高中英语人教必修5素材：The people of the Unit nited Kingdom

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1、TheUnitedKingdomisanationofcities.TheUnitedKingdomisoneofthemosturbannationsintheworld.Eightypercentofitspeopleliveincities.Londonhasalmost8millionpeople.LondonisthecenterofBritishlife.Itisthenation’sleaderineconomics,politics,art,education,andentertainment.Itisoneoftheworld

2、’sgreatcities.PeoplefromallovertheworldvisitLondon.Peoplefrommanypartsoftheworldnowlivethere，youcanhearAfrican，Asian，andotherlanguagesspokenthere.itisthecapitaloftheUnitedkingdom.[来源:学科网ZXXK]AlmosteveryoneintheUnitedKingdomspeaksEnglish.SomepeopleinWalesspeakonlyWelsh.Genera

3、lly,however,everyoneintheUnitedKingdomcantalkwitheveryoneintheUnitedKingdomcantalkwitheveryoneelse.Thisisonewayinwhichthenationisunited.Anotherwayinwhichthepeopleareunitedisbytheirreligion.Ninety-fivepercentoftheBritishpeopleareProtestant.TheAnglicanChurchisthelargestinEngla

4、nd.ThePresbyterianChurchisthelargestinScotland.Althoughreligionisaunifyingideaformostofthenation，itdividesthepeopleinNorthernIreland.MostBritishcitizensreadandwriteEnglish.ThisismainlybecausefreeelementaryandsecondaryeducationisgiventoeachchildintheUnitedKingdom.Childrengoto

5、schoolbetweentheagesoffiveandsixteen.Universityeducation，however，islimitedtothosewhocanpassstricttests.OxfordandCambridgearetwoveryoldandrespecteduniversitiesintheUnitedKingdom.Eachhasbeeninexistenceformorethan600years.Therearemorethanfortyothermajoruniversities.TheBritishsy

6、stemofeducationhasinfluencedthesystemsofeducationusedinmanyothernations.ManyofthesenationswereformercoloniesofGreatBritainorarerelatedtotheUnitedKingdomtoday.[来源:学&科&网Z&X&X&K]TheBritishpeoplehavehadinfluenceinmanyotherpartsoftheworld.Forexample，themanyBritishideasaboutsociet

7、ywhichaffectedthecolonistsof300yearsagoarestillstrongintheUnitedStatestoday.ThefirstAmericanuniversitiesfollowedthemodelsofOxfordandCambridge.Peopleinthiscountryspeak，read，andwriteEnglishbecausetheUnitedStatesbeganasthirteenBritishcolonies.TheBritishhavealsoplayedaroleintheh

8、istoryofmanynations.Atonetime，GreatBritaincontrolledahugeempirethatstretche