关于调整全国统考课程《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》和《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》两门课程的考核目标的通知

高等教育自学考试《英语国家概况》（2005版）自学考试大纲修订施试行以来，考生及有关方面反映意见较多，认为现行大纲中的个别考核目标不够明确，容易对大纲考核目标的理解产生疑义，经组织全国考委外语类专业委员会研究论证，全国考办决定对现行考核目标进行调整，调整后的大纲考核目标以章节形式出现，见附件1。经组织全国考委外语类专业委员会研究论证，全国考办决定对《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点与考核要求作部分调整，见附件2。

调整后的《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》和《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》将于2009年4月考试试行。

附件1：《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》的考核目标

附件2：《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点和考核要求

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附件1：

《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 Religiou 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 18^th Century

Ⅲ.The Industrial Revolution

Ⅳ.The Chartist Movement

Ⅶ.Twentieth Century

1.Britain and the First World War

3.Britain and First World War

4.Postwar Britain

Chapter 7 Goveernment and Administration

Ⅰ.The Monarchy

Ⅱ.Parliament

1.The House of Lords

2.The House of Connons

Ⅲ.The Cabinet and Ministry

Ⅳ.The Privy Council

Chapter 8 Justice and the Law

Ⅵ.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 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

   2.Powers of the House and Senate

   3.Officers of the Congress

   4.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.Emest Hemingway

 8.Hughes and Wright

Chapter 22   Holidays and Festivals

Ⅰ.New Year′s Day

Ⅳ.Valentine′s Day

Ⅵ.Easter Day

Ⅷ.Independence Day

Ⅸ.Halloween

Ⅺ.Thanksgiving Day

Ⅻ.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 of New Zealand

Ⅰ.Geography

Ⅱ.Climate

Ⅲ.Plants and Animals

Ⅳ.Historical Background

 2.The Treaty of Waitangi 1840

Ⅵ.Maoritanga

 5.Race relations

附件2：

《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点和考核要求

一、关于考核知识点的调整

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

英国文学：

Chapter 1      Ⅲ.    Willliam Shakespeare

                Ⅵ.    John Milton

Chapter 2       Ⅲ.    Saniel Defoe

                Ⅳ.     Jonathan Swift

                Ⅴ.     Henry Fielding

Chapter 3       Ⅰ.     Willian Blake

                Ⅱ.     William Wordsworth

                Ⅴ.     Percy Bysshe Shelley

                Ⅶ.     Jane Austen

Chapter 4      Ⅰ.    Charles Dickens

                Ⅱ.     Charlotte Dickens

                Ⅵ.     Thomas Hardy

Chapter   5      Ⅰ.     George Bernard Shaw

                 Ⅳ.     T.S Eliot

                 Ⅴ.     D.H.Lawrence

美国文学：

Chapter 1       Ⅲ.    Nathanidl Hawthorne

                Ⅳ.    Walt Whitman

                Ⅴ.    Herman Melville

Chapter 2       Ⅰ.    Mark Twain

                Ⅱ.     Henry James

                Ⅲ.     Emily Dickinson

                 Ⅳ.    Theodore Dreiser

Chapter 3       Ⅱ.     Robert Lee Frost

                Ⅴ.     Percy Bysshe Shelley

                Ⅳ.     F.Scott Fitzgerald

                Ⅴ.     Emest Hemingway

                Ⅵ.     Willianm Faulkner

二、关于考核要求的调整

    考核要求中每章概述内容不作调整：“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。