What’s the difference between the British Isles, Britain, the United Kingdom and England?

The British Isles is made up of two large islands: One is called Ireland and the other Britain. Britain, or Great Britain, is the larger of these two islands and it is divided into three parts: Scotland, Wales and England.

The United Kingdom (UK) is short for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is made up of Scotland, Wales, and England (i.e. the whole of Britain), and also about one-sixth of Ireland, the Northern part. The rest of Ireland is self-governing(自治的).

England is the largest, most populous (人口众多的), and generally speaking, the richest section. English people often use the words “England” and “English” when they mean “Britain” and “British”. This sometimes makes the Scots and the Welsh angry. The Scots are very proud of their separate nationality. The Welsh too do not consider themselves as England, and have a culture and even a language of their own. Ireland became part of the United Kingdom in 1801, but is soon grew discontented (不满的), and for forty years the “Irish Question” was the greatest headache of British Parliament(国会). At last, Ireland divided itself into two: Northern Ireland remained loyal(忠诚于) to the Crown(英国王室), and in 1922 the rest of the country broke away to form Irish Free State, now the Republic of Ireland.

1.Which is the largest in area?

 A. The British Iles      B. Great Britain

C. England       D. The United   Kingdom

2. Which is the largest island of the British Isles?.

 A. Ireland         B. Britain

C. England      D. Northern Ireland

3.The United Kingdom is mainly made up of          .

A.3 parts: Scotland, Wales, and England

B.4 parts: Scotland, Wales, England and Ireland

C.2 parts: the whole of Britain and Ireland

D.2 parts: the whole of Britain and Northern Ireland

4. Strictly speaking(严格地说), which is wrong?

A.“English” refers(指) to people of England.

B.“The Scots” refers to people of Scotland.

C.“England” refers to all the people to the UK.

D.Only one-sixth of Ireland belongs to the UK.

5.Who will be happy if we use “England” when we mean Britain?

A. The British          B. People of England

C. People of the Republic of Ireland    D. The welsh

单词拼写（注意用正确形式填空）(每空1分，共10分）

1.Her music is very popular with ______(青少年).

2.We _______(逐渐）get used to getting up early in the morning and going to bed late at night.

3.Can you tell me the _________(用法）of the word “command”?

4.Tom told me that he couldn’t speak Chinese _______(流利）.

5.The little boy is just starting to talk. He has a _______(词汇量) of about ten words.  

6.We ______(遭受）from a terrible drought last summer.

7.Thunder often accompanies ________(闪电）

8.__________(基于）on facts, his article is popular with the readers.

9.She can speak _________(西班牙语） very fluently.

10.He said he won the prize but _________(实际上）he was lying.

Another time five months ago, I __1.____to be upstairs ____2.__when the window was open. I didn’t go downstairs until the window had to be _____3._. The dark, the rainy evening, the wind, the __4.______clouds held me ____5.___in their power.

So why has English changed over time? __6._______all languages change and develop when cultures meet and ____7._with each other. At first the English ____8._in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today. It was ___9.___more on German than the English we speak ___10.______.

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均限一词。

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分

A man was driving on the road．Suddenly his car stopped．He got out of the car tried to find out the trouble．“It’s the motor．” said the voice behind him．He was surprising and turned around. But he saw only an old horse．“Did you say something?” he asked．“ I said you should check yours motor,” the horse replied．The man rushed to the nearer house．With a very excited voice, he told the farmer had happened．The farmer, therefore, showed no sign of excitement．He explained , “He didn’t know anything about cars．He can only repeat what I often say．”

假定你叫李华，准备写信给学英语报社编辑，反映你最近生活中所遇到的烦恼。

要点如下：

最近遇到一些问题，不知好听何做，希望得到帮助。

你这几年一直是校队很棒的篮球运动员，教练认为你将来有望成为球星。

你父母认为你学习一般，应该在学习上多花时间提高成绩，这样才能上好大学。训练或参加比赛占据了你太多时间，所以没有更多时间用来学习，为此，他们很生气，不允许你参加训练或比赛。

你自己的观念：十分喜欢打球，希望多得到锻炼，成为超级明星。

注意：1.内容应包括提示的全部要点；（请不要逐句翻译以上要点） 

2.词数在100左右；

词汇 ：编辑：editor  教练:  coach   训练: train    超级明星：super star

Dear editor，

I have had a problem recently and I don't know what to do between what I want and what my parents want.                                                                       

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

forget

A. general                   B. large                        C. change                    D. forgive

climb

A. hour                        B. laboratory              C. bomb                       D. bitter

explanation

A. example                 B. exit                          C. explain           D. exam

smooth

A. worth                      B. wealthy                   C. southern                 D. south

smoke

A. pardon                    B. lesson                      C. alone                       D. button