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SAT写作素材之美国概述
SAT考试写作素材有很多,美国历史是SAT
写作考试中出题点比较密集的一类,先看下新航道小编整理的sat写作素材之美国概述。
Chapter 1 American History ( I ) (1600-1900)
1. Discovery of the New World
*The “first Americans”: Indians
*Christopher Columbus: An Italian navigator supported by Spanish Queen led his men
to sail across the vast ocean in 1492 and reached some small islands in the now
West Indies. He thought he had reached Aisa and didn’t know he had discovered a
New Continent.
(哥伦布是个粗心大意的家伙[意大利人],本来要去西藏[西班牙赞助],却在西印度群岛上,
看到一座寺庙就饿[1492]了,不想走了。[哥伦布的老家和赞助商要记清])
*Amerigo i: The navigator who proved that the land was no India, but a new
continent. Therefore, the land was named America after him.
2. The Colonial Period
*The first English colony at Jamestown, Virginia
(1607)[6形状是大象的鼻子,这么记:一头大象用鼻子(16)吹泡泡(0),泡泡飘得很高,挂满
了整面旗帜(7),在Jamestown的上空迎风飘扬,猎猎作响。
*The original 13 colonies: along the east coast of North America: Virginia, Maine,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Maryland, North
Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and ia. (13:
雨伞。谐音想象:一把大花伞下面,你系着一条花围裙[Virginia=维吉尼亚]在和面[Maine],
面里放满了崭新的火腿[New
Ham+pshire],然后你吃着火腿面骑着马[马萨诸塞],牵[Connecticu]着牛[纽约]上路[Road=R
hode]了,路上看到隆重的婚礼[Maryland],北方和南方的孪生姐妹坐在彩车[car]里[North
Carolina and South Carolina],新郎[New
Jersey]和男傧相[宾州]站在桥[乔治亚州]上迎接新娘。)
*Causes for the colonization of the New World (理解记忆)
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