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How America Lives
Consolidation Activities
I. Text Comprehension
1. Which of the following is NOT a major aspect of the American life discusd by the author?
A. Agriculture and transportation.
B. Marriage and women's social status.
C. Social welfare and education.
D. Family value and housing.cto是什么意思
Key: [ A ]
2. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or fal.
1). Young people still get married, but the divorce rate is higher than the remarriage rate becau many don't want to rai children. [ F ]
2). The author welcomes the freer patterns of today's courtship and marriage becau many young kids of his time suffered bitterly. [ T ]
3). Today still very few women in universities are going up to the athletic programs and demanding a just share of the physical education budget. [ F ]papertiger
4). American public schools today are inferior to tho decades ago. [ T ]
5). Builders em not willing to erect small homes for young married couples becau it is not very profitable. [ T ]
II. Writing Strategies
This text is an essay of exposition, for it prents solid facts and major problems about A
merican social life, though the writer inrts his own ideas at times. The whole article is clearly organized, concentrating on the major changes and problems in current American society. The paragraphs are developed by the deductive method. Each paragraph contains a topic ntence, which is proved, explained, or illustrated. For example, each of the first three paragraphs begins with a topic ntence. Can you point out the topic ntences of paragraphs 4-8?
It is easy to e that each paragraph starts with a topic ntence:
Paragraph 4: "American women are changing the rules."
Paragraph 5: "America is worried about its schools."
Paragraph 6: "Some Americans must live on welfare."反义疑问句的用法
Paragraph 7: "America cannot find housing for its young families."
dry是什么意思 Paragraph 8: "Our prospects are still good."
In order to impressively illustrate, prove, or support the topic statements, the author employs various writing strategies, such as comparison and contrast that are ud to show the similarities and differences concerning the issues under discussion. For instance, the beginning paragraph contains five ntences that tell us the relevant similarities and differences by means of comparison and contrast. Can you pick out some ntences in other paragraphs that show a relevant contrast?
In Paragraph 2: "The 1980 election, especially for the Senate and Hou of Reprentatives, signaled a decided turn to the right insofar as political and social attitudes were concerned. It is as if our country spent the 1960s and 1970s jealously breaking out of old restraints and now wishes to put the brakes on, as cautious people often do after a binge."
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accepted In Paragraph 4: "Thirty years ago I could not have imagined a group of women employees suing a major corporation for millions of dollars of salary which, they alleged, had been denied them becau they had been discriminated against. Nor could I imagine
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women in universities going up to the men who ran the athletic programs and demanding a just share of the physical education budget. But they are doing this — and with the support of many men who recognize the justice of their claims."
In Paragraph 5: "If I had a child today, I would nd her or him to a private school for the sake of safety, for the discipline that would be enforced and for the rigorous academic requirements. But I would doubt that the child would get any better education that I did in my good public school. The problem is that good public schools are becoming pitifully rare, and I would not want to take the chance that the one I nt my children to was inadequate."
In Paragraph 6: "In the bad old days she might have known destitution, but with family assistance she was able to hold her children together and produced three fine, tax-paying citizens." (This ntence implies a contrast: it is not the ca nowadays.)
In Paragraph 9: "I think of America as having the oldest form of government on earth, becau since we started our prent democracy in 1789, every other nation has suffere
d either parliamentary change or revolutionary change."
diamond是什么意思As can be en in the text, the tone is mainly objective, and it is definite and resolute when the writer express obligations as well as his attitudes or opinions. For example, in Paragraph 6, we find two ntences: "Some Americans must live on welfare." and "…some kind of social welfare assistance must be doled out to tho who cannot find jobs." The two ntences resolutely express the moral obligation to tho Americans who cannot find jobs and make the writer's attitude absolutely clear. Now list some other examples in the text to show that the tone is definite or resolute when the writer express obligations and his attitudes or opinions.
