明珠塔英语本科第四学期作业

2021年1月18日发(作者：墨守陈规)
英语本科第四学期作业
《变化中的英语》：共四次作业，每两单元课后的写作练习任选一篇。
《文学阅读与欣赏》：共四次作业，要求同上。
英语国家概况（2）
Chapter 7
I. Questions:
1. What began the civil rights movement in the 1960s ? What was its result ?
2. What were the three major social movements of the 1960s?
3. Who had a different idea of what the American Dream is ? Why ?
4. Who formed the women's movements ?
5. Where did the strongest leadership of the civil rights movement come from ?
6. When and where did Mario Sevio began the struggle for
7. Who was Malcolm X ? When and where was he assassinated ?
8. What was the
9. Why were many young people in the U.S. involved in the social movements of the 1960s ?
were the three civil rights groups that provided the leadership, the tactics and the
people to fight against Southern Segregation ?
II. True or false:
( )1. Those who worked in the civil rights movement included Negro leaders, black and
white young people, and some professionals and some housewives.
( )2. According to a professor of history, all social movements have two basic
characteristics:
( )3. The spontaneous action of nonviolent civil disobedience of Rosa Parks was
believed to be the beginning of the women's liberation movements.
( ) 4. Malcolm X spoke in support of Martin Luther King's nonviolent tactics in fighting
racial discrimination.
( ) 5. In the summer of 1963, in Washington DC, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the
famous
( ) 6. In 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act passed by
Congress to improve the racial relations.
( ) 7. The most notorious terrorist group against black civil rights workers in the South
was known as Ku Klux Klan.
( )8. Martin Luther King, Jr. Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 due to his
firm belief in nonviolent peaceful protest in the spirit of India's leader Gandhi.
( )9. In 1960, with the publication of the Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan the
women who were dissatisfied with their lives found a voice.
Chapter 8
I. Questions:
1. What are the five major problems in the United States ?
2. What do the racial and ethnic minorities mainly refer to ? What's the largest of them ?
3. When and how was the slavery in the Southern states abolished ?
4. What was the main factor contributing to the situation that the black-white income gap
was widened ?
5. What are the three factors contributing to the higher arrest rates among minority groups ?
6. Why is drug abuse one of the most challenging social problems in the United States ?
7. What were the goals of the civil rights movements in the 1960s ?
8. Why is the problem of poverty in the U.S. aggravated ?
II. True or false:
( ) 1. Former President Nixon said that crime is America's
( ) 2. Wide spread illegal wiretapping is one of the illegal acts by the CIA.
( ) 3. The dominant group in American society from the beginning of the nation is the
Anglo-Saxon.
( ) 4. Racial segregation existed throughout the U.S. after the Civil War.
( ) 5. The Northern states had outlawed slavery by 1830.
( ) 6. The Northern states did not have racial discrimination.
( ) 7. Segregation laws continued to be enforced in Southern states until the 1950s.
( ) 8. Drug abuse is a main cause of unemployment.
( ) 9. Robbery does not belong to the white-collar crime.
( ) 10. The aggressive nature of the minority groups is one of the factors contributing to
the higher arrest among those groups.
Chapter 9
I. Questions
1. Who invented the mechanical reaper ?
2. Who was Henry Ford ?
3. Who attempted to move away from the city ? Why ?
4. When was voices and music first transmitted over the radio ?
5. What's one of the characteristics of present research and development in
technology ?
II. True or false
( ) 1. The Stevens family made significant contributions in the history of
transportation.
( ) 2. The Pony Express System was used in the Wild West for transmitting
messages before telegraph was invented.
( ) 3. It was not until 1930 that the first commercial broadcasting station KDKA
began broadcasting.
( ) 4. Thomas A Edison had the title
( ) 5. The invention of automobile made possible the out-migration into suburban
locations.