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Part I. Blank-filling: (10%) (1′×10) Part II. Multiple Choice: (20%) (1’×20) Part III. True or False Questions: (10%) (1′×10) Part IV. Term Translation: (15%) (1.5′×10) Part V. Term Explanation: (20%) (4′×5) Part VI. Questions: (25%) (first three: 5′×3, the last one: 10′×1) Common Law 公共法 Shadow Cabinet the Privy Council 枢密院 Checks and Balances Renaissance The Bill of Rights The Privy Council The Opposition House of Commons下议院 The Marshall Plan 民主党 下议院 工业革命 启蒙运动 光荣革命 工业革命 两党制 陪审团制度 君主立宪制 惯例法 WWI WWII The procedure of law-making in US Industrial Revolution American Civil War Norman Conquest The election in USA The separation of powers in USA Constitutional monarchy君主立宪制----It is a political system that has been practised in Britain since the Glorious revolution of 1688. According to this system, the Constitution is superior to the Monarch. In law，the Monarch has many supreme powers, but in practice, the real power of monarchy has been greatly reduced and today the Queen acts solely on the advice of her ministers. She reigns but does not rule. The real power lies in the Parliament, or to be exact, in the House of Commons Privy Council枢密院----A consultative body of the British monarch. Its origin can be traced back to the times of the Norman Kings. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, its importance was gradually diminished and replaced by the Cabinet. Today, it is still a consultation body of the British monarch, Its membership is about 400, and includes al Cabinet ministers, the speaker of the House of Commons, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and senior British and Commonwealth statesmen 1.a body of advisors (450 members) 2.current and former Cabinet members and important public figures 3.Its main duty is to give advice Common Law 公共法： the traditional unwritten law of England,based on custom and the decisions of judges over a period of years rather than on written laws passed by parliament. 英国的不成文法，以法官的判断和习惯为依据，而不以议会的成文法为依据。 The Norman Conquest of