Unit2
He was born in a poor area of South London. He wore his mother's old red stockings cut down for ankle socks. His mother was temporarily declared mad.Dickens might have created Charlie Chaplin's childhood. But only Charlie Chaplin could have created the great comic character of "the Tramp", the little man in rags who gave his creator permanent fame.
Other countries—France, Italy, Spain, even Japan—have provided more applause (and profit) where Chaplin is concerned than the land of his birth.Chaplin quit Britain for good in 1913 when he journeyed to America with a group of performers to do his comedy act on the stage, where talent scouts recruited him to work for Mack Sennett, the king of Hollywood comedy films.
Sad to say, many English people in the 1920s and 1930s thought Chaplin's Tramp a bit, well, "crude". Certainly middle-class audiences did; the working-class audiences were more likely to clap for a character who revolted against authority, using his wicked little cane to trip it up, or aiming the heel of his boot for a well-placed kick at its broad rear. All the same, Chaplin's comic beggar didn't seem all that English or even working-class. English tramps didn't sport tiny moustaches, huge pants or tail coats: European leaders and Italian waiters wore things like that. Then again, the Tramp's quick eye for a pretty girl had a coarse way about it that was considered, well, not quite nice by English audiences—that's how foreigners behaved, wasn't it? But for over half of his screen career, Chaplin had no screen voice to confirm his British nationality.
Indeed, it was a headache for Chaplin when he could no longer resist the talking movies and had to find "the right voice" for his Tramp. He postponed that day as long as possible: In Modern Times in 1936, the first film in which he was heard as a singing waiter, he made up a nonsense language which sounded like no known nationality. He later said he imagined the Tramp to be a college-educated gentleman who'd come down in the world. But if he'd been able to speak with an educated accent in those early short comedies, it's doubtful if he would have achieved world fame. And the English would have been sure to find it "odd". No one was certain whether Chaplin did it on purpose but this helped to bring about his huge success.
He was an immensely talented man, determined to a degree unusual even in the ranks of Hollywood stars. His huge fame gave him the freedom—and, more importantly, the money—to be his own master. He already had the urge to explore and extend a talent he discovered in himself as he went along. "It can't be me. Is that possible? How extraordinary," is how he greeted the first sight of himself as the Tramp on the screen.
But that shock roused his imagination. Chaplin didn't have his jokes written into a script in advance; he was the kind of comic who used his physical senses to invent his art as he went along. Lifeless objects especially helped Chaplin make "contact" with himself as an artist. He turned them into other kinds of objects. Thus, a broken alarm clock in the movie The Pawnbroker became a "sick" patient undergoing surgery; boots were boiled in his film The Gold Rush and their soles eaten with salt and pepper like prime cuts of fish (the nails being removed like fish bones). This physical transformation, plus the skill with which he executed it again and again, is surely the secret of Chaplin's great comedy.
He also had a deep need to be loved—and a corresponding fear of being betrayed.
The two were hard to combine and sometimes—as in his early marriages—the collision between them resulted in disaster. Yet even this painfully-bought self-knowledge found its way into his comic creations. The Tramp never loses his faith in the flower girl who'll be waiting to walk into the sunset with him; while the other side of Chaplin makes Monsieur Verdoux, the French wife killer, into a symbol of hatred for women.
It's a relief to know that life eventually gave Charlie Chaplin the stability and happiness it had earlier denied him. In Oona O'Neill Chaplin, he found a partner whose stability and affection spanned the 37 years age difference between them, which had seemed so threatening, that when the official who was marrying them in 1942 turned to the beautiful girl of 17 who'd given notice of their wedding date, he said, "And where is the young man? "—Chaplin, then 54, had cautiously waited outside. As Oona herself was the child of a large family with its own problems, she was well prepared for the battle that Chaplin's life became as many unfounded rumors surrounded them both—and, later on, she was the center of calm in the quarrels that Chaplin sometimes sparked in his own large family of talented children.
Chaplin died on Christmas Day 1977.
A few months later, a couple of almost comic body thieves stole his body from the family burial chamber and held it for money. The police recovered it with more efficiency than Mack Sennett's clumsy Keystone Cops would have done, but one can't help feeling Chaplin would have regarded this strange incident as a fitting memorial—his way of having the last laugh on a world to which he had given so many.
Unit3
A welfare client is supposed to cheat.
Everybody expects it. Faced with sharing
a dinner of raw pet food with the cat, many
people in wheelchairs I know bleed the
system for a few extra dollars. They tell
the government that they are getting two
hundred dollars less than their real
pension so they can get a little extra
welfare money. Or, they tell the
caseworker that the landlord raised the
rent by a hundred dollars.
I have opted to live a life of
complete honesty. So instead, I go out and
drum up some business and draw cartoons.
I even tell welfare how much I make! Oh,
I'm tempted to get paid under the table.
