英美概况课件复习题1

期末复习

1.总评成绩＝平时成绩30% （出勤，作业，专题发言）＋期末成绩70%

2. 期末试卷样式

各题型大致的比例:

I. Multiple Choice 30%

II. Translating the following terms into the opposite language 10%

III. Match words(10%)

IV. Answer the questions briefly(10%)

V. Guess who he/she was/is(10%)

VI. Reading comprehension(30%)

课堂内容所占比例大致如下: 教材课件练习册各约占33%

难度系数：70% 易、15-20%中 15-10% 难

Overall introduction to the 6 countries

What are the 6 English speaking countries? What is its respective capital?

1.The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland London

2.The Republic of Ireland Dublin

3.The United States of America Washington D.C.

4.Canada Ottawa

5.The Commonwealth of Australia Canberra

6.New Zealand Wellington

British Land:

1.What kind of country is Britain?

an island country

2.What is the important river in Britain?

The Thames River

3.Can you say something about the location of Britain?

It lies in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north coast of Europe. It is separated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel in the south and the North Sea in the east.

4.What’s the climate like in Britain?

Britain has a maritime climate. Winters are not too cold and summers are not too hot. It has a steady reliable rainfall throughout the whole year. The temperature varies within a small range.

5.Why do British people talk about weather very often?

6. What are the symbols of England?

the flag of England (St George's Cross), Royal Guardsmen, red Double Deck Buses, Red Post Boxes &Telephone Boxes, the Royal Family, Buckingham Palace, Houses Of Parliament, St Paul's Cathedral, Policemen, The London Eye, Pub Signs, Tea…

7. Can you say some of the landmarks of London?

the Thames, St Paul's Cathedral, the tower of London, Buckingham Palace, the Westminster Abbey, the British Museum, Palace of Westminster , Big Ben, the London Eye…

8. What are the symbols of Scotland?

whiskey, bagpipe, tartan(kilt), golf…

6.What is the full name of the United Kingdom?

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

2. What are the other names?

UK : United Kingdom; GB: Great Britain; Britain

3.What are the two large islands that make up the British Isles?

Great Britain and Ireland

4.What are the four political divisions of the United Kingdom?

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

5.What are their respective capitals?

England: London; Scotland: Edinburgh;

Wales:Cardiff; Northern Ireland: Belfast

6.What’s the national anthem of U.K.?

God Save the Queen

7. What are the national flowers of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?

England: rose; Scotland: thistle;

Wales: leek & daffodil;

Northern Ireland: shamrock

8.What’s the national flag of the U.K.?

the Union Jack

9. What’s the nickname of the U.K.?

John Bull

10. How many countries are there in the British Commonwealth?

53

British People:

1.What are the main nations in Britain?

The English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish

2.Who are the ancestors of the English people? And who are the ancestors of the Scots,

Welsh and Irish?

The ancestors of the English are Anglo-Saxons. The Scottish, Welsh and Irish are Celts

3.Why is it said that English people tend to be rather conservative? Give some examples to

show their conservative attitude.

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4.What kind of country is Britain in religion? What kind of religion do over half of the

citizens believe in?

a Christian country, Christianity

5. Give a brief account of the three stages in the evolution of the English language.

Old English, Middle English and Modern English

American Land:

1.How do you know about the different names of USA?

Its full name: the United States of America

Its short term: US; U.S. USA; U.S.A

2. Where is the US? Could you tell me its boundary?

The United States is situated in the central part of North America except its two youngest states.

The Continental United States stretches 4,500km from the Atlantic Ocean on the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west.

It borders Canada on the north, and reaches south to Mexico

and Gulf of Mexico.

3. How large is it? What’s its rank all over the world?

9. 3 million square kilometers; the fourth largest in size

4. How many states are there in the United States?

Which two states are geographically separated from the other?

50 states and the federal district of Columbia

Alaska in the northwestern part of North America

Hawaii in the central Pacific.

5. What are the major cities in the U.S.?

?Washington D.C Philadelphia

?New York City Detroit

?Los Angeles San Francisco

?Chicago Boston

?Houston Pittsburgh

6. What’s its national flag?

The Stars and Stripes

7. How do you know the meaning of its national flag?

The stripes symbolize the 13 colonies that originally constituted the United States of America. The stars represent the 50 states of the Union. White signifies Purity and

Innocence; Red, Hardiness and Valor; and Blue, Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice.

