1. The highest mountain peak in Britain is in Scotland.
2. British climate has more rainy days and more fogs with changeability.
3. British has a temperate, maritime climate
4. Britain's most important natural resources are coal and petroleum.
5. The English people are descendants of Anglo-Saxons.
6. The established church of Britain is the Church of England.
7. The major languages spoken in Britain are English, Gaelic, and Welsh.
8. The Roman Catholic Church was much percuted in England for a long time after the Reformation.
9. By the 1890s', Britain had been overtaken by the US and Germany in economy.
10. Under Mrs. Thatcher, British economy in the 1980s' gradually recovered.
11. The negative aspect of Thatcher's reform was a rapid increa in taxation.
12. The Bank of England advis government on the formulation of monetary policy and plays an important part in making agreed policy effective and acts as a clearing hou.
13. Britain has no written constitution, and still keeps an old-fashioned government. British government is established on the basis of constitutional monarchy.
14. The British government ministers are responsible to Parliament for the work of their department.
15. The prent sovereign of Britain is Queen Elisabeth Ⅱ, and Prince Charles is the heir to the throne.
16. Theoretically, the Queen has all the power, but in reality, she must act on the advice of the ministers.
17. The Liberal Democratic is en as the party of the "middle", occupying the ideological ground between the two main parties.
18. The general election in Britain is held every 5 years.
19. The Conrvative Party developed out of the Tory Party, while the Liberal Party developed out
of the Whig Party.
20. Punishment in Britain is in the form of fine and imprisonment. The death penalty for murder was completely abolished in the year of 1969.
21. The earliest ttlers on the British Isles were the Iberians.
22. Kent, one of the British early kingdoms, was t up by the Jutes.
23. The Romans under Claudius conquered Britain in A.D. 43.
24. Henry Ⅱ is best remembered for his reform of laws and courts.
25. Edward Ⅲ launched the Hundred Years' War.
26. Wars of Ros were fought intermittently between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists from 1455 to 1465.
27. The Enclosure of land turned a large number of peasants into landless.
28. The Restoration of Charles Ⅱ took place in the year of 1660.
29. The British Industrial Revolution first began in the textile industry.
30. James Hargreaves invented the "spinning Jenny".
31. After the Seven Years’ War England became the strongest a power and dominated world trade.
32. Oliver Twist was written by Charles Dickens.
33. The British Empire reached the peak of its colonial expansion after the Anglo-Boer War.
34. China and Britain established the diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial rank in the year of 1972.
35. The British Empire began with the founding of Newfoundland in 1583, and fell after the end of the Second World War.
36. The two imperialist blocks that had been formed just before the outbreak of World War Ⅰ were Triple Alliance and Triple Entente.
37. Universities that were founded between 1850 and 1930 are called Redbrick universities.
38. All universities in Britain are private institutions.
39. Independent schools in Britain are private educational institutions.
40. Any child may attend, without paying fees, a state school in Britain.
41. The continental United States is situated in the southern part of North America.
42. Alaska was bought by the United States from Russia after the end of the American Civil War.
43. The State of Alaska is the largest in the area of all the 50 states.
44. The famous Niagara Falls are located on the US-Canadian boundary between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
45. The State of California is the largest in population today.
46. People in the US have kept moving westward for reasons except religious freedom.
47. Black people in the US are descended from Negro slaves imported from Africa.
48. In the 19th century a large number of Chine were shipped to America as "coolies".
49. In the industrial capitalism stage American economy developed rapidly.
50. The West of the United States is an important mining area.
51. The automobile is the most popular means of transportation in the United States.
