英语国家概况习题

Unit One The Country

I. Multiple choice.

1. The “backbone of England” refers to _______.

A. the Welsh Massif

B. the Pennines

C. the Middle Valley

D. the English Midlands

2. The highest mountain in England is ______.

A. the Pennines

B. Ben Nevis

C. the Highland of Scotland

D. Northern Ireland

3. The largest river is _____ and the second largest but the most important one is _____.

A. the Thames River, the Severn River

B. the Severn River, the Tees River

C. the Exe River, the Thames River

D. the Severn River, the Thames River

4. Of the following, _____ is the largest, most populous and generally speaking the richest section

A. England

B. Scotland

C. Wales

D. Northern Ireland

5. The government of the Church of Scotland is________.

A. Episcopal

B. Presbyterian

C. the lord commissioner

D. Anglican

6. Among the Lake Poets, ______ was the most famous one.

A. William Wordsworth

B. Samuel Coleridge

C. Robert Southey

D. William Shakespeare

7. Big Ben is in ___.

A. London

B. Birmingham

C. Glasgow

D. Liverpool

8. The nickname of Britain is ___.

A. Uncle Sam

B. John Bull

C. Father Christmas

D. Oliver Twist

9. The best-known character of the British people is their ___.

A. conservativeness

B. exclusiveness

C. self-importance

D. irony

10. By the Act of Union of _____ Scotland and the kingdom of England and Wales were constitutionally joined as the Kingdom of Britain.

A. 1707

B. 1921

C. 1801

D. 1936

11. The longest river in Britain is _____.

A. Severn

B. Clyde

C. Bann

D. Thames

12. The proportion of the English in the whole population is _____ or so.

A. 60%

B. 80%

C. 70%

D. 30%

II. Fill in the blanks with proper words.

1. The national anthem of UK is _________________.

2. The largest lake in Britain is _______, which is located in Northern Ireland.

3. The national flag of UK is composed of three flags and it is called ________.

4. Usually the husband of Queen gets the title “Prince of _________.”

5. The second largest but the most important river in Britain is ______ and London is situated on it.

6. The full title of the U.K. is the United Kingdom of _____ _____ and _____ _____.

7. The largest part of U.K. is _____.

8. Belfast Lough and Lough Neagh lie in _____ _____.

9. The U.K. lies to the _____ of France.

10. Westminster, the area of central government administration is situated in the _____ End.

III. True or false.

1. Now in England, the top leader of the Church of England is Pope.

2. The Capital of Scotland is Edinburgh.

3. During Easter Day, people will eat eggs and chicks.

4. Britain now is a member of European Union and Euros are the currency used across Britain.

5. Loch Ness is a lake located in Southern England and it is famous for its scenery and the monster.

6. Afternoon tea became popular in Queen Victoria’s time, and it is usually between nine and twelve in the morning.

7. Great Britain is the largest island in British Isles and it is composed of fours parts including England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

8. The most important airport in Britain is Heathrow Airport in London.

9. The Celtic language was a spoken language and it is still heard in parts of Scotland.

10. English is the only language spoken in Britain.

IV. V ocabulary

1. Angles

2. Westminster Abbey

3. Germanic tribes

4. Great Britain

5. Husbandry

6. Maritime

7. Stonehenge 8. Territory 9. The Commonwealth

10. Topography

V. Explain the following terms.

1. The Buckingham Palace

2. The Stonehenge

3. British Commonwealth

4. The Union Jack

5. British Isles

6. God Save the Queen

VI. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. What is the position of modern Britain in the world?

2. What are the differences among the British Isles, the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England?

3. Why do English people like to talk about the weather? What are the contributing factors?

Unit Two The People

I. Fill in the blanks with proper words.

1. The UK has a ________ and _________society where its people have diverse origins in every continent of the world.

2. The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes were _______ people from Europe and arrived in England between 5th and 7th centuries.

