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英美概况学习要领
英国历史部分可整理成这样一条线索：
early
settlers
——
Roman
invations
——
Anglo-
Saxons
—
—
the
V
iking and Danish
Invations
——
the Norman Conque
st
——
William
’
s Rule
——
the Great
Charter
——
the
Hundred Year
’
s
War
——
the English
Reformation
——
the
English
Renaissance
——
the Civil
War
——
the Glorius
Revolution
——
the Industrial
Revolution
——
in the two World
Wars
美国历史部分可整理成这样一条线索：
the
war
of
Independence
——
the
War
of
1812
——
territorial
expansion and Westward
Movement
——
the Civil
War
——
in the two World
Wars
——
the
Cold
War
——
the
Berlin
Blockade
——
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
in
the
1950s
——
the
Vietname War
每个要
点之后都分别有重点，尤其每次战争的背景、时间、起因、结果都需要全面了解。
三
.
对比分析，找出差别。例如，每个国家
的政体有共同点，也有差别，差别就需要记住。
Country
Party system Houses
Britain The conservative
Party, The House of Commons
The Labour Party
The House of Lorbs
The U.S.
The Democrats, The
Senate,
The
Republic The
House of Representatives
Ireland Fianna Fail,
The Senate,
Fine
Gael The
House of Representatives
Australia The Labour
Party
, The
Senate,
the Liberal
and National Party The House of
Representatives
New Zealand
The National Party
，
The Labour Party
The House of Representatives
Canada The Liberal Party,
The Senate,
the
Progressive Conservative Party The House of
Representatives
依据上面提到的对比分析
可出这样的题：
Canada
’
s
political party system is not____?
party rule party rule and a half party rule
party rule.
一
.
自然资源
英国
:Compare with many other
countries,Britain has comsiderable reserves of
British
coal mining is called a
Natural gas and oil was discovered in
1965 and oil in 1970 under the North Sea.
Britain was the first nation to build a
large iron and steel deposits of iron ore were
found in central England.
As
with the coal industry,Britain's steel industry is
declining.
美国
:Fertile soil is one of
the most important natural resouces in the United
States.
America's forest resources are
among the world's largest.
Another
natural resource that contributes to the welfare
of the country is water.
America is the
leaders in production of Coal,iron
ore,cpper,oil,sulfur,lead and zine.
But short for tin,manganese,and nikel.
二
.
农业
英国
:The
Britain
were pioneers in modern agriculture and were among
the first to bring science
and
machinery to new farming has been called
farming types in
are arable farning,dairy fariming,stock
farming,mixed farming,hill
farming and
market gardening.
Because of the cool
climate,apples,pears and plums grwo very well in
Britain.
The North Sea has very good
fishing grounds.
美国
:Y
et the United
States grows nearly one fourth of the world's
grain and supplies a half of all
the
exports of grain in the world.
It ranks
first,second,or third in the production and export
of corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, oranges,
meat,milk, apples,oats,cotton,tobaoo,
peanuts,and edible vegetable oil.
三
.
制造业
,
工业
英国
:The
textile is one of Britain's es were on of the
country's most vauluable exports.
Britain became a world leader in
shipbuilding during the middle of the 19th two
main
centres for shipbuilding were on
the River Tyne near Newcastle,England
and on the Clyde near
Glasgow in Scotland.
The
Britain motor industry now dominated by four
firms(Ford,the Rover
Group,GM-V
auxhall,and
Peugeot)
There are three
areas in Britain which have seen some high-tech
industrial growth. Scotland has
Europe's largest collection of foreign-
owned chip 90% of the companies are from
the U.S.A.,Japan,the Netherlands and
germany.
美国
:The
untied States ranks first,second,third or fourth
in the world in the production of crude
steel,passenger
cars,commercial
vehicles,chemicals,radio
sets,television
sets,and
other
manufacturing cturing
accounts for about one quarter of the
GDP
,about one quarter
of the
national income,and over one fifth of the work
force.
The industrial regions are the
Midwest(the nations's leading centre of heavy
industry) round the
Great Lakes,the
Middle Atlantic states,the South,and the Pacific
Coast.
四
.
对外贸易
英国
:Britain
is
the
fifth
largest
trading
country
in
the
on
called
it
a
of
shopkeepers