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1、1.WhatisthegeographicalpositionoftheUK?Britainisanislandcountry,situatedinthe northwestofEuropeandsurroundedbythesea.ItliestothenorthofFranceandthewestoftheNetherlandsandDenmark.ItliesintheNorthAtlanticOceanoffthenorthcoastofEurope.ItisseparatedfromtherestofEuropebytheEnglishChannelinthesouthandthe
2、NorthSeaintheeast.ItsonlylandborderwithanothernationisNorthernIrelandandIrelandontheIslandofIreland.2.WhatistheUnitedKingdomgeographicalandpoliticallycomposedof?Geographically,itisaunionmadeupoffourconstituentcountries:England,Scotland,Wales,andNorthernIreland.While,politically,plusseveraloverseast
3、erritories.3.Whycan’ttheterm“English”beusedtoaddressallthepeopleoftheU.K?ThisisbecausetheUnitedKingdomincludesregionsofEngland,Scotland,WalesandNorthernIreland.EnglishreferstothepeopleofEngland,whichisonlypartoftheUnitedKingdom.4.Whatisthehistoricalrelationshipbetween“NorthernIreland”and“Ireland”?F
4、oroveracenturysince1801,IrelandhadbeenpartoftheUnitedKingdom.Butin1922,theIrishFreeStatedeclareditsindependence,leavingonlysixnortherncountriesinsidetheUniontobecalledNorthernIreland.5.英国历史上的几次侵略：TheearliestpeoplesettledinBritainwerenomadsfrommainlandEuropeintheOldStoneAge,foundedbyNeolithicIberian
5、sandtheBeakerForkintheBronzeAge.Between600BCand43AD,awaveofCeltictribesfromEuropesettledinBritain,bringinginanIronAgecivilizationandtwolanguagesthatbecamethelaterGaelicandWelsh.RomansinvadedBritainin55BC.Betweenthe5thandthe7thcenturies,GermanicpeoplefromEurope—theAngles,theSaxonsandtheJutes—arrived
6、inmassivenumbers,whohavecometoconstituteBritain’spresentpredominantstock.Theirlanguagebecamethefoundationofbasic,short,everydaywordsinmodernEnglish.Duringthe8thand9thcenturies,VikingssettledinBritainandIreland,butwereeventuallysubduedandintegratedbytheAnglo-Saxoncivilization.In1066,FrenchNormanscon
7、queredEngland.ItwasthelastinvasioninBritain’shistory.6.the significance of Normandy invadeThe Normans ,allied with the English royal family only by marriage and not by blood ,were the last invaders in histo
