Задание

Read the text and make the sentence complete.

The British Isles is the geographical name that refers to all the islands of the northwest coast of the European continent: Great Britain, the whole of Ireland (Northern and Southern), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

The United Kingdom is the correct name if you mean the country in a political, not in a geographical way. The British refer to people from the UK, Great Britain or the British Isles in general.

It took centuries and a lot of armed fight to form the United Kingdom. In the 15th century, a Welsh prince Henry Tudor became King Henry VII of England. Then his son King Henry VIII united England and Wales under one Parliament in 1536. The same thing happened in Scotland. The King of Scotland got the crown of England and Wales in 1603, so he became King James I of England and Wales and King James VI of Scotland. The Parliaments of England, Wales and Scotland were united a century later in 1707.

The Scottish and Welsh are proud and independent people. The Welsh refused to separate in the referendum in 1979 and in 1979 the Scots did the same. So it seems that most Welsh and Scottish people are happy to form part of the UK but they sometimes say that they are under the control of England, especially of London.

The Parliaments of England, Wales and Scotland were united in ____________ .

1707

1705

1607