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1、自由钟The Liberty Bell, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an American bell of great historic sign ificanee. The Liberty Bell is perhaps one of the most prominent symbols associated with early A merican history and the battle for American independence and freedom. Its most famous ringing, on Jul

2、y 8, 1776, summoned citizens for the reading of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress. Previously, it had been rung to announce the opening of the First Con ti nen tal Con gress, in 1774, and the Battle of Lex ington and Con cord, in 1775.The bell was not officially know

3、n as the Liberty Bell until 1837, when it became a symbol of the abolitionist movement. Its cast inscription from Leviticus 25:10 states, Proclaim Liberty thro ughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. The Liberty Bell is one of the most familia r symbols of in depe ndence and n ati on h

4、ood withi n the Un ited States, sec ond only to the Statue of Liberty; strangely perhaps, given its widespread use within the country, the Liberty Bell is hardl y recognized outside of the US, and far less well known as a symbol of America than either th e Statue of Liberty or the Stars and Stripes.

5、自由女神the Statue of LibertyLiberty En lighte ning the World, known more com mon ly as the Statue of Liberty, is a statue give n to the United States by France in 1885, standing at Liberty Island in the mouth of the Hudso n River in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigra nts, and returni

6、 ng America ns.The copper statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship between the two nations. The sculptor was Frederic AugusteBartholdi. Gustave Eiffel, the designer of the Eiffel Tower, engineered the internal structure. E

7、u g 的 e Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statues construction and ado ption of the Repouss etechnique. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable icons ofthe U.S. worldwide,1 and, in a more general sense, represents liberty and escape from oppress ion. The St

8、atue of Liberty was, from 1886 until the Jet age, often the first glimpse of the Unite d States for millio ns of immigra nts after ocea n voyages from Europe. Its said that il San carl one or the Colossus of Rhodes in spired it.华盛顿碑The Washi ngton MonumentThe Washington Monument usually refers to th

9、e large white-colored obelisk at the west end of t he National Mall in Washington, D.C. It is a United States Presidential Memorial constructed fo r George Washi ngton, the first Preside nt of the Un ited States and the leader of the revoluti onaryContinental Army, which won independence from the Br

10、itish following the American Revolution ary War.Other monuments to honor Washington, also known as the Washington Monument, are in Balti more and Wash ington Coun ty, Maryla nd.The monument is made of marble, granite, and sandstone. It was designed by Robert Mills, a pr eminent American architect of

11、 the 1840s. The actual construction of the monument began in 184 8 and was not completed until 1884, almost 30 years after the architects death, due to lack of f unds and the intervention of the American Civil War. A differenee in shading of the marble (vis ible approximately 150 feet up) clearly de

12、lineates the initial construction from its resumption in 1 876. It is gen erally con sidered fortun ate that the Greek Doric rot unda Mills pla nned for the base of the monument was never built.1The Washi ngton Monument at duskIts corn erst one was laid on July 4, 1848; the capst one was se t on Dec

13、ember 6, 1884, and the completed monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885. It of ficially opened to the public on October 9, 1888. Upon completion, it became the worlds tallest structure at 169 m, a title it inherited from the Cologne Cathedral and held until 1889, when th e Eiffel Tower was fini

14、shed in Paris, France.The Washi ngton Monument reflect ion can be see n in the aptly n amed Reflect ing Pool, a recta ngu lar pool exte nding westward in the direct ion of the Li neol n Memorial.4大峡谷The Grand CanyonThe Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River,

15、 in northe rn Arizona, USA. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park one of the f irst n ati onal parks in the Un ited States. Preside nt Theodore Roosevelt was a major prop onent of the Grand Canyon area, visiting on numerous occasions to hunt mountain lions and enjoy the sce n

16、 ery.The canyon, created by the Colorado River cutting a channel over millions of years, is about 27 7 miles (446 km) long, ranges in width from 0.25 to 15 miles (0.4 to 24 kilometers) and attains a depth of more than a mile (1,600 m). Nearly two billion years of the Earths history has bee n exposed

