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四川省教育考试院
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
各市州招考办，各高校自考办：
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
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主题词：自学考试 大纲 调整 通知
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四川省教育考试院办公室 2008年7月22日印发
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 18th 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
4. The Canadian nation
Chapter 26 Society and Culture
I. Canadian Society
1. Population
2. Immigration
3. Bilingualism
4. Multiculturalism
Part Five Australia
Chapter 27 Land and people
I. The Geographical Structure
1. The Great Western Plateau
2. The Eastern Highlands
3.The Central Eastern Lowlands
II. Climate
3. Causes and effects of the hot and dry climate
IV. People
1. Population
2. Population density and distribution
V. Australia’s Built Environment
1. Sprawling cities
2. Rural areas
VI. Political Divisions
1. New South Wales
2. Victoria
3. Queensland
4. South Australia
5. West Australia
6. Tasmania
Chapter 32 Society and Culture
IV. Australian Culture
1. Aboriginal culture
2. Modern Australian culture
Part Six New Zealand
Chapter 33 The Making if New Zealand
I. Geography
II. Climate
III. Plants and Animals
IV. Historical Background
2. The Treaty of Waitangi 1840
VI. Maoritanga
5. Race relations |
