新世纪大学英语系列教材(第二版)阅读教程2

新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）
Unit 1
Part I
Exercises
I. Reading for information 。

A. Reading to find main ideas
1. A
2. C
B. Reading to find major details
3 . D 4. B
C. Reading to find relevant facts
5. C
6. A
II. Translation
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1
A hundred papers in the boys' scrawls; he had shirked this work for weeks, feeling all the time as if a sword were hanging over his head.
有一百份卷子要批，而且全是男孩们用潦草的字迹写成的，这事他已经拖了好几个星期了。

这些日子，他一直觉得头上仿佛悬着把剑。

2
I’ve spent a fortune on it behind closed doors.
我私下里已经花了一大笔钱来学习音乐了。

3 His face was beaded with perspiration.
他的脸上挂满了汗珠。

4 No judge delivering a sentence felt more pained and helpless.
没有哪个宣布判决的法官会比此时的谢卡尔更痛苦、更无助。

5 Truth required as much strength to give as to receive.
说出事实和接受事实同样需要勇气。

III. Summary
Complete the following statements with words and expressions from the box. Use their proper forms.
1 Truth is like the sun because no human being can ever look it straight in the face without blinking or being dazed .
2 Sekhar thought that morning till night , the essence of human relationships consisted in tempering truth so that it might not shock .
3 Sekhar practiced truth for only one day and he had three trials :The first one was with his wife , the second with his colleague and the last one with his headmaster
4 His wife took the apple pie as her culinary masterpiece while Sekhar thought that it wasn't good and he was unable to swallow it.
5 His colleague thought so and so was a fine man while Sekhar regarded him as mean and selfish .
6 The headmaster was eager to show off his singing , but his singing made Sekhar half stupefied .
7 Sekhar compared the headmaster's singing to three things: a dozen frogs, a buffalo, and loose window shutters in a storm.
8 Sekhar realized that truth required as much strength to give as to receive .
Part II Reading for Pleasure
Exercise
Answer the following questions.
1
After reading the story, what do you think about Hell?
Hell is not so terrible as most people think because it can be transformed into
Heaven through hard work, courage, faith and love. The real Hell is in one’s
heart.
2
What is your definition of Heaven now?
Heaven is a land of beauty and peace, and it is the result of our hard work.
3
What kind of people can rest in Heaven after they die? All those hardworking people with courage and determination can rest in
Heaven after they die, because although they cannot all reach Heaven in the
first place, they can build Hell into Heaven.
4
What kind of people will end up in Hell? Those who are afraid of Hell and do not have courage to fight difficulties and
disasters will end up in Hell.
5
What is the moral of this parable?
This parable tells us that our destiny is controlled by ourselves.
Unit 2
Part I
Exercises
I. Reading for information 。

A. Reading to find main ideas
1. C
2. A
B. Reading to find major details
3 . B 4. C
C. Reading to find relevant facts
5. D
6. A
II. Translation
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. It was 9 p.m. I threw a stethoscope around my neck and headed for Room712, the last room on the hall.
当时是晚上九点，我把听诊器挂在脖子上，朝走廊尽头的712病房走去。

2. As I entered the room, Mr. Williams looked up eagerly, but drooped his eyes when he saw it was only me, his nurse.
我走进病房时，威廉先生急切地抬起头来，一看是我，他的护士，随即又垂下了眼睛。

3. Her voice was so utterly compelling that my hand trembled on the phone.
她的语气那样迫切，我握着话筒的手不由得颤抖起来。

4. My first thought was: Why put yourself through more pain?
我第一个念头是：你何必还要增加自己的痛苦？
5. A snowflake hit the window and melted away, gone forever.
一片雪花打在窗上，立即融化，永远地消失了。

III. Summary
Complete the following flowchart.
On Janie's 21st birthday, her father, Mr. Williams, had a fight with her over her boyfriend .
Janie said " I hate you" to her father and ran out of the house.
Janie never spoke to her father again, though she wanted very much to go to him for forgiveness . Several months later, Mr. Williams suffered a slight heart attack .
He was admitted to hospital and his condition was stable .
He asked the nurse to call his daughter , and to get him a pencil and paper .
His respiration speeded up, and he began to breathe very fast.
The nurse called Janie, and Janie said that she would be in the hospital in 30 minutes .
Mr. Williams had a cardiac arrest .
The doctors tried every means to save him but failed .
Mr. Williams passed away before his daughter could reach the hospital .
Janie slumped against the wall, looking pathetic and painful.
Accompanied by the nurse , Janie went to see her father's body .
Janie leaned over the bed and buried her face in the sheets.
The nurse found a note written by Mr. Williams and gave it to Janie.
Janie read the note twice , and hugged the scrap of paper to her breast.
Her tormented face grew radiant and peace began to glisten in her eyes, because from that note she knew that her father had forgiven her.
Part II Reading for Pleasure
Exercise
Answer the following questions.
1 What was the relationship between Roger and Tony?
They used to be schoolmates in Landon High School.
2 Why couldn't Roger recognize Tony at first?
Because Tony had changed a lot from a big burly guy to a very thin man.
3 What kind of person was Tony when he was young?
He was a bully when he was young.
4 Why did Roger give Tony his card?
He wanted to tell Tony that he had forgiven him and wanted to be friends with him.
5 How did Roger feel when he saw Tony in the wheelchair?
At first he was very surprised to see that Tony had changed so much, then he felt very sorry for him and wanted to be friends with him.
Unit 3
Part I
Exercises
I. Reading for information 。

