• 齣版社: 上海外語教育齣版社; 第1版 (2014年4月1日)2016年印刷
• 外文書名: American Culture and Society
• 叢書名: 《普通高等教育"十一五" 規劃教材·新世紀高等院校英語專業本科生係列教材(修訂版)
• 平裝: 412頁
• 語種： 簡體中文, 英語
• 開本: 16
• ISBN: 9787544632812, 7544632814
• 條形碼: 9787544632812
• 商品尺寸: 26 x 18.4 x 2 cm
• 商品重量: 662 g
• 品牌: 上海外語教育齣版社

《普通高等教育"十一五" 規劃教材·新世紀高等院校英語專業本科生係列教材(修訂版):美國文化與社會(第2版)》按照教學大綱提齣的培養目標、課程設置、教學要求和教學原則精心設計，凝聚海內外英語專業教育界專傢學者的智慧，反映英語專業教育、科研的新成果。基於廣泛的市場調研、詳盡的需求分析和嚴謹的科學判斷，梳理現有教程，優化教材結構，更新教學方法和手段，強化學生綜閤能力的培養。專業技能、專業知識、相關專業知識的完美匹配，幫助學生打下紮實的語言基本功，增強其分析問題、解決問題的能力，提高專業素質和人文素養，使學生真正成為國際化、創新型、高素質的英語專業人纔。

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The variations in temperature within the United States have had amarked effect on the country's economy and living standards. Forinstance, there is a long crop-growing season along the southeast coastwhere cotton is the principal product. This is also true in several smallstrips and pockets to the west where crops like grapes grow well duringa large part of the year. In some of the cooler climates or in climateswhich combine coolness and humidity, animals and produce such asapples, wheat, and corn thrive, giving the United States a wide rangeof agricultural products. 
The Soil 
As for the soil and what grows on it, the American endowment isgreat. Of its 1.9 billion acres of land, nearly a fifth ( 4 million) is usedfor crops, about a half (9 million) for pasture and grazing, and lessthan a third (6 million ) is farm, woodland and forest. Despite thedenuding of the Great Forest, there are still big timber stands on thePacific Coast: in California, Washington, and especially Oregon.There are 9-feet-high cornfields in Iowa and a vast stretch of wheat landon the Great Plains from Texas through Minnesota. There are thecotton and tobacco fields of the South and the lush valleys of the Pacificslope. Because of the vast stretch of arable land, together with theapplication of advanced science and technology in farming industry, theUnited States is now one of the leading exporters of agriculturalproducts in the world. 
When early voyagers approached the land that is now the UnitedStates, they noticed a sweet and surprising "land smell," a clue thatthey were near the shore. This "land smell" came from the great,thick forest that covered all the eastern part of the country and stretchedabout 1,600 kilometers westward until it met the tall grass of theprairies. No one knows just why the woods ended where they did, orwhy the tall grass of the prairies -- the wide rolling and almost treelessplains- began at that point. The reason still remains shrouded inmystery, for the eastern part of the prairies' tall grasslands have soil thatsupport tree life. One explanation has it that the Indians burned off theforest in order to force game animals out to the hunters.