新世纪研究生公共英语教材阅读A答案课后题全

第一单元：

Vocabulary Study：

1. permanent

2.had assembled

3.discharging

4.meekly

5.apprentice

6.partiality

7.obscure

8.exalted

9.intruding 10cordially 11ambition 12.gallantly

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Translation:

1. His dream of becoming a football star faded out as time went by.

2. A Boeing 747 aircraft didn’t gain enough height to climb the mountain. In a twinkling, it crashed into the mountain and blew up. No one survived in the accident.

3. Students have easy access to the library resource, so they are supposed to make the best of it.

4. Titanic, the most luxurious ship in the world at the time, hit an iceberg when she was under the way to the US. Consequently, the ship sank into the Atlantic Ocean and thousands of people died in this shipwreck.

5. Every summer, all the tourists pour into this famous beach. They lie packed like sardines on the beach to enjoy the sunbathing.

6. They have been to St. Louis once and have a vague general knowledge of its wonderful food, but the day of their glory is over now. They lapse into a humble silence and learn to disappear when the ruthless engineer approaches.

第二单元：

Vocabulary Study

1.advocated

2.extravagant

3.vulnerable

4.guru

5.potential

6.dispel

7.shunned

8.acclaimed

9.enthus

iasts10.stave off11.attendant 12.ventured

II.

l. eradicated 2. enthralled 3. obso1ete 4. disproved 5. foster 6. ludicrous 7. apparent 8. avert

9. displaced l0. compatriots 1 l. endeavors l2. hailed

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Translation:

1. Some cyber gurus claim that the internet will prevent wars, reduce pollution and combat various forms of inequality.

2. Although, the internet undeniable fosters communications, it will not put an end to wars, since wars are by no means caused by the failure of different people to understand each other adequately.

3. The internet can help reduce energy consumption and pollution, only if doing things online genuinely displaces real-world activities.

4. The poor are not shunning the internet because they cannot afford it. The problem is that they lack the skills to exploit it efficiently. Therefore, it makes more sense to aim for universal literacy than universal internet access.

5. Thanks to the internet, income inequality between people doing similar jobs in different countries has been reduced. However, the inequality between information workers in poor countries and their poorest compatriots has been increased.

6. If human nature remains stubbornly unchanged, despite the claims of the techno-prophets, humanity cannot simply invent away its failings.

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