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shed its Household Energy Management Strategy (家庭能源管理策略)(T)1On March 2, 2010, the British government publish its Household Energy Management Strategy(T)1On December 27, 2009 the TN Climate (氣候) Change Conference was held in Copenhagen(T)1According to the Kyoto Protocol(京都議定書(shū)), the government has agreed that the UK will meet tough targets(艱難的目標(biāo)) to reduce carbon emissions incrementally(增量) between now and 2020(F)第五單元By the 1880’s the British economy was dominant(主導(dǎo)) in the world(T)Both the US and Canada overtook Britain in economy by 1900(F)By the end of World War II, Britain had gone heavily into debt(債務(wù)) in order to develop its manufacturing industry and borrowed large amounts from the US and France(F)Another reason for British decline is the loss of its colonies(殖民地), especially India, which gained its independence in 1947(T)In the 1970s, with the soaring(飆升的) price of oil and high rates of inflation(通貨膨脹), Britain went through a bad period. In 1979, the Labour party had to step down(下臺(tái)) from the government (T)The leader of the Conservatives(保守派), Margaret Thatcher(瑪格麗特撒切爾) started a series of reforms. An extensive(廣泛的) programme of privatization(私有的) was carried out, and she was successful in an allround(全面的) way (F)Tertiary (三級(jí)) industries include banking, insurance(保險(xiǎn)), tourism(旅游), agriculture and the selling of good