(可上传)现代大学英语精读6课后习题答案

Unit1
1. Virtue is ... self-centered.
By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.
2.... (Poverty) was a product of their excessive fecundity...
The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.
3. ...the rich were not responsible for either its creation or its amelioration.
The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked to undertake the task of solving the problem.
4. It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God.
It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature of to human society.
5. It declined in popularity, and references to its acquired a condemnatory tone.
People began to reject Social Darwinism because it seemed to glorify brutal force and oppose treasured values of sympathy, love and friendship. Therefore, when it was mentioned, it was usually the target of criticism.
6. ...the search for a way of getting the poor off our conscience was not at an end; it was only suspended.
The desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for the poor had not been abandoned; it had only been put off.
7. ...only rarely given to overpaying for monkey wrenches, flashlights, coffee makers, and toilet seats.
Government officials, on the whole, are good; it is very rare that some would pay high prices for office equipment to get kickbacks.
8. This is perhaps our most highly influential piece of fiction.
It is a very popular story and has been accepted by many but it is not true.
9. Belief can be the servant of truth---but even more of convenience.
Belief can be useful in the search for truth, but more often than not it is accepted because it is convenient and self-serving.
10. George Gilder... Who tells to much applause that the poor must have the cruel spur of their own suffering to ensure effort...
George Gilder advances the view that only when the poor suffer from great misery will they be stimulated to make great efforts to change the situation, in other words, suffering is necessary to force the poor to work hard.
Unit2
11. But these marks of wild country called to may father like the legendary siren song.
Though the place was not pleasant or disagreeable, my father was deeply attracted to it precisely because of its unexplored, uncultivated natural state, and the challenge.
12. "I'm afraid the day's going to catch us," I explained, wondering what great disaster might befall us if it did.
As a little girl, I believed my father's words, and was genuinely afraid of the possible disaster--if we didn't hurry up, the day would catch us and terrible things might happen.
13. ...from time to time he was halfheartedly sought for trial, though few crimes seemed to lead directly to his door.
In this place, though the police wound make some effort without real earnest to investigate Watson and bring him to court, there seemed to be little concrete evidence to prove that he was responsible for certain illegal activities.
14. The stranglehold Watson had over this section of Florida was not dissimilar to the unscrupulous activities of certain lawmen, other legal crooks, and even governors that our state was to suffer through its history.
The control Watson had over this part of Florida was much similar to the dishonest or illegal activities of the law-enforcing officials and governors which Florida witnessed in the 20th century.
15. There was the little shack, not the most gracious of living quarters, and there was a murderer for our nearest and only neighbor, about thirty miles away.
Before the family built their own house, they lived in a shabby cabin at Gopher Key, close to the merciless Watson.
16. King Richard in his gluttony never sat at a table more sumptuous than ours was three times a day...
We had abundant food on the island, and even the meals enjoyed by King Richard, who was famous for his love of food, couldn’t possibly compare with ours.
17. Despite the unrelenting heat, we were happy to be let off from our hours of school indoors, sessions which our mother kept every day, rain or shine.
Although it was very hot outside in the sun, we were happy to be dismissed from my mother's sessions indoors. we would have to read and write with her every day no matter what the weather was like.
Unit3
18. But this image, now repeatedly thrust before us in photographs, posters, and advertisements, is misleading.
The Earth we see in photos, posters, and ads, which appears so beautiful, is not the true reflection of the world we live in, such image lulls us into complacency.
19. The technosphere has become sufficiently large and intense to alter the natural processes that govern the ecosphere.
Human activities have taken place over such large areas and with such intensity that they have already caused disastrous effects on ecology.
20. ...which could establish itself only because it fitted properly into the preexisting system.
the fish could play its role because it became a necessary link with the processes preceding it and the processes following it in the ecological system.
21. Defined so narrowly, it is no surprise that cars have properties that are hostile to their environment.
When cars are produced to serve such narrow purposes, it is not surprising that some of their characteristic qualities are harmful to the environment.
22. Yields rose, but not in proportion to the rate of fertilizer application...
the farmer applied more and more fertilizer, and the production did rise but did not increase at the same rate of the fertilizer.
23...their waste is flushed into the sewer system altered in composition but not in amount at treatment plant...
People eat plants and animals, and their waste is flushed into the sewer system. After being processed, the waste is still waste. the residue will go into rivers, oceans, and will have harmful effect on the aquatic ecosystem.
24. Left to their own devices, ecosystems are conservative...
If the ecosystems are not upset by outside intrusion, they will remain the same with very little change
25.In contrast to the ecosphere, the technosphere is composed of objects and materials that reflect
a rapid and relentless process of change and variation.
