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in Chinese.
1. Among Chinese Americans today, the family remains extremely important, although many aspects of Chinese family life have become increasingly Americanized. Chinese-American families have gotten smaller. As Chinese Americans absorb the American concepts of personal freedom and self-fulfillment, family ties weaken to some degree.
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2. America wants to build a new relationship with you. We want China to be successful, secure and open, working with us for a more peaceful and prosperous world. Everything all of us know about the way the world is changing and the challenges your generation will face tell us that our two nations will be far better off working together than apart.
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3. Hundreds more were waiting for us and as we stepped off the boat they swarmed around us, cheering, waving and covering us with flowers. Here were real people who, over the years, had seen their garden destroyed by the nuclear tests. We may not have succeeded in stopping the French from detonating their bombs but at least we gave these people a voice.
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4. The food choices that we make and the development of our habits concerning food are influenced by many interacting factors, such as income, culture, concerns about health, and religion. Yet, for most persons and in ordinary circumstances, food must be palatable or have appetite appeal if they are to be eaten.
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5. Heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the United States, and it remains the 20th century's major health problem. According to the American Heart Association, disease of the heart and associated blood vessels kills over 1 million people a year, almost as many as those who die from all the other causes of death combined-including cancer, accidents, and lung disease.
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6. Since the mid-1970s, universities in the U.S. have recruited substantial numbers of students from the older sections of the population. During this period the proportion of adult students (i.e., those over the age of 22 at the time of their entry into higher education) has equaled the proportion of traditional students (i.e., those aged between 18 and 22 on entry).
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7. Imagine being able to eat whatever you like, whenever you like without worrying about your figure. Is this an impossible dream for the 95% of British women who are on a diet? Not according to scientists at London's Hammersmith Hospital. They have discovered a substance in our brain which, they believe, could one day form the basis of the ultimate slimming pill.
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8. It would be foolish to deny that the burdens and demands placed upon adult students are qualitatively different from those placed upon younger students. Adult students often have domestic, financial, and other commitments that make them less able to take courses at more expensive institutions or at ones geographically remote from their homes.
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9. The present-day world status of English is primarily the result of two factors: the expansion of British colonial power, which peaked towards the end of the nineteenth century, and the emergence of the United States as the leading economic power of the twentieth century. It is the latter factor that continues to explain the world position of the English language today.
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10. So great is the variation in English that it is often difficult to say whether a certain variety in one place or another should be called English or not. There is no sure way of determining on purely linguistic grounds, where one language ends and another begins. It is up to us as social animals, to decide where to draw the lines.
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