21世纪大学实用英语综合教程(第二册)课文翻译及课后习题答案unit 1

Unit 1

误会

佚名

他头发蓬乱，衣着肮脏，口袋里只有35美分。在马里兰州的巴尔的摩，他登上一辆公共汽车并径直走向了洗手间。他想如果他躲在洗手间里，便可以不付钱就乘车去纽约。但是坐在公共汽车后面的一位乘客看见了他。她拍了拍她前面那位乘客的肩膀说：“洗手间里有个流浪汉。告诉公共汽车司机。”那位乘客轻轻地拍了一下坐在他前面的人，说道：“告诉公共汽车司机，洗手间里有个流浪汉。

这口信通过一个又一个的乘客传到了公共汽车的前边。但在这一过程的某个环节，口信变了。当它传到公共汽车司机那儿时，已经不是“洗手间里有个流浪汉”，而是“洗手间里有颗炸弹”。司机马上在公路边停下车来并用无线电通知了警察。当警察到达时，他们让乘客下车并且远离汽车。然后他们关闭了那条公路。那很快就造成了15英里长的交通堵塞。警察在警犬的帮助下，在公共汽车上搜查了两个小时。当然，他们没有发现什么炸弹。

两个发音相似的英语单词给一个想从洛杉矶飞往加利福尼亚州奥克兰的人也造成了麻烦。他的问题始于洛杉矶机场。他以为听到广播中宣布了他的航班，所以他走向登机门，出示了机票并登上了飞机。起飞20分钟后，这人开始担心起来。奥克兰在洛杉矶的北边，但是飞机似乎正在向西飞，而当他向窗外望去时，他所能看到的全是大海。“这架飞机是去奥克兰吗”他问航班服务员。航班服务员倒抽了一口冷气，“不，”她说。“我们去奥克兰——新西兰的奥克兰。”

因为有这么多英文单词发音相似，讲英语者之间的误会并不罕见。并非所有的误会都会导致公路关闭或乘客飞错大陆。大多数误会远没有这么严重。每天讲英语的人会相互问这样的问题:“你是说七十还是十七”“你是说你能来还是不能来”发音相似的单词对把英语作为第二语言的人来说，特别容易让人混淆。

一天早晨，一位生活在美国的韩国妇女到上班地点时，她的老板问她：“你拿到盘子了吗” “没有……”她回答说，心里却在纳闷，不知道他到底是什么意思。她在办公室工作。老板为什么问她盘子的事呢一整天她都对老板的怪问题感到纳闷，但又不好意思开口问他。到了5点，当她准备回家时，她的老板说:“明天请准时上班。你今天早晨迟到了15分钟” “对不起，”她说。“我的车发动不起来，而且……” 突然她停止了讲话并开始微笑起来。她这时才明白老板并没有问她“你拿到盘子了吗”他问的是“你是不是起来晚了”

Auckland 和Oakland。“一个盘子”和“起晚”。当发音相似的单词引起误会时，也许最好的处理方式就是一笑了之并从错误中吸取教训。当然，有时候很难笑得出来。那个没到Oakland 却去了Auckland的人是不会想笑的。但即使是那场误会，最终的结局也还不错。那家航空公司支付了那人在新西兰的旅馆住房和用餐的费用，还支付了他飞回加利福尼亚的费用。“ 哦，还好，”那人后来说，“我一直就想要看看新西兰的。”

答案

5

1. passengers

2. immediately

3. similar

4. wonder

5.

continent

6. traffic

7. misunderstandings

8. embarrassed

9. flights 10. common

11. serious 12. searched

6

1. got on

2. head for

3. tapped on the shoulder

4. pull over

5. resulted in

6. feel like

7. By the time

8. turn out all right 9. in the end 10. instead of

7

1. By the time I got home, I was too tired to do anything active.

2. The two girls look too similar for people outside the family to tell them apart from each other.

3. What in the world does mm stand for The abbreviations that people use on the BBS are too confusing for me to understand.

4. Because of TV, most people have become too lazy to make the effort to go to the cinema.

5. Anne made a serious mistake yesterday because the test gave her too little time to decide on the correct choice.

8

1. until I have really learnt the basics of the language.

2. until the end of the book

3. until they have finished their speeches

4. until my teacher explained them in class with several examples

5. until I saw Sam Ward leave the building

6. until he got on a city bus

9

1. Because of the heavy snow, the passengers had to wait at the airport until midnight when the snow stopped.

2. Twenty minutes after the train started, the two boys found that they had got on a train heading for Hangzhou instead of their hometown, Suzhoul.

3. Similar-sounding English words often result in misunderstandings among English-speaking people.

4. The driver heard an unusual sound from the car engine, so he pulled over immediately to check, but it turned out all right in the end.

5. Mr. Lee felt very embarrassed when he realized that he had made a very common mistake among speakers of English as a second language.

6. Mary felt like learning English and hoped she could learn it quickly, but soon found it was too difficult for her to learn in a short period of time.

10

1. giving us heat and light

2. ranging in age from 4 to 16