<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 140.55pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-char-indent-count: 10.0" align=left><B normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">2007</FONT></B><B normal">考研英语强化班授课讲义</B><B normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">(</FONT></B><B normal">一</B><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B normal">) </B>2007 – KY-- 1 <B normal">I. Reading Comprehension </B> </FONT> <FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT>内部资料<FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT>翻印必究<FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 24pt; mso-char-indent-count: 2.0"><FONT face="Times New Roman">In spite of "endless talk of difference," American society is an amazing machine for <U>homogenizing</U> people. There is "the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of deference" characteristic of popular culture. People are absorbed into "a culture of consumption" launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered "vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere. Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite" these were stores "anyone could enter, regardless of class or background. This turned shopping into a public and democratic act." The mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization.<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 24pt; mso-char-indent-count: 2.0"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. Writing for the National Immigration Forum, Gregory Rodriguez reports that today’s immigration is neither at unprecedented levels nor resistant to assimilation. In 1998 immigrants were 9.8 percent of the population; in 1900, 13.6 percent. In the 10 years prior to 1990, 3.1 immigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents; in the 10 years prior to 1890, 9.2 for every 1,000. Now, consider three indices of assimilation -- language, home ownership and intermarriage.<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 24pt; mso-char-indent-count: 2.0"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The 1990 Census revealed that "a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English ‘well’ or ‘very well’ after ten years of residence." The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English. "By the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families." Hence the description of America as a "graveyard" for languages. By 1996 foreign-born immigrants who had arrived before 1970 had a home ownership rate of 75.6 percent, higher than the 69.8 percent rate among native-born Americans.<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 24pt; mso-char-indent-count: 2.0"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics "have higher rates of intermarriage than do U.S.-born whites and blacks." By the third generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics, and 41 percent of Asian-American women are married to non-Asians.<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 24pt; mso-char-indent-count: 2.0"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around the world are fans of superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet "some Americans fear that immigrants living within the United States remain somehow immune to the nation’s assimilative power."<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 24pt; mso-char-indent-count: 2.0"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething anger in America? Indeed. It is big enough to have a bit of everything. But particularly when viewed against America’s turbulent past, today’s social indices hardly suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment. (400 words)<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 24pt; mso-char-indent-count: 2.0"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Notes: homogenize vt. </FONT>使匀质。<FONT face="Times New Roman">uniformity n. </FONT>千篇一律，无变化。<FONT face="Times New Roman">discourse n. </FONT>讲演；会话；论文。<FONT face="Times New Roman">deference n. </FONT>遵从，服从，顺从。<FONT face="Times New Roman">an array of (=arrays of) </FONT>一系列；大量。<FONT face="Times New Roman">elegant adj. </FONT>高雅的。<FONT face="Times New Roman">cater to v. </FONT>迎合；满足。<FONT face="Times New Roman">regardless of </FONT>不管，不顾。<FONT face="Times New Roman">fit into </FONT>适合；符合。<FONT face="Times New Roman">elevating adj. </FONT>提高思想修养的。<FONT face="Times New Roman">poisonous adj. </FONT>有毒的；败坏道德的。<FONT face="Times New Roman">forum n. </FONT>论坛。<FONT face="Times New Roman">unprecedented adj. </FONT>前所未有的。<FONT face="Times New Roman">prior to </FONT>在…以前。<FONT face="Times New Roman">index n. [pl.] indices(=indexes) </FONT>索引；指数；标志。<FONT face="Times New Roman"> intermarriage n.</FONT>（种族、宗教等之间的）通婚。<FONT face="Times New Roman">countries of origin </FONT>起源国。<FONT face="Times New Roman">bilingual adj. </FONT>能说两种语的。<FONT face="Times New Roman">proficient adj. </FONT>精通的，熟练的。<FONT face="Times New Roman">graveyard n. </FONT>墓地，坟场。<FONT face="Times New Roman">Hispanic n. </FONT>西班牙的；拉丁美洲的（说西班牙语的）。<FONT face="Times New Roman">seethe vi. </FONT>因<FONT face="Times New Roman"> … </FONT>而骚动。<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 299.25pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">1. The word "homogenizing" (Line 1, Paragraph 1) most probably means <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 12pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; tab-stops: 299.25pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">[A] identifying. [B] associating. [C] assimilating. [D] monopolizing.<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 299.25pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">2. According to the author, the department stores of the 19th century<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 12pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; tab-stops: 299.25pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">[A] played a role in the spread of popular culture. [B] became intimate shops for common consumers.<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 12pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; tab-stops: 299.25pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">[C] satisfied the needs of a knowledgeable elite. [D] owed its emergence to the culture of consumption.<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 299.25pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">3. The text suggests that immigrants now in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 12pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; tab-stops: 299.25pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">[A] are resistant to homogenization. [B] exert a great influence on American culture.<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 12pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; tab-stops: 299.25pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">[C] are hardly a threat to the common culture. [D] constitute the majority of the population.<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 299.25pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">4. Why are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks mentioned in Paragraph 5?<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 12pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; tab-stops: 288.75pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">[A] To prove their popularity around the world. [B] To reveal the public's fear of immigrants. <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 12pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0"><FONT face="Times New Roman">[C] To give examples of successful immigrants. [D] To show the powerful influence of American culture.<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 299.25pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">5. In the author’s opinion, the absorption of immigrants into American society is<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 12pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0"><FONT face="Times New Roman">[A] rewarding. [B] successful. [C] fruitless. [D] harmful.<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>