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[单项选择]Most American families have one or two parents and one or two children each.
Children in the US will leave their parents’ home when they grow up. They usually live far from their parents because they want to find good jobs. They often write to their parents or telephone them. And they often go to visit their parents on holidays.
Parents usually let their children choose their own jobs. Americans think it is important for young people to decide on their lives by themselves.
Children are asked to do some work around their home. And in many families, children are paid for doing some housework so that they learn how to make money for their own use.
They live far from their parents because they don’t want to stay with them.
[A] True.
[B] False.
[填空题]Two American students come to our class to study Chinese.
______ two American students coming to our class to study Chinese.
[填空题]The British structuralism considered that language was identified with speech and speech ability was approached through oral practice of______.
[单项选择]The two psychologists had to modify the American Sign Language somewhat in order to accommodate the chimpanzees’ spontaneous gestures.
A. change
B. abort
C. shorten
D. enhance
[单项选择] Only two major American film forms-the slapstick comedy and the western-withstood the effects of foreign influences throughout the 1920’’s, when the entire film industry was dominated by the European moviemakers. These forms were already immensely popular all over the world (there was no need to make them more "artistic" by following the latest European fashions), and they were at once too successful and too lowly to warrant such improvements-they were considered "just entertainment." They bore no weighty messages, inspired no cults and no schools of esthetics. But they delighted audiences, both here and abroad, because they were so purely and simply American. Unconsciously, they represented all that was best in America without the slightest trace of intention, of sermonizing. The ingenuity and eternal optimism of the cornices and the cowboys’’ spirit of adventure as they rode the plains in search of the next frontier were enough to carry the message of the American dream to tired
A. inspirational in content
B. purely and simply American
C. short and humorous
D. international in tone
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Two hundred years ago, American students went to American schools. Like you, they studied arithmetic, spelling and geography. Unlike you, they also studied Greek and Latin. In fact, students spent more than half their time studying Greek and Latin.
The same was true for most students in Europe. Until the seventh century, all educated Europeans knew Latin. It did not matter if they lived in England or Italy or France or Spain. If they were educated, they knew Latin.
During the seventh century, educated Europeans began to study Greek as well as Latin. Greek and Latin had been the leading languages of the ancient Greeks and Romans. All educated Europeans were expected to know these languages.
To educated Europeans, the languages of the Greeks and the Romans were important. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans were also important. People knew that many of their own ideas had come from the Greeks and the Romans. To understand their own culture, they must understa
A. people
B. future
C. beginning
D. culture
