10. Between 1607 and 1733 the British established _____ colonies along the east coast of North America.
11. The name of American Indian was given by _______.
12. ________ was the magic word that drew people to America. 13. In the early 1930s, the American foreign policy was _______.
14. _______ and his Model T helped the Unites States to move on the way to becoming a nation on wheels.
15. At the beginning of the Great Depression, the first 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 U.S. persued a policy of _____.
18. As a result of WWI, the U.S. had changed from a debter nation to be a ______ nation.
19. ________ means to get higher import taxes to protect domestic production.
20. In 1946, George Kennan sent a long telegram the State Department and suggested the ________ policy towards the Soviet Union.
21. In 1947, George 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 anti-Communist hysteria in the early 1950s.
24. In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested and fined, _________ led the boycott of the bus company 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 monetarits policies.
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 U.S. is mainly _________ owned.
33. The U.S. 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参考答案：
1. highlands, lowlands 2. west 3. Anglo-Saxons, 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 computer, 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. eleven-plus, comprehensive 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. Chinese-Americans
III. Explain the following terms. 1. the Hardian’s Wall: 2. Alfred the Great
3. William the Conqueror 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. common law 24. the jury 25. the NHS
26. comprehensive schools 27. public schools 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 comment on land enclosures in England? 9. How did the English Industrial Revolution proceed?
10. What do you know about the Chartist Movement and the People’s Charter? What’s your comment on them?
11. How did the Labour Party come 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 come to America? Who were the Pilgrims? Who were the Puritans? What were the features in the colonial period which had influence on later American development?
22. What were the causes of the War of Independence?
23. What was unusual about the Article of Confederation? What was the struggle at the Constitutional Convention? How was the conflict solved? 24. Why did the Civil War break out? How did the war end? 25. What were the contents of the New Deal?
26. What was the impact of the Vietnam War-on American society? 27. Who was McCarthy and what was McCarthyism?
28. What is counterculture? What are some of the forms of counterculture? 29. What are the functions of the Congress?
30. What are some of the characteristics of American education? III. Explain the following terms.
1. the Hardian’s Wall: It was one of the two great walls built by the Romans to keep the Picts out of the area they had conquered.
2. Alfred the Great Alfred was a strong king of the wisemen. It was created by the Anglo-Saxons to advise the king. It’s the basis of the Privy Council which still exists today.
3. William the Conqueror William was Duke of Normandy. He landed his army in Oct, 1066 and defeated king Harold. Then he was crowned king of England on Christmas Day the same year. He established a strong Norman government and the feudal system in England.
4. the battle of Hastings In 1066, King Edward died with no heir, the Witan chose Harold as king. William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England. On October 14, the two armies met near Hasting. After a day’s battle, Harold was killed and his army completely defeated. So this battle was very important on the way of the Roman conquest.
5. Domesday Book Under William, the feudal system was established. William sent officials to compile a property record known as Domesday Book, which completed in 1086. It was the result of a general survey of England made in 1085. It stated the extent, value, the population, state of cultivation, and ownership of the land. It seemed to the English like the Book of doom on Judgement Day.
6. the Great Charter King John’s reign caused much discontent among the barons. In 1215, he was forced to sign a document, known as Mungna Cara, or the Great Charter. It has 63 clauses. Though it has long been regarded as the foundation of English liberities, its spirit was the limitation of the king’s powers, keeping them within the bounds of the feudal law of the land.
7. the Hundred Years’ War It referred to the intermittent war between France and England that last from 1337 to 1453. The causes were partly territorial and partly economic. When Edward III claimed the French Crown
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