英语国家社会与文化入门-简答题

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1、英语国家概况课后问答题Book1EnglandChapter1QuestionsforThought:1.WhatwastheBritishEmpire?Whatdoyouknowaboutit?Inwhatwayisthe“Empire”stillfeltinBritainandintheinternationalfield?Keypoints:1.BeforetheendofWWII,theBritishEmpirewasoneofthemostpowerfulempires;itenjoyedthenameof“anempire

2、onwhichthesunneverset”duetoitsoverseascoloniesontheworld.2.PeopleoftheBritishEmpirearedescendentsoftheAnglo-Saxons.3.Asystemofmonarchywasobservedstillontoday’sBritain,whichwentthroughthehistory.TheQueenisstilltheHeadoftheCommonwealth.4.the“Empire”stillcanbefeltinthefoll

3、owingways:a.therearestillcloserelationshipsbetweentheUKandthefiftyormorecountrieswhichusedtobeitsformercolonies,andwhichmaintainlinksthroughalooseorganizationcalledtheCommonwealthofNations.b.itbecameonememberoftheEuropeanUnionsince1973.c.theeffectalsoliesinthemakeupofth

4、eBritishpopulationitself.Newlyimmigrantsmainlycamefromtheformercolonies,speciallyfromIndiaandCaribbeanarea.d.todaytheMonarchrepresentsthecountryinmanyoccasions.e.classexistsandlordsandpeersareobviousevidentoftheimperialpast.2.Whydoestheauthorsaythatitisnotpossibletosumu

5、ptheBritishpeoplewithafewsimplephrases?Keypoints:Reasons:1.regionaldifferences---England,Scotland,Wales,NorthernIreland2.racialdifferences3.classdifferences4.culturaldifferences---HighlandvsLowland5.religiousdifferences---protestantsvsCatholics(maininNorthernIreland)3."

6、Britishhistoryhasbeenahistoryofinvasion".Pleaseillustratethispointwiththeexamplesfromthetext.HowdideachoftheinvasionsinfluenceEnglishculture?Keypoints:WhenWhoWherefromWhichpartconqueredinfluence43AD—AD.5thCLatin-speakingRomanMediterraneancountriesEnglandandWales(notScot

7、landorIreland)BroughttheMediterraneancivilization,Christian,AD.5thC—1066 AnglesandSaxons(theforefathersoftheEnglish;thefoundersofEngland)GermanyEasternandSouthernBritain(notWalesandmostofScotland)mainlyEnglandTheancestoroftheEnglishpeople;KingAlfred’sstoryLateAD.8thC–AD

8、10thC.theferociousVikingsScandinavia(北欧：瑞典、挪威一带。丹麦、芬兰、冰岛等)NorthernandEasternEngland,ScotlandTheprocessofformin