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◆Translation●Unit 16､因为穷人连饭都吃不饱便认为他们不需要义务教育的看法完全是一种错误的想法｡没有教育人们怎能克服贫穷?It is a complete misconception that the poor do not need compulsory education because they do not even have enough to feed on. Without education, how can people ever overcome their poverty?8､很明显,她拒绝他的求婚给了他沉重的打击,但他最终还是从痛苦中恢复了过来｡It was obvious that her rejection of his proposal hit him hard, but in time he recovered from his wounds.●Unit 22､孩子们在儿童节有资格免费进入每一个城市公园｡这是对他们全年长期呆在学校里的一种补偿｡On Children’s Day, children are entitled to free entry to all city parks. This is a way of compensating them for the long hours they spend in school all year.7､没有任何实际理由要保留为女性开门的那种习俗,更不用说保留“妇女和儿童优先”的传统了｡There’s no practical reason to perpetuate the custom of opening doors for women, let alone the tradition of “women and children first”.●Unit 31､我们不久就对她无休止地抱怨感到厌倦,并尽量避开她｡We soon grew weary of her constant complaints, and avoided her as much as possible.3､如果我们有更多的时间可支配,我会带你上这座山｡从山顶上四下观望真令人惊叹｡If we had more time at our disposal, I’d take you up this mountain. The view from the top is truly awe-inspiring.●Unit 42､我希望我的忠告对处于压力下的学生们会起作用:前面的路充满了不能遇见的机遇｡I hope my advice will work with students under pressure—the road ahead is full of unforeseen opportunities.5､现在的年轻人变得老成,他们确信成就是以拥有多少财产来衡量的｡Young people nowadays are growing up old, with the conviction that achievement is measured by how many possessions one owns.●Unit 53､我千里迢迢到纽约来看他,结果却发现他两天前出国了｡I came to New York from far away to see him, only to find that he had gone abroad two days before.7､他们拒绝给他进入这个国家的签证,理由是他是个危险分子｡He was refused an entry permit to this country on the grounds that he was a dangerous person.●Unit 61､我真希望你对这一件事能采取一种更加通情达理的态度｡I wish you could adopt a more reasonable attitude towards the event.4､在他过世五十年之后,他的成就才为社会所承认｡It was 50 years after his death that his accomplishments were acknowledged by society.◆Vocabulary●Unit 11.Do you think that making music and art compulsory subjects in schools would reduce some children’s enjoyment of them?2. Bob’s one of those people who relish risk and danger—he’d be bored in a safe, steady job.3.Elizabeth is certainly talented enough to succeed in her career; she j ust doesn’t have enough confidence in her own abilities.4.I’m sorry you’re in trouble,but as you made your decision on your own you’ll just have to face the consequences.5.Many educators would be delighted to abolish exams, but they also worry that without them there would be too little incentive for students to work hard.6.The teacher accidentally hit the boy’s hand with an eraser and was henceforth known as “Dead-Eye Bean”.7. If I had money, I’d invest it all in Internet companies.8.Psychologists say that our behavior is influenced by many factors too subtle for us to consciously perceive .9. He’s always had a passion for books. If he could work in a library, it would be a dream come true.10. Look at those three whispering in the corner again—they’re scheming something, I just don’t know what !●Unit 21.In a healthy relationship, the partners’ strengths abilities complement each other, rather than being identical.2. Millions of dollars and lots of famous actors are not indispensable to the production of a successful film, but they help !3.I never felt I had a right to expect any special privileges because of my university education.4.The marketing strategy that Edward proposed would be brilliant if only he hadn’t forgotten about good business ethics.5.It’s true that not having a car imposes some constraints, but owning one also complicates life in many ways.6.According to Chinese law, every child is entitled to nine years of free education.7.Life should consist of more than just a struggle for survival.8.The sight of the helpless child aroused her maternal instinct.9.The winners of the contest were chosen randomly; no consideration was given to age, gender or income.10.He has lost the use of his limbs but he is still in possession of all his faculty.11.Please give the highest priority to this very urgent matter.12.She enjoyed parts of her trip to India, but said she found the poverty she saw there rather depressing.●Unit 31. Colors often have symbolic meanings that vary from culture to culture.2.All the years that have passed have not dimmed my memory of our first glorious autumn in Beijing.3.His most recent essay focuses on the problems that people confront in everyday life.4. His failure in business was due not so much to misfortune as to his own mistakes.5. If you have any questions concerning our products, please feel free to contact our customer service department.6. My boss’s moods change very quickly; one moment he’s light-hearted and cheerful, and the next he hates everything and everybody.7.Christy is bright, creative and quick to assimilate new ideas.8.She loves to sit on the hill alone at night, gazing at the stars and pondering the mysteries of life.9.These educational toys give children a feeling of self-worth by arousing their interest in challenging tasks.10.Despite widespread public recognition of the worsening air quality in these areas, little has been done to control air pollution.11.The human body has great self-healing powers, and sometimes all it needs to overcome a mild illness is rest and a healthy diet.12.Dogs and wolves rely on their keen sense of smell to find food and recognize danger.