| People ill the United States and Canada often shake
hands when they meet each other. This. handshake is not the same as the
hmldshake in other coumdes. Herw is How to shake hands appropriately
(正确的): Hold Ihe other person’s hand firnlly (紧紧的). The pabn (手掌) of your hand should cover the palm of the hand of tile person you m shaldng hands with. not just the fingertips (指尖). Look the person th the eye and smile when you shake hands. |
| People ill the United States and Canada often shake
hands when they meet each other. This. handshake is not the same as the
hmldshake in other coumdes. Herw is How to shake hands appropriately
(正确的): Hold Ihe other person’s hand firnlly (紧紧的). The pabn (手掌) of your hand should cover the palm of the hand of tile person you m shaldng hands with. not just the fingertips (指尖). Look the person th the eye and smile when you shake hands. |
People in the United States honor their parents with two special days: Mother’s Day, on the second Sunday in May, and Father’s Day on the third Sunday in June. These days are set aside to show love and respect for parents. They raise their children and educate them to be responsible citizens. They give love and care.
These two special days are celebrated in many different ways. On Mother’s Day people wear carnations (康乃馨). A red one symbolizes a living mother. A white one shows that the mother is dead. Many people attend religious services to honor parents. It is also a day when people whose parents are dead visit the cemetery (墓地). These days families get together at home, as well as in restaurants. They often have outdoor barbecues for Father’s Day. These are days of fun and good feelings and memories.
Another tradition is to give cards and gifts. Children make them in school. Many people make their own presents. These are valued more tha
A. parents educate children
B. patents take care of children
C. parents bring up children
D. all the above
People in the United States in the nineteenth century were haunted by the prospect that unprecedented change in the nation’s economy would bring social chaos. In the years following 1820, after several decades of relative stability, the economy entered a periodof sustained and extremely rapid growth that continued to the end of the nineteenth century. Accompanying that growth was a structural change that featured increasing economic diversification and a gradual shift in the nation’s labor force from agriculture to manufacturing and other nonagricultura pursuits
Although the birth rate continued to, decline from its high level of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the population roughly doubled every generation during the rest of the nineteenth century. As the population grew, its makeup also changed. Massive waves of immigration brought new ethnic groups into the country. Geographic and social mobility -- downward as well as upward -- touched almo
A. emigrated to other countries
B. often settled in the West
C. tended to change the place in which they lived
D. had a higher rate of birth than ever before
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