全新版 大学英语 快速阅读第一册 Unit3 非英语专业(素文整理)
全新版大学英语第一册综合教程练习答案及课文译文(1-3单元)
全新版大学英语第一册综合教程练习答案及课文译文Key to Exercises (Units 1-8)Unit 1 Growing up Part II Text A Writing for myself*Content questions(questions 1-12参看课文)*Text organization l.*Language sense enhancement (1 参看课文第5段, 2、3、4省略)*VocabularyI. 1. 1) respectable 2) agony 3) put ... down 4) sequence 5) hold back rigid6) distribute 7) off and on 8) vivid 9) associate ... with 10) finally11) turn in 12) tackleI . 2. 1) has been assigned to the newspaper's Paris office.2) was sp extraordinary that I didn’t know whether to believe him or not3) a clear image of how she would look in twenty years' time.4) gave the command the soldiers opened fire.III. Collocation1. at2. for3. of4. with5. as6. about7. to8. in, in9. from 10. on/upon*Comprehensive ExercisesI. Cloze1. 1). hold back 2). tedious 3).scanned 4). recall5). vivid 6). off and on 7).. turn out/turn in 8). career2. 1). Last 2) surprise 3) pulled 4)blowing5)dressed 6)scene 7)extraordinary 8)image9)turn 10)excitementII. Translation1.1)As it was a formal dinner party, I wore formal dress, as Mother told me to.2)His girlfriend advised him to get out of /get rid of his bad habit of smoking before it took hold.3). Anticipating that the demand for electricity will be high during the next few months, they have decided to increase its production.4)It is said the Bill has been fired for continually violating the company’s safty rules./// Bil l is said to have been continually violating the company’s safty rules.5) It is reported that government has taken proper measures to avoid the possibility of a severe water shortage./// The local government is reported to have taken proper measures to avoid the possibilty ofa severe water shortage.2. Susan lost her legs because of / in a car accident. For a time, she didn't know how to face up to the fact that she would never ( be able to) walk again.One day, while scanning (through ) books, a true story caught her eye/she was attracted by a true story. It gave a vivid description of how a disabled girl became a writer. Greatly inspired. Susan made up her mind to read as much as she could, and what's more, she wanted to write stories about her own childhood. Susan began to feel that she, too, would finally be able to lead a useful life.Part III TextBComprehension Checkl.c 2. a 3. c 4. d 5.b 6. dTranslation1. 我耳朵里嗡嗡作响，听不见他们后来讲的话，只东一点西一点渗入片言只语。
《全新版大学英语(第二版)快速阅读1》部分原文
《全新版大学英语(第二版)快速阅读1》部分原文A Country of ImmigrantsAs you walk along the street in any American city,you see many different faces.You see oriental faces of the United States,a country of immigrants from all over the world.Immigrants are people who leave one country to live permanently in another country.The first immigrants came to North America in the 1600s from northern European countries such as England and Holland.These people generally hadlight skin and light hair.They came to live in North America because they wanted religious freedom.In the 1700s and early 1800s immigrants continued to move from Europe to the United States.At this time there was one group of unwilling immigrants,black Africans.These people were tricked or forced to come to the United States,where they worked on the large farms in thesouth.The blacks had no freedom;they were slaves.In the 1800s many Chinese and Irish immigrants came to the United States.They came because of economic or political problems in their countries.The most recent immigrants to the UnitedStates,the Indochinese,Cubans,and Central Americans also came because of economic or political problems in their own countries.Except for theblacks,most of these immigrants thought of the United States as a land of opportunities,of a chance for freedom and new lives.In the United States,these immigrants looked for help from other immigrants who shared the same background,language,andreligion.Therefore,there are neighborhoods in each U.S. city made up almost entirely of one ethnic or racial group.There are all Italian,all Puerto Rican,or all Irish neighborhoods in many East Coast cities and all Mexican neighborhoods in the Southwest.In Dearborn,Michigan,there is a large group of Lebanese.There are racial neighborhoods such as oriental Chinatown in New York.There are also neighborhoods with a strong religious feeling such as a Jewish part of Brooklyn in New York.And,of course,there are economic neighborhooddivisions;in American cities very often poor people do not live in the same neighborhoods as rich people.This wide variety of neighborhoods in the cities is a reflection of the different groups in American society. American society is a mixture ofracial,language,cultural,religious,and economicgroups.People sometimes call America a melting pot and compare its society to a soup with many different ingredients.The ingredients (differentraces,cultures,religions,and economicgroups)supposedly mix together to make a smooth soup.But,in reality,there are a few lumps left in the soup.Andrew CarnegieOne of the captains of industry of 19th century America,AndrewCarnegie,helped build the American steel industry,a process that turned a poor young man into one of the richestentrepreneurs of his age. Later in his life,Carnegie sold hie steel business and systematically gave his fortune away to cultural,educational and scientific institutions for “the improvement of mankind.”Carnegie was born in Dunfermline,Scotland,in 1835.The town was a center of the linenindustry,and Andrew?s father was a weaver,a profession the young Carnegie was expected to follow.But the industrial revolution that would later make Carnegie the richest man in the world,destroyed the weavers? craft.When the steam-powered looms came to Dunfermline in 1847,hundreds of handloom weavers became unemployed.Andrew?s mother opened a small grocery shop and mended shoes to support the family.“I began to learn what poverty meant,”Andrew would later write.”It was burnt into my heart then that my father had to beg for work.And then and there came the determination that I would cure when I got to be a man.”The family moved to the United States in 1848,and began a new life inPittsburgh,Pennsylvania.William Carnegie secured work in a cotton factory and his son Andrew took work in the same building as a bobbin boy for $1.20 a ter,Carnegie worked as a messenger boy in the city?s telegraphoffice.He did each job to the best of his ability and seized every opportunity to take on new responsibilities.For example,he memorized Pittsburgh?s street layout as well as the important name and addresses of those he delivered to.Carnegie often was asked to deliver messages to the theater.He arranged to make these deliveries at night-and stayed on to watch plays by Shakespeare and other great writers.In what would be a life-long pursuit of knowledge,Carnegie also took advantage of a small library that a local benefactor made available to working boys.One of the men Carnegie met at the telegraph office was ThomasA.Scott,then a director at Pennsylvania Railroad.Scott was taken by the young worker and referred to him as “my boy Andy,”hiring him as his private secretary and personal telegrapher at $35 a month.“I couldn?t imagine,”Carnegie said many years later,”what I could ever do with so muchmoney.”Carnegie was always eager to shoulder new responsibilities,and he worked his way up the ladder in Pennsylvania Railroad and succeeded Scott as head of the Pittsburgh Division.As the outbreak of the Civil War,Scott was responsible for military transportation for the North and Carnegie worked as his right-hand man.The Civil War fueled the iron industry,and by the time the war wasover,Carnegie saw thepotential in the field and resigned from Pennsylvania Railroad.It was one of many brave moves that would typify Carnegie?s life in industry and earn him his fortune.He then turned his attention to the Keystone Bridge Company,which worked to replace wooden bridges with stronger iron ones.In three years he had an annual income of $50,000.Carnegie would continue making huge amounts of money for the next 30 years.To improve the efficiency of his steel plant,Carnegie would make use of the Bessemer Process,which was the first cheap process for mass-producing steel.Carnegie threw his own money into the process and even borrowed heavily to build a new steel plant near Pittsburgh.Carnegie was strict in keeping down costs and managed by the saying “watch costs and the profits take care of themselves.”