甘肃广播电视大学英语专业(本科)第三学期平时作业

甘肃广播电视大学英语专业（本科）第三学期平时作业

英语专业（本科）第三学期平时作业做如下规定要求：

高级英语写作：书面作业6次。

第一次作业：第42页，题目：A Short-term Study Plan (Unit One)

第二次作业：第81页，题目：Curriculum Vitae (Task 6 in Unit Two)

第三次作业：第151或166页，题目：A Guide to My Town or Those Were the days (Unit Four) 第四次作业：第222或230页，题目：Writing A Story or Writing Up A Report (Unit Five) 第五次作业：第267页，题目：Writing An Extended Definition of "Friendship" (Unit Six) 第六次作业：第362页，题目：The Advantages And Disadvantages of TV /Fast Food /Owning A Car (Unit Seven)

跨文化交际：书面作业6次。

第一次作业：第40页，题目：How To Be A Cross-cultural Speaker (Unit One)

第二次作业：第66页，题目：How Avoiding Western Taboos (Unit Two)

第三次作业：第107页，题目：Occupations of Surnames (Task 3-2 in Unit Three)

第四次作业：第157页，题目：A Letter To Rod (Task 3 in Unit Four)

第五次作业：第190页，题目：Traditional Chinese Family Relationships (Unit Five)

第六次作业：第264页，题目：A Letter to Angela (Unit Six)

英语国家概况（1）作业

Chapter 1

I. Questions:

1. What is an American ?

2. What were the two long-continuing immigration movements in early America ?

3. What were the three brilliant civilizations of the American Indians ?

4. What were the three forces that led to the modern development of Europe ?

5. Who were the main leaders of the Religious Revolution ?

6. When and where was the first permanent settlement in North America established ?

7. What were the two most important principles of the Holy Experiment ?

8. Why did Lord Baltimore’s feudal plan fail ?

II. True or false

( ) 1. Columbus discovered the New World in the year of 1497.

( ) 2. The crop tobacco that was transplanted from the West Indian saved Virginia.

( ) 3. Lord Baltimore who set up the colony of Maryland was Catholic in religion.

( ) 4. The institution that began to assume the function of a national government during the American Revoution was the First continental Congress.

( ) 5. Salvation through the church was one of the characteristics of Protestantism.

( ) 6. Separation of state and church was not one of the American values that came from Puritanism.

( ) 7. Puritans, Quakers and Church of England were denominations of Protestantism. Chapter 2

I. Questions:

1. What did the peace treaty of 1783 recognize ?

2. Why did the Articles of Confederation fail ?

3. Which of the 13 states refused to participate in the Constitutional Convention ?

4. What is the Constitution of the U.S.?

5. What is a federal system ?

6. What does the U.S. federal government consist of ?

7. Who are known as lobbies ?

8. What are the two major political parties of the U.S.? What are they like ?

II. True or false:

( ) 1. The city where the Declaration of Independence was signed and where the U.S. Constitution was made is Philadelphia.

( ) 2. The Constitution set up a federal system with a strong central government.

( ) 3. The Supreme Court is composed of 1 chief justice and 2 associate justices.

( ) 4. There are 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

( ) 5. When the War of independence was over, the relationship between the states and the national government were clearly defined.

( ) 6. When the Constitution was written, there was no Bill of Rights.

( ) 7. The president can make laws.

( ) 8. The powers of the president was written into the Constitution in 1787.

Chapter 3

I. Questions:

1. Who was the first Secretary of the Treasury ?

2. What were the four developments of the American Industrial Revolution ?

3. What was the first factory in the U.S.? Where and when was it set up ?

4. When did the first American commercial bank appear ? When did the U.S. have the first standard paper currency ?

5. What has the term “agribusiness”been coined to reflect ?

6. Which is the best-known stock exchange ? Where is it located ?

II. True or false:

( ) 1. When starting a business or launching new ventures, money was needed. That money was known as capital.

( ) 2. A great economist in the Industrial Revolution Era was an Englishman named Eli Whitney.

