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英美国家概括
判断正误
The United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Unit 1
1.
Britain is no longer an
imperial(
帝国
) country. T
2.
The
Commonwealth(
共和国，民主国
)
of
Nations
includes
all
European countries.
F
3.
1
in
10
of
the
British
population
are
of
non-European
ethnicity
(
种族地位，种族特点
). F
4.
The
stereotype(
陈规，刻板模式
)
of
the
English
gentleman
never
applied(
使适用
) the majority of
the British people. T
5.
Great
Britain
includes
3
constituent
countries
；
England,
Scotland, and
Wales. T
6.
Northern Ireland is part of Great
Britain.
F
7.
When people outside the UK talk about
England, they mistake
it as Britain
sometimes. T
8.
The Scots and Welsh have a strong sense
of being British.
F
9.
Scotland was
never conquered by the Romans. T
10.
Most people
in Scotland speak the old Celtic language, called
“
Gaelic
”
.
F
11.
Scotland was unified with England
through peaceful mean. T
12.
Wales is rich in coal deposits. T
13.
Cardiff, the
capital of Wales, is a large city.
F ??
largest
.
14.
The title of Prince of Wales is held by
a Welsh according to
tradition.
F
威尔士在
1284
年被英格兰合并，在爱德华一世征服了威尔士（
12
77
年—
1284
年）
的过程中，他按照威尔士人的要求：“一位在威尔士出生、不会讲英语、生下来第
一句话说威尔士语的亲王”作为他们的领袖，爱德华一世将其即将分娩的王后接到
威尔
士，王子出生后即被封为威尔士亲王，以表示对威尔斯的重视并强化威尔士人
的认同感，
从此以后，英皇室便将皇储封为威尔士王子，皇子妃封为威尔士王妃，
成为皇室继承法统
规则之一。
Unit 2 A Brief
Introduction to the United Kingdom II
1.
Ireland is
part of Great Britain
. F
是一个独立的国家
2.
“
Ul
ster
”
,
爱尔兰北部的旧称
referring
to
Northern
Ireland,
was once an ancient Irish Kingdom. T
3.
The capital of
Belfast is a large city with half a million
people.
F
贝尔法斯特是北爱尔兰的首府
4.
Northern
Ireland is significant because of its
manufacturing
industry.
F
5.
The majority
of Irish people were
descendants
子孙，后裔
of
the original
Celtic
凯尔特
people
who inhabited British Isles
before the
Romans arrived 2000 years ago. T
6.
Most British
people are Protestants
新教徒
while most Irish
people are
Catholic
天主教徒
. T
7.
The
British
government
does
not
have
direct
rule
from
London over Northern
Ireland
. F
8.
Sinn Fein
新芬党（爱尔兰共和军的政治组织）
is a legal
political
.
party in
Northern Ireland. T
9.
The Anglo-Irish
Agreement
《英爱协议》
of 1985 guaranteed
the
loyalist Protestant community their right to
decide their
future in Northern
Ireland. T
10.
The Good Friday
Agreement
《
北爱和平协议》
was approved on
10 April
1998.T
11.
Northern Ireland today is governed by
separate jurisdictions:
that of
Republic of Ireland and that of Great
Britain
. F
目前
北爱由爱
尔兰政府、英国政府及北爱执行委员会三方共同参与管
理。
Unit 3 The Government of
the United Kingdom
1.
It
is
no
doubt
that
Britain
is
the
oldest
representative
democracy in the world
. F
arguably
可论证地，可能，大概
2.
In
Britain,
the
process
of
state-
building
has
been
one
of
evolution
rather
than
revolution,
in
contrast
to
France
and
the
US.
T
相对法国或美国而言，英
国的建国历程是一个逐渐演
变而不是革命性剧变的过程。
3.
The
oldest
institution
of
government
in
Britain
is
the
Monarchy
君主政体
. T
4.
The divine
right of the king
君权神授
means the
sovereign
君
主
derived his authority from his
subjects
. from God
F
.
5.
As the king in theory had God on his
side, it was thought that
he
should
should not
exercise
absolute power
. F
6.
The
term
“parliament”
was
first
officially
used
in
1066
to
describe the gathering of feudal barons
and representatives
from counties and
towns
. F in 1236
7.
Britain
is
both
a
parliamentary
democracy
and
a
constitutional monarchy. T
英
国既是一个代议民主制国家，
又是
一个君主立宪制国家。
8.
Britain,
like
Israel,
has
a
written
constitutions
宪法
of
the
sort which
most countries have
. F both of them
without
9.
Common
laws
判例法，普通法
are
laws
which
have
been
established through common practice in
the courts. T
Unit 4
Politics, Class and Race
1.
In the UK, a
government
cannot stand
for longer than five
years except in exceptional
circumstances. T
2.
The parliament can call an election
sooner than five years.
F
the Prime Minister
3.
Anyone who is
eligible to vote with 500 pounds as deposit can
stand as an MP. T
4.
Each
main party is given some time on
national TV to
“
sell
”
their politics.
The time is
not given free and has to be paid by
.
the party.
F
5.
The
amount
spent
in
national
campaign
is
not
limited
other
than that on TV. T
6.
Secrecy is not
an important part of the voting
process.
F
7.
There are two major national parties in
the U.K. according to
the
text
. F
除工党和保守党外，还有一个重要的第三党，
自由民
主党
8.
Liberal
Democratic Party is the newest of the major
national
parties.
F
9.
Children
from
the
upper-
middle-class
usually have
a
better
education than those
from the working or middle-class. T
10.
The majority
of middle-class people today have working class
parents or grandparents. T
11.
One
of
the
distinctive
features
about
the
British
class-system
is
that
it
has
also
retained
a
hereditary
aristocracy. T
保留世袭贵族
12.
The
majority
of
Britain
’
s
recent
immigrants
have
mainly
come
from North Asia and Caribbean countries.
F South Asia
13.
Most
immigrants
earn
a
living
by
opening
restaurant
or
becoming writers or
musicians.
F most of them do not
14.
The
immigrants
have
problems
of
unemployment,
under-
representation
in
politics
and
unfair
treatment
by
.
police and by the justice system. T
Unit 5 The UK Economy
1.
By the
1880
’
s the British economy
was dominant
占支配地位
the world. T
2.
Both the US and Canada overtook Britain
in economy by 1900.
F
Germany
3.
By the
end of the World War II, Britain had gone heavily
into
debt
in
order
to
develop
its
manufacturing
industry
and
borrowed large amount from the US and
France.
F
4.
Another reason for British decline is
the loss of its colonies,
especially
India, which gained its independence in 1947. T
5.
In the 1970s,
with the soaring price of oil and high rates of
inflation,
Britain
went
through
a
bad
period.
In
1979,
the
Labour
party had to step down from the government. T
6.
The leader of
the Conservatives, Margaret Thatcher started
a series of reforms. An extensive
programme of privatization
was carried
out, and she was successful
in an all-
round way.
F
7.
Tertiary
industries
include
banking,
insurance,
tourism,
agriculture
and selling of
goods. F
8.
Britain has a
large sector
of
agriculture producing 11.6% of
its national wealth. F small