全新版大学英语综合教程第四册UNIT6
6(第二版)全新版大学英语综合教程4_Unit6课后练习答案
Book 4 Unit 6 The Pace of Life1) To stimulate consumption, farmers now can buy household appliances with government subsidy.译文：为了刺激消费，农民可以通过政府补贴来购买家用电器。
2）Conventional medicine has concentrated mainly on the treatment of chronic and acute illness, and until recent years the role of preventive(预防性的) medicine has suffered comparative neglect.译文：传统医学一直主要致力于慢性病和急性病的治疗，而且预防医学的作用还一直相对地遭到冷遇，直到近几年这个情况才有所缓解。
3）Cost apart, you should remember that however fancy a fridge is ,it doesn’t kill bacteria (细菌); it only shows down the rate at which they multiply.译文：除去（购买的）费用，你应该记住，不管电冰箱有多别致，它也不能够杀灭死细菌，它只能降低细菌的繁殖速度。
4）The economic planners are seeking to achieve a fairer distribution of wealth throughout society, but it’s easier said than done, I think.译文：经济规划师正设法在全社会实现更为公平的财富分配，但我认为这说起来容易做起来难。
注释：seek to do…意为“设法做…”，相当于try to do…；distribution 意为“分配”5）The town has been producing wool, cloth, and blankets since the 13th century and much of its prosperity today is still founded on those industries.译文：自13 世纪以来，这个城镇一直生产羊毛、布匹和地毯，它今天的许多繁荣兴旺仍然建立在那些工业的基础上。
全新版大学英语第四册Unit6
Unit 6T ext A Old Father Time Becomes a T errorIn many ways, the style of this piece is typical of a certain variety of journalism. It is clearly not a new story, but nonetheless belongs within the pages of a newspaper. Such writing finds its home in the editorial or comment section where journalists and others contribute regular or occasional columns reflecting on topical issues.Unlike news stories where reporters are expected to confine themselves to the facts; such columns are intended to give free range to the expression of personal opinion. At the same time, particularly in the more serious papers (and the paper from which this comes, the Financial Times, certainly belongs to this category) the writer is expected display this familiarity with the problem under discussion.This is frequently achieved by employing concession. Thus, here the writer, having outlined the problem of the pressure of time, goes on to concede that not everybody is affected to the same extent. He then details the differences that exist before returning to his more general point and concluding with his solution, another characteristic ingredient of such editorial articles.His general conclusion is hardly new, having been advice offered by philosophers for as back as one cares to go, but gains novelty set against the context to recent technological developments.Although not a news story, the article nevertheless shares with newspaper reporting in general a taste for seeking support from the use of direct quotations from a number of different people. These quotations are provided together with the name of the person and background information on them.These details add human interest and support the argument by reference to the utterances of someone who appear to be in a position to know. As the quotations record spoken rather than written English, the tone of language is often colloquial. The frequent peppering of an article with this type of direct quotation stands in contrast to what is usual in a more purely academic essay.TIntroduction of the Author:•Richard TomkinsTheconsumer industries editor of the Financial Times, where he has been a member of the editorial staff since 1983. He is currently based at the company’s London headquarters, whe re he leads a team of journalists covering the consumer goods sector and writes about consumer trends, Tomkins was born in Walsall, England, in 1952. His formal education ended at the age of seventeen.Before becoming a journalist, he was a casual laborer, a factory worker, a truck driver, a restaurant cashier, a civil servant, and an assistant private secretary to a government minister. He left government service in1978 to hitchhike around the world, and on returning to the U.K. in 1978,joined a local newspaper as a trainee reporter.He joined the Financial Times as a sub-editor(副编辑, 副主编) four years later. In this selection, he discusses the time squeeze that many people are experiencing and offers a way of combating the problem.Part IIPre-questionsPPre-questions1. How does the singer treat his diary? Why? (He treats it as a friend, to whom he can pour out hisinmost feelings.)2. Can we infer what attitude the singer takes towards the pace of life today? (It’s unwise forpeople to be always in a rush, so much so that they don’t have time either for each other or for themselves.)3. Do you keep a diary? What sort of things do you write about?4. What does the singer think about how other people spend their time?Part IIIComprehension Questions1, What did we use to expect from technology?2、In what ways have inventions such as the motorcar and the aircraft affected our life? And whatabout the advent of washing machine?3、What new burdens has technology produced apart from cramming work into our leisure time?4、How fast is information generated today as compared to a couple of centuries ago?5、What is Edward Wilson’s purpose in subscribing to sixty-old journals and magazine?6、What gives rise to our discontent with super abundance?7、Is everyone time-starved today? What percentage of the population is suffering under thestresses and strains of life today?8、What is stress envy, as conceived by Paul Edwards?9、How much free time has the average American gained since the mid-1960s?How are the gainsdistributed between the sexes?10、What is mean t by the “the growth of the work-life debate”?11、What does Godbey mean by saying “It’s the kid in the candy store”?12、For time stress, what remedy does the author offer?Part IV Language Points1. on the go / upon the go:(infml) active or busy [口]在进行活动, 忙碌; 刚要动身; 有醉意Examples:I’ve been on the go all week, preparing my thesis.I was on the go all day and went home at about 10’oclock in the evening.Part IV2. set about：begin（a task）；start（doing sth.）（used in the pattern：set about sth./doing sth.; no passive）开始, 着手; 散布(谣言) ; [口]攻击; [俚]接连殴打, 乱打Example:The school authorities must set about finding solutions to the campus security problems.My mom and I set about clearing up / clearing the table after the guests left. 动手收拾(餐桌)--set about one's work开始工作Part IVPart I*3. eat into:gradually reduce the amount of (sth. valuable); damage or destroy腐蚀; 侵蚀; 消耗; 用掉一部分(eat in在家里吃饭, eat out)Examples:All these car expenses are eating into our savings.Responsibilities at home and work eat into his time.Our holiday travel has eaten into the money we saved.我们的假日旅游耗费了我们积蓄起来的钱。
大学英语综合教程全新版第四册第六单元单词
