专业英语八级模拟人文知识

专业英语八级模拟人文知识测试(17) 专业英语八级模拟人文知识测试(17) ___1___ The real centre of power in the British Parliament is ___. A the King or the Queen B the House of Commons C the House of Lords D the Cabinet ___2___ The oldest part of British Parliament is ___. A the House of Lords B the House of Commons C the Shadow of Cabinet D the Chamber ___3___ The national centre of the press in Britain is ___. A Greet Russell Street B Speakers’ Corner C Downing Street D the Fleet Street ___4___ Who was crowned “Emperor of the Romans” by the Pope in 800? A St. Thomas Aquinas B Constantine C Charlemagne D King James ___5___ The Summa Theological was written by ___. A St. Thomas Aquinas B Constantine C Alfred the Great D Charles I ___6___ Among the most typical English sports, having been in existence since the 16th century, is ___. A rugby B cricket C boxing D football ___7___ The Great Charter (Magna Carta) was signed by ___ in 1215. A King Henry I B King John C King William I D King Richard ___8___ “Song of Roland” belongs to which country’s epic? ___. A English B French C Hebrew D Germanic ___9___ The Gothic style started in ___ and quickly spread through all parts of western Europe. A French B English C Hebrew D Germanic ___10___Ireland is called the Emerald Isle because of ___. A its connection with British B its green countryside C its unique shape D its abundant natural resources 1. 选B。`英国议会由王室（the Crown）、上议院（the House of Lords）和下议院（the House of Commons）构成。其中具有实权和立法权的是下议院，自1964年以来，上议院无权阻止被下议院通过的立法。 2. 选A。英国议会中最古老的部分是上议院（the House of Lords），它是由国王咨询会议(Great Council)发展而来的。 3. 选 D。the Fleet Street(舰队报)，英国报纸和出版事业的中心，位于伦敦泰晤士河畔。18、19世纪以来成为英国“报纸王国”和左右英国舆 论的中心。《泰晤士报》、《每日邮报》和《金融时报》等都在次发行。Downing Street(唐宁街)为英国首相官邸所在地。 Speakers’ Corner(自由论坛之角)在位于伦敦市区城西的威斯敏斯特区的Hyde Park(海得公园)里。 4. 选C。 Charlemagne(查理曼742？--814，即查理大帝，法兰克国王)，公元800年被罗马教皇封为“神圣罗马帝国皇帝”，史称“查理一世”（公 元800--814）。其统治期间，扩大疆土，建立庞大的帝国，加强集权统治，鼓励学术，兴建文化设施，使其宫廷成为繁华的学术中心。 5. 选A。St. Thomas Aquinas(圣.托马斯.阿奎那)中世纪意大利神学家和经院哲学家，他的哲学和神学称为托马斯主义。其代表作Summa Theological《神学大全》几乎概括了中世纪神学的所有知识。 6. 选B。英国人最典型的体育运动是板球，而足球是最受英国人欢迎的运动。因为足球于19世纪出现在英格兰。1863年足球协会（Football Association）在英格兰成立。 7. 选 B。The Great Charter(英国大宪章)，是1215年英国国王（1199--1216）亨利二世之子——King John(约翰)在以 兰顿（Langton）为首的贵族和教士们的压力下签署的重要政治法律文件。该宪章主要内容为保障贵族利益，限制王权。大宪章被认为是维护公民权不受王权 侵犯的重要文件。 8. 选B。《罗兰之歌》是法国最著名的史诗，Roland是次史诗中的主人公，他是查理大帝的外甥，诗史中描述罗兰是如何在西班牙勇敢战斗以及如何保护比利牛斯山而英勇献身的 故事 滥竽充数故事班主任管理故事5分钟二年级语文看图讲故事传统美德小故事50字120个国学经典故事ppt 。 9. 选A。Gothic Style哥特式的建筑风格于12世纪中叶始于法国，然后流行整个欧洲，这种尖拱式的建筑风格一直持续到16世纪。。 10.选B。Emerald翡翠率的意思，Emerald Isle(翡翠岛)是Ireland岛的别称。 专八人文辅导-英美文学知多少？ __1__Where is Edinburgh? A In Wales B In Scotland C In Northern Ireland D In Ireland __2__ Which of the following is Not a U.S. news and cable network? A ABC B CNN C CBS D BBC __3__The Capital of Australia is __. A Sydney B Melbourne C Canberra D Perth __4__ Which degree is offered in community colleges in the United States? A Master’s degree B Doctor’s degree C Bachelor’s degree D Associate’s degree __5__ George Bernard Shaw was a(n) __. A playwright B poet C novelist D essayist __6__ John Galsworthy was most famous for__. A Heart of Darkness B Ulysses C The Forsyste Saga D A Passage to India __7__ The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by__. A Henry James B O. Henry C Harriet Beccher Stower D Mark Twain __8__The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in condition is__. A morphology B general linguistics C phonology D semantics __9__Which of the following is NOT a compound word? A Landlady B Greenhouse C Uplift D Unacceptable __10__ The word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word signifies any which we don’t have to work. This is an example of __. A meaning shift B widening of meaning C narrowing of meaning D loss of meaning 答案 八年级地理上册填图题岩土工程勘察试题省略号的作用及举例应急救援安全知识车间5s试题及答案 ：1-5 BDCDA 6-10 CDCDB 1. 