美国参考资料文化与口语TChapter 1.docx
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美国参考资料文化与口语TChapter1
PartAPreview
■Here’stheUSMap!
Pleaserefertothemapabovethereadingpassageforthelocationandnameofeachstate.
■AGeographyQuiz
Key:
1.ThecorrectanswerisA.
Accordingto“Listofcountriesandoutlyingterritoriesbytotalarea”,Wikipedia,theUnitedStateshasatotalareaof9,629,091squarekilometers.Thisincludesthe50statesandtheDistrictofColumbia.Thetotalareaislistedas9,826,630km²bytheCIAWorldFactbook.Thetotalareaislistedas9,522,055km²bytheEncyclopediaBritannica.
Note:
FromtheinitialpublishingoftheCIAWorldFactbookin1989through1996,thetotalareaoftheUSwaslistedas9,372,610km².Thelistedtotalareachangedto9,629,091km²in1997,to9,631,418km²in2004,to9,631,420km²in2006,andto9,826,630km²in2007.
2.ThecorrectanswerisC.(About4,500km.)
Afasttrain,traveling96kilometersanhour,takesmorethan48hourstocrossthecountry.AjetplanecrossesthecontinentalUnitedStatesfromeasttowestinaboutfivehours.
3.Thecorrectorderis:
B,D,A,C.
July2007estimate:
NewYork—8.2millionresidents;LosAngeles—3.8million.2006estimate:
Chicago—2,833,321;Philadelphia—1,448,394.
4.ThecorrectanswerisC.
TheUnitedStatesconsistsof50statesandWashingtonD.C.ThelasttojoinwereAlaskaonthenorthwesttipofthecontinentandHawaiiinthecentralPacific.Bothjoinedin1959,AlaskaonJanuary3rdandHawaiionAugust21st.ThatwasthelastmajorchangetotheAmericanflag.
5.Alaska—Russia,Louisiana—France,Florida—Spain
AlaskawasboughtfromRussiain1867foronly7.2milliondollars.Alaskaislessthan3milesfromRussia!
Intheyear1803,theUnitedStatesboughtat$15,000,000fromFrancethegreaterpartofAmericalyingbetweentheMississippiRiverandtheRockyMountains—nearlyamillionsquaremiles.This“LouisianaPurchase”hasbeencalledanevent“worthytorankwiththeDeclarationofIndependenceandtheformationoftheConstitution.”
In1819,bytermsoftheAdams-OnísTreaty,SpaincededFloridatotheUnitedStatesinexchangefortheAmericanrenunciationofanyclaimsonTexasand$5million.
6.1)(StatueofLiberty)NewYork;2)(CapitolBuilding)WashingtonD.C.;
3)(GoldenGateBridge)SanFrancisco;4)(Disneyland)LosAngeles;
5)(LincolnMemorial)WashingtonD.C.;6)(LibertyBell)Philadelphia.
7.ThecorrectanswerisC.
ThecultivatedlandintheUSmakesup21%ofthetotalland,butpeoplewhoareengagedinfarmingmakeuponly2.7%ofthetotalpopulation.YettheUSgrowsnearlyonefourthoftheworld’sgrainandsuppliesahalfofalltheexportsofgrainintheworld.Itistheworld’sleadingexporterofagriculturalproducts.TheUSproducesnearly50%ofthecornintheworld.TheCornBeltisintheMidwest.Iowaistheleadingcorn-producingstate.TheWheatBeltislocatedneartheCornBeltintheMidwest.
TheMidwestisalsothenation’sleadingcenterofheavyindustry.Texasisthecountry’sleadingstateinoilandnaturalgasdeposits.
8.ThecorrectanswerisA.
Note:
DisneylandislocatedinLosAngeles.
9.ThecorrectanswerisC.
NewYorkCityhasmoreskyscrapersthananyothercityintheworld.AfterNewYork,Chicagohasthesecondlargestnumberofskyscrapers.Untilrecently,italsohadthetallestbuildingintheworld,theSearsTower.Itisfour-hundred-forty-threemeterstall.ButBurjDubaiinDubai,UnitedArabEmiratesiscurrentlytheworld’stallestman-madestructure.Whencompleted,itisexpectedtoriseover818m(2,684ft).
ThefirstskyscraperswerebuiltinChicagointhe1880s.Theywerealmostfifty-fivemeterstall.Bytheearly1900s,skyscraperswererisinginalllargeAmericancities,especiallyinNewYork.Theworld’smostfamousskyscraper,theEmpireStateBuilding,wasbuiltinNewYorkin1931.Itwasthetallestbuildingintheworldformorethanfortyyears.
10.ThecorrectanswerisD.
ThefourUSPresidentscarved—fromlefttoright—areGeorgeWashington,ThomasJefferson,TheodoreRooseveltandAbrahamLincoln.
LocatednearKeystone,SouthDakota,themonumentalgranitesculpturewascompletedin1941.
11.ThecorrectanswerisB.
Alaskaisthelargeststatewithanareaof1,530,700sq.km.Texas,thesecondlargestUSstateinbothareaandpopulation,spans268,820squaremiles(696,200squarekilometers).Californiahasanareaof410,000sq.kmandMontana381,085sq.km.RhodeIslandisthesmalleststate,withalandareaof1,044.93squaremiles.
12.ThecorrectanswerisC.
ThelongestriversintheUSinclude:
Missouri:
2,540miles;
Mississippi:
2,340miles;
Yukon:
1,980miles;
RioGrande:
1,900miles;
St.Lawrence:
1,900miles;
Arkansas:
1,460miles.
13.D.14.B.15.B.
16.ThecorrectanswerisA.
TheKingdomofHawaiiwasestablishedduringtheyears1795to1810.Throughswiftandbl
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