3. The ____________ census, conducted under the order of William the Great, provides the earliest reasonable estimate of England’s population.

4. ___________ is the official language of the United Kingdom.

5. The Irish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic have developed from the _________ language.

6. Traditionally, the British class system was divided into upper, middle, and working class.

II. V ocabulary

1. Ethnic diversity 4. Nomans

7. Domesday Book 10. Old Stone Age 2. Celtic language

5. Anglo-Saxons

8. Potato Famine

3. Britishness

6. Germanic people

9. Black Death

III. Explain the following terms.

1. Potato Famine

2. Domesday Book

3. Indo-European language family

IV. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. What patterns settlement and immigration has the UK demonstrated in history?

2. What are the key elements in “Britishness” that the citizens of the UK share?

3. What consequences will be brought by the decline of the British identity?

4. What is the official language in UK? And what are the minor languages spoken in the country?

5. How are people in the UK divided into different classes? What are some of the main features in the division?

6. What do you think are the English characters? What do you think contribute to them?

Unit 3 History (1)

(Early Britain before 1066)

I. Multiple choice.

1. ______invaders conquered what is now called England in the first century A.D.

A. The Roman

B. The Norman

C. The Angles

D. The American

2. Julius Caesar invaded Britain in _____.

A. 55 BC

B. 100 BC

C.410 AD

D. 55 AD

3. _______is believed to have been a Roman-Briton warrior who fought against foreign attackers between 400 and 600 AD.

A. King Arthur

B. Alfred

C. William

D. Canute

4. The first “King of the English” was _____.

A. Alfred the Great

B. Egbert

C. Bede

D. Ethelred

5. The three great Germanic tribes: the Anglos, the _____ and the Jutes which invaded Britain form the basis of the modern British people.

A. Saxons

B. Scots

C. Welsh

D. Wessex

6. The head of the church in Anglo-Saxon times was _____.

A. the King of Denmark and Norway

B. the king of England

C. Julius Caesar

D. the Archbishop of Canterbury

7. The _____ invaded England in the earliest time.

A. Danes

B. Iberians

C. Romans

D. Celts

8. The Vikings who invaded England at the turn of the 8th century came from _____.

A. Norway

B. Denmark

C. France

D. both A and B

9. British recorded histroy begins with _____.

A. the Roman invasion

B. the Norman Conquest

C. the Viking and Danish invsion

D. the Anglo-Saxons invasion

10. Edward was known as the “_____” because of his reputation for saintliness.

A. Confessor

B. Conqueror

C. Protector

D. Unready

11. Norman Conquest began in _____.

A. 1016

B. 1066

C. 1035

D. 1458

12. The Battle of Hastings took place in _____.

A. 1606

B. 1042

C. 1066

D. 1458

II. Fill in the blanks with proper words.

1. The property record in the time of William the Conqueror is known as the ______.

2. The word “English” means “the language belonging to the ________”.

3. The ancestors of the English are ______, while the Scots, Welsh and Irish the Celts.

4. About 122 AD, i n order to keep back the Picts and Scots, the _____ built Hadrian’s Wall.

5. _____ was considered the first national hero and was called the “father of the British Navy”.

6. In 1086 William had his official to make a general survey of the land, known as _____ Book.

7. The Battle of _____ paved the way for the Norman Conquest to England.

8. Along with the Normans came the _____ language.

III. True or false.

1. In the early history of England, there were many legendary heroes and one of them was King Arthur.

2. The Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall were the two great walls built by the Romans along the northern border of England to prevent the Picts in Scotland from invading England. The picts were said to have painted faces”.

3. The Norman Conquest was in effect a French conquest and the imposition upon England of ruling French aristocracy. In consequence, Norman-French of the conquerors replaced English as an authoritative language in England. English became a lower-class language.

