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1、國(guó)家概況地理:OttawaisthecapitalofCanada.ThecapitalofNewZealandisWellington.EdinburghisinScotland.ThecapitalofAustraliaisCanberra.歷史:ThePresidentduringtheAmericanCivilWarwasAbrahamLincoln.TheAborigineswerethenativesofAustraliabeforethearrivaloftheBritishsettlers.Themajorityofth
2、ecurrentpopulationintheUKaredecedentsofallthefollowingtribesrespectivelyincludingtheAnglos,theCeltsandtheSaxons.TheoriginalinhabitantsofAustraliaweretheAborigines.政治:USpresidentsnormallyserveafour-yearterm.ThePrimeMinisterinBritainisheadoftheCabinet.TheHeadofStateofCanad
3、aisrepresentedbytheGovernor-general.TheDeclarationofIndependencewaswrittenbyThomasJefferson.宗教:TheChurchofEnglandisthestatechurchinEngland.新聞:USnewsandcablenetworkare:ABS,CNN&CBS.教育:AssociatedegreeisofferedincommunitycollegesintheUnitedStates.英美文學(xué)作家作品:ThenovelEmmaiswritt
4、enbyJaneAusten.WilliamSidneyPorter,knownasO.Henry,ismostfamousforhisshortstories.ThenovelForWhomtheBellTollsiswrittenbyErnestHemingway.WutheringHeightswaswrittenbyEmilyBronte.DeathofaSalesmanwaswrittenbyArthurMiller.JohnGalsworthywasmostfamousforTheForsyteSaga.ThenovelTh
5、eAdventuresofHuckleberryFinnwaswrittenbyMarkTwain.文學(xué)知識(shí):Sonnetisdefinedasanexpressionofhumanemotionwhichiscondensedintofourteenlines.作家概況:GeorgeG.Byron,WilliamWordsworthandPercyB.Shelleyareromanticpoets.WilliamButlerYeatswasanIrishpoetandplaywright.GeorgeBernardShawwasapl
6、aywright.不同階段文學(xué):T.S.Elliotisapoetofthe20thcentury.英語語言學(xué)語用學(xué):Whatessentiallydistinguishessemanticsandpragmaticsisthenotionofcontext.句法學(xué):Syntaxisthestudyofsentencestructures.語義學(xué):Thewords"kid,child,offspring"areexamplesofstylisticsynonyms.語言的本質(zhì):Thedistinctivefeaturesofhumanl
7、anguagearearbitrariness,productivityandculturaltransmissions.Thedistinctivefeaturesofaspeechvarietymaybelexical,syntacticandphonological.語言學(xué)流派:ThespeechacttheorywasfirstputforwardbyJohnAustin.ThedistinctionbetweenparoleandlanguewasmadebySaussure.形態(tài)學(xué):Morphologyreferstothe
8、studyoftheinternalstructureofwordsandtherulesofwordformation.語言的演變:Thewordholidayoriginallymeantholyday