第六单元单词1. a handful of 少数，少量；一把e.g. Only a handful of graduates have not found jobs so far.2. a variety of 各种的；各种各样的e.g. People change their minds for a variety of reasons.3. abundance n. quantity that is more than enough; plenty 丰富；丰裕e.g. The visitor to Oxford has an abundance of sights to see.4. aircraft n. （单复同）飞机；航空器e.g. The goal of air traffic control is to minimize the risk of aircraft collisions.5. amount to be equal to; add up to 相当于；总计e.g. In 1959 the combined value of U.S. imports and exports amounted to less than 9 percent of the country's gross domestic product.6. appalling a. causing fear; shocking; terrible 骇人听闻的；令人震惊的e.g. When will this appalling war end?7. appliance n. instrument or device for a specific purpose 用具；器具e.g. The Energy Department has set efficiency standards for new home appliances.8. arise vi. (arose, arisen) appear; become evident 出现；呈现e.g. Challenging ethical issues have arisen in science and medicine.9. be doomed to 命定；注定e.g. He thought that he was doomed to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.10. bewildering a. puzzling 令人困惑的；费解的bewilder vt. puzzle; confuse 使困惑；使糊涂e.g. I don't know how to solve this bewildering question.11. burden n. heavy load 负担，重负e.g. Some farmers are complaining about the heavy burden of taxation.12. byte n. (of computer) fixed number of binary digits, often representing a single character 字节；位组13. candy n. sweets or chocolate 糖果；巧克力14. CD-ROM abbr. compactdisc read-only memory 光盘只读存储器15. cell-phone n. 手机16. childcare n. 儿童保育；儿童照管17. comparative a. involving comparison or comparing 比较的；相比的e.g. Some sociologists have carried out large-scale historical-comparative studies.18. concierge n. doorkeeper 看门人，看守人19. confine n. (usu. pl) boundaries; limits; borders 范围；界限；边界e.g. This is outside the confines of human knowledge.20. confusion n. bewilderment or embarrassment 惶惑；迷乱e.g. I explained the question to him three times, but there was still a look of confusion on his face.21. convention n. conference of members of a profession, political party; generally accepted social behavior 大会；惯例，常规e.g. She was a speaker at the Railway Workers' Convention in 1956.22. cope vi. deal successfully (with sb. / sth. difficult) （成功地）对付；妥善处理e.g. Health psychologists study how people cope with stress.23. cram vt. push or force into a small place 将……塞入，硬塞进e.g. It's dangerous for too many people to be crammed into a bus.24. curator n. person in charge of a museum, an art gallery, etc. （博物馆、美术馆等的）馆长25. discontent n. lack of satisfaction 不满足；不满意e.g. The strikers were a sign of discontent with poor pay.26. distribution n. 分布；分配e.g. The study of animal distribution is called zoogeography.27. divert vt. turn (sb./sth.) aside from a course, direction, etc. into another 使转向；转移e.g. Some dams divert the flow of river water into a pipeline, canal, or channel.28. domestic a. of the home, household or family; of or inside a particular country 家庭的；家务的；国内的e.g. Police and hospital records indicate that the majority of victims of domestic violence are women.29. eat into gradually reduce the amount of (sth. valuable); damage or destroy 吞噬；侵蚀；毁坏e.g. All these car expenses are eating into our savings.30. economy n. 经济；经济制度；节约e.g. His views on knowledge economy have been accepted with unanimity.31. empty-nester n. 厮守“空巢”者（尤指子女不在身边的人）32. enslave vt. make a slave of (sb.) 使成为奴隶，奴役e.g. Her beauty enslaved many young men.33. entomology n. scientific study of insects 昆虫学34. evade vt. avoid (sth. unpleasant or unwanted); manage not to do (sth. which should be done) 躲开，避开；逃避e.g. The released criminal always tries to evade the police.35. expedition n. organized journey or voyage witha particular aim 远行；探险；远征e.g. Scott died while he was on an expedition to the Antarctic in 1912.36. famine n. (instance of) extreme scarcity of food in a region 饥荒e.g. China has succeeded in feeding its people; national attention to equity, agriculture, and birth control has significantly reduced the threat of famine.37. fax n. 传真件；传真系统38. forecast (forecast or forecasted) vt. tell in advance; predict 预报；预测e.g. The means of forecasting natural disasters, such as floods, and hurricanes, have improved immensely as science and technology have advanced.39. forum n. an assembly, place, radio program etc. for the discussion of public matters or current questions 论坛；讨论会；（广播、电视的）专题讨论节目e.g. The school authorities will provide a forum where problems can be discussed.40. fraction n. a small part, bit, amount or proportion (of sth.) 小部分，一点儿，少许e.g. Only a small fraction of the population lived in that remote area.41. frontier n. (usu. pl)（某学科的）知识边缘，（探索活动的）新领域；边境e.g. To open up the space frontier, NASA will try to lower the cost of access to Earth orbit.42. futile a. producing no result; useless; pointless 无效的；无用的；无意义的e.g. I was futile to continue the negotiations.43. gender n. 性别44. glitch n. 小故障，失灵45. gratification a. state of being pleased or satisfied 满意；满足e.g. Your approval gives me much gratification.46. groom vt. take care of the appearance of (oneself) by dressing neatly 梳妆e.g. He groomed himself carefully in front of the mirror.47. growth n. (process of) growing; development 生长；发展e.g. The area has seen a rapid population growth.48. honorary a. (of a degree, rank, etc.) given as an honor（指学位、级别等）荣誉的e.g. He's the honorary chairman of the committee.49. idleness n. the state of being idle 闲散；无所事事e.g. Idleness is the parent of all vice.50. in reality in actual fact; really 事实上；实际上e.g. Some famous private schools are theoretically open to the public, but in reality are attended by those who can afford the fees.51. journal n. newspaper or periodical, esp. one that is serious and deals with a specialized subject 日报；(学术) 期刊e.g. the Journal of Medical Science52. laptop n. 便携式电脑53. millennium n. (pl millennia or millenniums) period of a thousand years 一千年54. minute a. very small in size or amount 极小的；极少的e.g. Only a minute amount of money is needed.55. motorcar n. 汽车56. multiply v. increase in number or quantity; add a number to itself a particular number of times 增加；乘e.g. The weeds just multiplied, and before long the garden was a jungle.57. nurturevt. care for and educate (a child); encourage the growth of (sth.); nourish 养育；培育；滋养e.g. Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their children to adulthood.58. oblige v. do sth. for (sb.) as a favor or small service（为……）效劳；帮（……的）忙e.g. If you ever need help with the baby-sitting, I'd be happy to oblige.59. offspring n.（单复同）child or children of a particular person or couple 孩子，子女e.g. Heredity is the process of transmitting biological traits from parents to offspring through genes.60. on the go (infml) very active or busy 繁忙；活动多e.g. I've been on the go all week, preparing my thesis.61. on-line a. connected to and controlled by a computer 联机的，在线的62. perception n. way of seeing or understanding sth.; ability to notice and understand things 看法，观念；感知，感觉e.g. Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the essence of perception of beauty and ugliness.63. peripherally ad. 外围地；边缘地；次要地peripheral a.64. pour in 大量涌入e.g. Many football fans poured into the stadium to have a look at their favorite football players.65. pre-school a. 学龄前的；学前的e.g. pre-school children66. proliferate v. increase rapidly in numbers; produce new growth or offspring rapidly （数量）激增；（迅速地）增殖e.g. In recent years commercial, cultural, travel and other contacts have proliferated between Europe and China.67. prosperity n. state of being economically successful; state of being successful or rich （经济的）繁荣；成功，富足e.g. War brings no prosperity to the great mass of ordinary citizens.68. provoke vt. cause (sth.) to occur or arouse (a feeling, etc.) 使产生；引起（某种感情等）e.g. People's concern over genetically modified food has provoked a global debate that shows no sign of ending soon.69. publication n. 出版（物）；发表，公布e.g. The collection of the theses is ready for publication.70. quantities/a large quantity of large amounts/a large amount of 许多的，大量的e.g. The key to staying healthy and strong when backpacking is to eat large quantities of energy-rich foods71. reasonably ad. in a reasonable way; moderately 合理地；适度地reasonable a.72. retailer n. tradesman who sells by retail 零售73. self-imposed a. decided by oneself, without being influenced or ordered by other people 自己强加的，自愿承担的74. set about begin (a task); start (doing sth.) 开始；着手e.g. The school authorities must set about finding solutions to the campus security problems.75. shortage n. lack of sth. needed; deficiency 缺少；不足；短缺e.g. The world is facing the prospect of water shortages caused by population growth, uneven supplies of water, pollution, and other factors.76. shorthand n. 简略的表达方式；速记（法）77. singles n. unmarried people 未婚的人们78. sociology n. 社会学79. software n. 软件e.g. He is applying for a position of software engineer.80. spring up appear, develop, grow, etc. quickly or suddenly 迅速发展（或生长）；突然出现e.g. New professional training schools sprang up all over the country.81. streamline vt. make (sth.) more efficient and effective 使合理化，使效率更高；使成流线型e.g. Corporate mergers can result in job losses because management combines and streamlines departments within the newly merged companies. 82. stress n. pressure or worry resulting from mental or physical distress, difficult circumstances, etc. 压力，重压vt. put stress, pressure, or strain on 加压力于；使紧张e.g. There is enough evidence to suggest that job stress may increase a man's risk of dying from heart disease.83. surfeit n. too large an amount 过量，过度e.g. A surfeit of food makes one sick.84. switch off disconnect (electricity, etc.) 关，切断（电源等）e.g. Be sure to switch off the lights when you leave home.85. syndrome n. set of symptoms which together indicate a particular disease or abnormal condition 综合病症；综合症状86. time-consuming a. taking or needing much time 耗费时间的e.g. Starting a new business, however small, is a time-consuming exercise.87. toil vi. work hard and untiringly; move with difficulty or pain 辛苦地劳作；艰难地行动e.g. We toiled away all afternoon to get the house ready for our guests.88. transatlantic a. crossing the Atlantic; on or from the other side of the Atlantic 横越大西洋的；在（或来自）大西洋彼岸的89. unemployeda. temporarily without a paid job 未被雇用的；失业的e.g. He was unemployed for two months after leaving college.90. unevenlyad. 不均衡地；不平坦地；不平整地uneven a.91. untanglevt. free (sth.) from knots, complexities, etc. 解开……的纠结，理顺e.g. She untangled her hair from the hair-drier.92. voicemailn. an electronic communication system in which spoken messages are recorded and stored for later playback for the intended recipient 语音邮件93. volunteer n. person who offers to do sth. without being compelled or paid 自愿者；志愿兵e.g. Some students served as volunteers to help the old and disabled in the community in their spare time.94. widespread a. found or distributed over a large area 遍布的；大面积的e.g. The landscape of the American West was dramatically altered during the 20th century as a result of the widespread construction of dams along major rivers.95. zoology n. scientific study of the structure, form and distribution of animals 动物学。
6（第二版）全新版大学英语综合教程4Unit6课后练习答案
Book 4 Unit 6 The Pace of Life1) To stimul ate consum ption, farmer s now can buy househ old applia nceswith govern mentsubsid y.译文：为了刺激消费，农民可以通过政府补贴来购买家用电器。
2）Conven tiona l medici ne has concen trate d mainly on the treatm ent of chroni c and acuteillnes s, and untilrecent yearsthe role of preven tive(预防性的) medici ne has suffer ed compar ative neglec t.译文：传统医学一直主要致力于慢性病和急性病的治疗，而且预防医学的作用还一直相对地遭到冷遇，直到近几年这个情况才有所缓解。
3）Cost apart, you should rememb er that howeve r fancya fridge is ,it doesn’tkillbacter ia (细菌); it only showsdown the rate at whichthey multip ly.译文：除去（购买的）费用，你应该记住，不管电冰箱有多别致，它也不能够杀灭死细菌，它只能降低细菌的繁殖速度。
4）The econom ic planne rs are seekin g to achiev e a fairer distri butio n of wealth throug houtsociet y, butit’seasier said than done, I think.译文：经济规划师正设法在全社会实现更为公平的财富分配，但我认为这说起来容易做起来难。
6 (第二版)全新版大学英语综合教程4_Unit 6课后练习答案
Book 4 Unit 6 The Pace of Life1) To stimulate consumption, farmers now can buy household appliances with government subsidy.译文：为了刺激消费，农民可以通过政府补贴来购买家用电器。
2）Conventional medicine has concentrated mainly on the treatment of chronic and acute illness, and until recent years the role of preventive(预防性的) medicine has suffered comparative neglect.译文：传统医学一直主要致力于慢性病和急性病的治疗，而且预防医学的作用还一直相对地遭到冷遇，直到近几年这个情况才有所缓解。
3）Cost apart, you should remember that however fancy a fridge is ,it doesn’t kill bacteria (细菌); it only shows down the rate at which they multiply.译文：除去（购买的）费用，你应该记住，不管电冰箱有多别致，它也不能够杀灭死细菌，它只能降低细菌的繁殖速度。
4）The economic planners are seeking to achieve a fairer distribution of wealth throughout society, but it’s easier said than done, I think.译文：经济规划师正设法在全社会实现更为公平的财富分配，但我认为这说起来容易做起来难。
注释：seek to do…意为“设法做…”，相当于try to do…；distribution 意为“分配”5）The town has been producing wool, cloth, and blankets since the 13th century and much of its prosperity today is still founded on those industries.译文：自13 世纪以来，这个城镇一直生产羊毛、布匹和地毯，它今天的许多繁荣兴旺仍然建立在那些工业的基础上。
全新版大学英语综合教程第四册课件 Unit6
1. Health psychologists study how people cope with stress.
2. People who attempt suicide usually suffer from extreme emotional distress and feel unable to cope with their problems.
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1. What new burdens has technology produced apart from cramming work into our leisure time? 2. What gives rise to our discontent with super abundance?
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amount to: be equal to; add up to
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1. In 1959 the combined value of U.S. imports and exports amounted to less than 9 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. 2. The tuition fee amounts to ten thousand yuan.