IV. V ocabulary

1. Stonehenge

4. Alfred the Great

7. The Battle of Hastings 10. Edward the Confessor 2. Hadrian’s wall

5. Christianity

8. Normand Conquest

3. Heptarchy

6. Julius Caeser

9. William the Conqueror

V. Explain the following terms.

1. Norman Conquest

2. William the Conqueror

3. Stonehenge

4. Silbury Hill

5. Julius Caesar

6. Hadrian’s Wall

7. King Arthur

8. St. Augustine of Caterbury

VI. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. What are the Roman influences on England?

2. What are the Anglo-Saxon influences on England?

3. What were the influences of Norman Conquest on Britain?

4. “British history has been a history of invasion”. Do you agree or disagree to this point of view? Why?

Unit 3 History (2)

(Medieval Britain 1066-1485)

I. Multiple choice.

1. In history _____ was nicknamed “King of Lackland”.

A. John

B. Henry I

C. Henry II

D. Jame I

2. The founder of the English legal system and the Common Law was______.

A. Henry I

B. Henry II

C. Henry III

D. Henry VIII

3. The Peasants Uprising in 1381 was led by _____.

A. Henry Turner

B. Watt Tyler

C. Richard

D. William I

4. The Wars of Roses was so called because _____.

A. it was fought during the seasons of roses

B. the fighting two sides both used the rose as their badge

C. it was fought over dispute of a rose

D. none of the above

5. The Great Charter was signed by _____ in 1215.

A. King Henry II

B. King Richard

C. King John

D. Henry Tudor

6. In the early 14th century feudalism began to _____ in England.

A. grow

B. flourish

C. decline

D. end

7. The Parliament of 1295 which is known as the “_____” is considered the “beginning of parliament”.

A. All Estates Parliament

B. Model Parliament

C. Long Parliament

D. Short Parliament

8. The Middle Ages in England ended with ____.

A. the Norman Conquest

B. the beginning of the Tudor Monarchy

C. the beginning of the Parliament

D. the Peasant Uprising

9. The Great Charter was essentially a _____.

A. Culture Movement

B. colonial document

C. feudal document

D. capitalistic document

10. The _____ dealt a telling blow to villainies, and a whole new class of yeomen farmers emerged, paving the way for the development of capitalism.

A. Peasant uprising of 1381

B. Wars of the Roses

C. England Reformation

D. Civil wars

11. The _____developed later into the Lords and the Commons known as Parliament.

A. Witan

B. Grand Council

C. Privy Council

D. Great Council II. Fill in the blanks with proper words.

1. John signed the document in 1215, which in history was called the Great Charter or _____ _____.

2. The English parliament originated in the _____ _____.

3. The third collection of the poll tax in the early part of 1381 became the fuse of _____ _____ rising.

4. The Wars of the Roses broke out between the _____ and the _____.

5. The nature of the Wars of the Roses was a _____ _____ war.

6. Parliament comes from a French word which means to ____.

III. True or false.

1. The Hundred Years’ War refers to the war betwee n France and England from 1353 to 1453. It continued intermittently for more than 100 years with ups and downs for both sides, but it ended in victory for the English. The war was caused by both

territorial and economic disputes.

2. The Great Council included barons and representatives from counties and towns. IV. V ocabulary

V. Explain the following terms.

1. Magna Carta

2. the Hundred Years’ War

3. the Black Death

4. Joan of Arc

VI. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. What do you know about the Wars of Roses and what were the consequences?

2. What do you know about t he Hundred Years’ War and its influence on Britain?

Unit 3 History (3)

(Transition to the Modern Age 1485-1688)