The characteristics of the objects and materials in the technosphere are rapid change and great variety.
26.But this is done only at the cost of understanding.
if we take side in the war of the two words, we are doing so at the risk of failing to have a clear understanding of the nature and cause of the war, thus, we lose the chance to really solve the grave environmental crisis.
Unit 4 Nettles
1. How all my own territory would be altered, ad if a landslide had gone through it and skimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike.
The impact of Mike's leaving on my life was beyond my imagination. I didn't expect that Mike's leaving would have such a tremendous power that it would change the meaning of my existence completely. All my thoughts were about loss of Mike.
2. During that time of life that is supposed to be a reproductive daze, with the woman's mind all swamped by maternal juices, we were still compelled to discuss Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and "The Cocktail Party".
At that time, we were young mothers, and we were supposed to lead a terribly busy life full of confusion and bewilderment caused by giving birth to and raising babies. and our minds were supposed to be fully occupied by how to feed the babies and things like that. However, in the midst of all this we still felt the need to discuss some of the important thinkers of our time like Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and T. S. Eliot's sophisticated work "The Cocktail Party".
3. ...I would be frightened, not of any hostility but of a kind of nonexistence.
I would be frightened, and my fear was not caused by my neighbor's visibly hostile and violent way of life, but by a kind of formless and hidden emptiness and meaninglessness of human existence. What happened around me was totally irrelevant to me, and I felt very isolated and alienated.
4. She did not ask me---was it delicacy or disapproval? ---about my new life.
She did not ask me about my new life, either out of subtle consideration for my feeling about this sensitive subject or out of disapproval for my new life style.
5. It would be a sleazy thing to do, in the house of his friends.
It would be a morally low thing, an indecent thing to commit infidelity in the house of a friend.
6. I knew now that he was a person who had hit rock bottom.
I knew that he was a person who had experienced the worst in life, the hardest experience a person might have to endure.
7. He and wife knew that together and it bound them, as something like that would either break you apart or bind you, for life.
They experienced the worst together and they knew what it was like and understood the meaning of that experience. Such an experience posed the gravest test to people. If they stood the test, their friendship or marriage would be strengthened, and a sacred bondage would be formed between them. But if they failed the test, their relationship would be broken and they would be driven apart.
8. Not risking a thing yet staying alive as a sweet trickle, an underground resource. With the weight of this now stillness on it, this seal.
If they acted on love, they would take risks. they wouldn't do that or go further in their relationship, but they would rather let their love remain as a sweet trickle, which would flow on gently and permanently, and as an underground resource, which would never be fully tapped but would never go dry.
Unit7
1. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human life.
As a result of technological development, human belongs now have the power to put an end to poverty and human, misery, but at the same time they also possess the power to destroy the whole world, rendering it uninhabitable and lifeless.
2. ...unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights...
We do not want to see or to allow the slow destruction of those human rights.
3. To those peoples in the huts and villages of half.....of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves...
To the people of the underdeveloped countries living in poverty in rural areas, we are committed to helping them to rid themselves of mass poverty by their own efforts.
4. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.
But we should not let any communist power take advantage of this alliance for progress to expand its influence.
5. And let every other power know that this....of its own house.
We want to make clear to the communist powers that Americas are the Americas of the Americans. Do not attempt to penetrate into this area.
6. ...before the dark powers of destruction..... or accidental self-destruction.
Before the world is destroyed by a nuclear war launched in a preemptive attack or caused by accident.
7. ...yet both racing to alter the uncertain...of mankind's final war.
Yet both sides attempt to get an edge in the nuclear arms race so as to break the mutual deterrence which has so far prevented the outbreak of a nuclear war.
8. ...civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.
To be ready to negotiate and establish friendly relations does not mean that we are weak or afraid. Declarations of sincere intention have to be tested by actions.
9. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.
Let the two sides use the fruits of science for the benefit of humanity rather than using high-tech weapons to kill and destroy.
10. ...each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.
1. There have been occasions for each generations of Americans to be called upon to fight and die for their country.
Lesson 8 A rose for Emily
1.but garages and cotton gins had ...of that neighborhood...
the street used to house only the best families.But then great changes took place:garages and cotton gins were established on the street and their existence wiped out the aristocratic traces in that neighbouhood.
2.Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity.
It would not be true to say that miss emily would have accepted charity.
3."Just as if a man-any man-could keep a kitchen properly," the ladies said....
What the ladies said meant that they did not in the least believe a man ,any man,could keep a kitchen properly.
4.It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons.
The griersons regarded themselves as very important and the outside world as vulgar and full of people inferior to them.they belonged to two entirely different worlds.however,the complaints about the smell served as a link between the two different worlds and compelled miss emily to deal with the outside world.