“I thi nk Carnegie?s genius was first of all,an ability to foresee how things were going tochange,”says historian John Ingram. “Once he saw that something was of potential benefit to him,he was willing to invest enormously in it.”Still,Carnegie?s steel plants developed rapidly,and by 1900,Carnegie Steel produced more of the metal than all of Great Britain.That was also the year that financier J.P.Morgan issued a major challenge to Carnegie?s steel empire.While Carnegie believed he could beat Morgan in a battle that couldlast five,10 or 15 years,the fight did not appeal to the 64-year-old man eager to spend more time with his wife Louise,whom he had married in 1886 at the age of 51,and their daughter,Margaret.Carnegie wrote the asking price for his steel business on a piece of paper and had one of hismanagers deliver the offer to Morgan.Morgan accepted immediately,buying the company for $480 million. “Congratulations,Mr.Carnegie,”Morgan said to Carnegie when they finali zed the deal, “you are now the richest man in the world.”Carnegie liked to say that “the man who dies rich dies disgraced,”and turned his attention to giving away his fortune.He disliked charity,and instead put his money to use helping others help themselves.That was the reason he spent much of his fortune on establishing over 2,500 publiclibraries as well as supporting institutions of higher learning.By the time Carnegie?s life was over,he gave away 350million dollars.I.M.PeiI.M.Pei is sitting in his living room and is talking about architecture or the designing of buildings. “It is not just an idea,but the way in which that idea is done,that is important.This is what I mean by the ?architecture of ideas.?I worry that ideas and the practice of architecture as a profession,as a business,do not come together often enough.”He stops,then adds: “Maybe my early training set me back.Maybe it made me too practical.”That is an unexpected comment from a man like Pei,who runs a business that employs manypeople and has important customers all over the world.I.M.Pei questioning the value of money.Yet his company,I.M.Pei &Partners,is more than just abusiness that designs buildings.It has always tried to bring together beauty and art with business sense,and today it is probably the leaderamong American architecture companies that do very well both artistically and commercially.It is hard enough to become well know either as an artistic or as a business success in architecture:to do so as both is unusual and surprising.I.M.Pei,a leader in his field for more than thirty years,seems to get better and busier as the years go by.One reason for his success is that he is well known as a kind and thoughtful person.But it is also because of the seriousness of his work.He believes in improving on and developing from styles and designs that have been used before,not in newness for its ownpanies hire himbecause they believe that his designs are strong and modern without being shocking.Pei?s style is based on geometric forms,like most of the architecture of modern times.But he has continued to use these forms while other important architects have begun to change theirstyles,making use of the forms of architecture from other countries and other periods in history.Ieoh Ming Pei was born in China in 1917,but he calls himself “an American architect -absolutely.”He went to the United States in 1935 to studyarchitecture,and remained there because of the war.In the late1940s he got a very good job and decided to become an American citizen.He has lived in New York since then,but he never forgotten the land of his childhood.In 1978 Pei was invited to design s hotel in China.It was a very difficult thing for him to do beca use “there seems to be only two choices - either to copy the old Chinese style with red columns and golden roofs or to build modern Western buildings.I do not think either of these is right.There has to be a third way.”Pei?s “third way”is very much li ke traditional Chinese architecture.It uses the same kinds ofmaterials and forms,and is only different in one important aspect:it well have a flat roof instead of a curved one because that kind is safer and less expensive.In New York City,IM.Pei&Partners will build a convention center,that is,a large building for meetings and shows that will be much bigger than the hotel in Beijing,and in some ways much simpler.In fact,the biggest problem is that the center may look too much like a large box.Therefore they are working to create a number of public areas within the one huge space.These will be used for other things even when there are no special meetings or shows,and will make the building itself into a tourist attraction.It is possible that Pei?s way of working may soon change,becoming morelike one or the other of the two major modern directions.He might decide to make more use of the styles and ideas of the architecture of older cultures (as he did with his hotel in China)or he might decide to treat his buildings even more artistically (as he did the Kennedy Library in Boston).But it does not seem likely that Pei?s work will move strongly in either direction.He believes his work gives hiscustomers what they want and he tries to make his buildings fit the jobs they are supposed to do.Internet Love Can WorkI had heard of the chat room on the Internet,but it had never appealed to me.Talking to total strangers that you cannot see struck me as too strange.One day I was surfing the net,when Idiscovered MSN?s chat rooms and making up a nickname decided to just watch and see what all the fuss was about.There on the screen were twenty or so people who were chatting away about anything and everything.As I studied the conversations,afraid to join on and expose myself as a “newbie”,I was drawn to one person.She was intelligent,witty and expressed a love of the UK,my home.Her name was Linda and she was from California,a part of the States I had never seen butwas interested in.So summoning up all my courage,I said hi and introduced myself.We began to chat and I found that it was very relaxed to the point that I was amazed when the conversation ended.We had been chatting for two whole hours,totally ignoring everyone else in the room.We parted company,saying that we hoped we would bump into each other again.All that next day,I wondered ifthat was just a polite goodbye or if she really wanted to continue our conversation.That evening I logged on,half of me hoping Linda would be there,the other half afraid that she wouldn?t.Sure enough,she wasn?t in the chat room and I sat at the computer screen only half reading the conversations that flashed up before me.Then Linda?s name appeared and with the usual “Hi room”, she said “Hi Vince”.My life suddenly became brighter in that instant.I kepttelling myself it was crazy,here was a woman I only just met,hardly knew and yet I had missed her all day.We chatted again,and the hours vanished,with the other chatters leaving us alone in the room.I had dated quite a few times in my then twenty-five years of life,but never had anyone taken my interest so completely as this stranger from across the sea.We discussed everything,ourlikes,dislikes,our troubles and our pleasures and the more we talked the more amazed we became at how much we had in common.Weeks went by and every evening we would meet up and talk,the two hours becoming three,then four.We exchanged pictures,but were both afraid we would blow it by doing so.And ,as I looked at her picture on my screen,I was amazed at the fact that no one had snapped up this American beauty in the years since her graduation from college.The weeks had become months and we both admitted we had feelings for each other,our friendship becoming something far greater.Then came the time that anyone who ever had an Internet relationship will know...the meeting.Linda had said that she would fly to the UK to meet me,but I insisted that I flew to the States.I explained to her my fears that should she come to me and for some reason we didn?t hit it off,then she would be a woman alone in a strange country where as for a guy it wouldn?t be so bad.Linda finally agreed and a week or two later I found myself on a plane winging my way to San Diego.We had arranged that I would be met by her brother who would drop me off at my hotel and that I would ring her once I had freshened up and she would come over and we would go out for a meal.Forty five minutes of pacing up and down after I made the call,there was a knock on the door.I opened the door to the most beautiful woman I had ever known.Both of us were nervous when we kissed hello.We looked into each other?s eyes and thatkiss became another filled with all the emotions that had developed over the months of online chatting.I stayed for two weeks taking Linda out after she finished work at the local hospital.And we fell head over heels in love.I returned home,and missed Linda like crazy,the online chat now seeming so pale in comparison with holding the woman I loved in my arms.Linda missed me too and so I jumped on a plane and went back this time for a month.This went on for five visits and each time I would extend my return ticket because we couldn?t bear to part.感谢您的阅读，祝您生活愉快。
全新版大学英语综合教程第一册第二版课件Unit3
