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Chapter 3

1.Conventions are regarded less important than common law in the working of the British government. )

2.The British monarchy has never been interrupted throughout the history.( )

3.In reality,the British King or Queen is the source of all government powers.(

4.British Parliament is the law--making body of the Commonwealth of Nations.

5.Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal are all members in the British Upper House.( )

6.The members in the House of Commons are appointed rather than elected. )

7.The British Prime Minister is the leader of the majority party in Parliament.( )

8.Cabinet members are chosen by the Prime Minister from various political parties in Parliament.(

9.British law consists of two parts,the civil law and the criminal law.(

10.The legal systems in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are much similar in terms of law, organization and practice.(

Chapter 4

1.Britain was the first industrialized nation in the world.( )

2.The British economy experienced a relative decline during the postwar period. )

3.Limited resources and high unemployment rate were persistent problems that prevented rapid economic development in Britain.(

4.Thatcher's revolution turned out to be a great success in dealing with all the British econimic and social problems.( )

5.The economic approach adopted by Tony Blair is different from that of the Labor party and the Conservative Party.( )

6.Blair made the Bank of England independent in order to separate politics and economic policy.( )

7.Britain is the world's leading exporter of poultry and dairy products.( )

8.The fishing industry provides more than 50%of Britain's demand for fish.(

9.Britain is an important oil exporter since its oil industry has a long history.( )

10.Nuclear power is one of the major energy sources in Britain.( )

Chapter 5

1.The British government has been responsible for education since the early 1800s.(

2.Education in Britain is compulsory for all children between the ages of 6 and 15.( )

3.The National Curriculum is compulsory in both the state system and the independent system.( )

4.When children finish their schooling at 16, they are required to take a national GCSE examination.( )

5.Graduates from state schools in Britain have a less favorable chance to enter famous universities than those from independent schools.( )

6.In the 1960s, a large number of new universities were founded in Britain.( )

7.Most British people begin their day with reading the morning newspaper and end it watching television in the evening. )

8.The Times is the world's oldest national newspaper( )

9.The BBC World Service broadcasts only in English throughout the world.( )

10.Some British holidays are celebrated to mark the important events of the Christian calendar, and others are related to local customs and traditions. )

Chapter 6

1.The Canterbury Tales is a representative work of the Old English Period.(

2.Renaissance is characterized by admiration of the Greek and Latin classics.( )

3.Hamlet depicts the hero's struggle with two opposing forces: moral integrity and the need to avenge his father's murder.(

4.Alexander Pope was a great English poet who also translated Homer's Iliad.( )

5.Jonathan Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and Robinson Crusoe is his masterpiece.( )

6.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge brought the Romantic Movement to its height.( )

7.Lord Byron distinguished himself by the musical quality of his short poems, such as "Ode to the West Wind".( )

8.Jane Austen was a well--known novelist of the stream of consciousness school.(

9.Joseph Conrad is classified as a forerunner of Modernism, which prevailed before World War II.( )

10.V.S.Naipaul detailed in his works the dual problems of the Third World: the oppression of colonialism and the chaos of postcolonialism.( )

Chapter 7

1.The Republic of Ireland occupies the entire area of the island of Ireland.( )

2.The earliest inhabitants in Ireland were Celtic tribes from Europe.( )

3.In the 1800s, Ireland gained in prosperity because it became a part of Britain.( )

4.In the 1930s, Ireland was not indeed a republic,but belonged to the Commonwealth of Nations.( )

5.To support the government's neutrality in World War II, there was no Irishman participating in the war.( )

6.With the help of Britain, Ireland entered the EEC in 1973 without difficulties.( )

7.In 1949, Britain recognized the independence of the Irish Republic and returned the six northern countries.( )

8.In Ireland, both the House of Representatives and the Senate have the power of making laws.( )

9.English is the only official language in Ireland, because the majority of people speak it as their tongue. )

10.Catholicism in Ireland is more than a mere matter of private faith.(

Chapter 8

1.The eastern highlands formed by the Appalachians hold one third of the country's continental territory. )

2.The climate in the United States can be classified as temperate,with some mild subtropical and tropical zones.( )

3.Almost through the middle of the United States, north to south,runs a well--known 50-centimeter rainfall line.(

4.New York is the commercial and financial center of the United States , and it is composed of five boroughs including Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island, and Queens. )

5.San Francisco is the second largest city after New York and the world famous Hollywood and Disneyland are located here.( )

6.Half of the U.S. Population lives in the western metropolitan centers.(

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