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American culture has not been immune to cultural influences from outside. The idea of demo

cracy came from the ancient Greeks; the Industrial Revolution started in England; jazz and rock music preserve African rhythms—to pick a few examples. Indeed, many of the things we think of as "100 percent American" came from other cultures.

Still, most of the changes in American culture over the last century have come from within, as the result of inventions and discoveries. And change has been dramatic. One hundred years ago the United States was largely a nation of farmers. Many of the things we take for granted today—a high school education, for example, or indoor plumbing—were luxuries then. The moon was a light for lovers, not a site for scientific exploration; genetic engineering (基因工程) was not even a subject for science fiction, much less for laboratory research and corporate investments. The decades following the Second World War, in particular, were characterized by spectacular scientific and technological advances, national self-confidence, optimism, and (for many Americans) prosperity. The American economy was the strongest in the world: more goods were produced and sold, more people were working, and the standard of living was higher than ever before. Polls (民意调查) taken in the 1950s and 1960s show that the average American was preoccupied with the questions "will I make a good living？" "Will I be successful？" and "Will I raise successful, happy children？" Success was defined in terms of maintaining a stable family and "keeping up with the Jones". Most Americans believed that if they played by the rules—if they work hard and did what was expected, if they sacrificed their own needs to those of their family and their employer—they would be rewarded with an ever-increasing standard of living, a devoted spouse, and decent children. An expensive car, a suburban home, and children in college were tangible (可触知的) signs that hard work and self-sacrifice paid off.

Which statement is NOT true according to the passage？

A．There is no 100 percent American culture.

B．American culture has never be influenced by other cultures.

C．America borrowed the idea of democracy from the ancient Greeks.

D．Inventions and discoveries caused the changes within American culture.

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第1题
According to the passage, which of the following is true（）

A．The population of the American Indians has increased

B．The American Indians see nature as something to use and own

C．The American Indians'culture has influenced the American culture in some ways

D．The American Indians and the white settlers have always lived in peaceful harmony

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第2题
A characteristic of American culture is to respect the self－made man－ the man who ha

A characteristic of American culture is to respect the self-made man- the man who has made it through his own efforts.英译汉

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第3题
Of late, there have been several posts suggesting that America has no culture or that what
culture it has is somehow inferior to that of other societies. Of course, it cannot be both. To suggest that America has, in some sense, an inferior culture is to grant that it has a culture.

America most definitely has culture and the culture of America is easily the most dominant of the world, whether it is McDonald's in the heart of what as once the center of the Evil Empire, or Arnold Schwarzenagger storming across German theatres, or Disneyland sending the French snobs into hysteria, American culture dominates Europe as never before. And it is not just Europe. Enter any shopping center in Asia and the odds are that the music blasting over the sound system is American pop music. Madonna look-alikes speak Mandarin Chinese.

Often, American culture is derided by the so-called "intellectuals." (And by that, I do not mean the traditional definition of those who use their intellect to make a living as, in a increasingly service economy, there are few people today who would not fit into that category but, rather, people who fancy themselves as in some way gifted to impose their views upon the rest of us, to save us from ourselves. )

What is it about American culture that annoys the "intellectuals" so much？ It is precisely that which differentiates it from other cultures, particularly the cultures of Europe ("intellectuals" tending to be europhiles). Whereas European culture (and, indeed, most pre-industrial cultures) sprang from their traditions of aristocracy and the subservience of the ruling class, American culture serves the middle-class, the vulgar, if you will. Whereas European culture is concerned with what is exclusive and aloof, American culture is concerned with what is common and accessible. You don't need classes in school in rock music appreciation or the finer aspects of eating pizza.

Some have suggested that America is doomed because it has no culture. But the contrary is more likely the case. In spite of the best efforts of the multi-cultural fascists, America has yet to fulfill its manifest destiny primarily because its culture is not only dominating and assimilating immigrants from every comer of the world, it is, indeed reaching out to every comer of the world and creating a world community, a community centered on the individual, every individual not just those gifted with expensive tastes.

From the beginning of the passage we can infer that the author ______.

A．believes that America has culture despite its inferiority to others

B．agrees that America has no culture, let alone an inferior culture

C．objects to both of the views about American culture

D．tries to show objectively the two views about American culture

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第4题
Who has a more developed culture according to the speaker？A．Mayans.B．Arabians.C．North Amer

Who has a more developed culture according to the speaker？

A．Mayans.

B．Arabians.

C．North American Indians.

D．British.

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第5题
Mr. Zhang, a Chinese immigrant in the U.S, has adapted himself to American culture and gradually lost his Chinese cultural identity. This process is called_____________

A、separation and segregation.

B、assimilation

C、marginalization.

D、integration

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第6题
It is inferred from the passage thatA．an underlying theme of the society is against Americ

It is inferred from the passage that

A．an underlying theme of the society is against American morality

B．the cultural situation in America today is determined by the past culture

C．a counter-culture has achieved dominance in the intelligent culture

D．the American culture is characterized by both normality and processes

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第7题
According to the reports, the U. S. retailers won the popularity among British consumers b
ecause

A．The Englishmen are fond of eating American snacks.

B．Their products can attract the consumers with novelty.

C．The American culture has penetrated in the media of Britain.

D．The Englishmen have their own brand awareness.

