托福阅读之美国流行文化历史【英文原版】.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料 托福阅读之美国流行文化历史【英文原版】 摘要： 又一次给大家上传美国流行文化史，是英文版的原版哦，小编搜罗的书转成的PDF，大家赶紧下载吧，介绍了美国的流行文化史，不仅让大家更了解国外的文化，也真的能够让我们的英文水平有所提高~  重磅献上美国流行文化历史非常详细的为我们介绍了 托福 阅读的常考阅读背景，提前了解这些内容对我我们的 托福阅读 提分老来说是非常有帮助，多读一些英文名著对我们的英文思维和英文阅读速度提高是非常有帮助。  托福阅读之美国流行文化历史：  America， to endure， must change…… Change to preserve Americas ideals—— life， liberty， the pursu  0  america， to endure， must change……  change to preserve americas ideals—— life， liberty， the pursuit of happiness. though we march to the music of our time，our mission is timeless.  —— president bill clinton， 1993  a society in transition  shifts in the structure of american society， begun years or even decades earlier， had become apparent by the time the 1980s arrived. the composition of the population and the most important jobs and skills in american society had undergone major changes.  the dominance of service jobs in the economy became undeniable. by the mid-1980s， capping a trend under way for more than half a century， three-fourths of all employees worked in the service sector —— for instance， as retail clerks， office workers， teachers， physicians and other health care professionals， government employees， lawyers， and legal and financial specialists.  service-sector activity benefited from the availability and increased use of the computer. this was the information age， with hardware and software that could aggregate previously unimagined amounts of data about economic and social trends. the federal government had made significant investments in computer technology in the 1950s and 1960s as part of its military and space programs. in the late 1970s， two young california entrepreneurs， working out of a garage， assembled the first widely marketed computer for home use， named it the apple —— and ignited a revolution. by the early 1980s， millions of microcomputers had found their way into u.s. businesses and homes， and in 1982， time