X. Des expériences mémorables.Dans votre journal intime (diary), vous décrivez comment vous avez passé quelques fêtes en France chez des amis français. Que faisaient les Français que vous avez observés? Quelles étaient les circonstances? Qu'est-ce que vous avez fait que vous ne faites pas d'habitude dans votre famille? Basez votre description sur les Notes culturelles, la Lecture, Culture et réflexion et les discussions en classe. Utilisez l'imparfait, le passé composé et le présent.
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Rachel está aprendiendo más sobre la Revolución Mexicana y encontró un artículo sobre las soldaderas, las mujeres que participaban en la revolución, y lo quiere compartir contigo. Lee el artículo y luego, contesta las siguientes preguntas.
Aquí se ve a las soldaderas durante la Revolución Mexicana:
Las soldaderas, también conocidas como las Adelitas, eran las mujeres que participaban activamente en la Revolución Mexicana, acompañando a sus esposos. La Revolución comenzó en 1910, tuvo diferentes etapas y concluyó en 1920. Durante la Revolución, grupos de campesinos, gente humilde que vivía de la tierra, lucharon para pedir más derechos para los trabajadores. Los soldados eran los mismos campesinos y se movían de un lado a otro para luchar. Un grupo de mujeres iba con ellos y cocinaban, lavaban, eran enfermeras y acompañaban a los soldados en todos los sentidos. Algunas, incluso, salían a la lucha con los hombres.
El nombre de Adelitas lo recibieron en honor a Adela Velarde Pérez, la esposa de un soldado que compuso una canción o corrido, Las Adelitas, para honrar la tarea que realizaba su mujer, que dice: “si Adelita se fuera con otro, la seguiría por tierra y por mar; si es por mar en un buque (boat) de guerra, si es por tierra en un tren militar”. Esta canción, que se hizo muy popular entre los soldados de la revolución, sigue siendo hasta ahora parte de la tradición popular mexicana y recuerda la participación femenina en uno de los acontecimientos más importante del siglo xx para el pueblo mexicano.
a. representar el impacto especial de la mujer en la Revolución Mexicana.
b. explicar la causa de la Revolución Mexicana.
c. exponer las injusticias en México durante el siglo xx.
The author would agree that the Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act
The Facts: Nutrition Quackery 1) Whether athletic or sedentary, the individual on a well-balanced diet does not benefit from special foods, phosphate, alkaline salts, choline, lecithin, wheat germ, honey, gelatin, aspartates, brewer’s yeast, or royal jelly unless prescribed for medical purposes by a physician. Because these products do not produce the special benefits claimed for them, their use and/or sale can be considered nutritional quackery. 2) The Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act was passed in 1994. It was considered by many experts to be a compromise between health-food manufacturers who wanted no regulation of dietary supplements (such as vitamins, minerals, proteins, and herbs) and those who wanted strict control of these substances. Many nutrition experts now feel that the Act is responsible for an explosion in sales of products that have not been proven to be effective. 3) The passage of the 1994 Act shifted the burden of providing assurances of product effectiveness from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the food supplement industry, which really means it shifted to you – the consumer. Food supplements are typically not considered to be drugs, so they are not regulated. Unlike drugs and medicines, food supplements need not be proven effective or even safe to be sold in stores. To be removed from stores, they must be proven ineffective or unsafe. This leaves consumers vulnerable to false claims. Many experts suggest that quackery has increased significantly since the Act was passed. 4) The Act had at least one positive effect. Food supplement labeling must now be truthful and nonmisleading. Claims concerning disease prevention, treatment, or diagnosis must be substantiated in order to appear on the product. Unfortunately, the act did not limit false claims if they are not on the product label. The result has been the removal of claims from labels in favor of claims on separate literature often called “third-party” literature. The seller provides claims in literature by other people (third party). The literature is distributed separately from the product, thus allowing sellers to make unsubstantiated claims for products. Also the law does not prohibit unproven verbal claims by sales people. It is now up to the consumer to make decisions about the safety and effectiveness of food supplements so it is especially important to be well-informed. 5) Experts indicate that the recent increase in food supplement sales ($8 billion a year in 1994 and $12 billion in 1997 and $16 billion currently) has resulted in more than a few cases of serious illnesses including lead poisoning, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abnormal heart rhythms, impotence, and lethargy. As a result, the increased sales of such products as St. John’s Wart, Ginseng, Ginkgo, and Saw Palmetto has received considerable media attention. A series of reports in a recent medical journal address the topic of food supplements that are unregulated suggesting that “alternative treatments should be subjected to scientific testing no less rigorous than that required for advocating unproven and potentially harmful treatments.” One of the reports indicates that nearly one-third of the samples of one herbal product tested in California contained dangerous chemicals and drugs not listed on the label. These reports show the importance of asking questions before buying or taking any supplements. a. has been completely effective. b. has been completely ineffective. c. has had both positive and negative effects on the sales of food supplements d. has been responsible for a decrease in the sales of food supplements.
Read Excerpt A below about immigration and answer the vocabulary question which follow. Do the same for Excerpt B.
Excerpt A The United States is the most racially-ethnically diverse society in the world. This can be our central strength, with our many groups working together to build a harmonious society, a stellar example for the world. Throughout its history, the U.S. has both welcomed immigration and feared its consequences. The gates opened wide for a massive wave of immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the past 20 years, a second great wave of immigration has brought close to a million new residents to the United States each year. Unlike the first wave, which was almost exclusively from western Europe, this second wave is more diverse. In fact, it is changing the U.S. racial-ethnic mix. If current trends in immigration and birth persist, in a little over 50 years, the “average” American will trace his or her ancestry to Africa, Asia, South America, the Pacific Islands, the Middle East—to almost anywhere but white Europe. In some states, the future is arriving much sooner than this. In California, ethnic and racial minorities already constitute the majority. California has 17 million minorities and 16 million whites. Californians who request new telephone service from Pacific Bell can speak to customer service representatives in Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese—or English. The underlined word stellar most nearly means a. starry. b. astral. c. leading.
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a. true b. false