英语 视听说 填空题

第一单元

countries take a census

人口普查

every ten years or so in order to count the people and to

know where they are living.

2.A country with a growing population is a country that is becoming more populous

人口密集

.

3. A person

’

s race

is partly determined by skin color and type of hair as well as other physical

characteristics.

4. The majority of the u.s population is of European origin.

5.

The

geographical

distribution

of

a

country

’

s

population

gives

information

about

where

the

people are living.

6. The total population of the united states is made up of many different kinds of people.

7. In other words ,the population comprises

包括包含

people of different races and ages.

8.

The

average

age

of

the

u.s

population,

which

is

a

relatively

large

one,

has

been

getting

progressively

逐渐地

higher recently.

9. Metropolitan

大都市

areas are more densely populated than rural areas. That is, they have more

people per square mile.

10. The use of antibiotics has greatly decreased the death rate throughout much of the world.

11. A country whose birth rate is higher than its death rate will have increasing population.

12. On the average, women have a higher life expectancy than men do.

第二单元

1. Throughout history, people have moved, or immigrated, to new countries to live.

2. Natural disasters can take many forms: those that are characterized by a shortage of rain or food

are called

droughts

长期干旱

and famines

饥荒

, respectively.

3. Sometimes people immigrate to a new country to escape political or religious persecution.

迫害

4.

Rather

than

immigrants,

the

early

settlers

移居者

from

Great

Britain

considered

themselves

colonists

移民

; they had left home to settle new land for the mother country.

5. The so-called great immigration, which can be divided into three stages

阶段

, or time periods ,

began about 1830 and lasted till about 1930.

6.

The

Industrial

Revolution,

which

began

in

the

eighteenth

century,

caused

widespread

unemployment as machines re-placed workers.

7. The scarcity

缺乏

of farmland in Europe caused many people to immigrate to the united states,

where farmland was more abundant.

8. Land in the United States was plentiful and available when the country was expanding

扩张的

westward. In fact, the U.S government offered free public land to citizens in 1862.

9. The failure of the Irish potato crop in the middle of the nineteenth century caused widespread

starvation

10. The great depression of the 1930s and World War II contributed to the noticeable decrease in

immigration after1930.

11. The first law that limited the number of immigrants coming from a certain part of the world

was the Chinese exclusion act of 1882.

12. It is important to note that in 1965 strict quotas

限额

based on nationality were eliminated.

13. At the end of the 1940s, immigration began to increase again and has, in general, risen steadily

since then.

14. Will the trend continue for non-Europeans to immigrate to the United States?

15.

The

u.s

immigration

laws

of

today

in

general

require

that

new

immigrants

have

the

skills