英语国家概况第一部分英国

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第一部分

英国

第一章

英国地理

1. The official name of the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Northern Ireland.

2. There are three political divisions on the islands of Great Britain: England, Scotland

and Wales.

3. About a hundred years ago,

Britain ruled an empire that had one fourth of the world’s

people and one fourth of the world’s land area.

4. The Britain Empire was replaced by the Britain commonwealth in 1931,which is a free

association of independent counties that were once colonies of Britain.

5. Britain is separated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel in the south and the

North Sea in the east.

6.

Britain

has,

for

centuries,

been

tilting

with

the

northwest

slowly

rising,

and

the

southeast

slowly

sinking.

The

north

and

west

of

Britain

are

mainly

highlands.

The

southeast and east are mainly lowlands.

7. The pennies, a range of hills running from north midlands to Scottish border, are the

principal mountain chain.

8.

Ben

Nevis

in

Scotland

is

the

highest

mountain

in

Britain,

and

the

Lough

Neagh

in

Northern Ireland is the largest lake in Britain.

9.

There

are

three

natural

zones

in

Scotland:

the

highlands

in

the

north,

the

central

lowlands, and the southern uplands. The lowlands in the center comprise mostly the forth

and Clyde valleys.

10.

Edinburgh,

Cardiff

and

Belfast

are

the

capitals

of

Scotland,

Wales

and

Northern

Ireland.

11. Scotland has about 800 islands, including the Orkney, Shetlands and Hebrides.

苏格兰有

800

座岛屿，包括奥克内群岛，谢特兰群 岛和赫不里德群岛。

12. Besides, the Tweed, the Tyne, the Tees and the Thames Rivers on the east coast all

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