现代大学英语听力4 全册答案及原文(2)

I.

A. villages，seaport

B. danger，long ocean voyage

C. a new land，a new language

D. finding a place to live

II.

a better life，opportunity，freedom

III.

A. England, Germany, Russia, Hungary

B. Roman Catholic, Jewish

C. customs，languages

IV.

A. Americanized，disappeared.

B. haven't disappeared，customs，identities

V.

A. were cheated，prejudice，mistreated

B. hardest，least-paid，dirtiest，most overcrowded

D. rejected，old-fashioned，ashamed

overcome

【原文】

Thousands of people came to American cities before Blacks and Puerto Ricans did. Between

1815 and 1914, more than 35 million Europeans crossed the ocean to find new homes in the United States.

Most of these immigrants were ordinary people. Few were famous when they arrived. Few

became famous afterward. Most had lived in small villages. Few had ever been far outside them. Most of them faced the same kinds of problems getting to America: the hardship of going from their villages to a seaport, the unpleasantness—even danger—of the long ocean voyage, the strangeness of a new land, and of a new language, the problem of finding a place to live, of finding work in a new, strange country.

Every immigrant had his own reasons for coming to America. But nearly all shared one

reason: They hoped for a better life. They considered America a special place, a land of opportunity, a land of freedom.

Immigrants came from many different countries: England, Germany, Denmark, Finland[,

Russia, Italy, Hungary and many others.

They came with many different religions: Roman Catholic, Jewish, Quaker, Greek Orthodox.

They brought many different customs and many languages.

Some people have called the United States a "melting pot". After immigrants were here

awhile—in the melting pot—they became Americanized. Differences were "melted down". They

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gradually disappeared.

Some people say no. America isn't a melting pot. It's more like a salad bowl. Important

differences between groups of people haven't disappeared. Many groups have kept their own ways, their customs, their identities, and this has given America great strength.

Melting pot? Salad bowl? Perhaps there's some troth to both ideas.

In any case, life in America was hard for most immigrants—especially at first. Often they

were cheated. Often they met with prejudice. They were often laughed at, even mistreated, by people who themselves had been immigrants.

Most of them soon found that the streets of America weren't paved with gold. They usually

got the hardest jobs, and those that paid the least, the dirtiest places to live in, the most overcrowded tenements.

They came to be citizens of a new country; but often they felt like people without a country.

They had given up their own, but they didn't understand their new one. They didn't really feel a part of it. And the people of the new one didn't always welcome them.

They came for the sake of their children, but in America their children often rejected them.

To the children, their parents seemed old-fashioned. They didn't learn the new language quickly. Some didn't learn it at all. Their parents' customs made children ashamed.

Gradually, however, problems were overcome. For most immigrants, life in America was

better. It certainly was better for their children and for their grandchildren.

Task 6:

【答案】

A.

The Life Story of Thomas Edison

Ohio，1847，industrial development, 1931, a modern nation

I.

A. curiosity，desire

B. 1857，station master‘s son

C. 1863

II.

A. New York City，electricity，report the prices

B. New Jersey，invented，produced

C. organized industrial research

D. 1877

E. 1879

III.

A. B. motion-picture machine

C. photography

D. streetcars，electric trains

IV.

B. turn off all power

C. the progress of man

B.

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1) F

2) F

3) T

4) T

5) F

【原文】

When Thomas Edison was born in the small town of Milan, Ohio, in 1847, America was just

beginning its great industrial development. The time in which he lived was an age of invention, filled with human and scientific adventures, and Edison became the hero of that age.

As a boy, Edison was not a good student. His parents took him out of school and his mother

taught him at home, where his great curiosity and desire to experiment often got him into trouble. When he was ten, Edison built his own chemistry laboratory. He sold sandwiches and newspapers on the local trains in order to earn money to buy supplies for his laboratory. His parents became accustomed, more or less, to his experiments and the explosions which sometimes shook the

house.

Edison‘s work as a sales boy with the railroad introduced him to the telegraph and with a friend, he built his own telegraph set. He taught himself the Morse telegraphic code and hoped for the chance to become a professional telegraph operator. A stroke of luck and Edison's quick thinking soon provided the opportunity.

One day, as young Edison stood waiting for a train to arrive, he saw the station master's sot

wander into the track of an approaching train. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The thankful station master offered to teach Edison railway telegraphy. Afterwards, in 1863, he became tan expert telegraph operator and left home to work in various cities.

Six years later, in 1869, Edison arrived in New York City, poor and in debt. He went to work

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