 1989

24. The national Trust was founded in 1895 …

a) to raise funds for the protection of wild animals

b) to protest and preserve historic buildings and monuments as well as countryside areas of natural beauty

c) to supervise prisons

25. Britain became an oil producer in … thanks to the North Sea oil.

a) the late 19-th century

b) the early 1920s

c) the mid – 1970s

26. The southernmost point in Britain is …

a) John O’Groats

b) Land’s End

c) Dover

27. The Metropolitan Police Force is responsible for …

a) the whole of the United Kingdom

b) the whole of England and Wales

c) London

28. National insurance is a system of … to provide financial assistance and certain other cases.

a) compulsory contributions by employees and employers

b) voluntary donations by members of the public

c) private insurance schemes

29. Since 1980 council house tenants …

a) have been unable to buy their houses

b) have been able to buy their houses at favorable rates after living in them for at least two years

c) have been able to buy their houses at free-market rates after living in them for at least one year

30. An area of particular architectural or historic interest where building and development is carefully controlled by the local authority is called a/an …

a) enterprise zone

b) council estate

c) conservation area

31. The underlying aim of Thatcherism was to …

a) shift the economic emphasis back to private enterprise

b) nationalize the major industries

c) increase public expenditure

32. ‘The Troubles’ is the name used for …

a) sectarian divisions and terrorism in Northern Ireland from 1969

b) the miners’ strikes in the 1980s

c) the internal divisions in the Conservative Party after its defeat in the 1997 general election

33. A clergyman appointed to be the priest of a parish in the Church of England is called a …

a) bishop

b) vicar

c) primate

34. The Protestants in Northern Ireland who wish Ulster to retain her links with Britain are commonly referred to as …

a) ‘old boys’

b) Loyalists

c) Provisionals

35. A criminal court that deals with the more serious cases and holds sessions in towns throughout England and Wales is known as (a) …

a) court of appeal

b) the magistrate’s court

c) crown court

36. An MP who does not hold any official position in the government or opposition is often called a …

a) member of the Shadow Cabinet

b) frontbencher

c) backbencher

37. A special law or rule passed by a local authority, such as a town council, is called a/an …

a) by-law

b) executive order

c) injunction

38. ‘Carol services’ are special religious services held in the weeks before …

a) St. George’s Day

b) Easter

c) Christmas

39. In mediaeval times, after the murder of Thomas a Becket, … became an important place of pilgrimage.

a) Lindisfarne

b) York

c) Canterbury

40. The religious (spiritual) leader of the Church of England, whose official title is Primate of All England, is …

a) the Archbishop of Westminster

b) the Archbishop of York

c) the Archbishop ofCanterbury

Ключи к тесту.

Вариант 1. 1a, 2a, 3b, 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b, 8a, 9a, 10b, 11a, 12b, 13a, 14b, 15a, 16a, 17a, 18 a, 19c, 20a, 21b, 22c, 23b, 24c, 25b, 26c, 27a, 28b, 29c, 30a, 31a, 32a, 33c, 34c, 35c, 36b, 37b, 38b, 39a, 40a.

Вариант 2. 1a, 2b, 3a, 4c, 5a, 6b, 7b, 8a, 9c, 10c, 11c, 12b, 13b, 14b, 15a, 16 a, 17a, 18b, 19b, 20b, 21a, 22b, 23c, 24b, 25c, 26b, 27c, 28a, 29b, 30c, 31a, 32a, 33b, 34b, 35c, 36c, 37a, 38c, 39c, 40c.