A. Reading to find main ideas
1. D
2. C
B. Reading to find major details
3 . D 4. B
C. Reading to find relevant facts
5. A
6. C
II. Translation
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. Obsessions drive people to do all sorts of strange things. Harriet Magnis’s obsession drove her to
commit one of the strangest crimes in history.
痴迷往往会使人们做出各种各样奇怪的事情。

哈丽雅特•玛格妮丝的痴迷驱使她犯下了有史以来最荒唐的罪行。

2. Even though he was at sea for two or three years at a stretch, and was home for only a few days at
a time, Harriet loved him deeply and her tragic failure to provide him with a child haunted her.
尽管他在海上一待就是两三年，每次回家也只能待上几天，哈丽雅特还是深爱着他。

不幸没能为他生下一男半女，她心里非常不安。

3. She had succeeded in deceiving him for three years, but now she knew that she either had to produce a three-year-old boy who looked like Richard, or had to spill the whole truth to him.
她成功地骗了他三年，可是现在她明白，她要么得找出一个长相像理查德的三岁男孩，要么就得向他彻底坦白。

4. But after he left , Harriet became panicky, especially when the neighbors began to ask questions about the sudden appearance of her “child” and even more so when the wanted notices appeared in the local post office.
可是丈夫走后，哈丽雅特便恐慌起来，特别是当邻居们开始问她怎么突然有了个孩子的时候。

而当通缉令出现在当地邮局时，她更是惶惶不可终日。

5. In due time the letter was delivered to Richard’s ship, but not to him. In his anxiety to see his little son again, Richard had jumped ship and gone AWOL.
信如期送到了理查德服役的船上，但没有到他手里。

理查德因为急于再次见到自己的儿子而离船开了小差。

III. Summary
Complete the following statements with words and expressions from the box. Use their proper forms.
1 Harriet loved her husband deeply, but she was troubled by the fact that she was unable to provide him with a child . Her obsession with having a child drove her to commit a crime .
2 In order to make her husband happy, she told him that she was pregnant. And she succeeded in deceiving her husband for three years. But her lies got her into deep water . When her husband grew suspicious, she decided to steal a child .
3 Harriet went to London looking for a boy of the right age. Finally, she found Thomas and kidnapped him. Her husband was in ecstasy when she took the boy to meet him.
4 Filled with fear and remorse, Harriet took Thomas back to London. She also wrote a letter to her husband, telling him the truth, which was delivered to the captain of the ship for her husband had gone AWOL .
5 At last, Harriet was arrested and held for trial. But she was discharged because the judge decided that the court had no jurisdiction over the case.
Part II Reading for Pleasure
Exercise
Answer the following questions.
1 What did the two strangers argue about?
They pretended to argue about whether it would be easy to stand in front of the clock for one hour without moving and say “Here it comes, there it goes” as the clock’s pendulum swung back and forth. Actually they were just trying to deceive the hotel owner.
2 How did the two strangers make the hotel owner join them in a bet?
They made him believe that it was very easy to win the bet and win a hundred dollars.
3 What was the hotel owner thinking about when he stood in front of theclock?
He thanked God for his old clock, which might help him get money for his son’s education. Besides, he was thinking about buying a new coat for his wife and a walking stick for himself.
4 What did people think of the hotel owner when they saw him talking to the clock?
People thought that he must have been crazy when they saw him talking to the clock.
5 What did the hotel owner find when he finished the bet?
He found that the two men had already gone with his money.
Unit 4
Part I
Exercises
I. Reading for information 。

A. Reading to find main ideas
1. C
2. B
B. Reading to find major details
3 . A 4. D
C. Reading to find relevant facts
5. A
6. C
II. Translation
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. She would greet us and take our hot little hands in her own beautiful coolone, with blue veins standing out on the back of it, as though the white skin were almost too delicate to contain them.
她会和我们打招呼，将我们热乎乎的小手握在她那双秀美而清凉的手里。