17、 as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut through layer after layer of sediment as t he Colorado Plateaus have uplifted.The first recorded sighting of the Grand Canyon by a European was in 1540, Garca L opez de Cardenas from Spain.citation needed The first scientific expedition to the canyon wa

18、s led by U. S. Major John Wesley Powell in the late 1860s. Powell referred to the sedimentary rock units ex posed in the canyon as leaves in a great story book. Long before that, the area was in habited by Native America ns who built settleme nts within the canyon walls.5、华尔街Wall Street is the name

19、of a narrow street in lower Manhattan in New York City, running east from Broadway downhill to the East River. Considered to be the historical heart of the FinancialDistrict, it was the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange (纽约证券交易所)The phrase Wall Street is also used as a metonym (换喻词

20、)to refer to American financial m arkets and finan cial in stituti ons as a whole. Most New York finan cial firms are no Ion ger headqu artered on Wall Street, but elsewhere in lower or midtown Manhattan, Fairfield County, Connecti cut, or New Jersey. JPMorgan Chase, the last major holdout, sold its

21、 headquarters tower at 60 Wall Street to Deutsche Bank in November 2001.6、自由女神Statue of LibertyLiberty En lighte ning the World, known more com mon ly as the Statue of Liberty, is a statue give n to the United States by France in 1885, standing at Liberty Island in the mouth of the Hudso n River in

22、New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigra nts, and returni ng America ns.The copper statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship between the two nations. The sculptor was Frederic AugusteBartholdi. Gustave Eiffel,

23、the designer of the Eiffel Tower, engineered the internal structure. Eu g die Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statues construction and ado ption of the Repousse technique. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable icons of the U.S. worldwide, and, in a more

24、 general sense, represents liberty and escape from oppression. The Statue of Liberty was, from 1886 until the Jet age, often the first glimpse of the United S tates for millio ns of immigra nts after ocea n voyages from Europe. Its said that il San carl one or the Colossus of Rhodes in spired it.7、第

25、五大道The Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New Y ork City, USA. It runs through the heart of Midtown and along the eastern side of Central Park, and because of the expensive park-view real estate and historical mansions along its course, it i s a symbol

26、of wealthy New York. It is one of the best shopping streets in the world, often pair ed with Londons Oxford Street and the Champs Elys aes in Paris. It is one of the most expensiv e streets in the world, on a par with London and Tokyo lease prices. The most expensive street in the world moniker chan

27、ges depending on currency fluctuations and local economic condition s from year to year. Joseph Winston Herbert Hopkins founded this street. It is the dividing line for the east-west streets in Manhattan, (for example, demarcating the line separating East 59th St reet from West 59th Street) as well

28、as the zero-numbering point for street addresses(numbers in crease in both directions as one moves away from Fifth, with 1 East 59th Street on the corner a t Fifth Avenue, and 300 East 59th Street located several blocks to the East). Fifth Avenue is a one-way street and carries southbound (downtown)

29、 traffic. Some people refer to Fifth Avenue c olloquially as Fashion Ave, but many refrain from it to avoid confusion with the real Fashion Ave, also known as Seventh Avenue. Fifth Avenue extends from the north side of Washington S quare Park through Greenwich Village, Midtown, and the Upper East Si

30、de&白宫Formerly known as the Executive Mansion (1810-1902) the official office and reside nee of the preside nt of the Uni ted States at 1600 Penn sylva nia Ave nue N.W. in Washi ngton, D.C. The Whit e House and its Ian dscaped grounds occupy 18 acres (7.2 hectares). Since the admi ni strati on of Geo

31、rge Washington (1789 - 97), who occupied presidential residences in New York and Philadelp hia, every America n preside nt has resided at the White House. Origi nally called the“ Preside nts Palace on early maps, the building was officially named the Executive Mansion in 1810 in ord er to avoid conn

