美国社会与文化笔记归纳

American Family

1.The middle-aged people and elderly people generally live with their married children in America(F)

2.The nuclear family is the fundamental family pattern in the United States now(T)

3.In the post-civil war period,the African American family in the South was not only more nuclear,but also more male dominated(T)

4.In America,The pre-industrial family is a kind of Democratic family(F)

5.Mother and Father equally have the final say on family matters in most modern American families(T)

6.Upper-class families don’t aspire to be upwardly mobile because they are always there(T)

7.What does a nuclear family consist of (B)

A.parents and family kin or other members of the community

B.it consists of parents and their dependent or minor children only

C.it consists of two parents and their children

8.Who takes care of the dependent children in a one-parent family in America?(C)

A.The grandparents

B.The government

C.mother and father

9.Many American children must develop self-dependent to adjust themselves to (C)

A.their parent’s unhappy marriage

B.the new lifestyle of American family

C.dramatic social and economic change in new century

10.Which of the following is not the effects of the Women’s Liberation movement in the 1960’s(B)

A.women should have the same social and economic rights and priviledges as men

B.women should go out to start their own business instead of staying at home to take care of their children

C.women should obtained many political and legal rights previously open to men

11.Which of the following statements is not ture?(C)

A.In America,individuals freely contracted marriage based on love in modern family pattern

B.In 19th century,children were largely used as labor force, making children earn a living was seen not only as economically necessary but also morally sound

C.In African American family,the slave can choose their husbands and wives by themselves

American Education

1 The expenditure in American public schools is guided or decided by (D)

A.Teachers

B. Students

C. headmasters

D. boards of education

2 In the US school systems, which of the follow decision is true?(C)

A.Elementary school, grammar school

B.Elementary school, junior high school

C.Elementary school, secondary school

D.unior high school, senior high school

3 Three of the following universities have large endowments from wealthy benefactors . which is the exception?(B)

A.Harvard university

B.The state university of New York

C.Yale university

D.Princeton university

4 Both public and private universities depend on the following sources of income except(A)

A.Investment

B. student tuition C endowments D government funding

5 How many percent of American students go to public schools? (A)

85% B. 65% C 50% D 25%

6 American middle school system is consist if middle school and high school, the high school is divided into junior high school and senior high school. (T)

7 The basic classes of middle school are math, English, PE, history, and health (T)

8 Children start school when they are six years old, in some states they must stay in school until they are fifteen.(F)

9.Parent do not have to pay for education of the public school, because the schools receive many from the government(T)

10. It’s false that most people stereotype the American middle school is easy to pass.(T)

American labour

1.From what we know of the original African families from which many black Americans came.(T)

2.The Japanese worked hard for low pay and without complaining.(T)

3.In the nineteenth century in Mexican American families Husbands raised cattle and wives tended the housework!(T)

4.It was not until in the 1850s that working men's societies made a comeback.(T)

Reason: Before 1860, union members never exceeded 1% of total labor force. From then on , labors has risen up

5.In the United States, the balance of power is different from other advanced industrial nations. It's true?(T)

Reason: in the US, the power is clearly in favor of the employers. So, most of them look after business interests first, welfare of labor.

6.The AFL-CIO is especially connected with global trade issue.(T)

7.National Labor Relations Board isn't an independent federal agency.(F)

8.What did the workers want to gain in the labor movement?

A: material status and social status

9.Which law became the first law to prohibit racial discrimination?(B)

A. Taft-Hartley Act

B. Fair Employment Act

C. National Labor or Relations Act

10.Which one is not American national trade union organizations?(D)

A. AFL-CIO

B. IWW (Industrial Workers of the World

C. Ctw (Change to Win Federation)

D. ILD (International Labor Organization)

American values and characteristics

Question: true or false for American values and characteristics

1 In 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the famous Emancipation Proclamation to ablish the slavery。（T）

2 Abraham Lincoln was the 15th president of the United States.(F)