选B. Wales的首府威Cardiff, Scotland的首府为Edinburgh. Northern Ireland的首府Belfast, Ireland的首府为Dublin. 2. 选 D。 BBC=British Broadcasting Corporation英国广播公司, ABC=American Broadcasting Company, Inc美国广播公司; CNN= Cable News Network美国有线广播公司, CBS= Columbia Broadcasting System哥伦比亚广播公司 3. 选C。Sydney第一城市, 位于New South Wales州；Melbourne第二大城市位于Victoria州，Canberra位于Sydney与Melbourne之间；Perth位于Australia州 4. 选D。 Associate’s degree是准学士学位 （喵猜这个相当我们说的大专吧） 5. 选A。George Bernard Shaw (英国，萧伯纳)，爱尔兰籍，剧作家，批评家，社会评论家，主要作品有Man and Superman, Back to Methuselah, Saint Joan <圣女贞德>，Arms and the Man, Pygmalion <茶花女>，获得1925年诺贝尔文学奖。(喵，小云的上期文学七里香就是介绍了他噢) 6. 选C。John Galsworthy（英国）,小说家，剧作家。主要作品有The Forsyte Saga<福塞特家史>，于1932年获得了诺贝尔文学奖；Heart of Darkness,作者Joseph Conrad，波兰籍英国小说家，另有Lord Jim <吉姆老爷>；Ulysses, 作者James Joyce, 爱尔兰作家Finnergans Wake《为芬尼根守灵》； A Passage to India，作者E.M. Forster,英国小说家，另有Howards End霍华德别业。 7. 选D。Mark Twain= Samuel Langhorne Clemens,作品有The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Henry James, 主要作品有Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl; O.Henry= William Sydney Porter, 主要作品有Cabbages and Kings, Four Million; Harriet Beecher Stower, 其反奴隶制小说Uncle Tom’s Cabin，促进了废奴运动发展。 8. 选C。Linguistics语言学, the study of human language,包括 Theoretical linguistic, Applied linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics和Historical linguistics.这里主要考Theoretical linguistics. 9. 选D。是derivation. 10. 选B。 从any day就可以知道 widening of meaning. 专八人文地理-英国地理 1. The official name of the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 2. There are three political divisions on the islands of Great Britain: England, Scotland and Wales. 3. About a hundred years ago, Britain ruled an empire that had one fourth of the world’s people and one fourth of the world’s land area. 4. The Britain Empire was replaced by the Britain commonwealth in 1931,which is a free association of independent counties that were once colonies of Britain. 5. Britain is separated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel in the south and the North Sea in the east. 6. Britain has, for centuries, been tilting with the northwest slowly rising, and the southeast slowly sinking. The north and west of Britain are mainly highlands. The southeast and east are mainly lowlands. 7. The pennies, a range of hills running from north midlands to Scottish border, are the principal mountain chain. 8. Ben Nevis in Scotland is the highest mountain in Britain, and the Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland is the largest lake in Britain. 9. There are three natural zones in Scotland: the highlands in the north, the central lowlands, and the southern uplands. The lowlands in the center comprise mostly the forth and Clyde valleys. 10. Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast are the capitals of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. 11. Scotland has about 800 islands, including the Orkney, Shetlands and Hebrides. 苏格兰有800座岛屿，包括奥克内群岛，谢特兰群岛和赫不里德群岛。 