英美文化课本习题答案.doc

英美文化教材习题答案Britain1. 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 northern 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 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 their 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 leader 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 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 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 terrorist “provisional” wing, whose attacks on British troops in Northern Ireland, random bombings, and others acts of terror in England kept tensions high.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 running 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 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. The 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 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. DDBAB2. English History1. Exercise book Page29 12. Page29 23. Page29 3 4. Page29 65. Page30 96. Henry Textbook P28 2nd para.7. Elizabeth Textbook P29 1st para.8. Divine Right Textbook P30 2nd para. (可忽略)9. Page33 2210. Victorianism1. The Crusades 2. Columbus, Vasco da Gama 3. the Middle ages4. the Parliament, the King Charles 5. Charles Darwin 6. the Great Depression 7. the League of Nations, United Nations DBBCD4.British Government SystemI. 1. 学习手册63页 III.12. 学习手册65页 III.93. 学习手册65页 III.104. 学习手册64页 III.35. 学习手册64页 III.46. 学习手册64页 III.77. 学习手册64页 III.5II.1. Elizabeth the Second2. On Her Majestys Service3. the Most Order of the Garter4. In her role as head of the Church of England5. Acts of Parliament; the Prerogative of the Crown; Conventions of the Constitution; Common law; Parliamentary Privilege6. Five, 6357. The Crown; the House of Lords; the House of Commons8. Parliament9. The final court of appeal in civil cases and criminal cases, except criminal cases in Scotland.10. To make laws; to control and criticize the executive government; to control the raising and the spending of money11. The Lord Chancellor12. Her ministers13. Parliament; Cabinet; the House of Commons; ParliamentIII. BCADCAIV.1. 课本P68 第二段2. 课本P75 第二，四段P74 第三段3. 课本P764. 课本P78 第一段5. 课本P81 第三段6. 课本P737. 课本P78 第一，二段5. Industry, Agriculture and Business1. Exercise book Page80 12. P80 23. P81 64. P82 85. Special development area: Textbook P101 2nd para.6. P81 37. P81 48. P81 71. coal, water power 2. the Second World War, the Bank of England, coal, civil aviation3. the Second World War, Labour 4. a nation of shop-keepers 5. the discovery and exploitation of oil and gas in the North Sea. ADCAA6. English LiteratureI.1. 学习手册96页. III.22. 学习手册96页. III.33. 学习手册96页. III.44. 学习手册97页. III.55. 课本124页. 第二，三段6. 学习手册96页. III.77. 学习手册96页. III.8II.1. Beowulf; the 6th2.their Viking raiders swept into Britain3.the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; The Roman invasion of Britain in 54B.C. The middle of the 12th century4. Chaucer; Shakespeare; Milton5. Thomas More; Utopia6. Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Othello; The Tempest; Twelfth Nights; As You Like It; Richard III; Richard II; Julius Caesar7. The Essays8. Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes 9. Pilgrims Progress10. Jonathan Swift11. His poems London and The Vanity of Human Wishes12. Robert Burns13. Robinson Cruise14. William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Lord Byron; John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelley15. Jane Austen; Anne Bronte; Emily Bronte16. Louis Stevenson; Lewis Carroll; William Makepeace Thackeray;David Copper field; Oliver Twist;George Eliot; Oscar Wilde;The Return of the Nation; Jude the Obscure17. James Joyce; Ulysses18. George Bernard ShawIII. DBCAADAADDIV.1. 课本P115-1162. 课本P122-1233. 课本P1334. 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; Protestant2) The Old Testament; the New Testament.3) Queen; the Archbishop of Canterbury.4) God; Jesus; the Holy Spirit.5) Presbyterian6) 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) P150 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:1) 5;15.2) Christmas; Easter; summer.3) The selective; the comprehensive4) Eton; Harrow; Rugby.5) About three-quarters of income of Britain University.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 grounds2) P171第二段3) 学习手册P148或P137 的24题4) 书本P174最后一段和P175最开头一段5) 课本P175-1776) 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P1666)书本P198 第二段的7)书本P204 第三段 Fill the blanks:1) the smallness of the country2) Quality paper; popular paper.3) The Times; The Guardian; the Daily Telegraph; Daily Mail; Daily Mirror; Sun.4) Thomson5) The Conservative Party; the Liberal Party6) Daily Telegraph7) The Sunday Times; Observer.8) Daily Mirror; The Sun. Tick the correct answer in each of the following: D B C B A Answer the questions:1) 学习手册P1742) 书本P201最后一段 书本P206 最后一段America1. 