Answers to III. Blank Filling:
Introduction:
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
England; Scotland; Wales
European Union
Multiracial; non-European
Britain’s; center; the three; the world
Chapter 1
four, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
the Roman empire, Vikings, the Normans
the 5th
London, government, economy, culture
overrule the parliament
Glasgow, Edinburgh
Scotland
72, 38
Edinburgh, beauty
British, investment, America
Chapter 2
1914; the First World War
the Easter Rising; Post Office; military means
parliament; dominance; a Civil Rights; equality
Official; political process; election
Provisional; armed force
paramilitary; Catholics
trial; internment
“political prisoners”; give in; 11
civil rights march; British soldiers; Bloody Sunday
pressure; solution
political; Ireland; the Bullet and the Ballot Box
a cease fire; the SDLP; Sinn Fein
Sinn Fein; the IRA
the Royal Ulster Constabulary
Chapter 3
King Egbert
the sovereign derived his authority from God, not from his subjects
roundheads; royalists/cavaliers
John; Magna Carta
the Great Council
the Bill of Rights
the Prime Minister
the Queen; the House of Commons
statute law; the common laws; conventions
pass laws
the Queen; the House of Lords; the House of Commons
Windsor Castle; Buckingham Palace
the Prime Minister; the sovereign
male/patrilineal
Chapter 4
651; the parliament
the government; the Prime Minister
5
vote of no confidence
the list of citizens eligible to vote
percentage of vote
constituency campaign
opinion polls
the Conservative party; the Labour party; the Liberal Democrats
the National Health Service
John Major; Tony Blair
Chapter 5
India; raw materials
domestic industrial investment; overseas investment
a relative; an absolute
the International Monetary Fund
Margaret Thatcher; privatization
international direct investment
primary; tertiary/service
BSE disease
North Sea
drug; ICI
The London Stock Exchange
jet engine
Chapter 6
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
tragedies; comedies; historical plays
Hamlet; Romeo and Juliet
Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights
novelists; critics
Walter Scott; Robert Louis Stevenson; Oliver Twist; Bleak House
Modernism; Postmodernism
20th; female; the stream of consciousness
Joseph Conrad; John Fowles; George Orwell
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
John Le Carre
Chapter 7
Football; tennis
the Football Association Cup
Wimbledon
cricket
Scottish/Scots; St Andrews
flat racing; steeple chasing
the Royal Ascot
Equestrianism
Hunt saboteurs
angling
Chapter 8
Jewish, Muslim
the birth of Jesus Christ; Easter
The Christmas Pantomime; the principal boy; the Dame
Boxing Day
Ramadan
dragon dances
Trooping the Colour; Buckingham Palace
Guy Fawkes Night
William of Orange; the Boyne
12 July
patron saint of Ireland; Trinity
first-footing
Burns Supper; the Eisteddfod
Halloween
Chapter 9
Oxford; Cambridge
Eton; Winchester
five; sixteen
five; eleven; primary
secondary; nineteen
state; private
private; education
general; academic; practical
St. Andrews; Glasgow (or Edinburgh; Aberdeen)
Open University
General Certificate of Secondary Education
General Certificate of Education --- Advanced
General National Vocational Qualifications
Chapter 10
owner-occupation
mortgage
flats; terraced houses; semi-detached houses; detached houses
suburban; inner-city
blue-collar; white-collar
lower middle
The Guardian; The Sun
Oxbridge
hereditary aristocracy
India; Caribbean
Chapter 11
imperial; Canada; Australia
setting up; the five; the UN Security Council
imperial; geopolitical traits
the United States; influences
airlines; the Channel Tunnel; Europe
the Prime Minister; Cabinet
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
parliamentary; electorate
a forum; network
fifty; developing; advanced
defence; the third; the fifth or sixth
nuclear; superpowers
bloc; presence; nuclear deterrent
submarines
Chapter 12
watching telly; reading newspapers; listening to the radio
newspaper, national; daily
ten; The Times; The Guardian
quality; in-depth; a middle class
The Guardian or The Times
the tabloids; the gutter
control; censorship; limit
the British Broadcasting Corporation; broadcaster; television
two; special interest audiences
the Guardian; green politics; social issues
a paper; the tabloids
The Financial Times
the Official Secret Act; secret
functions; information; forming a national culture