8. What’s the nickname of American people?

Uncle Sam

9. What’s its national anthem(国歌)?

The Star-Spangled Banner

10. There are many things that symbolize American culture, could you say some of them? No less than 10 items

national flag; national flower; national anthem; the Statue of Liberty; bald eagle; national tree; the Golden Gate Bridge, Hollywood; etc.

American People:

1.America is nation of immigrants, what are its major ethnic groups?

The Indians, the White Anglo-Saxons Protestants (WASPs), the Black, the Hispanics

and the Asian-Americans.

2.Why has the United States long been known as a “melting pot”?

The United States has long been known as a “melting pot”, because it is a country of

many ethnic groups from different parts of the world

3.Why is USA called as a nation on wheels?

Cars are an important part of life in the U.S. The car made the U.S. a nation on wheels. 1 in 5 Americans moves to a new home every year seeking new job and opportunities.

4. What’s the character of American people?

self-reliance, and equality of opportunity, respect of individual rights, religious tolerance

and a strong spirit of individual enterprise

5.The first immigrants in American history came from England.

6.Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Roots are two novels which give a vivid description of the miserable life of the black slaves.

7.In 1620, the Pilgrims sailed to the New World in a ship called Mayflower.

8.Traditionally, the mainstream Americans were called WASPs, that is, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

British History

1. The earliest known settlers on the British Isles were Iberians .

2. The most famous /biggest relic left by the earliest settlers on British Isles is the Stonehenge.

3. From 700 B.C, Celts came from Upper Rhine Land and began to inhabit British Isles.

4. Christianity was first brought to Britain by the Romans.

5. The Romans left behind on Britain three things of value, they are Welsh Christianity, the Roman roads and cities, especially London.

6. The three Teutonic group began to migrate from the region of Denmark and Low Countries (Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg) and settled in Britain. The three groups are Angles, Saxons and Jutes. From the Anglo-Saxon conquerors came the name “England” and “English”.

7. In 878, a peace treaty was signed between the Danes and Alfred, the king of Wessex.

8. Norman Conquest, by William the Conqueror, beginning from the year 1066, established Feudalism in Britain.

9. The Great Charter signed in 1215 was made in the interest of the feudal lords, it had a progressive significance.

10. The first parliament was called in 1265 under the leadership of Simon de Montfort.

11. The Tudor Monarchy was in a transitional stage from feudalism to capitalism.

12. In 1533, Henry VIII repudiated papal supremacy over English Church and declared himself the Supreme Head of the Church of England by the Act of Supremacy.

13. During the Renaissance period, the greatest of the English humanist was Sir Thomas More, with his classical work Utopia.

14. The greatest dramatist Shakespeare lived in the age of Elisabeth I.

15. The “Glorious Revolution” was so called because it was bloodless.

16. The industrial revolution began in textile industry and was marked by a series of important inventions.

17. James Hargreaves , a carpenter made the first invention called “spinning Jenny”.

18. The British Empire began with the founding of Newfoundland in 1583 and fell after the end of the Second World War.

19. The British Empire used to be boasted as one “on which the sun never sets”

American History

1. The inhabitants prior to the arrival of the Europeans are now called Native Americans / American Indians.

2. Christopher Columbus is commonly regarded as the discoverer of America.

3. The first successful English settlement in America was Jamestown in 1607.

4. In 1620, a group of puritans arrived at America on a ship called Mayflower.

5.The first shots of the American were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1775.

6.On July 4, 1776, in the Second Continental congress, the independence of "the United States of America" was declared, which was primarily written by Thomas Jefferson.

7. The Louisiana Purchase, in 1803, gave Western farmers use of the important Mississippi River waterway, almost doubled the territory of the U.S.

8. After the election of Abraham Lincoln , eleven Southern states seceded from the union, establishing a rebel government, which is called Confederate States of America on February 9, 1861.

9. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States.

10. In 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which liberated some four million Negro slaves in the South.

11. The battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in the Civil War.

12.The stock market crash was the beginning of the economic depression in the late 1920s and 1930s. President Roosevelt’s (FDR) New Deal measures was to save American democracy and the capital system.

