本教材编写中把以美国历史文化发展为线索,展现美国各段历史进程中的国家概况,既训练语言技能,也丰富相关知识。涉及了系统的历史内容,帮助读者了解美国各段历史时期的重大事件,系统介绍美国历史文化发展背景。 \n
本次改版对难度有所调整,并增加教师资源包,以适应不同层次学生的需要。根据阅读材料的时效性进行增删。改版中增加“互联网+”因素, 通过二维码呈现网络资源,增强文化类教材的特色。
Unit 1 The Age of Exploration / \n
Text A Early Exploration and Settlements / \n
Text B Columbus’s Discovery of America / \n
Text C The Legacy of the Puritans / \n
Text D The Thanksgiving Story / \n
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Unit 2 The Colonial America / \n
Text A The Original 13 Colonies / \n
Text B Colonial Life of the Early Settlers / \n
Text C Slavery in Colonial America / \n
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Unit 3 The Road to Independence / \n
Text A The War of Independence / \n
Text B The American Revolution / \n
Text C Causes of the American Revolution / \n
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Unit 4 The Young Republic / \n
Text A The Creation of a National Government / \n
Text B Benjamin Franklin / \n
Text C The Essence of the Constitution / \n
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Unit 5 The Westward Movement / \n
Text A The Frontier of the American West / \n
Text B The Donner Party / \n
Text C Louisiana Purchase / \n
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Unit 6 The Civil War / \n
Text A Causes of the Civil War / \n
Text B The Gettysburg Address / \n
Text C Eye Witness Accounts of the Assassination / \n
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Unit 7 Reconstruction (1865—1877) / \n
Text A Reconstruction after the Civil War / \n
Text B Education after the Civil War / \n
Text C A Shattered Fairy Tale / \n
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Unit 8 The Gilded Age (1877—1917) / \n
Text A The Gilded Age / \n
Text B Industrialization / \n
Text C The Gilded Age Society / \n
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Unit 9 America in World War I (1914—1918) / \n
Text A The U.S.A. and World War I / \n
Text B Wilson’s Declaration of Neutrality / \n
Text C U.S. Entry into World War I / \n
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Unit 10 The Roaring Twenties / \n
Text A The Roaring Twenties / \n
Text B Mass Entertainment in the 1920s / \n
Text C The Lost Generation / \n
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Unit 11 The Great Depression / \n
Text A The Great Depression in America / \n
Text B Iowa in the 1920s and the 1930s / \n
Text C Franklin D. Roosevelt / \n
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Unit 12 America in World War II / \n
Text A World War II / \n
Text B The Origins of World War II / \n
Text C American Domestic Situation During World War Ⅱ/ \n
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Unit 13 Postwar American Society / \n
Text A American Society in the 1950s / \n
Text B The Postwar Economy: 1945—1960 / \n
Text C Desegregation / \n
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Unit 14 America in Transition / \n
Text A America in the 1960s / \n
Text B America in the 1970s / \n
Text C The Cuban Missile Crisis / \n
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Unit 15 Toward a New Century / \n
Text A America Entering a New Century / \n
Text B The Gulf War / \n
Text C No Ordinary Day / \n
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Appendixes \n
Appendix 1 States, Their Entry into Union & Their Settlement / \n
Appendix 2 Presidents & Vice Presidents of the U.S. / \n
Appendix 3 U.S. History Timeline / \n
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重点参考书目和网站/
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