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《英语国家概况》余志远 主编 外语教学与研究出版社 [2005年版]
Part one
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Chapter 1 Land and People
Chapter 2 The Origins of a Nation(5000 BC-AD 1066)
Chapter 3 The Shaping of the Nation(1066——1381)
Chapter 4 Transition tO the Modern Age(1455——1688)
Chapter 5 The Rise and Fall of the British Empire(1688——1990)
Chapter 6 The Economy（注：本小节在考纲非重点章节，故略）
Chapter 7 Government and Administration
Chapter 8 Justice and the Law
Chapter 9 Social Affairs
Chapter 10 Cultural Affairs

Part Two
The Republic of Ireland
Chapter 11 Geography and History
Chapter 12 Ireland Today（注：本小节在考纲非重点章节，故略）

Part Three
The United States of America
Chapter 13 Geography
Chapter 14 Population．Race and Ethnic Groups
Chapter 15 American History(I)(1600——1900)
Chapter 16 American History(II)(1900-1945)
Chapter 17 American History(III)America in Post Era(1945-1980s)
Chapter 18 The Economy
Chapter 19 Political Institutions
Chapter 20 Education
Chapter 21 Literature．Architecture and Music
Chapter 22 Holidays and Festivals

Part Four
Canada
Chapter 23 Geography and History
Chapter 24 The Economy
Chapter 25 Government and Politics
（注：Chapter 24~25 在考纲非重点章节，故略）
Chapter 26 Society and Culture

Part Five
Australia
Chapter 27 Land and People
Chapter 28 Australian History(I)Australia to Federation
Chapter 29 Australian History(II)Australia Since Federation
Chapter 30 The Economy
Chapter 31 Government and Politics
（注：Chapter 28~31 在考纲非重点章节，故略）
Chapter 32 Society and Culture

Part Six
New Zealand
Chapter 33 The Making of New Zealand
Chapter 34 New Zealand Today（注：本小节在考纲非重点章节，故略）

前言
本书一共包括六个部分：英国、爱尔兰、美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰。重点是英国和美国两个国家。
如：meet waterloo：溃败
如：Renaissance men：在多方面都擅长的人
考试大纲见教材附录部分
考题分布：
第一题：选择题。共50题，1题1分，共50分。（英国和美国两个国家各占20题，加拿大和澳大利亚两个国家各占3题，新西兰和阿尔兰两个国家各占2题。）
第二题：用一句回答问题。共10题，1题3分，共30分。（英国和美国各占3题，其余的四题，四个国家一个国家1个题。）
第三题：名词解释。共4题，每题5分，共20分。（英国和美国两个国家各占两个题。其余的国家不出题。）
Chapter 1　Land and People
 一、本章知识点
1.重点：
① Different names for Britain and its parts
2.难点、考点：
① Britain’s official name
② British Commonwealth
二、课本内容
（一）Different names for Britain and its parts

