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1、华尔街Wall Street is the name of a narrow street in lower Manhattan in New York City, running east from Broadway downhill to the East River. Considered to be the historical heart of the Financial District, it was the first permanent home of the New York StockExchange（纽约证券交易所）.The phrase "WallStreet" is also used asa metonym（换喻词）to refer to Americanfinancial markets andfinancial institutionsas a whole. Most NewYork financial firmsare no longerheadquartered onWall Street, but elsewhere in lower or midtown Manhattan, Fairfield County, Connecticut, or New Jersey.JPMorgan Chase, the last majorholdout, sold its headquarters towerat 60 Wall Street to Deutsche Bank inNovember 2001.2、自由女神Statue of LibertyLiberty Enlightening the World,known more commonly as the Statueof Liberty, is a statue given to theUnited States by France in 1885,standing at Liberty Island in themouth of the Hudson River in NewYork Harbor as a welcome to allvisitors, immigrants, and returningAmericans. The copper statue,dedicated on October 28, 1886,commemorates the centennial of theUnited States and is a gesture of friendship between the two nations. The sculptor was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. Gustave Eiffel, the designer of the Eiffel Tower, engineered the internal structure. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statue's construction and adoption of the Repoussé technique. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable icons of the U.S. worldwide, and, in a more general sense, represents liberty and escape from oppression. The Statue of Liberty was, from 1886 until the Jet age, often the first glimpse of the United States for millions of immigrants after ocean voyages from Europe. It's said that il Sancarlone or the Colossus of Rhodes inspired it.3、第五大道The Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfarein the center of the borough of Manhattanin New York City, USA. It runs throughthe heart of Midtown and along the easternside of Central Park, and because of theexpensive park-view real estate andhistorical mansions along its course, it is asymbol of wealthy New York. It is one ofthe best shopping streets in the world,often paired with London's Oxford Streetand the Champs Elysées in Paris. It is oneof the most expensive streets in the world,on a par with London and Tokyo leaseprices. The "most expensive street in theworld" moniker changes depending oncurrency fluctuations and local economicconditions from year to year. JosephWinston Herbert Hopkins founded thisstreet. It is the dividing line for theeast-west streets in Manhattan, (forexample, demarcating the line separatingEast 59th Street from West 59th Street) as well as the zero-numbering point for street addresses (numbers increase in both directions as one moves away from Fifth, with 1 East 59th Street on the corner at Fifth Avenue, and 300 East 59th Street located several blocks to the East). Fifth Avenue is a one-way street and carries southbound ("downtown") traffic. Some people refer to Fifth Avenue colloquially as "Fashion Ave," but many refrain from it to avoid confusion with the real Fashion Ave, also known as Seventh Avenue. Fifth Avenue extends from the north side of Washington Square Park through Greenwich Village, Midtown, and the Upper East Side4、白宫Formerly known as the Executive Mansion (1810–1902) the official office and residence of the president of the United States at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C. The White House and its landscaped grounds occupy 18 acres (7.2hectares). Since theadministration ofGeorge Washington(1789–97), whooccupied presidentialresidences in NewYork andPhiladelphia, everyAmerican presidenthas resided at theWhite House.Originally called the“President's Palace” on early maps, the building was officially named the Executive Mansion in 1810 in order to avoid connotations of royalty. Although the name “White House” was commonly used from about the same time (because the mansion's white-gray sandstone contrasted strikingly with the red brick of nearby buildings), it did not become the official name of the building until 1902, when it was adopted by President Theodore Roosevelt (1901–09). The White House is the oldest federal building in the nation's capital.5、尼加拉瓜大瀑布Niagara Falls in the Niagara River, W N.Y. and S Ont., Canada; one of the most famous spectacles in North America. The falls are on the international line between the cities of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Niagara Falls, Ont. Goat Island splits thecataract into theAmerican Falls (167ft/51 m high and 1,060ft/323 m wide) and theHorseshoe, or Canadian,Falls (158 ft/48 m highand 2,600 ft/792 mwide). Thegovernments