英美国家概况习题

III. Fill in the blanks:

1.The full name of Britain is _______________________________________.

2.The island of Great Britain is made up of England, _______________ and

_____________.

3.The Romans invaded and conquered Britain in ____________ and ruled

the country for ____________ years.

4. The United Kingdom became a member state of the European Union in

_____________.

5. The UK is now a ____________ society in which the minority___________

Groups today ____________ for 5% of the nation's total population.

6. London is not only the capital city of Great Britain, but also one of the topthree ____________ centres of the world.

7. The capital city of Scotland is ____________; and ____________ is the

capital city of Wales.

IV. Say something you know about each of the following in your own words:

1.London

2.the Anglo-Saxons

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III. Fill in the blanks:

1. Northern Ireland is situated in the ____________part of the Island of

Ireland.

2. ____________ is the name of an ancient Irish kingdom, which occupied

what is now the Northern Ireland.

3.N. Ireland is the smallest of the UK's four nations both in ____________

and ____________.

4. ____________ is the capital city of N. Ireland, which is a small town, but

by far the largest city in the whole of that area.

5.N. Ireland used to be very much in the news simply because of its

political troubles there.

6.Northern Ireland's Home Rule Bill was finally passed in ____________, but the process was overtaken by the _______________________________

and was suspended for the duration of the war.

7. Sinn Fein, the legal ___________ party, supports the IRA's rights to fight. IV. Say something you know about each of the following in your own words:

1. Sinn Fein

2. the Good Friday Agreement

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III. Fill in the blanks:

1.The doctrine of the "divine right of kings" held that the sovereign derived his authority from ____________, not from ____________.

2. In 1215, some feudal barons and the Church forced the King ___________

to sign the ____________ to place some limits on the King's power.

3. During the civil war in the 17th century, those who represented the interests of Parliament are called ____________, and those who supported

the king were called ____________.

4. In medieval times, kings would summon a group of wealthy barons and

representatives of counties, towns and cities -- called ____________ to

raise money.

5.In 1689, Parliament passed ____________ to ensure that the King would never be able to ignore Parliament.

6. In the 18th century, King George I left the job of chairing cabinet meetings

to one of his ministers who later came to be called ____________.