大学英语综合教程4（Unit6）教程答案
大学英语综合教程4（Unit6）教程答案Unit TwoAttitudes to LifeEnhance Your Language AwarenessWords in Action▆ Working with Words and Expressions1.In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete thefollowing sentences with them. Change the form where necessary.▆ Answers:1)commonplace2)enduring3)dim4)command5)imperfection6)intensive7)abandon8)finite9)dynamic10)weaving11)additional12)aspirations13)gratitude14)integrity15)faithful16)committed2. In the box below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do youunderstand their meanings? Do you know how to use them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary.▆ Answers:1)live on2)dawned upon3)live by4)is invested with5)hold fast to6)All too7)step aside8)set out9)to and fro10)work at▆ Increasing Your Word Power1. Study the following usage notes about the words in the box. They are all associated with the meaning of “change”.▆ Answers:1)change2)transform3)alter4)convert5)revise6)modify7)vary8)transcribe2. You will read three groups of words which are similar in meaning but different in usage. Reflect on the differences in usage between the words in each group and fill in each blank with a proper one. Change the form if necessary.▆ Answers:1)tour2)trip3)travelling4)journey5)select6)choose7)pick8)elect9)ordinary10)regular11)average12)normal3.Write out the corresponding verb forms of the following adjectives.▆ Answers:1)add2)beautify3)contradict4)deafen5)differ6)intensify7)minimize8)oppose9)please10)prosper11)radiate12)relent13)respect14)sparkle15)wonder16)witherGRAMMAR IN CONTEXTTask 1: Write hypothetical sentences based on the given facts.▆ Answers for reference:1)My mother would not be worried about me if she knew what my life was like.2)They would probably allow you to do the job if you were in better health.3)They wouldn’t work with such enthusiasm if they didn’t know what they wereworking for.4)I would have to look it up in the dictionary if I didn’t know the meaning of theword.5)She would understand what we say if she knew Chinese.6)I would be quite satisfied if you spoke with greater accuracy.Task 2: Make hypothetical sentences with the given words.▆ Answers for reference:1)If we knew where he was, we would try to get in touch with him.2)If it were not for the expense involved, we would go there by plane.3)If we were to miss the train, we would have to wait another four hours.4)If we pooled all our resources, we would have enough money to buy the equipment.5)If he didn’t have a strong love for the handicapped children, he wouldn’t b eworking so tirelessly for them.ClozeComplete the following passage with words chosen from this unit. The initial letter of each is given.▆ Answers:1)wither2)sense3)faithful4)commit5)aspirations6)gratitude7)dawns8)accumulated9)nourishment10)preoccupied11)flowers12)tendered13)weave14)elevateTranslation1.Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and expressions givenin brackets.▆ Answers for reference:1)The ambassador to the U.N. was invested with full authority to deal with all theforeign affairs concerning his country on behalf of his government.2)All the way on the train I had been preoccupied with the result of the termexamination until the conductor reminded me of the arrivalof my destination.3)Althoug h her husband’s name did not appear on the list of the people who gotkilled in the traffic accident, she kept walking to and fro, anxious to see him back home sooner.4)I was setting out to translate the contract into English when it dawned upon methat both parties involved were Chinese companies.5)At the party, people sang and danced with abandon, totally forgetting the troublesin their lives.6)With the great aspirations to become an astronaut, Jackson committed himself to the2-year strenuous constitution training.7)His paintings, drawing on timeless fairy stories, exemplified the Europeans’ tasteof that period.8)The bus driver didn’t want to take any responsibility for the ac cident and so hetook every means to put the blame on the passengers on board.9)He not only risked his own life to save the old man from the burning house but madesome room in his own house for him to settle down.10)From childhood, she tried to live by the teachings of her parents and graduallyaccumulated a set of standards of conduct.2.Translate the following passage into English.▆ Answers for reference:What is truth? Truth is the correct reflection of people’sknowledge about the objective world and its laws. Truth makes people full of hope and life full of brilliance and glory. Therefore, many people regard the pursuit of truth as the ultimate goal of their lives. In human history, many people devoted their lives to the pursuit of truth and made outstanding contributions to mankind.Truth is both absolute and relative. We say that truth is absolute because truth can objectively reflect the essentials of things. However, any truth is but people’s correct understanding of the development of things at a certain stage. Therefore, truth is relative and develops constantly.Sometimes, the brilliance of truth may dim but it will never die out. For some people, truth may seem beyond their reach. In fact, it is close at hand. We can find truth as long as we keep pursuing it heart and soul.Theme-Related WritingWrite an essay of no less than 150 words on the topic “Attitudes Towards Life”. Your writing should cover the following points:1) different attitudes people hold towards life2) the benefits of holding a positive attitude3) ways to develop a positive attitude towards life▇ Sample essay:Attitudes Towards LifePeople hold different attitudes towards life. Some take a positive attitude and they always appreciate the beauty of life with zeal and gratitude. Some take a negative attitude towards life and any slight trouble in life may seem like the end of the world to them.A positive attitude ensures a happy, successful and healthylife. With a positive attitude, people find it easy to accept challenges and overcome obstacles while maintaining peace of mind. Besides, a positive attitude boosts their self-esteem, lifts their morale and helps them fulfill their commitments both in their career and in their everyday life. Moreover, medical research shows that positive thinking can improve the immune system and strengthen the body’s resistance to diseases.There are several ways to develop a positive attitude towards life. One needs to think positively, read uplifting stories, hang around with optimistic people, give up jealousy, and participate in meaningful activities. By building a positive attitude towards life, one can enjoy a happy, successful and healthy life. (170 words)。
综合教程 第四册unit6
1. What do you do to celebrate National Day?2. Suppose you were abroad, would you do anything special to commemorate the occasion?Along about this time every year, as Independence Day approaches, I pull an old American flag out of a bottom drawer where it is folded away — folded in a square, I admit, not the regulation triangle. I've had it a long time and have always flown it outside on July 4. Here in Paris it hangs from a fourth-floor balcony visible from the street. I've never seen anyone look up, but in my mind's eye an American tourist may notice it and smile, and a French passerby may be reminded of the date and the occasion that prompt its appearance. I hope so.For my expatriated family, too, the flag is meaningful, in part because we don't do anything else to celebrate the Fourth. People don't have barbecues in Paris apartments, and most other Americans I know who have settled here suppress such outward signs of their heritage — or they go back home for the summer to refuel.Our children think the flag-hanging is a cool thing, and I like it because it gives us a few moments of family Q&A about our citizenship. My wife and I have been away from the United States for nine years, and our children are eleven and nine, so American history is mostly something they have learned — or haven't learned — from their parents. July 4 is one of the times when the American in me feels a twinge of unease about the great lacunae in our children's understanding of who they are and is prompted to try to fill the gaps. It's also a time, one among many, when my thoughts turn more generally to the costs and benefits of raising children in a foreign culture.Louise and Henry speak French fluently; they are taught in French at school, and most of their friends are French. They move from language to language, seldom mixing them up, without effort or even awareness. This is a wonderful thing, of course. And our physical separation from our native