12. Besides, the Tweed, the Tyne, the Tees and the Thames Rivers on the east coast all face the North Sea ports on the European continent. 除此以外，东海岸的邓恩河，泰河，迪斯河和泰晤士河都面临欧洲大陆上的北海各港口。 13. The longest river in Britain is the Severn River. The most important river is Thames River. River Clyde is the most important river in Scotland. 英国最长的河流是赛文河，最重要的河流是泰晤士河。克莱德河是苏格兰最重要的河流。 14. Though the weather in Britain is so changeable and unpredictable, the climate is in fact a favorable one. Britain has a steady reliable rainfall throughout the whole year. 虽然英国的天气总是如此变化无常，无法预测，但实际上英国的天气相当宜人。英国全年有稳定的降雨量。 15. Britain has a population of 57411000. it is a densely populated country with an average of 237 people per square kilometer, and it is very unevenly distributed. 90% of the population is urban, and only 10% is rural. 英国人口为57411000。它是一个人口稠密，分布不均的国家，每平方公里平均237人，90％的人生活在城镇，只有10％的人居住在农村。 16. the English are Anglo-Saxons, but the welsh, Scots and Irish are Celts. 英格兰人是安各鲁－撒克逊人。而威尔士、苏格兰和爱尔兰人是凯尔特人。 17. The Celts of Wales defended their freedom for 1000 years and were not conquered by the English until 1536. today about a quarter of the welsh population still speak welsh as their first language and about one percent speak only welsh. 威尔士的凯尔特人为自由战斗了1000年，直到1536年才被英格兰人征服。今天有大约四分之一的威尔士人把威尔士语当作第一语言，大约1％的人只讲威尔士语。 18. though the Gaelic language is still heard in the Highlands and western isles, the English language is spoken all over the Scotland. 尽管在高地和西部岛屿还能听到盖尔语，但英语却遍及全苏格兰。 19. Since then, there has been bitter fighting between the Protestants who are the dominant group, and the Roman Catholics who are seeking more social and economic opportunities. 从那时起，新教徒和罗马天主教徒间展开了艰苦的斗争，新教徒是统治者，而罗马教徒要求更多社会和经济机会。 20. About three million have came to live and find work since world war second. They are mainly from the West Indies, India and Pakistan. 自二战以来，约有三百万人来到英国居住，他们主要来自西印度群岛，印度和巴基斯坦。 专八人文指导-历史部分之英国起源 21. The first known setters of Britain were the Iberians. More dramatic monuments were the henges, the most important of which was Stonehenge in Wiltshire. 　　人们所知的英国最早居民是伊比例亚人。更为引人注目的是那些圆形石结构，其中最重要的是在维尔特郡发现的巨石阵。 　　22. The Celts may originally have come from eastern and central Europe, they came to Britain in three main waves: the first wave was the Gaels, the second was Britons and the third was Belgae. 　　凯尔特人最初来自于东欧及中欧，他们入侵英国分三次高潮：第一次是盖尔人；第二次是布立吞人；第三次是比利其人。 　　23. Julius Caesar, the great roman general, invaded Britain for the first time in 55BC. For nearly 400 years, Britain was under roman occupation. 　　伟大的罗马将军朱略思，恺撒，于公元前55年第一次入侵英国。将近400年，英国人处于罗马的占领下。 　　24. The roman built two great walls to keep the Picts. There were the Hadrian’s wall running from Carlisle to Newcastle, and the Antonine wall linking the estuaries of the Forth and the Clyde. 　　罗马人修建了2座长城以抵御皮特人。一条是哈德良长城，从卡莱尔到纽卡斯尔，另一条是链接福斯河口和克莱德河口的安东尼长城。 　　25. The Romans made use of Britain’s natural resources, mining lead, iron and tin and manufacturing pottery. 　　罗马人很好地利用了英国的自然资源，开采铅矿、铁矿和锡矿以及生产陶瓷。 　　26. In the mid-5th century a new wave of invaders, Jutes, Saxons, and Angles came to Britain, they were three Teutonic tribes. 　　五世纪中叶，朱特人，撒克逊人和安各鲁人不断入侵英国。这是三支日尔曼部落。 　　27. These seven principal kingdoms of Kent, Essex, Sussex, Essex, East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria have given the name of Heptarch. 　　这七个主要的王国：肯特、威塞克斯、苏塞克斯、埃赛克斯、东安各鲁，麦西亚和诺森薄利亚合称七王国。 　　28. At the beginning of ninth century, under their king Egbert the West Saxons of defeated the Mercies. In 829, Egbert became an overlord of all the England. 　　