But even if I yielded to that temptation,
big magazines are not going to get
involved in some sticky situation. They
keep my records, and that information
goes right into the government's computer.
Very high-profile.
As a welfare client I'm expected to
bow before the caseworker. Deep down,
caseworkers know that they are being made
fools of by many of their clients, and
they feel they are entitled to have
clients bow to them as compensation. I'm
not being bitter. Most caseworkers begin
as college-educated liberals with high
ideals. But after a few years in a system
that practically requires people to lie,
they become like the one I shall call
"Suzanne", a detective in shorts.
Not long after Christmas last year,
Suzanne came to inspect my apartment and
saw some new posters pasted on the wall.
"Where'd you get the money for those? "
she wanted to know.
"Friends and family."
"Well, you'd better have a receipt
for it, by God. You have to report any
donations or gifts."
This was my cue to beg. Instead, I
talked back. "I got a cigarette from
somebody on the street the other day. Do
I have to report that? "
"Well, I'm sorry, but I don't make
the rules, Mr. Callahan."
Suzanne tries to lecture me about
repairs to my wheelchair, which is always
breaking down because welfare won't spend
money maintaining it properly."You know,
Mr. Callahan, I've heard that you put a
lot more miles on that wheelchair than
average."
Of course I do. I'm an active worker,
not a vegetable. I live near downtown, so
I can get around in a wheelchair. I wonder
what she'd think if she suddenly broke her
hip and had to crawl to work.
Government cuts in welfare have
resulted in hunger and suffering for a lot
of people, not just me. But people with
spinal cord injuries felt the cuts in a
unique way: The government stopped taking
care of our chairs. Each time mine broke
down, lost a screw, needed a new roller
bearing, the brake wouldn't work, etc.,
and I called Suzanne, I had to endure a
little lecture.Finally, she'd say, "Well,
if I can find time today, I'll call the
medical worker."
She was supposed to notify the
medical worker, who would certify that
there was a problem. Then the medical
worker called the wheelchair repair
companies to get the cheapest bid. Then
the medical worker alerted the main
welfare office at the state capital. They
considered the matter for days while I lay
in bed, unable to move. Finally, if I was
lucky, they called back and approved the
repair.
When welfare learned I was making
money on my cartoons, Suzanne started
"visiting" every fortnight instead of
every two months. She looked into every
corner in search of unreported appliances,
or maids, or a roast pig in the oven, or
a new helicopter parked out back. She
never found anything, but there was
always a thick pile of forms to fill out
at the end of each visit, accounting for
every penny.
There is no provision in the law for
a gradual shift away from welfare. I am
an independent businessman, slowly
building up my market. It's impossible to
jump off welfare and suddenly be making
two thousand dollars a month. But I would
love to be able to pay for some of my
living and not have to go through an
embarrassing situation every time I need
a spare part for my wheelchair.
There needs to be a lawyer who can
act as a champion for the rights of
welfare clients, because the system so
easily lends itself to abuse by the
welfare givers as well as by the clients.
Welfare sent Suzanne to look around in my
apartment the other day because the
chemist said I was using a larger than
usual amount of medical supplies. I was,
indeed: The hole that has been surgically
cut to drain urine had changed size and
the connection to my urine bag was
leaking.
While she was taking notes, my phone
rang and Suzanne answered it. The caller
was a state senator, which scared Suzanne
a little. Would I sit on the governor's
committee and try to do something about
the thousands of welfare clients who,
like me, could earn part or all of their
own livings if they were allowed to do so,
one step at a time?
Hell, yes, I would! Someday people
like me will thrive under a new system
that will encourage them, not seek to
convict them of cheating. They will be
free to develop their talents without
guilt or fear—or just hold a good, steady
job.
Unit4
A transformation is occurring that
should greatly boost living standards in
the developing world. Places that until
recently were deaf and dumb are rapidly
acquiring up-to-date telecommunications
that will let them promote both internal
and foreign investment. It may take a
decade for many countries in Asia, Latin
America, and Eastern Europe to improve
transportation, power supplies, and
other utilities. But a single optical
fiber with a diameter of less than half
a millimete can carry more information
than a large cable made of coppe wires.
By installing optical fiber, digital
switches, and the latest wireless
transmission systems, a parade of urban
centers and industrial zones from Beijing
to Budapest are stepping directly into
the Information Age. A spider's web of
digital and wireless communication links
is already reaching most of Asia and parts
of Eastern Europe.
All these developing regions see
advanced communications as a way to leap
over whole stages of economic development.
Widespread access to information
technologies, for example, promises to
condense the time required to change from
labor-intensive assembly work to
industries that involve engineering,
marketing, and design. Modern
communications "will give countries like
China and Vietnam a huge advantage over
countries stuck with old technology".
How fast these nations should push
ahead is a matter of debate. Many experts
think Vietnam is going too far by
requiring that all mobile phones be
expensive digital models, when it is
desperate for any phones, period. "These
countries lack experience in weighing
costs and choosing between
technologies," says one expert.
