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121. Britain is separated from the European continent by_____, North Sea and_____. 122. The chief ranges in England are the _____, and the ______.
123. Some of the large fishing ports in Britain are____, Grimsby and ____.
124. Parliament is the supreme legislative authority in Britain and consists of the House of ___,
and the House of ____.
125. The early settlers on the British Isles were the ___ and ____.
126. In 1381, the peasants in ___ rebelled. They were determined to abolish___. 127. The American Industrial Revolution began in the year of ___ with its ___ industry. 128. American education is mainly classified into _____, ____ and higher.
129. The Enlightenment in America provided the colonists with a ___ and ___ weapon against
the British rule.
130. President Nixon visited China in Feb, 19 ____. In the year of ___ the US established
diplomatic relations with China.
131. The present sovereign of Britain is ______, and Prince ____ is the heir to the throne. 132. The Cabinet is composed of the most ____ ministers who meet regularly under the ___ of
the Prime Minister.
133. From the middle of the 5th century three Teutonic groups, Anglos, Saxons and ____ began
to migrate from the region of ____.
134. The 15th and 16th centuries were marked by the ___ of feudalism and the ___ of
capitalism in English history.
135. The British Empire began with the founding of ___ in 1583, and fell after the ___ World
War.
136. The Constitution of the United States follows two principles: the __system and the __ of
powers.
137. In legislation the President of U.S. has a ___ power over bills passed by ___.
138. By the mid-19th century, the territory of the US had reached over ___ million square
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kilometers, about ___ times the size of the total area of the original thirteen states.
139. The Conservative Party developed out of the ___ Party, while the Liberal party developed
out of the ____.
140. The ancestors of the English ______, while the Scots, Welsh and Irish the ______. 141. The Central Lowlands of Scotland include the valleys of the _____, _____ and Forth
rivers.
142. The British did not adopt rational reforms such as____ system until 1975, and the ____
system until 1971.
143. The Hundred Year’s War was a war against ___ for the French crown and for the industrial
city of ___.
144. Geographically speaking, the north and west of Britain are _______, while the east and
south-east are mostly______.
145. The English Bourgeois Revolution exerted great influence on___ and the ____ revolutions
in the 18th century.
146. The South's lending industries are those that make use of the _______ supply of natural
resources and _____ materials.
147. Congress consists of the ____ and the House of _____.
148. In terms of their political administration, the thirteen British colonies can be divided into
three types: the ____ colonies, the central colonies and the ____ colonies.
149. The three kinds of local governments under a state government are ____ governments, city,
town, or ____ governments and local governments of districts set up for special purposes.
150. The Senate serves a term of _____ years, and every two years, _______ of the Senators
stands for re - election.
151. The farmland in the eastern half of Britain is used for raising ___. Its chief agricultural
products are wheat,_____, oats and potatoes.
152. The so-called “Glorious Revolution” was actually a bloodless ___ by the bourgeoisie in
the year of ___.
153. The ___ conflict between the bourgeoisie and the Monarchy and the persecution of ___
constituted two of the major causes of the bourgeois revolution.
154. The Industrial Revolution was a revolution in both the ___ of production and the relations
of production. It began in the ___ industry in the 1760s and lasted until 1830.
155. The Open University is so called because it is ___ to people of ___ages.
156. In the ____century a large number of Chinese were shipped to America as “____” 157. The earliest inhabitants in America were ___, who had come over from Asia by crossing
the land bridge across the present ___ Strait.
158. The French and Indian War was fought between the ___ and the French, who were
contending for the ___ Valley.
159. In February 1861, six of the slave states that had seceded from the Union formed the ____
and elected ___ as their president.
160. Secondary education in the US takes place in a variety of junior and senior high schools,
which can be distinguished as vocational high school, ___ and ____.
161. ___ who gets the majority of the ___ votes is elected President of the US.
162. Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in the year of ___. He called the native
Indians because he believed the islands to which he had come were off the coast of ___.
163. Oxford and Cambridge were the only universities in ___ until the ___ century.
164. In _____, the English Civil War broke out. The Cavaliers supported the king, while the
Roundheads supported _______.
165. The highest point in Wales is ____ in the ____Mountain Range.
166. At the primary stage of the general election, the voters elect ___ to the national ___ of the
two parties in each state.
167. In the first two decades after World War II the US government adopted a policy of Cold
War and ___ in its relationship with the Soviet Union. This policy was later replaced by the
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policy of ___ for world hegemony.
168. According to their year of study, undergraduate students are called freshman, ____, junior
and ____ respectively.
169. After the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell declared England a ______, later, he became
_________.
170. Canada's early economic development was founded on a number of resource - based
______: fishing, forestry, _______ and mining.