《变化中的美国文化》

CONTENTS1

Unit One：CHANGING PATTERNS OF BE HAVIOR1

Lesson One：Seeking Advice1

Reverse Psychological Verbs17

Lesson Two：Folk-Life Festival：The Celebra-tion of Hands19

Object Clauses Introduced by that29

Negative Raising30

Lesson Three：Four Choices for Young Peo-ple32

Object Clauses with Infinitives43

Object Clauses with Gerunds46

Unit Two：THE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT48

Lesson Four：Motion Pictures48

Noun Compounds57

Lesson Five：The“American Musical”61

Compounds of a Verb＋Particle or a Particle＋Verb71

Genitive Compounds72

Lesson Six：Rock Superstars：What Do They Tell Us About Our-selves and Our Society？75

Noun Compounds85

Lesson Seven：The Art of the Skyscraper90

Noun Adjuncts100

Noun Compounds102

Review of Compounds103

Unit Three：NEW DIRECTIONS IN EDUCATION104

Lesso n Eight：A New Lease on Life：Educa-tion for Mature Women104

Noun Clauses：Alternatives with whether115

Lesson Nine： Making It in America：Puerto Ricans Attend College120

Clauses with whoever and whatever130

Clauses with whenever and wherever132

Lesson Ten： Education Indian-Style：A Hap-Py School at Rough Rock134

Content Clauses after Verb-Noun Pairs144

Unit Four：OUR CHANGING LANGUAGE147

Lesson Eleven：Who Uses English？147

Tag Questions（A Review）157

Lesson Twelve：A Conversation on British and American English162

Shortened Questions174

Negative Shortened Questions176

Lesson Thirteen：Where Do All the New Words Come From？178

Special Tag Questions190

Questions Meaning“I’m Lis-tening”191

Lesson Fou rteen：Variety and Style in Language193

Special Tag Questions207

Short Responses with too，so，either，neither209

Unit Five：VIEWS OF AMERICA211

Lesson Fifteen：Reverence for the Earth211

Request Clauses after Verbs222

Negated Request Clauses after Verbs224

Lesson Sixteen：I Have a Dream226

Request Clauses after Adjectives236

Infinitive Clauses237

Lesson Seventeen：The Inaugural Address239

Clauses after Nouns of Request249

Parallelism251

参考译文253