英美概况学习重点

英美概况学习要领

英国历史部分可整理成这样一条线索：early settlers——Roman invations——Anglo-Saxons——the V iking and Danish Invations——the Norman Conquest——William’s Rule——the Great Charter——the Hundred Year’s War——the English Reformation——the English Renaissance ——the Civil War——the Glorius Revolution——the Industrial Revolution——in the two World Wars

美国历史部分可整理成这样一条线索：the war of Independence——the War of 1812——territorial expansion and Westward Movement——the Civil War——in the two World Wars——the Cold War——the Berlin Blockade——the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s——the Vietname War

每个要点之后都分别有重点，尤其每次战争的背景、时间、起因、结果都需要全面了解。

三.对比分析，找出差别。例如，每个国家的政体有共同点，也有差别，差别就需要记住。Country Party system Houses

Britain The conservative Party, The House of Commons

The Labour Party The House of Lorbs

The U.S. The Democrats, The Senate,

The Republic The House of Representatives

Ireland Fianna Fail, The Senate,

Fine Gael The House of Representatives

Australia The Labour Party, The Senate,

the Liberal and National Party The House of Representatives

New Zealand The National Party，

The Labour Party The House of Representatives

Canada The Liberal Party, The Senate,

the Progressive Conservative Party The House of Representatives

依据上面提到的对比分析可出这样的题：Canada’s political party system is not____?

A.one party rule

B.two party rule

C.one and a half party rule

D.no party rule.

一.自然资源

英国:Compare with many other countries,Britain has comsiderable reserves of coal.Today British coal mining is called a "sick" industry.

Natural gas and oil was discovered in 1965 and oil in 1970 under the North Sea.

Britain was the first nation to build a large iron and steel industry.Rich deposits of iron ore were found in central England.

As with the coal industry,Britain's steel industry is declining.

美国:Fertile soil is one of the most important natural resouces in the United States.

America's forest resources are among the world's largest.

Another natural resource that contributes to the welfare of the country is water.

America is the leaders in production of Coal,iron ore,cpper,oil,sulfur,lead and zine.

But short for tin,manganese,and nikel.

二.农业

英国:The Britain were pioneers in modern agriculture and were among the first to bring science and machinery to farming.The new farming has been called "agribusiness".There are mainly six farming types in Britain.They are arable farning,dairy fariming,stock farming,mixed farming,hill farming and market gardening.

Because of the cool climate,apples,pears and plums grwo very well in Britain.

The North Sea has very good fishing grounds.

美国:Y et the United States grows nearly one fourth of the world's grain and supplies a half of all the exports of grain in the world.

It ranks first,second,or third in the production and export of corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, oranges, meat,milk, apples,oats,cotton,tobaoo, peanuts,and edible vegetable oil.

三.制造业,工业

英国:The textile is one of Britain's oldest.Textiles were on of the country's most vauluable exports. Britain became a world leader in shipbuilding during the middle of the 19th century.The two main centres for shipbuilding were on the River Tyne near Newcastle,England and on the Clyde near Glasgow in Scotland.

The Britain motor industry now dominated by four firms(Ford,the Rover Group,GM-V auxhall,and Peugeot)

There are three areas in Britain which have seen some high-tech industrial growth. Scotland has Europe's largest collection of foreign-owned chip factories.Over 90% of the companies are from the U.S.A.,Japan,the Netherlands and germany.

美国:The untied States ranks first,second,third or fourth in the world in the production of crude steel,passenger cars,commercial vehicles,chemicals,radio sets,television sets,and other manufacturing goods.Manufacturing accounts for about one quarter of the GDP,about one quarter of the national income,and over one fifth of the work force.

The industrial regions are the Midwest(the nations's leading centre of heavy industry) round the Great Lakes,the Middle Atlantic states,the South,and the Pacific Coast.

四.对外贸易

英国:Britain is the fifth largest trading country in the world.Napoleon called it a "nation of shopkeepers".