內容大鋼
本教材共分為13個單元，每個單元3篇課文。課文前設置單元提要、單元目標、核心名稱，為學生在課前概括的展示整個單元的重要知識點；課文後設置辭彙表和專有名詞表，設置5大類習題：Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Building, Translation, Presentation, Critical Writing。教材以英國各個歷史時期的著名人物和重大曆史事件為主線，系統地介紹了英國歷史的發展脈絡，側重主要歷史事件和歷史人物。
目錄
Unit 1 A Brief Introduction to Britain
Part 1 Territory and Geography
Part 2 British Government
Part 3 British Monarchy
Unit 2 Feudalist England
Part 1 William I and Norman Conquest
Part 2 Establishment of Feudalism and Domesday Book
Part 3 Henry Il and His Reforms
Unit 3 Parliament The Earliest Parliament
Part 1 King John and Magna Carta
Part 2 Simon de Montfort and the Origin of British
Part 3 Edward I and the Development of Parliament
Unit 4 Hundred Years'Warand Peasants'Revolt
Part 1 Edward Ⅲ and Hundred Years'War
Part 2 Black Death and Peasants'Revolt
Part 3 Henry V and Later Hundred Years'War
Unit 5 Wars of the Roses
Part 1 Henry VI and Wars of the Roses
Part 2 Edward IV and Warwick's Revolt
Part 3 Henry VI and End of Wars of the Roses
Unit 6 English Reformation
Part 1 Henry MI and English Reformation
Part 2 Henry VIl and His Six Marriages
Part 3 Mary I and Her Bloody Persecution
Unit 7 The Elizabethan Era
Part 1 Elizabeth I and Her Achievements
Part 2 Defeat of Spanish Armada
Part 3 English Renaissance
Unit 8 English Civil Wars
Part 1 James I and Gunpowder Plot
Part 2 Charles I and English Civil Wars
Part 3 Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth of England
Unit 9 Establishment ofConstitutional Monarchy
Part 1 Charles Ⅱ and the Restoration
Part 2 James Ⅱ and Glorious Revolution
Part 3 Constitutional Monarchy
Unit 10 Britain in the Eighteenth Century
Part 1 George Ⅰ and the Cabinet
Part 2 William Pitt and the Seven Years' War
Part 3 George Ⅲ and American Independence
Unit 11 Britain in the Nineteenth Century
Part 1 Britain as Workshop of the World
Part 2 The Victorian Era
Part 3 Political Reforms
Unit 12 Britain and Two World Wars
Part 1 Britain and WWI
Part 2 Britain and WWII
Part 3 Decline of Liberal Party and Development of
Unit 13 Labour Party Britain after the War
Part 1 Situation of Britain after WWⅡ
Part 2 Elizabeth Ⅱ and British Royal Family
Part 3 The Commonwealth of Nations
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