转网友2013年3月参加安省的加拿大公民考试真题,一出考场就马上默写了我考的20道题。个人感觉 Discover Canada 的书一定要仔细看一下,我在下面先列出我复习的notes,再贴默写的真题,然后是我用到的几个非常有用的做模拟练习的网站。真题和模拟练习还是略有却别,但是模拟练习绝对覆盖了考试的知识点,所以多做模拟练习还是很有用的。
1. LEARNING NOTES OF “DISCOVER CANADA”
Which Act gave citizens the right to challenge unlawful detention: habeas corpus
People in Quebec live along St. Lawrence River
Which province has a long history of coal mining, forestry and agriculture? Nova Scotia
What is the name of the Leader of official opposition at federal level? Thomas Mulcair
What is the name of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario? David Onley
Who suggested the name Dominion of Canada in 1864: Sir Leonard Tilley
When was the first financial institutions opened in Canada? Late 18th and early 19th centuries
Who recommended that the Upper and Lower Canada be merged and given a responsible government: Lord Durham
Who built the French Empire in North America: Jean Talon, Bishop Laval and Count Frontenac
When is the Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day celebrated? 20th of November
Who was John Graves Simcoe? Founder of the city of Toronto
When was the Constitution of Canada amended? 1982
What is celebrated on the 15th of February? National Flag of Canada Day
Magna Carta, 1215, the Great Charter of Freedoms, religion, thought, speech, peaceful assembly, association
The Constitution of Canada, 1982: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law”; mobility rights, aboriginal people rights, official language rights, multicultural
Responsibilities: obeying the law, family, jury, vote, help others, environment
1497, John Cabot: map
1550, Jacques Cartier: across the Atlantic for Francis I, Kanata, village
1670, King Charles II of England, Hudson’s Bay
1759, Battle, Quebec City
1774, Quebec Act, religious freedom
1776, United States, Loyal to the Crown, Loyalists, black Loyalists
1758, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 1773, PEI; 1785, New Brunswick; The Constitutional Act of 1791 divided Quebec into upper (ON) and lower Canada
1791, Canada became official name
1807, British prohibited slaves, 1833, empire, the North Star
1832, Montreal stock exchange
1812, Chief Tecumseh, Major-General Sir Isaac Brock,
1813, burned Government House and Parliament in York
1814, Major-General Robert Ross, burn white house
1837, rebellions, Lord Durham, responsible government
Father of Confederation: Sir Etienne-Paschal Tache, Sir George-Etienne Cartier, Sir John A. Macdonald
1840 Upper and Lower Canada united as Provice of Canada
La Fontaine, French, First leader of a responsible government
1867 July, 1, British North America Act, Dominion Day until 1982, Self governing dominion, Canada Day
$1, King George V
1870, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, 1871, BC, 1873, PEI, 1880, Arctic Islands to NWT
1898, Yukon, 1905, Alberta, Saskatchewan, 1949, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1999, Nunavut
1867, John A. Macdonald, First Prime Minister, lawyer, January 11, $10
George-Etienne Cartier, Quebec, railway lawyer
1869, Louis Riel, father of Manitoba
1873, North West Mounted Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), symbol
1885, Canadian Pacific Railway, ribbons of steel
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, first French prime minister, $5
1899, South African War
1914, World War I, 1917, Vimy, 10000 killed, birth of a nation, April 9, Vimy Day
1918, General Sir Arthur Currie, greatest soldier, 60,000 killed, 170,000 wounded
1917, Dr. Stowe, suffragettes, 1918, most 21 female, 1921, Agnes MacPhail woman
MP, 1940, Quebec women vote
110,000 Died
1934, Bank of Canada
1944 D-Day, Normandy, 15,000 troops, Juno Beach, Liberated Netherlands
1 million soldiers and Newfoundlanders out of 11.5 million, 44, 000 killed
1941, Hong Kong
1942, Dieppe, France
WTO, world Trade Organization
1951, afford food
1940, Employment Insurance
NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NORAD, North American Aerospace Defense Command
UN, United Nations
1950, South Korea
1960, Quebec, Quiet Revolution
1969, Official Languages Act
1970, La Francophonie
1948, Japanese vote
1960, Aboriginal vote
1965, new flag,
Basketball, James Naismith, 1891
Hockey, Wayne Gretzky
1985, Rick Hansen, wheelchair
Nobel Prize: Gerhard Herzberg, John Polanyi, Sidney Altman, Richard Taylor, Michael Smith, Bertram Brockhouse
Snowmobile: Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Time Zones: Sir Sanford Fleming
Light bulb: Matthew Evans, Henry Woodward
Radio, Voice message: Reginald Fessenden
Brain Surgeon: Dr. Wilder Penfield
Cardiac pacemaker, heart disorders: Dr. John A. Hoops
RIM: Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie
Insulin, 16 million diabetes: Sir Frederick Banting, Charles Best
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