环球时代：英语专八考前冲刺-人文知识.docVIP

北京环球时代学校 / 英语专业考研 MTI翻译硕士 专四专八 汉语国际教育硕士 日语专业考研等 环球时代:2008专八冲刺人文知识必考内容补充 Britain: London: Buckingham Palace/No. 10 Downing Street/Westminster Abbey (Church)/Hyde Park/Wimbledon Championship Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/Edward VIII chose the Beauty and gave up the Crown/Union Flag (National Flag---St. George (England); St. Andrew (Scotland); St. Patrick (Ireland)/Magna Carta (1215,the earliest constitutional law)/Iron Lady (Margaret Thatcher)/Tony Blair (the youngest British Prime Minister)/John Bull/ Oxford (1168)/ Cambridge (1200)(Trinity College)---(Bacon, Newton, Milton, Darwin, Byron, Russell, Thackeray)/ Sherlock Holmes---Conan Doyle)/Titanic from Southampton—New York)/ Scotland---kilt, Highland fling, bagpipe and Scotch Whisky)/Tips (to insure prompt service)/Guy Fawkes Night (5 November)/ America: Death Valley (lowest point)/Grand Canyon/ Lake Superior/ Maine (smallest number of letter)/ General Sherman (oldest tree)/ Wall Street/ Harvard University/ Alaska (oil/size)/ Sears Tower—Skyscraper in Chicago)/ Las Vegas (gambling city—Atlantic City in New Jersey)/Theodore Roosevelt—the youngest president)/ Pentagon/ Big Three: General Motors/Ford/ Chrysler/ Republican Party—Donkey/ Democratic Party---Elephant/ Annual salary of President—25) / Air Force One (Boeing 747)/ Richard Nixon---impeached for Watergate Affair)/ National flag—Stars and Stripes/ the National Emblem---the Bald Eagle (strength/courage/liberty)/ American National Anthem—Star-spangled Banner)/Uncle Sam/Ivy League University (Harvard University; Yale; Princeton University; Brown University; Columbia University; University of Pennsylvania; Cornell University; Dartmouth)/West Point/ Air Jordan/ Walt Disney/Disneyland/