最新英语国家社会与文化入门上册第三版汇编.docx

1、最新英语国家社会与文化入门上册第三版汇编第一单元1、Britain is no longer an imperial（帝国） country(T)2、The Commonwealth（英联邦） of Nations includes all European countries(F)3、1 in 10 of the British population are of non-European ethnicity（种族）(F)4、The stereotype（刻板印象） of the English gentleman never applied to the majority of the B

2、ritish people(T)5、When people outside the UK talk about England, they mistake it as Britain sometimes(T)6、The Scots and Welsh（苏格兰和威尔士） have a strong sense of being British(F)7、Scotland（苏格兰） was never conquered by the Romans（罗马人）(T)8、Most people in Scotland speak the Celtic（凯尔特） language, called “Gae

3、lic”(F)9、Scotland was unified with England through peaceful means(T)10、Wales（威尔士） is rich in coal（煤炭） deposits（存款）(T)11、Cardiff（卡迪夫）, the capital of Wales, is a large city(F)12、The title of Prince（王子） of Wales is held by a held by a Welsh according to tradition(F)第二单元1、Ireland is part of Great Brita

4、in(F)2、“Ulster（阿尔斯特）”, referring to Northern Ireland, was once an ancient Irish Kingdom（王国）(T)3、The capital of Belfast（贝尔法斯特） is a large city with half a million people(F)4、Northern Ireland is significant（重要的） because of its manufacturing（制造业） industry(F)5、The majority of Irish people were descendan

5、ts（后代） of the original Celtic（凯尔特） people who inhabited British Isles（群岛） before the Romans arrived 2000 years ago(T)6、Most British people are Protestants（新教徒） while most Irish people are Catholics（天主教徒）(T)7、The British government does not have direct rule from London over Northern Ireland(T)8、Sinn

6、Fein（新芬党） is a legal political party in Northern Ireland(T)9、The Anglo-Irish（岗格鲁-爱尔兰） Agreement of 1985 guaranteed the loyalist（政府军） Protestant community（社区） their to decide their future in Northern Ireland(T)10、The Good Friday Agreement（协议） was approved on 10 April 1998(T)11、Northern Ireland today

7、is governed by separate jurisdictions（司法管辖区）: thatf Republic（共和国） of Ireland that of Great Britain(F)第三单元1、It is no doubt that Britain is the oldest representative democracy（民主） in the world(F)2、In Britain, the process of state-building（国家建设） has been one of evolution rather than revolution, contras

8、t to France and the US（与法国和美国相比）(T)3、The oldest institution（机构） of government in Britain is the Monarchy（君主政体）(T)4、The divine（神圣的） right of the king means the sovereign（主权） derived（派生的） his authority（权威） from his subjects（主题）(F)5、As the king in theory had God on his side, it was thought that he shou

9、ld exercise absolute（绝对） power(F)6、The term “parliament（议会）” was first officially used in 1066 to describe the gathering of feudal barons（封建贵族） and representatives from counties and towns(F)7、Britain is both a parliamentary democracy（议会民主制） and a constitutional monarchy（君主立宪制）(T)8、Britain, like Isra

10、el, has a written constitution of the sort which most countries have(F)9、Common laws are laws which have been established（建立） through common practice（实践） in the courts（法院）(T)第四单元1、In the UK, a government cannot stand for longer than five years except in exceptional circumstances（情况下）(T)2、Anyone who

11、is eligible（符合条件的） to vote with 500 pounds as deposit（存款） can stand as an MP（国会议员）(F)3、Each main party is given some time on national TV to “sell” their policies. The time is not given free and has to be paid by the party(T)4、The amount spent in national campaign（运动） is not limited other than that o

12、n TV(F)5、Secrecy（保密） is not an important part of the voting process(T)6、There are two major national parties in the U.K. according to the text(F)7、Liberal Democratic（自由民主） party is the newest of the major national parties(F)8、Children from the upper-middle-class（中上层阶级） usually have a better educatio

13、n than those from the working or middle-class(T)9、The majority of middle-class people today have working class parents or grandparents(T)10、One of the distinctive features（独特的特征） about the British class-system is that it has also retained（保留） a hereditary aristocracy（世袭的贵族）(T)11、The majority of Brit

14、ains recent immigrants have mainly come from North Asia（北亚） and Caribbean（加勒比） countries(F)12、Most immigrants earn a living by opening restaurants or becoming musicians(F)13、The majority have problems of unemployment published its Household Energy Management Strategy（家庭能源管理策略）(T)14、On March 2, 2010,

15、 the British government publish its Household Energy Management Strategy(T)15、On December 27, 2009 the TN Climate（气候） Change Conference was held in Copenhagen(T)16、According to the Kyoto Protocol（京都议定书）, the government has agreed that the UK will meet tough targets（艰难的目标） to reduce carbon emissions

16、incrementally（增量） between now and 2020(F)第五单元1、By the 1880s the British economy was dominant（主导） in the world(T)2、Both the US and Canada overtook Britain in economy by 1900(F)3、By the end of World War II, Britain had gone heavily into debt（债务） in order to develop its manufacturing industry and borro

