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1、Chapter1vThetwomainislandsoftheBritishIslesareGreatBritain____andIreland_____.vThelongestriverofBritain,the___SevernRiver__,originatesinMid-Wals_______.vAmongthefourpartsoftheUK,NorthernIreland____isthesmallest.vTheRiverThames____,thesecondlargestandthemostimportantriverinBritain.v

2、_London_____isthecapitalofbothEnglandandtheUnitedKingdom,__Edinburgh_____isthecapitalofScotland,__Cardiff_____isthecapitalofWalesand___Belfast_____isthecapitalofNorthernIreland.vAccordingtoa2005estimate,Britainnowhasapopulationofover__60___million.Almostaquarterofthepopulationofthe

3、UKlivesin_England_____’sprosperousandfertile__southeast_____.vThemajorityoftheUK’spopulationaredescendentsofthe_Anglo-Saxons__,a_Germanic_____peoplefrom__Europe____whowenttoEnglandbetweenthe5thand7thcenturies.vMostpeopleinWales,ScotlandandIrelandaredescendentsofthe_CelticPeople___w

4、howeretheearlistknowninhabitantsofBritain.vEnglishbelongstothe_Germanic____groupofIndo-European_____familyoflanguage.vTheintroductionofChristianitytoBritainaddedthefirstelementof_LatinandGreek______wordstoEnglish.vEnglishchangedintowhatisdescribedasModernEnglishfromthelate_15th____

5、century.vSamuelJohnson’sdictionarywasinfluentialinestablishingastandardformof_spelling_____.vStandardEnglishisbasedonthespeechofthe_upper___classof__southeastern_____England.Itisalsocalled__Queen___’sEnglishor_BBC____English.StandardEnglishiscodifiedtotheextentthatthe__grammar____a

6、nd_vocabulary_______ofEnglisharemuchthesameeverywhereintheworldwhereEnglishisused.vAtpresent,nearly_aquarter______oftheword’spopulationcommunicateinEnglish.Chapter2vTheBritishhistorybefore_____isbasicallyundocumented.vTheCeltsinhabitedtheislandand____becamethedominantgroupinBritain

7、betweenthe8thand5thcenturiesBC.vThenameofBritaincamefroma_Celticteibe____---theBritons.vThe__Germanicbarbarians_____attackonRomeendedtheRomanoccupationinBritainin410.vBythelate7thcentury,_RomanChristianity____becamethedominantreligioninEngland.7v_TheVikings____begantoattacktheEngli

8、shcoastinthe8thcentury.vWe