幻灯片103D R _ word _ likely 1likely:1. adj. probableAn incident likely to lead to war is reported on TV.电视报导出一可能导致战争的事件。
2. adv. probablyI shall very likely be here again next month.Pattern:It is likely that …很可能…It is highly likely that he will succeed.幻灯片104D R _ word _ likely 2likely, possible & probable这些词都有“可能的”意思。
CF:likely 系常用词，指从表面迹象来看很有可能。
例如：The likely outcome of the contest varies from moment to moment.比赛结果每分钟可能都在变化。
possible 指由于有适当的条件和方法，某事可能发生或做到，强调客观上有可能，但常含有实际希望很小的意思。
例如：Is it possible to get to the city by train, or must I take a bus?坐火车可以到这个城市去吗？还是我必须得坐公共汽车？幻灯片105D R _ word _ likely 3probable 语气比possible 强，指有根据、合情理、值得相信的, 带有大概、很可能的意思。
例如：CF:It is probable that he has forgotten our appointment.很可能他是忘了我们的约会了。
幻灯片106D R _ word _ do without 1do without:manage to survive, continue, or succeed, although you do not have sth. you needI haven’t enough money to buy a car, so I’ll just have to do without.He can’t do without the servicesof a secretary.幻灯片107D R _ word _ do without 2Collocation:摆脱；废除，取消do away withdo up系上，扣上；修理；打扮have something to do with和…有关系have nothing to do with和…没有关系幻灯片108D R _ word _ highly 1highly: adv.1) veryMr. Smith was a highly successful salesman.2) to a high degreeHe speaks very highly of you.出席这次会议的大部分人是受过高等教育的女性。
全新版大学英语(第二版)第一册第三单元短语总结
Unit 3 Book 1 Useful expressionsOverview:1.With sth playing such a large role in doing sth, there is a pressing need to improve sth.2.sth be headed in the direction3.pressing: urgent4.improve one’s understanding5.one of the leading scientists of our age6.reflect on sth仔细考虑，思考；反省；回想，回顾7.set out to do: set about doing8.correct some false impressions about sth9.how to make sense out of science as a way of understanding the worldText A10.keep everybody in touch with what science is about11.public attitudes towards/to science12.change a great deal13.go back to what they see as a purer and simpler age14.as history shows, …15.not that wonderful: not so wonderful16.not so bad for a privileged minority17.minorit y←→majority18.have to do without modern medicine19.be highly risky for sb20.for the vast majority of the population21.Anyway, even if one wanted to, one couldn’t put the clock back to…22.prevent further advances23.cut off all government money for research24.do one’s best25.the force of competition26.bring about sth: make sth happen27.stop inquiring minds from thinking about basic science28.suppress anything new29.human initiative and inventiveness30.slow down the rate of change31.cannot prevent science and technology from changing our world32.at least←→at most33.ensure that sth be in the right direction34.in a democratic society35.have a basic understanding of science36.make informed decisions37.leave sth in the hands of experts38.at the moment: now39.sb be in two minds about sth40.expect the steady increase in the standard of living41.bring sth to continue42.sb distrust science43.an important element behind sth44.have a great interest in sth= be interested in sth45.as is shown by sb/sthrge audiences for television series47.science fiction48.harness this interest: make use of this interest49.acid rain50.greenhouse effect51.nuclear weapons52.genetic engineering53.lie in sth54.sth be presented in a dry and uninteresting manner55.learn sth by rote←→learn sth by heart56.see one’s relevance to sth57.in terms of58.describe mathematical ideas59.halve the sales60.would have sold twice as many copies without it61.express one’s ideas62.in the form of equations63.precise values of quantities64.for the rest of us65.a qualitative grasp of scientific concepts66.be convey by words67.without the use of sth68.provide basic framework69.the rate of sth is so rapid that…70.scientific progress71.(new developments) have occurred72.molecular biology73.change the way we live in the future74.put across: understand75.a small proportion of the population76.reach a truly mass audience77.present A as B78.scientific wonders79.fit into sth80.have a responsibility to do sth81.entertain the public82.be filled with sth: be full of sth: be permeated with sth83.have sufficient faith in sth84.good sense of the publicVocabulary & Translation exe85.in terms of advancement86.starting salary87.pay that electricity bill88.cut us off 使我们断电89.As pace of life quickens,…90.tend to do: be likely to do: be liable to do91.get rid of: eradicate: root out92.precise observation of distant stars93.be laid out in the form of sthe your own initiative95.Words cannot convey how grateful we are for (his timely help).96.the board of directors97.be in two minds over the opening of a branch office in sw98.grasp the concept of infinite space cf. conception99.present a complex argument100.be completely beyond my grasp101.win the match102.have a place in the final103.ensure sb a place in the final104.have a duty to do105.heal the wounded106.rescue the dying107.get amusement108.get knowledge from sth109.the film’s appeal110.provide entertainment to the audience111.raise questions about sth112.the possible contact between human beings and alien civilization 113.make a decision on sth on the basis of sth114.have sufficient funds115.make accurate predictionsrmation industry117.this line of products: this kind of products118.be highly profitable119.regain her health120.be undecided about sth121.stay on in her present post122.find a new job123.the mountainous region124.be undersupplied with sth125.get injured in the car accident126.be disabled for the rest of his life127.demand the release of sb from prison128.as a precondition for further negotiation129.have the foresight to invest in new technology 130.mispronounce a lot of words131.support military action132.be for a peaceful solution133.meet our job requirements134.fall short of the requirements135.with the improvement of the standard of living 136.on balance: generally speaking137.the strengths of A outweigh its weaknesses 138.As is shown by history, …139.local clashes140.a global war141.on the foggy morning142.dial the wrong number143.sb be highly distrustful of sth144.well informed145.sth last a lifetime146.find their way when they travel long distances 147.make discoveries148.have practical value149.carry messages150.lengthen human life: prolong life expectancy e hear pacemakers152.medical devices 医疗器械153.affect your career and your daily life154.space shuttles155.yet-to-be-discovered developments156.lie ahead157.predict earthquakes158.a space station in orbit around the earth 159.tough competition for sth160.fit into the national plan for sth161.burn too much gas162.consider historical background to sth163.do without so many conviences164.enjoy the comforts of life165.have sufficient food166.not to speak of: let alone: needless to say 167.the privilege of being educated168.blame sb for sth。
全新版 大学英语 快速阅读第一册 Unit6(素文整理)
Directions: Read the following passages, and then select the best choice for each of the questions or incomplete statements.Passage 1快速阅读自查表数以百万计美国学生参加服务计画. 他们在他们的社区中帮助人如他们的教育部份. 他们像改良处理计画那environment and feeding homeless people. Many school systems in the United States now require students to do some kind of community service as part of their studies.Students involved (使卷入) in service projects help themselves as well as their communities. They learn about the needs of people and aid organizations. Some college administrators (事务管理人) say public service may also help high school graduates gain acceptance to the college oftheir choice.Many schools in the United States offer courses in what is called service-learning. These educational programs teach methods to aid the community.For example, Nicholas Senn High School in Chicago, Illinois, is one of these schools. It has received national honors for its service-learning program. Students there were not doing well in their studies back when the program began in 1997. Teachers say doing community service has led many students to work harder in school. School officials say mathematics and reading skills haveimproved.Wilkinson Junior High School in Middleburg, Florida, also has received national honors for its service-learning program. Its twelve- and thirteen-year-old students work on two major projects. They are helping to find the best ways to restore (使复位) trees to an area of land that was used for mining titanium (钛). They also test water from the nearby Saint John's River and report the results to local water officials.Teachers try to link their classroom material with current community needs. For example, a history teacher talked about the issue of hunger in some American communities. After that, students helped at a food center for poor people.Students at some schools come from many other countries. They speak different languages. Even students who have just arrived from other nations perform communityPublic schools are not the only ones that require community service. Bishop Ireton High School is a private Roman Catholic school. In one project, students there organized programs for people who lived in a retirement center near the school.