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175. 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 blanks1. 50, 13, 35, Hawaii, Alaska2. Alaska, California3. Eastern standard time, central standard time, mountain standard time, pacific standard time4. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island5. West Virginia, New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland6. The Potomac, Washington D.C7. The Appalachian, Vermont, Canada8. The Appalachian, Rocky9. Washington State, Oregon, California10. 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 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5. 课本第 239 页 6. 学习手册第 198 页， 课本 241 页2. AMERICAN HISTORYExplain 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. P221.154. P222.175. P221.146. P222.167. P222.188. P223.209. P224.2610. P225.2811. P226.3312. P227.3513. P228.3814. P228.4015. P223.22Fill in the blanks:1. Icelandic Vikings, Columbus2. Jamestown Virginia, 16073. English Puritans, Roman Catholics, The Quaker leader William Penn4. 1775, 17835. a second continental Congress6. July 4th7. the Federalists, the Republicans, classes, ideological lines8. Thomas Jefferson9. John Marshall10. Uncle Toms Cabin11. put an end to slavery, decided that America is a single indivisible nation12. he introduced the assembly line into automobile production, Manufacturing the Model T13. the New York Stock Exchange14. laissez-faire, the government should interfere with business as little as possible, government action15. Eugene V. DebsTick the correct answer in each of the following:1-10:BAAADADADBAnswer the questions:(课本页码)1. P2522. P2533. P2544. P2575. P2586. P264-p2657. P266-p2678. P268-p2699. P270-p27110. P27311. P27512. P276-p2773. THE FORMS OF GOVERNMENTExplain the following in English:（未标注页码为学习手册页码）1. P245.52. P245.63. P246.74. P246.95. P247.116. P247.127. P247.138. P311.3(课本)9. P246.810. P240.1211. P314.23（课本）Fill in the blanks:1. federalism, the separation of powers, respect for the Constitution and the rule of law2. foreign affairs, matters of general concern to all the states3. the Democrats, the Republicans4. executive, legislature, judicial5. Ford, Rockefeller, the President Nixon resigned when he was in power6. Vice-President7. four, four, John Kenedy8. two terms(eight years)9. 435, 2, 100, 610. the Congress(both the Senate and the House of Representatives), the Senate, a two-thirds majority in both Houses11. Confederation12. 192213. The Supreme Court14. life, President, the Senate15. The Federal Bureau of InvestigationTick the correct answer in each of the following:1-8: ACDCADCBAnswer the questions:(课本页码)1. P2882. P2883. P2914. P294&(p314.29)5. P3026. P3037. P290, p297, p3078. P302-p3034. American Literature. Explain the following in English:1. 学习手册第 268 页2. 学习手册第 268 页3. 学习手册第 268 页4. 学习手册第 269 页5. 学习手册第 270 页6. 学习手册第 273 页7. 学习手册第 274 页. Fill in the blanks1. Washington Irving, Fennimore Cooper2. Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the house of Usher3. (Concord, Massachusetts), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne4. Nature, The American Scholar, Self-Reliance, Experience5. Walden6. The Scarlet Letter7. Herman Melville8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9. Theodore Dreiser 10. The Great Gatsby, what had happened to American life11. John Dos Passos12. A Fable, Light in August, The Hamlet13. The Sun Also Rise, A farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls14. John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison15. Eugene ONeill, Long Days Journey into Night. Tick the correct answer in each of the following:CADBDDCCADBC. Answer the questions:1. 学习手册第 258,267(explanation 1) 页2. Both are 19th-century writer. Both are also a poet and journal keeper.3. 学习手册第 269(2) 页4. 课本第 2326 页5. 5. Religion . Explain the following in English:1. 学习手册第 293 页2. 学习手册第 293 页3. 学习手册第 294 页4. 学习手册第 294 页5. 学习手册第 291 页. Fill in the blanks1. four-fifths, majority hardly, half2. U.S3. Against the Constitution4. The Baptists, the Methodists5. Roman Catholics, the Baptists, The Methodists, Presbyterians6. John F. Kennedy. Tick the correct answer in each of the following:ACDCA. Answer the questions:1. 课本第 345 页（4-9行）2. 课本第 345（最后一段） 页3. 课本第 346（第二段） 页4. 可参阅课本359页Notes6、7、8、9所对应的句子。5.7. American EducationI1. Day care center - P329(学习手册)2. Grammar school - P329(学习手册)3. High school - P386(课本)4. Fraternity - P330(学习手册)5. Sorority - P330(学习手册)II1. 122