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1、Unit 6 How America Lives 练习答案精品文档Unit 6 How America LivesConsolidation ActivitiesI. Text Comprehension 1. Which of the following is NOT a major aspect of the American life discussed by the author?A. Agriculture and transportation.B. Marriage and womens social status.C. Social welfare and education.D
2、.Family value and housing.Key: A 2. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.1). Young people still get married, but the divorce rate is higher than the remarriage rate because many dont want to raise children. F 2). The author welcomes the freer patterns of t
3、odays courtship and marriage because 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 4). American public schools today are inferior to those decades ag
4、o. T 5). Builders seem not willing to erect small homes for young married couples because it is not very profitable. T II. Writing Strategies This text is an essay of exposition, for it presents solid facts and major problems about American social life, though the writer inserts his own ideas at tim
5、es. 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 sentence, which is proved, explained, or illustrated. For example, each of the first three pa
6、ragraphs begins with a topic sentence. Can you point out the topic sentences of paragraphs 4-8?It is easy to see that each paragraph starts with a topic sentence:Paragraph 4: American women are changing the rules.Paragraph 5: America is worried about its schools.Paragraph 6: Some Americans must live
7、 on welfare.Paragraph 7: America cannot find housing for its young families.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 used to show the
8、similarities and differences concerning the issues under discussion. For instance, the beginning paragraph contains five sentences that tell us the relevant similarities and differences by means of comparison and contrast. Can you pick out some sentences in other paragraphs that show a relevant cont
9、rast?In Paragraph 2: The 1980 election, especially for the Senate and House of Representatives, 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
10、put the brakes on, as cautious people often do after a binge. 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 because they had been discriminated against. Nor c
11、ould I imagine 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 send
12、 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 piti
13、fully rare, and I would not want to take the chance that the one I sent 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 sente
14、nce implies a contrast: it is not the case nowadays.)In Paragraph 9: I think of America as having the oldest form of government on earth, because since we started our present democracy in 1789, every other nation has suffered either parliamentary change or revolutionary change.As can be seen in the
15、text, the tone is mainly objective, and it is definite and resolute when the writer expresses obligations as well as his attitudes or opinions. For example, in Paragraph 6, we find two sentences: Some Americans must live on welfare. and some kind of social welfare assistance must be doled out to tho
16、se who cannot find jobs. These two sentences resolutely express the moral obligation to those Americans who cannot find jobs and make the writers attitude absolutely clear. Now list some other examples in the text to show that the tone is definite or resolute when the writer expresses obligations and his attitudes or opinions.The followin