(Words: 347)1. What is the main idea of the passage?A) American service programs are gaining popularity now.B) Service programs help American students win college acceptance.C) American schools involve students in community service.D) American service programs have helped many people.2. The example of Nicholas Senn High School mainly suggests that _________.A) it offers the best service-learning program nationwideB) students there didn't work hard back in 1997C) students there have improved their math and readingD) service involvement contributes to study improvement3. How do American schools help students better serve their communities?A) They call on students to improve the environment.B) They train students to aid the community.C) They provide students with extracurricular activities.D) They link school courses with student needs.4. Students from Wilkinson Junior High School help to _________.A) restore trees to an old titanium-mining landB) test water from a local fiverC) report test results to local water officialsD) All above.5. Which of the following claims would supporters of service-learning programs in schools make?A) It is good for growing youths to be physically active.B) Students should learn how to make a living.C) Students should contribute to the communities in which they live.D) Students should help pay for school taxes.When I come across a good essay in the newspaper, I often cut it and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the opposite side of the page just as interesting.It may be a discussion about a way to keep in good health, or advice about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front essay, the other one on the back of the page will suffer damage, leaving out half of it or the text will be kept but missing the subject. As a result, my scissors (剪刀) would stop before they start, or only halfway done when I find out the regrettable consequence.Sometimes, two things are to be done at the same time, both deserving your attention. You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or even be given up. But you know the future is unknown--- the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left behind. Thus, you are caught in a fix and you may feel sad. How come that nice opportunities and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once. It may happen that your life changes dramatically on your preference of one alternative over the other.In fact, that is what life is like: we are often faced with two choices that are equally desirable, just like what happens during newspaper-cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only after we are engaged in another. The latter may be more important than the former and thus giving rise to a divided mind. I still remember a philosopher's remarks: "When one door shuts, another one opens in life." So casual passive choice may not necessarily be bad one.Whatever we do in our lifetime, wherever life's storms toss (抛) us, there must be something we can achieve, some shore we can land on that opens up new vistas (景色)for us. Don't forget there is always an alternative door open for every one. While the first door is closed, there must be another that is open for you.(Words:360)1. What annoys the writer when it comes to newspaper-cutting?A) There is a quite limited number of good essays.B) It takes too much time and effort to do it.C) Some of the articles will be inevitably damaged.D) He can't cut out the good articles on the opposite side of the same page.2. What does the third paragraph mainly tell us?A) There are often two good things both deserving our attention.B) Life is just like newspaper-cutting.C) Good opportunities and ideas often come to us at once.D) One has to decide on one's preference.3. Life and newspaper-cutting are alike because _________.A) in both cases we have choices to makeB) newspaper-cutting is an important part in lifeC) there is always a door openD) casual choice is always bad4. “When one door shuts, another one opens in life.” (Para. 4) means “________.”A) When we shut one door, we have to open anotherB) There is always a way for us whatever happensC) There are many doors in our livesD) Keep all doors open is important5. The author believes that ___________.A) one has to be educated to make choicesB) one will feel regretful if one chooses one thing instead of the otherC) a casual choice may turn out to be a good oneD) newspaper-cutting needs patienceII. Directions: Read the following passages, and then decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).Passage 3When my athletic career as a baseball player was on track in 1960, I was diagnosed with sarcoma (恶性肿瘤) in my fight shoulder, which sent me to the hospital. The All-Star Team went to Hawaii, and I went to the hospital. I was really bitter and angry and hurt and outraged, but we didn't have any therapy (治疗) in those days that said you needed to grieve (悲伤) a loss. I was denying it fight away by saying I could handle it. "What's this?" I said. "Just a mastectomy (乳房切除术) and the loss of an arm." It was about thirty-five years ago. Then, about twenty-five years ago, I went through another very difficult time. Job loss, loss of a relationship. You know, "Loss, loss, and loss." I went to a counselor (心理顾问), Ray Chapman who took me through a grieving process, because I had never grieved the loss of my athletic career, the loss of my physical wholeness, any losses, and he said that goodness could come out of this. After my second meeting with Ray Chapman, I got a job as a mechanic, and I became kind of famous. I was the "One Armed Mechanic," installing engines and such. It really came back to me then that had I not gone through the cancer, I wouldn't have become a mechanic and later a hot racer. I also later met a wonderful woman with whom I had a ten-year relationship which led to the birth of my son.I found that for me, goodness and beauty have come out of deformity (畸形). I still use the words ugliness and crippledness (残废). My friends try to tell me that I am not crippled. But what they don't understand is that I am, and what I have done is in spite of what's been done to me. I try to remind them that we're all crippled in some way. I say, "I can't see what cripples you. I can't see what you've been through. I have an advantage over you, because I see it every day."(Words: 337)( ) 1. There was no counseling twenty-five years ago to help a person recover from a loss.( ) 2. According to the passage, the narrator suffered two losses in his life.( ) 3. The narrator discovered that the setbacks he had turned out later to be blessings. ( ) 4. The narrator showed extraordinary courage in handling all the losses.( ) 5. The narrator believes everybody is crippled in some way, only that others can't see it.Passage 4Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise, we accept these failures as a necessary part of the learning process. But all too often as parents and teachers we deny this same right to our children. We convey either by words or by actions that failure is something to be ashamed of, that nothing but top performance meets with our approval.When I see a child subject to this kind of pressure, I think of Donnie. Donnie was my youngest third-grader. He was a shy, nervous perfectionist. His fear of failure kept him from classroom games that other children played with joyous abandon (纵情). He seldom answered questions--- he might be wrong. Written assignments, especially math, reduced him to nail-biting frustration (沮丧). He seldom finished his work because he repeatedly checked with me to be sure he hadn't made a mistake. I tried my best to build his self-confidence. But nothing changed until midterm, when Mary Anne, a student teacher, was assigned to our classroom.She was young and pretty, and she loved children. My pupils, Donnie included, adored her. But even the enthusiastic and loving Mary Anne was baffled (难到) by this little boy who feared he might make a mistake.Then one morning, we were working on math problems at the chalkboard. Donnie had copied the problems with painstaking neatness and filled in the answers for the first row. Pleased with his progress, I left the children with Mary Anne and went for art materials. When I returned, Donnie was in tears. He'd missed the third problem.My student teacher looked at me in despair. Suddenly her face brightened. From the desk we shared, she got a canister ( 金属罐) filled with pencils."Look, Donnie," she said, kneeling (跪) beside him and gently lifting the tear-stained face from his arms. "I've got something to show you." She removed the pencils, one at a time, and placed them on his desk."See these pencils, Donnie?" she continued. "They belong to Mrs. Lindstrom and me. See how the erasers are worn? That's because we make mistakes, too. Lots of them. But we erase the mistakes and try again. That's what you must learn to do, too."She kissed him and stood up. "Here," she said, "I'11 leave one of these pencils on your desk so you'll remember that everybody makes mistakes, even teachers." Donnie looked up with love in his eyes and just a glimmer (一丝) of a smile---the first that I saw on his face that year.The pencil became Donnie's prized possession. That, together with Mary Anne'sfrequent encouragement and unfailing praise for even Donnie's smallest successes, gradually persuaded him that it's all right to make mistakes--- as long as you erase them and try again.