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第一单元 1.Most countries take a census人口普查 every ten years or so in order to count the people and to know where they are living. 2.A country with a growing population is a country that is becoming more populous人口密集. 3. A person’s race is partly determined by skin color and type of hair as well as other physical characteristics. 4. The majority of the u.s population is of European origin. 5. The geographical distribution of a country’s population gives information about where the people are living. 6. The total population of the united states is made up of many different kinds of people. 7. In other words ,the population comprises包括包含 people of different races and ages. 8. The average age of the u.s population, which is a relatively large one, has been getting progressively 逐渐地higher recently. 9. Metropolitan大都市 areas are more densely populated than rural areas. That is, they have more people per square mile. 10. The use of antibiotics has greatly decreased the death rate throughout much of the world. 11. A country whose birth rate is higher than its death rate will have increasing population. 12. On the average, women have a higher life expectancy than men do. 第二单元 1. Throughout history, people have moved, or immigrated, to new countries to live. 2. Natural disasters can take many forms: those that are characterized by a shortage of rain or food are called droughts长期干旱 and famines饥荒, respectively. 3. Sometimes people immigrate to a new country to escape political or religious persecution.迫害 4. Rather than immigrants, the early settlers 移居者from Great Britain considered themselves colonists移民; they had left home to settle new land for the mother country. 5. The so-called great immigration, which can be divided into three stages阶段, or time periods , began about 1830 and lasted till about 1930. 6. The Industrial Revolution, which began in the eighteenth century, caused widespread unemployment as machines re-placed workers. 7. The scarcity缺乏 of farmland in Europe caused