九世纪初，在国王埃格伯特的带领下，西撒克逊人打败了麦西亚人。829年，埃格伯特成了整个英国的最高君主。 　　29. In 597, pope Gregory I sent st.Augustine to England to convert the heathen English to Christianity. Augustine was remarkably successfully in converting the king and the nobility. 　　597年，教皇格里高利派遣圣奥古斯廷去英格兰，使异教徒的英国人皈依基督教。在使国王和贵族皈依基督教方面，圣奥古斯廷特别成功。 　　30. Alferd, king of Wessex, was strong enough to defeat the Danes. He is known as the “father of Britain navy”. 　　威塞克斯的国王阿尔佛雷德非常强大，打败了丹麦人，他以“英国海军之父”闻名于史。 　　31. When Ethebred’s death left no strong Saxon successor, the Witan chose Canute the Danish leader, as king in 1016. 　　埃塞尔雷德死后没有留下有实力的撒克逊继承人，于是贤人会议选择了丹麦首领克努特为国王。 　　32. King Edward seemed more concerned with building Westminster Abbey than with affairs of state. He was far more Norman than Saxon. 　　爱德华国王对国事的关心远不及对威斯敏斯特大教堂的修建，他更像诺曼人而非撒克逊人。 　　33. Anglo-Saxon England perished with Harold’s death. William was crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey by the Archbishop of York. 　　随着哈罗德德死亡，安各鲁撒克逊人的英国消失了，在威斯敏斯特大教堂，约克大主教加冕威廉为英格兰国王。 　　34. The Norman conquest of England is perhaps the best-known event in English history. Under William, the feudal system in England was completely established. 　　诺曼征服或许是英国历史上最著名的事件，至此，英格兰的封建 制度 关于办公室下班关闭电源制度矿山事故隐患举报和奖励制度制度下载人事管理制度doc盘点制度下载 被完全建立起来。 专八人文指导-英国的形成 第三节 英国的形成 35. William replaced the witan , the council of the Anglo-Saxon kings, with the Grand Council of his new tenants-in-chief. 威廉用由他的土地承租人组成的大议会取代了安各鲁撒克逊国王的顾问团－贤人会议。 36. The Doomsday Book, completed in 1086, was the result of general survey of England made in 1085, and stated the extent , value, the population, state of cultivation and ownership. 《末日审判书》完成于1086年，它记录了1085年进行的英国总调查结果。此册陈述了土地的范围、价值、人口、耕种情况和所有权。 37. William’s policy towards the church was to keep it completely under his control, but at the same time to uphold its power. 威廉对教会的政策是完全控制的同时，赞成它拥有权利。 38. Henry Π was the first king of the House of Plantagenet. He took measures to bring the disorders of king Stephen reign to an end. 亨利二世是金雀花王朝的首位国王。他采取措施结束了史蒂芬森国王统治时期的混乱局面。 39. Henry Π greatly strengthened the King’s Court and extended with its judicial work. He insisted that all clerks charged with criminal offences should be tried in the King’s Courts instead of in the Bishop’s Court. 亨利二世大大加强了王室法庭的力量并扩展了司法工作。他坚持被控刑事犯罪的教士都应在国王法庭受审而不是在主教法庭受审。 40. It was these exceptional privileges enjoyed by the clergy that brought King Henry into collision with Tomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. 正是神职人员享有的特权导致了亨利国王和坎特伯雷大主教托马斯贝克特之间的冲突。 41. Geoffrey Chaucer’s best known work is the Canterbury Tales which describes a group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury to visitTomas Becket’s tomb. 杰佛利乔叟的名著《坎特伯雷故事集》描述了一群朝圣者到坎特伯雷参观托马斯贝克特坟墓的旅行。 42. The baron’s charter, or Magna Carta, as it came to be known was presented by a delegation of their class to the king and his advisers in the summer of 1215. 1215年夏天，贵族代表团把他们的宪章——后以大宪章闻名——递交给国王和他的顾问团们。 43. A committee of 24 barons plus the Mayor of London was chosen to help the king carry out the Charter, with the right of declaring war on him should he break its provisions. 由24名贵族和伦敦市市长组成的委员会帮助国王执行大宪章，若国王违反 规定 关于下班后关闭电源的规定党章中关于入党时间的规定公务员考核规定下载规定办法文件下载宁波关于闷顶的规定 ，他们有权对国王宣战。 44. Magna Carta was a statement of feudal and legal relationship between the crown and the barons, a guarantee of the freedom of the church and a limitation of the power of the king. 