17、wed large amounts from the US and France(F)4、Another reason for British decline is the loss of its colonies（殖民地）, especially India, which gained its independence in 1947(T)5、In the 1970s, with the soaring（飙升的） price of oil and high rates of inflation（通货膨胀）, Britain went through a bad period. In 1979

18、, the Labour party had to step down（下台） from the government (T)6、The leader of the Conservatives（保守派）, Margaret Thatcher（玛格丽特-撒切尔） started a series of reforms. An extensive（广泛的） programme of privatization（私有的） was carried out, and she was successful in an all-round（全面的） way (F)7、Tertiary（三级） industr

19、ies include banking, insurance（保险）, tourism（旅游）, agriculture and the selling of goods (F)8、Britain has a large sector（部门） of agriculture producing 11.6% of its national wealth (F)9、According to the text, the tertiary（三级） industry produces approximately（大约） two-thirds of the national wealth (T)10、The

20、 service industry in the UK employs 70% of the total work force (T)11、As a member of the World Trade Organization, the UK is playing a very important role in the world trade (T)12、The UK is the third biggest international investor（投资者） in the world (F)第六单元1、Much early British literature was concerne

21、d with Christianity（基督教）, and Anglo-Saxons（盎格鲁-撒克逊人） produced many versions（版本） of the Bible（圣经） (T)2、Beowulf（贝奥武夫） was a sea monster（海怪） killed by a Swedish warrior（瑞典战士） (F)3、“The Wife of Bath（浴的妻子）” is one of the tales（故事） contained in The Canterbury Tales（坎特伯雷故事集） (T)4、There was a general flower

22、ing of culture and intellectual（知识） life in Europe during the 17th and 18th century which is known as “The Renaissance（文艺复兴时期）” (F)5、William Shakespeare（威廉莎士比亚） is a great poet and much is known of his life (F)6、Keats, Shelley and Byron（济慈、雪莱和拜伦） brought the Romantic Movement（浪漫主义运动） to its height (

23、T)7、Robinson Crusoe（鲁宾逊漂流记） tells the story of a shipwreck and solitary survival（海难和孤独的生存） (T)8、Writers of romantic literature（浪漫主义文化） are more concerned with imagination and feeling than with the power of reason (T)9、Don Juan（唐璜） is an epic poem（史诗） composed by John Milton（约翰弥尔顿） (F)10、Thomas Hardy

24、（托马斯哈代）, the author of Tess of the DUrbervilles（德伯家的苔丝）, was also a first-class（一流的） poet (T)第七单元1、The purpose of British education is not only to provide children with literacy（读写能力） and the other basic skills but also to socialize（社交） children (T)2、The state seldom interferes（干扰） with the decision

25、 of when, where, how and what children are taught (F)3、The enduring feature（持久特征） of British education is the continuing debate over what should be taught in schools (F)4、The 1944 Education Act made entry to secondary schools（中学） and universities “meritocratic（精英）” (T)5、Public schools are part of th

26、e national education system and funded by the government (F)6、British universities are public bodies which receive funds from central government (T)7、All secondary schools in Britain are run and supervised（监督） by the government (T)8、In Oxford and Cambridge the BA converts to an MA several years late

27、r, upon payment of a fee (T)9、Independent schools get money mainly through the private sector（部门） and tuition（学费 ） rates, with some government support (T)10、Grammar schools select children at the age of 11 and provide them with a general education (F)第八单元1、When the Second World War ended, Britain no

28、 longer was the largest military（军事） power in Western Europe (F)2、The UK was awarded（授予） a seat on the UN（联合国） Security Council（安理会） in recognition（识别） of its contribution in setting up the United Nations (F)3、According to the text, the most important single factor which influences British policy-ma

29、ker is its history (T)4、The Prime Minister and Cabinet（内阁） decide on the general direction of Britains foreign policy (T)5、The main government department involved is the Foreign and Commonwealth Office（外交和联邦事务部）(FCO) (T)6、Britain is a parliamentary monarch（议会君主） (F)7、There are about 60 members of th

30、e Commonwealth（英联邦） (F)8、The British host a large American Military（军事） presence and there are 63 American military bases in the UK (T)9、Britain is not a member of the NATO（北约） due to its disagreement with some European countries on defence policy (F)第九单元1、On an average day, an overwhelming（压倒性的） ma

31、jority of Britons over the age of 15 red a nation or local paper（报纸） (T)2、The British media play an important role in shaping（塑造） a national culture (T)3、In the late seventeenth and early 18th century, as the British economy began to industrialise, and as literacy levels rose through the introductio

32、n of mass education, more and newspapers began to appear (F)4、Free press has the function of keeping an eye on the government, and therefore it is called the watchdog（监管机构） of parliamentary democracy（议会民主制） (T)5、The Advertising Code（广告代码） ensures that advertisements are legal, decent（体面地）, honest and truthful; have a sense of responsibility for consumer and society; and respect the principles of fair competition（竞争） (T)6、It is incorrect to say that class and educatio