从2009年4月起，调整全国统考课程《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》的考核目标和《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点与考核要求。详见附件
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《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
Chapter 1 Land and People
I. Different Names for Britain and its Parts
Chapter 2 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
Chapter 3 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
Chapter 4 Transition to the Modern Age
Ⅰ．Transition to the Modern Age
Ⅱ．The English Reformation
Ⅲ．Elizabeth I
1. Elizabeth and Parliament
2. Elizabeth's Religious Reform
3. Elizabeth's Foreign Policy
Ⅳ．The English Renaissance
VII. The Civil Wars
VIII. The Commonwealth
IX. The Restoration and the Glorious Revolution of 1688
Chapter 5 The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Ⅰ．Whigs and Tories
Ⅱ．Agricultural Changes in the Late 18th Century
Ⅲ．The Industrial Revolution
Ⅳ．The Chartist Movement
VII．Twentieth Century
1. Britain and the First World War
3. Britain and the Second World War
4. Postwar Britain
Chapter 7 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
Chapter 8 Justice and the Law
IV．The Judiciary
V．Police
Chapter 9 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
Chapter 10 Cultural Affairs
Ⅰ．Education
3．Higher education
Ⅱ．The Media
1．Newspapers
Ⅲ．Sports
Ⅳ．The Arts
3．Drama
Part Two The Republic 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
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