英美文化常识

1.What are the two major parties in Britain?

------They are the Conservative Party and the Labour Party.

2.What is the official full name of Britain?

-----It is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

3.Who is the head of government in Ireland? -----It is the Prime Minister.

4.Who is James Joyce?

-----He is the most well-know Irish writer of the modern period.

5.Who were the first Americans?

------They were the Indians.

6.What kind of economic system does the United States have?

-----It has a free-market economy with a dominant private sector.

7.What is bilingualism?

-----The phenomenon that English and French are the two official languages in Canada is called bilingualism.

8.What are the geographical feature of

Australia as a continent?

------Australia is the flatest and lowest of the continents.

9.What are the powers the constitution confers on the House of Representatives?

------The House of Representatives has powers to make and change laws.

10.What animal is a national symbol of New Zealand?

------The kiwi is a national symbol of the country.

11.What is the Renaissance?

------Renaissance was the revival of classical literature and artistic styles in European history.

12.What are the most important journals in the U.K.?

------They are the Economist,New Statesman and Society,and Spectator.

13.Why is the Shannon River important to Ireland?

------Because it provides electricity for much

of the Republic.

14.How many states are there in the United States?

------There are 50 states in the United States.

15.What is Hispanic?

------A Hispanic is a Spanish-speaking person of the United States.

16.What is the Bill of Rights?

-------It is the term used for the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

17.What is the Canada Council?

-----It is the Cana dian Government’s funding agency.

18.What is Aborigines?

-------It is the term used to describe the original people of Australia.

19.What was the nature of the White Australia Policy?

------It was a discriminatory immigration policy,which restricted the non –whites to enter Australia.

20.What are New Zealand’s main exports?

------Meat,wool and dairy products are main exports.

21.What was Queen Mary known as?

------She was known as the “Bloody Mary”and also remembered as the monarch who lost the last British possession on the continent------French port of calais.

22.What did Britain become after the Industrial Revolution?

-----Britain became the “workshop of the world”.

23.What is the House of Lords made up of?

------It is made up of the Lords Spiritual and the Lords Temporal.

24.What are the two major parties in Ireland? ------They are Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. 25.What is meant by “Vietnamization” of the war?

--------It meant that South Vietnamese troops would be war-built up to replace Americal fighting force.

26.Which country is the world’s biggest