调整全国统考课程 英美文学选读和英语国家概况 的考核知识点与考核要求的通知

 

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关于调整全国统考课程《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》和《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》的

考核知识点与考核要求的通知

 

 

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全国考委经组织外语类专业委员会研究论证后，对全国统考课程《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》、《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》的考核知识点与考核要求进行了调整。现将两门课程调整后的自学考试大纲的考核知识点与考核要求印发给你们，请你们及时向考生广泛宣传。

调整后的《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》、《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》的考核知识点与考核要求将从2009年4月考试起试行。

       附件一：《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点与考核要求

   附件二：《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》的考核目标

 

              二○○八年七月二十二日

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

附件一：

《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》

的考核知识点与考核要求

 

一、关于考试知识点的调整。

考核知识点中的各章概述内容仍为考核内容；对知识点中的作家只保留对如下主要作家的考核。

英国文学：

Chapter1   Ⅲ.William  Shakespeare

           Ⅵ.John  Milton

Chapter2   Ⅲ.Daniel  Defoe

           Ⅳ.Jonathan  Swift

           Ⅴ.Henry  Fielding

Chapter3   Ⅰ.William  Blake

           Ⅱ.William  Wordsworth

           Ⅴ.Percy  Bysshe  Shelley

           Ⅶ.Jane  Austen

Chapter4   Ⅰ.Charles  Dickens

           Ⅱ.Charlotte  Bronte

           Ⅵ.Thomas  Hardy

Chapter5   Ⅰ.George  Bernard  Shaw

           Ⅳ.T.S.Eliot

           Ⅴ.D.H.Lawrence

美国文学：

Chapter1   Ⅲ.Nathaniel  Hawthorne

           Ⅳ.Walt  Whitman

           Ⅴ.Herman  Melville

Chapter2   Ⅰ.Mark  Twain

           Ⅱ.Henry  James

           Ⅲ.Emily  Dickinson

           Ⅳ.Theodore  Dreiser

Chapter3   Ⅱ.Robert  Lee  Frost

           Ⅳ.F.Scott  Fitzgerald

           Ⅴ.Ernest  Hemingway

           Ⅵ.William  Faulkner

二、关于考核要求的调整

考核要求中每章概述内容不做调整；“该时期的重要作家”只包含对考核知识点中保留的重要作家的相关内容的考核。

附件二、

《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》的考核目标

 

Part One The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

 

Chapter1   Land  and  People

          Ⅰ.Different Names  for Britain and its Parts

 

Chapter2   The  Origins  of  a  Nation

          Ⅰ.Early  Settlers

          3.The  Celts

          Ⅱ.Roman  Britain

          Ⅲ.The  Anglo-Saxons

          Ⅳ.The  Viking  and  Danish  Invasions

          Ⅴ.The  Norman  Conquest

 

Chapter3   The  Shaping  of  the  Nation

          Ⅰ.Norman  Rule

           1.William’s Rule

          Ⅱ.The Great Charter and the Beginning of Parliament

1.The  Great  Charter

Ⅲ.The Hundred Years’War With France

Ⅳ.The Black Death and the Peasant Uprising

 

Chapter4   Transition the Modern Age

           Ⅰ.Transition to the Modern Age

Ⅱ.The English Reforation

Ⅲ.Elizabeth I

1.          Elizabeth and Parliament

2.          Elizabeth’s Religious Reform

3.          Elizabeth’s Foreign Polocy

           Ⅳ.The English Renaissance

           Ⅶ.The Civil Wars

           Ⅷ.The Commonwealth

           Ⅸ.The Restoration and the Glorious Revolution of 1688

 

Chapter5   The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

Ⅰ.Whigs and Tories

Ⅱ.Agricultural Changes in the Late 18^th  Century

           Ⅲ.The Industrial Revolution

           Ⅳ.The Chartist Movement

           Ⅶ.Twentieth Century

1.       Britain and the First World War

2.       Britain and the Second World War

3.       Postwar Britain

 

Chapter7   Government and Administration

Ⅰ.The Monarchy

Ⅱ.Parliament

1.       The House of Lords

2.       The House of Commons

Ⅲ.The Cabinet and Ministry

 Ⅳ. The Privy Council

 

Chapter8   Justice and the Law

           Ⅳ.The Judiciary

           Ⅴ.Police

 

Chapter9   Social Affairs

           Ⅰ.Health and Social Services

            1.The National Health Service

           Ⅲ.Religion

            1.Established churches

           Ⅳ.Festivals and Public Holidays

1.       Christian festivals

2.       Other festivals

3.       Public holidays

 

Chapter10  Cultural Affairs

           Ⅰ.Education

            3.Higher education

           Ⅱ.The Media

             1.Newspaers

            Ⅲ.Sports

            Ⅳ.The Arts

             3.Drama

 

Part Two  The Repubilc of Ireland

 

Chapter 11  Geography and history

I.                    Geographical Features

II.                 Climate and weather

III.               Population and Religion

IV.               Historical background

 

 

                 Part Three  The United States of America

 

Chapter 14  Population, Race and Ethnic Groups

I.      Introduction

IV.     Racial and Ethnic Minorities

1.        Blacks

 

  Chapter 15  American History (I)

I.      Discovery of the New World

II.                 The Colonial Period

III.               The War of Independence

IV.               A New Form of Government

VI.    Territorial Expansion and Westward Movement

VII.             The Civil War

VIII.          Rapid Growth of Capitalism after the Civil War

 

Chapter 16  American History (II)

I.                    Economic Development

II.                 Progressivism

III.               World War I and the United States

IV.               The United States in the 1920s

V.                  The great Depression and the New Deal

VI.               World War II and the United States

 

  Chapter 17  American History (III)

I.                    The Origins of the Cold War

II.                 The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

V.                  McCarthyism

VII.   American Society During the Postwar Boom:1945-1960s

Ⅷ.    The Cuban Missile Crisis

Ⅸ.    The Vietnam War

Ⅹ.    United States’ Relations with China

Ⅻ.    Watergate Scandal

 

Chapter 18  The Economy

(Two paragraphs)

I.     The Economic System of the United States

V.     Foreign Trade

VI.    Problems in the U.S Economy

 

Chapter 19  Political Institutions

    I.     The U.S. Constitution

1. The Federal system

2. Separation of powers: checks and balances

3. Provisions for amendment

   II.     The Executive Branch

1.The Presidency

2.Presidential Powers

   Ⅲ.    The Legislative Branch

1.Powers of the House and Senate

2.Offices of the Congress

3.Functions of the Congress

   V.   Political parties (two-party system)

 

Chapter 20  Education

I.                    Characteristics of American Education

II.                 Elementary and Secondary Education

III.               Higher Education

V.     Education Reforms

 

Chapter 21  Literature, Architecture and Music

I.  American Literature

   1. Washington Irving

   2. Emerson and Hawthorne

   3. Mark Twain

   4. Whitman and Dickinson

   5. Theodore Dreiser

   6.T.S.Eliot

   7. Ernest Hemingway

   8. Hughes and Wright

 

Chapter 22  Holidays and Festivals

I.     New Year’s Day

VI.               Valentine’s Day

VII.             Easter Day

VIII.           Independence Day

IX.               Halloween

X.                  Thanksgiving Day

XI.               Christmas Day

 

                       Part Four  Canada

 

Chapter 23  Geography and History

I.     Geographic Features

   4.    Geographic regions

II.      The making of Canada

1.         The European discovery

3.    Self-government and Confederation