Still, there's little dispute that
communications will be a key factor
separating the winners from the losers.
Consider Russia. Because of its strong
educational system in mathematics and
science, it should thrive in the
Information Age.The problem is its
national phone system is a rusting antiqu
that dates from the l930s. To lick this
problem, Russia is starting to install
optical fiber and has a strategic plan to
pump $40 billion into various
communications projects.But its economy
is stuck in recession and it barely has
the money to even scratch the surface of
the problem.
Compare that with the mainland of
China. Over the next decade, it plans to
pour some $100 billion into
telecommunications equipment. In a way,
China's backwardness is an advantage,
because the expansion occurs just as new
technologies are becoming cheaper than
copper wire systems. By the end of 1995,
each of China's provincial capitals
except for Lhasa will have digital
switches and high-capacity optical fiber
links. This means that major cities are
getting the basic infrastructure to
become major parts of the information
superhighway, allowing people to log on
to the most advanced services available
Telecommunications is also a key to
Shanghai's dream of becoming a top
financial center.
To offer peak performance in
providing the electronic data and
paperless trading global investors
expect, Shanghai plans
telecommunications networks as powerful
as those in Manhattan.
Meanwhile, Hungary also hopes to
jump into the modern world. Currently,
700,000 Hungarians are waiting for phones.
To partially overcome the problem of
funds and to speed the import of Western
technology, Hungary sold a 30% stake in
its national phone company to two Western
companies.To further reduce the waiting
list for phones, Hungary has leased
rights to a Dutch-Scandinavian group of
companies to build and operate what it
says will be one of the most advanced
digital mobile phone systems in the
world.In fact, wireless is one of the most
popularways to get a phone system up fast
in developing countries. It's cheaper to
build radio towers than to string lines
across mountain ridges, and businesses
eager for reliable service are willing to
accept a significantly higher price tag
for a wireless call—the fee is typically
two to four times as much as for calls made
over fixed lines.
Wireless demand and usage have also
exploded across the entire width and
breadth of Latin America. For wireless
phone service providers, nowhere is
business better than in Latin
America—having an operation there is
like having an endless pile of money at
your disposal. Bellsouth Corporation,
with operations in four wireless markets,
estimates its annual revenu per average
customer at about $2,000 as compared to
$860 in the United States. That's partly
because Latin American customers talk two
to four times as long on the phone as
people in North America.
Thailand is also turning to wireless,
as a way to allow Thais to make better use
of all the time they spend stuck in
traffic. And it isn't that easy to call
or fax from the office: The waiting list
for phone lines has from one to two
million names on it. So mobile phones have
become the rage among businesspeople who
can remain in contact despite the traffic
jams.
Vietnam is making one of the boldest
leaps. Despite a per person income of just
$220 a year, all of the 300,000 lines
Vietnam plans to add annually will be
optical fiber with digital switching,
rather than cheaper systems that send
electrons over copper wires. By going for
next-generation technology now,
Vietnamese telecommunications officials
say they'll be able to keep pace with
anyone in Asia for decades.
For countries that have lagged behind
for so long, the temptation to move ahead
in one jump is hard to resist. And despite
the mistakes they'll make, they'll
persist—so that one day they can cruise
alongside Americans and Western
Europeans on the information
superhighway.
Unit5
Here we are, all by ourselves, all
22 million of us by recent count, alone
in our rooms, some of us liking it that
way and some of us not. Some of us
divorced, some widowed, some never yet
committed.
Loneliness may be a sort of
national disease here, and it's more
embarrassing for us to admit than any
other sin. On the other hand, to be
alone on purpose, having rejected
company rather than been cast out by it,
is one characteristic of an American
hero. The solitary hunter or explorer
needs no one as they venture out among
the deer and wolves to tame the great
wild areas. Thoreau, alone in his cabin
on the pond, his back deliberately
turned to the town. Now, that's
character for you.
Inspiration in solitude is a major
commodity for poets and philosophers.
They're all for it. They all speak
highly of themselves for seeking it out,
at least for an hour or even two before
they hurry home for tea.
Para4 Consider Dorothy Wordsworth,
for instance, helping her brother
William put on his coat, finding his
notebook and pencil for him, and waving
as he sets forth into the early spring
sunlight to look at flowers all by
himself. "How graceful, how benign, is
solitude," he wrote.
No doubt about it, solitude is
improved by being voluntary.
Look at Milton's daughters
arranging his cushions and blankets
before they silently creep away, so he
can create poetry. Then, rather than
trouble to put it in his own handwriting,
he calls the girls to come back and
write it down while he dictates.
You may have noticed that most of
these artistic types went outdoors to
be alone.
The indoors was full of loved ones
keeping the kettle warm till they came
home.
The American high priest of
solitude was Thoreau. We admire him,
not for his self-reliance, but because
he was all by himself out there at
Walden Pond, and he wanted to be—all
alone in the woods.
