2014年职称英语考试补全短文练习题
Happy Birthday to You
The main problem in discussing American popular culture is also one of its main characteristics: it wont stay American. No matter what it is, whether it is films, food and fashion, music, casual sports or slang, its soon at home elsewhere in the world. There are several theories why American popular culture has had this appeal.
One theory is that it has been advertised and marketed through American films, popular music, and more recently, television. __________They are, after all, in competition with those produced by other countries.
Another theory, probably a more common one, is that American popular culture is internationally associated with something called the spirit of America. __________
The final theory is less complex: American popular culture is popular because a lot of people in the world like it.
Regardless of why it spread, American popular culture is usually quite rapidly adopted and then adapted in many other countries. __________ Happy Birthday to You, for instance, is such an everyday song that its source, its American copyright, so to speak, is not remembered. Black leather jackets worn by many heroes in American movies could be found, a generation later, on all those young men who wanted to make this manly-look their own.
Two areas where this continuing process is most clearly seen are clothing and music. Some people can still remember a time when T-shirts, jogging clothes, tennis shoes, denim jackets, and blue jeans were not common daily wear everywhere. Only twenty years ago, it was possible to spot an American in Paris by his or her clothes. No longer so: those bring colors, checkered jackets and trousers, hats and socks which were once made fun of in cartoons are back again in Paris as the latest fashion. __________
The situation with American popular music is more complex because in the beginning, when it was still clearly American, it was often strongly resisted. Jazz was once thought to be a great danger to youth and their morals, and was actually outlawed in several countries. Today, while stills blowing its rather American roots, it has become so well established. Rock n roll and its variations, country western music, all have more or less similar histories. They were first resisted, often in America as well, as being low-class, and then as a danger to our nations youth. __________And then the music became accepted and was extended and developed, and exported back to the U.S.
A As a result, its American origins and roots are often quickly forgotten.
B But this theory fails to explain why American films, music, and television programs are so popular in themselves.
C American in origin, informal clothing has become the worlds first truly universal style.
D The BBC, for example, banned rock and roll until 1962.
E American food has become popular around the world too.
F This spirit is variously described as being young and free, optimistic and confident, informal and disrespectful.
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美文:爱的奇迹
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精选英语散文欣赏:月亮和井
态度决定一切 Attitude Is Everything
双语美文:I Wish I Could believe
精选英语美文阅读:假如生活欺骗了你
幸福的秘诀:简单的生活很幸福
双语美文欣赏:孤独人生
双语美文:What are you still waiting for?
Love Your Life 热爱生活
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精选英语美文阅读:一封未发出的英文情书《但是你没有》
精美散文:守护自己的天使
精美散文:爱你所做 做你所爱
精选英语美文阅读:饶孟侃《呼唤》
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精选英语散文欣赏:平等的爱
英文《小王子》温情语录
如果生命可以重来(双语)
最美的英文情诗:请允许我成为你的夏季
美文阅读:青春物语
双语美文:在思考中成长
精选英语美文阅读:被忽略的爱 Helpless love
浪漫英文情书精选:Need You With Me需要你爱我
英语美文欣赏:A beautiful song
精选英语美文阅读:爱的奇迹 Keep on Singing
精选英语美文阅读:A Friend's Prayer 朋友的祈祷
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