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Britain’s climate is influenced by（）,a warm ocean current that passes the western coast of the British Isles and warms them.
A . the North Atlantic Drift
B . the Brazil Current
C . the Labrador Current
D . the Falkland Current
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The British national anthem is（）
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The largest lake in the British Isles is（）.
A . Loch Lomond
B . Loch Neagh
C . Windermere
D . Ullswater
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The two components of the British parliament are ( ) and ( ).
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Relating to the story of K by Coetzee, Robinson Crusoe can be seen as a typical image of a colonizer in British expansion.
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The Tatler, a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709, featured cultivated essays on ( ).
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______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors all through the 18th century.
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The British ( ) is the central organization of the Legislature.
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In addition to the Puritan poets represented by John Milton, there were also the _______ poets who sided with the King agaisnt the Puritans during the British Civil Wars.
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_____________was perhaps the most important development in fashion in the 1960s, invented by Mary Quant a British designer, she began a major international fashion.
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How many British factories were affected by strikes in 1976 and 1977?
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Cambridge is the oldest of all the British universities.
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Who offered his personal library when the capital building of Library of Congress was burned by British troops in 1814?
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The
U.S Congress corresponds the British Parliament.
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________visitors to the UK were asked by newspaper reporters what their impressions of the British people were.
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There has been, in history, a man who was swallowed by a whale and lived to tell the tale. The man&39;s name is James Bartley. The records to prove his unusual experience are in the British Admiralty.
Bartley was making his first trip on the whaling ship Star of the East. Suddenly the lookout sighted a huge sperm whale. The whalers knew it was a huge whale by the size of the spray it blew into the air. They lowered their small boats. James Bartley was in the first longboat. The men rowed until they were close to the whale. A harpoon was thrown and it found its mark. It sank into the whale&39;s flesh. The maddened beast crashed into the boat, snapping its tail at the men and the wreckage of their boats. When the survivors were picked up, James Bartley was missing.
Shortly before sunset, the whale was finally captured. The sailors tied the whale&39;s dead body to the side of the ship. Because of the hot weather it was important that they cut up the whale right away. Otherwise, the meat would begin to rot and oil would begin to spoil. When they got to the stomach, they felt something moving about wildly. They thought it would be a big fish still alive inside. But when they opened the stomach they found James Bartley. After this trip, Bartley settled in England, and never returned to sea.
1、This passage is mainly about__________.
A.how to hunt whales for their oil and meat
B.The hard and dangerous lives that whalers had to live
C.The duties of each man on a whaling ship
D.a man who was swallowed by a whale and lived
James Barfley probably never went to sea again because__________.A.he wanted different kinds of adventures
B.of fright and shock
C.he was crippled by the whale
D.he often got seasick
The sailors knew that something was in the whale's stomach because__________.A.they could feel it moving about wildly
B.The whale seemed very heavy
C.The whale was swelling at one spot
D.The captain heard Bartley yelling for help
The author, in telling James Bartley's story, informs us by__________.A.narrating the plain facts
B.referring to whaling in general
C.comparing whaling to other fishing
D.dramatically telling what happened
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！
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Rugby has the reputation of being the roughest sports in the world. Outside the British Isles, rugby is little known and, in fact, is often confused with soccer. But in England, as old sports saying serves to point out the differences between the two games: soccer is supposedly a gentlemen's game played by ruffians, whereas rugby is a ruffian's game played by gentlemen.
The game begins with a kick-off from one end of a 100-yard field. The receiving ruggers, as a rugby team is called, attempt to move the ball down the field, the opposing team attempts to stop the man with the ball.
The rules are quite simple. You cannot tackle anyone but the man who is carrying the ball, and once the ball carrier is tackled, he must give up the ball. Obviously, a good strategy for moving the ball. downfield is to carry it as far as possible, then pass the ball before being tackled.
