大学英语第三册课后题

第一单元

1.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then

stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.

我在里德学院读了6个月就退学了，但是作为旁听生又在那里待了18个月左右，然后才真正离开学校。

2.My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student,

and she decided to put me up for adoption.

我的生母是个年轻未婚的研究生，因此她决定把我送给别人收养

3.It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the

best decisions I ever made.

这在当时看来非常可怕，但现在回头看看，那是我做过的最棒的决定之一。

4.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and

intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

我依照好奇心和直觉做事，大多事后证明是非常值得的。

5.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. 这一切在我的生活中是否实用，我不抱希望。

1 Every time I saw the straw hat] (每当我看到那顶草帽), it reminded me of the tour I had made years before.

2. This is [the most wonderful time that I have ever had] (我度过的最美好的时光).

3. [I'm honored to attend the closing ceremony of the conference] (我很荣幸能参加大会闭幕式) and give you a speech.

4. Bill Clinton has helped to get the two American journalists released and he seems to [have a hope of making peace] (有希望调解) between North Korea and the US。

5. One friend of mine has decided to [quit his/her well-paid but demanding position] (辞去那份工资高但要求也高的工作) recently Steve Jobs was adopted several months after birth since his biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student. As his parents had promised, Jobs did go to college 17 years later. However, he found the college was much too expensive and he couldn't see the value of attending it, so he dropped out six months later. Then he dropped in on a calligraphy class which he found fascinating. He learned serif and sanserif typefaces and many other things, of which he found an application 10 years later—they were all designed into the first Macintosh computer. It made all the difference in Jobs' life. If he had never dropped out, he would have never

dropped in on the calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have had the wonderful typography that they do. Therefore, one has to trust in something—his/her gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever, and this approach will give one the confidence to follow whatever he/she trusts in.

第五单元

Finally, without further ado, Lindsey was handcuffed and charged with the robberies having taken place in Portland. She was escorted to the jail nearby for booking. Lindsey went to court and the jury found her guilty of all the robberies, and she was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The police were happy to have solved this case and to have the right twin in prison, but the sister that should have been in prison was neither Lindsey nor Sara. Their mom had given birth to triplets and the woman the police had

最后，没有再费什么时间，琳赛就被戴上手铐，罪名是在波特兰犯有抢劫罪，随后被押送到附近的监狱，等候起诉。在法庭上，陪审团认

为，琳赛在所有那些抢劫案中的罪名成立，于是，她被判了十五年监禁。

警方因为抓获了双胞胎中犯罪的那个，并结了案，感到非常欣慰。但事

实上，应该坐牢的那个人既不是琳赛也不是萨拉，她们的母亲当时生了

三胞胎，应该被警方抓进监狱的是其中另外一个孩子：辛迪。

1. If you ask the fast runner to set the pace, then [most of them will be left behind] (他们中的大多数人都将落后).

2. My brother did not want to [be tied to a steady job] (被稳定的工作所束缚).

3. They set off [in search of the lost child] (寻找失踪的孩子).

4. [Accidents due to driving at high speed] (因高速驾驶而造成的交通事故) were very common that month.

5. [He was charged with murder] (他被指控杀人) but found

innocent later

Lindsey learned from TV news that she or her twin sister Sara was accused of some robberies in Portland, Oregon.

Lindsey knew that she was not the perpetrator, and that Sara had been killed the year before in a car accident. In order to