33. Describe the political system of the usa.

• The executive branch: the president

• the White House

• the Cabinet

• the U.S. Congress

• the legislative branch

• the Senate and the House of Representatives

• The judicial branch

• the Supreme Court

• the De­mocratic Party

• the Republican Par­ty

34. Dwell on education in the UK.

• Primary education – infant and junior school

• comprehensive school

• General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE)

• the University of Oxford

• the University of Cambridge

• redbrick universities

• the Open University

• Bachelor of Arts (BA) or Bachelor of Science (BS)

• PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)

• the Bodleian

• the Oxford University Press

• independent schools

• Eton College

• Harrow School

• Rugby School

35. Dwell on social issues and education in the USA.

• special interest, career education groups

• Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts

• sports organizations

• political and religious youth organi­zations

• Greenpeace

• elementary school

• secondary school, "high school "

• the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT)

• "junior" (community) colleges

• universities

• Bachelor's, Master's or Doctor's degree

• Harvard University

• Stanford University

• Yale University

36. Give a talk on the development of American science.

• Carl Anderson, the positron (1936)

• Charles Towns, the laser (1964)

• the genetic code (1968)

• Simon Kuznets, economics (1971)

• a nuclear chain reaction

• Albert Einstein

• the Manhattan Project

• Robert Oppenheimer

• July 16, 1945

• commercial nuclear power plant

• Three Mile Island

• the transistor

• the personal computer

• telecommunications and technology

• the Information Age

37. Describe the history of British communications and mass media.

• The Post Office

• George Stephenson

• the Channel Tunnel

• British Airways

• Heathrow and Gatwick

• the Mass media

• The Times.

• the British Broadcasting Corporation

• The BBC World Service

• John L. Baird

• October 2, 1925

• Charles Babbage

• Alan Turing

• the World Wide Web

• Timothy Berners-Lee

38. Give a view on America’s global role.

• political, military, and economic influence

• the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO

• the status of the dollar

• exporter of technology

• McDonald's

• blue jeans

• popular culture

• Hollywood

• the American Dream

39. Speak about ten great Americans.

• Abraham Lincoln

• ______________

• ______________

• ______________

• ______________

• ______________

• ______________

• ______________

• ______________

• ______________

40. Speak about ten great Britons.

• Winston Churchill

• _______________

• _______________

• ______________

• ______________

• ______________

• ______________

• ______________

• ______________

• _______________

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