英国史练习题

I. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
1. Thomas Becket was killed by knights sent by Henry II because he didn’t support Henry’s Policy.
2. The King or the Queen of England is forbidden to enter the House of Lords, but she or he c an take his or her seat in the House of commons.
3. England began to use coins during Elizabeth I’s time.
4. John Milton was a strong supporter of the Bourgeois Revolution.
5. The first settlement on the east Australian coast took place in 1787 during the reign of George III.
6. Alfred the Great was so forceful and fought so bravely against the Danes that the Danes had to leave England.
7. Magna Carta was signed by King John.
8. The Wars of the Roses were fought between the House of Lancaster and the Horse of Windsor.
9. “Utopia” was written by Thomas More.
10. Both Bloody Mary and Elizabeth I were Catholic Queens.
11. Dring the Bourgeois Revolution, the supporters of the King were called Roundheads.
12. By the Treaty of Utrecht, Spain agreed to cede Gibraltar to England forever.
13. The House of Commons is divided according to political parties, the Stronger and the Opposition.
14. Those who sticked to purifying the Roman Church were called the Puritans.
15. The Danes are Christians as the English.
16. Sweyn led a mighty army to attack England to avenge his killed sister.
17. When Canute died, his son Edward “ the Confessor” became the king of the land.
18. After the death of the weak king Stephen, the lords accepted Matilda’s son as the King—Henry II.
19. Richard, the Lion Heart, was the son of Henry II and he stayed in England for only 10 months of his ten years’rule.
20. Geoffrey Chaucer went to France on one of the campaigns of the Hundred Y ears’ War, there he was captured as a prisoner and then killed.
21. The Pope didn’t agree with the divorce of Henry VIII for he thought it was illegal.
22. Mary Stuart mad plans to make herself Queen by murdering Elizabeth, but was imprisoned and executed for treason.
II. Fill in blanks in the following sentences to make them historically correct:
1. In B.C. the Romans came, headed by .
2. When they invaded Britain, both Caesar and Plautius landed on the shores of .
3. The Romans occupied Britain for about years.
4. The Romans Brought in , , the gentile system and to places where they stayed.
6. In the Roman soldiers in Britain sailed away to defend their capital from the attacks of .
7. The Angles and Saxons from northern Germay spoke a Germanic language which we call .
8. was the father of the British Navy.
9.The battle of on Oct. 13, 1066 change the whole course of English history.
10. On , , William was crowned in as William I.
11. The English language of the 11th to the 14th centuries is called .
12. The names of almost all animals while alive are , but when they are prepared as food are .
13. “The History of the Kings of Britain” was written by and “Brut” by .
14. When a son of the Sovereign succeeds to the throne, his wife becomes .
15. If a daughter succeeds to the title, she becomes , her husband get the titles and .
16. Henry II is best remembered for his reform of the and the .Most important of all was Henry’s .
17. The two kinds of laws in England now are the laws made by the parliament called ““, and “” which was first made by .
18. was the first King of England who took part in the Crusades.
19. The Magna Carta was signed by at on June 17, .
20. was the foundation of English liberty and beginning of parliamentary rule.
21. King Henry III wanted to tear up the Magna Carta but was defteated by and put in prison.
22. It was during the reign of that the old feudal tax system was gradually replaced by a tax on property.
23. In Edward I gave his first son the title of Prince of Wales.
24. The Hundred Y ears’War was a period of intermittent war between and , which is ended in .
25. was a French heroine who led a French army against the English.
26. The tax of one shilling a head started a peasant revolt known as uprising.
27. At in1415, Henry V defeated a French army five times greater than his own.
27. was the founder of English Poetry.
28.. Henry VII sent to explore the coasts of and Newfoundland which later became England’s first colony.
29. The first great blow to the Roman Catholic Church was delivered by .
30. People who insisted on the separation of the church form the Roman Catholic Church and wanted to change any part of the faith were called .
31. The destruction of Spain’s in July made it possible for England to establish a supremacy on the seas and to establish .
32. Guy Fawkes Day became a traditional holiday to remember the failure of the . And it is celebrated on , .
33. The two main aims of the Puritan movement are and .
34. was beheaded in 1649, and became the leader of the government which is a quasi-republic.
