Chapter 3 American Trademarks
I B 1 statistics
2 goods producing / service 3 stricter / illegal 4 per capita
5 benefits / health insurance 6 wages / workweek 7 romanticize 8 study / productive 9 rising / opposite 10 outproduce 11 stressed 12 matched 13 stagnated 14 CEOs / profits 15 unions / favor
D a 2 b 1 c 3 d 4
Ⅱ A ST1 a historical look at work in America ST2 how U.S. workers are doing today
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Ⅲ A 1 38% 2 3%
3 service industries
4 19% in 1900; 60% in 1999 5 ＄4,200 in 1900; ＄33,700 in 1999 6 health insurance 7 U.S. workers
8 They are less stressed (more vacation weeks) 9 No
10 to CEOs, the stock market, and corporate profits
Chapter 4 Family in the United States
Ⅰ.PRELISTENING
B.Vocabulary and Key Concepts 1.disintegrating 2.domestic role 3.nature/drastically 4.sensitive barometer 5.predominant configuration 6.commitment/reverence
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7.conformity/gender 8.lack/liberation 9.self-fulfillment 10.cohabiting couples 11.tripled/quadruppled 12.decline/initial 13.balance/individualism 14.flexible/on-site 15.mandate/allowances
D.Notetaking Preparation 2.Rhetorical Cues a.2 b.5 c.3 d.1 e.4
Ⅱ. LISTENING Major Subtopics
ST1 traditional familism: mid-1940s to mid-1960s ST2 period of individualism: mid-1960s to mid-1980s
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ST3 the new familism: mid-1980s to present
Ⅲ. POSTLISTENING Accuracy Check No, they aren’t.
declining birth rates, rising divorce rates, discontent of women with domestic role
a married couple with children It’s closer to self-reliance.
sexual revolution, women’s liberation., and the movement against the Vietnam War
the idealization of career and the drive for self-expression and self-fulfillment
Single-parent families tripled; cohabiting couples quadrupled. in the second period
commitment to family, equality of men and women, fulfillment quality day care, parental leave, family allowances
Chapter 5 Religion Ⅰ. PRELISTENING
B. Vocabulary and Key Concepts 1. mandatory
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2. surve/Protestant 3. modernized 4. values 5. guaranteed 6. establishes 7. underestimated 8. role/played 9. decline/revival 10. conservative
11. controversial/politicized 12. phenomenon 13.secular/authoritarian D. Notetaking Preparation
1. Commonly Used Symbols and Abbreviations 1. pop. of China＞India＞U.S.
2. death rt. ＋ birth rt. → bin pop. 3. pop. in U.S. c.281mill.
4. some people imm. to U.S.∵ nat. disaster, e.g., droughts, famines 5. situation diff today ∴ people from Latin Am.+ Asia imm to U.S. >from Europe
6. After WWⅡ, most Am. Families still trad., i.e., w/ working father, housewife, & children
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