Actually, he lived a mile, or 20
minutes' walk, from his nearest
neighbor; half a mile from the railroad;
three hundred yards from a busy road.
He had company in and out of the hut all
day, asking him how he could possibly
be so noble. Apparently the main point
of his nobility was that he had neither
wife nor servants, used his own axe to
chop his own wood, and washed his own
cups and saucers. don't know who did his
laundry; he doesn't say, but he
certainly doesn't mention doing his own,
either. Listen to him: "I never found
the companion that was so companionable
as solitude."
Thoreau had his own
self-importance for company. Perhaps
there's a message here: The larger the
ego, the less the need for other egos
around. The more modest and humble we
feel, the more we suffer from solitude,
feeling ourselves inadequate company.
If you live with other people,
their temporary absence can be
refreshing.
Solitude will end on Thursday. If
today I use a singular personal pronoun
to refer to myself, next week I will use
the plural form. While the others are
absent you can stretch out your soul
until it fills up the whole room, and
use your freedom, coming and going as
you please without apology, staying up
late to read, soakin in the bath, eating
a whole pint of ice cream at one sitting,
moving at your own pace. Those absent
will be back. Their waterproof winter
coats are in the closet and the dog
keeps watching for them at the window.
But when you live alone, the temporary
absence of your friends and
acquaintances leaves a vacuum; they may
never come back.
The condition of loneliness rises
and falls, but the need to talk goes on
forever.
It's more basic than needing to
listen. Oh, we all have friends we can
tell important things to, people we can
call to say we lost our job or fell on
a slippery floor and broke our arm.
It's the daily succession of small
complaints and observations and
opinions that backs up and chokes us.
We can't really call a friend to say we
got a parcel from our sister, or it's
getting dark earlier now, or we don't
trust that new Supreme Court justice.
Scientific surveys show that we
who live alone talk at length to
ourselves and our pets and the
television. We ask the cat whether we
should wear the blue suit or the yellow
dress.
We ask the parrot if we should
prepare steak, or noodles for, dinner.
We argue with ourselves over who is the
greater sportsman: that figure skater
or this skier. There's nothing wrong
with this.It's good for us, and a lot
less embarrassing than the woman in
front of us in line at the market who's
telling the cashier that her niece
Melissa may be coming to visit on
Saturday, and Melissa is very fond of
hot chocolate, which is why she bought
the powdered hot chocolate mix, though
she never drinks it herself.
It's important to stay rational.
It's important to stop waiting and
settle down and make ourselves
comfortable, at least temporarily, and
find some grace and pleasure in our
condition, not like a self-centered
British poet but like a patient
princess sealed up in a tower, waiting
for the happy ending to our fairy tale.
After all, here we are. It may not
be where we expected to be, but for the
time being we might as well call it home.
Anyway, there is no place like home.
Recently the rise in the phenomenon of Internet has cause public concern.With the rapid development of Internet,more and more people is attracted to Internet.How will our life go on without the internet?Of all the questions I have heard,this is the one most frequently voiced
Internet is a common occurrence in our daily life,whatever we do, Internet cannot be avoid. Internet make our life become not only wonderful but also convenient.This kind of phenomenon performance in many ways.For one thing,it makes our work become more and more convenient.For another, the Internet gives kids access to information in ways prior generations couldn`t even have imagined.Still another,the Internet can increase our entertainment,such as network games and online chat.We can make friends from all over the world though the Internet.
These days we are often told that the Internet is perfect,but is this really the case?Just as a coin has two sides,the Internet brings many benefits and opportunities,however,everything has two aspects.Let`s bring our discussion here to a more present and practical context.In today`s world,more and more people cannot afford the temptation so that a lot of people become addicted to online games,drugs and gambling.Worse still,many people feel stuck without the Internet.
In a word,from what has been discussion above,we may safely reach the conclusion that the Internet is not perfect.Worse still,addicts cannot function as normal members of society.They neglect or abuse their families,friends,and eventually strangers.We must call for an immediate method,because the current problem phenomenon of cyber addition,if allowed to procceed,will surely lead to a heavyprice.It is essential that effective measure should be taken to correct tendency.
新视野大学英语1读写教程 Unite 1 一、Words in use 选词填空 Explore(v. 勘探,探测)transmit(v. 传送,传递,传播)resource(n. 资源)emerge(v. 岀现,为? ??所公认)yield(v. 产生,岀产,屈从,让步)pose(v. 摆姿势,导致)assume(v. 认为,假定,假设)confiden ce( n. 信任信赖,自信心)in herit(v. 沿袭,秉承,继承)c omprehe nsive(a. 综合的,多方面的) 1. Give n the cha nee to show his ability, he rega ined con fide nee and bega n to succeed in school. 2. It is so difficult to explore the bottom of the ocea n because some part s are very deep. 3. It was about 30 sec onds before Alex emerged from the water; we were quite scared. 4. We ofte n assume that whe n other people do the same thi ngs as we do, the y do them for the same reas ons; but this assumpti on is not always
reas on able. 5. There is widespread concern that the risi ng un employme nt may pose a ______ threat to social stability. 6. After a(n) comprehensive physical exam, my doctor said I was in good condition except that my blood pressure was a little high. 7. It is well known that China is a country with rich n atural resources an _____________ d a very big populati on. 8. Some people believe that the earth can yield enou gh food to support at least twice its present population.