land isnot much of an issue. My wife and I are grateful every day for all that our children are not exposed to. American school shootings are a good object lesson for our children in the follies of the society we hold at a distance.Naturally, we also want to remind them of reasons to take pride in being American and to try to convey to them what that means. It is a difficult thing to do from afar, and the distance seems more than just a matter of miles. I sometimes think that the stories we tell them must seem like Aesop's (or La Fontaine's) fables, myths with no fixed place in space or time. Still, connections can be made, lessons learned.Last summer we spent a week with my brother and his family, who live in Concord, Massachusetts, and we took the children to the North Bridge to give them a glimpse of the American Revolution. We happened to run across a reenactment of the skirmish that launched the war, with everyone dressed up in three-cornered hats and cotton bonnets. This probably only confirmed to our goggle-eyed kids the make-believe quality of American history.Six months later, when we were recalling the experience at the family dinner table here, I asked Louise what the Revolution had been about. She thought that it had something to do with the man who rode his horse from town to town. Ah, I said, satisfaction swelling in my breast, and what was that man's name? "Gulliver?" Louise replied. Henry, for his part, knew that the Revolution was between the British and the Americans, and thought that it was probably about slavery.As we pursued this conversation, though, we learned what the children knew instead. Louise told us that the French Revolution came at the end of the Enlightenment, when people learned a lot of ideas, and one was that they didn't need kings to tell them what to think or do. On another occasion, when Henry asked what makes a person a "junior" or a "Ⅱ" or a "Ⅲ", Louise helped me answer by bringing up kings like Louis Quatorze and Quinze and Seize; Henry riposted with Henry Ⅷ.I can't say I worry much about our children's European frame of reference. There will be plenty of time for them to learn America's pitifully brief history and to find out who Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt were. Already they know a great deal more than I would have wished about Bill Clinton.If all of this resonates with me, it may be because my family moved to Paris in 1954, when I was three, and I was enrolled in French schools for most of my grade-school years. I don't remember much instruction in American studies at school or at home. I do remember that my mother took me out of school one afternoon to see the movie Oklahoma! I can recall what a faraway place it seemed: all that sunshine and square dancing and surreys with fringe on top. The sinister Jud Fry personified evil for quite some time afterward. Cowboys and Indians were an American cliche that had already reached Paris through the movies, and I asked a grandparent to send me a Davy Crockett hat so that I could live out that fairy tale against the backdrop of gray postwar Montparnasse.Although my children are living in the same place at roughly the same time in their lives, their experience as expatriates is very different from mine. The particular narratives of American history aside, American culture is not theirs alone but that of their French classmates, too. The music they listen to is either "American" or "European," but it is often hard to tell the difference. In my day little French kids looked like nothing other than little French kids; but Louise and Henry and their classmates dress much as their peers in the United States do, though with perhaps less Lands' End fleeciness. When I returned to visit the United States in the 1950s, it was a five-day ocean crossing for a month's home leave every two years; now we fly over for a week or two, although not very often. Virtually every imaginable product available to my children's American cousins is now obtainable here.If time and globalization have made France much more like the United States than it was in my youth, then I can conclude a couple of things. On the one hand, our children are confronting a much less jarring cultural divide than I did, and they have more access to their native culture. Re-entry, when itcomes, is likely to be smoother. On the other hand, they are less than fully immersed in a truly foreign world. That experience no longer seems possible in Western countries — a sad development, in my view.网上教室有以下内容:学习指导高职高专大学英语英语专业硕士英语博士英语语音教学。
6(第二版)全新版大学英语综合教程4-Unit6课后练习答案
Book 4Unit 6 The Pace of Life1) To stimulate consumption, farmers now can buy household appliances with government subsidy.译文：为了刺激消费，农民可以通过政府补贴来购买家用电器。
2）Conventional medicine has concentrated mainly on the treatment of chronic and acute illness, and until recent years the role of preventive(预防性的) medicine has suffered comparative neglect.译文：传统医学一直主要致力于慢性病和急性病的治疗，而且预防医学的作用还一直相对地遭到冷遇，直到近几年这个情况才有所缓解。
3）Cost apart, you should remember that however fancy a fridge is ,it doesn’t kill bacteria (细菌); it only shows down the rate at which they multiply.译文：除去（购买的）费用，你应该记住，不管电冰箱有多别致，它也不能够杀灭死细菌，它只能降低细菌的繁殖速度。
4）The economic planners are seeking to achieve a fairer distribution of wealth throughout society, but it’s easier said than done, I think.译文：经济规划师正设法在全社会实现更为公平的财富分配，但我认为这说起来容易做起来难。
注释：seek to do…意为“设法做…”，相当于try to do…；distribution 意为“分配”5）The town has been producing wool, cloth, and blankets since the 13th century and much of its prosperity today is still founded on those industries.译文：自13 世纪以来，这个城镇一直生产羊毛、布匹和地毯，它今天的许多繁荣兴旺仍然建立在那些工业的基础上。
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• 5) She has toiled endlessly over the exercise machine for the last twenty years in order to keep her body in shape.
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• 4. 1) reaction to; discontent; provoked 2) Convention; evading tax; the confines of 3) a burden; are always on the go/
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• 4) Not all the risks on the Internet are sexual, you know,. Sites promoting violence are just a click away, and may include instructions for making bombs and other destructive devices.
• 3. sentence-rewriting 1) The unemployment rate is forecast to be below average next year, which at the moment is 4 percent.
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• 2) Efforts to enter the building and find the baby girl proved futile as rescues were driven out by the heat and flames.
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25. nurture:
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care for and educate (a child); encourage the growth of (sth.); nourish Examples: Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their child to adulthood.
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deal successfully (with sb./ sth. difficult) Examples: Health psychologists study how people cope with stress.
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3. set about：
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begin（a task）；start（doing sth.） set about sth./doing sth.; no passive） Example: The school authorities must set about finding solutions to the campus security problems.
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37. spring up:
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appear, develop, grow ,etc. quickly or suddenly Examples: New professional training schools sprang up all over the country. Fast food restaurants are spring up all over the city.
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• You are living life in the fast lane, rushing around and trying to take part in many different activities and projects at the same time. You tend to be impatient, excessively time-conscious, and find relaxation difficult. This might help you be productive, but your relationships and health could suffer as a consequence. Try to overcome feelings of impatience by distracting yourself when stuck in queues. For example, listen to your favourite music or chat to others. Also, try spending some time in the slow lane .
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1. What is the crux of the problem the author points out? 2. What is remedy for the stress according to the author’s opinion?
True or False (F ) 1. It is convenient to say we are all lacking in time. It is too general to say we are all lacking in time. 2. About 50 percent of people will tell you they never have ( ) enough time to get things done. F About 50 percent of unemployed or retired people will tell you they never have enough time to get things done.
