国家概况名词解释与问答题汇总--美国
第一篇：国家概况名词解释与问答题汇总--美国
英语国家概况名词解释与问答题汇总
Unit One Geography
Terms:
1.The Star-spangled Banner(the flag)
2.The Yellowstone National Park
3.Mount Rushmore National Memorial 4.The Great Lakes
5.The Grand Canyon 删除
6.Mississippi River删除
Questions:
1.Please list five famous buildings or things in New York City.Unit Two History
Terms:
1.The Declaration of Independence
2.The Bill of Rights
3.The Boston Tea Party
4.Thomas Jefferson
5.Monroe Doctrine
6.Gold Rush
7.Uncle Tom’s Cabin删除
8.The American Civil War
9.Abraham Lincoln
10.Westward Movement
11.Progressive Movement
12.The lost generation
13.The Monkey Trial删除
14.The Great Depression 15.Franklin Roosevelt
16.Lend-lease Bill删除
17.The Beat Generation删除
18.The Civil Rights Movement
19.Martin Luther King, Jr.Questions:
1.What were the reasons for people to found colonies in North America?
2.What do you know about the War of Independence(reasons, process, and significance)?
3.How was American Constitution established and what do you know about it?
4.5.6.7.8.What do you know about Monroe Doctrine? What do you know about the U.S.-Mexican War and its result? What do you know about the Civil War(reasons, process, and significance)? What do you know about the Progressive Movement? What kind of changes did modern America experienced at the beginning of the 20th century?
9.What do you know about World War One and America’s policy during the war?
10.The target of the Progressive Movement was trust and monopoly.What were the negative effects brought by monopoly?
11.What were the nature and effects of WW I?
12.What do you know about Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal?monarchy
13.“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty a
nd the pursuit of happiness.That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government….”
Who is the writer and what is the name of the document?
What is the historical background of the document and how did it come into being?
Unit Three American Identity
Terms:
1.Hispanics(Latinos)
2.Model minority
3.Melting pot
Questions:
1.Why America is called “a nation of immigrants”?
2.What contributions did immigrants make to America?
(Please list at least three points of views)
Unit Four Political Institution
Terms:
1.The checks and balances
2.Congress
Questions: 1.What are the US government principles?
2.What do you know about the Presidential election in America?
Unit 5 Economy
Questions:
1.What is the most striking characteristic of the American economy in terms of its diversity?
2.When did service industries in the perience rapid growth? How significant is the service industry in the American economy?
Unit 8 Education
Terms:
1.Harvard College
2.Ivy League Questions
1.How have the goals and purposes of education in the U.S.evolved over time? Trance them briefly.Unit 9 Religion
Questions:
1.In your opinion, why do so many Americans want to keep “In God We Trust” on their currency?
2.How did American religion become pluralistic and diversified?
第二篇：英语国家概况名词解释
Terms
1.A-level: General Certificate of Education Advanced Level referred to as A-level, It is a British general secondary education certificate examination’ advanced courses, is the British national curriculum system, and the students of the university entrance exam courses.2.bible: The Bible is the holy book of Christianity.It consists of two testaments.The Old Testament contains the Jewish writings before the coming of Christ.The much shorter New Testament contains four accounts(“gospel”)of the life of Christ, followed by the writings of the early Christians, of whom St Paul was the greatest.3.WASP:White Anglo-Saxon Protestant of the original meaning is to point to the United States in power elite group and its culture, customs and moral behavior standard, can now be referring to the European American Protestant people.This group has a huge economic and political power, American society and for the most part of the upper middle class.Despite the increasingly diverse Am
erican society, but their cultural, moral and value orientation is to a great extent, affects the development of the United States.4.Independence Day: commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.5.wall street:Wall Street is the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long, 0.7 miles(1.1 km)long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan.Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector(even if financial firms are not physically located there), or signifying New York-based financial interests.Wall Street is the home of the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies.Several other major exchanges have or had headquarters in the Wall Street area, including NASDAQ, the New York Mercantile Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, and the former American Stock Exchange.Anchored by Wall Street, New York City has been called the world's principal financial center.6.Hollywood:is a district in the central region of Los Angeles, California, in t
he United States.It is notable for its place as the home of the entertainment industry, including several of its historic studios.Its name has come to represent the motion picture industry of the United States.Hollywood is also a highly ethnically diverse, densely populated, economically diverse neighborhood and retail business district.Hollywood was a small community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903.It merged with the City of Los Angeles in 1910, and soon thereafter a film industry began to emerge, eventually becoming dominant in the world.7.Pilgrim Fathers: is a name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in
present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.Their leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters who had fled the volatile political environment in England for the relative calm and tolerance of 16th–17th century Holland in the Netherlands.Concerned with losing their cultural identity, the group later arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America.8.Great Charter:Magna Carta(Latin for Great Charter), also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, is an Angevin charter originally issued in Latin in June 1215.It was
sealed under oath by King John at Runnymede, on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England at June 15, 1215.Magna Carta was the first document forced onto a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their rights.Question:

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