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Unit 3
Unit 3
一、Vocabulary
Part A
1.As house prices plummet, the new breed of renters escape the danger of falling
into debt traps and save their spare cash for the future.
2.Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message:
“Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world”.
3.The 19-year-old model Saffron Domini needed little persuasion to appear in a
harrowing film about racism and violence.
4.Carefree and full of youthful enthusiasm, his happy disposition attracted whites
and Indians alike.
5. In British political life of the previous twenty years, latent anti-Jewish feeling had
been apt to surface in response to particular events.
6.With standards often being poor, unregulated, and uncontrolled, disaster seems
imminent.
7.After walking for an hour, she wasn’t sweating, but there was a pleasurable sense
of exertion.
8.Particularly worrisome were the fruit drinks, which projected a wholesome image
while containing sugar in some form or another.
9.With the rising tide and bad conditions it was possible that the strand man might
not survive until the lifeboat arrived.
10.One study estimates that the headquarters and related functions of big American
companies gobble up almost a fifth of their annual profits.
Part B
1. With a(n) __________ network of committees, sports clubs and societies, each
student is encouraged to play a full part in this aspect of student life.
A. thriving
B. encouraging
C. exciting
D. succeeding
2. They may pick up ideas almost at random from skimming journals, ideas that
may _____ new trains of thought or fruitful new cross-connections.
A. steer
B. pilot
C. spark
D. lead
3. Being a good listener is not only useful because you will hear what others miss,
but you will find that people will tell you things that they __________ others.
A. shield on
B. shield from
C. shield in
D. shield out
4. What right did he have to come back into her life like this, trying to _____ it into
small pieces that couldn’t be put back t ogether for a second time?
A. crash
B. crush
C. shatter
D. explode
5. In many areas local services were provided by numerous different authorities,
which often gave rise to _____ co-ordination problems.
A. acute
B. accurate
C. accusative
D. alternative
6. The awful truth that he was suffering from lung cancer ____ him, though his
family members tried very hard to keep the secret.
A. came upon
B. dawned on
C. fell to
D. went for
7. I suppose yoga enthusiasts would find it painless, but for most of us an hour spent
in this position was a(n) __________.
A. trial
B. test
C. exam
D. ordeal
8. But rules that strengthen banks in good times can____ them in recessions.
A. cripple
B. reduce
C. slash
D. decrease
9. There are few more __________ places on earth than the plains surrounding a
volcano in the aftermath of its eruption.
A. fertile
B. unproblematic
C. barren
D. unprofitable
10. The minds of many of these young offenders appear to have been __________
by greed and indifference to violence.
A. retarded
B. numbed
C. idled
D. fooled
二、Close
Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the 1) keys to success? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it is 2) divided into two aspects-life within and life without; internal life and3) external life-and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even one who has renounced the world has to understand the word relationship properly, because 4)life itself is actually relationship. The body is related 5)to the breath, and the breath is related to the mind. The body, breath, senses, and mind all 6)function together as a unit. So life virtually 7)means relationship, and thus the art of living and being requires an 8)understanding of one’s relationship to the external world and the relationships within 9)oneself.
All human beings have inner potentials, but many people are not aware 10)of those potentials and do not know how to use them to have a 11)successful life. Those who are not happy 12)internally can never be happy externally; those who are not happy within themselves can never make 13) others happy. Those who do not love themselves 14)can never love others.
If we are not happy, how can we be successful in life? Success 15)lies in our happiness. The keys to happiness lie within us, but our modern education does not 16)teach us how to find them. It is helpful to have a few formulas to practice in daily
life to make it more successful. They are 17) derived from observations based on experience. There are five points to remember: first, how to decide things on time; second, how to study personal habit patterns; third, how to 18)conduct ourselves in the external world; fourth, what attitude to take; fifth, where to 19)find happiness. To attain success in life, one should learn and 20)apply these five points.
三、Translation
1. 当一个人处于“经历中的沙漠”——一段感到毫无出路、甚至毫无希望的时期，最重要的是不要让自己陷入荒漠之中无法自拔。
When someone is in “desert of experience”—a period of feeling barren of options, even hope, the most important thing is not to allow himself to be stranded in the desert.
2. 经济来源耗尽，还有一大家人需要供养，吉米起初想逃避，但最终靠着顽强的勇气和乐观的性格挺了过来。
With financial resources exhausted and the pressure of a big family to support, Jimmy wanted to escape at first but finally his courage and good humor saw him through.
3. 有人认为在人生的任何阶段开始一种新的生涯都为时不晚。
Someone believes that it is never too late to embark on a new career in any period of life.
4. 在经历重大打击之后，明智的做法是勇敢面对挑战，而不是逃避。
What makes sense is to face the challenge rather than run away from the troubles after suffering a significant loss.
5. 玛丽靠她在餐馆工作的微薄收入，几乎无法维持生活。
With the small income from her restaurant job, Mary could barely make ends meet.
