the people of the united kingdom

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1、ThepeopleoftheUnitedKingdomTheUnitedKingdomisanationofcities.TheUnitedKingdomisoneofthemosturbannationsintheworld.Eightypercentofitspeopleliveincities.Londonhasalmost8millionpeople.LondonisthecenterofBritishlife.Itisthenation’sleaderineconomics,politics,art,education,andente

2、rtainment.Itisoneoftheworld’sgreatcities.PeoplefromallovertheworldvisitLondon.Peoplefrommanypartsoftheworldnowlivethere，youcanhearAfrican，Asian，andotherlanguagesspokenthere.itisthecapitaloftheUnitedkingdom.AlmosteveryoneintheUnitedKingdomspeaksEnglish.SomepeopleinWalesspeako

3、nlyWelsh.Generally,however,everyoneintheUnitedKingdomcantalkwitheveryoneintheUnitedKingdomcantalkwitheveryoneelse.Thisisonewayinwhichthenationisunited.Anotherwayinwhichthepeopleareunitedisbytheirreligion.Ninety-fivepercentoftheBritishpeopleareProtestant.TheAnglicanChurchisth

4、elargestinEngland.ThePresbyterianChurchisthelargestinScotland.Althoughreligionisaunifyingideaformostofthenation，itdividesthepeopleinNorthernIreland.MostBritishcitizensreadandwriteEnglish.ThisismainlybecausefreeelementaryandsecondaryeducationisgiventoeachchildintheUnitedKingd

5、om.Childrengotoschoolbetweentheagesoffiveandsixteen.Universityeducation，however，islimitedtothosewhocanpassstricttests.OxfordandCambridgearetwoveryoldandrespecteduniversitiesintheUnitedKingdom.Eachhasbeeninexistenceformorethan600years.Therearemorethanfortyothermajoruniversiti

6、es.TheBritishsystemofeducationhasinfluencedthesystemsofeducationusedinmanyothernations.ManyofthesenationswereformercoloniesofGreatBritainorarerelatedtotheUnitedKingdomtoday.[来源:学#科#网Z#X#X#K]TheBritishpeoplehavehadinfluenceinmanyotherpartsoftheworld.Forexample，themanyBritishi

7、deasaboutsocietywhichaffectedthecolonistsof300yearsagoarestillstrongintheUnitedStatestoday.ThefirstAmericanuniversitiesfollowedthemodelsofOxfordandCambridge.Peopleinthiscountryspeak，read，andwriteEnglishbecausetheUnitedStatesbeganasthirteenBritishcolonies.TheBritishhavealsopl

8、ayedaroleinthehistoryofmanynations.Atonetime，GreatBritaincontrolledahugeemp