《美国总统演讲名篇赏析》文化链接和问答题复习重点

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1、问答题重点准备以下题目(用英语答题)，期末考试中的第六大题EssayWriting从以下的题目中出一个：1.P85QuestionsforDiscussion12.P98QuestionsforDiscussion33.P116QuestionsforDiscussion14.P172QuestionsforDiscussion15.P215QuestionsforDiscussion26.P253QuestionsforDiscussion3期末考试中的第五大题名词解释题（1个题目）出自以下的Part

2、I中，第一大题文化知识题主要出自以下的PartI和PartII中。请尤其注意划线部分。PartOne：CultureLinksforTestPaper’sPartV(名词解释题)1.TheAmericanCivilWarTheAmericanCivilWaristheonlycivilwarinAmericanhistory.ItwasamilitaryconflictbetweentheUnitedStatesofAmerica(theUnion)andtheConfederateStatesofAm

3、erica(theConfederacy)from1861to1865.ItbeganonApril12,1861,whenConfederatearmyopenedfireonFortSumter（萨姆特堡）inCharlestonHarbor,SouthCarolina,andlasteduntilMay26,1865,whenthelastConfederatearmysurrendered.Thecommander-in-chiefoftheUnionwasGeneralUlyssesGrant

4、（格兰特将军）andthecommander-in-chiefoftheConfederacywasGeneralRobertLee（罗伯特·李将军）Thechiefandimmediatecauseofthewarwasslavery.TheUnion,undertheleadershipofLincoln,defeatedtheConfederacyatlastafter4yearsofhardstruggle.Thewartookmorethan600,000lives,destroyedprop

5、ertyvaluedat$5billion,broughtfreedomto4millionblackslaves,andopenedwoundsthathavenotyetcompletelyhealedmorethan140yearslater.11TheAmericanCivilWarhashadafar-reachinginfluenceontheUnitedStates.ThankstotheWar,theUnionwassavedandtheslaverysystemcametoanend,

6、whichhaspavedthewayforthedevelopmentofAmerica’scapitalism.AndatthesametimeithastaughttheAmericanpeoplealesson.Fromthehorrificcasualties（伤亡）ofthetwosidesoftheWar,theAmericanpeoplehavecometorealizethat,nomatteritbeafamilyoracountry,thereisnowinnerifbrother

7、sfightagainsteachother.Therefore,theyvalueunityallthemore.AndafterthattherehasneverbeenacivilwarintheUS.2.Thegoverningconceptof“governmentofthepeople,bythepeopleandforthepeople”InhisGettysburgaddress,Lincolnsetforthhisgoverningconceptinabriefandclearmann

8、er,whichisacorrectunderstandingandaccuratedefinitionoftherelationshipbetweengovernmentandpeople.AndthisisactuallythegoverningconceptabidedbyalltheadministrationsintheUS,thatis,governmentmustbeagovernmentofthepeople,bythepe