全新版大学英语综合教程-B4-U6-(文本)
全新版大学英语综合教程-B4-U6-(文本)Integrated Course Book 4 Unit 6Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions:1. Do you keep a diary? What sort of things do you write about?2. How does the singer treat his diary? Why?3. What does the singer think about how other people spend their time?4. Can we infer what attitude the singer takes towards the pace of life today?In the song you are about to listen to we hear what the singer is thinking as he writes his diary. Like many people who keep a diary, he treats it like a friend to whom he can pour out his inmost feelings. From the confidences he entrusts to his diary we learn of what he thinks of the way most people live. He thinks they spend their days in a rush, so much so that they have no time for him. As he says:So many people by the score.Rushing around so senselessly.They don't notice there's people like me.Perhaps he's right, perhaps people are too much in a rush to spare enough time for one another. Though one suspects they may have other reasons for not sparing the singer time. He sounds altogether self-centred, looking at the world only from his own narrow point of view. We hear this at the end of the song, when he passes lightly over an H-bomb explosion as something of no concern to him as nobody he knew was involved. Given his outlook, it is probably just as well he has his diary as a friend, as others might find it a bit hard to put up with him.Dear DiaryThe Moody BluesDear diary, what a day it's beenDear diary, it's been just like a dreamWoke up too late. Wasn't where I should have beenFor goodness sake what's happening to meWrite lightly, yours truly, dear diaryIt was cold outside my doorSo many people by the scoreRushing around so senselesslyThey don't notice there's people like meWrite lightly, yours truly, dear diaryThey don't know what they're playingThey've no way of knowing what the game isStill they carry on doing what they canOutside me, yours politely, dear diaryIt's over. Will tomorrow be the sameI know that they're really not to blameIf they weren't so blind then surely they'd seeThere's a much better way for them to beInside me, yours truly, dear diarySomebody exploded an H-bomb todayBut it wasn't anyone I knewText AAs the pace of life in today's world grows ever faster, we seemforever on the go. With so much to do and so little time to do it in, howare we to cope? Richard Tomkins sets about untangling the problem andcomes up with an answer.随着当今世界生活节奏日益加快，我们似乎一直在不停奔忙。
大学英语综合教程4(Unit6)教程答案
Unit TwoAttitudes to LifeEnhance Your Language AwarenessWords in Action▆ Working with Words and Expressions1.In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete thefollowing sentences with them. Change the form where necessary.▆ Answers:1)commonplace2)enduring3)dim4)command5)imperfection6)intensive7)abandon8)finite9)dynamic10)weaving11)additional12)aspirations13)gratitude14)integrity15)faithful16)committed2. In the box below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do youunderstand their meanings? Do you know how to use them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary.▆ Answers:1)live on2)dawned upon3)live by4)is invested with5)hold fast to6)All too7)step aside8)set out9)to and fro10)work at▆ Increasing Your Word Power1. Study the following usage notes about the words in the box. They are all associated with the meaning of “change”.▆ Answers:1)change2)transform3)alter4)convert5)revise6)modify7)vary8)transcribe2. You will read three groups of words which are similar in meaning but different in usage. Reflect on the differences in usage between the words in each group and fill in each blank with a proper one. Change the form if necessary.▆ Answers:1)tour2)trip3)travelling4)journey5)select6)choose7)pick8)elect9)ordinary10)regular11)average12)normal3.Write out the corresponding verb forms of the following adjectives.▆ Answers:1)add2)beautify3)contradict4)deafen5)differ6)intensify7)minimize8)oppose9)please10)prosper11)radiate12)relent13)respect14)sparkle15)wonder16)witherGRAMMAR IN CONTEXTTask 1: Write hypothetical sentences based on the given facts.▆ Answers for reference:1)My mother would not be worried about me if she knew what my life was like.2)They would probably allow you to do the job if you were in better health.3)They wouldn’t work with such enthusiasm if they didn’t know what they wereworking for.4)I would have to look it up in the dictionary if I didn’t know the meaning of theword.5)She would understand what we say if she knew Chinese.6)I would be quite satisfied if you spoke with greater accuracy.Task 2: Make hypothetical sentences with the given words.▆ Answers for reference:1)If we knew where he was, we would try to get in touch with him.2)If it were not for the expense involved, we would go there by plane.3)If we were to miss the train, we would have to wait another four hours.4)If we pooled all our resources, we would have enough money to buy the equipment.5)If he didn’t have a strong love for the handicapped children, he wouldn’t beworking so tirelessly for them.ClozeComplete the following passage with words chosen from this unit. The initial letter of each is given.▆ Answers:1)wither2)sense3)faithful4)commit5)aspirations6)gratitude7)dawns8)accumulated9)nourishment10)preoccupied11)flowers12)tendered13)weave14)elevateTranslation1.Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and expressions givenin brackets.▆ Answers for reference:1)The ambassador to the U.N. was invested with full authority to deal with all theforeign affairs concerning his country on behalf of his government.2)All the way on the train I had been preoccupied with the result of the termexamination until the conductor reminded me of the arrival of my destination.3)Although her husband’s name did not appear on the list of the people who gotkilled in the traffic accident, she kept walking to and fro, anxious to see him back home sooner.4)I was setting out to translate the contract into English when it dawned upon methat both parties involved were Chinese companies.5)At the party, people sang and danced with abandon, totally forgetting the troublesin their lives.6)With the great aspirations to become an astronaut, Jackson committed himself to the2-year strenuous constitution training.7)His paintings, drawing on timeless fairy stories, exemplified the Europeans’ tasteof that period.8)The bus driver didn’t want to take any responsibility for the ac cident and so hetook every means to put the blame on the passengers on board.9)He not only risked his own life to save the old man from the burning house but madesome room in his own house for him to settle down.10)From childhood, she tried to live by the teachings of her parents and graduallyaccumulated a set of standards of conduct.2.Translate the following passage into English.▆ Answers for reference:What is truth? Truth is the correct reflection of people’s knowledge about the objective world and its laws. Truth makes people full of hope and life full of brilliance and glory. Therefore, many people regard the pursuit of truth as the ultimate goal of their lives. In human history, many people devoted their lives to the pursuit of truth and made outstanding contributions to mankind.Truth is both absolute and relative. We say that truth is absolute because truth can objectively reflect the essentials of things. However, any truth is but people’s correct understanding of the development of things at a certain stage. Therefore, truth is relative and develops constantly.Sometimes, the brilliance of truth may dim but it will never die out. For some people, truth may seem beyond their reach. In fact, it is close at hand. We can find truth as long as we keep pursuing it heart and soul.Theme-Related WritingWrite an essay of no less than 150 words on the topic “Attitudes Towards Life”. Your writing should cover the following points:1) different attitudes people hold towards life2) the benefits of holding a positive attitude3) ways to develop a positive attitude towards life▇ Sample essay:Attitudes Towards LifePeople hold different attitudes towards life. Some take a positive attitude and they always appreciate the beauty of life with zeal and gratitude. Some take a negative attitude towards life and any slight trouble in life may seem like the end of the world to them.A positive attitude ensures a happy, successful and healthy life. With a positive attitude, people find it easy to accept challenges and overcome obstacles while maintaining peace of mind. Besides, a positive attitude boosts their self-esteem, lifts their morale and helps them fulfill their commitments both in their career and in their everyday life. Moreover, medical research shows that positive thinking can improve the immune system and strengthen the body’s resistance to diseases.There are several ways to develop a positive attitude towards life. One needs to think positively, read uplifting stories, hang around with optimistic people, give up jealousy, and participate in meaningful activities. By building a positive attitude towards life, one can enjoy a happy, successful and healthy life. (170 words)。
新通用大学英语综合教程第四册听力及答案 Unit 6