Strictly speaking, the British Isles, Great Britain and England are all geographical names.
1. The British Isles are made up of two large islands and hundreds of small islands. （see map of UK） The two large islands are Great Britain and Ireland. Great Britain is the larger of these two islands.
2. The official name of the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. But it is too much of a mouthful to say such a long name for a country, so people just say Britain, the United Kingdom or simply U.K.
（UK） capital: London
The Republic of Ireland has been an independent republic since 1949 and its capital is Dublin.
3. There are three political divisions on the island of Great Britain: England, Scotland, and Wales. England is the largest, most populous and richest, so people tend to use “England” and “English” when they mean “Britain” and “British”.
4. The British Empire: one fourth of the world’s people and one fourth of the world’s land area. 资料来源：www.ZiK 如需精美完整排版，请QQ: 67460666
5. The British Empire gradually disappeared and it was replaced by the British Commonwealth or the Commonwealth of Nations in 1931. The Commonwealth is a free association of independent countries that were once colonies of Britain. Member nations are joined together economically and have certain trading arrangements. The Commonwealth has no special powers. The decision to become a member of the Commonwealth is left to each nation.
（二）Others
Geographical Features
1. The United Kingdom is separated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel in the south and the North Sea in the east. The English Channel lies between Britain and France. （p.4）
Taiwan Strait：台湾海峡
2. “Chunnel”: channel + tunnel, opened to traffic in 1994. （p.5）
Smog: smoke +fog
Mortel: motor +hotel
Kidult: kid +adult
3. The highest mountain in Britain: Ben Nevis, 1,343m in Scotland. （p.6）
The longest river: the Severn River （338 km）
The second largest and most important river: the Thames River （336 km） （p.7）
4. 90% of the population is urban and only 10% is rural. （p.11）
5. The English are Anglo-Saxons, but the Scots, Welsh and Irish are Celts. （p.12）
三、总结
① Britain’s official name
② British Commonwealth
Chapter 2　The Origins of a Nation （5000 BC – AD 1066）
一、本章知识点
1.重点：
① Arrival and settlement of the Celts
② Basis of modern English race: the Anglo-Saxons
③ Roman Britain （55 BC – AD 410）
④ The Viking and Danish invasions（北欧海盗和丹麦人的入侵）
⑤ King Alfred and his contributions（啊弗雷德国王和他的贡献）
⑥ The Norman Conquest and its consequences（诺曼征服及其影响）
2.难点、考点：
① the Anglo-Saxons: Heptarchy; foundation of the English state
② King Alfred
③ Norman Conquest … … 资料来源：www.ZiK 如需精美完整排版，请QQ: 67460666
二、课本内容
（一）Arrival and settlement of the Celts （p.17）
1. began to arrive about 700 BC
2. originally have come from eastern and central Europe, now France, Belgium and southern Germany
3. three main waves——1st Gaels, about 600 BC;
2nd. Brythons, 400 BC, （Britain）;
3rd. Belgae, 150 BC, （Belgium）.
Gaelic：盖尔语
4. The Celtic tribes are ancestors of Highland Scots, the Irish and the Welsh, and their languages are the basis of both Welsh and Gaelic.
5. religion: Druidism
The Celts’ religion was Druidism. The Druids worshipped and performed their rites in woods by the light of the moon.
（二）Roman Britain
1. British recorded history begins with the Roman invasion （55 BC – AD 410）.
2. Julius Caesar, 55 BC
3. under the Roman occupation for nearly 400 years, but never a total occupation
4. Boadicea, or Boudicca, queen of the Iceni of East Anglia
5. Londinium, capital of the Romans
6. Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall
7. Christianity资料来源：www.ZiK 如需精美完整排版，请QQ: 67460666
8. The Roman impact upon the Britons surprisingly limited.
（三）Basis of modern English race: the Anglo-Saxons （p.20-23）
1. mid-5th century, three Teutonic tribes: Jutes （from southern Denmark）, Saxons, and Angles （both from northern Germany）; Angles were to give their name to the English people.
2. Heptarchy——seven principal kingdoms set up by the Anglo-Saxons: Kent, Essex, Sussex, Wessex, East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria. （英国版的战国七雄）
Monarchy：君主制
The Anglo-Saxon tribes were constantly at war with one another, each trying to get the upper hand, so that the kingdoms were often broken up and often pieced together again.
3. In 829, Egbert became an overlord of all the English.
4. Teutonic religion: Tiu—war, Woden—heaven, Thor—Storms, Freya—Peace