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第8题
Surprisingly enough, modem historians have rarely interested themselves in the history of
the American South in the period before the South began to become self-consciously and distinctively "Southern"——the decades after 1815. Consequently, the cultural history of Britain's North American empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been written almost as if the Southern colonies had never existed. The American culture that emerged during the Colonial and Revolutionary eras has been depicted as having been simply an extension of New England Puritan culture. However, Professor Davis has recently argued that the South stood apart from the rest of American society during this early period, following its own unique pattern of cultural development. The case for Southern distinctiveness rests upon two related premises: first, that the cultural similarities among the five Southern colonies were far more impressive than the differences, and second, that what made those colonies alike also made them different from the other colonies. The first, for which Davis offers an enormous amount of evidence, can be accepted without major reservations; the second is far more problematic.

What makes the second premise problematic is the use of the Puritan colonies as a basis for comparison. Quite properly, Davis decries the excessive influence ascribed by historians to the Puritans in the formation of American culture. Yet Davis inadvertently odds weight to such ascriptions by using the Puritans as the standard against which to assess the achievements and contributions of Southern colonials. Throughout, Davis focuses on the important, and undeniable, differences between the Southern and Puritan colonies in motives for and patterns of early settlement, in attitudes toward nature and Native Americans, and in the degree of receptivity to metropolitan cultural influences.

However, recent scholarship has strongly suggested that those aspects of early New England culture that seem to have been most distinctly Puritan, such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse, were not even typical of New England as a whole, but were largely confined to the two colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Thus, what in contrast to the Puritan colonies appears to Davis to be peculiarly Southern——acquisitiveness, a strong interest in politics and the law, and a tendency to cultivate metropolitan cultural models——was not only more typically English than the cultural patterns exhibited by Puritan Massachusetts and Connecticut, but also almost certainly characteristic of most other early modern British colonies from Barbados north to Rhode Island: and New Hampshire. Within the larger framework of American colonial life, then, not the Southern——but the Puritan colonies appear to have been distinctive, and even they seem to have been: rapidly assimilating to the dominant cultural patterns by the late Colonial period.

The author is primarily concerned with ______.

A．refuting a claim about the influence of Puritan culture on the early American South

B．refuting a thesis about the distinctiveness of the culture of the early American South

C．refuting the two premises that underlie Davis' discussion of the culture of the American

D．challenging the hypothesis that early American culture was homogeneous in nature

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第9题
Read the introductory paragraphExporting American Culture: Disneyland in Japan and Franc

Read the introductory paragraph

Exporting American Culture: Disneyland in Japan and France

Since its opening in 1955, Disneyland has been viewed as an important part of American popular culture. One critic notes, "America's two enduring gifts to modern civilized life are its music, based on black culture, and Walt Disney" (Pilger 10). Building on the tradition of worlds' fairs, Disney is credited with "developing the prototype of a technologically advanced, immensely entertaining, and commercially feasible amusement park in contemporary society" (Weinstein 147). According to one scholar, Disneyland's success is due to its ability to reflect and reinforce "America's most important beliefs, values, ideals, and symbols" (Weinstein 151).

A.read

B.not read

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第10题
Surprisingly enough, modern historians have rarely interested themselves in the history of
the American South in the period before the South began to become self-consciously and distinctively "Southern"—the decades after 1815. Consequently, the cultural history of Britain's North American Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been written almost as if the Southern colonies had never existed. The American culture that emerged during the Colonial and Revolutionary eras has been depicted as having been simply an extension of New England Puritan culture. However, Professor Davis has recently argued that the South stood apart from the rest of American society during the early period, following its own unique pattern of cultural development. The case for Southern distinctiveness rests upon two related premises: first, that the cultural similarities among the five Southern colonies were far more impressive than the differences, and second, that what made those colonies alike also made them different from the other colonies. The first, for which Davis offers an enormous amount of evidence, can be accepted without major reservations; the second is far more problematic.

What makes the second premise problematic is the use of the Puritan colonies as a basis for comparison. Quite properly, Davis decries the excessive influence ascribed by historians to the Puritans in the formation of American culture. Yet Davis inadvertently adds weight to such ascriptions by using the Puritans as the standard against which to assess the achievements and contributions of Southern colonials. Throughout, Davis focuses on the important, and undeniable, differences between the Southern and Puritan colonies in motives for and patterns of early settlement, in attitudes toward nature and native Americans, and in the degree of receptivity to metropolitan cultural influences.

However, recent scholarship has strongly suggested that those aspects of early New England culture that seem to have been most distinctly Puritan, such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse, were not even typical of New England as a whole, but were largely confined to the two colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Thus, what in contrast to the Puritan colonies appears to Davis to be peculiarly Southern—acquisitiveness, a strong interest in politics and the law, and a tendency to cultivate metropolitan cultural models—was not only more typically English than the cultural patterns exhibited by Puritan Massachusetts and Connecticut, but also almost certainly characteristic of most other early modern British colonies from Barbados north to Rhode Island and New Hampshire. Within the larger framework of American colonial life, then, not the Southern but the Puritan colonies appear to have been distinctive, and even they seem to have been rapidly assimilating to the dominant cultural patterns by the last Colonial period.

The author is primarily concerned with ______.

A．refuting a claim about the influence of Puritan culture on the early American South

B．refuting a thesis about the distinctiveness of the culture of the early American South

C．refuting the two premises that underlie Davis' discussion of the culture of America

D．challenging the hypothesis that early American Culture was homogeneous in nature

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