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【正文】 ys act of 1871, which owes its name to the fact that banks are closed on the days specified. 2. 【 正確答案 】 It is a Scottish tradition that the first visitor to cross the threshold of your house on New Years Day would bring either good luck or bad luck the rest of the year. It is particularly lucky if that visitor happen to be a tall darkhaired man. 3. 【 正確答案 】 Christmas Day, December 25th, celebrates the birth of Christ, is the greatest of Christian festivals. 4. 【 正確答案 】 People are not obliged to use the services 。 they may still go to doctors as private patients if they wish to do so, and in big towns there are some private and financially independent hospitals (called “nursing homes”) which people may use rather than the hospitals which are within the health service. 5. 【 正確答案 】 Britain is regarded as a welfare state. The welfare state is a system of government by which the state provides the economic and social security of its citizens through its anization of health services, pensions and other facilities. It is established on such a concept that nobody should be without the means for the minimum necessities of life because of unemployment, old age, sickness, or dependent children. （答案解析） 打印本頁 一、綜合題。 made the Beatles so different from other pop groups? sport is regarded as typically English? is BBC financed? are the difference between quality papers and popular papers? distinguishes the Open University from all other British Universities? 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。 is the significance of the Peace Agreement on Northern Ireland signed on 10th April, 1998? is the most significant recent development in Irish agriculture? Why do we say the most significant recent development in Irish agriculture has been membership in the European Community? is the largest river in Ireland? Why is it very important? 答案部分 一、綜合題。 1. 【 正確答案 】 An agreement was signed on 10th April, 1998 by eight of Northern Ireland’s ten political parties and by representatives of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom who were the cosponsors of the talks. The agreement would create a new provincial assembly establishing a powersharing arrangement between the majority Protestants and minority Catholics and return a measure of selfgovernment to Northern Ireland after 26 years of direct rule by the United Kingdom. It would establish a NorthSouth council promoting cooperation between Northern Island and the Republic of Ireland. The significance of the Peace Agreement on Northern Ireland is that it would end the violence in Northern Ireland and lay the foundations of peaceful coexistence between the two munities in Northern Ireland and between the North and the South. 2. 【 正確答案 】 The most significant recent development in Irish agriculture has been membership in the European Community. EC membership enabled Irish farmers to participate in the Community’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and export their products to a wider range of markets. 3. 【 正確答案 】 The largest river in Ireland is the Shannon River. It is very important because it provides electric power for much of the Republic. （答案解析） 一、綜合題。 the 4 population movements in the . something about the three immigration waves. the United States has long been known as a nation of immigrants? the term “the Continental Divide”. does the United States have an ideal location for trade? 答案部分 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