5. St. Augustine——the first Archbishop of Canterbury.
6. Anglo-Saxons laid the foundations of the English state: divide the country into shires（郡）, later counties; the narrow-strip, three-field farming system（三田轮作）; manorial system; Witan（议会） （council or meeting of the wisemen, 贤人会议）, the basis of the Privy Council which still exists today.
（四）The Viking and Danish invasions （p.23-24）
1. from the end of 8th century, Norwegian Vikings and Danes from Denmark
2. The Danes gained the “Danelaw”（丹麦法区）, the north and east of England.
3. The Witan chose Canute, the Danish Leader, as king in 1016. Canute made England part of a Scandinavian empire.
（五）King Alfred and his contributions
1. King of Wessex （871-899） （抗击北欧海盗入侵的国家英雄）
2. his contributions: “the father of the British navy”; reorganized the fyrd （the Saxon army）; translated into English Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People; established schools and formulated a legal system
3. “Alfred the Great”
（六）The Norman Conquest and its consequences （p.24-25）
1. King Edward, known as “the Confessor”, was far more Norman than Saxon
2. 4 men laid claim to the English throne: the King of Norway, the Duke of Normandy, Tostig and Harold （two brothers of Edward’s Queen）
3. Oct. 14, 1066, Hastings, Anglo-Saxon England perished with Harold’s death.
4. William was crowned King of England on Christmas Day.
5. the best-known event in English history
6. William the Conqueror
7. the feudal system was completely established.
三、总结
历史上定居和入侵英国的不同民族：
Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Viking/Dales, and Normans
Chapter 3 The Shaping of the Nation (1066 – 1381)
I. 本章知识点
1.重点：
① England’s feudalism under the rule of William the Conqueror
② Contents and the significance of the Great Charter
③ Origins of the English Parliament
④ The Hundred Years’ War with France and its consequences
⑤ Consequences of the Black Death
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2.难点、考点：
① English feudalism: Domesday Book（《土地清帐册》）
② Great Charter
③ English Parliament
Ⅱ.课本内容资料来源：www.ZiK 如需精美完整排版，请QQ: 67460666
i.England’s feudalism under the rule of William the Conqueror （pp27-29）
1. Under William, the feudal system in England was completely established. According to this system, the King owned all the land personally. William gave his barons large estates in England in return for a promise of military service and a proportion of the land’s produce.
The barons parceled out land to the lesser nobles, knights and freemen, also in return for goods and services. At the bottom of the feudal scale were the villeins or serfs, unfree peasants who were little better than slaves.
Class structure （等级结构）：the King; barons—tenants-in-chief; lesser nobles, knights, and freemen; villeins/serfs
（补充: barons’ oath of allegiance （誓词） for the king: “We who are as good as you swear to you, who are no better than we, to accept you as our king and sovereign lord provided you observe all our statutes and laws; if not, no.” 国王与贵族在封建法规所规定的权力和义务范围内平起平坐。）
2. Replace the Witan with the Grand Council （大议会）
William replaced the Witan, the council of the Anglo-Saxon Kings, with the Grand Council of his new tenants-in-chief, on which they were required to serve when summoned.
3. Domesday Book: record of lands, tenants, and their possessions, for taxes. Not unlike the Book of Doom （末日审判书）
In order to have a reliable record of all his lands, his tenants and their possessions and to discover how much they could be called upon to pay by way of taxes, William sent his clerks to compile a property record known as Domesday Book because it seemed to the English not unlike the Book of Doom to be used by the greatest feudal lord of all on Judgment Day.
注：William took a deep interest in the development of the church in England. His policy towards the church was to keep it completely under his control, but at the same time to uphold its power.
But he took care to maintain his own independence.
4. Henry II, founder of the Plantagenet dynasty （金雀花王朝）, ruled for 35 years.
Henry, founder of the Angevin dynasty, usually known as the Plantagenet dynasty, became king and went on to rule for 35 years.
In Henry II’s reign a common law, which over-rode local law and private law, was gradually established in place of the customs of the manor which had previously varied not only from shire to shire but even from one community to another.
The common law is the unwritten law common to the whole people as distinct from law governing only sections of it, and is “case-made”, i. e.，based on precedent judgments, and derived from acknowledged custom.
In Henry’s day the jury system-whose origins can be traced to primitive trials in which witnesses were called forward to swear to the innocence of the accused-was at last replacing old English ordeals by fire and water and old Norman trials by battle.
ii.Contents and the significance of the Great Charter （pp32-33）
1. Crusades （十字军东征） →The result was confrontation between King John and his barons in 1215.
2. Magna Carta, 1215
The barons’ charter, or Magna Carta as it came to be known, was presented by a delegation of their class to the king and his advisers in the summer of 1215 at a conference at Runnymede, an island in the Thames four miles down stream from Windsor.
3. Contents——63 clauses: No tax should be made without the approval of the Grand Council; no freeman should be arrested, imprisoned, or deprived of his property except by the law of the land; the Church should possess all its rights, together with freedom of elections; London and other towns should retain their ancient rights and privileges, and there should be the same weights and measures throughout the country.
Although Magna Carta has long been popularly regarded as the foundation of English liberties, it was a statement of the feudal and legal relationship between the Crown and the barons, a guarantee of the freedom of the Church and a limitation of the powers of the king.
4. Significance: regarded as the foundation of English liberties; the spirit—the limitation of the powers of the king资料来源：www.ZiK 如需精美完整排版，请QQ: 67460666
iii.Origins of the English Parliament （pp.33-35）
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1. King John and his son Henry III defied Magna Carta. The barons, under Simon de Montfort, rebelled.
King John defied Magna Carta.
The barons, under Simon de Montfort, Henry III’s brother-in-law, rebelled.
2. Provisions of Oxford——Grand Council of 24 members, half to be nominated by the barons themselves; a permanent body of advisors, without whose authority the king could not act.
A civil war broke out between the king’s supporters, mostly foreign mercenaries, and the baronial army led by Simon de Montfort.
1264 the king was defeated by De Montfort and taken prisoner.
3. the earliest Parliament——in 1265, 2 knights from each county, 2 burgesses （citizens） from each town.
The Great Council developed later into the Lords and the Commons known as parliament.
4. Met only by royal invitation. Its role was to offer advice.
At this point Parliament only met by royal invitation. Its role was to offer advice, not to make decisions.
5. Under Edward I, Wales was conquered. The Statute of Wales in 1284; Prince of Wales, a title held by the heir to the throne
Under Edward I, Henry III’s son, Wales was conquered （1277-1284） and came under the English Crown. The Statute of Wales in 1284 placed the country under English law end Edward I presented his new-born son to the Welsh people as Prince of Wales, a title held by the heir to the throne ever since.
iv.The Hundred Years’ War with France and its consequences （pp35-37）
1. the intermittent war, 1337-1453
The name is given to the intermittent war between France and England that lasted form 1337 to 1453.
2. the causes: partly territorial and partly economic
3. Edward III declared war.
When Edward III（1327-1377） claimed the French Crown by right of his mother Isabella, daughter of Philip IV.
In 1337 Edward declared a war that was to last for a hundred years.
There were three outstanding stages of the war.
4. England was successful at first, but was defeated at last. Joan of Arc（圣女贞德）
After his death in 1422, the French, encouraged by Joan of Arc, their national heroine, drove the English ou