Out of fear of the emotional sufferings, the American ordinary people avoid topics about death. They surround death with word avoidance. Americans never“die”. They “pass away”. A “funeral hall ”is decorated to look like a bank. Everything in a funeral ceremony is done in low tones, as if it were something secret, to be hidden from the world. There is so much emphasis on being dignified(庄严的)that the ceremony often loses its quality of dignity.

　　In some parts of the world, there’s difficulty in understanding the causes of death. It’s difficult to explain death in these cultures. Living in a modern society, Americans have a ready enough explanation of how death comes, yet they show little ability to accept the fact of death itself and the emotional pain it brings. “To my disappointment, we, American people, sing over birth and dance at weddings,”says Margaret Mead, a famous American anthropologist(人类学家), “but more and more push the death off the scene without ceremony, without an opportunity for the young and the old to know that death is as much a fact of life as is birth. ”(343W)

　　1. The passage is mainly about　.

　　A. the emotional sufferings from death

　　B. different cultures’ attitudes toward death

　　C. Americans’ attitudes toward death

　　D. methods of avoiding death

　　2. In the novels of many famous American writers, one will find　.

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