综合英语Book V Unit 4.pptVIP

The invisibility of the poor in the U.S.A is an undeniable fact, but why is this so? Harrington enumerates succinctly the various causes which can be classified into three categories. See p. 52, student’s book. Go over the text within 5 minutes to identify the sentences that show the reasons and the paragraphs that are concerned with these reasons. Reasons that make the other America an invisible land The normal and obvious causes of the invisibility of the poor: (4-5) Poverty is often off the beaten track. Beauty and myths are masks of poverty. A new kind of blindness about poverty: (6-14) Transformation of the American city isolates the poor from sight of others. Well-meaning ignorance keeps concerned and sympathetic Americans from knowing the truth about the poor. Mass production enables the best-dressed poverty to exist. Many of the poor are the wrong age to be seen. Political invisibility – the dispossessed at the bottom of society cannot speak for themselves. (15-17) Poverty is often off the beaten track. (para. 4) What, according to Harrington, has rendered poverty less visible in rural America? What is the evidence to demonstrate poverty? towns like the movie sets in the thirties company houses in rows rutted roads black and dirty unemployed men in the bar women working in a runaway sweatshop Beauty and myths are perennial masks of poverty. (para. 5) What are the beauty and myths that hide poverty? the hills, the streams, the foliage What is the poverty hidden? a run-down mountain house makes the travelers jealous undereducated, underprivileged, lack of medical care, forced into the city life they are badly adjusted to Transformation of the American city isolates the poor from sight of others. (paras. 8 9) Provide evidence that although the poor are living in the central city, they are isolated from contacts with, or sight of, anybody else. The poor are living in the miserable housing / slums / tenements or hovels in the central area surro