专题 05 英美文化阅读理解专项：加拿大+美国饮食- 2024年高考英语常考英美文化阅读专练+素材积累

13. Canada加拿大 Canada is an urban nation with almost 80 percent of its population living in cities and towns. Many people who are regarded as rural residents do not work in agriculture but commute to an urban center to work. Toronto, Ontario, with about 3,900,000 people is the largest city in Canada, followed by Montreal, Quebec, with about 3,127,000 and Vancouver, B.C., with about 1,603,000 inhabitants. About one-half of Canadians are the descendants of one of the two founding nations, Britain or France. According to the first official count of the total population in Canada in 1871, about 50 percent of the population was British and 30 percent French. Since that time the proportion of Canadians of British and French origin has reduced to about 25 percent each. This is caused by the decline in the number of people coming from the United Kingdom and France and an increase in the number from other countries in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. These people coming to Canada from other countries tend to keep their culture in Canada mostly because they have tended to settle in colonies. For example, Ukrainians have been attracted to the prairies, where the land and climate are like those in their homeland, and many Dutch have settled on the flat farmland of southwestern Ontario, where they grow fruit and vegetable as they did in the Netherlands. Many Chinese, Portuguese, Greeks, and Italians have settled in some large cities. (240 words) ◆Helper: resident ['rezidənt] 居民 commute [kə'mju:t]乘公交车辆上下班Toronto [tə'rɔntəu]多伦多 Ontario [ɔn'tɛəriəu] 安大略湖 Montreal [mɔntri'ɔ:l] 蒙特利尔Quebec [kwi'bek] 魁北克 Vancouver [væn'ku:və] 温哥华市 descendant [di'send(ə)nt]后代 proportion [prə'pɔ:ʃən] 比例 decline [di'klain] 减少 tend倾向于 colony ['kɔləni]聚居地，侨居地 Ukrainian [ju(:)'kreinjən] 乌克兰人 prairie ['prɛəri]大草原 Dutch ['dʌtʃ]荷兰人 Netherlands['neðələndz]荷兰 Portuguese [pɔ:tju'gi:z] 葡萄牙人 ◆Brief Introduction: 加拿大是一个城市化国家，大约80%的人口生活在城市和城镇当中。很多被认为是乡村居民的人并不从事农业生产，而是