英国文化知识选题b

1 Geographic knowledge of UK

1.1 What is the geographic position of Britain?

1.2 What are the difference between Britain, the British Isles, Great Britain, England and The United Kingdom? And what is the Commonwealth of Nations?

1.3 What is the topography of Britain?

1.4 What is the Lake District?

2 National symbol knowledge of UK

2.1 What is the Union Flag of the United Kingdom?

2.2 What are the words of National Anthem?

2.3 What are the Britain’s national flowers?

2.4 How did the Scottish kilt develop?

3 Famous Citis and Places

3.1 What is about the London?

3.2 What is the British Museum?

3.3 What is about the capital of Scotland?

3.4 What is the Peace Agreement on Northern Ireland?

4 The origin of the nation

4.1 Who were the first settlers of Britain? And who were Anglo-Saxon? How did the Vikings invade Britain?

4.2 Who was the Alfred the Great?

4.3 Who was Williamthe Conquer? And what was the influence of the Norman Conquest?

4.4 How did English language develop?

5 The shaping of the nation

5.1 what were the Crusades?

5.2 What were the cause leading to the Hundred Years’ War and who was the French national heroine during this period?

5.3 What is the Great Charter?

5.4 What is about the Tower of London and Big Ben?

6 Transition to the Modern Age

6.1 What was about the Wars of the Roses in the English history?

6.2 What was the Renaissance and the feature of Renainssance in England?

6.3 Who were some of the most popular British writers since the Renaissance?

6.4 Brief introduction about the Oliver Cronwell and his revolution.

7 The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

7.1 Introduction of Whigs and Tories and Conservative Party and Liberal Party and Labor Party.

7.2 What was the Magna Carta? And its significance of the Chartist Movement

7.3 What was about the East India Company and Suez Canal?

7.4 Brief introduction to Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher

8. Government and Administration

8.1 When did Consititutional Monarchy begin in Britain? And what is the royal title of Queen Elizabeth II? And what is her role as Monarch?

8.2 What was about the Westminster Abbey?

8.3 Why is the heir to the throne called the Prince of Wales and what are the five titles of nobility or peerages in Britain?

8.4 What does the House of Lords comprise and what is the House of Commons made up of?

9 Social Affairs

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