英美文化课本习题答案.doc

1、1 英美文化教材习题答案 Britain 1. Who are the British ? 1.the Scottish Highlanders: They are the Scots who live in the mountain areas of the Highlands in Northern Scotland. They are a proud, independent and hardy people who maintain their strong cultural identity. 2.the British Isles: The British Isles lie no

2、rthern of Europe in the Atlantic Ocean. They consist of two large islands-Britain and Ireland and several small islands. 3.the National Eisteddfod: Eisteddfod is the Welsh word for “sitting”. National Eisteddfod is the most famous festival of music and verse in Wales. It takes place each August and

3、lasts for about a week. The highlight of the Eisteddfod is a competition for the best epic poem about Wales written and read in Welsh. The winner is crowned Bard, considered the supreme honor in Wales. 4.Bard: “Bard” originally denoted the grouping epic poem to the Celtic leaders or warriors for the

4、ir great achievement. Now, it roughly means the respected poetry. 5.Northern Ireland (Ulster): A section of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Northern Ireland, located in the northeast of the Ireland, the capital of which is Belfast. 6.Oliver Cromwell: Oliver Cromwell was the Roundhead lea

5、der during the English Civil War. He defeated King Charles and condemned him to death. The monarchy was overthrown, and the country became for more than ten years a republic. 7.William : the protestant King (参见 P10-11) 8.The Orange Day celebrations: celebrations held by Protestants on 12 August each

6、 year in North Ireland to commemorate the Battle of the Royne in 1690 when the Protestant King William of Orange crushed a Catholic rebellion in Londonderry. The celebrations were always aggressively provocative and fightings often broke out between Protestant marches and Catholic bystanders. 9.The

7、Provisional IRA: IRA, the Irish Reputation Army, is a nationalist organization dedicated to the unification of Ireland. It was organized in1919. The IRA refused to accept a separate Northern Ireland under British rule. In 1969 it split into an “official” majority, which disclaimed violence, and a te

8、rrorist “provisional” wing, whose attacks on British troops in Northern Ireland, random bombings, and others acts of terror in England kept tensions high. 2 10. The Peace People: In the summer of 1976 Betty Williams, a Protestant housewife, was so horrified at the killing fo two children by a runnin

9、g IRA car that she decided to organize the women of Ulster, both Protestant and Catholic, into a pressure group. It is a pressure group working for peace and reconciliation in Ireland. Williams and her Catholic partner, Corrigan, soon gathered thousands of followers despite threats and intimidation

10、from both sides. They continued to pursue their aims and at the end of 1976 the two leaders were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. 1. The full name of the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Northern Ireland. 2. The Romans first landed in Britain in the year of 55BC. 3. Th

11、e Scots are well-known for being inventive, hard-working, serious minded and cautious with money. 4. Two of the Welsh characteristics are cultural pride and their love of music and poetry. 5. People began to settle in about 10,000 years ago. 6. Name two famous Scottish writers: Robert Burns and Sir

12、Walter Scottor, two Welsh writers: Dylan Thomas and Gwyn Thomas; and two Irish writers: Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde. 7. Angles, Saxons and Jutes were the three Germanic tribes that came to be the basis of modern English race. DDBAB 2. English History 1. Exercise book Page29 1 2. Page29 2 3. Page2

13、9 3 4. Page29 6 5. Page30 9 6. Henry Textbook P28 2nd para. 7. Elizabeth Textbook P29 1st para. 8. Divine Right Textbook P30 2nd para. (可忽略 ) 9. Page33 22 10. Victorianism 3 1. The Crusades 2. Columbus, Vasco da Gama 3. the Middle ages 4. the Parliament, the King Charles 5. Charles Darwin 6. the Gre

14、at Depression 7. the League of Nations, United Nations DBBCD 4.British Government System I. 1. 学习手册 63页 III.1 2. 学习手册 65页 III.9 3. 学习手册 65页 III.10 4. 学习手册 64页 III.3 5. 学习手册 64页 III.4 6. 学习手册 64页 III.7 7. 学习手册 64页 III.5 II. 1. Elizabeth the Second 2. On Her Majestys Service 3. the Most Order of the G

15、arter 4. In her role as head of the Church of England 5. Acts of Parliament; the Prerogative of the Crown; Conventions of the Constitution; Common law; Parliamentary Privilege 6. Five, 635 7. The Crown; the House of Lords; the House of Commons 8. Parliament 9. The final court of appeal in civil case

16、s and criminal cases, except criminal cases in Scotland. 10. To make laws; to control and criticize the executive government; 4 to control the raising and the spending of money 11. The Lord Chancellor 12. Her ministers 13. Parliament; Cabinet; the House of Commons; Parliament III. BCADCA IV. 1.课本 P6

17、8 第二段 2.课本 P75 第二，四段 P74 第三段 3.课本 P76 4.课本 P78 第一段 5.课本 P81 第三段 6.课本 P73 7.课本 P78 第一，二段 5. Industry, Agriculture and Business 1.Exercise book Page80 1 2.P80 2 3.P81 6 4.P82 8 5.Special development area: Textbook P101 2nd para. 6.P81 3 7.P81 4 8.P81 7 1. coal, water power 2. the Second World War, the

18、 Bank of England, coal, civil aviation 3. the Second World War, Labour 4. a nation of shop-keepers 5. the discovery and exploitation of oil and gas in the North Sea. ADCAA 6. English Literature 5 I. 1.学习手册 96页 . III.2 2.学习手册 96页 . III.3 3.学习手册 96页 . III.4 4.学习手册 97页 . III.5 5.课本 124页 . 第二，三段 6.学习手册

