高级英语视听说2参考答案

Chapter 1 The Population

I 2 populous 3 race 4 origin 5 geographical distPrelistening B 1 census ribution

6 made up of 7 comprises 8 relatively progressively 9 Metropolitan densely 10 decreased death rate 11 birth rate increasing 12 life expectancy

D 1 a 18.5 mill b 80% c 1/2 d 13.4 mill e 2: 10 f 4% g 1990 h 40% i 3/4 j 33.1%

2 a 3 b 1 c 2 d 5 e 4

II First Listening

ST1 population by race and origin ST2 geographical distribution ST3 age and sex

III Postlistening

A 1. People’s Republic of China, India

2. 281 mill

3. Hispanics(12.5%) 4. Texas

5. the South and the West 6. 20%

7. by more than 5 million 8. about 6 years 9. 2.2 years

10. a decreasing birth rate and an expectancy

Chapter 2: Immigration: Past and Present PRELISTENING

B. Vocabulary and Key Concepts immigrated

natural disasters/ droughts/ famines persecution settlers/ colonists stages

widespread unemployment scarcity

expanding/ citizens

increasing life

failure decrease limited quotas steadily trend

skills/ unskilled

D Notetaking Preparation Dates: Teens and Tens 1850 1951 The 1840s From 1890 to 1930 Between 1750 and 1850 1776 1882 1329 1860

From approximately 1830 to 1930

Language Conventions: Countries and Nationalities

The Scandinavian countries are Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. The Southern European countries are Italy, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. The Eastern European countries are Russia and Poland.

LISTENING First Listening Major Subtopics

ST1 the Great Immigration

ST2 reasons for the Great Immigration and why it ended ST3 immigration situation in the United States today

POSTLISTENING A. Accuracy Check colonists or settlers

Dutch, French, German, Scotch-Irish, Blacks The third, 1890-1930

Southern Europe and Eastern Europe The

population

doubled,

there

was

widespread

unemployment, and there was a scarcity of farmland

free land, plentiful jobs, and freedom from religious and political persecution

the failure of the potato crop in Ireland

laws limiting immigration from certain area, the Great Depression, and World War Ⅱ They are largely non-European.

Industry doesn’t need a large number of unskilled workers。

Chapter 3 American Trademarks

I B 1 statistics

2 goods producing / service 3 stricter / illegal 4 per capita

5 benefits / health insurance 6 wages / workweek 7 romanticize 8 study / productive 9 rising / opposite 10 outproduce 11 stressed 12 matched 13 stagnated 14 CEOs / profits 15 unions / favor

D a 2 b 1 c 3 d 4

Ⅱ A ST1 a historical look at work in America ST2 how U.S. workers are doing today

Ⅲ A 1 38% 2 3%

3 service industries 4 19% in 1900; 60% in 1999 5 ＄4,200 in 1900; ＄33,700 in 1999 6 health insurance 7 U.S. workers

8 They are less stressed (more vacation weeks) 9 No

10 to CEOs, the stock market, and corporate profits

Chapter 4 Family in the United States

Ⅰ.PRELISTENING

B.Vocabulary and Key Concepts 1.disintegrating 2.domestic role 3.nature/drastically

4.sensitive barometer 5.predominant configuration mitment/reverence 7.conformity/gender ck/liberation 9.self-fulfillment 10.cohabiting couples 11.tripled/quadruppled 12.decline/initial

13.balance/individualism 14.flexible/on-site 15.mandate/allowances

D.Notetaking Preparation 2.Rhetorical Cues a.2 b.5 c.3 d.1 e.4

Ⅱ. LISTENING

Major Subtopics

ST1 traditional familism: mid-1940s to mid-1960s ST2 period of individualism: mid-1960s to mid-1980s ST3 the new familism: mid-1980s to present

Ⅲ. POSTLISTENING Accuracy Check No, they aren’t.

declining birth rates, rising divorce rates, discontent of women with domestic role a married couple with children It’s closer to self-reliance.

sexual revolution, women’s liberation., and the movement against the Vietnam War

the idealization of career and the drive for self-expression and self-fulfillment Single-parent quadrupled. in the second period

commitment to family, equality of men and women, fulfillment quality day care, parental leave, family allowances

families

tripled;

cohabiting

couples

Chapter 5 Religion Ⅰ. PRELISTENING

B. Vocabulary and Key Concepts 1. mandatory 2. surve/Protestant 3. modernized 4. values 5. guaranteed 6. establishes 7. underestimated 8. role/played 9. decline/revival 10. conservative

11. controversial/politicized 12. phenomenon 13.secular/authoritarian D. Notetaking Preparation

1. Commonly Used Symbols and Abbreviations 1. pop. of China＞India＞U.S.

＋ → bin pop. 3. pop. in U.S. c.281mill.

4. some people imm. to U.S.∵ nat. disaster, e.g., droughts,

famines

5. situation diff today ∴ people from Latin Am.+ Asia imm to U.S. >from Europe

6. After WWⅡ, most Am. Families still trad., i.e., w/ working father, housewife, & children

7. Today many child. Raised w/o father in home Rhetorical Cues 2 4 1 3 5

Ⅱ. LISTENING First Listening

Major Subtopics ST1 facts and figures

ST2 United States compared to other modernized nations ST3 increasing role of religion in U.S. politics particularly in recent years Ⅲ. POSTLISTENING Accuracy Check

The media, e.g., television and movies, usually ignore this

part of American culture Protestants, 52%, Catholics, 24%

Immigrants to America came from many different countries and religious backgrounds.

the United States, 60%; Italy, 7%; France, 4% freedom of worship (religion)

that church and state must be kept separate conservative

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