大学英语外报复习Lesson 5
大学英语第五册练习
大学英语教程第五册练习Part I. Answering the following questions1. Of the four choices, why does the author prefer the last choice, “Try to change the world gradually, one clod at a time”? What does his preference reflect? Give evidence from the text to prove your point.2. Why do scientists take a great interest in the mountain gorilla? What do they want to prove? What attitude should we have toward western scientists like the author who study wild life in Africa?3. According to the author, what is wrong with television? Why does the author only discuss the bad effect of television? Has television a part to play in modern society? What is the part it should play?4. What do you think of insomnia?What is the serious message the author intends to convey in “On Getting Off to Sleep”? Prove your point.5. How does the author look at the modern cult of beauty? Is his view ofthe beauty industry positive or negative? State the reasons he proposes in the text.What do you think of the modern cult of beauty?(部分参考答案) Lesson two1.The author would choose the last one in the first place. Because hewas very experienced and knew it better than the first three. Anyhow the last one would bring, more or less, benefits to him. otherwise, allhis effort would be in vain.2.Yes. He says revolutions bring the revolutionists nothing but death andbitterness. Some die young, in prison or on the street, others alive become desperate for their dreams have been disillusioned. He also points out the idealists making the revolution are bound to be disappointed whether their revolution is a success or a failure. He advises that there is a more reasonable and realistic alternative instead of the armed revolution. From these, we know that his preference reflects his pacifist view on social revolutions.Lesson 41.Because of the rapid development of the society, the ecological systemis off balance. More and more scientists show great concern for the wild animals as well as the mountain gorilla, fro their fate is closely linked with that of the human beings. They want to prove that man should pay more attention to the environment, take effective measures to protect its environment and to save the life of the wild animals.Otherwise, the day of the animals’ extinction is also the time when human being vanishes from the earth for good.1.To say that the gorilla is something of a paradox in the African scenemeans that people take it for granted that they know he gorilla very well. As a matter of fact, they don’t. more or less, people will tell you something about the gorilla, which is a big animal like a human being,but very ferocious. Yet, if we want to know more about the gorilla, no one can say more except those scientists who devote all their lives to the gorilla. So that’s why people say that the go rilla is something of a paradox in the African scene.Lesson 51.We should show our respects to those who devote all their lives to thestudy or observation of the wild life. They give up all their comfortable life and sacrifice their own happiness for protecting our environment from pollution, preserving a better land fro both the man and the animal. Without their work, the global environment will get worse and worse; without their work, the species of the animals will become less and less. It is they who make us know that an environmental crisis is threatening the whole mankind. So we should be grateful to them and to their hard work as well.Lesson 91.Yes. The part television should play is that it entertains people,enriches people’s leisure hours and words as a tool of cultural communication.2.According to the author, television discourages concentration,encourages us to apply no effort and diverts us only to divert.Lesson 101.For example, those “as soon as my head touches the pillow” fellows.This very night I will dismiss such trivial phantasies as jumping sheep and crooked pictures, and evoke the phantom of a crushing, stupendous Bore.2.No. I don’t think so. In this article, the author only tries to producesome humor for the readers and it is the touch of humor that makes the essay appealing to us. But anyway, he is not so serious here, and everybody can see that from the article.Lesson 151.The author’s view of beauty is negative. He proposes not a fewreasons and facts in the text. In the tenth paragraph, for example, he says, “Still commoner and no less repellent is the hardness which spoils so many pretty faces. Often, it is true, this air of hardness which spoils so many pretty faces. Often, it is true, this air of hardness is due not to psychological causes, but to the contemporary habit of over-painting.”2.According to the author, human beauty exists not only in appearance,but what’s the more in interior. For there is an interior light that can transfigure forms that the pure aesthetician would regard as imperfect or downright ugly.3.The author is criticizing the enormous expenditure on beauty inmodern western society.Yes, I think his criticism is well-grounded.Part II。
大学英语外报复习新闻·及结构news and its structure
C. “inverted pyramid” structure
• Journalism instructors usually describe the organization or structure of a news story as an inverted pyramid. • This upside down triangle serves as a guide for how you include information in the story. • Using the inverted pyramid means starting with the most important information, then giving the next most important information and so on.
• DENVER, Colorado (AP) A lightning strike at a golf course driving range Saturday killed a man and injured his 16-year-old son, a fire department spokeswoman said • When Saturday • Where At a golf course • Who A man and his son • What Lightning killed the man and injured his son
B. The 5 “W’s” and the H News articles, especially a hard news story, always include the essentials—who, what, where, when, why and how. Good news writing attempts to answer all the basic questions about any particular event in the first two or three paragraphs.
现代大学英语第5册精读5LessonTwoTwoK幻灯片
will determine whether or not he/she gains his objective).
