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28. The ultimate court of appeal in civil cases throughout the UK is _______.
29. In Britain the welfare state applies mainly to _____, national insurance and ______. 30. The two established churches in Britain are ____ and _____.
31. Education in the UK is compulsory for all between the ages of (______ in Northen Ireland) and _____.
32. In the past children in Britain were allocated to different secondary schools on the basis of selection tests known as _______, which was replaced by ______. 33. Education after 16 in the UK is divided into _____ and ______.
34. The most-known universities in Britain are _____ and _____ which date from the _____ and _____ centuries.
35. In ____, Alaska and Havaii became the 49th and 50th states.
36. In the Great Lakes, only _____ belongs to U.S. completely while the other four are shared with Ganada.
37. _______ is separated from the main land by Canada.
38. The Rockies, the backbone of the North American Continent, is also known as _____. 39. _____ is the largest continental state in area in the U.S.
40. The West can be divided into three parts: the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains and _____. 41. The South is the headquarters of a large segment of the ______ and ________ industry. 42. New England is sometimes called the ______ of America.
43. _______ is considered to be one of the characteristics of the American people since one in five moves to a new home every year.
44. The first blacks were brought to north America as slaves in _____. 45. The largest group of Asian-Americans are the ______. II. Fill in the blanks:
1. highlands, lowlands 2. west 3. Anglo-Saxons, Celts 4. Jutes, Saxons, Angles, Angles 5. Hastings 6. feudal 7. Domesday Book, 1086 8. Thomas Becket 9. Black Death, two 10. yeomen 11. the Divine Right of Kings 12. the king, the Parliament 13. Commonwealth, Lord Protector 14. Union, Scotland 15. Whigs Tories Liberal Conservative 16. James Watt steam engine 17. workship 18. Winston Churchill
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19. oil 20. the North Sea 21. Scotland 22. microprocessors and computer, biotechnology 23. Opposition, shadow 24. the Queen, No. 10 Downing 25. country councils, district councils 26. innocence 27. 12, 15 28. the House of Lords 29. the National Health Service, social security 30. the Church of England, the Church of Scotland 31. 5, 4, 16 32. eleven-plus, comprehensive schools 33. further education, high education
34. Oxford, Cambridge, 12th, 13th 35. 1959 36. Lake Michigan 37. Alaska 38. the Continental Divide 39. Texas 40. the Intermountain Basin and Plateau 41. rocket/missile 42. birthplace 43. Mobility 44. 1619 45. Chinese-Americans III. Explain the following terms. 1. the Hardian’s Wall: 2. Alfred the Great 3. William the Conqueror 4. the battle of Hastings 5. Domesday Book 6. the Great Charter 7. the Hundred Years’ War 8. Joan of Arc 9. the Black Death 10. the Wars of Roses 11. Bloody Mary 12. Elizabeth I 13. Oliver Cromwell 14. the Bill of Rights 15. Whigs and Tories 16. James Watt 17. Winston Churchill 18. Agribusiness
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19. the British Constitution 20. Queen Elizabeth II 21. the Opposition 22. the Privy Council 23. common law 24. the jury 25. the NHS
26. comprehensive schools 27. public schools 28. the Great Lakes 29. New England 30. baby boom
31. the Chinese Exclusion Act 32. the Bill of Rights
33. the Emancipation Proclamation 34. the Constitutional Convention 35. the Progressive Movement 36. the Peace Conference 37. the Truman Doctrine: 38. the Marshall Plan 39. the New Frontier 40. checks and balances:
IV. Answer briefly the following questions:
1. What do you know about the Roman invasion of Britain?
2. Why did the William the Conqueror invade England after Edward’s death?
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3. What were the consequences of the Norman Conquest?
4. What were the contents and the significance of the Great Charter? 5. What do you know about the English Renaissance? 6. Why did the Restoration take place?
7. How did the “Glorious Revolution” break out? What was the significance of it? 8. What is your comment on land enclosures in England? 9. How did the English Industrial Revolution proceed?
10. What do you know about the Chartist Movement and the People’s Charter? What’s your comment on them?
11. How did the Labour Party come into being?
12. What is a constitutional monarchy? When did it begin in Britain? 13. What is the role of the Monarchy in the British government? 14. What are the main functions of Parliament?
15. Why do the criminal convicts like to be tried first before the magistrates’ courts? 16. What does the civil courts system do?
17. What is meant by the term “welfare state” in Britain?
18. What is the most important established Church in Britain? How is it related to the Crown and linked with the State?
19. What distinguishes the Open University from all other British Universities? 20. Say something about the three immigration waves.
21. Why did the early settlers come to America? Who were the Pilgrims? Who were the Puritans? What were the features in the colonial period which had influence on later American development? 22. What were the causes of the War of Independence?
23. What was unusual about the Article of Confederation? What was the struggle at the Constitutional Convention? How was the conflict solved? 24. Why did the Civil War break out? How did the war end?
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