考试成绩比例及范围：
听力20%：课内Unit 1、2、3占10分，课外占10分
词汇20%：课内Unit 1、3、4、8、10 V ocabulary (共20小题，每题1分)
完型10%：课内Unit 1、3、4、8、10Close（20小题，每题0.5分）
阅读15%：课外3篇，每篇5题共15分
翻译15%：汉译英（3个）：课内Unit 1、3、4、8、10 Translation中前五个英译汉（2个）：课文原文翻译
作文20%：不确定
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A. some modern women prefer a life of individual freedom. B. the family is no longer the basic unit of society in present-day Europe. C. some professional people have too much work to do to feel lonely. D. Most Europeans conceive living a single life as unacceptable. 5.What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage? A. To review the impact of women becoming high earners. B. To contemplate the philosophy underlying individualism. C. To examine the trend of young people living alone. D. To stress the rebuilding of personal relationships. Passage Two American dramas and sitcoms would have been candidates for prime time several years ago. But those programs －though some remain popular －increasingly occupy fringe times slots on foreign networks. Instead, a growing number of shows produced by local broadcasters are on the air at the best times. The shift counters longstanding assumptions that TV shows produced in the United States would continue to overshadow locally produced shows from Singapore to Sicily. The changes are coming at a time when the influence of the United States on international affairs has annoyed friends and foes alike, and some people are expressing relief that at least on television American culture is no longer quite the force it once was. “There has always been a concern that the image of the world would be shaped too much by American culture,” said Dr. Jo Groebek, director general of the European Institu te for the Media, a non-profit group. Given the choice, he adds, foreign viewers often prefer homegrown shows that better reflect local tastes, cultures and historical events. Unlike in the United States, commercial broadcasting in most regions of the world －including Asia, Europe, and a lesser extent Latin America, which has a long history of commercial TV －is a relatively recent development. A majority of broadcasters in many countries were either state-owned or state-subsidized for much of the last century. Governments began to relax their control in the 1980’s by privatizing national broadcasters and granting licenses to dozens of new commercial networks. The rise of cable and satellite pay-television increased the spectrum of channels. Relatively inexperienced and often financed on a shoestring, these new commercial stations needed hours of programming fast. The cheapest and easiest way to fill airtime was to buy shows from American studios, and the bidding wars for popular shows were fierce. The big American studios took advantage of that demand by raising prices and forcing foreign broadcasters to buy less popular programs if they wanted access to the best-selling shows and movies. “The studio priced themselves out of prime time,” said Harry Evans Sloan, chairman of SBS Broadcasting, a Pan-European broadcaster. Mr. Sloan estimates that over the last decade, the price of American programs has increased fivefold even as the international ratings for these shows have declined. American broadcasters are still the biggest buyers of American-made television shows, accounting for 90% of the $25 billion in 2001 sales. But international sales which totaled $2.5 billion last year often make the difference between a profit and a loss on show. As the pace of foreign sales slows －the market is now growing at 5% a year, down from the double-digit growth of the 1990’s －studio executives are rethinking production costs. 6. Which of the following best characterizes the image embodied in American shows? A. Self-contradictory B. Prejudice-free C. Culture-loaded D. Audience-targeted 7. The intervention of governments in the 1980’s resulted in __________ . A. the patenting of domination shows and movies B. the emergence of new commercial networks C. the promotion of cable and satellite pay-television D. the intense competition coming from the outside 8. The phrase “on a shoestring” (Para. 6) most probably means __________. A. in need of capital B. after a fashion C. on second thoughts D. in the interests of themselves 9. The main reason why American dramas and sitcoms are driven out of prime time is that ____. A. they lose competitiveness B. they are not market-oriented C. they are too much priced D. they fall short of audience expectations 10. American studio producers will give thought to production costs __________. A. if they have no access to popular shows B. because their endeavors come to no avail C. since bidding wars are no longer fierce D. as international sales pace slows down Passage Three How shops can exploit people's herd mentality to increase sales 1. A TRIP to the supermarket may not seem like an exercise in psychological warfare—but it is. Shopkeepers know that filling a store with the aroma of freshly baked bread makes people feel hungry and persuades them to buy more food than they had intended. Stocking the most expensive products at eye level makes them sell faster than cheaper but less visible competitors. Now researchers are investigating how “swarm intelligence” (th at is，how ants，bees or any social animal，including humans，behave in a crowd) can be used to influence what people buy. 2. At a recent conference on the simulation of adaptive behaviour in Rome，Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani，a computer scientist from the Florida Institute of Technology，described a new way to increase impulse buying using this phenomenon. Supermarkets already encourage shoppers to buy things they did not realise they wanted: for instance，by placing everyday items such as milk and eggs at the back of the store，forcing shoppers to walk past other tempting goods to reach them. Mr Usmani and Ronaldo Menezes，also of the Florida Institute of Technology, set out to enhance this tendency to buy more by playing on the herd instinct. The idea is that, if a certain product is seen to be popular, shoppers are likely to choose it too. The challenge is to keep customers informed about what others are buying. 3. Enter smart-cart technology. In Mr Usmani's supermarket every product has a radio frequency identification tag, a sort of barcode that uses radio waves to transmit information，and every trolley has a scanner that reads this information and relays it to a central computer. As a customer walks past a shelf of goods, a screen on the shelf tells him how many people currently in the shop have chosen that particular product. If the number is high, he is more likely to select it too.