●Unit 41.When every student imagines that every other student is working harder and doing better,stress is the inevitable result.2.It is my firm conviction that violence is never a reasonable solution to conflict.3.Everyone jumped up when a piercing scream suddenly broke the silence.4.In many cultures a memorial service is a joyful celebration, not a solemn event.5.The recession has put increasing pressure on the job market, so employment prospects forthis year’s graduates are unfortunately rather grim.6.If you keep too firm a grip on your children, they’ll never learn to think for themselves.7.I don’t know what induced Alfred to read your letter. Presumably he thought it wasaddressed to him.8.What are you thinking of!? This medicine is much too potent for a small child!9. A large segment of the population—reckoned at about 20%—still takes spirit-worshipseriously.10.Befor e going on a camping trip, it’s wise to make sure you’re well equipped for a widerange of emergencies.11.As soon as the director left the room, Sam commenced entertaining us with his wild stories.12.I talked to Alice last week—incidentally, has she returned the book you lent her? I’d like toborrow it, if you don’t mind.●Unit 51.Politicians are always promising to introduce legislation to raise salaries and lower taxes.2.The new poetry collection was compiled from a wide variety of sources and includes poems from twelve countries and seven centuries.3.Every culture is full of beliefs and assumptions that most people never question until they come into contact with another culture.4.Many people who emigrate to America in hopes of becoming rich are surprised at how hard they have to work.5.He has a wide circle of acquaintances but very few close friends6.She’s a renowned tennis player, but her real ambition is to become a writer.7.To avoid confusion, you’d better start by explaining the whole idea from beginning to end in an orderly way.8.When you take a small child on a long trip, you need to bring lots of books and toys to keep him or her amused.9.Most visitors to Shanghai find it a very impressive city.10.They teach at night school to supplement their income, which otherwise wouldn’t be sufficient to live on.●Unit 61.When he failed the entrance exam, his despair drove him to consider suicide.2.Their van ran into a taxi but fortunately no one was injured.3.It would take years for the pain over her divorce to fade away.4.The soldiers vowed to get revenge for their captain’s death.k baths are a very effective way to soothe the pain of minor burns or insect bites.6.When his health failed and he had to close his business, it shattered all his hopes for his family’s future.7.The man was wealthy, handsome and powerful; why he insisted on destroying his life through gambling defied all comprehension.8.We need to have the roof repaired—it leaks every time it rains.9.The whole trip was a nightmare—the motel had lost our reservation, then our car was stolen, and besides that, the weather was terrible.10.I had a very strange dream last night, but only remember a few fragments of it.◆Reading Aloud●Unit 1A common misconception among youngsters attending school is that teachers were child prodigies. Who else but a bookworm, with none of the normal kid’s tendency to play rather than study, would grow up to be a teacher anyway?I’ve tried desperately to explain to my students that the image they have of me as an enthusiastic devotee of books and homework during my adolescence was a bit out of focus. On the contrary, I hated compulsory education with a passion. I could never quite accept the notion of having to go to school while the fish were biting.●Unit 2Children are entitled to special consideration for two reasons: helplessness and innocence. They have not yet acquired either the faculty of reason or the wisdom of experience. Consequently, they are defenseless (incapable of fending for themselves) and blameless (incapable of real sin). That’s why we gran t them special protection. In an emergency, it is our duty to save them first because they, helpless, have put their lives in our hands. And in wartime, they are supposed to be protected by special immunity because they can have threatened or offended no one.●Unit 3I sincerely believe that for children, and for parents seeking to guide them, it is not half so important to know as it is to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused—a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love—then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response. Once found, such knowledge has far more lasting meaning than mere information. It is more important to pave the way for children’s desire to know than to put them on a diet of facts they are not ready to assimilate.