【试题资料】英国概况习题库及答案5.docVIP

Answers to III. Blank Filling: Introduction: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland England; Scotland; Wales European Union Multiracial; non-European Britain’s; center; the three; the world Chapter 1 four, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland the Roman empire, Vikings, the Normans the 5th London, government, economy, culture overrule the parliament Glasgow, Edinburgh Scotland 72, 38 Edinburgh, beauty British, investment, America Chapter 2 1914; the First World War the Easter Rising; Post Office; military means parliament; dominance; a Civil Rights; equality Official; political process; election Provisional; armed force paramilitary; Catholics trial; internment “political prisoners”; give in; 11 civil rights march; British soldiers; Bloody Sunday pressure; solution political; Ireland; the Bullet and the Ballot Box a cease fire; the SDLP; Sinn Fein Sinn Fein; the IRA the Royal Ulster Constabulary Chapter 3 King Egbert the sovereign derived his authority from God, not from his subjects roundheads; royalists/cavaliers John; Magna Carta the Great Council the Bill of Rights the Prime Minister the Queen; the House of Commons statute law; the common laws; conventions pass laws the Queen; the House of Lords; the House of Commons Windsor Castle; Buckingham Palace the Prime Minister; the sovereign male/patrilineal Chapter 4 651; the parliament the government; the Prime Minister 5 vote of no confidence the list of citizens eligible to vote percentage of vote constituency campaign opinion polls the Conservative party; the Labour party; the Liberal Democrats the National Health Service John Major; Tony Blair Chapter 5 India; raw materials domestic industrial investment; overseas investment a relative; an absolute the International Monetary Fund Margaret Thatcher; privatization international direct investment primary; tertiary/service BSE disease North Sea drug; ICI The London Stock Exchange jet engine Chapter 6 Beowulf The Canterbury Tales tragedies; comedi