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(For SFL Students) Revision Aid *Note: The sole purpose of this Revision Aid is to help the students sum up what they have learned during the semester. But, there is no guarantee that the items in the final exam paper are a hundred percent from these items listed below. * * * I. Decide whether each of the following is True or False: (1% each; total, 20%) 1. Most British people are Catholics. ______ 2. 70% of the UK’s workforce is employed in the nation’s service industries. ______ 3. The UK’s Island of Great Britain has three component parts of the country on it: England, Wales and Northern Scotland. ______ 4. Dublin is the capital city of Northern Ireland. ______ 5. In Britain, the political party which wins in a general election forms the government. ______ 6. Easter is the biggest and best loved British holiday. ______ 7. Secrecy is an important part of the voting process. ______ 8. Northern Ireland is still referred to, by some, as Ulster, which was once an ancient Irish Kingdom. ______ 9. IRA stands for the Independent Republican Administration. ______ 10. In the UK, a government can usually stand for four years. ______ 11. British universities, except one, are public bodies and receive funds from the central government. ______ 12. Geoffrey Chaucer is the first court poet to write in English. ______ 13. “There are no legal restraints upon Parliament.” Therefore, the MPs are allowed to do whatever they please. ______ 14. Francis Bacon’s book Essays made essay-writing popular in English. ______ 15. According to Britain’s education system today, public schools belong to the private sector. ______ 16. People know about Northern Ireland today because of its political troubles. ______ 17. Britain’s agriculture produces 14% of the country’s national wealth. ______ 18. Edinburgh is not the capital city of Wales. ______ 19. Today, Britain is no longer an imperial country. ______ 20. Tennis is usually rega