( ) 3. GNP stands for General National Product in this unit.

( ) 4. Agriculture and its related industries serve as the foundation of American economic life. ( ) 5. A period of economic difficulty began in the early 1980s.

( ) 6. The “American system”of mass production was first used in textile industry. ( ) 7. The United States was rated No. 1 in terms of production capacity in the world in 1960.

( ) 8. The U.S. produces as much as half of the world’s tobacco and vegetable oil. Chapter 4

I. Questions:

1. What was American mainstream culture developed from ?

2. Where does the right to govern come from ?

3. Who are the majorities of the Catholics in the U.S.?

4. What do the Three Faiths in the U.S. refer to ?

5. What are the four large Protestant groups in the U.S.?

6. Which is the largest single religious group in the U.S.?

7. Which of the churches continues to have an all-male clergy ?

8. Who was the first Catholic President in the U.S.?

II. True or false:

( ) 1. The Baptists are the largest Protestant denomination in America.

( ) 2. Deists believe that reason teaches that God exists but leaves man free to settle his own affairs.

( ) 3. Freedom of religious belief or non-belief is provided in the First Amendment in the U.S. Constitution.

( ) 4. The Presbyterian was not a Protestant denomination.

( ) 5. Many evangelical Protestants do not object to abortion.

( ) 6. There has been little concentration on doctrine or religious argument in the U.S.. ( ) 7. In the U.S., people go to the church mainly for finding a jog in society.

Chapter 5

I. Answer the following questions:

1. What is American literature considered to be ?

2. Who were the two representative writers of transcendentalists ? What were their representative works ?

3. Which of Mark Twain’s works is considered the greatest novel in American literature ?

4. Who wrote a novel titled Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which intensified the political debate on slavery?

5. Whose works often described Americans living in Europe? Name two of his works.

6. What is Ezra Pound’s poetry famous for ?

7. Who was the first Afro--American writer that won the Nobel Prize for Literature ? What are two of her best novels ?

8. What are the three characteristics of Emily Dickinson’s poems ?

9. What characteristics does Whitman’s poetry have ?

10. Who were the most representative naturalists in American literature ?

II. True or false:

( ) 1. Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper are the two major writers of the post-Revolutionary period.

( ) 2. John Steinbeck does not belong to the “Lost Generation”.

( ) 3. Moby Dick is considered an American masterpiece, which was written by Mark Twain. ( ) 4. T.S. Eliot’s long poem The Waste Land exposed the horrible lives of meat-packing workers.

( ) 5. Walden was written by Thoreau.

( ) 6. The representative work of the “Beat Generation”was Alan Ginsberg’s poem Howl. ( ) 7. Sherwood Anderson is included in the group of naturalists.

( ) 8. F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the Nobel Prize winners.

THE SOCIETY AND CULTURE OF MAJOR ENGLISH--SPEAKING COUNTRIES (America)

Chapter 6

I. Answer the following questions:

1. What is American school system ? What public and private schools supported by ?

2. What is the goal of education in the U.S.?

3. What are the requirements for the secondary school graduates to go to the university?

4. What are the four categories of institutions that the system of higher education

comprises?

5. What are the factors that determine whether an institution is of good or low prestige?

6. Why do so many students in the U.S. want to get into more desirable institutions?

7. What is an undergraduate student required to do to get a BA degree?

I. What is the purpose of Affirmative Action programs?

I. True or false:

( ) 1. The expenditure in American public schools is guided or directed by the local authorities.

( ) 2. Public and private colleges depend on three sources of income: student tuition, endowments and government funding.

( ) 3. About 25% of all schools of higher education in America are privately operated by religious organizations.

( ) 4. The State University of New York had more than 60 campuses in different parts in New York City.

( ) 5. The Servicemen's Readjustment Act promised to give financial aid to members of the armed forces after the end of World War II.

( ) 6. Science and social studies are not offered to elementary school students.

( ) 7. Research institutions are not mentioned in American higher education.

( ) 8. Harvard, Yale and Princeton are the three universities that have large endowments from wealthy benefactors.