35. Charles II was invited back to be king of England which is know in history as .
36. In May , the Act of Union was signed with the which united , and into Great Brain.
37. In the 18th century, the policy of the Prime Minister was “ to let the sleeping dogs lie.”
38. The Seven Y ears’ War was settled by in Germany, by which Britain gained .
39. During the reign of George III, the colonies was lost and the war against occurred.
40. The industrial Revolution started with a series of mechanical inventions, the spinning machine by , the steam engine by , the railway engine by .
41. Every policeman is known as a ““and used to be called ““after William IV’s Prime Minister .
42. In and Britain launched wars against China, known as . The Chinese Government was forced to sign the , by which the British troops occupy .
43. The Crimean War is chiefly remembered for who established modern nursing.
44. In 1875 British troops occupied to protect British interest in the Suz Canal and stayed there
for 74 years when then they withdrew in 1956.
45. World War I occurred on June 28, 1914 between two military blocks of the world. One was the
(principally , and ), the other was the
(principally , and )
.
III. Read the following sentence carefully. Then complete the blanks.
1. The first inhabitants in Britain were at about 3,000 B.C.
2. The Romans first came to Britain in .
3. The Romans ruled England for about years.
4. In , the Duke of Y ork tried to displace the Lancaster King Henry VI, and the Wars of the Roses broke out.
5. The First Prince of Wales was .
6. The Battle of was the last of the conflicts in the Wars of the Roses.
7. The Common Law of England was first gathered by .
8. It was during the House of that American was discovered.
9. is regarded as the foundation stone of English Liberty.
10. In England, the first blow to the Roman Catholic church was delivered by .
11. The Glorious Revolution marked the real beginning of the in England.
12. The British organized the first large migration to New Zealand and established a settlement at Wellington in the year .
13. During the Cremean War, was Prime Minister. He was famous for highhandedness and gunboat diplomacy.
14. In 1645 Cromwell defeated the king at .
15. In the reign of England established a supremacy on the sea.
16. The Germanic language was brought to England by .
17. Richard I took part in the of the 8 Crusades.
18. After , England became stronger than ever before and dominated the world trade. Form the war England gained and all French possessions westward to the Missisisippi.
19. In England and Scotland were united and the island became Britain through the Act of Union.
20. Henry Tudor defteated and killed Richard III at the battle of which marked the ending of the Wars of the Roses.
21. In 1713 brought peace by which Spain agreed that England should keep Gibraltar absolutely and forever.
22. As Prime Minister, was noted for his tact in his dealings with Queen Victoria.
23. was separated from the U.K. in 1921.
24. The English Parliament passd the Act of Supremacy which declared Henry V iii head of the .
Explain the following terms.
1.The Roman Conquest
2.The Norman Conquest
3.Old English
4.King Arthur
5.Alfred the Great
6.Ethered the Unready
7.William the Conqueror
8.The Battle of Hastings
9.Middle English
10.Henry II
11.Richard I
13. The Magna Carta.
14. Edward I
15.The Hundred Y ears’ War
16. Joan of Arc
17. The Black Death Plague
18.The Battle of Agincourt
19. The Wars of the Roses
20.The Battle of Bosworth
21. Bloody Mary
22. Elizabeth I
23. Oliver Cormwell
24.The Battle of Nasebay
25. The Glorious Revolution
26. the Restoration
27. The Seven Y ears’ War
Answer the following questions:
1.Say what you know about the Roman influence on Britain.
2.What are the consequences of the Norman Conquest?
3.Who was Alfred? Say something about his great contributions to his country.
4.What are the great contributions made by Henry II to the English court and law?
5.Who was Thomas Becket and how was he related to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales?
6.How did Henry Tudor set a new era in English history?
7.What did Elizabeth I contribute to the English people?
8.Give a brief account of the life of Shakespeare.
9.How did the English parliament come into being?
10.What is the effect of Renaissance in England?
11.Tell something about the background and significance of the British Bourgeois Revolution.
12.What changes did the Seven Y ears’ War bring about to Britain?
13.In what year did the Wars of the Roses happen?
14.What marked the end of the Middle Ages in England?
15.What is the importance of the Industrial Revolution?
16.Why did the Chartist Movement take place in Britain and what are the six points of the Charter?
17.In what way were the Irish people annoyed since their union with Britain in 1801?
18.Why is it said that V ictorian reign saw the rapid industrialization of Britain?
19.What are the agreement and disagreement between the Puritan and the Anglican?
20.Why did the Victorian government buy the Suez Canal shares and even then occupy Egypt?。