(Words: 456)( ) 1. We can learn from the passage that all failures are learning opportunities to grow. ( ) 2. Parents and teachers often tell children that failure is a necessary part of life. ( ) 3. Donnie was severely held back by his fear of failure in school.( ) 4. Mary Anne was showing by example that making mistakes is a part of life. ( ) 5. Donnie realized that it's okay to make mistakes because an eraser can erase mistakes.III. Directions: Read the following passages, and then fill in the blanks with the missing information.Passage 5When my parents were married, I hardly ever saw my dad because he was always busy working. Now that they're divorced, I've gotten to know him more because I'm with him every weekend. And I really look forward to the weekends because it's kind of like a break--it's like going to Disneyland because there's no set schedule ( [日程表], no "Be home by five thirty" kind of stuff. It's open. It's free. And my father is always buying me presents.My mom got remarried and divorced again so I've gone through two divorces so far. And my father's also gotten remarried to someone I don't get along with all that well. It's all made me feel that people shouldn't get married---they should just live together and make their own agreement. Then, if things go badly, they don't have to get divorced and hire lawyers and sue (上诉) each other. And even more importantly, they don't have to end up hating each other.I'd say that the worst part of the divorce is the money problem. It's been hard on my mom because lots of times she can't pay her bills, and it makes her angry when I stay with my father and he buys me things. She gets mad and says, "If he can buy you things like this, then he should be able to pay me." And I feel caught in the middle for two reasons: first, I can't really enjoy whatever my dad bought for me, and second, I don't know who to believe. My dad's saying, "I don't really owe her any money," and my mom's saying he does.In a lot of ways I wish my mom would get remarried, because then she wouldn't have to worry so much about finances (资金). But I'm sorry that my dad got remarried, because I feel left out a lot of times. And one thing I really worry about is that I think he and his new wife want to have a baby, and I know that if they do, it will be just like a replacement for me. If I live full-time with my dad, it would probably be easier for me to accept a baby because we'd be on an equal footing, but I'd rather stay with my mom, where life is normal as we live like most people live. With breakfast at breakfast time and dinner at dinner time, I can do my homework, play with my friends--- it's the way life should be. However, if I live with my dad, it might be more fun at times, but I would go crazy. I wouldn't want to be brought up in Disneyland. (Words: 444)1. The writer enjoys spending the weekends with his or her father because it's open and free and __________.2. In the writer's opinion, a most important reason that people should not get married is that they don't have to __________.3. The writer wishes that his or her mother would be remarried so that she would be free from __________.4. The writer doesn't get along well with his or her stepmother and he or she's now worried that __________.5. The narrator prefers to live with his or her mother because __________.Passage 6快速阅读自查表Customer satisfaction is always on every Toyota employee's mind. Indeed, we take our responsibility to you to heart when we're building quality and reliability (可靠性)into our cars and, of course, when we're providing the kind of sales and service you and your car deserve.Toyota quality comes from people who care. You'll always find this high quality at the factory, and in your local show room or service outlet (市场).CREATED WITH CARE. At Toyota, we believe that real quality comes from careful creation, as well as technical expertise (专业技术). Every Toyota craftsperson, from design engineer to assembly (装配) technician, maintains an involved outlook on making cars, because they are dedicated to giving you the best.EXPLAINED WITH UNDERSTANDING. When you visit a Toyota outlet, you'll find that the people at your Toyota dealership understand your car needs and concerns. That is in part because Toyota salespeople can provide you with all the latest product information, as well as advice that will let you fully enjoy your car.MAINTAINED WITH PRIDE. One of the first things you'll notice at a Toyota outlet is the pride our staff takes in giving you quality service. For Toyota, high-quality maintenance means more than technical service using the latest equipment. It means caring about your car as if it were our own. Indeed all of us at Toyota take quality to heart. This means we can give you the same high quality and reliability wherever in the world we make and service cars. This is because our most important goal is your long-term satisfaction.Our high standards are yours. Toyota.(Words: 263)1. What marks Toyota cars outstanding is their __________.2. They believe that real quality is linked with __________.3. If you go to a Toyota outlet, you'll be first impressed by __________.4. All Toyota employees work towards the same goal to __________.5. Judging by the language style of the passage, it is probably a(n) __________.KeyUnit 6Passage 1C D B D CPassage 2D C A B CPassage 3F F T T TPassage 4T F T T FPassage 51. he is always buying him or her presents2. end up hating each other3. financial worries4. a new baby will replace him or her5. life is normal living with his or her mother Passage 61. high quality and service2. careful creation and technical expertise3. the pride the staff takes in giving you quality service4. give customers long-term satisfaction5. advertisement。
全新版 大学英语 快速阅读第一册 Unit3 非英语专业(素文整理)
Unit 31.Direction: read the following passages, and then select the best choice for each ofthe questions or inplete statements.Passage 1Traditional American summer camps offer young people a chance to play many sports. These camps may be in the mountains. Or they may be in the woods, or at a lake. Some camps teach activities like painting or music. Or they teach puter programming or foreign languages. Children at all kinds of camps meet new friends. They learn new skills and develop independence.Some children go to camp during the day and return home at night. Others stay at camp all day and all night. Children stay at an overnight camp for between one and eight weeks. Parents can pay less than one hundred dollars or more than seven-hundred dollars a week for an overnight camps.Children from poor families might not have a chance to attend summer camp. The Fresh Air Fund is a well-known organization. People around the country give money to support the Fresh Air Fund. Each summer it sends ten thousand poor children to stay with families in the country or to five camps in New York State.Summer camps have bee very important to millions of families. Many American women now work outside the home. Working parents need a place where their children can be cared for during the summer when they are not in school.Young people who like the arts can learn about painting, music, acting or writing. Camps that offer programs in science and environmental studies are popular, too. There are also camps for older children who like wilderness (野外) adventure. These campers take long trips by bicycle or canoe. Or they go rock climbing or ride horses. Other summer camps in American children learn about religion or help them lose weight.