全新版大学英语(第二版)综合教程Unit2.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * S R _ A Video Clip 3 Discussion A recently released report on sex discrimination by the Centre for Women’s Law and Legal Services at Beijing University has revealed the extent of sex-based discrimination in the workplace in China. The report is based on a survey of 3,000 respondents. Almost one-quarter of all people surveyed said they believed they had been refused employment due to sex-based discrimination; 23.6% of those surveyed said they had been passed over for a job because of their female sex. S R _ A Video Clip 4 The report concluded that female workers occupied a lower position in the general employment structure: 76.4% of those surveyed worked in education, medical services, scientific research, sales, advertising, marketing, restaurant and manufacturing sectors. Only 11.8%, 2.2% and 11.2% worked respectively in government, the legal or auditing/accounting sectors. Do you feel or know of any sex discrimination in your life? What are your views on this subject? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * S R _ Reading _ text 7 The women’s group immediately called for all blacks in the city to refuse to ride on city buses on the day of Mrs. Parks’s trial, Monday, December fifth. The result was that forty thousand people walked and used other transportation on that day. That night, at meetings throughout the city, blacks in Montgomery agreed to continue to boycott the city buses until their mistreatment stopped. They also demanded that the city hire black bus drivers and that anyone be permitted to sit in the middle of the bus and not have to get up for anyone else. S R _ Reading _ text 8 The Montgomery bus boycott continued for 381 days. It was led by local black leader E.D. Nixon and a young black minis