I. Multiple choice.

1. The Spanish Armada used to be very strong and it was once called _______.

A. the Powerful Fleet

B. the Unbreakable Fleet

C. the Strong Armada

D. the Invincible Fleet

2. Among the first critics of the Roman Catholic Church, ______was the most prominent and he established Protestantism.

A. Martin Luther

B. Martin Luther King, Jr

C. Thomas Becket

D. John Bunyan

3. In England, when Elizabeth I died, _____ was the first of the Stuarts to take the throne.

A. Mary Tudor

B. James I

C. Charles I

D. Oliver Cromwell

4. William and Mary jointly accepted _____ and the age of constitutional monarchy began.

A. the Magna Carta

B. the Petition of Right

C. the Test Act

D. the Bill of Rights

5. The English Reformation began with______.

A. Henry Ⅶ

B. Henry Ⅷ

C. Mary Tudor

D. Edward Ⅰ

6. The English Renaissance was largely______.

A. religious

B. ideological

C philosophical D. literary

7. The___ developed later into the Lords and the Commons known as Parliament.

A. Witan

B. Grand Council

C. Privy Council

D. Great Council

8. In 1653 _____ was made Lord Protector for life.

A. Oliver Cromwell

B. Charles I

C. William II

D. Charles II

9. Charles I was beheaded in _____.

A. 1649

B. 1648

C. 1653

D.1669

10. The Glorious Revolution in 1688 was in nature a _____.

A. coup d’etat

B. racial slaughter

C. peasant rising

D. bourgeois revolution

11. The Middle Ages in England ended with ____.

A. the Norman Conquest

B. the beginning of the Tudor Monarchy

C. the beginning of the Parliament

D. the Peasant Uprising

12. During his reign, Henry VIII carried out the _____ reforms.

A. religious

B. judicial

C. land

D. spelling

13. The Enclosure Movement was a period in which “____ devour men” as described in Thomas More’s Utopia.

A. pigs

B. sheep

C. cattle

D. dogs

14. Chartered companies were estblished during Queen Elizabeth I’s time. They were____.

A. government companies under the control of an appointed agent

B. established with private capital used for overseas expansion under the Queen’s permission

C. owned by the big noble families

D. granted by the queen to her close friends

15. In the Civil War, the supporters of the king were generally called _____.

A. Roundheads

B. Conservatives

C. Zealots

D. Cavaliers

16. The English Bourgeois Revolution in its upsurge was also called the ____.

A. Catholic Revolution

B. Puritan Revolution

C. Bolshevik Revolution

D. the Reformation

17. In 1689 the “Bill of Rights” was passed. _____ began in England.

A. The Constitutional Monarchy

B. All Estates Parliament

C. House of Lancaster

D. the Republic

18. In 1534 Parliament passed the “_____”, according to which Henry VIII was declared the head of the English Church.

A. the Bill of Rights

B. Act of Supremacy

C. Act of Settlement

D. Act of Union

19. The Industrial Revolution first started in _____.

A. the iron industry

B. the textile industry

C. the coal industry

D. manufacturing industry

20. The Reformation was a product of _____.

A. the Renaissance

B. the Chartist Movement

C. the Hundred Years’ War

D. the Wars of Roses

21. The greatest dramatist of the English Renaissance was _____.

A. Shakespeare

B. Milton

C. Chaucer

D. Bacon

II. Fill in the blanks with proper words.

1. After the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell declared England a commonwealth, later, he became the _________.

2. After the Industrial Revolution, Britain became the “______” of the world.

3. Renaissance spread into England during the Tudor Monarchy and its mainstream was _________.

4. During the Civil War, the Cavaliers supported ________, while the Roundheads supported _______.

5. The East India Company formed at the end of the 16th century was one of _____ companies.

6. “Renaissance” means “_____”, i.e. Europe rediscovering its origins in the cultures of ancient Greek and Rome.

