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1、What do you know about the Wars of the Roses in English history ? 2、How do you comment on the Open University ? 3、What do you know about the Hundred Years War in English history ? 4、How do you describe the land features of Great Britain ? 5、Do you think Britain has a changeable weather ? Why ? 6、What was the significance of the Great Charter ? 7、What were the distinctive features of the English Renaissance ? 8、What do you know about the Glorious Revolution ? 9、Why was Britain the first country to start the Industrial Revolution ? 10、What is the constitutional monarchy ? What is the primary function of Parliament ? 答案 1、The Wars of the Roses were a series of civil wars fought in medieval England from 1455 to 1485 between House of Lancaster and House of York.The key to the English recovery following the Wars of the Roses had been Henry VIIs concentration upon domestic stability and financial prudence. 2、A British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school 3、A remarkable and engrossing account of medieval Englands epic conflict with France.From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those hundred years won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. The protagonists of the Hundred Years War are among the most colorful in European history: Edward III, the Black Prince; Henry V, who was later immortalized by Shakespeare; the splendid but inept John II, who died a prisoner in London; Charles V, who very nearly overcame England; and the enigmatic Charles VII, who at last drove the English out. Desmond Sewards critically-acclaimed account of the Hundred Years War brings to life all of the intrigue, beauty, and royal to-the-death-fighting of that legendary century-long conflict. 4、Britain is, a nation, which can be divided