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2014年职称英语考试补全短文练习题 Happy Birthday to You The main problem in discussing American popular culture is also one of its main characteristics: it wont stay American. No matter what it is, whether it is films, food and fashion, music, casual sports or slang, its soon at home elsewhere in the world. There are several theories why American popular culture has had this appeal. One theory is that it has been advertised and marketed through American films, popular music, and more recently, television. __________They are, after all, in competition with those produced by other countries. Another theory, probably a more common one, is that American popular culture is internationally associated with something called the spirit of America. __________ The final theory is less complex: American popular culture is popular because a lot of people in the world like it. Regardless of why it spread, American popular culture is usually quite rapidly adopted and then adapted in many other countries. __________ Happy Birthday to You, for instance, is such an everyday song that its source, its American copyright, so to speak, is not remembered. Black leather jackets worn by many heroes in American movies could be found, a generation later, on all those young men who wanted to make this manly-look their own. Two areas where this continuing process is most clearly seen are clothing and music. Some people can still remember a time when T-shirts, jogging clothes, tennis shoes, denim jackets, and blue jeans were not common daily wear everywhere. Only twenty years ago, it was possible to spot an American in Paris by his or her clothes. No longer so: those bring colors, checkered jackets and trousers, hats and socks which were once made fun of in cartoons are back again in Paris as the latest fashion. __________ | 