7. In the summer of 1588 the Spanish ships, the _____ _____ was defeated by English ships.

8. The first two parties appeared in England were the _____ and the _____.

9. After Charles I was beheaded in 1649 England was declared a _____.

10. In 1653 Cromwell was made _____ _____ for life and started his military dictatorship openly.

III. True or false.

1. Under the reign of Oliver Cromwell the Bill of Rights was passed.

2. James I was executed in the civil war.

3. Under the reign of Oliver Cromwell the Bill of Rights was passed.

4. Drama flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature.

IV. V ocabulary

V. Explain the following terms.

1. Renaissance

2. The English Civil War

3. Glorious Revolution

4. The English Reformation

VI. Answer the following questions briefly.

Unit 3 History (4) (5)

(The Age of Empire 1689-1901)

(Britain Since 1901)

I. Multiple choice.

1. The Industrial Revolution in Britain first started in the _______ industry.

A. iron

B. textile

C. power

D. heavy

2. Queen Victoria was one of the great monarchs in Britain and she got a nickname as _____ of Europe.

A. Grandmother

B. Great Aunt

C. Great Mother

D. Great Woman

3. In the 18th century, there appeared ____ in England, which owed a great deal to the invention of machines.

A. the Wars of the Roses

B. the Bourgeois Revolution

C. the Industrial Revolution

D. the Religious Reformation

4. The Glorious Revolution in 1688 was in nature a _____.

A. coup d’etat

B. racial slaughter

C. peasant rising

D.bourgeois revolution

5. The Enclosure Movement was a period in which “____ devour men” as described in Thomas More’s Utopia.

A. pigs

B. sheep

C. cattle

D. dogs

6. During ____’s reign, England and Scotland were formally united under the name of Great Britain in 170

7.

A. Queen Elizabeth I

B. James I

C. Queen Anne

D. James II

7. Charles Darwin published _________ in 1859.

A. On the Origin of Species

B. Wealth of Nations

C. Act of Supremacy

D. Bill of Rights

8. Among the following descriptions about Adam Smith, _____ is not right.

A. He had written a book named the Wealth of Nations.

B. He advocated laissez faire and free competition.

C. Including some positive influences, his ideas also brought negative influences,

such as problems of child labor, low wages, etc.

D. He believed that population tend to increase faster than the food supply.

9. The _____ weakened Britain. The British colonies became independent on after another.

A. Hundred rears war

B. Black Death

C. Two world wars

D. Wars of the Roses

10. Before WWII _____ relied on appeasement of the European dictators to reduce tensions that might lead to war.

A. Neville Chamberlain

B. Stanley Baldwin

C. Winston Churchill

D. John Adams

11. When Germany invaded _____ which was neutral, Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August, 1914.

A. Austria

B. Russia

C. Belgium

D. Poland

II. Fill in the blanks with proper words.

1. In 1707, the Act of _______ united England and Scotland.

2. In 1764 James Hargreaves invented the _____ _____.

3. The Industrial Revolution started during the last part of the _____ century.

4. Upon the completion of the _____ _____ by 1850 England became the workshop of the world.

III. V ocabulary

IV. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. What was the effect of the Industrial Revolution on Britain?

Unit Four Government and Politics

Unit Five Judiciary

I. Multiple choice.

1. The House of Lords is presided over by _____.

A. the Queen

B. the Lord Chancellor

C. the Archbishop of Canterbury

D. the Prime Minister

2. The Prime Minister is appointed by _____ and he or she always sits in _____.

A. the Archbishop of Canterbury, the House of Commons

B. the Archbishop of Canterbury, the House of Lords

C. the Queen, the House of Commons

D. the Queen, the House of Lords

3. In news report No. 10 Downing Street usually stands for the English _____.

A. Queen

B. Lord Chancellor

C. Prime Minister

D. Price

4. Britain is a bourgeois democracy with a two-party political system. The two parties are _____.

A. the Labor and the Communist Party

B. the Whig Party and the Fabian Party

C. the Conservatives and the Labor Party

D. the Conservatives and the Tory Party

5. A General Election is held once every _____ years and now there are _____ members of Parliaments.

A. five, 600

B. five, 650

C. five, 646

D. four, 646

6. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of British government?

