大学英语英美文学复习资料BritishandAmericancultures.doc

British and American cultures Part 1 The full name of the United Kingdom is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Notthern Ireland . The Romans first landed in Britain in the year of 55BC The Scots are well-known for being ________,_________,___________and _______. People began to settle in Britain about 5000 years ago. Name two famous Scottish writers: Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott; two Irish writers: James Toys and ___________. It would be difficult to find anyone in modern Britain who could say with certainty that his ancestors had not come to the British Isles from somewhere else. This sentence means that everyone in Britain had come from the British Isles. Almost everyone had come to the British Isles from somewhere else. Almost everyone had his or her family origin from the British Isles. Almost everyone had his or her family origin from somewhere else. The Highlanders in Scotland are known for being proud tough independent generous Which of the above is not true? Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Englishman? The Englishman is outspoken. He is class-conscious He is suspicious of change He is racist. Who introduced Christianity into Britain? The Celts The Romans The Viking Danes The French Angles, Saxon and Jutes were the three Germanic tribes that came to be the basis of modern English race. _________ were a series of wars in which armies from all over Europe tried to seize Palestine from the Muslims. Vasco da Gama and Columbus were the two famous sailors who started the age of discovery. The Origin of Species was written by Charles Darwin. In the early 1930s, the Great Stump brought poverty and humiliation to millions of people in America and Europe. After World War I, an international body called Economic Crisis was formed, and after World War II, another international organization UN was founded. The Industrial Revolution owed a great deal to the invention of printing George Stephenson’s famous locomotive, the ‘Rocket’ The inve