1 . Did anyone find the names of “the British Isles”, “Great Britain”, “the United Kingdom”, “England”and “the British Commonwealth” which have the same meaning? Strictly speaking these names all refer to something different. None of them are exactly the same as any of the others.
The British Isles refer to the main islands and several thousand small ones as well, which you can see on the map.Great Britain, or Britain, refers to the larger of the two main islands.But the word “Britain” is often used as a short form for the United Kingdom or you call it the UK.
Now as for England, it refers simply to the largest of the three countries on the island of Great Britain.The United Kingdom is the name of the state and the official name of the country, which many people popularly refer to England.Finally, the British Commonwealth is the usual name for what is left of the British Empire (帝国).This change shows the weakening of British Empire and the rising of the national liberation movements throughout the world today.
1. According to the passage, we know that ________ .A.Great Britain has the same meaning as Britain |
B.the United Kingdom has the same meaning as Britain or England |
C.all the names in the first paragraph have the same meaning |
D.all the names refer to England |
A.Britain, England and the UK |
B.the two main islands and thousands of small ones |
C.three countries and several islands |
D.Great Britain or the United Kingdom |
A.Edinburgh,England | B.Edinburgh,Great Britain |
C.Scotland,Edinburgh,England | D.Great Britain,Scotland,Edinburgh |
A.the UK is not as powerful as it was in the past |
B.the British Commonwealth is another name of the UK |
C.England is the largest country in the British Commonwealth |
D.no other country is left in the British Commonwealth except Britain |
Several large wooden constructions
First discovered in 1978,the site used
Researchers
Researchers believe
One of the ways that early Chinese immigrant laborers who were held on the Angel Island in the US protested their ill treatment
Since the 1970s, various efforts
I had read the poems and about their history, but it was not until I visited the site of the camps in 2016 and saw those carvings on the walls
4 . If you love chocolate, maybe you have eaten a bar of Cadbury's Bournville chocolate. But Bournville isn't just the name of an English chocolate bar. It's the name of a village which was built especially for workers at the Cadbury's chocolate factory.
George and Richard Cadbury took over the chocolate business from their father in 1861. A few years later, they moved the factory out of the centre of Birmingham, a city in the middle of England, to an area close to the railways and canals so that they could receive milk deliveries easily and send the finished products to stores across the country. More importantly, here, the air was much cleaner than in the city, and the Cadbury brothers thought it would be a much healthier place for their employees to work.
They named the site Bournville after a local river called "The Bourn" and "Ville", the French word for town, was used because at the time, people thought French chocolate was the highest quality. The new factory opened in 1879. Close to it, they built a village where the factory workers could live. The Cadbury brothers thought their workers deserved to live and work in good conditions. In the factory, workers were given a fair wage, a pension and access to medical treatment. The village provided everything that workers needed including a shop, a school and a community centre where evening classes were held to train young members of the workforce.
The Cadbury brothers were among the first business owners to make sure that their workers had good standards of living. Soon, other British factory owners were copying their ideas by providing homes and communities for their workers designed with convenience and health in mind.
Today, over 25,000 people live in Bournville village. Over a hundred years since the first house here was built, the aims of its founders have still been carried out.
1. Why did the Cadbury brothers choose the new site for the chocolate factory?A.It had clean countryside air. | B.There were so many cows. |
C.A lot of people lived nearby. | D.It was in the downtown. |
A.A local town. | B.A French word. | C.An employee | D.A French river. |
A.They were used for finished chocolate. | B.The workers used them free of charge |
C.They were near the chocolate factory | D.The factory workers had them built. |
A.Careful. | B.Conservative. | C.Demanding | D.Pioneering |
The history of Chinese Teachers5 Day
Excellent teachers would be chosen from academies and
The customs to show respect to teachers varied from region to region. Today, the goal of Teachers5 Day is to form a social climate