新视野读写教程第一册课后答案.txt台湾一日不收复,我一日不过4级!如果太阳不出来了,我就不去上班了;如果出来了,我就继续睡觉!新视野大学英语(第一册)答案 Unit 1 Section A. Learning a Foreign Language 《读写教程 I》: Ex. II, p. 7 1. The kind and patient teacher and her positive method of praising all students often. 2. In junior middle school, his English teacher was kind and patient. He liked to answer questions in class and he made much progress in English. But, in his senior middle school, his teacher punished those who gave wrong answers. He didn’t want to answer questions any more in class. As a result, he did not make much progress in English. 3. In college and junior middle school, his English teachers were both patient and kind, but he didn’t have as many chances to answer questions in college as he did in junior middle school. 4. It requires much time, commitment and discipline to keep up with the flow of the course. 5. Hard work. 6. He could take all the time he needed to consider his ideas and write a reply before posting it on the screen. 7. Learning a foreign language taught him the value of hard work and gave him insights into another culture. 8. He could communicate with many more people than before. 《读写教程 I》: Ex. III, p. 7 1. embarrass
Unit 1 Section A 艺术家追求成名,如同狗自逐其尾,一旦追到手,除了继续追逐不知还能做些什么。成功之残酷正在于它常常让那些追逐成功者自寻毁灭。 对一名正努力追求成功并刚刚崭露头角的艺术家,其亲朋常常会建议“正经的饭碗不能丢~”他们的担心不无道理。 追求出人头地,最乐观地说也困难重重,许多人到最后即使不是穷困潦倒,也是几近精神崩溃。 尽管如此,希望赢得追星族追捧和同行赞扬之类的不太纯洁的动机却在激励着他们向前。享受成功的无上光荣,这种诱惑不是能轻易抵挡的。 成名者之所以成名,大多是因为发挥了自己在歌唱、舞蹈、绘画或写作等方面的特长,并能形成自己的风格。 为了能迅速走红,代理人会极力吹捧他们这种风格。他们青云直上的过程让人看不清楚。他们究竟是怎么成功的,大多数人也都说不上来。 尽管如此,艺术家仍然不能闲下来。 若表演者、画家或作家感到无聊,他们的作品就难以继续保持以前的吸引力,也就难以保持公众的注意力。 公众的热情消磨以后,就会去追捧下一个走红的人。 有些艺术家为了不落伍,会对他们的写作、跳舞或唱歌的风格稍加变动,但这将冒极大的失宠的危险。 公众对于他们藉以成名的艺术风格以外的任何形式都将不屑一顾。 知名作家的文风一眼就能看出来,如田纳西?威廉斯的戏剧、欧内斯特?海明威的情节安排、罗伯特?弗罗斯特或 T.S.艾略特的诗歌等。
同样,像莫奈、雷诺阿、达利这样的画家,希区柯克、费里尼、斯皮尔伯格、陈凯歌或张艺谋这样的电影制作人也是如此。 他们鲜明独特的艺术风格标志着与别人不同的艺术形式上的重大变革,这让他们名利双收,但也让他们付出了代价,那就是失去了用其他风格或形式表现自我的自由。 名气这盏聚光灯可比热带丛林还要炙热。骗局很快会被揭穿,过多的关注带来的压力会让大多数人难以承受。 它让你失去自我。你必须是公众认可的那个你,而不是真实的你或是可能的你。艺人,就像政客一样,必须常常说些违心或连自己都不完全相信的话来取悦听众。 一滴名气之水有可能玷污人的心灵这一整口井,因此一个艺术家若能保持真我,会格外让人惊叹。 你可能答不上来哪些人没有妥协,却仍然在这场名利的游戏中获胜。 一个例子就是爱尔兰著名作家奥斯卡?王尔德,他在社交行为和性行为方面以我行我素而闻名于世。虽然他的行为遭到公众的反对,却依然故我,他也因此付出了惨痛的代价。在一次宴会上,他一位密友的母亲当着他的朋友和崇拜者的面,指责他在性方面影响了她的儿子。 他听了她的话以后大为光火,起诉了这个年轻人的母亲,声称她毁了自己的“好”名声。但是,他真该请一个更好的律师。 结果是,法官不仅不支持他提出的让这个女人赔偿他名声损失费的请求,反而对他本人进行了罚款。 他由于拒交罚款最终还被送进了监狱。更糟糕的是,他再也无法获得更多公众的宠爱。在最糟糕的时候,他发现没有一个人愿意拿自己的名声冒险来替他说话。
maintain 保持prestige 声望whereby 其中nominate提名 inhibit抑制patriotic爱国的pursuit追求dedication奉献 endeavor努力transcend超越 1. Most cities in the country have introduced "Clean Air Zones" (whereby) factories and households are only allowed to burn smokeless fuel. 全国大多数城市都实行了“洁净空气区”,工厂和家庭只允许燃烧无烟燃料。2. He knows that the (pursuit) of social status can consume vast amounts of his time and effort. 他知道追求社会地位可以消耗他大量的时间和精力。 3. The doctors are at a loss because so far no medicine has been found to (inhibit) the spread of the disease. 医生们感到困惑,因为到目前为止还没有发现能抑制这种疾病蔓延的药物。 4. We see many special education directors trying to (maintain) the quality of their programs with much less money and much smaller staff. 我们看到许多特殊教育主管试图用少得多的钱和少得多的职员来维持他们 的节目质量。 5. People there are told it is their (patriotic) duty to support the national economy by buying their own products. 那里的人们被告知,通过购买自己的产品来支持国民经济是他们的爱国责 任。 6. Darwin's thinking both drew upon and (transcended)the conventional ideas of his time. 达尔文的思想都借鉴和超越了他那个时代的传统观念。 7. In spite of all your (endeavors), there may be times when you encounter difficulties in the training process. 尽管你尽了最大努力,但有时你可能在训练过程中遇到困难。 8. My advice to Mr. Stewart is to think carefully before entering into a career in medicine, as this is a field which requires a lot of (dedication)and long working hours. 我对斯图尔特先生的建议是,在进入医学事业之前要仔细考虑,因为这是一 个需要很多(奉献)和长时间工作的领域。 9. Most Chinese parents would prefer to choose some professions that are stable
新视野大学英语(第三版)第二册读写教程课后答案 新视野大学英语(第三版)第二册读写教程课后答案Unit 1 Language in mission Text A An impressive English lesson Ex.1 Understanding the text 1、Because he is tired of listening to his father and he is not interested in grammar rules. 2、The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture are so marvelous and remarkable that they should be described at least in a brief account; however, what the student could do was only one single utterance :“whoa!” without any any specific comment. 3、Because the schools fail to set high standards of language proficiency. They only teach a little grammar and less advanced vocabulary. And the younger teachers themselves have little knowledge of the vital structures of language. 