of the United States and Canada control the appearance of the surrounding area, much of which has been included in parks since 1885.The earliest written description of the falls is that of Louis Hennepin (in Nouvelle Découverte, 1697), who was with the expedition of Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, the French explorer, in 1678. In the 19th cent., daredevils attempted to brave the falls in barrels, boats, and rubber balls. The great Blondin performed (1859) on a tightrope over the falls, which continue to be a major center of international tourism. Historical and natural history material relating to the region is in the Niagara Falls Museum in the city of Niagara Falls, N.Y.6、巴拿马运河Panama Canal waterway across theIsthmus of Panama, connecting theAtlantic (by way of the Caribbean Sea)and Pacific oceans, built by the UnitedStates (1904-14) on territory leasedfrom the republic of Panama . Thecanal, running S and SE from LimónBay at Colón on the Atlantic to the Bayof Panama at Balboa on the Pacific, is40 mi (64 km) long from shore to shoreand 51 mi (82 km) long betweenchannel entrances. The Pacificterminus is 27 mi (43 km) east of theCaribbean terminus. The minimumdepth is 41 ft (12.5 m).From Limón Bay a ship is raised byGatún Locks (a set of three) to anelevation 85 ft (25.9 m) above sea level,traverses Gatún Lake, then crosses theContinental Divide through Gaillard(formerly Culebra) Cut and is loweredby Pedro Miguel Lock to Miraflores Lake and then by the Miraflores Locks (a set of two) to sea level. The average tidal range on the Atlantic side is less thana foot (.3 m); that on the Pacific side is 12.6 ft (3.8 m).7、黄石公园The Yellowstone Park Foundation is a 501(c)3, non-profit organization created in 1996. A group of concerned citizens, working with the National Park Service,started the Foundation in order to protect, preserve, and enhance Yellowstone National Park.The Foundation works tofund important projectsand programs, many ofwhich are beyond thefinancial capacity of theNational Park Service. TheFoundation receives noannual governmentfunding; it relies insteadupon the generous supportof private citizens,foundations, andcorporations to ensure thatYellowstone's great gifts to the world will never diminish.Since its inception, the Yellowstone Park Foundation has successfully funded more than 100 projects in Yellowstone.8、帝国大厦New York, the Empire State Building was built in March 1930, then use the lightest construction materials, built in the West during the economic crisis has become a symbol of U.S. economic recovery, now still and the Statue of Liberty in New York to become a permanent mark. Has world's firsthigh-Building and the New YorkCity landmark building.Empire State Building is a modernhigh-rise office buildings, and theStatue of Liberty in New York as asign. Construction on the381-metre-high Empire StateBuilding, since 1931, the top world'stallest building, the throne for 40years. This building in the UnitedStates the most economicallydepressed, the most sluggish, withonly less than 2 years to build. 102House and 86 in a floor observatory,is due to open Taiwan's Wang, thewind power is considerable. Sunnydays when the Yuanwang to be 100kilometers away.9、夏威夷For most of us, Hawaii begins to weave her spell（魅力）with some littleglimmer（微光）of awareness.Golden beaches and goldenpeople. Sun, sand, sea, andsurf……And somewhere betweenthe blue skies and the palm trees（棕榈树）……we're hooked（吸引）.The Hawaiian Islands areone of the most beautiful placeson earth. The weather is friendly.The temperature ranges from 60-90 degrees all year long. It's a little warmer in summer, and a little cooler in winter, but every day is a beach day for somebody.There are no strangers in Paradise. Perhaps the most beautiful part of Hawaii is the genuine warmth of people. We call it the spirit of Aloha. It has allowed a melting pot of cultures from all over the world to find common ground（共同点）, and a new home, in this most gentle of places.10、百老汇Broadway theatre is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the United States, as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers,technicians and others involvedin putting on the shows.Broadway theatre, or aBroadway show, refers to aperformance, usually a play ormusical that appeals to a massaudience, presented in one ofthe thirty-nine large professionaltheatres with 500 seats or morelocated in the Theatre District ofthe New York City borough of Manhattan. The shows that reach Broadway and thrive there have historically been perceived as more mainstream and less cutting edge than those produced Off- and Off-Off-Broadway or in regional non-profit theatres such as the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.。