5.The next day th received two more.....in diffident deprecation.
The next day the mayor received two more complaints.one of them was from a man who came and pleaded to the mayor in a shy and timid way.
6.People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt.....a little too high for what the really were.
People in the town felt that the Grierson family regarded themselves more important than they really deserved to be.the fact that miss emily great-aunt,old lady wyatt,had gone crazy had to do with this blind,excessive self-importance.
7.Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less.
Ordinary people often become excited or worried when they get a penny more or a penny less.Being poor,now she would learn to appreciate the value of money like other people in the town.
8.But there were still other, older people, who...without calling it noblesse oblige.
But there were still others,older people,who said that no matter how sad miss emily was (over her father death),she should not forget she had certain obligations as a member of the nobility,though a
real lady would not describe her self-restraint by the expression noblesse oblige.
9.We were glad because ....than Miss Emily had ever been.
We were glad because the two cousins were even more stuborn and self important than Miss Emily.
10....and the very old man... Confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do .....the most recent decade of years.
And the very old men confused the dates and years of past happenings. To the old people, all the past should be like a road that becomes smaller as it reaches further back. But to those old Southerners, the recent past of ten years or so was like a bottleneck, a narrow passage, or a tunnel. Beyond that narrow passage, the remote past became a huge level meadow where things were pleasantly and fondly mixed up together. Like the green grass on the meadow never touched by the winter, their memories of the remote past remained blurred, sweet, romanticized, and unchanged.
L10
1.Saint George may caper on banner and in the speeches of politicians, but it is John Bull who delivers the goods.
As Saint George is a hero, the patron of arms, symbolizing chivalry, his image often appears on banners, and his name is often mentioned in the speeches of politicians. Saint George is used as a symbolic figure for political purposes. But John Bill is a tradesman and he delivers the goods we need in our daily life while making money at the same time.
2.With its boarding-houses, its compulsory games, its system of prefects and fagging, its insistence on good form and on esprit de corps, it produces a type whose weight is out of all proportion to its numbers.
The English public schools have unique features. First, all boys live in boarding houses. Second, sports and games are organized and compulsory as part of thee school curricula. Third, older students have special duties to help control younger students while the latter must do jobs for the former. Lastly, great emphasis is placed on good form and team spirit. These features enable the public school students to have disproportionately great influence.
3.Note the word "bankrupt". I spoke as a member of a prudent middle-class nation, always anxious to meet my liabilities.
Pay attention to my use of the word"bankrupt", a word related to business. This reveals my identity as a member of the commercial nation, who would be careful and sensible enough to avoid any risks of failing to pay their debts.
4.But my friend spoke as an Oriental, and the Oriental has behind him a tradition, not of middle-class prudence but of kingly munificence and splendor.
But my friend expressed his views as a member of the Oriental countries. They are nourished by a tradition of great generosity and richness, which is different from the English tradition of middle-class prudence.
5."True love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away."
In this aspect, true love is different from material things such as clay or even gold which can be divided and taken away. Yet, if we share true love, it will never diminish.
6.I will now descend from that dizzy and somewhat unfamiliar height, and return to my business of notetaking.
In the above anecdote, I have become an example of the Englishmen for the moment. That put me in a high position which makes me dizzy and is unfamiliar to me. I will now come down from that height and return to my role as your commentator on the characteristics of the Englishman.
7. Such a combination is fruitful, and anyone who possesses it has gone a long way toward being brave.
The Englishman's nervous system acts promptly and feels slowly. The combination of the two qualities is useful, and anyone who has this combination is most likely to be brave.
8.Since literature always rests upon national character, there must be in the English nature hidden springs of fire to produce the fire we see.
As literature is based on national character, there must be in the English nature hidden resources of passion that have produced that great romantic literature we see.
9."Oh, I'm used to Bernard Shaw,;monkey tricks don't hurt me."
That kind of criticism is just like Bernard Shaw's attacks. It is nothing new and I'm used to these tricks and jokes; they won't do any harm to me.
10.And the "tolerant humorous attitude " with which he confronts them is not really humorous, because it is bounded by the titter and the guffaw.
The Englishmen think they have a tolerant and humorous attitude toward criticism. In fact it is not
so, because their attitude is limited by uncomfortable laughter, which indicates that beneath the surface of their tolerant humorous attitude, they are uneasy. When they try to be humorous and brush aside criticism, they would titter and guffaw. Such uncomfortable laughter is a sign of uneasiness.
11.The cats are all out of their bags, and diplomacy cannot recall them.
I have already made all my opinions known to you. What is said is said, and being diplomatic cannot unsay what has been said.。