大宪章陈述的是国王与贵族间的封建和法律关系，保证了教会自由和限制了王权。 45. While the king Henry Ⅲ and Prince Edward were keep in prison, Simon de Montfort summoned in 1265 the great council to meet at Westminster which developed later into the Lords and the Commons known as a parliament. 1265年当亨利三世国王和爱德华王子被关入监狱，西蒙德孟福尔在威斯敏斯特召集大议会，大议会发展到后来演变为议会，分为上议院和下议院。 46. The statute of Wales in 1284 placed the country under English law and Edward Ⅰpresented his new-born-son to the Welsh people as the Prince of Wales, a title held by the heir to the throne ever since. 1284年的威尔士法，使威尔士处于英国法律之下，爱德华一世将他新出生的儿子赠与威尔士人民，封他为威尔士王子。此后，该称号一直由该王位的继承人沿用至今。　　 47. When Edward Ⅲ claimed the French Crown by the right of his mother Isabella, the French refused to recognize the claim because the Salic Law debarred females from the succession. In 1337 Edward declared a war that was to last a hundred years. 爱德华三世通过他母亲伊莎贝拉的关系宣布继承法国王位，但法国人民拒绝承认，因为萨利法典规定女子不得继承王位，于是在1337年，爱德华对法宣战，战争持续了一百年。 48. Black Death swept through England in the summer of 1348 without warning. It killed between one half and one third of the population of England. 1348年夏天，黑死病横扫全英国，没有任何征兆，它夺去了三分之一到一半的英国人口。 49. In 1351 the government issued a statute of Laborers which made it a crime for peasant to ask for more wage or for their employers to pay more than the rates laid down by the Justice of the Peace. 1351年政府颁布“劳工法令”。规定农民们涨工资的要求或者雇主支付比地方官制定的工资水平高的工资都是犯罪。 50. Although the Peasant Uprising of 1381, was brutally suppressed, it had far-reaching significance in English history. It dealt a telling blow to villeinage and a new class of yeomen farmers emerged, paving the way for the development of capitalism. 尽管1381年的农民起义被血腥镇压了，但在英国历史上留下了深远的影响。它沉重打击了封建农奴制度，产生了全新的自耕农阶级，为资本主义发展铺设了道路 。 专八人文辅导-过渡时期的英国 第四节 过渡时期的英国 51. The name the Wars of Roses was referring to the battles between the great house of Lancaster, symbolized by the red rose, and that of York, symbolized by the white. 玫瑰战争这个词是指两个家族间的战争，以红玫瑰为标志的蓝凯斯特家族和以白玫瑰为标志的约克家族。 52. In 1455, after Henry Ⅵ hand completely lost his reason, war broke out between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians. In 1461, the Duke of York’s son Edward, emerged the victor and was proclaimed as Edward Ⅳ. 1455年，当亨利六世再也没有理由（将国家交给摄政者管理时），战争在约克家族成员和蓝凯斯特家族成员中爆发了。1461年，约克公爵的儿子爱德华战胜成功成为爱德华四世。 53. On August 22, 1458, the last battle of the Wars of Roses was fought between Richard Ⅲ and Henry Tudor. 1458年8月22日，玫瑰战争的最后一次战役在理查德三世和亨利都铎之间展开。 54. The reform began as a struggle for a divorce and end in freedom from the Papacy. Henry Ⅷ wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon. But Pope Clement Ⅲ refused to annul his marriage to Catherine. 改革以争取离婚开始，以脱离教皇而告终，亨利八世想与阿拉贡的公主凯瑟琳离婚，但教皇克莱蒙拒绝取消凯瑟琳和亨利八世之间的婚姻。 55. Henry’s reform was to get rid of the English Church’s connection with the Pope, and make an independent Church of England. 亨利改革的目的是拜托英国教会与教皇的联系，成立独立的英格兰教会。 56. The laws (e.g. the Act of Succession of 1534 and the Act of Supremacy of 1535) made his reform possible stressed the power of the monarch and certainly strengthened Henry’s position. 使改革可行的法律（如1534年的《继承法案》和1535年的《至尊法案》）强调了君主的权利并自然加强了亨利的地位。 57. When Mary Tudor became Queen after Edward, she attempted to forcibly recovert England to Roman Catholicism. People call her “Blood Mary”。 玛丽都铎再爱德华后当上女王，她试图强迫人们重新皈依罗马天主教。人们叫她“血腥玛丽”。 58. Elizabeth’s reign was a time of confident English national and of great achievements in literature and other acts, in exploration and in battle. 