4、Because teaching grammar is not an easy job and most of the students will easily get bored if it’s not properly dealt with. 5、He familiarized his son with different parts of speech in a sentence and discussed their specific grammatical functions including how to use adverbs to describe verbs. 6、Because the son had never heard about the various names and functions of words in an English sentence before. 7、The author uses “road map”and “car”to describe grammar and vocabulary. Here,“road map”is considered as grammar and “car”as vocabulary. 8、Since the subjunctive mood his son used is a fairly advanced grammar structure, the interjection“whoa!”reflects the tremendous pride the father had toward his son; it also reflects the author’s humor in using the word because it was once used by his student, tho ugh in two different situations and with two different feelings. Ex.3 Words in use 1.condense 2.exceed 3.deficit 4.exposure 5.asset 6.adequate https://www.sodocs.net/doc/e513497174.html,petent 8.adjusting 9.precisely 10.beneficial Ex.4 Word building -al/-ial: managerial/editorial/substance/survival/tradition/margin -cy : consistency/accuracy/efficient -y : recovery/ministry/assembly Ex.5 Word building 1.editorial 2.recovery 3.accuracy 4.substance 5.managerial 6.margin 7.assembly 8.Ministry 9.survival 10.tradition 11.consistency 12.efficient Ex.6 Banked cloze 1-5: L C J A I 6-10: O N E H F Ex.7 Expressions in use 1.feel obliged to 2.be serious about 3.run into 4.distinguish between 5.thrust upon 6.was allergic to 7.get lost 8.be attracted to 9.make sense 10.looked upon as Ex.8 Structured writing Some bookworms in my dormitory often spend hours reading their “Bible”, Practical English Grammar, and do a lot of exercises in that book , but I don’t care about it at all. My assumption is since I have never learned Chinese grammar, what’s the sense of l earning English grammar? In fact, English grammar has always been a big headache to me. English grammar is very complicated because, unlike Chinese, there are many verb tenses. Even
新视野大学英语(第2版)第1册Unit 1答案 III. 1. rewarding 2. communicate 3. access 4. embarrassing 5. positive 6. commitment 7. virtual 8. benefits 9. minimum 10. opportunities IV. 1. up 2. into 3. from 4. with 5. to 6. up 7. of 8. in 9. for 10.with V. 1.G 2.B 3.E 4.I 5.H 6.K 7.M 8.O 9.F 10.C Sentence Structure VI. 1. Universities in the east are better equipped, while those in the west are relatively poor. 2. Allan Clark kept talking the price up, while Wilkinson kept knocking it down. 3. The husband spent all his money drinking, while his wife saved all hers for the family. 4. Some guests spoke pleasantly and behaved politely, while others wee insulting and impolite. 5. Outwardly Sara was friendly towards all those concerned, while inwardly she was angry. VII. 1. Not only did Mr. Smith learn the Chinese language, but he also bridged the gap between his culture and ours. 2. Not only did we learn the technology through the online course, but we also learned to communicate with friends in English. 3. Not only did we lose all our money, but we also came close to losing our lives. 4. Not only do the workers want a pay increase, but they also want reduced working hours. 5. Not only is the house expensive, but it is also too far away from my company. Translation VIII. 1. Not only can students choose when and where to learn for an online course, but they can also take time to think through answers before making a reply. 2. She is excited by the idea of online learning while be considers it meaningless and useless. 3. Communicating with native English speakers is a very rewarding experience from which we can learn a lot. 4. Today, more and more people have access to the Internet through which they look for the information they need. 5. He wants her to give up working and stay home to look after the children. She feels, however, that this is too much for her. 6. Now that we have finished the course, we shall start doing more revision work. IX. 1. 我永远都不会忘记那位老师,是他告诉我学外语是有趣的、有价值的。如果
