试题题干
Rearrange the following sentences so that they read logically.
A. Those who did not become miners found work in railroad construction, farming and light industries, doing low-paid jobs.
B. As in California they formed small pockets of Chinese culture that were known as “Chinatowns”.
C. The government issued Exclusion Acts to stop the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States.
D. The Chinese called the new land “Mountain of Gold”.
E. Many workers fled the concentrated Chinese communities in the West and scattered to the Mid-west and the East.
F. He was accused of taking jobs away from the white man.
G. By the 1880’s, American industrialization brought changing economic realities, resulting in an explosion of resentment toward the Chinese laborer.
H. The first big wave of Chinese immigration to America came when gold was discovered in California in 1848.
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试题解析
重组译文:
1848年金矿在加利福尼亚被发现的时候,第一波大规模的中国向美国的移民潮形成。中国人称这片新土地为“金山”。那些没能在矿场找到工作的人,在铁路建设,农场和轻工业充当了廉价劳动力。到18世纪80年代,美国的工业化带来了经济现状的改变,导致对中国劳工的愤怒激增。中国劳动力被指责抢夺了白人的工作机会。政府颁布了驱逐令来阻止中国劳工进入美国。一些劳工逃离了西方的华人聚集区,分散到中西部和东部。在加利福尼亚,他们形成了一小部分被称为“唐人街”的中国文化。