(words: 280)1. All traditional American Summer Camps teach children to be .A) braveB) lovelyC) patientD) independent2.In an overnight camp, children.A) return home at nightB) only stay there for the nightC) spend less than a week thereD) are there the whole day and night3. It can be learned from the passage that the Fresh Air Fund.A) helps children in generalB) receives money from around the countryC) has established five summer campsD) supports families in the country4. Summer camps have bee popular because .A) children can learn more there than in schoolB) they teach children new skillsC) children like living thereD) they are good places to send children to during summer vacation5. The writer wants to explain that summer camp is .A) something newB) only for those in povertyC) possible for children from either rich or poor familiesD) possible only for those from rich familiesPassage 2On a summer afternoon in 1795, a teenage boy named Daniel McGinnis was exploring a tiny island off the eastern coast of Canada. He was walking through a meadow 〔草地〕of tall grass when he noticed something strange. In the center of the meadow was a huge oak〔橡树〕tree. The ground beneath it was lower than the surrounding ground. Daniel knew that pirates (海盗)had once sailed in the waters around the island. The next day Daniel returned to the island with shovels〔铲子〕and two friends. The boys began digging and soon discovered a layer of stones. Under the stones was a hole about four meters wide. It was filled with loose dirt. The boys kept digging for several days. Three meters below the ground their shovels hit an oak floor. They kept digging.But when they discovered another oak floor nine meters below the ground, they decided that they couldn’t dig any deeper.Eight years later, Daniel McGinnis returned with a group of men to continue digging beneath the oak tree. One evening, 30 meters below the ground, their shovels hit a large wooden box. The box had to be a treasure chest (大箱子)！The men went home to rest until daylight. When they returned in the morning, there was an unpleasant surprise—the hole had fi lled with water. The men couldn’t remove the water.During the following 200 years, dozens of search groups have dug in the hole, but each group only made the hole bigger. The hole that was once four meter wide is now enormous. The oak tree is now gone. Where is the hole that Daniel McGinnis found? Today nobody knows for sure, and there is still the problem of water in the hole.(Words: 286)1. Daniel McGinnis .A) had ancestors who were piratesB) was curious about the valuable treasure of piratesC) was a pirate himselfD) recovered the valuable treasure of pirates2. When Daniel and his two friends dug for the treasure, they .A) discovered an oak thereB) gave up because they had dug too deepC) found an oak floorD) dug for about 12 meters deep3. When Daniel and his friends continued digging eight years later, the major problem wasA) removing the dirtB) making the hole biggerC) locating the large wooden boxD) getting water out of the hole4. Which of the following explains the disappearance of the hole found by Daniel McGinnis?A) The oak tree was planted elsewhere.B) The hole was made much bigger.C) Seawater drowned〔淹没〕the island.D) Other search groups gave up on finding the hole.5. The best title for the passage is .A) Legend(传奇)of Daniel McGinnisB) Mystery of the Hidden TreasureC) Discovery of the Hidden TreasureD) Explorer of the Mysterious IslandII. Directions: Read the following passages, and then fill in the blanks with the missing information.Passage 3The song “Happy Birthday to You〞is sung all over the world just before the birthday boy or girl blows out the candles on the cake. It is so simple that children as young as three can sing it. The song, with its original 〔最初的〕title “Good Morning to You〞, was written in 1893 by the two sisters, Mildred and Patty Smith Hill. They were the daughters of a progressive Kentucky couple, who believed in female education at a time—the mid-nineteenth century—when it was still a novel idea and who trained their two daughters to be schoolteachers. They were long involved in elementary education, and Patty, in particular. She achieved a lot as a pioneer in kindergarten education, and for several decades a major spokesman for preschool education. She taught at Columbia University’s Teachers College from 1905 to 1935, and at her retirement became one of the first women to be named an honorary (荣誉的)professor by Columbia.A birthday cake with burning candles is also an important part at one’s birthday party. It may derive, distantly from the ancient Greek practice of offering to Artemis, goddess of the hunt and of the moon, a round honey cake into which a candle was stuck. After German bakers invented the modern birthday cake in the Middle Ages, a similar custom was adopted fro the advocate 〔提倡〕of good spirits at birthdays. The cake, ready by morning, would be surrounded by burning candles, in a kind of protective fire circle, and they would be kept lit all day, until dessert time at the evening meal.(Words: 262)1. The passage is about .2. In the mid-nineteenth century was still a new idea.3. Patty made great achievement in .4. The cake today may e from.5. The candles on a birthday cake were kept burning from morning.Passage 4Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise 〔天堂〕where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruits fall from the trees and you never have to work. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is wretched. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, waiting for a boatwhich never es. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both pictures, but few of us would ever have the opportunity to find out.Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired. During the journey, their boat began to sink. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy 〔船上附属的小船〕with food, matches, and cans of beer and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem. The men collected rain-water in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day, and, as one of them put it “ate like kings〞. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.(Words 258 ) 1.The two pictures of life on a deserted island people tend to have are:.2. Neither of the two opposite pictures of life on a desert island .3. The two men made the journey to Miami to .4. Water was no problem for the two men on the island because.5. The two men were sorry to leave the island because. III. Directions: Read the following passages, and then decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).Passage 5When someone who is in good health dies suddenly, there is usually an inquest.An inquest is a kind of court inquiry. The person in charge of an inquest is called a coroner. His job is to find out exactly how a person died.If there is nothing suspicious(可疑的)about the death, he would decide that the person died from natural causes or an accident. If, however, he is suspicious, he may decide that the person’s death was caused by a person or persons unknown.At one inquest, the coroner was trying to find out exactly what had caused the death of a local businessman, Henry Smith.The man’s widow was offering the evidence. She was very upset and had to stop from time to time.The coroner did not want to upset her more than necessary, but he had to find out the truth. There were questions he had to ask her.“Mrs. Smith, I know this is too much for you,〞he said, “but I want you to think very carefully and then answer my questions.〞“You and your husband were having dinner at home. Is that correct?〞“Yes.〞“Suddenly he fell to the floor.〞“Yes.〞“Did he say anything?〞The widow lowered her head.“Please, Mrs. Smith, you must answer the question. What were his last words?〞The widow took a deep breath and then spoke. “He said,〞he whisper ed, “I’m not surprised you were charged only 50 cents for that seafood we had for dinner.〞(Words: 249) ( ) 1. An inquest is done in one’s home.( ) 2. The coroner decides on the nature of a per son’s death.( ) 3. The coroner was very careful in asking Mrs. Smith questions so as not to upset her.( ) 4. Mrs. Smith was quick to tell the truth.( ) 5. The bad seafood was responsible for Mr. Smith’s death.Passage 6Joe Bloggs worked in a large and famous pany.The president of the pany believed in keeping his employees 〔雇员〕happy.One year, he offered them a pension (养老金)fund.The idea was that the workers would pay five percent of their wages into a pension fund. The pany would also pay a sum equal to five percent.When an employee retire 〔退休〕from the pany, he could take with him all the money that he and the pany had put into his pension fund.“I will open the pension fund〞, the president of th e pany said, “as soon as you all agree to join. Unless you all join, I won’t open the fund. You’ve got a week to make up your minds.〞The idea was very a good one and everyone except Joe Bloggs agreed to join.“I don’t understand it,〞Bloggs said.His co-workers tried to explain it to him, but he just kept saying, “I still don’t understand it.〞Time passed and there was only an hour left until the week was up.The president sent for Joe Bloggs to e to his office on the 20th floor.“Mr. Bloggs,〞he said, “a ll the employees agree with what I am going to say to you, so listen carefully.〞“It had better be good,〞Bloggs said.“Oh, it is,〞the president said. “If you don’t agree to join the pension fund before I finish counting to ten, the security guards will throw you out of the window.〞Joe Bloggs immediately signed the form which said he would agree to join the plan. “Now that you have explained it clearly,〞he said, “of course I’ll join.〞(Words: 274) ( ) 1. The pany would put more money into an employee’s pension fund.( ) 2. The employees could not take the money from his pension fund until their retirement.( ) 3. The president gave his employees one week to decide whether to join the pension fund or not.( ) 4. Joe Bloggs was called to the president’s office one day before the end of the week.( ) 5. Joe agreed to join the pension fund after realizing its importance.KeyUnit 3Passage 1D D B D CPassage 2B C D B BPassage 31.the birthday song and birthday cake2.female education3.kindergarten education4.ancient Greek practice of offering to the goddess of the hunt and the moon5.till dessert time in the eveningPassage 41.it is simple and good; or it is wretched2.is realistic3.have their boat repaired4.there was enough rain water5.they ate like king therePassage 5F T T F T Passage 6F T T F F。
