20110610 英美社会与文化期末复习题目汇总.docVIP

PAGE  PAGE 14 期末复习题目汇总 TIPS：简答题答案有点长，大家可以自己提炼一下，记住要点就行。如果大家发现有什么错误，请及时更正，可以联系蒋玉秀以便及时告知大家。填空题有2个没找到答案，下次课我问一下老师。 44和47班的同学辛苦了。为了维护大家的劳动成果及我们法律倡导的公正性，决议此答案的版权归44和47班的同学所有。祝愿大家考试顺利。 I. Fill in the blanks. 小溪 (History) 1. Most people who came to the British colonies in the 1600s were __ English __. Others came from The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, France, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. By 1690, 250,000 people lived in the _ New World __. By 1790, there were 2.5 million people. 2. The first settlements were along the Atlantic coast and on rivers that flowed into the ocean. In the Northeast, trees covered the hills and stones filled the soil, but water power was available. The Northeast was called New England, and it included Massachusetts, _ Connecticut ___, and _ Rhode Island __. The economy was based on timber, fishing, shipbuilding, and trade. 3. The ideas of _ liberalism and democracy __ are the basis of the U.S. political system. As the colonists built their new society, they believed more strongly in these ideas. Britain’s 13 colonies grew in population and economic strength during the 1700s. Although ruled by a distant government, the colonists governed many local affairs. 4. The American Revolution and the war for independence from Britain began with a small fight between British troops and colonists on April 19, _1775__. The British troops left _ Boston _, Massachusetts, planning to take weapons and ammunition from revolutionary colonists. At __ Lexington ___, they met armed colonists who were called _ Minutemen _ because they could be ready to fight in a minute. 以上填空均来自American War of Independence 崔(holiday) 5. Valentine’s Day originated in the _ Victorian _ Era. 6. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made the famous _I have a dream_ speech in 1963. 7. Easter is an important __ Christian _ festival in Christian countries. 8. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming _Mother’s day_ as a national holiday that