【2017年整理】英语与高级视听说答案Unit10DyingtoGetin.ppt

Audio-Visual Classes;Background Notes; Achilles’ Heel: it means a fatal weakness. This term refers to the Greek Legend about the heroic warrior Achilles whose mother tried to make him immortal by holding the infant by his heel and dipping him into the river. Finally he was killed by an arrow into his undipped heel. 7-11 : it is an international franchisor for selling different goods of companies. It now operates in 18 countries, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, China, South Korea, Japan, etc. ; Guest Worker Program: it is a program which has been proposed many times in the past and also now by some of the American Presidents, to permit US employers to sponsor non US citizens as laborers for approximately 3 years, then those laborers will have to leave the US if they fail to get the Green Card ( Permanent Residence ). ;Notes on America;United States of America; American’s southern land neighbor is Mexico with which it shares common boundary of 3000 km. the coast area of the Mexican Gulf is the most important oil-producing region of the USA. The population of the United States is now more than 300 million. The majority of Americans are White People and they are descendents of the European immigrants who came to settle down a long time ago. Those old immigrants were dismissed from many European countries as they were against the church and they had different religious attitudes. Most of them came from England, Ireland , Scotland, and Eastern Europe. the American population can be divided into races as follows: The White 80% ( 230 million), The Black 13% ( 35 million) , Hispanics 12% (31 million), Indians about one million, and among Asian-American, there are a million Chinese immigrants.;The 2 Americas;Mexico;The USA;Canada;North America;The USA ;Mexico;G. Washington ;Abraham Lincoln ;The Great Lakes;The Capitol;The Pentagon;The World Trade Center (WTC);Liberty Statue;Pre-listening Question