综合英语

课文填空Have you ever watched a clumsy man hammering a nail into a box? He hits it first to one side, them to another, perhaps knocking it over completely, so that in the end he only gets half of it into the wood. A skillful carpenter, on the other hand, will drive home the nail with a few firm, deft blows, hitting it each time squarely on the head. So with language; the good craftsman will choose words that drive home his point firmly and exactly. A word that is more or less right, a loose phrase, an ambiguous expression, a vague adjective, will not satisfy a writer who aims at clean English. He will try always to get the word that is completely right for his purpose.你见过一个笨手笨脚的男人往箱子上钉钉子吗？只见他左敲敲，右敲敲，说不准还会将整个钉子锤翻，结果敲来敲去到头来只敲进了半截。

而娴熟的木匠就不这么干。

他每敲一下都会坚实巧妙地正对着钉头落下去，一钉到底。

语言也是如此。

一位优秀的艺术家谴词造句上力求准确而有力地表达自己的观点。

差不多的词，不准确的短语，摸棱两可的表达，含糊不清的修饰，都无法使一位追求纯真英语的作家满意。

他会一直思考，直至找到那个能准确表达他的意思的词。

Idealist have objected to the practice of camping, as to the packaged tour, that the traveler aboard thereby denies himself the opportunity of getting to know the people of the country visited, insularity and self-containment, it is argued, go hand in hand. The opinion does not survive experience of a popular continental camping place. Holiday hotels tend to cater满足需要（或欲望）for one nationality of visitors especially, sometimes exclusively. Camping sites, by contrast, are highly cosmopolitan世界性. Granted, a preponderance of Germans Is a characteristic that seems common to most Mediterranean sites; but as yet there is no overwhelmingly（感情上）受不了的specialized patronage资助人. Notices forbidding the open air drying of clothes, or the use of water points for car washing, or those inviting “our camping friends” to a dance or a boat trip are p rinted not only in French or Italian or Spanish, but also in English, German and Dutch. At meal times the odor气味of sauerkraut泡菜vies with that of garlic. The Frenchman’s breakfast coffee competes with the English-man’s bacon and eggs.I was in awe of Einstein, and hesitated before approaching him about some ideas I had been working on. When I finally knocked on his door, a gentle voice said, "Come" - with a rising inflection that made the single word both a welcome and a question. I entered his office and found him seated at a table, calculating and smoking his pipe. Dressed in ill-fitting clothes, his hair characteristically awry, he smiled a warm welcome. His utter naturalness at once set me at ease.我对爱因斯坦充满了敬畏，因此当我想就一些我正在研究的问题与他探讨时，一直犹豫不决。

最终我还是鼓起勇气我敲了门，里面传来了非常温和的声音：请进---他说这个词的时候声调上扬，听起来即像是欢迎又像是在提问。

我进到他的办公室，发现他正坐在桌旁，抽着烟斗，演算一个问题。

他的衣服很不合身，头发乱蓬蓬的。

他朝我微笑，表示对我的热忱的欢迎。

他的自然随意立刻让我放松了。

Einstein was born in 1879 in the German city of Ulm. He had been no infant prodigy；indeed，he was so late in learning to speak that his parents feared he was a dullard. In school，though his teachers saw no special talent in him，the signs were already there. He taught himself calculus，for example，and his teachers seemed a little afraid of him because he asked questions they could not answer. At the age of 16，he asked himself whether a light wave would seem stationary if one ran abreast of it. From that innocent question would arise，ten years later，his theory of relativity. 爱因斯坦于 1879 年出生在德国的乌尔姆市。

他并非神童式的人物。

事实上他说话很晚，他的父母甚至担心他是弱、智儿。

上学后,虽然老师们看不出他有什么天分，但天才的迹象已经显露。

例如，他自学微积分，老师们有些怕他，因为他总问些他们回答不出的问题。

因此，十六岁时他就问自己是否当人跟着光波跑得一样快的时候它会好像是静止的。

由这一天真的问题的引发，十年之后他创立了相对论。

My parents did not bring me up. They sent me to school, they gave me teachers of music, drawing; they offered me every opportunity in their reach. But also they gave me liberty and the tools of quite another life: horses, guns, dogs, and the range of an open country. The people, the businesses, and the dreams of this life interested me, and I learned well whatever interested me. School subjects which happened to bear on my outside interests I studied in school and out; I read more than I was required, and I read for keeps, too. I know these subjects to this day, just as I remember and love still the men and women, the boys and girls, who let me be friends with them then and so revealed to me some of the depths and the limitations of human nature. On the other hand I can remember few of my teachers and little of the subjects which seemed to me irrelevant to my life.我的父母没有亲自教育我，他们把我送进学校，给我找音乐老师和美术老师。

他们尽其所能为我提供各种机会；但是同时也给我自由，给我另一种生活方式：骑马、射击、养狗以及在旷野漫游。

如我所示：我对形形色色的人，各种各样的职业和今生的美好的东西感兴趣；我感兴趣的，我学得很好，学习课程如果恰好和我的课外兴趣爱好相吻合，我就校内外都学。