Unit 1 Passage 1 The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen. striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in competition with other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual

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Five Famous Symbols of American Culture The Statue of Liberty In the mid-1870s, French artist Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was working on an enormous project called Liberty Enlightening the World, a monument celebrating US independence and the France-America alliance. At the same time, he was in love with a woman whom he had met in Canada. His mother could not approve of her son’s affection for a woman she had never met

The Background of American Realism The fifty years between the end of the Civil War to the outbreak of the First World War Changes in every aspect of American life

精通美语语音（american accent training）A guide to speaking and pronouncing American English for everyone who speaks English as a second language

SELF--INTRODUCTION Name: Xie Fang · Major: English Home town Nanchang · Degree: B.A Hobby: reading, listening to the music, using computer, watch original American movies, shopping, walking, travelling Family: 3 members, husband, twelve- year-old son

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What is politics? The struggle or process that people engage in to decide which members of society get certain benefits or privileges and which members of society are excluded from benefits or privileges

Binary options Nonstandard American Lookback options options Shout options Forward start options Asian options Compound options Options to exchange Chooser options one asset for another Barrier options Options involving

10. Changes in Meaning 11. American English