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1、 全国免费咨询电话：400-0123-267 托福阅读背景材料：THE FAITH OF A MERICANS 小马过河为大家准备了“托福阅读背景材料：THE FAITH OF A MERICANS” ， 供各位备考托福的考生们参考使用，来提高自己的托福成绩！免费咨询电话：400-0123-267 THE FAITH OF A MERICANS Americans toasted the arrival of the new century in 1900 with speeches, articles, and books declaring a firm faith in the nati
2、ons future. The pride and determined optimism that had long characterized Ameri-cans seemed more strident than ever. In only a few decades, after all, much of the nations rural landscape had given way to a welter of factories and cities, providing jobs and promising a degree of prosperity only dream
3、ed of in the past. New inventions were improving everyday living. Immigrants were pouring into the country, and population was booming. The West, free of Indian resistance, seemed more inviting than ever. Farm income was better than it had been in years. Educational opportunities were expanding. New
4、 professional organizations were emerging, raising the standards in such vital fields as medicine and law. The nation was now a world power. There were loud voices stressing the unhappy features of the departing era: monopolies, the gap between rich and poor, recurrent recessions and depressions, wr
5、etched factory conditions, urban blight, and political corrup- tion. Several farseeing observers complained about racial and sexual dis- crimination and the ravaging of our natural resources. But few thought these problems permanent. Most Americans seemed eager to express their belief in progress. A
6、s in Thomas Jeffersons administration, when the nineteenth century began, they were confident that the future was bright and that they lived in a nation uniquely blessed by the Creator. The great majority of Americans assumed they lived in a Christian, Protes- tant country; the faith was an integral
7、 part of everyday life. For example, not only was Bible reading in the public schools routine, but in 1890 twenty-two of twenty-four state universities surveyed conducted chapel services, twelve required attendance, and four mandated church attendance as well. In 1892 United States Supreme Court Jus
8、tice David Brewer declared, “This is a reli- Chapter Onegious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour there is a single voice making this affirmation . . . this is a Christian nation.” Economic abundance, religion, patriotism, and optimism were intertwined and everywhere in evidence in the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century. 来源于：小马过河 相关推荐： 全国免费咨询电话：400-0123-267 托福阅读常出现的9 个深度句 托福阅读利剑之语法 托福阅读解题方法之主旨题
