美国概况考试复习资料 问题及简答
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1. How many states in the US?
50states
2. Which is the largest state in the main land? Texas
3. Which is the largest state in the whole country? Alaska
4. The youngest state of the US
Hawaii
5. How many colonies? The name of three parts.
13
New England
Middle Atlantic States
South Atlantic States
6. Try to describe the location of America. Northern Hemisphere
North pacific
Gulf of Mexico
North Atlantic Ocean
Mexico Canada
7. Three division geographically.
Highlands
Plain
Mountains
8. The backbone of the America. - The highest peak. Rocky & Mount Mitchell
9. The father of the water.
Mississippi River
10. The great lakes
Superior River
Michigan River
Huron River
Erie River
Ontario River
11. Crater Lake – The Deepest
12. The highest peak outside Alaska
Mount Whitney
13. The capital city of America & the famous river in Washington D.C Washington D.C & the Potomac River
14. The largest city in the US & the famous river in New York
New York & the Hudson River
15. The Melting Pot
It is metaphorically used to refer to the United States because it is a country of many ethnic groups from different parts of the world, who came to the New World to seek for freedom in politics or religion. They have been dissipating their different ethic cultures toward some “standard” by living and working together in the “melting pot” of the United States and gradually forming a new nation.
16. The first colony
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (W ASPs)
17. The first west people
Anglo Saxon
18. The largest ethnic-racial minority group
African-American
19. The freedom of black people
Lincoln & Emancipation of Declaration in 1863
20. Hispanics refer to
Spanish
21. The Constitution
Was framed in Philadelphia in 1787 and ratified in 1789.
This is the first constitution in the world.
22. Check and balance
The Constitution follows two principles:
the federal system &
the “separation of powers.”
Two principles: federal; state principle for local
Three divisions:
23. The position of President
Commandeer-in-chief
Head of state
Chief executive
24. The power of president
The President has a veto power over bills passed by Congress.
The President has the power of appointing as many as thousands of officers.
The President has the power to conduct foreign affairs.
The President can make executive agreements with other countries without the approval of the Senate.
25. The power of congress
Congress has the power to make any laws that are considered “necessar y and proper.”
Congress has the power to impose taxes, decide the expenditures of the government, control trade with foreign nations, and establish and protect a monetary system.
Congress has the power to raise and maintain an army and a navy and declare war upon other countries.
26. Departments
Speaker of the House of Representatives 众议院长
President pro tempore of the Senate参议院临时主席
Secretary of State国务卿
Secretary of the Treasury财政部长
Secretary of Defense 国防部长
Attorney General 司法部长；最高法院院长
Postmaster General 邮政总长
Secretary of the Interior 内政部长
Secretary of Agriculture 农业部长
Secretary of Commerce 商业部长
Secretary of Labor 劳工部长