1-3全新版大学英语综合教程第一册 Unit3
全新版大学英语综合教程第一册Unit3Unit 3Understanding SciencePart I Pre-reading TaskListen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions:1. Who is it about?2. What questions interest him?3. What makes his achievement s so remarkable?The following words in the recording may be new to you: universen. 宇宙musclen. 肌肉engagev. 与…订婚Part IIText AProfessor Hawking thinks it important to keep everybody in touch with what science is about. In this article he explains why.PUBLIC ATTITUDE S TOWARD SCIENCEWhether we like it or not, the world we live in has changed a great deal in the last hundred years, and it is likely to change even more in the next hundred. Some people would like to stopthese changes and go back to what they see aswonderful. It was not so bad for a privileged minority, though even they had to do without modern medicine, and childbirth was highly risky for women. But for the vast majority of the population, life was nasty, brutish, and short.AnywayKnowledge and technique sNor can one prevent further advance s in the future. Even if all government money for research were cut off (and thepresent government is doing its bestwould still bring about advance s in technology. Moreover, onewhether or not they are paid for it. The only way to prevent further development s would be a global state that suppresse d anything new, and human initiative and inventiveness are suchthat even this wouldn't succeedIf we accept that we cannot prevent science and technology from changing our world, we can at least try to ensure that the changes they make are in the right direction s. In a democratic society, this mean s that the public need s to have a basic understanding of science, so that it can make informed decision s（有根据的决定）s. Atthe moment, the public is in two minds about science.it also distrust s science because it doesn't understand it. This distrust is evident in the cartoon figure of the mad scientist working in his laboratory to produce aBut the public also has a great interest in science, particularly astronomy, as is shown by the largeaudience s for television series such as The Sky at Night and for science fiction.What can be done to harness this interest and give the public the scientific background it needs to make informed decision s on subject s like acid rain, the greenhouse effect, nuclear weapon s, and genetic engineering? Clearly, the basis must lie in what is taught in schools. But in schools science is often present ed in a dry and uninteresting manner. Children learn it by rote to pass examination s, and they don't see its relevance to the world around them. Moreover, science is often taught in terms of equation s. Although equations are a brief and accurate way of describing mathematical idea s, they frighten most people. When I wrote a popular book recently, I was advise d that each equation I include d would halve the sale s. I included one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E=mc2. Maybe I would have sold twice as many copies without it.Scientists and engineer s tend to express their idea s in the form of equations because they need to know the precise value s of quantities. But for the rest of us, a qualitative grasp of scientific concept s is sufficient, and this can be convey ed by words and diagram s, without the use of equations.The science people learn in school can provide the basic framework. But the rate of scientific progress is now so rapid that there are always new development s that have occur red since one was at school or university. I never learned about molecular biology or transistor s at school, but genetic engineering and computers are two of the developments most likely to change the way we live in the future. Popular books and magazine article s about science can help to put across new developments, but even the most successful popular book is read by only a small proportion of the population. Only television can reach a truly mass audience. There are some very good science programme s on TV, but others present scientific wonder s simply as magic, without explaining them or showing how they fit into the framework of scientific ideas. Producer s of television science programmes should realize that they have a responsibility to educate the public, not just entertain it.The world today is filled with dangers, hence the sick joke that the reason we have not been contact ed by an alien civilization is that civilizations tend to destroy themselves when they reach our stage. But I have sufficient faith in the good sense of the public(812 words)New Words and Expression sattituden. 看法；态度likelya. probable 可能的ad. probably 可能privilegeda. having a special advantage有特权的privilegen. 特权minorityn. 少数do without没有…而设法对付过去highlyad. very 很，非常riskya. full of danger; full of the possibility of failure, loss, etc. 危险的；有风险的nastya. very unpleasant令人难受的brutisha. 野兽般的，野蛮的anywayad. (used to change the subject of a conversation or to support an idea or argument) anyhow不管怎么说put/turn the clock back倒退，开倒车cut offstop providing (sth.); remove (sth.) by cutting 切断，中断；切下，剪下competitionn. 竞争；比赛bring aboutmake (sth.) happen 引起，导致technologyn. 技术moreoverad. 而且，再者inquiringa. showing an interest in knowing about things 好问的，爱探索的inquirev. 询问globala. worldwide, of the whole earth 世界的，全球的suppress▲vt. keep from appearing 抑制；压制initiativen. 首创精神；主动inventivenessn. 发明才能，创造力slow downmake slower 减慢raten. 速度；比率ensurevt. make sure保证，确保democratica. 民主的informeda. 有知识的，了解情况的；明智的informvt. 告诉，通知expertn. 专家at the momentnow 此刻，目前in two minds犹豫不决；三心二意steadya. constant; firm平稳的；稳定的evidenta. clear, obvious明显的cartoonn. 漫画；动画片elementn. 成分；元素astronomy▲n. 天文学audiencen. 观众；听众；读者seriesn. 连续；系列；系列节目fictionn. 小说；虚构harnessvt. control and make use of驾驭；利用backgroundn. 背景acida., n. 酸（性的）；酸味的（物质）greenhousen. 温室nucleara. 原子核的；核心的weaponn. 武器genetic▲a. 基因的；遗传（学）的engineeringn. 工程；工程学basisn. 基础lie inexist or be found in在于roten. 死记硬背learn by rote死记硬背地学习relevancen. 相关，关联in terms of从…方面（或角度）来说；按照，根据equationn. 等式，方程（式）briefa. short; quick简洁的；短暂的accuratea. exact准确的，精确的mathematicala. 数学的halvevt. 将…减半tendvi. be likely to happen or have a particular characteristic or effect倾向，趋向in the form ofhaving the shape of; exist ing in a particular form 呈…的形状；以…形式precisea. exact 精确的qualitativea. 定性的；性质上的graspn. understanding掌握，了解conceptn. 概念sufficienta. as much as is needed, enough 充分的，足够的conveyvt. make (ideas, feelings, etc.) known to another 传达；表达diagramn. 图表；图解frameworkn. 框架；结构moleculara. 分子的biologyn. 生物学transistorn. 晶体管；晶体管收音机put acrosscause to be understood 解释清楚，使被理解proportionn. 比例；部分trulyad. 真正地；确实地magicn. 魔术；魔力fit intobe part of a situation, system, etc.；be part of a group of people or things 适合；符合；属于responsibilityn. 责任educatevt. teach or train教育entertainvt. give pleasure to; have(邀请,接待) as a guest给…以欢乐；招待hencead. as a result, therefore; from this time因此；从此contactvt. get in touch with与…接触alien▲a. foreign; strange外国的；陌生的civilizationn. 文明Proper NamesStephen Hawking斯蒂芬·霍金Einstein爱因斯坦（1879—1955,美籍德国理论物理学家）。
全新版大学英语综合教程第一册课件Unit3
“I am quite often asked: How do you feel about having ALS? The answer is, not a lot. I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many.”
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Questions and Answers 1) What is the attitude of some people towards the changes brought about by science and technology? Some people would like to stop these changes and go back to what they see as a purer and simpler age. 2) What was life like before science and technology began to change our way of life?
This is a picture of Stephen Hawking, “Isaac Newton” and “Albert Einstein”.