●Unit 4What I wish for all students is some release from the grim grip of the future. I wish them a chance to enjoy each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a tiresome requirement in preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as educational as victory and is not the end of the world.My wish, of course, is naive. One of the few rights that America does not proclaim is the right to fail. Achievement is the national god, worshipped in our media—the million-dollar athlete, the wealthy executive—and glorified in our praise of possessions. In the presence of such a potent state religion, the young are growing up old.●Unit 5America can be a strange experience for a foreigner. My wife and I arrived in the United States in January after seven years overseas—four in France, three in Poland. From the jumble of first impressions, we compiled an A-to-Z explanation of why America can be such a foreign country to those who arrive here from Europe.I should explain at the outset that I am from Britain, but my Florida-born wife Lisa is as American as apple pie. In our list, however, A doesn’t stand for apple pie. It stands for: Ambition. In the Old World, people are taught to hide it. Here it’s quite proper to announce that you’re after the boss’s job or want to make a million dollars by the age of 30.●Unit 6Every 23 minutesA heart breaks.Someone’s pain shatters the confines of her body, leaking out in tears, exploding in cries, defying all efforts to soothe the despair. Sleep offers no escape from the nightmare of awakening. And morning brings only the irreversibility of loss.Every 23 minutesA dream ends.Someone’s future blurs and goes blank as anticipation fades into nothingness. The phone will not ring, the car will not pull up to the house. The weight of tomorrow becomes unbearable in a world in which all promises have been broken by force.◆Listening and Speaking●Unit 2 Part COne of the best-known (1)collections of parallels is between the careers of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Both were (2)shot on a Friday, in the (3)presence of their wives; both were succeeded by a Southerner named Johnson; both their killers were themselves killed before they could be brought to (4)justice. Lincoln had a secretary called Kennedy; Kennedy a secretary called Lincoln. Lincoln was killed in the Ford (5)Theater; Kennedy met his death while riding in a Lincoln convertible made by the Ford Motor Company—and so on.Similar coincidences often (6)occur between twins. A news story from Finland reported of two 70-year-old twin brothers dying two hours apart in separate accidents, with both being hit by trucks while crossing the same road on bicycles. According to the police, the second (7) victim c ould not have known about his brother’s death, as (8)officers had only managed to identify the first victim minutes before the second accident.Connections are also found between identical twins who have been separated at birth. Dorothy Lowe and Bridget Harrison were separated in 1945, and did not meet until 1979, when they were flown over from Britain for an investigation by a psychologist at the University of Minnesota. They found that when they met they were both wearing seven rings on their hands, two bracelets on one wrist, a watch and a bracelet on the other. (9)They married on the same day, had worn identical wedding dresses and carried the same flowers. Dorothy had named her son Richard Andrew and her daughter Catherine Louise; Bridget had named her son Andrew Richard and her daughter Karen Louise. In fact, she had wanted to call her Catherine. Both had a cat called Tiger. They also had a string of similar mannerisms when they were nervous.(10)How can we explain the above similarities.●Unit 9 Part CFor a century much attached to national (1)symbols, France took the imminent death of the franc calmly. It was as if an (2)ancient great-great uncle were about to pass away: a time for nostalgia and regret, rather than (3)grief.Unlike the German mark, the franc had never been a symbol of national (4)rebirth or glory. Its recent history was relatively (5)stable but it had to be revalued as recently as 1960. In the 1950s, its value and (6)reputation were so weak that French politicians considered (7)abolishing it and replacing it with something else, based on the value of the pound.But money is money after all. It is with us every day. It was surprising that (8)such a conservative people did not express greater sorrow for the loss of their familiar francs. It was also surprising they did not feel a greater sense of aesthetic loss for the franc had always been one of the world’s mos t beautiful currencies.(9)The name franc was first used in 1360, to celebrate and help to pay for the release of the King of France, King Jean II, who was captured by the still poundless English. He created the “franc” or “free” to celebrate the occasion.Over the next 400 years the name came and went but was finally restored by the Revolution in 1795. (10)On February 17th, 2002, the French franc disappeared completely from the financial scene.