32、o tatio ns of royalty. Although the n ame “ White House” was com mon ly used fr om about the same time (because the mansions whitegray sandstone contrasted strikingly with th e red brick of n earby build in gs), it did not become the official n ame of the build ing un til 1902, whe n it was adopted

33、by Preside nt Theodore Roosevelt (1901 - 09). The White House is the old est federal building in the nations capital.9、尼加拉瓜大瀑布Niagara Falls in the Niagara River, W N.Y. and S Ont., Canada; one of the most famous specta cles in North America. The falls are on the intern ati on al li ne betwee n the c

34、ities of Niagara Falls,N.Y., and Niagara Falls, Ont. Goat Island splits the cataract into the American Falls (167 ft/51 m high and 1,060 ft/323 m wide) and the Horseshoe, or Canadian, Falls (158 ft/48 m high and 2,600 ft/792 m wide). The governments of the United States and Canada control the appear

35、anee of the surrounding area, much of which has been included in parks since 1885.The earliest written description of the falls is that of Louis Hennepin (in Nouvelle Dacouverte, 1 697), who was with the expedition of Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, the French explorer, in 1678. In the 19th cent

36、., daredevils attempted to brave the falls in barrels, boats, and rubber ball s. The great Blondin performed (1859) on a tightrope over the falls, which continue to be a maj or center of international tourism. Historical and natural history material relating to the region is in the Niagara Falls Mus

37、eum in the city of Niagara Falls, N.Y.10、巴拿马运河Panama Canal waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic (by way of the Caribbean Sea) and Pacific oceans, built by the United States (1904-14) on territory leased from the republic of Pan ama . The can al, running S and SE from Lim dn

38、 Bay at Col dn on the Atla nti c to the Bay of Panama at Balboa on the Pacific, is 40 mi (64 km) long from shore to shore a nd 51 mi (82 km) long between channel entrances. The Pacific terminus is 27 mi (43 km) east of the Caribbean terminus. The minimum depth is 41 ft (12.5 m).From Lim dn Bay a shi

39、p is raised by Gat tn Locks (a set of three) to an elevation 85 ft (25.9 m) above sea level, traverses Gat tn Lake, then crosses the Continental Divide through Gaillard (for merly Culebra) Cut and is lowered by Pedro Miguel Lock to Miraflores Lake and then by theMiraflores Locks (a set of two) to se

40、a level. The average tidal range on the Atlantic side is less than a foot (.3 m) ; that on the Pacific side is 12.6 ft (3.8 m).11、黄石公园The Yellowst one Park Foun dati on is a 501 (c) 3, non -profit orga ni zati on created in 1996. A group of concerned citizens, working with the National Park Service,

41、 started the Foundation in order to protect, preserve, and enhance Yellowstone National Park.The Foundation works to fund important projects and programs, many of which are beyond the f inancial capacity of the National Park Service. The Foundation receives no annual government fu nding; it relies i

42、n stead upon the gen erous support of private citize ns, foun dati ons, and corporati on s to ensure that Yellowstones great gifts to the world will never diminish.Since its inception, the Yellowstone Park Foundation has successfully funded more than 100 proj ects in Yellowst one.12、帝国大厦New York, th

43、e Empire State Building was built in March 1930, then use the lightest constructio n materials, built in the West during the economic crisis has become a symbol of U.S. economic recovery, now still and the Statue of Liberty in New York to become a permanent mark. Has worlds first high- Building and

44、the New York City Iandmark building.Empire State Buildi ng is a modern high-rise office build in gs, and the Statue of Liberty in New York as a sign. Construction on the 381-metre-high Empire State Building, since 1931, the top worlds tallest building, the throne for 40 years. This building in the U

45、nited States the most econ omically depressed,the most sluggish, with only less than 2 years to build. 102 House and 86 i n a floor observatory, is due to open Taiwans Wang, the wind power is considerable. Sunny da ys when the Yuanwang to be 100 kilometers away.13、夏威夷For most of us, Hawaii begins to weave her spell （魅力）with some little glimmer （微光）of a ware ness. Golde n beaches