英语国家概况的复习资料

英语国家概况考试题型如下：

1. 选择题 （ 30 X 1’）

2. 填空题 （ 20 X 1’）

3. 简答 （ 10 X 2’）--必须回答完整的句子

4. 分析题 （ 6 X 5’）-- 必须回答完整的句子

总分 100 分

主要内容包括：

一．U.S. Geography

1. Full name of U.S..

2. Number of States: 50 states.

3. After President Jefferson brought the Louisiana territory from France there was a desire for

territorial expansion among many frontier men.

4. The U.S. has a land area of 9.3 million square kilometers. The fourth largest countries.

5. Taxas is the largest mainland state of the U.S.. Alaska is the largest state of the U.S..

6. Hawaii is in the Pacific Ocean.

7. America’s movies are mostly made in Hollywood near the city of Los Angeles in south

California.

二．U.S. People

1. The largest of the racial and ethnic minorities in the US is the Blacks (Afriican-Americans).

2. The “first Americans” were the Indians.

3. The Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing racial and ethnic group in the United States.

4. The first permanent settlement in North America was established in today’s Verginia in the

year of 1607.

5. The “Three Faiths” in the U.S. refer to:

Protestan

Catholic Jewish

6. The majority of the Catholics in the U.S. are descendants of immigrants from Ireland, Italy

and Poland.

7. American society is a stratified one in which power, wealth and pestige are unequally

distributed among the population.

8. WASP stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.