同步训练2（Chapters 14-18）
1.What Problems are facing the U.S. economy?
【答案】Unemployment, stagnation, inflation, financial deficit, and trade deficit are the problems that always face the United States.
2. Which are the five biggest cities in the U.S.in the terms of population?
【答案】They are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia.
3.Why is education very important to Americans?
【答案】Because it contributes to developing the national strength and personal success.
4.Who were awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
【答案】T.S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway were awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
5.When did the U.S.government declare war on Germany?
【答案】The U.S. government declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917.
6.What was the postwar strategy of the United States?
【答案】The strategy was to establish American leadership of the world and open market for American goods and capital.
1.baby boom
【答案】"baby boom" refers to the great increase of birth rate between 1946 and 1964. People born in this period are called baby boomers.
2.the Federal system
【答案】The Constitution set up a federal system of government, which has two layers of rule. There is central or federal government for the nation which alone has the power to answer questions that affect the nation as a whole. There are also state and local governments. Each layer of government has separate and distinct powers laid down in the Constitution.
3.Isolationism
【答案】It refers to the American foreign policy in the early 1930s. It tried to keep the United States out of the fighting that was going on in Europe and Asia.
4.the New Deal
【答案】In order to deal with the Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt put forward the New Deal program. It passed a lot of New Deal laws and set up many efficient social security systems. The New Deal helped to save American Democracy and the development of American economy.