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国家概况 地理： Ottawa is the capital of Canada. The capital of New Zealand is Wellington. Edinburgh is in Scotland. The capital of Australia is Canberra. 历史： The President during the American Civil War was Abraham Lincoln. The Aborigines were the natives of Australia before the arrival of the British settlers. The majority of the current population in the UK are decedents of all the following tribes respectively including the Anglos, the Celts and the Saxons. The original inhabitants of Australia were the Aborigines. 政治： US presidents normally serve a four-year term. The Prime Minister in Britain is head of the Cabinet. The Head of State of Canada is represented by the Governor-general. The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson. 宗教： The Church of England is the state church in England. 新闻： US news and cable network are: ABS, CNNCBS. 教育： Associate degree is offered in community colleges in the United States. 英美文学 作家作品： The novel Emma is written by Jane Austen. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for his short stories. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by Ernest Hemingway. Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte. Death of a Salesman was written by Arthur Miller. John Galsworthy was most famous for The Forsyte Saga. The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain. 文学知识： Sonnet is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines. 作家概况： George G. Byron, William Wordsworth and Percy B. Shelley are romantic poets. William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright. George Bernard Shaw was a playwright. 不同阶段文学： T.S. Elliot is a poet of the 20th century. 英语语言学 语用学： What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of context. 句法学： Syntax is the study of sentence structures. 语义学： The words kid, child, offspring are examples of stylistic synonyms. 语言的本质： The distinctive features of human language are arbitrariness, productivity and cultural tr