现代大学英语精读课后习题答案

Unit11. By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.2. The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.3. 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 only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature or to human society.5. 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 desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for the poor had not been abandoned; it had only been put off.7. Government officials, on the whole, are good; it is very rare that some would pay high prices for office equipment to get kickbacks.8. It is a very popular story and has been accepted by many but it is not true.9. 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 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.1. 贫富不均乃共和政体最致命的宿疾。

2. 他们的贫穷只是一种暂时性的不幸，如果他们贫穷但却温顺，他们最终将成为世界的主人。

3. 热恋的夫妇应该在梅西百货商店过夜，而不是他们的新房。

4. 美国这朵玫瑰花以其华贵与芳香让观众倾倒，赞不绝口，而她之所以能被培植就是因为在早期其周围的花蕾被插掉了，在经济生活中情况亦是如此。

这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用。

5.（它已成为）经济上收入不菲的行业。

6. 没有哪种压迫比身无分文更厉害，也没有哪种对思想和行为的束缚比一无所有来得更全面彻底。

7. 我们珍惜自由式对的。

正因为珍惜自由，我们就不能以此为借口，不给最需要自由的人自由。

8. 不管他们生活在埃塞俄比亚，还是在纽约的南部布朗克斯区，甚至是洛杉矶这样的天堂，人们都决心不去为这些人操心。

9. 如上述所说，他在华盛顿高层当中有无比的威望。

10. 同情心，加上与之相关的社会努力是人们这个年代，最令人不快的行为和行动方针。

Unit31. What people do may unintentionally cause droughts, floods, and neat waves.2. 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.3. Human activities have taken place over such large areas and with such intensitythat they have already caused disastrous effects on ecology.4. 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.5. When cars are produced to serve such narrow purposes, it is not surprising that some of their characteristic qualities are harmful to the environment.6. The farmer applied more and more fertilizer, and the production did rise but did not increase at the same rate of the fertilizer.7. 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.8. If the ecosystems are not upset by outside intrusion, they will remain the same with very little change.9. The characteristics of the objects and materials in the technosphere are rapid change and great variety.10. 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.1. 我们一直在滥用这股强大的力量，就像传说中的魔术师的师弟一样，并没有意识到我们的这种行为很可能会导致灾难性的后果。

2. 即使全球变暖这种灾害永不发生，即使臭氧层空洞仍然只是一种深奥的极地现象，人类的活动已经极大地的改变了全球的条件，这些也许是用照相机拍不出来的。

3. 与生态圈相反，技术圈是由线性流程所决定的。

4. 现在技术圈运作的能源主要是矿物燃料，一旦用完，永不再生。

5. 尼龙不能进行生物分解—也就是说，现存的有机物中还没有发现哪种酶可以分解尼龙。

6.~~有生命的东西创造了一系列对生命至关重要的有限但独立的物质和反应。

7. 免费的午餐实际上是一种负债，在技术圈中，债务是指已承认但尚未归还的欠款。

8. 当债务以技术圈制造的环境污染的形式出现，然后又转嫁到生态圈，这种债务将无法消除，造成破坏是不可避免的。

Unit 4 Nettles1. 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. 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, 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 about my new life, either out of subtle consideration for my feeling about this sensitive subject or out of disapproval for my new lifestyle.5. It would be a morally low thing, an indecent thing to commit infidelity in the house of a friend.6. I knew that he was a person who had experienced the worst in life, the hardest experience a person might have to endure.7. 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. 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.1. 这里的每一棵树都表现出某种神态。