A. It offers the Queen high political status and supreme power.

B. It is both a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy.

C. It is the oldest representative democracy in the world.

D. It has no written from of Constitution.

7. Which group of people can NOT vote in the general election?

A. members in the House of Commons

B. Lords in the House of Lords

C. the UK citizens above the age of 18

D. the UK resident citizens of the Irish Republic

8. The life of Parliament is fixed at _____ years.

A. four

B. six

C. five

D. six

9. The Shadow Cabinet is organized by the _____.

A. Government

B. Opposition

C. Privy Council

D. Prime Minister

10. Legally any citizen aged from _____ to _____ who has never been sent to prison can be a member of the jury.

A. 16, 60

B. 18, 65

C. 18, 60

D. 15, 70

11. Now the House of Lords can prevent a bill from passing into a law for _____.

A. one year

B. two years

C. six years

D. three years

12. The High Court of Justice includes the following divisions except _____.

A. the Queen’s Bench Division

B. the Criminal Division

C. the Chancellor Division

D. the Family Division

II. Fill in the blanks with proper words.

1. The law-making body in Britain is __________.

2. In news report ______ usually stands for the English Prime Minister.

3. British Constitution consists of _________, __________, and _________.

4. In Britain, the official head of state is _________ while the real centre of political life is in ____.

5. In terms of the nature of cases, we can divide the courts into two systems: the _____ Courts and the _____ Courts.

6. To become a barrister, one must be a member of the four inns of _____ and pass the _____ examination.

III. True or false

1. The Party which gets the majority seats in House of Lords will be the Government Party.

2. In Britain, nobles can be elected to the House of Commons, which means they can

be the Prime Minister.

3. The British Parliament has the supreme power of passing laws.

4. A party should hold at least 326 seats in the House of Commons in order to win the election.

IV. V ocabulary

V. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. What are the roles of the British monarch? What does the phrase “the monarch is supposed to reign but not rule” mean?

2. What are the functions of Parliament? How does the law-making process work?

The Country and People

I. Fill in the blanks with proper words.

1. The official name of Britain is _______________.

2. The national anthem of UK is _________________.

3. Great Britain has been traditionally divided into two major natural regions—a _____ in the north and west and a ______ in the south.

4. The largest lake in Britain is _______, which is located in Northern Ireland.

5. The national flag of UK is composed of three flags and it is called ________.

6. Usually the husband of Queen gets the title “Duke of _________.”

7. The second largest but the most important river in Britain is ______ and London is situated on it.

8. In Britain, when you meet a man suffering heart attack you should call _______ for ambulance.

9. The temperature in Britain is never too ____ in summer nor too ____ in winter.

10. Cockneys is used to refer the white ____ class inhabitants of London, particularly ____ London, and the slang used by these people.

II. True or false.

1. Britain is a densely populated country with an average of 143 people peer square km, and it is very unevenly distributed, of the population 90% is urban and 10% is rural.

2. The Capital of Scotland is Edinburgh, in which Greyfriars Bobby (a dog) is famous for the loyalty to its master.

3. Britain now is a member of European Union and Euros are the currency used across Britain.

4. Loch Ness is a lake located in Southern England and it is famous for its scenery and the monster.

5. Afternoon tea became popular in Queen Victoria’s time, and it is usually between nine and twelve in the morning.

6. Great Britain is the largest island in British Isles and it is composed of fours parts including England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

7. The Celtic language was a spoken language and it is still heard in parts of Scotland.

8. During Easter Day, people will eat eggs and chicks.

III. Explain the following terms.

1. The Buckingham Palace

2. The Stonehenge

3. British Commonwealth

4. The Union Jack

5. British Isles

6. St. Patrick’s Day

7. The BBC

8. God Save the Queen

IV. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. What is the position of modern Britain in the world?

2. How are people in the UK divided into different classes? What are some of the main features in the division?

3. What are the differences among the British Isles, the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England?

Before 1066

I. Fill in the blanks.

1. The written history of Britain begins in ______B.C.

The _____ invaded from central Europe and had covered most of the _________ _______ by 500 B.C.

