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Bookshelf Family and Friends Bookshelf Silent Reading Text Understanding Cultural Tips and Hints Language Points Text Translation Exercises Silent Reading You are going to read a passage about career and family. Before you read, write down your own views on the aspects of the subject. Text Understanding Read the title to understand the theme of the article. The purpose of this passage is ____________. Text Understanding Read the passage and try to answer the questions below. Text Understanding Read the passage and try to answer the questions below. Cultural Tips and Hints About Family Similarities and differences between traditional and modern family Family types Cultural Tips and Hints About Family A great many people, when they speak of home, tend to appreciate it with a certain atmosphere, certain physical surroundings, and certain emotional attitudes with themselves. This sentimentality toward home is something that has come down to us from the past. In the old days, life was difficult. Enemies could attack you and kill or rob you, and you had little protection against them. People did not live in well-built houses where doors could be locked. How did this influence the way people felt about home? It’s a feeling of security. Family groups clung tightly together for protection against beasts and against other men. Cultural Tips and Hints About Family However, owing to fast life pace and complex-organized societies, thousands of people have to indulge in their work and ignore their children, home and spouse, the less sentiment they are likely to have for their families. How has the meaning of this word “home” been altered by such activity? What does home mean to those people or to families who often move about, living first in one hotel and then another? For them, home means a place where they can have privacy and pleasant and families offer a feeling of belonging, of love and security. Cultural Tips and Hints Similarities and differences between traditional