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P330 (10) Today there are about 7,000,000 Americans in colleges and universities. In the United States nearly half of the population(人口) are young persons under twenty-five. Many of them will soon be in charge of(掌管) the country. So their ideas are important to everyone in the country, and it is necessary for older people to understand what young people think and feel. College students today have strong opinions(观点) about right and wrong. They are interested in making a better life. They see much that is wrong in the lives of their parents. It is hard for them to see what is right and good in the older ways. Because of this, there is often trouble in American families. 今天，大约有7,000,000美国人就读高校。在美国近半数的人口是二十五岁以下的青少年。 们中许 多人将在不久掌管这个国家。因此对国家中的每个人而言， 们的想法是很重要的，而且成年人理解年轻 人的想法和感受是必要的。 今天的大学生具有强烈的对错观。 们对创造一个美好生活感兴趣。 们看到在父母生活中的很多不 足。让 们用老观念去看什么是正确而好的是很困难的。正因为如此，在美国家庭往往存有烦恼。 P332 (11) “How are you?” is a nice question. It’s a friendly way that people in the United States greet each other, but when a person says “How are you?” he expects() to hear the answer “Fine,” even if the person’s friend isn’t fine. The reason is that “How are you?” isn’t really a question, and “fine” isn’t really an answer. They are common ways of saying “Hello” and “Hi”. Sometimes people also don’t say exactly what they mean. For example, when someone asks, “Do you agree?” the other person may be thinking. “No, I don’t agree. I think you are wrong.” But it doesn’t sound very polite, so he may say, “ I’m not so sure.” It’s a nicer way to say that you don’t agree with someone. People also don’t say exactly what they are thinking. For example, when a person wants to finish talking with other people on the phone, he may say “ I have to go now”. Sometimes he often gives an excuse, “Someone is at the door”, “Something is burning” so on. The excuse may be real, or it may not. It’s a polite way to stop a conversation and it doesn’t hurt the oth