19、96页 . III.7 7.学习手册 96页 . III.8 II. 1. Beowulf; the 6th 2.their Viking raiders swept into Britain 3.the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; The Roman invasion of Britain in 54B.C. The middle of the 12th century 4. Chaucer; Shakespeare; Milton 5. Thomas More; Utopia 6. Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Othello; The Tempes

20、t; Twelfth Nights; As You Like It; Richard III; Richard II; Julius Caesar 7. The Essays 8. Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes 9. Pilgrims Progress 10. Jonathan Swift 11. His poems London and The Vanity of Human Wishes 12. Robert Burns 13. Robinson Cruise 14. William Wordsworth; Samue

21、l Taylor Coleridge; Lord Byron; John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelley 15. Jane Austen; Anne Bronte; Emily Bronte 16. Louis Stevenson; Lewis Carroll; William Makepeace Thackeray; David Copper field; Oliver Twist; George Eliot; Oscar Wilde; The Return of the Nation; Jude the Obscure 6 17. James Joyce; Ulys

22、ses 18. George Bernard Shaw III. DBCAADAADD IV. 1.课本 P115-116 2.课本 P122-123 3.课本 P133 4.课本 P135 第二，三段 8.Religion and Beliefs Explain the following in English: 全部在学习手册 P109. Fill the blanks: 1) Roman Catholic; Protestant 2) The Old Testament; the New Testament. 3) Queen; the Archbishop of Canterbury.

23、 4) God; Jesus; the Holy Spirit. 5) Presbyterian 6) The Pope in Rome and the church or priesthood. 7) The Presbyterian; the Methodist Church; the Congregational Church; the Baptist Church; the Quakers. 8) Humbler forms of life. Answer the questions: 1) 学习手册 P106 13、 14题 2) P146 第三段 3) P148 第二段 4) P1

24、50 第一段 9.Education Explain the following in English: 1) 2) 3) 6) 7) 8)是学习手册 P140、 P141 和 P142 的 1.3.4.7.8.11 题 4) 5)在书本 P171 第二段 Fill the blanks: 7 1) 5;15. 2) Christmas; Easter; summer. 3) The selective; the comprehensive 4) Eton; Harrow; Rugby. 5) About three-quarters of income of Britain Universi

25、ty. 6) Oxford; Cambridge. 7) St Andrews; Glasgow (or Aberdeen; Edinburgh) 8) Oxford. 9) Leeds; Lancaster (any acceptable answers are correct) 10) Exclusiveness. Tick the correct answer in each of the following: A C D D Answer the questions: 1) Both educational and social grounds 2) P171 第二段 3) 学习手册

26、P148 或 P137 的 24题 4) 书本 P174 最后一段和 P175 最开头一段 5) 课本 P175-177 6) The college system and the tutorial system. 7) P178 最后一段 11.The press, Radio and Television Explain the following in English: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 在学习手册 P166 6)书本 P198 第二段的 7)书本 P204 第三段 Fill the blanks: 1) the smallness of the country 2) Qua

27、lity paper; popular paper. 3) The Times; The Guardian; the Daily Telegraph; Daily Mail; Daily Mirror; Sun. 4) Thomson 8 5) The Conservative Party; the Liberal Party 6) Daily Telegraph 7) The Sunday Times; Observer. 8) Daily Mirror; The Sun. Tick the correct answer in each of the following: D B C B A

28、 Answer the questions: 1) 学习手册 P174 2) 书本 P201 最后一段 书本 P206 最后一段 9 America 1. Atlantic to Pacific . 1.学习手册第 196 页 2.课本第 237页 2nd para. 3.学习手册第 197 页 4.课本第 237页 1st para & 第 246页注释 17 5.学习手册第 196 页 6.学习手册第 197 页 7.课本第 239页最后一段 & 第 240页第一 、二 段 8.课本第 242页最后一段 & 第 247页注释 26 . Fill in the blanks 1. 50, 1

29、3, 35, Hawaii, Alaska 2.Alaska, California 3.Eastern standard time, central standard time, mountain standard time, pacific standard time 4.Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island 5.West Virginia, New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland 6.The Potomac, Washin

30、gton D.C 7.The Appalachian, Vermont, Canada 8.The Appalachian, Rocky 9.Washington State, Oregon, California 10.New England, the Mid-Atlantic area, the South, the Mid-West, the Great Plains states, the Western and the Pacific coast states . Tick the correct answer in each of the following: C A D D C

31、C . Answer the questions: 1.学习手册第 191, 196 页 2.学习手册第 196 页 3.学习手册第 196 页 4.课本第 237 页 10 5.课本第 239 页 6.学习手册第 198 页， 课本 241 页 2. AMERICAN HISTORY Explain the following in English:（其余未注明的页码是学习手册页码） 1. P218.5（学习手册 218页第五条） 2. P280.9 (课本 280页第九个注释 ) 3. P221.15 4. P222.17 5. P221.14 6. P222.16 7. P222.18

32、8. P223.20 9. P224.26 10. P225.28 11. P226.33 12. P227.35 13. P228.38 14. P228.40 15. P223.22 Fill in the blanks: 1. Icelandic Vikings, Columbus 2. Jamestown Virginia, 1607 3. English Puritans, Roman Catholics, The Quaker leader William Penn 4. 1775, 1783 5. a second continental Congress 6. July 4th 7. the Federalists, the Republicans, classes, ideological lines 8. Thomas Jefferson 9. John Marshall 10. Uncle Toms Cabin 11. put an end to slavery, decided that America is a single indivisible nation