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英语国家社会与⽂化⼊门练习

英语国家社会与⽂化⼊门练习Book1

ExerciseOne（Book1Unit1）

1.TheAnglo-SaxonsbegantosettleinBritaininthefifthcentury.

2.KingArthurwaslegendaryherosupposedtohavefoughtagainsttheSaxons.

3.TheRomansinvadedBritainin43,andtheonlyareatheydidnotsubduethereinwasScotland.

4.ThemostimportantpartoftheUKinwealthisEngland.

5.Celtswereironworkers,practicedfarmersandtheydrainedmuchofthemarshlandsandbuilthouses.Buttheydidntspeak

AngloSanxonEnglish.Theyhavetheirownlanguage.

6.TherealRomanconquestofBritainbeganin43AD.

7.TheEnglisharemainlydecendantsofAnglo-Sanxon.

8.AlfredwasthenationalheroduringthefightingagainstDanes.

9.EnglishChannelseparateGreatBritainfromtherestoftheEurope.

10.WilliamwascrownedKingofEnglandontheChristmasDayof1066.

11.ThepopulationoftheUKconsistoftheEnglish,theWelsh,theScottishandtheIrish.

12.William,DukeofNormandy,isnowknownasWilliamtheConqueror.

13.ScotlandoccupiesthenorthernportionofGreatBritain.

14.EdinburghisthecapitalofScotland.

15.CaelicismainlyspokeninScotland.

16.In14thcentury,WaleswaseffectivelyunitedwithEngland.

ExerciseTwo（Book1Unit3）

1.IntheEnglishCivilWar,the“Roundhead”supportedOliverCromwell,whilethe“cavalier”supportedCharlesI.

2.ParliamentinBritain,strictlyspeaking,consistsofthreeelements:TheQueen(TheSovereign),theHouseofLordsandthe

HouseofCommons.

3.TheHouseofCommonsisthesourceofrealpoliticalpowerintheUnited

Kingdom.

4.TheGreatCharter(MagnaCarta)wassignedbyKingJohnin121

5.

5.ThespiritoftheMagnaCartawasthelimitationofthepowersoftheking.

6.Jameslclungtothetheoryofthe“DivineRightofKings”.

7.ThePrimeMinisterofBritainwasappointedbyQueen.

8.TheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIrelandisreignedoverbytheMonarch,butruledbythegovernment.

9.Th