她的手背上淡蓝色的静脉凸显，雪白的皮肤仿佛细薄得遮不住它们似的。

2. She looked lonely and pathetic, and for the first time I wondered why noman had ever taken her and looked after her and loved her.
她脸上露出孤寂、哀婉的神情。

我第一次感到纳闷，为什么从没有男人娶她、呵护她、爱她呢？
3.I was disappointed but not alarmed, for so many things could happen toeither of us to prevent us from keeping our tryst.
我虽然有些失望，但是并没有紧张，因为可能发生的事情太多，我俩都会碰上，从而无法赴约。

4. It was the only love letter I ever received, but it turned all my bitterness and grief into a peacefulness which was the nearest I could get, then, to happiness.
那是我收到的唯一一封情书，它化解了我心中所有的痛苦和悲伤，使我感到平静，而那时，平静于我已是最接近幸福的感觉了。

5. The old lady looked down, troubled and shy like a child who has unwittinglydone wrong.
老太太垂下了目光，像一个无心犯错的孩子般不安、羞怯
III. Summary
Complete the following statements with words and expressions from the box. Use their proper forms.
1 In her small cottage , Great-Aunt Stephina Roos lived in solitude .
2 As I grew older, I became so fond of Great-Aunt Stephina Roos that I confided in her about my engagement with George.
3 Great-Aunt Stephina Roos was anxious about my love affair and often asked me strange questions as though she was afraid my romance would be destroyed .
4 When Great-Aunt Stephina Roos was a young girl, she fell in love with Richard, a man from England .
5 Richard returned to England to look after his estates and left Great-Aunt Stephina Roos a letter , asking her to marry him if she could leave South Africa and her family .
6 Because Great-Aunt Stephina Roos never learnt to read, she didn’t know what Richard wrote in the letter until many years later.
Part II Reading for Pleasure
Exercise
Answer the following questions.
1 Why didn’t the mailman look up when he passed Sophie’s house?
Because there was no mail for Sophie.
2 What kind of life did Sophie live?
She lived a lonely, widowed life because her husband had died eight months before.
3Why didn’t Sophie hear Mrs. Mason’s knocking at five o’clock?
Because she was holding the flowers on her lap, swaying slightly and stroking the petals of the flowers, lost in loving memory of her dead husband.
4 Why did Sophie open the flower box and arrange the flowers in her vase?
Because that was what she had done every year on Valentine’s Day before and the flowers were exactly what her husband had given her — yellow roses. She obviously forgot that she was not the receiver of the delivery.
5 How did Joseph arrange the flowers for Sophie? And why?
Joseph arrang ed f or t he florist t o de liver t he flowers to their neighbor Mrs. Mason and asked Mrs. Mason to send them to Sophie. He made such arrangements so that he could give his wife a pleasant surprise on Valentine’s Day without startling her.
Unit 5
Part I
Exercises
I. Reading for information 。

A. Reading to find main ideas
1. B
2. C
B. Reading to find major details
3 . B 4. A
C. Reading to find relevant facts
5. D
6. C
II. Translation
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. The brief weekend respite hadn’t provided much relief, what with thelaundry that had piled up, not to mention the supermarket and the drycleaners and the myriad other errands that ate into what was supposed to be our family time together.
周末短暂的休息也不太轻松，因为堆积的衣物要洗，更别提还有超市要去、干洗店要去，还有其他数不清的琐事。

原本应该和家人共度的时光就这样被挤占了。

2. I tuned out the crowd around me and began to mentally sort through thepriorities that would beckon as soon as I arrived at the office..
我无心理会周围的人，心里开始盘算到了办公室以后有哪些事务需要优先处理。

3.The train was pulling in, and the army of commuters was of one mind: Grab an empty seat at any cost.
火车缓缓地驶入车站，上班大军中，人人都怀着同样的心思：不惜一切代价抢个坐位。

4. With a firm grip on my briefcase I pushed along, and landed my prize. Sitting would allow me to get a jump on some paperwork, perhaps a memo or two.
我抓紧公文包，随着人群一起往前挤，总算抢到个坐位。

有了坐位我就可以提前处理一些文书工作，或许能完成一两份节略。

5. It seemed as if everyone on the train was studiously avoiding the view of this young woman and they buried their heads in their newspapers, or pretended to be deeply engrossed in their conversations.
车上的每个人好像都在刻意回避这位年轻的孕妇，要么埋头读报，要么假装聊得很投入，无暇旁顾。