伊丽莎白统治时期，人民自信，民族主义高涨，在文学和其它艺术方面，在探险和对外作战方面都取得了巨大成功。 59. Elizabeth’s religious reform was a compromise of views. She broke Mary’s ties with Rome and restored her father’s independent Church of England. 伊丽莎白的宗教改革是各种观点的妥协，她中断玛丽与罗马的关系，恢复父王独立的英格兰教会。 60. For nearly 30 years Elizabeth successfully played against each other the two great Catholic powers, France and Spain. 将近30年来，伊丽莎白成功地令两大天主教强国法国和西班牙互相争斗，从而免于英国卷入任何主要的欧洲国的冲突。 专八人文地理-英国经济 英国经济 91．Between 1950 and 1973, Britain’s GDP grew at an average annual rate of 3%. Growth was hampered by chronic balance of payment deficits. The term “Britain disease” is now used to characterize Britain’s economic decline. 1950年至1973年兼，英国的国民生产总值平均年增长率为3％。经济发展受阻于长期收支平衡的赤字，现在常用“英国病”这个词来概括英国经济衰退的特征 92．By the end of 1947, the British economy had returned to its pre-war levels. The British economy in the 50s and 60s is characterized by show but steady growth, low unemployment and great material prosperity with rising standard of consumption. 到1947年底，英国经济恢复到战前水平，50到60年代，英国经济的特点是发展缓慢而稳定，失业少，消费上升，物质极度繁荣。 93．John m Keynes suggested that the government should use fiscal and monetary policy to fine-tune aggregate demand to achieve full employment, while using prices and incomes policy to suppress inflation at source. 约翰，凯恩斯建议政府在利用物价和收入政策从根本上抑制通胀的同时，应该利用财政和货币政策来微调社会总需求，以达到充分就业的目的。 94．The end of 1973 witnessed the first oil shock. As a result the rate of inflation rose to 16% in 1974. In the 1970s among the developed countries Britain maintained the lowest growth rate and the highest inflation rate. 1973年爆发了第一次石油危机，结果通胀率在1974年上升到了16％，70年代在发达国家中，英国增长率最低而通胀率最高。　　 95．The new economic programmed adopted by Mrs. Thatcher was based on the new classical school of thought. Privatization deregulation and market liberalization replaced prices and incomes control and state interventionism. 由撒切尔夫人提出的新经济 计划 项目进度计划表范例计划下载计划下载计划下载课程教学计划下载 以新的古典思想学派理论为基础，私有化、撤销价格管制和市场自由化取代了物价和收入控制及政府的干涉主义。 96．Mrs. Thatcher’s government took numerous measures to improve the efficiency of the economy during the past decade using both macroeconomic and microeconomic. 在过去十年，撒切尔政府运用宏观经济政策和微观经济政策，采取许多措施提高经济效益。 97．Just as the 1940s decade is remembered in Britain as the era of nationalization. The 1980s will be remembered as the decade of privatization. During past decade almost 40% of the Britain state enterprises were privatized. 正如20世纪40年代在英国以国有化的十年被记住一样，80年代的十年将以私有化被人们记住，过去十年里几乎有40％的国有企业被私有化。 98．Compared with many other countries, Britain has considerable reserves of coal. It was the development of Britain’s coalfields which led to the Industrial Revolution. Today British coal mining is called a “sick” industry. 和其他许多国家相比，英国煤储备相当丰富。正是英国煤田的发展引起了工业革命，今天的英国媒业被称为“生病”工业。 99．Later nature gas was discovered in 1965 and oil in 1970 under the North Sea. Today Britain is not only self-sufficient in oil but also has a surplus for export. 过去天然气和石油分别在1965年和1970年在北海发现，今天的英国石油不仅能自给自足，还有盈余出口。 100．The Midlands has deposits of coal and iron located near each other. Because of these resource the Midlands became the center of steal industry. But today local supplies have became exhausted ore must be imported from Spain·Sweden and elsewhere. The original advantages of the location of many steal works in Britain have gone. 中部地区既有煤储藏也有铁矿石储藏，因此中部地区成为钢铁中心。但今天当地储备已枯竭，矿石必须从西班牙、瑞典和其他地方进口，英国许多钢铁厂原先的地理优势已经一去不返。 101．The main textile producing regions of Britai