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Unit 31.Direction: read the following passages, and then select the best choice for each ofthe questions or incomplete statements.Passage 1Traditional American summer camps offer young people a chance to play many sports. These camps may be in the mountains. Or they may be in the woods, or at a lake. Some camps teach activities like painting or music. Or they teach computer programming or foreign languages. Children at all kinds of camps meet new friends. They learn new skills and develop independence.Some children go to camp during the day and return home at night. Others stay at camp all day and all night. Children stay at an overnight camp for between one and eight weeks. Parents can pay less than one hundred dollars or more than seven-hundred dollars a week for an overnight camps.Children from poor families might not have a chance to attend summer camp. The Fresh Air Fund is a well-known organization. People around the country give money to support the Fresh Air Fund. Each summer it sends ten thousand poor children to stay with families in the country or to five camps in New York State.Summer camps have become very important to millions of families. Many American women now work outside the home. Working parents need a place where their children can be cared for during the summer when they are not in school.Young people who like the arts can learn about painting, music, acting or writing. Camps that offer programs in science and environmental studies are popular, too. There are also camps for older children who like wilderness (野外) adventure. These campers take long trips by bicycle or canoe. Or they go rock climbing or ride horses. Other summer camps in American children learn about religion or help them lose weight.(words: 280)1. All traditional American Summer Camps teach children to be .A) braveB) lovelyC) patientD) independent2.In an overnight camp, children .A) return home at nightB) only stay there for the nightC) spend less than a week thereD) are there the whole day and night3. It can be learned from the passage that the Fresh Air Fund .A) helps children in generalB) receives money from around the countryC) has established five summer campsD) supports families in the country4. Summer camps have become popular because .A) children can learn more there than in schoolB) they teach children new skillsC) children like living thereD) they are good places to send children to during summer vacation5. The writer wants to explain that summer camp is .A) something newB) only for those in povertyC) possible for children from either rich or poor familiesD) possible only for those from rich familiesPassage 2On a summer afternoon in 1795, a teenage boy named Daniel McGinnis was exploring a tiny island off the eastern coast of Canada. He was walking through a meadow （草地）of tall grass when he noticed something strange. In the center of the meadow was a huge oak（橡树）tree. The ground beneath it was lower than the surrounding ground.Daniel knew that pirates (海盗)had once sailed in the waters around the island. The next day Daniel returned to the island with shovels（铲子）and two friends. The boys began digging and soon discovered a layer of stones. Under the stones was a hole about four meters wide. It was filled with loose dirt. The boys kept digging for several days. Three meters below the ground their shovels hit an oak floor. They kept digging.But when they discovered another oak floor nine meters below the ground, they decided that they couldn’t dig any deeper.Eight years later, Daniel McGinnis returned with a group of men to continue digging beneath the oak tree. One evening, 30 meters below the ground, their shovels hit a large wooden box. The box had to be a treasure chest (大箱子)！The men went home to rest until daylight. When they returned in the morning, there was an unpleasant surprise—the hole had filled w ith water. The men couldn’t remove the water.During the following 200 years, dozens of search groups have dug in the hole, but each group only made the hole bigger. The hole that was once four meter wide is now enormous. The oak tree is now gone. Where is the hole that Daniel McGinnis found? Today nobody knows for sure, and there is still the problem of water in the hole.(Words: 286)1. Daniel McGinnis .A) had ancestors who were piratesB) was curious about the valuable treasure of piratesC) was a pirate himselfD) recovered the valuable treasure of pirates2. When Daniel and his two friends dug for the treasure, they .A) discovered an oak thereB) gave up because they had dug too deepC) found an oak floorD) dug for about 12 meters deep3. When Daniel and his friends continued digging eight years later, the major problem wasA) removing the dirtB) making the hole biggerC) locating the large wooden boxD) getting water out of the hole4. Which of the following explains the disappearance of the hole found by Daniel McGinnis?A) The oak tree was planted elsewhere.B) The hole was made much bigger.C) Seawater drowned（淹没）the island.D) Other search groups gave up on finding the hole.5. The best title for the passage is .A) Legend(传奇)of Daniel McGinnisB) Mystery of the Hidden TreasureC) Discovery of the Hidden TreasureD) Explorer of the Mysterious IslandII. Directions: Read the following passages, and then fill in the blanks with the missing information.Passage 3The song “Happy Birthday to You” is sung all over the world just before the birthday boy or girl blows out the candles on the cake. It is so simple that children as young as three can sing it. The song, with its original （最初的）title “Good Morning to You”, was wri tten in 1893 by the two sisters, Mildred and Patty Smith Hill. They were the daughters of a progressive Kentucky couple, who believed in female education at a time—the mid-nineteenth century—when it was still a novel idea and who trained their two daughters to be schoolteachers. They were long involved in elementary education, and Patty, in particular. She achieved a lot as a pioneer in kindergarten education, and for several decades a major spokesman for preschool education. She taught at Columbia Univer sity’s Teachers College from 1905 to 1935, and at her retirement became one of the first women to be named an honorary (荣誉的)professor by Columbia.A birthday cake with burning candles is also an important part at one’s birthday party. It may derive, distantly from the ancient Greek practice of offering to Artemis, goddess of the hunt and of the moon, a round honey cake into which a candle was stuck. After German bakers invented the modern birthday cake in the Middle Ages, a similar custom was adopted fro the advocate （提倡）of good spirits at birthdays. The cake, ready by morning, would be surrounded by burning candles, in a kind of protective fire circle, and they would be kept lit all day, until dessert time at the evening meal.(Words: 262)1. The passage is about .2. In the mid-nineteenth century was still a new idea.3. Patty made great achievement in .4. The cake today may come from.5. The candles on a birthday cake were kept burning from morning.Passage 4Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise （天堂）where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruits fall from the trees and you never have to work. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is wretched. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, waiting for a boat which never comes. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both pictures, but few of us would ever have the opportunity to find out.Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired. During the journey, their boat began to sink. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy （船上附属的小船）with food, matches, and cans of beer and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem. The men collected rain-water in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day, and, as one of them put it “ate like kings”. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.(Words 258 ) 1.The two pictures of life on a deserted island people tend to have are:.2. Neither of the two opposite pictures of life on a desert island .3. The two men made the journey to Miami to .4. Water was no problem for the two men on the island because.5. The two men were sorry to leave the island because.III. Directions: Read the following passages, and then decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).Passage 5When someone who is in good health dies suddenly, there is usually an inquest.An inquest is a kind of court inquiry. The person in charge of an inquest is called a coroner. His job is to find out exactly how a person died.If there is nothing suspicious(可疑的)about the death, he would decide that the person died from natural causes or an accident. If, however, he is suspicious, he may decide that the person’s death was caused by a person or persons unknown.At one inquest, the coroner was trying to find out exactly what had caused the death of a local businessman, Henry Smith.The man’s widow was offering the evidence. Sh e was very upset and had to stop from time to time.The coroner did not want to upset her more than necessary, but he had to find out the truth. There were questions he had to ask her.“Mrs. Smith, I know this is too much for you,” he said, “but I wan t you to think very carefully and then answer my questions.”“You and your husband were having dinner at home. Is that correct?”“Yes.”“Suddenly he fell to the floor.”“Yes.”“Did he say anything?”The widow lowered her head.“Please, Mrs. Smith, you must answer the question. What were his last words?”The widow took a deep breath and then spoke. “He said,” he whispered, “I’m not surprised you were charged only 50 cents for that seafood we had for dinner.”(Words: 249) ( ) 1. An inquest is done in one’s home.( ) 2. The coroner decides on the nature of a person’s death.( ) 3. The coroner was very careful in asking Mrs. Smith questions so as not to upset her.( ) 4. Mrs. Smith was quick to tell the truth.( ) 5. The bad seafood was responsible for Mr. Smith’s death.Passage 6Joe Bloggs worked in a large and famous company.The president of the company believed in keeping his employees （雇员）happy. One year, he offered them a pension (养老金)fund.The idea was that the workers would pay five percent of their wages into a pension fund. The company would also pay a sum equal to five percent.When an employee retire （退休）from the company, he could take with him all the money that he and the company had put into his pension fund.“I will open the pension fund”, the president of the company said, “as soon as you all agree to join. Unless you all join, I won’t open the fund. You’ve got a week to make up your minds.”The idea was very a good one and everyone except Joe Bloggs agreed to join.“I don’t understand it,” Bloggs said.His co-workers tried to explain it to him, but he just kept saying, “I still don’t understand it.”Time passed and there was only an hour left until the week was up.The president sent for Joe Bloggs to come to his office on the 20th floor.“Mr. Bloggs,” he said, “all the employees agree with what I am going to say to you, so listen carefully.”“It had better be good,” Bloggs said.“Oh, it is,” the president said. “If you don’t agree to join the pension fund before I finish counting to ten, the security guards will throw you out of the window.”Joe Bloggs immediately signed the form which said he would agree to join the plan. “Now that you have explained it clearly,” he said, “of course I’ll join.”(Words: 274) ( ) 1. The company would put more money into an employee’s pension fund. ( ) 2. The employees could not take the money from his pension fund until their retirement.( ) 3. The president gave his employees one week to decide whether to join the pension fund or not.( ) 4. Joe Bloggs was called to the president’s office one day before the end of the week.( ) 5. Joe agreed to join the pension fund after realizing its importance.KeyUnit 3Passage 1D D B D CPassage 2B C D B BPassage 31.the birthday song and birthday cake2.female education3.kindergarten education4.ancient Greek practice of offering to the goddess of the hunt and the moon5.till dessert time in the eveningPassage 41.it is simple and good; or it is wretched2.is realistic3.have their boat repaired4.there was enough rain water5.they ate like king therePassage 5F T T F T Passage 6F T T F F。