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[单项选择]A characteristic of American culture that has become almost
a tradition is to respect the self-made man-the man who has risen to the top
through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the
leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social
position and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer
or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his
father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.
This attitude toward manual (体力的) labor is now still seen in many
aspects of American life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only
comfortably but even luxuriously (豪华地)furnished and in which there is every
evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel,
expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess
probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash
dishes afterward, furthermore the dinner will not consist merely of something
quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie
bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in
careful preparation of special dishes. A professional man may talk about washing
the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help
with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who
is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living, or during
the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for
his education.According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly
because （）
A. servants in American are hard to get
B. she takes pride in what she can do herself
C. she can hardly afford servants
D. It is easy to prepare a meal with canned food
[单项选择]Americans may think that “ American culture”
A. does not really exist
B. is better than other cultures
C. is different from other cultures
D. is highly valued around the world
[单项选择]Overproduced corn in American farms has been converted to ______.
A. feed cattle, pigs and poultry
B. manufacture automobile components
C. make artificial beef, pork, and chicken
D. become high-fructose low fat products
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Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal, but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one’s side, or that in Italy and some Latin-American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell. Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm’s length away from others，Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch, which makes Americans uncomfortable.
Our linguistic (语言上的) and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us frien
A. stand still
B. jump aside
C. step forward
D. draw back
[单项选择]Living in the central American desert has its problems, （ ） obtaining water is not the least.
A. of which
B. for what
C. as
D. whose
[单项选择]We all know that every culture has its own ideal of behavior, and the United States is no______.
A. expectation
B. exclusion
C. expectancy
D. exception
[单项选择]Every culture has developed ________ for certain kinds of food and drink, and equally strong negative attitudes to-ward others.
A. preferences
B. expectations
C. fantasies
D. fashions
[单项选择]What in Asian culture influences Asian-American students, according to many researchers
A. The tradition that respects teachers and old people.
B. The idea that education is the most important thing.
C. The values that respect knowledge and talents.
D. The ideal that emphasizes family and education.
[单项选择]How many days a working American has to work within a week
[单项选择]What has affluence brought to American society
A. Renewed economic security.
B. A sense of self-fulfillment.
C. New conflicts and complaints.
D. Misery and anti-social behavior.
[单项选择]Its business culture,（）has brought the world “shareholder value” and “IPOs”,（）commercial thinking in recent years and will continue to do so.
A. which; has leaded
B. which; has been leading
C. that; has leaded
D. that; has been leading
[单项选择]Sarah has read lots of stories by American writers. Now She would like to read ______stories by writers from ______ countries.
A. some, any
B. other, some
C. some, other
D. other, other