If the ball carder can travel the length of the field, his team is awarded four points, and another two points are won by kicking the ball over the goalpost after the score. Penalties are equally simple, tackling a player who is not carrying the ball carries a ten-yard penalty. Much of rugby's reputation for roughness stems from the fact that the players wear no pads. To Americans accustomed to seeing professional foot-ball players in suits and helmets like armor, a rugby player's uniform. seems suicidally simple. Most ruggers wear a very thick jersey, heavy gymnasium shorts, heavy socks, rugby shoes, and a mouthpiece. Ruggers use other equipment or pads only when an injury requires protection. But even with this minimal equipment, the game is apparently not as brutal as it might seem. The players are quite satisfied with the lack of padding and helmets and actually think the game might be too rough if players used more equipment. "Human nature is not to hit as hard if no one is wearing pads," one rugger explains. Rugby games are played in two halves, each lasting forty minutes. Teams always meet to play two games consecutively, back-to-back. Again, playing a demanding physical sport like rugby for more than 160 minutes seems like an impossible task, but the ruggers love this idea. "It gives everyone on the team a chance to get into the game," they say. Rugby is slowly catching on in America. The sport is gaining an enthusiastic following among college teams and in independent ruggy "unions" organized on the British model. It has all the appeal of football, but it is simpler and requires much less costly equipment. Rugby is ready to be rediscovered.
The main purpose of this passage is to ______.
A．compare English and American sports
B．compare rugby to football
C．discuss the brutality of rugby
D．provide a brief introduction to rugby
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They are said to be reluctant to forsake the pleasures of single life. But nothing could be further from the truth; British women are much more attached to marriage than their European counterparts, around 95.1 percent of British women have married at least once by age 49, the highest figure in the European Union. Only 91.2 percent of British men have walked up the aisle by the same age.
Meanwhile, the much discussed trend for delaying marriage until later in life--blamed on career women reluctant to have children--may actually reflect a return to the historical norm.
The average age of first marriage in Europe 200 years ago was 28, the same as British brides in 1998, according to a paper for the National Family and Parenting Institute, the independent thinktank set up by Jack Straw to advise on family issues.
"The public conversation about marriage has often been conducted in an atmosphere fraught with anxiety that can easily tip over into what commentators have described as a moral panic," the report, comparing European trends in marriage, adds.
"Changes in the marriage rate and in the way people form. relationships are part and parcel of a society where change is rapid and individuals feel helpless in the face of new developments; yet it is vital that these issues can be discussed without blame."
The paper does not include divorce rates. In 1997 Britain had the highest divorce rate in Europe, although by 1999 the rate had fallen to the level of the late 1980s.
Despite much political consternation about the family, the report suggests British attitudes are more socially conservative than those of many EU counterparts.
Nine out of 10 couples in Britain living with their children are married, compared to half in Finland. And while cohabiting is becoming the norm for European twentysomethings, "change has happened much more rapidly across the whole of the EU than in the UK", the report finds. Around a third of British under-thirties live with a partner, but it is closer to half in France and 40 per cent in Germany.
"This report is about let's bring a cool head to this debate," said Gill Keep, head of policy at the institute. "It is much easier to take the panic out of the discussion if you look at it in a comparative way; things that you think are destroying your own society are actually common trends and they may not be that destructive."
She said that despite anxiety over later marriages--the average age of first-time brides rose from 23 in the postwar period to 28 for women and 30 for men by 1999--historically this would have seemed normal.
Social historian Christina Hardyment said that in the nineteenth century couples would not marry until they could afford to support a household. "Women below the middle classes would always work in some capacity, mainly in domestic service, and it made sense to save; people think of kings and queens and nobility being married off at 12 but that was highly unusual," she said.
It is a well-known fact that British women are unwilling to abandon single life for a marriage.
A．True
B．False
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The British Commonwealth 名词解释
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Why were the French troops in Canada defeated by the British during the Seven Years' War（）
A．Because they were not used to the weather in Cananda.
B．Because they did not get support from the local people.
C．Because they did not receive the supplies they needed so badly.
D．Because the British had larger and better settlements in Canada.
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Britain’s climate is influenced by _______ that sweeps up from the equator and flows past the British Isles.
A、the Gulf Strteam
B、the Brazil Current
C、the Labrador Current
D、the Falkland current
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Wht is the full nme of BBC British Brodcsting CoopertionB．British Brodcsting CompWht is the full nme of BBC British Brodcsting Coopertion B．British Brodcsting Compny C．British Brodcsting Corportion D．British Brodwy Coopertion
A．British Broadcasting Cooperation
B．British Broadcasting Company
C．British Broadcasting Corporation
D．British Broadway Cooperation
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The cab of a British car is on the left.（)
是
否
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In 1691 a colonial postal service was outined by the British government and a number of Postmaster－Generals were appointed in the years_______ up to the American Revolution.
A．A.led
B．B.was leading
C．C.lead
D．D.leading
