大学英语3 期中考试答案

Unit 1 Education: A Transformation of the Soul

1On my first day of high school, my teacher showed the class a Power Point presentation entitled The Value of Education. The first slide read simply this: ―Education = $‖. I felt uncomfortable, not knowing exactly why.

2 Education, throughout my high school experience, continued to be described to me like this: college means a diploma. A diploma means a better job. A better job means more money. More money means a good life. But I wondered who had decided the criteria for a ―better‖ job and a ―good‖ life. It all seemed so mathematical. Education was presented to me as an equation equaling a person I had not chosen to be.

重点单词的句子翻译：

1.她读了一首题为《想起你》的诗。(entitle)

2.他给这本书取名为《野性的爱》。(entitle)

3.教育的关键在于激励和享受，而不是一所学校或一个大学文凭。(diploma)

4.那青年用了3 年的时间取得研究生文凭。(diploma)

5.我自己成功的标准是能够努力工作和快乐生活。(criteria)

3 I went on to college, of course, as everyone told me to do. College is how you become an earner, they told me. My major that first semester was International Relations. I liked the woman I envisioned myself as in this field – a diplomat, a savvy citizen of the world. But gradually I began to realize that this person was not someone I bore any resemblance to. She was, rather, a clone of the well-educated, well-moneyed ideal my teacher had presented to me years ago. This woman had earning potential; she was smart and worldly. But she was not someone I would become. She had nothing I really wanted.

7 The truth is I love American history. George Washington is not a legendary hero to me but a brave war veteran upon whose simple tomb I saw my grandfather, another war veteran, lay a wreath. Thomas Jefferson‘s Monticello is not for me a name in a textb ook; it is a beautiful retreat, nestled deep in the Virginia mountains.

8―Why am I not a history major?‖ I asked that night while the movie was on commercial break.

那个小村庄坐落在山脚下。(nestle)

听说你获得了成功,我们真是兴奋极了。(thrill)

12 My dream is to work at a place like Monticello and give other children the experience I had – the experience of history coming to life. I have no idea of the sort of money I can expect from this pursuit. I simply do not care. I want to be like that professor, someone who has spent years filling her soul with what she loved truly. I want to live my education.

13 I know now why I felt so out of place that first day of high school. It is nothing less than a curse . That expression – ―Education = $‖ is a proverb of the most offensive sort, and I pity anyone who actually believes it. They will never know the empowerment I have found by pursuing my soul.

重点单词的句子翻译：

1.

我们都渴望幸福和健康。(desire)

2. 我的确想从牛津大学获得一份奖学金。(desire)

3. 我决心不惜任何代价达到目的。(attain)

4. 不论什么时候，只要你有一个目标，就得牺牲某些东西去实现它。(attain)

5. 玛丽被妈妈的巨大期望盲目指引着，感到无所适从。(steer)

6. 他熟练地驾驶汽车穿过狭窄的街道。(steer)

Unit 2 Masdar City: The World's Greenest City?

1 The doors swish shut and with the press of a button, the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) car is off, gliding through the tunnels under Abu Dhabi's new Masdar City. The four-passenger vehicle runs on an electric motor, making it clean and carbon-free. There are no tracks — the car is autonomous , driven by a computer. PRT is meant to be the future of mass transit within cities, with the environmental benefits of buses and trains but the freedom of a private vehicle. But I can't help thinking there's something slightly silly about all this. For all the technology — which isn't cheap — the PRT has taken me to its one and only stop, maybe half a mile from the starting point. For not much more time, I could have used a much older form of transport: my legs.

9美国的每个州都有一个自治政府。(autonomous)

10我来自广西壮族自治区。(autonomous

11现代教育是一项大规模的企业。(mass)

12. 他们已经想出了一些对付大规模失业的点子。(mass)

2In a nutshell, that is what's good and bad about Masdar. Back in 2007, the government of Abu Dhabi announced that it would build "the world's first zero-carbon city" called Masdar. It would rely entirely on renewable energy and would produce zero waste. It would be home to the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, a university dedicated to the study of sustainability. There

重点单词的句子翻译：

1.

这套房子的格局还不错，就是厨房有点小。

(layout)

2. 她对老胡同的布局了如指掌。(layout)

3. 他正确地预测到将出现股市崩盘。(crash)

4. 今年秋季，20名学生将参与这项计划的第一阶段。(phase)

5. 该项目将分阶段进行。(phase)

6. 这地基不够牢固，无法承受房屋的重量。(sustain)

7. 她发现很难维持孩子读书的兴趣。(sustain)

would be no traditional cars inside the city and it would use half the energy of a settlement of the same size. The urban layout would combine classic Arab design with 21st century technology. Masdar would be a living lab for a greener, cleaner future.

