Unit 1 A land of diversity Chinatown Chinatown is a part of a town area with a large number of Chinese residents outside of China. You can find Chinatowns all over the world. The biggest one is in New York. Living in the Chinatown is comfortable. Shopping in the Chinatown is fun. You can find lots of things there. The first big wave of Chinese immigration to America came when gold was discovered in California in 1848. The Chinese called the new land “Mountain of Gold”．Those who did not become miners found work in railroad construction, farming and light industry, doing low－paid jobs. By the 1880s, American industrialization brought changes in economic realities, resulting in an explosion of hatred toward the Chinese laborers. They were accused of taking jobs away from the white men. New York's Chinatown was created by men such as the Chinese laborers. Sociologists call them “sojourners”—foreigners in the United States, keeping to their cultural traditions, living on the larger society in which they existed. The sojourners came to America for the promise of supporting their families in China, where they expected to return one day. Those who did stay lived separately from the society. So they remained in Chinatown, an enclosed(封闭的) community holding on to traditions among the tides of change. Section Ⅰ Warming Up and Reading [课文理解] Ⅰ.Choose the best answer according to the text. 1．Why did people go to California in 1848? A．To escape the American－Mexican war. B．To achieve their dreams of becoming rich. C．To avoid being infected with the diseases. D．To develop the land they bought in California. 答案 B 2．What can we know about Chinese immigrants from the text? A．They came to California after the Gold Rush Period. B．They played roles in the building of the rail network in America. C．They established a town of their own in 1911. D．They live only in the “Chinatowns” of San Francisco now. 答案 B 3．What can we learn from the text? A．The customs and languages of immigrants will disappear in their new home. B．Scientists have found exactly when the first people got to California. C．Russians have lived in California for more than 200 years. D．In the 1980s, the computer industry attracted Koreans to California. 答案 C 4．What's the topic of this text? A．The culture of California. B．The history of California. C．The population of California. D．The immigrants of California. 答案 B Ⅱ.Analyze and translate the sentences from the text. 1．Scientists believe that these settlers crossed the Bering Strait in the Arctic to America by means of a land bridge which existed in prehistoric times. 句式分析 本句为主从复合句，其中that引导__宾语__从句；which引导__定语__从句，且在该从句中作__主语__。 自主翻译 __科学家们认为这些迁居者是通过一条史前时代曾经存在的大陆桥穿越北极地区的白令海峡到达美洲的。__ 2．Of the first Spanish to go to California, the majority were religious men, whose ministry was to teach the Catholic religion to th ... ...
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