这周的听力FIB练习还是来自大橙老师带练课上的精选练习哦。大家练习的时候一定要控制住自己不看答案哈，不然大橙老师决定不给答案了。
Listening FIB 01
SUMMER
“THE MOST difficult social problem in the matter of Negro health”, wrote the ______W.E.B. Du Bois in 1899, was to understand why so few white Americans were ______ by it. The poor black lives Du Bois described in his pioneering study, “The Philadelphia Negro”, were spent “in the most unhealthy parts of the city and in the worst houses”, with ______ medical attention. They tended to be sickly and short. Yet he could think of “few other cases in the history of _____ peoples where human suffering has been viewed with such peculiar _______.”
Listening FIB 02
SUMMER
“Modern medicine has since transformed the life _______ of all Americans. But many of the ______ Du Bois observed remain. African-Americans are still the country’s poorest, poorest- housed and unhealthiest large group, with high ______ of asthma, diabetes, hypertension, cancer and ________. In 1899 infant ______was almost twice as high among blacks as among whites; now it is 2.2 times higher. If anything, African-American diets are unhealthier now than the rations of milk, bread and fried pork Du Bois described.”
Listening FIB 03
SUMMER
“The _____, where both women had come to have their nostrils swabbed for the virus, is another ______ of a general failure. It was launched three weeks ago as a ______ endeavour by Howard University—America’s first black medical school—to address a shortage of testing in the part of Washington that needs it most. “You can tell things are bad when a dermatologist is running covid-19 tests!” said Ginette Okoye, a Howard professor wrapped in a mask, ______ and layers of protective clothing.”
文末答案
01.
sociologist
bothered
minimal 几乎没有的；很少的
civilised 文明的；开化的
indifference 冷漠 淡漠
02.
expectancy 预期值 life expectancy 人均寿命
disparities 不平等现象 悬殊差异现象
incidences 发病率 发生率(尤指疾病)
obesity 肥胖症
mortality 死亡率
03.
facility 专门场所 设施
symptom (严重问题存在的)征兆
philanthropic 慈善的
philanthropic
endeavour义举
goggles 护目镜
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