3 After three years the plans have changed. Masdar City was originally scheduled to be completed by 2015, but the financial crash that hit the United Arab Emirates hard pushed back the date. A truly zero-carbon city proved too ambitious, so now the aim is for low carbon. Transport within the city will no longer solely rely on the PRTs — instead, electric buses and other mass transit will be included. Though the first phase of the project — the Institute — was completed in 2010 and opened to students, it's still easy to wonder whether the sustainable city will ever be able to sustain itself.

4 While Masdar may inspire disbelief, it would be a mistake to dismiss the whole project as green folly. This was clear when I toured the Masdar Institute in mid-January. The streets are narrow and sheltered by walls that block the desert sunlight, while openings in the walls channel a refreshing wind that makes the city feel as much as 70°F cooler than its surroundings.

5 That design helps encourage energy conservation— the cooler the city is, the less need for electricity-consuming air-conditioning. But the buildings themselves take advantage of green materials, from the sustainable Douglas fir to the superstrong plastics, deflecting sunlight and insulating the interior. Windows have shades angled to avoid direct sunlight, providing light without heat. There's even a 147-feet-tall wind tower that can channel even more breezes to the street. The tower has glowing LED lights that let Masdar managers know how much energy the city is consuming. Blue means it is within its goal of using 50% less energy than a comparable settlement. Red means it's time to turn off the lights.

8.正是从这项研究中，我们可以了解到地球内部的许多情况。(interior)

6 That's the theory, but in practice, those goals aren't always easy for Masdar to meet. Most Abu Dhabi citizens are used to keeping their air-conditioning as low as 60°F, but in Masdar, AC needs to be set closer to 77°F to meet its efficiency targets. Masdar managers have to monitor exactly how much electricity every room in the city is using and keep citizens in line. This demonstrates that even the best green buildings with the best technology work less well when the X factor of actual residents is included. Some behavioral regulations are necessary. The weather can be as hard to predict as the people: the solar-photovoltaic field just outside Masdar, which supplies much of the city's power, works a lot less well when occasional sandstorms affect the solar cells, reducing their efficiency.

7 Will Masdar City ever become a real city? It's difficult to imagine. The behavioral regulations and controlled design that keep Masdar green might also limit the qualities that mark a living city — not to mention potential residents who might not want to follow such strict rules. Yet even if Masdar City fails to become everything its planners dreamed, the project will still have enormous value as a living lab for green ideas of future cities.

8 Some of Masdar's technology — like those slightly silly PRT cars — may not have a future. But other ideas — like the wind tower or those sunlight-deflecting windows — will have real value at a time when more than half the world's population lives in cities. No one knows the answer to the energy and climate challenges the planet faces, which is why experiments matter — even the ones in the desert.

1.作为一名资深的项目总监，她本应该能够监控到他们的进展。(monitor)

Unit 3 James Cameron’s Ambition

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In 1977, a 22-year-old truck driver named James Cameron went to see Star Wars with a pal. His friend enjoyed the movie; Cameron walked out of the theater ready to punch something. He was a college dropout but in his free time he wrote stories set in galaxies far, far away. He had been daydreaming about the kind of world that George Lucas had just brought to life. Star Wars was the film he should have made.

2 Back home he bought some cheap movie equipment and started trying to figure out how Lucas had done it. He set up blindingly bright lights in the living room and rolled a camera along a track to practice shots. He spent days reading everything he could about special effects. He became completely obsessed.

3 He quickly realized that he was going to need some money, so he persuaded some local dentists to invest $20,000 in his version of Star Wars. He used the money to shoot a 12-minute clip that featured a fight scene between an alien robot and a woman.

4 His plan was to use the clip to get a studio to back a full-length feature film. After peddling it around Hollywood for months, his effort did yield something worthwhile: a job with director Roger Corman. Hired to build miniature spaceships for a Corman film, Cameron worked his way up to become a visual effects specialist. In 1981, he made it to the director‘s chair, overseeing a horror picture.

8.他们是生活于大洋洋底的生物。(creature)

3. 警方强调这是迄今对凶手最精确的描述。(accurate)

21 This was work that would never appear on screen, but Cameron brought in more people –an expert in astrophysics, a music professor, and an archaeologist.

22 Eventually, a team of writers and editors compiled all this information into a 350-page Pandorapedia. It documents the science and culture of the imaginary planet, and represents the world Cameron had created.