1A An artist who seeks fame is like a dog chasing his own tail who, when he captures it, does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it. The cruelty of success is that it often leads those who seek such success to participate in their own destruction. "Don't quit your day job!" is advice frequently given by understandably pessimistic family members and friends to a budding artist who is trying hard to succeed. The conquest of fame is difficult at best, and many end up emotionally if not financially bankrupt. Still, impure motives such as the desire for worshipping fans and praise from peers may spur the artist on. The lure of drowning in fame's imperial glory is not easily resisted. Those who gain fame most often gain it as a result of exploiting their talent for singing, dancing, painting, or writing, etc. They develop a style that agents market aggressively to hasten popularity, and their ride on the express elevator to the top is a blur. Most would be hard-pressed to tell you how they even got there. Artists cannot remain idle, though. When the performer, painter or writer becomes bored, their work begins to show a lack of continuity in its appeal and it becomes difficult to sustain the attention of the public. After their enthusiasm has dissolved, the public simply moves on to the next flavor of the month. Artists who do attempt to remain current by making even minute changes to their style of writing, dancing or singing, run a significant risk of losing the audience's favor. The public simply discounts styles other than those for which the artist has become famous. Famous authors' styles—a Tennessee Williams play or a plot by Ernest Hemingway or a poem by Robert Frost or T.S. Eliot—are easily recognizable. The same is true of painters like Monet, Renoir, or Dali and moviemakers like Hitchcock, Fellini, Spielberg, Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou. Their distinct styles marked a significant change in form from others and gained them fame and fortune. However, they paid for it by giving up the freedom to express themselves with other styles or forms. Fame's spotlight can be hotter than a tropical jungle—a fraud is quickly exposed, and the pressure of so much attention is too much for most to endure. It takes you out of yourself: You must be what the public thinks you are, not what you really are or could be. The performer, like the politician, must often please his or her audiences by saying things he or she does not mean or fully believe. One drop of fame will likely contaminate the entire well of a man's soul, and so an artist who remains true to himself or herself is particularly amazing. You would be hard-pressed to underline many names of those who have not compromised and still succeeded in the fame game. An example, the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, known for his uncompromising behavior, both social and sexual, to which the public objected, paid heavily for remaining true to himself. The mother of a young man Oscar was intimate with accused him at a banquet in front of his friends and fans of sexually influencing her son. Extremely angered by her remarks, he sued the young man's mother, asserting that she had damaged his "good" name. He should have hired a better attorney, though. The judge did not second Wilde's call to have the woman pay for damaging his name, and instead fined Wilde. He ended up in jail after refusing to pay, and even worse, was permanently expelled from the wider circle of public favor. When things were at their worst, he found that no one was willing to risk his or her name in his defense. His price for remaining true to himself was to be left alone when he needed his fans the most. Curiously enough, it is those who fail that reap the greatest reward: freedom! They enjoy the freedom to express themselves in unique and original ways without fear of losing the support of fans. Failed artists may find comfort in knowing that many great artists never found fame until well after they had passed away or in knowing that they did not sell out. They may justify their failure by convincing themselves their genius is too sophisticated for contemporary audiences. Single-minded artists who continue their quest for fame even after failure might also like to know that failure has motivated some famous people to work even harder to succeed. Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, had his first novel Look Homeward, Angel rejected 39 times before it was finally published. Beethoven overcame his father, who did not believe that he had any potential as a musician, to become the greatest musician in the world. And Pestalozzi, the famous Swiss educator in the 19th century, failed at every job he ever had until he came upon the idea of teaching children and developing the fundamental theories to produce a new form of education. Thomas Edison was thrown out of school in the fourth grade, because he seemed to his teacher to be quite dull. Unfortunately for most people, however, failure is the end of their struggle, not the beginning. I say to those who desperately seek fame and fortune: good luck. But alas, you may find that it was not what you wanted. The dog who catches his tail discovers that it is only a tail. The person who achieves success often discovers that it does more harm than good. So instead of trying so hard to achieve success, try to be happy with who you are and what you do. Try to do work that you can be proud of. Maybe you won't be famous in your own lifetime, but you may create better art. 1B One summer day my father sent me to buy some wire and fencing to put around our barn to pen up the bull. At 16, I liked nothing better than getting behind the wheel of our truck and driving into town
