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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PartI中,第一大题文
2、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)andtheConfederateStatesofAmerica(theConfede
3、racy)from1861to1865.ItbeganonApril12,1861,whenConfederatearmyopenedfireonFortSumter(萨姆特堡)inCharlestonHarbor,SouthCarolina,andlasteduntilMay26,1865,whenthelastConfederatearmysurrendered.Thecommander-in-chiefoftheUnionwasGeneralUlyssesGrant(格兰特将军)andthecommander-i
4、n-chiefoftheConfederacywasGeneralRobertLee(罗伯特·李将军)Thechiefandimmediatecauseofthewarwasslavery.TheUnion,undertheleadershipofLincoln,defeatedtheConfederacyatlastafter4yearsofhardstruggle.Thewartookmorethan600,000lives,destroyedpropertyvaluedat$5billion,broughtfre
5、edomto4millionblackslaves,andopenedwoundsthathavenotyetcompletelyhealedmorethan140yearslater.TheAmericanCivilWarhashadafar-reachinginfluenceontheUnitedStates.ThankstotheWar,theUnionwassavedandtheslaverysystemcametoanend,whichhaspavedthewayforthedevelopmentofAmer
6、ica’scapitalism.AndatthesametimeithastaughttheAmericanpeoplealesson.Fromthehorrificcasualties(伤亡)ofthetwosidesoftheWar,theAmericanpeoplehavecometorealizethat,nomatteritbeafamilyoracountry,thereisnowinnerifbrothersfightagainsteachother.Therefore,theyvalueunityall
7、themore.AndafterthattherehasneverbeenacivilwarintheUS.2.Thegoverningconceptof“governmentofthepeople,bythepeopleandforthepeople”InhisGettysburgaddress,Lincolnsetforthhisgoverningconceptinabriefandclearmanner,whichisacorrectunderstandingandaccuratedefinitionofther
8、elationshipbetweengovernmentandpeople.AndthisisactuallythegoverningconceptabidedbyalltheadministrationsintheUS,thatis,governmentmustbeagovernmentofthepeople,bythepeop