英语国家概况 谢福之 课后习题答案 完整版(11)

英语国家概况 谢福之 课后习题答案 完整版

Conservative Party.(T)

6.Blair made the Bank of England independent in order to separate politics and economic policy.(T)

7.Britain is the world's leading exporter of poultry and dairy products.(F)

8.The fishing industry provides more than 50%of Britain's demand for fish.(T)

9.Britain is an important oil exporter since its oil industry has a long history.(F)

10.Nuclear power is one of the major energy sources in Britain.(T)

Chapter 5

1.The British government has been responsible for education since the early 1800s.(F)

2.Education in Britain is compulsory for all children between the ages of 6 and 15.(F)

3.The National Curriculum is compulsory in both the state system and the independent system.(F)

4.When children finish their schooling at 16, they are required to take a national GCSE examination.(T)

5.Graduates from state schools in Britain have a less favorable chance to enter famous universities than those from independent schools.(T)

6.In the 1960s, a large number of new universities were founded in Britain.(T)

7.Most British people begin their day with reading the morning newspaper and end it watching television in the evening.(T)

8.The Times is the world's oldest national newspaper(F)

9.The BBC World Service broadcasts only in English throughout the world.(F)

10.Some British holidays are celebrated to mark the important events of the Christian calendar, and others are related to local customs and traditions.(T)

Chapter 6

1.The Canterbury Tales is a representative work of the Old English Period.(F)

2.Renaissance is characterized by admiration of the Greek and Latin classics.(T)

3.Hamlet depicts the hero's struggle with two opposing forces: moral integrity and the need to avenge his father's murder.(T)

4.Alexander Pope was a great English poet who also translated Homer's Iliad.(T)

5.Jonathan Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and Robinson Crusoe is his masterpiece.(F)

6.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge brought the Romantic Movement to its height.(F)

7.Lord Byron distinguished himself by the musical quality of his short poems, such as "Ode to the West Wind".(F)

8.Jane Austen was a well--known novelist of the stream of consciousness school.(F)

9.Joseph Conrad is classified as a forerunner of Modernism, which prevailed before World War II.(T)

10.V.S.Naipaul detailed in his works the dual problems of the Third World: the oppression of colonialism and the chaos of postcolonialism.(T)