19. The Prime Minister is appointed by _____ and he or she always sits in _____.
A. the Archbishop of Canterbury, the House of Commons
B. the Archbishop of Canterbury, the House of Lords
C. the Queen, the House of Commons
D. the Queen, the House of Lords
20. Two years after the ending of the Hundred Years’ War with France, England was thrown into another series of civil wars, ________.
A. the War of the Celts
B. Norman Conquest
C. the War of the Roses
D. Battle of Hastings
二、 填空题2
21. The South's lending industries are those that make use of the _______ supply of natural resources and _____ materials.
22. In the ____century a large number of Chinese were shipped to America as “____”
23. Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in the year of ___. He called the native Indians because he believed the islands to which he had come were off the coast of ___.
24. The three kinds of local governments under a state government are ____ governments, city, town, or ____ governments and local governments of districts set up for special purposes.
25. Parliament is the supreme legislative authority in Britain and consists of the House of ___, and the House of ____.
26. The present sovereign of Britain is ______, and Prince ____ is the heir to the throne.
27. The British did not adopt rational reforms such as____ system until 1975, and the ____ system until 1971.
28. Oxford and Cambridge were the only universities in ___ until the ___ century.
29. In terms of their political administration, the thirteen British colonies can be divided into three types: the ____ colonies, the central colonies and the ____ colonies.
30. After the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell declared England a ______, later, he became _________.
三、 名词解释题
31. the National Security Council
32. separation of powers
33. public school
34. Puritans
四、 简答题
35. What important decisions were made by the Second Continental Congress?
36. What does the British law as a whole consist of?