13. The United States declared war against Japan after its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,1941.

14. The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, thus hastened the unconditional surrender of Japan.

15. After WWII, the United States became one of the two dominant superpowers, and the Cold War began.

British government:

1. What is the basis of the British government?

A constitutional monarchy

2. Who is the head of the country?

A queen or a king

3. Who is the present sovereign of the UK?

Elizabeth II

4. How many parts make the British Parliament? And what are they?

Three. They are the sovereign, the House of Lords, the House of Commons

5. What are the two major parties?

The Conservative Party and the Labor Party

6. Who presides the cabinet?

The Prime Minister

8. Who has the real power in the country?

The Prime Minister

9. Who is the present Prime Minister of the UK?

Gordon Brown

10. Where does the Prime Minister live and work?

No.10, Downing Street

American government

1. How many branches are there in the federal government in the U.S.? What are they? Three. They are judicial , executive and legislative branches.

2. On what kind of system are the three branches based? A system of separation of powers.

3. Where is the seat of government for congress? The Capitol.

4. The congress is composed of two chambers. What are they? The House of representatives and the Senate

5. Where is the official residency of the president? The White House.

6. Who has the executive power in the U.S.? The president.

7. What are the two major parties in the U.S.? Tell the symbol of each party.

The Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Their symbols are the Donkey and the Elephant respectively.

8. Who is the first African president in the American history? Barack Obama

9. Which book written by him became No. 1 on both New York Times https://www.360docs.net/doc/9c7847467.html, bestseller lists ? The Audacity of Hope无畏的希望

Education

List the Ivy League universities.

Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire;

Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts;

Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island;

Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Cornell University in Ithaca, New York;

Columbia University in New York City;

Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey;

University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia;

Sports:

1.What are popular sports in Britain?

Association Football (Soccer); Rugby Football; Cricket; Lawn Tennis

2. Who is the captain of the English national Football team from 2000 to 2006?

David Beckham

3. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, who won his second Olympic gold medal as part of the

so-called ‘Dream Team’ of NBA players?

Michael Jordan

4. Which ideal is at the very heart of organized sports in the U.S. and therefore the most

important ideal expressed in organized sports?

competition

5. What are the three most popular organized sports in the U.S.?

football, basketball, and baseball

Literature:

1. Who is the greatest dramatist in English history? List at least four of his major works.

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice; Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet…

2. Which play is regarded as a milestone in Shakespeare’s dramatic development? “To be or not

to be: that is the question”is the line in the play.

Hamlet

3. What makes Shakespeare so famous?

his great understanding of human nature and his ability to find universal human qualities and to put them in dramatic situations.

4. What makes a play a masterpiece?

The ideas behind the play are about problems which are still important to people of different ages in modern times.

5. What do you know about some important writers in American literature? List at least four.

Mark Twain; Earnest Hemingway; Irving Shaw; O’ Neil

Movies & Music

1. A rock and pop group formed in Liverpool, England in 1960 has influenced a

generation of the country. Could you tell us the name of the group? The Beatles

2.What do you know about the “British Invasion”? the “British Invasion”refers to the

musical movement of the mid-1960s composed of British rock-and-roll groups whose popularity spread rapidly to the United States

3. What artist is known as "The Hillbilly Cat"? Who is called “King of Pop”?

Elvis Presley; Michael Jackson

4.Is American country music about modern life? No, it is about the good old days.

5.Which area is known as the center of the American film industry? What is

the Academy Award for film in America? Hollywood; the Oscar

British Everyday Life

1.What are Castles? What is the biggest castle in England?

Castles are huge, strong house, where kings and lords once lived with their families, soldiers and servants.

2.What is the national food in Britain? Fish and chips

3. Which Pudding is not sweet? Yorkshire Pudding and Black Pudding.

4. Where can you eat in Britain apart from at home and in a restaurant ? What is a Ploughman's

Lunch? Public Houses (Pubs) the dish served in Pubs.

5.When can you legally drink alcohol in the UK? When can you legally drive a

car in the UK? 18 17

6.What is the national drink of England ? tea

7. What food was "invented" or discovered in England? Sandwich

8. What is it like to drive in Britain? What is the National Speed Limit for driving in the UK?

Britons drive on the left-hand side of the road.

40miles per hour.

9. What clothes do people wear in England?

Jeans and Tee shirts or full business suits for office work

10. Where can you find information on shops in England?

the High Street

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