【正文】 South Wales) Britain ___ of the population who are farmers manage ___ of the land area.(3%。Belfast) coal from the coalfield of ___ is ,ost suitable for producing blast furnace coke used in British steelworks.(the NorthEast) coalfields produce coal suitable for the power stations.(The Midlands) is estimated that Britain has the oil reserves of ___ million barrels.(13) Britain the imported cotton arrives at the city of ___ and then carried by canal to the great textile manufacturing city of ___.(Liverpool。s GDP and its foreign trade ranked ___ and its per capita ine ranked ___ in the world.(second。1914) Sudetenland was given to Germany by ___.(the Munich Agreement) Great Exhibition 100 years ago was held by ___.(the Conservative Government) Beatles, the popular band in 1960s, came from ___.(Liverpool) 1979 the Conservative Party returned to power again and ___ became the Prime Minister.(Margaret Thatcher) ___ the Falkland Island war broke out between Britain and ___.(1982。Maori) Zealand was pletely independent in ___.(1931) British East India Company was established in ___.(1600) ___ Queen Victoria became Empress of India.(1877) Suez Canal was first built by ___ engineers.(French) the ___ British merchants began to smuggle opium into China from India.(1830s) ___, the Chinese, led by the Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu, confiscated the British merchants39。Abel Tasman。1583) the Seven Years, War Canada was ceded to Britain by ___.(The 1763 Treaty of Paris) divided Canada into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.(The Canada Act of 1791) was established as a dominion by ___.(The British North America Act of 1867) was first discovered by ___ in the early ___.(Dutch。1871) Independent Labor Party was formed in ___, led by ___.(1893。s Charter made in 1836 had ___ points.(6) the Chartist Movement the first petition was presented in ___ and the last was in ___.(1840。s Association was founded.(1836) Physical Force Chartists was led by ___.(Feargus O39。Britain) Industrial Revolution first started in ___.(textiles) Britain the real revolution in textiles was in ___.(1770) spinning jenny was invented by ___.(James Hargreaves) first steam engine was devised by ___.(Thomas Newer) a result of the Industrial Revolution, Britain was by ___ the “workshop of the world”.(1830) Chartist Movement lasted from ___ to ___.(1836。14th) Renaissance was typified by the universal genius of ___.(Leonardo da Vinci) finest exponents in English Renaissance were Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson and ___.(William Shakespeare) established blank verse in plays.(Christopher Marlowe) influenced greatly the early works of William Shakespeare.(Christopher Marlowe) in the following is the tragedy of Shakespeare?(Hamlet) created a dream world of mystery and magic which has influenced many later poets, especially the Romantics.(Edmund Spenser) Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was engineered by ___.(Guy Fawkes) was regarded as the second Magna Carta.(The Petition of Right) contained a series of seven laws against the Puritans.(The Clarendon Act) the Glorious Revolution the Catholic English king, ___ was driven out of England.(James II) the Glorious Revolution came the Age of ___, a monarchy with powers limited by Parliament.(the Constitutional Monarchy) was during the reign of ___, the name Great Britain came into being in 1707.(Anne)The Rise and Fall of the British Empire was the forerunner of the Conservative Party.(The Tories) open field system could be dated back to ___ century.(5th) to the open field system each year ___ field was left “fallow”.(1/3) open field system lasted till ___ century.(18th) seed frill was invented by ___.(Jethro Tull) English king ___ was given the nickname “Farmer George”.(George III) Industrial Revolution began in the late ___ century and ended in early ___ century and it first sprang in ___.(18th。s monasteries and nunneries because ___.(they were much more loyal to the Pope than to their English kings) real change of “the Reformation” came in the day of ___.(Edward VI) is remembered as the monarch who lost the French port of Calais.(Mary Tudor) has been Protestant since the reign of ___, a Protestant Queen.(Elizabeth I) I was the daughter of ___ and ___.(Henry VIII。s War) Wars of Roses broke out in ___ and ended in ___.(1455。s population from 4 million to ___ million.(3) Peasant Uprising led by John Ball happened in ___.(1381)Transition to the Modern Age Wars of Roses refereed to the battles between ___ and ___.(the House of York。s War lasted from ___ to ___.(1337。s day a jury consisted of ___ men.(12) Constitutions of Clarendon in 1164 increased the jurisdiction of ___.(the civil courts) Canterbury Tales was written by ___.(Geoffrey Chaucer) Murder in the Cathedral is about the martyrdom of ___.(Henry II) Carta was signed in ___ at a conference at ___.(1Oxford) to Magna Carta no tax should be made without the approval of ___.(the King) by ___, the barons forced Henry III to accept ___.(Simon de Montfort。s army on Senlac Field near ___.(Hastings) nearly ___ years Britain was under the Roman occupation.(400)The Shaping of the Nation 1.“Domesday Book” was piled during the rule of ___.(William I) William died in 1087, he left Normandy to ___, and England to ___.(Robert。60) prevailing ___ winds or Westerlies blow over the country all the year.(southwest) Britain the average rainfall throughout the whole year is over ___ mm.(1,000) average population density in Britain is ___ people per square kilometer.(237) Britain ___ of the population is urban and ___ is rural.(90%。Land and People official name of Great Britain is___.(The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) the British Isles there were two countries before___.(1918) Republic of Ireland became independent in the year___.(1949) all the four parts of Island in Great Britain ___ is the largest in area.(England) ___ the British Commonwealth was founded.(1913) Strait of Dover is only ___ .(33) the island of Britain from north to south it runs ___ km and the