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| www.iselong.com 日期：2006-03-14 13:42
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主题: 英概——————美国之最
下次会打出美国之最（世界、国家、城市之最）及少部分美国作家作品等。
1、 England is the most important part of the Kingdom in wealth, size, and population.
2、 Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in Britain. It is 1343 meters.
3、 The North Sea is the first high quality petroleum.
4、 Britain is one of the world’s most advanced manufacturing and trading nations.
5、 The British economy was the first to have been fully industrialized.
6、 The cotton industry, the largest branch, has undergone a severe contraction.
7、 The British agricultural industry is one of the most efficient in Europe.
8、 The earliest invasion is that by the dark-haired Mediterranean race called the Iberians.
9、 Birmingham is the second largest city in England.
10、Liverpool is the second largest port of England.
11、Before the great Ice Age, Great Britain was joined to the continent of Europe. It was then that men first came to Britain.
12、Alfred was considered the first national hero.
13、Normandy was the most highly organized state in Europe at that time.
14、There were a number of lords, but the most important class was the knights.
15、The Normans were the finest fighting horsemen.
16、At the end of the century, the most well-known company, the East India Company was formed.
17、The English Renaissance’s finest exponents were Christopher Malovve, Ben Johnson, and William Shakespeare. The greatest dramatist of the age was Shakespeare.
18、The early 17th century was a period of the most acute class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the feudalists with the King as their head.
19、Economic recovery was the most difficult task for the Commonwealth. In 1651 Parliament passed the first Navigation Act.
20、The most notoriously comipt of the Whig statesmen in that half century was Robert Walpole.
21、In 1761 the first extensive canal was opened. In1814 George Stephenson constructed the first successful steam locomotive.
22、The economic boom which began in 1824 collapsed in 1825,causing the first of many periodic economic crises in the world.
23、In1840 under the pretext of protecting her trade, Britain launched an aggressive war against China. This was the Opium War.
24、From the mid-19th century onward a number of British colonies were organized into dominiors.The dominion of Canada was the first British dominion to be so organized.
25、The Third Reform Bill of 1884 and the Redistribution Act of 1885 was the most important of reforms.
26、The Irish question one of the oldest issues created the greatest difficulties.
27、In foreign policy the most important achievement was the Locarno Treaty of 1926.
28、In the early 1950’s,Britain’s first atomic bomb was tested, joining her to the US and the USSR as a nuclear power.
29、Margaret Thatcher was the first female Prime Minister in the nation’s history.
30、In 1981,the Humber Bridge was completed at 4626 feet the world’s longest Suspension Bridge.The world’s longest high-speed opitical fiber link connected Birmingham with London.
31、The longest ministry of the century,it had glorified the Victorian values of self-help and nationalism.
32、John Major became the first Western leader to visit liberated Kuwait.
33、The European Union is the world’s largest trading bloc.
34、The world famous universities Oxford and Cambridge,are the oldest ones dating from 1167 and 1284.
35、Durham University came into being in1832,the oldest university in this group and the first English university after Oxford and Cambridge.
36、A large group of nineteenth and twentieth century universities were founded in most of the biggest industrial towns and in a few other centres. They started as “university colleges”.
37、The earlist known printed newspaper in Britain was published in 1513.It was called Trewe Encountre.
38、The Times is the most famous of all British papers and the oldest at that.
39、The most important Periodicals are the Economist, New Statesman,Spectator,New Society,Private Eye and New Scientist.
40、British radio and television play an important part in daily life,social activities,cultural and educational causes.They are chiefly run by three companies:the British Broadcasting Corporation(B.B.C),the Independent Television Commission(I.T.C),and the Radio Authority,though there are many commercial,companies.
41、The Press Association Ltd.which was founded by provincial newspapers on a co-operative basis in 1868 is the oldest and largest news agency operating exclusively in Britain.
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