Section A Text A Toward a brighter future for all 1.Good afternoon! As president of the university, I am proud to welcome you to this university. Your achievement is the triumph of years of hard work, both of your own and of your parents and teachers. Here at the university, we pledge to make your educational experience as rewarding as possible. 下午好!作为校长,我非常自豪地欢迎你们来到这所大学。你们所取得的成就是你们自己多年努力的结果,也是你们的父母和老师们多年努力的结果。在这所大学里,我们承诺将使你们学有所成。Words and phrase 1. achievement n something very good and difficult that you have succeeded in doing: e.g. An Olympic silver medal is a remarkable achievement for one so young. 2. triumph n being successful or victorious 成功,胜利 shouts of triumph great achievement or success 成功 one of the triumphs of modern science v. ~ (over sb/sth) be successful or victorious triumph over one's difficulties 战胜困难. 3. pledge v ~ sth (to sb/sth) (fml ) promise solemnly to give (support,etc); give (one's word, honour, etc) as a pledge 保证给予(支持等); 以(誓言﹑名誉等)作担保: pledge loyalty to the king 发誓效忠国王 be pledged to keeping a secret 誓守秘密. ~ sb/oneself (to sth/to do sth) promise solemnly that sb/one will do sth or support a cause, etc保证某人[自己]做某事或支持某事业等 The Government has pledged itself to send aid to the famine victims. 政府已承诺赈济饥民. [Tn] leave (sth) with sb as a pledge典当(某物): He's pledged his mother's wedding ring. [Tn] (fml ) drink to the health of (sb); toast (sb) 为(某人)的健康祝酒; 向(某人)祝酒: pledge the bride (新娘)and bridegroom(新郎) 4. rewarding adj giving you satisfaction, pleasure, or profit 值得的;有意义的;有回报的 Our journey to the orphanage (孤儿院) was a very rewarding experience. Antonym: unrewarding Synonym: satisfying 5.as...as possible as + adj / adv +as ; as + adj + n + as 尽力做某事的意思 We have to run as fast as possible. Can you say it as loudly as possible? I hope you’ll stay as long as possible.
(第三版)新视野大学英语读写教程1答案
Unite 1 1.选词填空 explore(v.勘探,探测) transmit(v.传送,传递,传播) resource(n.资源) emerge(v.出现,为···所公认) yield(v.产生,出产,屈从,让步) pose(v.摆姿势,导致) assume(v.认为,假定,假设) confidence(n.信任信赖,自信心) inherit(v.沿袭,秉承,继承) comprehensive(a.综合的,多方面的) 1. Given the chance to show his ability, he regained confidence and began to succeed in school. 2. It is so difficult to explore the bottom of the ocean because some parts are very deep. 3. It was about 30 seconds before Alex emerged from the water; we were quite scared. 4. We often assume that when other people do the same things as we do, they do them for the same reasons; but this assumption is not always reasonable. 5. There is widespread concern that the rising unemployment may pose a threat to social stability. 6. After a(n) comprehensive physical exam, my doctor said I was in good condition except that my blood pressure was a little high. 7. It is well known that China is a country with rich natural resources and a very big population. 8. Some people believe that the earth can yield enough food to support at least twice its present population. 9. Sam inherited the gift of imagination from his family, but he lacked the driving power to take action. 10. A bee that has found honey is able to transmit to other bees the information they need in order to collect the honey. 2.15选10 attain赢得,获得,得到 fascinating迷人的,吸引人fulfill履行,执行pursue追求,致力于 available可获得的可利用的 qualify使合适,合格raise提升,增加 passion强烈的爱好,热爱 virtually实际上classify分类归类 acquire获得,取得,学到 fashionable流行的especially特别的 sample样品,标本 prosperous繁荣的University students come from different parts of the country with various purposes. However, a closer look at their reasons for studying at the university will enable us to (1)classify them roughly into three groups: those who have a(n) (2)passion for learning, those who wish to (3)attain a bright future, and those who learn with no definite purpose. Firstly, there are many students who learn simply because they (4)pursue their goal of learning. Some read a wealth of British and American novels because they are keenly interested in literature. Others sit in front