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英语国家概况-英国--课后问答题[1]

英语国家概况课后问答题

Book1

Chapter1QuestionsforThought:

1.WhatwastheBritishEmpire?Whatdoyouknowaboutit?Inwhatwayisthe“Empire”stillfeltinBritainand

intheinternationalfield?

Keypoints:

whichthesunneverset”duetoitsoverseascoloniesontheworld.

2.PeopleoftheBritishEmpirearedescendentsoftheAnglo-Saxons.

theCommonwealth.

4.the“Empire”stillcanbefeltinthefollowingways:

whichmaintainlinksthroughalooseorganizationcalledtheCommonwealthofNations.

b.itbecameonememberoftheEuropeanUnionsince1973.

speciallyfromIndiaandCaribbeanarea.

d.todaytheMonarchrepresentsthecountryinmanyoccasions.

e.classexistsandlordsandpeersareobviousevidentoftheimperialpast.

2.WhydoestheauthorsaythatitisnotpossibletosumuptheBritishpeoplewithafewsimplephrases?

Keypoints:

3.“Britishhistoryhasbeenahistoryofinvasion”.Pleaseillustratethispointwiththeexamplesfromthetext.

HowdideachoftheinvasionsinfluenceEnglishculture?

Keypoints:

4.WhataresomegeneralcharacteristicsofScotland?HowdidScotlandbecomepartoftheunionofGreatBritain?Key

points:

1.TheCeltsoriginallylivedonScotland,theykepttheirowncultureandlanguage—theGealic.

andgavethemoderncountryofScotlanditsname.

history.

southEnglandseethemselvesasdifferentfromeachother.

5.Scotlandhasagreattraditionofinnovationinthearts,philosophyandscience.

RobertLouisStevenson’sfamousnovelDrJekyllandMrHyde《吉基尔医⽣与海德先⽣》showsthat:Scotlandwas

superficiallyfullyintegratedintotheUK,butconcealedbeneaththisisastill-strongScottishidentity.

UnionwithEnglandin1707

unitingthetwothrones

2.Scotlandmaintaineditsseparatepoliticalidentity.

3.In1707,ScotlandjoinedtheUnionbyagreementoftheEnglishandScottishParliaments

4.Scotlandsends72representativestotheLondonParliament.

5.Describech