英语阅读4第2课

2. He may be sympathetic towards Tony. He changed his bed sheets and dirty clothes. At the same time, he may also have a sense of helplessness towards Tony, as nothing seems to arouse Tony’s interest and nothing can make him care to talk.
4. I deeply respect and am impressed by people who choose to use their lives to teach children, when they could be doing other things such as selling technology stocks or discussing fad topics on TV.
• READING 4
• CHECK YOUR COMPREHENSION A
3. They were tense, frustrated and greatly concerned. They also seemed to have a strong sense of hatred.
4. The news seemed to have stirred him as the author found that Tony’s eyes narrowed a little. But it was hard to tell how he actually felt.
3. People’s opinions greatly differ as to what is the proper way to punish criminal behavior.
4. Europeans are quite passionate when it comes to the issue of taking tough measures on political violence.
• READING 2
• CHECK YOUR COMPREHENSION A
4. He describes Harding’s execution in detail so that the reader is able to see the cruelty of killing. This also helps to reveal his negative attitude towards the death penalty.
2. It appears that a child is more likely to be punished like an adult after he or she commits a very serious and hard-tounderstand crime.
3. When I write about these things, I think it’s important to also write about the victim and how he lost his life.
2. This sense of justice, like many other basic beliefs, is such a necessary element for us to maintain our psychological health that we take it for granted and hardly ever become aware of its existence until one day justice is severely violated.
3. The “benefits” are: a) safety---we are safer when a hardened murderer is dead. b) cost-saving---it costs money to keep him alive. c) deterrence---others will think twice if they want to murder people. d)families of the victims will get their revenge. e) freeing prison space. The author is sarcastic when he lists all these “benefits” and he also argues against these “benefits” one by one. It is his ironic way of arguing against the death penalty.
• READING 3 • CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY A 1. Oscillating 2. Tremulous 3. Manslaughter 4. Slain 5. Reconcile 6. Sorely 7. Equilibrium 8. Rehabilitation 9. In comparison to 10.In view of
4. But even killing a small number of murderers will have great impact on people.
5. Perhaps the benefits we got from killing Harding is not easy to see.
• READING 4
• CHECK YOUR COMPREHENSION A
1. Tony was serving his life sentence in a prison because he had machine-gunned a cop to death. He had virtually turned into a vegetable, showing no feelings and saying nothing.
7. These adults will have little in common with the foolish boys they were, just as I have little in common with the foolish boy I was when I threw that cinder block.
• READING 2
• CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY A
1. Now we can enjoy the benefits and list in what ways we benefit from his death.
2. There must be some other benefits by fastening Harding into a chair in a small room and poisoning him to death with gas.
• READING 2
• CHECK YOUR COMPREHENSION A
1. The author argues against the death penalty. He uses a sarcastic tone throughout the text.
2.as if we were the murderers.
英语阅读4第2课
• READING 1
• CHECK YOUR COMPREHENSION B
1. I don’t know how long to jail children who commit crimes or where to jail them, but I think that the trend of punishing them seriously as adults is terrible.
• READING 1 • CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY A 1. Prosecute 2. Juvenile 3. Mandatory 4. Suspended 5. Peddle 6. Humility 7. Impulse 8. Pumping
• READING 1 • CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY B 1. In the general direction of 2. Oodles of 3. Mouthing off 4. In the course of 5. Getting tough 6. Get the message 7. Pulled the trigger 8. Set out
• READING 3
• CHECK YOUR COMPREHENSION B
1. Her voice and her facial expressions show that sometimes she is deep in sorrow and sometimes she tries hard to control her fury.
• READING 1
• CHECK YOUR COMPREHENSION B
5. Despite all these things, he was tried in the courtroom as an adult, and even given a sentence that was three years longer than the minimum for an adult.
3. Not even people who are eloquently in support of executing people, such as Arizona Attorney Grant Woods who attracts a lot of public attention, believe that the death penalty will keep people from committing crimes.