APPENDIX В: ANSWER KEYS

Unit One

The Face of the People

Chapter 1 The Population

I. PRELISTENING_____________________

B. Vocabulary and Key Concepts

1. census

2. populous

3. race

4. origin

5. geographical distribution

6. made up of

7. comprises

8. relativcly/progressively

9. Metropolitan/densely

10. decreased/death rate

11. birth rate/increasing

12. life expectancy

D. Notetaking Preparation

1. Number Notation

a. 18.5 mill.

f. 4%

b. 80%

g. 1990

c. 1/2

h. 40%

d. 13.4 mill.

i. 3/4

e. 2:10

j. 33.1%

2. Rhetorical Cues

a. TOC o "1-5" h z 3

b. 1

c. 2

d. 5

e. 4

A. First Listening

Major Subtopics

ST1 population by race and origin ST2 geographical distribution ST3 age and sex

III. POSTLISTENING

A. Accuracy Check

1. People’s Republic of China, India

2. 281 mill.

3. Hispanics (12.5%)

4. Texas

5. the South and the West

6. 20%

7. by more than 5 million

8. about 6 years

9. 2.2 years

10. a decreasing birth rate and an increasing life expectancy

Chapter 2 Immigration: Past and Present

I. PRELISTENING

B. Vocabulary and Key Concepts

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1. immigrated

2. Natural disasters/droughts/famines

3. persecution

4. settlers/colonists

5. stages

6. widespread unemployment

7. scarcity

8. expanding/citizens

9. failure

10. decrease

11. limited

12. quotas

13. steadily

14. trend

15. skills/unskilled

D. Notetaking Preparation

• 1. Dates: Teens and Tens

a. TOC o "1-5" h z 1850 f. 1776

b. 1915 g. 1882

c. the 1840s h. 1929

d. from 1890 to 1930 i. 1860

e. between 1750 and 1850 j. from approximately 1830 to 1930 2. Language Conventions: Countries and Nationalities

Country

People

France

French

Germany

Germans

Scotland: Ireland

Scotch-Irish

Great Britain

Britons; the British

Denmark

Danes

Norway

Norwegians

Sweden

Swedes

Greece

Greeks

Italy

Italians

Spain

Spaniards

Portugal

Portuguese

China

Chinese

Philippines

Filipinos

Mexico

Mexicans

India

Indians

Russia

Russians

Poland

Poles

The Scandinavian countries are Sweden, Norway, and Den­mark. The Southern European countries are Italy, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. The Eastern European countries are Russia and Poland.

II, LISTENING_____________________________________________

A. First Listening

Major Subtopics

ST1 the Great Immigration

ST2 reasons for the Great Immigration and why it ended ST3 immigration situation in the United States today

III. POSTLISTENING

A. Accuracy Check

1. colonists or settlers

2. Dutch, French, German, Scotch-Irish, Blacks

3. The third, 1890-1930

4. Southern Europe and Eastern Europe

5. The population doubled, there was widespread unemployment, and there was a scarcity of farmland.

6. free land, plentiful jobs, and freedom from religious and political persecution

7. the failure of the potato crop in Ireland

8. laws limiting immigration from certain areas, the Great Depres­sion, and World War П

9. They are largely non-European.

10. Industry doesn’t need a large number of unskilled workers.

Chapter 3 Americans at Work

I, PRELISTENING____________________

B. Vocabulary and Key Concepts

1. statistics

2. goods producing/service

3. stricter/illegal

4. per capita

5. benefits/health insurance

6. wages/workweek

7. romanticize

8. study/productive

9. rising/opposite

10. outproduce

11. stressed

12. matched

13. stagnated

14. CEOs/profits

15. unions/favor

D. Notetaking Preparation

2. Rhetorical Cues

a. TOC o "1-5" h z 2

b. 1

c. 3

d. 4

II. LISTENING

A. First Listening

Major Subtopics

ST1 a historical look at work in America ST2 how U. S. workers are doing today

Ш. POSTLISTENING

A. Accuracy Check

1. 38%

2. 3%

3. service industries

4. 19% in 1900; 60% in 1999

5. $4,200 in 1900; $33,700 in 1999

6. health insurance

7. U. S. workers

8. They are less stressed (more vacation weeks)

9. No

10. to CEOs, the stock market, and corporate profits

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