III. Summary
Complete the following statements with words and expressions from the box. Use their proper forms.
1 I The author felt worn-out and bored because being a part of the rat race, she had to work really hard during the weekdays, and the brief weekend couldn't provide her with much relaxation, for she had to deal with the household chores .
2 As she waited for the train on the platform, she tuned out the crowd around her and began to mentally sort through the priorities of her work. She wanted to secure a seat on the train for sitting would allow her to get a jump on some paperwork.
3 When the train was pulling in, the army of commuters was of one mind: Grab an empty seat at any cost. Although the author did the same thing, she began to consider how her aims of life had deteriorated.
4 On the train, a young woman caught the author's attention. She was expecting a baby and she didn't have a seat. However, everyone on the train pretended to be too deeply engrossed in their conversations or reading to notice her.
5 The author felt a pang of guilt and decided to give her seat to this young woman. And her small act of kindness was as much for her as it was for the pregnant woman.
Part II Reading for Pleasure
Exercise
Answer the following questions.
1 How did the author feel about the working environment?
She thought it was hostile as well as noisy, dirty, and lacking in temperature control.
2 What did James think of the author at first?
He looked down upon her. He thought that she was too young and inexperienced, and he didn’t want
to work with a woman.
3What did the author do to try to get James on her side?
She was punctual and always did what she had promised. She spent time on the line trying to understand the challenges and obstacles James faced as a supervisor. She even brought him coffee and made a point to ask about his family.
4 How did the author finally change James's attitude towards her?
She changed his attitude towards her by asking for his advice on the retooling of the Cushion Room, and by giving him all the credit for the success of the operation.
5 What lesson did the author learn from the experience?
She learned that one should act and treat others as he himself wants to be treated, and should put his ego down and sincerely ask for help.
Unit 6 Happiness and Pleasure
Part I
Exercises
I. Reading for information 。

A. Reading to find main ideas
1. A
2. D
B. Reading to find major details
3 . C 4. D
C. Reading to find relevant facts
5. B
6. D
II. Translation
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. True happiness is such a rare commodity that the whole of the world is continuously seeking it and failing to find it.
真正的幸福是稀有之物，芸芸众生苦苦寻觅却求之不得。

2. Only a small percentage of all our wishes is fulfilled in spite of all our endeavors.
任凭我等费尽努力，能实现的愿望却少之又少。

3.Desire is a seed which grows fruits of unhappiness.
欲望是一颗催生不幸之果的种子。

4. Then why keep desiring constantly and exposing ourselves to unhappiness?
既然如此，人们为什么还要总是有所欲求，使自己感到不幸福呢？
5. We do derive pleasure when our desires are fulfilled, but for every desire fulfilled there are numerous others that remain unfulfilled.
我们如愿以偿时，确实能得到快乐，但是满足了此愿，却满足不了其他诸多愿望。

III. Summary
Complete the following statements with words and expressions from the box. Use their proper forms.
1 The whole trouble starts when we want something.
2 Only a small percentage of all our wishes is fulfilled in spite of all our endeavors .
3The frustration , of failing to fulfill most of our wishes, sets in.
4 We must explore the possibility of a life of no desires or minimum desires.
5 Are we ourselves always willing or able to fulfill the demands of others around us?
6 Almost all of the time we live inside our minds, either making plans to fulfill our present desires or ruing the desires which could not be fulfilled and in this process miss out all the pleasures lying all around us.
7 We have to consider carefully whether we are not paying too high a price, in terms of all the frustrations we experience as a result of failures, for a few fulfilled desires.
8 Whatever comes our way we should try to extract all the pleasure possible from it.
Part II Reading for Pleasure
Exercise
Answer the following questions.
1 Why does the author feel fortunate despite the fact that no kids played with her?
Though the author has no peer friends because of her physical handicap, she can enjoy reading books and the love of her parents who are always there for her.
2 How do you understand the itali cized sentence in the passage, i.e. “When our illness reveals itself, it is usually not understood and therefore criticized”?
When we suffer from illness and people don’t realize it, it is likely to invite criticisms.
3What roles do the author’s parent s play in her life?
The author’s father is always there to support her, encouraging her to embrace her dream bravely, while her mother reminds her of the reality. In other words, her parents seem to have reached a silent agreement in helping her keep a balance between reality and dream.
4 What does the author mean by the title “Hidden Disability”?
Literally hidden disability refers to illnesses that are not obvious. People with such illnesses are expected to be like everybody else. In the text the author seems to suggest that, since she had achieved “something rarer than most successful people” despite her hidden disability, other people, including normal people, should be able to do the same as long as we work hard enough.
5 What does the author’s mother mean when she said to her “You were privileged to triumph”?
The author’s mother implies that her physical handicap was actually a “privilege” because it gave her an opportunity to “triumph” over all the difficulties unimaginable to normal people and ach ieve such a rare success.。