新编大学英语3 第三单元课后练习答案 第三版

Unit 3 Social Problems

In-class Reading Passage

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Part One Preparation

1. Describing the Pictures

Picture A：A couple is dining at a restaurant. Both of them are smoking. But they call and complain to the waiter, saying that those sitting at the other tables are coughing too much and

that bothers them. However, they have not realized that actually it is their smoking

that has caused those people to cough. I have seen many people who behave like this

couple. They never take other people’s interest into consideration. They are selfish and

always ready to find fault with others. They never see their own wrong doings but

always make a false counter-charge. They are despised by most other people. Picture B: In this picture I see a strange beggar. While most beggars beg for food or drinks, this guy begs for money in order to buy wines. He wants to try all the 596,704 wines

existing in this world. He said he already tasted 38,279 wines out of that number.

Suppose he tries one kind of wine one day, it would have taken him more than 100

years to come so far. He is really an ambitious man. However, if he has the ambition

to try all the existing wines, he should work hard and make money himself instead of

begging for other people’s money to enjoy what life can offer. There are some people

like this beggar these days. They want to enjoy life, but not based on their own hard

work or effort. They want a free lunch and many of them live on borrowed money. I

don’t think this is a good attitude towards life. Everyone should work hard to make a

good living.

Picture C: I see a court with a judge, a defendant and probably a lawyer in the picture. What is strange about this picture is that I find a tip pot, which is usually placed in a restaurant

for waiters or waitress. They get tips for their excellent services to their customers.

Waiters or waitresses who get generous tips will provide even better service to

customers. However, a court is a place for people to seek justice and fairness. It

punishes the guilty and releases the innocent. If judges start to take tips, I doubt that

there will be any more justice. People will no longer be treated equally and truth will

not be valued. Judgment will not be made based on facts, but on how big the tip is.

What an evil place!

Picture D: In this picture I see two men behind bars. One is telling his fellow prisoner that he did not commit the crimes that he had been accused of committing. His mistake was that

he stole the identity of a guy who had committed those crimes. The police took him

for that guy and put him in jail. They actually got the wrong person. And he was

innocent. Was he really innocent? I don’t think so. He was a thief, and he was not

innocent at all. However, he received a heavier punishment than he deserved. So that

was an irony. The guy stole another person’s identity and in a sense he inherited his

crimes as well. So never take other people’s stuff, whatever it is. No one can escape