英语国家概况课后习题总结

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●英正式更名1927

●英最高山峰本内维斯位于苏格兰的格兰扁山脉

Ben Nevis Scotland Grampian

●英最长河塞文河severn发源wales

●最大湖内伊湖Lough Neagh Northern Ireland ●Lake District is well known for beautiful

scenery varied lakes lake poets

●英国气候特点fogs rainy changeability ●温带海洋temperate maritime

●无烟煤在Wales

●英欧分界North sea strait of Dover English

channel

●The chief ranges-----pennines

●英国自然资源coal petroleum

●1965大油田在North sea被发现

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●English people are Anglo-Saxons的后裔其他人

Celts后裔

●Middle English took shape after Norman

conquest

●The Established church is the Church of England

●Roman catholic church doesn’t belong to Free

churches

●复活节纪念耶稣复活resurrection

●北爱尔兰tormented by differences between

protestant 新教majority and catholic天主

minority

●英国主要说English Gaelic Welsh

●宗教Non-christian communities----Jews

MoslemsBuddhists

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●英社会习俗基于christian tradition

●英国没有成文宪法老式政府

●英政府established on the basis of constitutional

monarchy

●经济账单---------下议院

●政府有了下议院允许才能花钱

●政府大臣必须是国会成员对国会负责

●行政公民禁止被选为国会成员

●当今君主Queen Elizabeth II Prince Charles

●国会立法机构legislative authority

●国会Parliament包括the monarch The House

of Commons The House of Lords

●The House of Commons-----Mr. Speaker The

House of Lords----Lord chancellor

●国会功能debating making laws

supervising the gowernment and finance

●政府组成the Prime Minister and other

ministers who are responsible to parliament

●首相controls the Cabinet and the Parliament

●Areas has its own elected council

●Majority

●公民上诉最高到上议院

●Conservative party保守党Tory

●Labour party工党Whig

●Liberal Democrats民主自由党

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●二战后二战开始轮流执政

●英国大选5年一次

●下议院人多的政党组成政府

●Scotland Yard--------CID 刑事侦缉部

●大选时分为651个选区每区选一个下议院成员●6

●Earliest settlers were the Iberians伊比利亚

人and Celts

●Celts 来自Upper Rhineland

●410A.D.罗马军队撤回英国留下welsh

Christianityroman roads cities

●Angle----Northumbria Mercia East Anglia ●Jutes----Kent

●Saxon----Essex Sussex Wessex

●Late 8th Danes进攻英格兰海岸

●末日审判书Doomsday Book 记录每人财富

●大宪章The Great Charter feudal lord

interest

●1265 simon第一次召集各级议会All Estates

Parliament 史称典型议会the Model

Parliament

●5th三个日耳曼Teutonic从Denmark and Low

Countries迁移到英国

●封建制度Feudalism建立after Norman

Conquest

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●1337百年战争爱德华三世发起against France

for the French crownfeudal war trade war

封建社会瓦解标识之一

●黑死病一定程度上带来higher wages greater