3. The real invasion of Romans took place in ____ A.D.

4. In Roman Britain, Scotland was controlled by ____ and Ireland by _____.

5. __________ __________ is an ancient Roman wall built by the Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century to protect the Roman Empire in Britain from the attack of the Pics and Scots.

6. The Germanic tribes invading south Britain are ______, ______, _______.

7. In the 7th century, there were seven separate kingdoms as the ____________in the so-called “Angle-land(England)”.

8. The national hero ______ ____ _______ saved the Angles from the _______who came from Denmark, Norway or Sweden, Along with his successors, he unified and brought stability to the country.

9. In 1066, __________ defeated _______ at the Battle of __________ and took over Saxon England.

10. During the Anglo-Saxon rule, the northern part of Britain remained independent,

inhabited by ________ , of which the _____ and the _____ were two main tribes.

II. Explain the terms.

1. the Celts

2. the Hadrian’s Wall

3. the Heptarchy

4. Alfred the Great

5. the Battle of Hastings

6. the Germanic tribes

III. Answer the questions.

1. What are the Roman influences on England?

2. What are the Anglo-Saxon influences on England?

Unit 3 History (2)

1066-1485

I. Fill in the blanks.

1. For tax purposes, the ___________ survey was commissioned in 1086 to record the entire population and their lands and property.

2. The ___________ tribesmen established the English language now referred to as Old English.

3. William and his nobles spoke and conducted court in __________.

4. The power of ___________ was so strong power that he built an enormous empire which included much of Ireland.

5. ________ “the Lion Heart” was preoccupied with foreign wars, taking part in the Third Crusade.

6. During the reign of King _______, a royal council of twenty-five barons was formed and then joined by some lesser men or the “commons”, which slowly developed into a parliament.

7. __________________ summoned the first elected Parliament in 1265.

8. The franchise in parliamentary elections set the scene for the so-called “_________ Parliament” of 1295.

9. ________________________ refers to the intermittent wars spanned from _____to _____between _________ and __________.

10. _______________, a fierce and widespread outbreak of plague hit England fist in 1349 with subsequent waves between _______ and ______.

11. Wat Tyler’s uprising broke in the year _______.

12. Henry II found the Angevin, or _______ monarch while Henry VII found the _______ monarch.

II. Explain the following terms.

1. Medieval (Middle Age)

2. the Domesday Book

3. Crusade

4. Magna Carta

5. the Hundred Years’ War 6 Joan of Arc

7. the Black Death 8. the Wars of Roses

III. Answer the questions.

1. What is the significance of the Magna Carta?

2. Summarize King Edward I’s attempt to conquer Wales and Scotland.

3. What is the background, cause, consequence, and significance for England of the Hundred Years’ War.

4. What is the influence of the Black Death on England?

IV. Discuss the questions.

1. How did feudalism in England decline?

2. What figure or event impresses you most in this period of history in England? Why?

Unit Four Politics

I. Fill in the blanks.

1. The Monarchy began to take shape at the end of the ___ century and at the beginning of the ___ century. And a two-party system was developed.

2. The Constitutional Monarchy started at the end of the ___ century, when the parliament established its rights, and then the power gradually passed into the hands of ministers.

3. There are ____ members in a jury.

4. The head of the Parliament is the _____.

5. The head of the judiciary system is ____.

6. The term of the Prime Minister serves ____ years.

7. The two major parties in Britain now are _____________ and ___________.

8. The official residence in London of the royal family is ___________.

9. The official residence of the Prime Minister is _________________.

10. The male heir of the British monarch is entitled Prince of _________.

II. Answer the questions.

1. What are the bases of the British Constitution?

2. What are the characteristics of the British Constitution?

3. What is the title of the current Queen?

4. What are the duties (privileges) of the Queen?

5. What is the nature of the monarch nowadays in Britain?

6. Is the UK Parliament the oldest representative assembly in the world?

7. What is the origin of the UK Parliament?

8. What is the nature (function) of the UK Parliament?

9. What are the elements of the UK Parliament?

10. Where is the seat of the UK Parliament?

11. What is the term & session of the UK Parliament?

12. How many seats are there in each house of the UK Parliament?

IV. Essay question.

Why do the British people keep their monarch?