Unit 6 AnimalsUnit Goals1. Discuss the benefits of certain pets2. Compare animal characters3. Exchange opinions about the treatment of animals4. Debate animal conservation and animal rights5. Write about keeping petsLesson 1Lead-inTV Documentary: Pecking OrderA. Check the things that make parrots difficult pets, according to the report. They’re temperamental, they’re noisy, they demand attention, they need special care, they’re destructive, they bite.B. Circle the letter of the statement that best summarizes what each person says about parrots as pets.1.a2.b3.aVideo ScriptDiane Sawyer:Millions of people have parrots. That’s a family name that includes all kinds of birds from parakeets（长尾小鹦鹉）to macaws（金刚鹦鹉）to amazons. But many owners don’t understand bird behavior. As we showed you once before, these creatures can be entertaining and talkative, but they can also be, well, flighty(反复无常的) and temperamental(易怒的,喜怒无常的). What does their behavior mean? Perri Peltz has some insights into the mind of your bird.Perri Peltz: They can’t dance…Pet bird in the shower: Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream.Perri Peltz:… but some of them can really sing…Pet bird in the shower: We wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.Perri Plitz: … and talk.1st pet bird: Hi.2nd pet bird: Are you OK?1st pet bird: Such a good bird!Perri Peltz: It is this amazing ability to communicate with us in our own language along with spectacular(吸引人的) beauty that makes parrots so extraordinary.2nd pet bird: Good girl. Good girl.1st pet bird: God bless you.Perri Peltz: Some say their keen intelligence and ability to bond(与…建立特殊的关系) to humans are the reasons Americans keep more than 15 million parrots as pets. And, according to experts, parrots can be just as smart as your two-to-three-year-old child.3rd pet bird: I’m a smart bird!Perri Peltz: But just as your toddler(刚学走路的小孩) goes through the terrible twos, so can parrots.Lise Mee: No bite.2nd pet bird: No, no. Don’t!4th pet bird: I’m a bad bird!Perri Peltz: In fact, parrot behavior can be a constant source of frustration for many parrot owners. Layne Dicker is a popular lecturer on the bird seminar circuit(演讲圈子). He is staff avian behaviorist at Wilshire Animal Hospital in Santa Monica.Layne Dicker:You have to be willing to learn what you need to know about parrots because they’re not like goldfish. They’re not like dogs. They’re not like cats. They’re wonderful. They ain’t easy.Perri Peltz: I don’t want to put your job down, but what’s the big deal, Layne? They sound like really easy animals to have. They don’t bark, you don’t have to take them out for a walk. I mean, what’s the big deal? Y ou throw a little bit of seed at them.Layne Dicker: They don’t bark, but they scream. They don’t really need to be taken out for a walk, but they need full spectrum light for at least four hours a day. You don’t throw them a handful of seed. They need fresh vegetables every day. Fresh water every time it gets soiled.Perri Peltz: Why is owning a parrot so different than having a pet dog or cat? You see, dogs and cats have been bred for thousands of years to be companion animals. Most parrots have been bred for less than 100 years, so that means parrots bring their own natural instincts into your home. Parrots in the wild live in flocks, so your pet parrot considers you his flock member. He expects to eat with you and interact with you most of the day. When you don’t give him the attention he expects, he may start demanding it by acting out or screaming. Birds can also be destructive. Parrots, especially macaws, will chew anything in their path. What about biting? Parrots don’t bite each other in the wild, but as pets, parrots can bite when they feel threatened, or when they don’t want your fingers in their cage. Or even when they want your undivided attention.Lise Mee: Ah, ah, ah. No, let go. Let go.Perri Peltz: With all the behavior problems, why not just punish a bird?Layne Dicker: If I can tell any parrot owner something about their parrot, it would be make them feel safe and secure. I hear about hitting, squirting with water, screaming at. Anything that makes a parrot feel insecure will break down the level of trust he has with you. And unless a parrot trusts you, all the negative behaviors are just going to get worse. You have to do everything with a parrot in a loving, supportive way. Yes, you’re so good. Yes.Part 2A. According to bird breeder and pet store owner Ruth Hanessian, which facts dopotential pet owners need to know about parrots?They will make noise, they may say things you don’t want them to say, they may behave like very young children.B. Answer the questions about the conure (a type of parrot) at the ParrotEducation and Adoption Center.1. She was kept in a covered cage in a dark room for six years.2. Because she made noise.3. She began pulling out her own feathers.VIDEO SCRIPTPerri Peltz: For the past twenty years, Ruth Hanessian has been a bird breeder and pet store owner in Rockville, Maryland. She’s now written a book called Birds on the Couch: The Bird Shrink’s(精神分析学家) Guide to Keeping Polly from Going Crackers and You Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest)(防止你的鹦鹉和你本人发疯的鸟类精神分析学家手册). If you could put a little red warning label on each parrot cage, what would it say?Ruth Hanessian: I am a bird. I have my own thoughts. I have my own way of expressing myself. I’m verbal. I will make noise. I will see what’s going on in your household and have an opinion about it.1st pet bird: Tarzan. Stop it. You behave yourself.Ruth Hanessian: I will be in charge of your life if you let me be.Perri Peltz: You write, “Will you freak out(烦得要命，吓得要死) if Polly screams during dinner parties? What if she learns to mimic your lovemaking cries and repeats them when your mother-in-law comes for a visit?” Can’t be.Ruth Hanessian: Oh, can be. If you decide to get a bird, you have to watch what you say around it, because they will pick up the things that you really don’t want them to say.1st pet bird: Oh, stop!Perri Peltz: Now, Ruth, you’re pushing it on the next one. Birds can be co-dependents? What are we talking about here?Ruth Hanessian: They get very involved with you, and they get very upset when you’re not there. It’s like having a two-year-old child for the rest of your life.Perri Pletz: And by the way, the rest of their lives can be a very long time. If taken care of properly, the bigger birds can live up to 100 years. And that’s just fine with Connie Pavlinac. She and her husband, Gary, are the proud parents of three birds. And Connie makes sure all of her birds’ needs are taken care of. First, their meals. Connie spends at least an hour and a half each day chopping fruits and vegetables for the older birds. Then mixing formula（配方）for the baby, making sure it’s not too hot, and hand-feeding him. Then another hour and a half sweeping floors and scrubbing and cleaning cages. And twice a week, there are the showers, followed by a fluff dry. And they have emotional needs.5th pet bird: Hi.Connie Pavlinac: Hi. They need to be talked to. They need to be held. They need to be stimulated, so if we talk to them, we entertain them with toys.Perri Peltz: Bonnie Kenk runs Parrot Education and Adoption Center in San Diego. In the last two years, she has taken in more than 100 unwanted birds, including this conure, whose owner couldn’t tolerate her constant screaming and kept her in a covered cage in a dark room for six years. You see, birds become quiet in the dark. With nothing to do and nothing to see, little Audrey turned on herself and started plucking out her own feathers. Bonnie Kenk: It’s really very, very sad that people just don’t… they don’t understand what they’re getting into when they get…when they get a bird. Conures are relatively noisy birds.Perri Peltz:How often, Bonnie, do you see a problem result because of an impulse purchase?Bonnie Kenk: Daily. That’s how we end up with most of our birds.Layne Dicker: Parrots are the worst impulse purchase in the world, and they’re so frequently purchased on impulse because they’re so beautiful and they’re so endearing in pet stores. You need to do your homework before buying a parrot. They are very, very, very smart.6th pet bird: Hello.Layne Dicker: They have very, very long memories.1st pet bird: OK, thank you, bye-bye.Layne Dicker: They’re amazing animals. Good night.7th pet bird: Good night.Layne Dicker: Good night, birds.7th pet bird: Good night.Layne Dicker: Good night.ListeningTalk About Animals in ZoosPart 1A. Sound BitesRead and listen to a conversation between two friends at the zoo.Teaching suggestions:Step 1Have students look at the photo. Ask Where are the people? (at the zoo) Have you ever been to a zoo? Did you like it?Step 2To check comprehension, ask Do Alicia and Ben have similar or different views on zoos? (Different ― Ben likes zoos and Alicia doesn’t.)Language Notes1. coop v. restrict the freedom of someone or something by keeping them in a place that is too small 把某人拘禁起来，把动物关入笼中2. I let you talk me into here. I allow you to persuade me into coming here. 竟然被你说服来这里。
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Blank Filling Facts are valuable as evidence that enhances the persuasive force of an argumentative paper. In stating the first reason, the author lists a number of facts to try to convince the readers of the unfavorable effects technology has had on our lives. Now could you find some more supporting facts apart from the one given below, and put them down?
