07年4月自考“英语国家概况”串讲（9）

    II.Explanation（20%）

    1.The Wars of the Roses

    2.Heptarchy

    3.The Norman Conquest

    4.The Hundred Years'War

    5.King Alfred the Great

    6.The Beatles

    7.The Gunpowder Plot of 1605

    8.The Levelers

    9.Rotten boroughs

    10.The State Opening of Parliament

    11.quality papers and popular papers

    12.the eleven－plus

    13.Easter uprising of 1916

    14.Anglo－Irish Treaty（1921）

    15.Peace Agreement on Northern Ireland（1998）

    16.The Manifest Destiny

    17.Little Rock Incident

    18.The Port Huron Statement

    19.The New Deal

    20.The Red Scare of 1919－1920

    21.The New Right Conservatism

    22.Counterculture

    23.The Electoral College

    24.Judicial review

    25.Winner-take-all

    26.Jazz

    27.Harlem Renaissance

    28.Thanksgiving Day

    29.The Canadian Shield

    30.Quebec Act off 1774

    31. The Act of Union 1840

    32. The British North America Act of 1867

    33. Outback

    34. Great Dividing Range in Australia

    35. Great Barrier Reef

    36. “School of the Air”

    37. Flying Doctors

    38. Kiwi

    39. The Treaty of Waitangi of 1840：

    40. Maoritanga