The Two-party System in UK

Unit 5 Judiciary

I. Answer the following questions.

1. Generalize the legal systems in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

2. Is there a ministry of justice in the UK?

3. Translate the basic assumptions of the rule of law in the UK.

4. Translate the principles of British judicial proceedings.

5. Is there a national police force or minister exclusively responsible for the police? II. Fill in the blanks.

1. The main functions or powers of the state are ________, ________, and _______.

2. In England and Wales, ______________ is the supreme executive body of the law, with the ______________ presiding over the administration of the law.

3. The three main sources of English and Welsh law are _________ law, _________law and _________________ law.

4. English law is based on _________ law.

5. _________ law is supreme over most other forms of law, including common law.

6. European Union law is confined mainly to _________ and _______ matters.

7. When the EU law and British domestic law conflict, British courts are obliged to apply _____ law.

8. Scottish law is influenced by _______ law, _______________ law and other European systems.

9. The main sources of Scottish law are the ________ law of Scotland and legislation enacted by the ______ or Scottish ________, and EU law.

Northern Ireland’s legal system is similar to that of _______ and _______.

10. The principal court system is divided into __________ and _______ courts.

11. Regarding the judicial system, England and Wales as well as Northern Ireland us the ________ law system, while Scotland combines the _______ law system and the _______ law system.

12. England and _______ have one court system and _________ and ________ have their own systems respectively.

13. The highest and final court of appeals in the UK is _____________.

14. The legal system of Northern Ireland is similar to that of ________ and ________.

15. In Scotland, a jury consists of ____ lay people.

16. Policing in London is carried out by the ______________ Police, whose headquarters is known as the Scotland Yard.

The Country and People

I. Fill in the blanks with proper words.

1. The official name of Britain is _______________.

2. The national anthem of UK is _________________.

3. Great Britain has been traditionally divided into two major natural regions—a _____ in the north and west and a ______ in the south.

4. The largest lake in Britain is _______, which is located in Northern Ireland.

5. The national flag of UK is composed of three flags and it is called ________.

6. Usually the husband of Queen gets the title “Duke of _________.”

7. The second largest but the most important river in Britain is ______ and London is situated on it.

8. In Britain, when you meet a man suffering heart attack you should call _______ for ambulance.

9. The temperature in Britain is never too ____ in summer nor too ____ in winter.

10. Cockneys is used to refer the white ____ class inhabitants of London, particularly ____ London, and the slang used by these people.

II. True or false.

1. Britain is a densely populated country with an average of 143 people peer square km, and it is very unevenly distributed, of the population 90% is urban and 10% is rural.

2. The Capital of Scotland is Edinburgh, in which Greyfriars Bobby (a dog) is famous for the loyalty to its master.

3. Britain now is a member of European Union and Euros are the currency used across Britain.

4. Loch Ness is a lake located in Southern England and it is famous for its scenery and the monster.

5. Afternoon tea became popular in Queen Victoria’s time, and it is usually between nine and twelve in the morning.

6. Great Britain is the largest island in British Isles and it is composed of fours parts including England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

7. The Celtic language was a spoken language and it is still heard in parts of Scotland.

8. During Easter Day, people will eat eggs and chicks.

III. Explain the following terms.

1. The Buckingham Palace

2. The Stonehenge

3. British Commonwealth

4. The Union Jack

5. British Isles

6. St. Patrick’s Day

7. The BBC

8. God Save the Queen

IV. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. What is the position of modern Britain in the world?

2. How are people in the UK divided into different classes? What are some of the main features in the division?

3. What are the differences among the British Isles, the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England?