英美国家概况题目汇总

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1. 威廉二世（William II）在何处加冕the Westminster Abbey, London

2. 奠定了英国人权自由的法案the Magna Carta

3. “the father of British navy”Alfred the Great

4. 最著名的两个英国首相Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher

5. Adam Smith的著作The Wealth of Nations(国富论)

6. 美国在1913年发生了（两个宪法修正案）

The Tariff Act of 1913, Federal Reserve Acts

7. 英国最长的河the Times

8. The highest church position in Britain: Archbishop of Canterbury.

9. The meaning of the word “Parliament”: talking or parley

10. The meaning of the word “Renaissance”: rebirth

11. 美国十大城市中的六个位于美国什么地区

The Great Lakes / Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain(待定)

12.纽约昵称: Big Apple

13.美国最冷的州Alaska

14.贯穿美国的山脉: Rocky Mountain

15.美国加州地震多发区位于什么地带Circum-Pacific Seismic Zone

16.夏威夷的混合动力太阳能发电系统

17. The symbol of the house of Lancaster and the house of York: red rose and white rose

18. The symbol of the union of the Houses of Lancaster and York: the Tudor rose

19.美国最大的教育研究机构？

20.美国芝加哥最大的机场O'Hare International Airport

芝加哥奥黑尔国际机场（O'Hare International Airport, IATA: ORD, ICAO: KORD）是世界上唯一的双中枢机场。世界上最大的两家航空公司——联合航空公司和美利坚航空公司，都在奥黑尔机场建立了自己的中枢。2001 年，旅客吞吐量6745 万，仅次于亚特兰大机场，是世界上最繁忙的机场之一。

21.苏格兰首府：Edinburgh北爱尔兰首府：Belfast 威尔士首府：Cardiff

22 英国official name: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland

23.英国组成：England, Scotland, Wales, North Ireland

24.连接英法两国的海底隧道铁路：The Chunnel

25英国的环形石头构造the Stonehenge

1. A famous epic poem from the Anglo-Saxon period is Beowulf。

2.The foundation of liberty-the famous document called Magna Carta.

3.The symbol that stands for wars between Lancaster and Yorkshire is Rose.(P54)

4.What is the period called when there are many great industrial changes? The Industrial Revolution .(P81)

5.Who invented the steam engine? James Watt .(P82)

6.What happened in October 1929? The Great Depression.(P95)

7.What is NHS? The National Highway System.(P167)

8.Chicago’s Airport O’Hare. (P168)

9.The second largest city in USA L.A.

10.The world’s largest educational and research organization: The Smithsonian Institution. (P171)

11.Which state is paradise of the pacific: Hawaii

12.The first national park ：Yellowstone.(P186)

13.The American current president:

14.Philosophy: P14

15.What is the period called when there are many great industrial changes? The Industrial Revolution .(P81)

16.Who invented the steam engine? James Watt .(P82)

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17.What happended in October 1929? The Great Depression.(P95)

18.What is NHS? The National Highway System.(P167)

The second largest city in USA L.A.

The world’s largest educational and research organization:The Smithsonian Institution. (P171)

Which state is paradise of the pacific :Hawaii.

The first national park ：Yellowstone. (P186)

The American current president:

Name the first Existentialist: Soren Kierkegaard.

b) Who influence Adolf Hitler? Friedrich Nietzsche.

C) A French Philosopher, who believed that “life is a flow”? Henri Bergson.

d) Please describe Jean-Paul Sartre’s idea: P14

RAF: the Royal Air Force

b) Where is the UN located New York.

c) New term for farming? Agri-business.(P105)

d) Two cities are moving closer Los Angeles and San Francisco.

1. What was the cause of the French and Indian War (1753 - 1761)?

Through out colonial period, Britain and France struggled for control of eastern North America. As settlers moved westward, both nations claimed the vast territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. The struggle became fiercer and finally lead to the outbreak of the French and Indian War (1754 - 1762) .

2. Britain incurred heavy debts, so they passed the Stamp Act. What did the Stamp Act do?

It extended to the colonies the traditional English tax on newspapers, legal documents and other printed matter.

3. In what year and why did the “Boston Massacre” occurred?

On March 5, 1770, the incident occurred. Many American colonies were bitterly and hostile to laws such as the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act. Besides, they feared the new measures reflected a desire by the King to enhance his power. In protest, the colonists organized a widespread boycott of English goods. After that, there was another boycott to the Townshend Acts. As tensions between Americans and British grew, Britain sent troops to Boston and New York.

Discuss segments of modern philosophical trends.

the philosopher who was the first existentialist and his point of view.

Name: Soren Kierkegaard

His point of view: Truth was subjective, individual and personal. Objective truths are irrelevant to persons’ existence.

the philosopher who influenced Adolf Hiller ; what was his core belief.

Name: Friedrich Nietzsche

His core belief: The weak should not hamper the life force of the strongest and that“God is dead”

3.The French philosopher who believed “life is a flow”, please name him;and what other core “believes did he

believe”

Name: Henri Bergson

Other core believes:

1.reason perceives the material world

2.Intuition could perceive the life force.

4.John Paul believed what ?How did he feel about individual choice?

He believed that man is the only living creature that is conscious of its own existence.

He thought that each person must make choices without any frame of reference in an alien, meaningless world.

5. What’s the highest church position in England?

Archbishop of Canterbury.

Industrial Revolution

1.What was a “cottage industry”, and give 2 examples of this time.

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Domestic industry was often called a “cottage industry”