Unit1.（选择、判断、填空）
1.The flag of Britain : Union Jack 2.The capital of each country : England London Scotland Edinburgh
Wales Cardiff Northern Belfast Ireland
3.The time joining the British parliament:
However, in 1707 by agreement of the English and Scottish parliaments, Scotland joined the Union.
4.Difference between the British Isles ,UK, Great Britain , and England:
? British Isles:
the island of Great Britain the island of Ireland surrounding isles
? UK=Great Britain + Northern Ireland
? Great Britain =England +Scotland + Wales
5.The four major invasions in the history of Great Britain :
At first, England was occupied by Celtic people.
Then in 43AD Britain was invaded by the Roman empire.
Result: England and Wales became a part of the Roman empire for nearly 400 years.
the Angle-Saxon invaded.
Result: The land they lived became\Angle-land\changed into England, the language they spoken became English.
the Vikings invaded.
Result in a certain cultural divide between northerners and southerners in England, which can be expressed as \
the Normans , William of Normandy invaded this country.
Result: This marks the last time that an army from outside the British Isles succeeded in invading
London: (P18)
Unit2（选择、判断、填空）
Northern Ireland (often called \
1.Activities to seek Irish independence :
? Home -rule
? The Easter Rising of 1916: was the most spectacular event, in which the rebels
took over Dublin's Post Office, forcing the British to retake it by military means.
2.Political parties:
? the Sinn Fein party legal ? SDLP: Social Democratic and Labour Party ? IRA: Irish Republican Army (illegal)
3.Political troubles in Northern Ireland (famous):
? Indigenous Roman Catholics vs. Protestant immigrates
? Partition(分割) : The southern 26 counties would form an independent \
state\ (即26 Republic Ireland ,6 Northern Ireland )
4.the Good Friday Agreement :(了解下，P36)
Unit 3
1.Process of state building:
The process of state-building has been one of evolution rather than revolution.
2.The oldest institution of government in Britain :
Britain is both a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy.
3.Divine right of kings :
It was held that the sovereign derived his authority from God, not from his subjects.
4.Magna Carta :
limits on the king's ability to abuse his royal power.
5.the Bill of Rights :
ensured that the King would never be able to ignore Parliament. ( William of Orange 时期)
6.The Constitution :(P49)
7.The functions of parliament :（P49）
8.Parliament:
? The queen : (symbolised ,traditional )
She is legally head of the executive, an integral part of the legislature, head of the judiciary, commander in chief of the armed forces and \Church of England，a confidante to the Prime Minister（了解下）
? The House of Lords ： do not receive salaries ，both sexist and elitist (了解下) Lords Spiritual hereditary peers Lords Temporal life peers
? The House of Commons (P49) 重要
Unit4
1.The importance of general elections:(P67) 重要 2.The electoral campaigns :(P67)
3.The formation of the government :(P67) 4.The class system in the UK:(P67) 5.Ethnic relations in the UK:(P67) 了解下
6.The main political parties in the UK:
? The Conservative party (newest) : setting up the National Health Service
? The Labour party: From 1979 to 1997, the Conservative Party won 4 elections in row ? The Liberal Democrats: a party of the \
Margaret-Thatcher 改革(There were also negative consequences) 了解下
Unit5(判断、选择、填空)
1、Absolute Decline
2、Relative Decline of the UK economy: (P81) 重要
3、the reason for its relative decline :(了解下)
the country had gone heavily into debt in order to finance the war the era of empire was over Large military expenses
Outdated industries and less-competitive products
A lack of close relationship between industry and banks
4.The division of British industries :
Primary industries (mining industry 矿业) Secondary industries (steelindustry钢铁业)
Tertiary industries (insurance 保险， the selling of goods)
5.The City: The name given to the historic area at the centre of London
6.The London Stock Exchange: The heart of the City
（伦敦的中心是伦敦城，伦敦城的中心是伦敦证券交易所）
Unit6（填空、选择、判断）
1.Beowulf :
One of the oldest of these early \Anglo-Saxon times called Beowulf.
2.Geoffrey Chaucer：The Canterbury Tales
3.Elizabethan Drama:
Marlowe ： The Tragical History of Dr Faustus
William Shakespeare ： Romeo and Juliet The Taming of the Shrew Hamlet A Midsummer Night's Dream tragedies Othello comedies Twelfth Night （重要） King Lear The Tempest Macbeth.
history plays：Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V. Julius Caesar， Antony and Cleopatra
4.The 17th Century:
John Milton : Paradise Lost
5.The 18th Century:
Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels
6.The Romantic Period:
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge：Lyrical Ballads （marked the beginning of the Romantic Period. ）
George Gordon, Lord Byron Three men John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
7.The Nineteenth Century Novel: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Emma
Charlotte : Jane Eyre the Bronte sisters Emily: Wuthering Heights Ann
Elizabeth Gaskell : North and South Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Great Expectations
The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’Urbervilles Jude the Obscure
8.Female writers in the 19th century of Britain: Mary Shelley Jane Austen
the Bronte sisters Elizabeth Gaskell
9.20th Century Literature :
Twentieth century literature can be broadly divided into two stylistic periods: Modernism, and Postmodernism.
Joseph Conrad ： The Heart of Darkness Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Orlando
A Room of One's Own D. H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers