【正文】 blow to the stock market came on October 24, 1929, called ______. 16. During the Second World War, the postponement of the opening of __________ was a reflection of the desire not to give the Soviet Union the possibility of quick expansion. 17. During the First World War the . persued a policy of _____. 18. As a result of WWI, the . had changed from a debter nation to be a ______ nation. 19. ________ means to get higher import taxes to protect domestic production. 20. In 1946, Gee Kennan sent a long telegram the State Department and suggested the ________ policy towards the Soviet Union. 21. In 1947, Gee Marshall announced the ________ to provide economic aid to Western Europe. 22. In 1948, the Soviet Union started _______. As a reaction, the United States employed airlift to support West Berlin. 23. Senator ________ launched an antiCommunist hysteria in the early 1950s. 24. In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested and fined, _________ led the boycott of the bus pany in Montgomery, Alabama. 25. China and the United States established their diplomatic relations in January _________. 26. When the Korean war broke out in 1950, Truman sent the ________ to Taiwan Straits to prevent the PLA from liberating Taiwan. 27. __________ is America’s most important food crop. 28. The United States has a __________ economy with a dominant private sector. 29. In the early 1980s, under the _________ Administration, the traditional Keynesian approach was replaced by new moarits policies. 滬江英語(yǔ) 30. The State of _________ now has surpassed New York as the most populous state. 31. The American economy is characterized by a high degree of _______, which means mean of the nation’s basic industries are represented by only a few major corporations. 32. The economic system of the . is mainly _________ owned. 33. The . government is divided into three branches: the legislative, the executive and ________. 34. If no presidential candidate has a majority votes in the election。 the Constitution stipulates that the decision shall be made by ________. II. Fill in the blanks: 1. highlands, lowlands 2. west 3. AngloSaxons, Celts 4. Jutes, Saxons, Angles, Angles 5. Hastings 6. feudal 7. Domesday Book, 1086 8. Thomas Becket 9. Black Death, two 10. yeomen 11. the Divine Right of Kings 12. the king, the Parliament 13. Commonwealth, Lord Protector 14. Union, Scotland 15. Whigs Tories Liberal Conservative 16. James Watt steam engine 17. workship 18. Winston Churchill 19. oil 20. the North Sea 21. Scotland 22. microprocessors and puter, biotechnology 23. Opposition, shadow 24. the Queen, No. 10 Downing 25. country councils, district councils 26. innocence 27. 12, 15 28. the House of Lords 29. the National Health Service, social security 30. the Church of England, the Church of Scotland 31. 5, 4, 16 32. elevenplus, prehensive schools 33. further education, high education 34. Oxford, Cambridge, 12th, 13th 35. 1959 36. Lake Michigan 37. Alaska 38. the Continental Divide 39. Texas 40. the Intermountain Basin and Plateau 41. rocket/missile 42. birthplace 43. Mobility 44. 1619 45. ChineseAmericans III. Explain the following terms. 1. the Hardian’s Wall: 2. Alfred the Great 3. William the Conqueror 滬江英語(yǔ) 4. the battle of Hastings 5. Domesday Book 6. the Great Charter 7. the Hundred Years’ War 8. Joan of Arc 9. the Black Death 10. the Wars of Roses 11. Bloody Mary 12. Elizabeth I 13. Oliver Cromwell 14. the Bill of Rights 15. Whigs and Tories 16. James Watt 17. Winston Churchill 18. Agribusiness 19. the British Constitution 20. Queen Elizabeth II 21. the Opposition 22. the Privy Council 23. mon law 24. the jury 25. the NHS 26. prehensive schools 27. public schools 滬江英語(yǔ) 28. the Great Lakes 29. New England 30. baby boom 31. the Chinese Exclusion Act 32. the Bill of Rights 33. the Emancipation Proclamation 34. the Constitutional Convention 35. the Progressive Movement 36. the Peace Conference 37. the Truman Doctrine: 38. the Marshall Plan 39. the New Frontier 40. checks and balances: IV. Answer briefly the following questions: 1. What do you know about the Roman invasion of Britain? 2. Why did the William the Conqueror invade England after Edward’s death? 3. What were the consequences of the Norman Conquest? 4. What were the contents and the significance of the Great Charter? 5. What do you know about the English Renaissance? 6. Why did the Restoration take place? 7. How did the “Glorious Revolution” break out? What was the significance of it? 8. What is your ment on land enclosures in England? 9. How did the English Industrial Revolution proceed? 滬江英語(yǔ) 10. What do you know about the Chartist Movement and the People’s Charter? What’s your ment on them? 11. How did the Labour Party e into being? 12. What is a constitutional monarchy? When did it begin in Britain? 13. What is the role of the Monarchy in the British government? 14. What are the main functions of Parliament? 15. Why do the criminal convicts like to be tried first before the magistrates’ courts? 16. What does the civil courts system do? 17. What is meant by the term “welfare state” in Britain? 18. What is the most important established Church in Britain? How is it related to the Crown and linked with the State? 19. What distinguishes the Open University from all other British Universities? 20. Say something about the three immigration waves. 21. Why did the early settlers e to America? Who were the Pilgrims? Who were the