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4. While most Americans embraced the idea of money-making and held successful businessmen in great admiration, they resented big businesses monopolizing any industry in any form.

5. By 1956, a majority of U.S. workers held blue-collar rather than white-collar jobs. 6. Many urban Americans, particularly Blacks and Hispanics, found the postwar prosperity inaccessible to them.

7. The American West is now an important region for corn and wheat.

8. While manufacturing giants such as IBM and General Electronic enjoy worldwide reputation as the pillars of the American economy, the U.S. economy is by no means one dominated by giant corporations.

9. As the number of workers employed in the traditional manufacturing industries has declined, union membership has dropped in recent years.

U6

1. In the United States, the social security system provides assistance to people with financial problems.

2. In the United States, Medicare provides virtually free treatment for all American citizens. 3. Social security is the nearly universal retirement program for Americans, with about 92 percent of people aged 60 and over receiving benefits.

4. Since 1996, welfare responsibility under AFDC has been passed to the states, which receive federal grants to run their own programs.

5. The Social Security Administration organizes the distribution of food and food stamps

through state and local governments.

6. Since government-sponsored welfare programs are essential to the needy and the poor, they are quite adequate in confronting the poverty issue.

7. Child Welfare League of America is the largest privately-funded childcare agency in the United States, providing shelter and service to homeless and runaway youth.

8. In the United States, most employees and their families are normally insured for health care through public insurance programs.

9. Medicaid program provides federal grants to states for the free treatment of the elderly. 10. In the United States, two-thirds of the housing units in the private sector are “single-family dwellings”.

U7

1. The U.S. Constitution defines the organization of a court system, including a Supreme Court and inferior courts.

2. In the United States, each state has one district court.

3. District courts are the only national courts that use grand juries and petit juries. 4. All national courts can review decisions of state courts.

5. At the national level, government prosecution is the responsibility of the Supreme Court.

6. The U.S. attorneys are appointed for life terms to the district courts.

7. Anglo-American Common Law is based on the supposed reasonable person’s view of what is right and fair.

8. In the United States, all cases should be tried with a jury.

9. A unanimous decision is needed for a grand jury to make a decision.

10. Federal crimes are mainly the responsibility of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

U8

1. Americans generally hold that everyone is entitled to education.

2. Americans believe that education is beneficial to individuals and society as a whole. 3. In the United States, public education at elementary and secondary level is free. 4. American education system is characterized by diversity.

5. According to the U.S. Constitution, education is the responsibility of the federal government.

6. There is little similarity in the education system of the 50 states.

7. The state board of education is responsible for the education policy of the state. 8. The oldest institution of higher learning in the United States is Harvard University. 9. Junior colleges offer only B.A. degrees.

10. The affirmative action program aims to help ethnic and racial minorities in elementary and secondary education.

U9

1. In comparison with other Western countries, America is less religious in terms of church attendance and financial commitment to church organizations.

2. At the time when the United States was founded, it was the Catholic branch of the Christian faith that had the strongest influence on the development of the religious climate in the United States.

3. The Pilgrims tried to create a community in which life would be guided by God’s will and deviations from His will in any shape or form would never be tolerated. 4. America became “the Kingdom of God” by the end of the 17th century.

5. In the 19th century, Americans stopped talking about the importance of religious values for their national identity.

6. According to the U.S. Constitution, church and state are separate in their role and function.

7. Historically, church and state in the United States has never interacted to each other. 8. A growing trend in American religious life is that religion has become increasingly secularized.

9. In the United States, mainstream Protestant denominations have lost ground to Catholic denominations.

10. Post-war Evangelism has attempted to use its influence to restore some sense of community in a society.

U10

1. Most Americans have an ambition to own their own house on a little piece of property, but it’s difficult for them to have that ambition materialized.

2. After the arrival of the so-called post-industrial society, Americans started to move to the city.

3. Most Americans live in mobile homes which function as prefabricated housing units in stationary settings.

4. Many poor American families expect their children to find part-time jobs, especially as

they enter their teens.

5. Parties for children and for grown-ups are constantly occupying the leisure hours of Americans.

6. In the United States, high-brow arts get most of the financial backing from the government.

7. In the United States, popular culture outshines classical culture in audience size and in public influence.

8. Today’s preeminent spectator game in America is baseball. 9. American football was derived from the British game of soccer.

10. Baseball is adapted by the Americans from the English cricket to their own tastes.

Canada U1

1. Canada is the second largest country in the Western Hemisphere.

2. Canada is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean.

3. Most of the Canadian people live close to the U.S. border on the south. 4. The highest peak in Canada is Mount Logan. 5. The St. Lawrence is the longest river in Canada.

6. Canada has more lakes and inland waters than any other country in the world. 7. Western Canada consists of the Appalachian Region and the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Lowlands.

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