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Choose from the words on the right the name of the person who is in charge of or the leading person in the group, place, etc. on the left.

Coronation of the new Sovereign follows the accession ___ a convenient interval.

During the Grand Embassy of Peter I in 1697-1698, Czar Peter I of Russia visited Britain ___ three months.

Each session of British Parliament is ended by ___.

Each union sends a delegation ___ the party’s annual conference.

Elizabeth was ___ master of political science.

Four ___, attended by some 30,000 people are held every year. Three are held at Buckingham Palace and one – at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, at which the Queen distributes the awards granted to both civilians and members of the armed forces.

From the time of the scientific revolution, England and Scotland, and thereafter the United Kingdom, have ___prominent in world scientific and technological development.

Great Britain is only the largest ___within the United Kingdom.

Historically, many of the UK's greatest scientists ___ been based at either Oxford or Cambridge University.

In 1801, ___ a new Act of Union, this kingdom merged with the Kingdom of Ireland, over which the monarch of Great Britain had ruled.

In Cheddar Gorge the remains of animal species native to mainland Europe such as antelopes, brown bears, and wild horses ___ been found alongside a human skeleton, 'Cheddar Man', dated to about 7150 B.C.

In its beginnings, the United States consisted only of the Thirteen ___.

In subsequent centuries ___Vikings settled in several parts of the island.

It is a long-standing tradition that the Monarch never enters the House of Commons. Instead he or she uses a messenger, the Gentleman Usher of ___, to summon MPs to the Lords.

It was proclaimed that Queen Victoria’s descendants in the male line would adopt the name ___.

Its Iron Age inhabitants are ___as the Britons, a group speaking a Celtic language.

John F. Kennedy started making some important changes in the United States:

Juan Ponce de León, who arrived in Florida in 1513, is credited as ___ the first European to reach modern-day U.S. territory.

Like the monarchy in the UK, Parliament is an ancient institution dating from the middle of the ___.

Local authorities play ___important part in encouraging the arts.

London is one of the ___literary-minded cities in the world.

Match the following political parties with their definitions.

Match the stages of the coronation service in Great Britain.

Morris dancers or the costumes for the traditional English May dance are cited ___ some as examples of traditional English costume.

Most people think that the Royal Family is ___ for tourism.

Most ___ the union members are affiliated through the union to the Labour Party.

Newton's Principia is one of ___ most influential works in the history of science.

On June 10, 1215, Magna Carta, the Great Charter was signed. It was an important symbol of political freedom as this programme

Other public duties of the Queen include the ___ at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. This special ceremony remembers the soldiers who died in World War I and World War II and all of the Royal Family and Britain’s political leaders attend it.

Outside Parliament the party has more ___ a million individual members who pay annual subscriptions.

Oxford was first occupied in Saxon times, and was initially ___ as "Oxenaforda", meaning "Ford of the Ox".

President of the USA is

Prince Consort fills an important role in the life of the nation, as does ___, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband.

Since the union of 1707, the entire island ___ one political unit.

Some evidence suggests that John Cabot ___ have reached what is presently New England in 1498.

Spanning nearly five centuries, it ___ often switched from a state of alliance to rivalry.

Taking full advantage of the colonists’ skill in conducting ___, George Washington kept his troops afield and by 1781 had managed to build up an able army which entrapped the British at Yorktown.

The amendments establish the individual rights and freedoms to all people of the States, some of them are now relatively unimportant, but the Fifth Amendment retains its significance in the fight of the American people for ___.

The arts in Britain are flourishing, and ___ a varied and lively picture.

The automatic succession is summed up in the famous phrase ‘The King is dead; long ___ the King!’.

The cartoonist Thomas Nast invented the Democratic ___as the party emblem.

The cartoonist Thomas Nast invented the Republican ___as the party emblem.

The Conservative Party has always been the party of the___, identified with the idea of economic freedom and the existing social order.

The Conservative Party ___ formed by Robert Peel from what was left of the old Tory Party in the 1830s.

The coronation service is traditionally conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury at ___ in the presence of representatives of the Houses of Parliament.

The current Union Flag dates ___ 1 January 1801 with the Act of Union 1800.

The executive branch consists of ___headed by ministers (or secretaries of state).

The executive in the UK consists of ___.

The first Queen Elizabeth, whose name has become a synonym for the era which she dominated, was born in 1533 to ___ and Anne Boleyn.