●Unit 11 Part C90% of people in the world are (1)naturally right-handed. Why is this so, and are we (2)born one way or the other? The answer to this question is rather (3)complicated.In babies and young children, no (4)single side becomes (5)dominant until around the age of eight. At 12 weeks, babies usually use both hands (6)equally, but by 16 weeks, they mostly use the left hand for (7)touching. By 24 weeks, they have changed again and start using both hands. Then at 28 weeks, they become one-handed again, although this time it is the right hand that is used more. At 32 weeks, they start using both hands again. (8)When they reach the age of 36 weeks, there is another change, with most babies now preferring to use the left hand. Between 40 and 44 weeks, the right hand is once again more used. At 48 weeks, babies switch to using their left hands again, and then between 52 and 56 weeks, the right hand takes over.There are further changes still. (9)At 80 weeks, the right hand loses control, and boht are used again equally. When the young child reaches the age of two, the right hand takes over again, but between two and a half and three years, both hands are used equally.(10)Things finally become stable at around four years and stay the same until by the age of eight, one hand is strongly dominating over the other.●Unit 13 Part CNowadays in the United States, there are (1)200,000 miles of pipeline, 170000 gas stations and 243 million vehicles using petroleum fuels.Guy Negre, the (2)founder and CEO of Motor Development International, is hoping to change all that. He has invented a compressed air (3)technology for cars. The new invention is the AirPod.The AirPod is a small four-wheel (4)mini-car that uses compressed air to move pistons. It uses a small motor to compress outside air to keep the tank (5)full.The small motor can not only operate on gasoline, diesel, vegetable oil, but also be(6)plugged into an electrical outlet for (7)recharging.(8)With the demand for inexpensive, user-friendly, high-mileage vehicles that will not cause global warming, the Airpod is getting a lot of attention. Air France and KLM airlines will be using AirPods to transport passengers between arrival and departure gates at airports in Paris and Amsterdam beginning in 2009. Zero Pollution Motors (9)has purchased the rights for the U.S. market and expects to manufacture 8000 vehicles a year in the United States beginning in 2011. Automaker, Tata Motors has purchased the manufacturing rights for India.(10)Licensing arrangements for other countries are currently in progress.●Test 1 Part CDid you know that one out of every ten people in the world are left-handed? And did you also know that in many countries left-handedness is still thought of as being wrong? In India, for example, you shouldn’t eat with your left hand.Even at the beginning of the 20th century left-handedness was considered to be a sign of weakness. (16)Researchers used to try and prove that left-handed people were more likely to commit (17)murder, or have reading problems than right-handed people.(18)Fortunately, not all cultures think like this. In China both sides are needed for(19)harmony.Left-handedness can in fact be an (20)advantage in sport. Many left-handed (21)boxers and tennis players have achieved outstanding success. This is partly because of the element of surprise the left hand can offer and partly because left-handed people’s (22)brains work quicker.Nevertheless, this is still a right-handed people’s world. And this can be clearly seen when you’re buying everyday things like scissors or golf clubs. (23)Even the most ordinary household items such as irons or can-openers are desiged for right-handed people.But, here’s some good news for all left-handed people. There is a shop in London which sells goods especially for left-handed people. It’s called Anything Left-handed.There (24)you can buy anything from left-handed pocket calculators to knives and coffee mugs. In fact you can even buy watches for the left hand which work anti-clockwise. (25)People who buy things from the shop say it just makes their everyday life much easier.Test 2 Part CIn the (16)course of modernization, our environment is being polluted faster than man’s present efforts can (17)prevent. Advanced (18)technology and modern industries bring our society many (19)benefits, making our life easy and comfortable, but they also lead to greater pollution.One form of pollution, in (20)particular, that has received a lot of attention in recent years, is that produced by waste plastic bags and boxes. (21)Due to improper disposal, they lie here and there along the railway tracks, in the rivers, on the hills, on the sea and around(22)communities. On a windy day, (23)they are to be seen flying freely in the sky.Measures must be taken to clean them up. (24)Recycling should be put into consideration and more importantly. (25)consumers themselves have to be responsibe for the proper disposal of their garbage.。