【正文】 attempted to blow King James and his ministers up in the Houses of Parliament ,where Guy Fawkes had planted barrels of gunpowder in the cellars. But the plot was betrayed and Guy Fawkes was arrested on the threshold of the cellar. The immediate result was the execution of Fawkes and his fellowconspirators and the imposition of severe antiCatholic laws. The longterm result has been an annual celebration on November 5, when a bonfire is lit to burn a guy and a firework display is arranged. 4. 【 正確答案 】 The English Civil War not only overthrew feudal in England but also shook the foundation of the feudal rule in Europe. It is generally regarded as the beginning of modern world history. 5. 【 正確答案 】 Agriculture enclosure had good as well as bad results: （ 1） Farms became bigger and bigger units as the great bought up the small. （ 2） more vegetables, more milk and mire dairy produce were consumed, and diet became more varied。 （答案解析） 一、綜合題。 did the Glorious Revolution break out? What was the significance of it? do you know about the English Renaissance? do you know about the Gunpowder Plot of 1605? were the consequences of the Civil Wars? is your ment on land enclosures in England? do you know about the Chartist Movement and the People’s Charter? What is your ment on them? role did Winston Churchill play in the Second World War? are the main contents of Thatcherism? 答案部分 一、綜合題。 1. 【 正確答案 】 Thatcher’s government took numerous measures to improve the efficiency of the economy during the past decade, using both macroeconomic and microeconomic policies. Macroeconomic measures were directed towards bring down the rate of inflation and achieving price stability. What the British government did was to apply a tight control on the exchange rate and regulation of money growth. The Microeconomic policies were aimed at working with the grain of market forces by encouraging enterprises , efficiency and flexibility. Just as the 1940s decade in Britain is remembered as the era of nationalization, the 1980s will be remembered as the decade of privatization. Generally speaking, the British economy in the 1980s recovered and developed quite significantly. The Thatcher program was successful to some extent. 2. 【 正確答案 】 Britain has traditionally been an exporter of manufactured goods and an importer of food and basic materials. More recently this pattern has changed, with the share of manufactures falling and that of fuels rising, while manufactures have accounted for a rising proportion of imports. 3. 【 正確答案 】 Traditionally, Britain has had a deficit on visible trade and a surplus on visible trade. Visible trade is trade of goods while invisible trade refers to trade of services such as tourism and banking . Invisible trade represents a higher proportion of economic activity in Britain than in most developed countries. In terms of invisible receipts, Britain is the second only to the United States. The major segments of the services sector are sea transportation。 3） to examine government policy and administration, including proposals for expenditure 。 disputes in the running of panies, between landlords and tenants and in intellectual property matters。 are the public holidays in Great Britain? is the Scottish tradition concerning New Year’s Day? festival is the greatest in Britain? British people obliged to use the National Health Service? is meant by the term “welfare state” in Britain? 答案部分 一、綜合題。 1. 【 正確答案 】 Unlike the famous solo stars who had their songs written for them, the Beatles wrote their own words and music. They wrote not only of love, but of death and old age, poverty and daily life. The Beatles had a close personal relationship with their audience, and they expected them to join in. As they developed, their songs became more serious. They finally won the affection and admiration of people of all ages and social. 2. 【 正確答案 】 Cricket is the most typically English of sports, has been in existence since the 16th century. 3. 【 正確答案 】 BBC, namely British Broadcasting Corporation, dominates the British airwaves, and it is funded by advertising. 4. 【 正確答案 】 The quality papers are those that are large in size and have many detailed articles about national and international events, such as Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Times. The other kind, called the popular papers or tabloids, is smaller in size, have more pictures, often in color, and shorter articles, often about less important events or about the private lives of wellknow people. Although some people disapprove of the tabloids, more people buy them than buy the serious newspaper. The Sun, for example, which is a tabloid, is the biggestselling newspaper in Britain. People who disapprove of the tabloids very strongly sometimes call them the Gutter Press. 5. 【 正確答案 】 It is a nonresidential university based in the new town of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. It is so named because it is “open” to all to bee students. The university was founded in 1969 and began its first courses in 1970. The University offers degrees and other courses for adult students of all ages in Britain and other member countries of the European Union. It uses a bination of specially produced printed texts, correspondence tuition, television and radio broadcasts and audio/video cassettes. （答案解析） 一、綜合題。 1. 【 正確答案 】 The first movement: from the end of the Civil War to 1880 westward movement The second movement: from 1890 to 1920 from rural areas to cities The third movement: from 1920 to 1960, with the 1940s, the war years, as the peak a large number of black people move ou