单选题In spite of "endless talk of difference", American society is an amazing machine for
homogenizing
people. There is "the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of deference" characteristic of popular culture. People are absorbed into "a culture of consumption" launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered "vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere. Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite" these were stores "anyone could enter, regardless of class or background. This turned shopping into a public and democratic act." The mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization.
Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. Writing for the National Immigration Forum, Gregory Rodriguez reports that today's immigration is neither at unprecedented levels nor resistant to assimilation. In 1998 immigrants were 9.8 percent of population; in 1900, 13.6 percent. In the 10 years prior to 1990. 3.1 immigrants arrived for every 1, 000 residents; in the 10 years prior to 1890, 9.2 for every 1, 000. Now, consider three indices of assimilation—language, home ownership and intermarriage.
The 1990 Census revealed that "a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English 'well' or 'very well' after ten years of residence." The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English. "By the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families." Hence the description of America as a "graveyard" for languages. By 1996 foreign-born immigrants who had arrived before 1970 had a home ownership rate of 75.6 percent, higher than the 69.8 percent rate among native-born Americans.
Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics "have higher rates of intermarriage than do U.S.-born whites and blacks." By the third generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics, and 41 percent of Asian-American women are married to non-Asians.
Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around the world are fans of superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet "some Americans fear that immigrants living within the United States remain somehow immune to the nation's assimilative power."
Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething anger in America? Indeed. It is big enough to have a bit of everything. But particularly when viewed against America' s turbulent past, today' s social indices hardly suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment.
单选题著名油画作品《包厢》是( )的作品。
单选题已知同周期X、Y、Z三种元素的最高价氧化物对应水化物的酸性由强到弱的顺序为:HXO
4
>H
2
YO
4
>H
3
ZO
4
,则下列判断中错误的是( )。
单选题问一名4岁儿童:“你有兄弟吗?”他回答:“有。”“兄弟叫什么名字?”他回答:“吉姆。”但反过来问:“吉姆有兄弟吗?”他回答:“没有。”这说明儿童思维具有( )
单选题学校课外活动的组织形式有个人活动、小组活动和()。
单选题彭德怀在评价某次战役时指出:“在当时,只有抓住敌后的空虚,给以突然‘猛袭’才能有力调动敌人,给予打击。……在敌后碉堡密布的情况下,组织这样统一有计划的‘破袭’是不易的。”这次战役是( )。
单选题苏格拉底提出“认识你自己”这一哲学命题的背景是( )。
单选题在美术活动中,孩子们正兴致勃勃地做着手工,忽然停电了,教室里光线不足。此时教师应该()。
单选题有人说,17世纪末的英国国王开始被套上“紧箍咒”。这里的“紧箍咒”是指()。
单选题()非常适合运用于幼儿园班级管理的研究,尤其是幼儿园教师对本班级管理的研究。
单选题选聘高校毕业生到农村任职,是党中央从战略高度作出的一项重要决策,许多大学生纷纷响应去村里当“村官”,大学生“村官”属于我国______。
单选题福禄培尔为儿童设计的一系列活动玩具被称为()。
单选题某幼儿囝教师钱某实名举报了园长的违法乱纪行为,园长知晓后,找来社会人员殴打钱某,导致钱某重伤,对园长的行为应依法______
单选题有关系R(A,B,C,D)和关系S(A,B,C,D,E,F),关系T是R与S的笛卡儿积,即:T=R×S。则关系T的属性个数是______。
A.4
B.6
C.10
D.24
单选题学校不履行法律法规规定的义务。情节严重或者造成严重后果,根据有关法律规定,______要承担相应的法律责任。
A.校长
B.学校负责人
C.有关直接负责人
D.学校负责人和有关直接负责人
单选题Sugar is not an important element in bread, but flour is ______.
单选题小丹说当她听到小刀刮竹子的声音时,就会觉得很冷,浑身不舒服,这种感觉现象是()。
单选题以下哪项不是柴可夫斯基的作品?()
单选题“落雁”指的是我国古代四大美女中的( )。
单选题3岁前儿童的记忆一般不能永久保持。这种现象称作()。
