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Us 3

In
1782,
the
french
who
settled
in
pennsy
first
asked
the
question

what
is
an
American
Letters from An American Farmer.

The
New
world
of
america
was
peopled
as
a
result
of
two
long-continuing
immigration
movements,
the
first
one
from
Asia

and
the
second
from
Europe

and

Africa.
American
indians
had
developed
three
brilliant
civilizations
before
the
Europeans
arrived. These three civilizations were
the Aztecs
,
the

Incas
and
the Mayas
.
Columbus discovered the new world in the year of
1492
The English king claimed the territory of North America based on the voyage of
John
Cabot
.
Martin luther
was the first to start the Religious reformation and the next important
leader of the reformation was
John Calvin.
The first permanent settlement in north america was established in today's
Virginia

in the year of
1607
.
The crop
tobacco
that was transplanted from the west indian saved virginia.
lord Baltimore who set up the colony of
Maryland
was
Catholics
in religion.
New
england
was
founded
by
a
group
of
religious
believers
called
Puritans

while
pennsylvania was planted by
William Penn
who was a
Quakev
in religion.

Us 4
After
the
war
of
independence
was
won,
the
national
government
was
called

the
congress

and
the
agreement
that
guided
the
government
was

the
Articles
of
Confederation.
The
city
where
the
declaration
of
independence
was
signed
and
where
the
US
constitution was made is
Philadelphia.

The constitutional convention was held in the year of
1787
and the president of the
convention was
George Washington.

The constitution set up a federal system with
a strong central government
.
A federal system is one in which power is shared between
a central authority
and
its
constitution
with some rights reserved to each.
The
US
federal
government
consists
of
the
following
three
branches:
the
executive ,
the legislative
and
the judicial.

The
congress
is divided into t
he
House of
Representatives
with
435
members
who
serve two year terms, and
the Senate
with 100 lawmakers who serve sixyear terms.
Group who try to persuade congressmen to vote for or against a bill are known as

lobbies
.
The supreme court is composed of
1
chief justice and
8
associate justice.
The supreme court has the function of determining whether congressional legislative
or executive action violates the constitution. this power is called
judicial review
.
There are
26
amendments to the US constitution
The two major political parties are
the democratic party
, which is thought to be more
liberal, and
the republican party
, which is believed to be more conservative.


US unit6
1. WASP stands for
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

2. The Great Awakening of the 1740s tried to breathe new feeling and strength into r
eligion, and cut across the the lines of
protestant religious group.

3. According to John Locke, the right to govern comes from an agreement or
social co
ntract
voluntarily entered into by free people.
4.
Deists
believes that reason teaches that God exists but leaves man free to settle hi
s own affairs5. The majority of the Catholics in the US are descendants of immigrants
from
Ireland, Italy
and Poland.
6. Prayer and Bible reading in public schools in the US are
unconstutional.

7. The Three Faiths in the US refer to Protestant,
Cathonlic and Jewish
.
8. According to the text, in England, four-fifths of the people except Catholics go to c
hurch less than once a month; in Sweden the majority hardly ever go to church at all.
Yet
half
of American Protestants are active church members.
9. Freedom of religious belief or non-belief is provided in the
The First Amendment
in
the US Constitution.
10. The first Catholic president in the US was
J.F. Kennedy.



US unit7
1.
Washington lrving and James Fenimore Cooper
are the two major writers of the po
st-Revolutionary period.
2.
written


3. In 1852, a New England woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a novel titled
Uncle Tom' Cabin
, which intensified the political debate on slavery.
4. Mark Twain's
The Adentures of Huckleberry Finn
is considered the greatest novel i
n American literature.
5. Upton Sinclair's novel
The Jungle
exposed the horrible lives of meat-packing factor
y workers.
6. Ezra Pound's poetry is famous for
imagism
, the use of strong, concrete images.
7. T.S. Eliot's long poem
The Waste Land
revealed a pessimistic view of post-World W
ar I society. He dominated the so- called
“Modern”
movement in poetry.
8. After World War I, many novelists produced literary works of disillusionment. Som
e of them lived abroad and were known as the
“Lost

Gerneration”.

9. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel
The Great Gatsby
was about youth's golden dream turnin
g to disappointment.
10. The following three novels were the best-known written by Ernest Hemingway:
T
he Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms.

11. William Faulkner effectively uses
the stream of consciousness,
multiple points of
view, symbolism and imagery in his novels.
12.
Eugene O'Neil
is a great American playwright, whose plays include Desire Under t
he Elms and Long Day's Journey into Night.
13. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was a portrait of a poor family during the p
eriod of
the Depression.

14. Richard Wright wrote the novel
The Native Son
, and Ralph Ellison wrote the novel
Invisible Man. Both were black writers.
15. The representative work of the
Ho
wl.
16.
Toni Morrison
won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1993, the first Afro-American
writer to receive this honor.



UK unit 1
1. The full name of United kingdom is the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and North
ern Ireland.

2. The island of Great Britain is made up of
England, Scotland and Wales.

3. The United King has been a member of the
European Union
since 1973.
4. Britain is now a
multiralcial
society which produces a population of which 1 in 20 a
re of
non-European
ethnicity.
5. London plays a significant role in Britain's economic and cultural life, it's not only t
he financial
centre
of the nation, but also one of the major international financial cen
tres in the world.
6. Britain is a country with a history of invasions. In 43 AD Britain was invaded by the
Roman Empire
in the late 8th century they experienced raids from Scandinavia and in
the 11th century they suffered invasions from
Normans.

7. The Anglo-Saxons began to settle in Britain in the
fifth
century.
8. The capital of Britain is
London
, which has great influence on the UK in all fields inc
luding government, finance, and
culture
.

UK unit 1-2
9. Charles the First, king of Britain, was executed, because he arrempted to overthro
w
parliament
in the English Revolution.
10. Name two Scottish cities which have ancient and internationally respected univer
sities:
Edingburgh and Glasgow.

11. The battle of Bannockburn led by Robert the Bruce succeeded in winning the full
independence of
Scotland
.
12. Both the Scottish and Welsh people elect their members of parliaments to the Lo
ndon parliament and each holds
72 and 38
seats respectively.
13. The capital of Scotland is
Edingburgh,
which is well-known for its natural
beauty.

14. Although wales is the smallest of the three nations on the mainland, it's good at g
etting
investment
from abroad, particularly Japan and
the United States
.

UK unit 3-1
1.
King Egbert
, the ancestor of the present Queen, Elizabeth II, united England under
his rule in 829.
2. The doctrine of the
ority from
God
, not from
his subjects
.
3. During the civil war in the 17th century, those who represented the interests of Par