英美國(guó)家概況之英國(guó)(已修改)
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【正文】 填空題Chapter 1 British Isles are situated in the northwest of Europe. They are cut off from the continent by the English Channel. On the north and the east the Isles face the North Sea,and on the west they face the Atlantic Ocean. The full title of the United Kingdom is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. the early 20th century, Northern Ireland was part of Ireland as a whole. In 1920, it bee part of the United Kingdom, with a separated parliament and selfgovernment. There were originally six countries in Northern Ireland. But since 1973 it has a singletier system of 26 administrative districts. climate in Britain is moderated by the Atlantic Gulf Stream, and is much milder than that of many places in the same latitude. The climate is generally equable, but the day to day conditions are changeable.Chapter 2 Welsh, the Scots, the Irish are the descendants of Celts who came from Europe to the British Isles centuries before the Roman invasion. It was these people whom the Germanic Anglos and Saxons conquered in the 5th and 6th centuries AD. These Germanic conquerors were conquered in turn by the Norman French, when William of Normandy landed near Hastings in 1066. It was from the union of Norman conquerors and the AngloSaxons that the English people and the English language were born. English is very rich in slang,especially rhyming slang. The second part of the rhyming slang is often omitted. is an ancient Celtic language. In 1535 Welsh was forbidden as an official language, but in 1965 it was given equality with English for all official use in Wales. Welsh literature dates back to the 6th century AD. Much early Welsh poetry is heroic or elegiac, and concerns pre Christian heroes, and their exploits. Welsh literature had a profound influence in medieval Europe, as it is the s
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