2. What is remedy for the stress according to the author’s opinion?
A possible remedy is that we should understand the problem and realize that it is not more time we need, it is fewer desires.
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Blank Filling 1. The motorcar brings more traffic problems than it promises to solve. 2. The aircraft creates a high demand for time-consuming ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ journeys that we never dreamed of. 3. The washing machine, contrary to our expectations, multiplies _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________ the hours spent on washing and ironing. 4. Instead of making our lives easier, technology goes so far as _________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ to cram extra work into our leisure time. 5. Technology produces the new burden of dealing with faxes, ________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ e-mails and voicemails. 6. Technology eats further into our time by forcing us to ___________________________________________________ handle software glitches on computers and filling our ___________________________________________________ ___________________________ heads with useless information from the Internet.
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5 In most cases, technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do more things. In the home, washing machines promised to free women from having to toil over the laundry. In reality, they encouraged us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly, creating seven times as much washing and ironing. Similarly, the weekly bath has been replaced by the daily shower, multiplying the hours spent on personal grooming. 在大多数情况下，技术发展并未节省时间，而是使我们得以做更多的事。在家里，洗衣机可望使妇女摆脱繁重的洗衣劳作。但事实上，它们促使我们每天，而不是每星期换一次衣服，这就使熨洗衣物的工作量变成原来的7倍。同样地，每周一次的沐浴为每日一次的淋浴所代替，使得用于个人穿着打扮的时间大大增加。
时间老人成了可怕的老人
理查德·汤姆金斯
从前，我们以为技术发展会使我们的生活变得更安逸。那时我们觉得机器会替代我们工作，我们则有越来越多的时间休闲娱乐。
2 But instead of liberating us, technology has enslaved us. Innovations are occurring at a bewildering rate: as many now arrive in a year as once arrived in a millennium. And as each invention arrives, it eats further into our time.
我们产生日益加重的时间紧迫感还有一个原因：日渐繁荣富足。由于生产的物品与提供的服务越来越多，我们必须去消费。在广告的推动下，我们努力照办：我们多多购买多多旅游多多玩儿，但得尽力坚持下去。于是我们就深受威尔逊所谓的对极大富足不满之苦――即无休止的选择所造成的困惑。
比如，汽车曾使我们希望个人出行会方便得让人难以想象。可如今，城市车辆运行得比马车时代还要慢，我们因交通堵塞而困在车内，徒然浪费生命。
4 The aircraft promised new horizons, too. The trouble is, it delivered them. Its very existence created a demand for time-consuming journeys that we would never previously have dreamed of undertaking -- the transatlantic shopping expedition, for example, or the trip to a convention on the other side of the world.
但技术发展没有把我们解放出来，而是使我们成为奴隶。新技术纷至沓来，令人目不暇接：一年涌现的技术创新相当于以前一千年。而每一项新发明问世，就进一步吞噬我们的光阴。
3 The motorcar, for example, promised unimaginable levels of personal mobility. But now, traffic in cities moves more slowly than it did in the days of the horse-drawn carriage, and we waste our lives stuck in traffic jams.
6 Meanwhile, technology has not only allowed work to spread into our leisure time -- the laptop-on-the-beach syndrome -- but added the new burden of dealing with faxes, e-mails and voicemails. It has also provided us with the opportunity to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal computers or filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.
各种消息、事实和见解从世界各个角落大量涌入。电视机能收到150个频道。因特网网址多达千百万。杂志、书籍和光盘只读存储器的数量也激增。
10 "In the whole world of scholarship, there were only a handful of scientific journals in the 18th century, and the publication of a book was an event," says Edward Wilson, honorary curator in entomology at Harvard University's museum of comparative zoology. "Now, I find myself subscribing to 60 or 70 journals or magazines just to keep me up with what amounts to a minute proportion of the expanding frontiers of scholarship."
“在18世纪，整个国际学术界总共只有屈指可数的几家科学刊物，出版一本书是件了不起的大事，”哈佛大学比较动物学博物馆昆虫馆名誉馆长爱德华·威尔逊说。“如今，我本人就订阅了60或70种期刊杂志，以便自己跟上不断拓展的学术前沿中一个微小部分的发展动向。”
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11 There is another reason for our increased time stress levels, too: rising prosperity. As ever-larger quantities of goods and services are produced, they have to be consumed. Driven on by advertising, we do our best to oblige: we buy more, travel more and play more, but we struggle to keep up. So we suffer from what Wilson calls discontent with super abundance -- the confusion of endless choice.
与此同时，技术发展不仅听任工作侵入我们的闲暇时间――带着便携式电脑去海滩综合症――而且添加了收发传真、电子邮件和语音邮件这些新的负担。技术发展还向我们提供机会，在个人电脑上一连几小时处理软件故障，或把因特网上那些无用的信息塞进自己的大脑。
7 Technology apart, the Internet points the way to a second reason why we feel so time-pressed: the information explosion.
12 Of course, not everyone is overstressed. "It's a convenient shorthand to say we're all time-starved, but we have to remember that it only applies to, say, half the population," says Michael Willmott, director of the Future Foundation, a London research company.
除去技术发展，因特网指出了我们为何感到时间如此紧迫的第二个原因：信息爆炸。
8 A couple of centuries ago, nearly all the world's accumulated learning could be contained in the heads of a few philosophers. Today, those heads could not hope to accommodate more than a tiny fraction of the information generated in a single day.
As the pace of life in today's world grows ever faster, we seem forever on the go. With so much to do and so little time to do it in, how are we to cope? Richard Tomkins sets about untangling the problem and comes up with an answer.
随着当今世界生活节奏日益加快，我们似乎一直在不停奔忙。事情那么多，时间却那么少，我们该怎么办？里查德·汤姆金斯着手解决这一问题，并提出了建议。