C. Conflict
Conflict is essential to plot. Without conflict there is no plot. It is the opposition of forces which ties one incident to another and makes the plot move. Conflict is not merely limited to open arguments, rather it is any form of opposition that faces the main character. Within a short story there may be only one central struggle, or there may be one dominant struggle with many minor ones.
the story “Two Kinds”
A. setting
B . plot
C. conflict D. Theme E. point of view F. Characters G. The Joy Luck Club and
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大学英语实用翻译 - lesson4-5
孩子们看电视过多会损坏视力。
Too much exposure to TV programs will do harm to the eyesight of children.
我们反对一切战争。
We are enemies of all kinds of wars.
他演的比你的得好得多。
化动为静
她越来越恨他了。
She hated him more and more. Her hatred for him grew more. √
这次会议开得好。
The present conference has been held well.
The present conference has been a success. √
He is a much better actor than you think he is.
环保事业加快发展。
The development of environmental protection sped up.
坚持一个中国原则，是实现和平统一的基础和前提。
Adherence to the principle of one China is the basis and premise of peaceful
那家餐馆有许多穿制服的女子，他们是女招待。
Our garden is overlooked from the neighbor’s balcony.
Her services have been overlooked by her superiors.
Mother overlooked her little son’s fault. He did not know he was being overlooked by the landlord.
现代大学英语精读第2册课件lesson5
silverware
• -ware: manufactured goods • ironware, software, hardware, glassware, earthenware, ovenware
snap
• snap one’s fingers at • E.g. If you continue to snap your fingers at your boss, you may be severely punished. • snap / bite sb’s head off • E.g. He is just making a suggestion: there’s no need to snap his head off / snap at him! • be a snap • E.g. This job is a snap.
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• Having lost her passport, she is now in deep water. • He has got himself in hot water by quarrelling with his boss. • If you don’t do a good job, you will be in a bind.
pinch
• • • • • • • • • • 1. to nip, squeeze, or compress E.g. to ~ sb’s cheek playfully to ~ one’s finger in the door 2. to afflict or trouble E.g. be ~ed with cold and hunger 3. to give or spend sparingly; be mean E.g. ~ and save / scrape She ~es on food in order to spend on clothing. pinch pennies E.g. We’ve been pinching pennies all year so that we can visit my relatives in Australia in December.
Lesson 5
• 阿尔弗莱德杰克逊，38岁，原先是布鲁克 林一个水暖工人。有一天他想在邻居遛狗 的地方停放汽车，竟被邻居开枪打死。这 件事发生已经有一年多了。
• 2). Law-and order is the longest-running and probably the best-loved political issue in U.S. history. Yet it is painfully apparent that millions of Americans who would never think of themselves as lawbreakers, let alone criminals, are taking increasing liberties with the legal codes that are designed to protect and nourish their society.
• 2. “Background information” be subordinated to “judgment” e.g.: 霸权主义者对外侵略扩张，必然走向战 争。
• 他警告说，到本年年中，俄国将在陆上发 射的战略导弹的数量超过美国，因为俄国 人在古巴事件中遭到失败后，从六十年代 中期起就大力发展导弹，目的是为了在核 武器方面至少达到同美国均等，并力争超 过美国。
• 4).On the marble fireplace in the mathematics building at Princeton University is carved, in the original German, what one might call his (Einstein’s) scientific credo: “God is subtle, but he is not malicious.”
大学英语外报外刊阅读教程(第二版)课后习题参考答案
大学英语外报外刊阅读教程教学参考手册第二版端木义万主编Lesson 26Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. B 2. D 3. A 4. CVI.1. The author thinks that the millennial generation is a generation that primps, dyes, pulls and shapes, younger and with more vigor.2. Experian’s research finds that 43 percent of 6-to-9-year-olds are already using lipstick and lip gloss, 38 percent use hairstyling products and 12 percent use other cosmetics.3. This is a group that’s grown up on pop culture that screams, again and again, that everything, everything, is a candidate for upgrading. Ads for the latest fashions, makeup tips and grooming products are circulated with a speed and fury unique to this millennium —on millions of ads, message boards and Facebook pages.4. Statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery show cosmetic-surgery procedures performed on those 18 and younger have nearly doubled over the past decade.5. The author, by ―level the playing field‖, means that standards of beauty are ubiquitous and people of all kinds have the same cosmetic options available to them.OutlineI. (1) Specific example of Marleigh’s beauty careII. (2—4) Millennial generation’s obsession with beauty1. Starting grooming and beauty treatments at an early age2. Surveys and findingsIII. (5) Analysis of the trend1. Diva-ization of the generation2. Influence of pop culture and adsIV. (6—7) Effects of the trend1. Waste of time and money2. Big increase of young people seeking cosmetic treatmentsLesson 27Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. D 2. C 3. D 4. AVI.1. Conserve is a Delhi non-profit organization recycling plastic bags into accessories. Anita Ahuja started it in order to clean up the streets of the Indian capital and help people who have problems.2. When Anita Ahuja’s homemade products were popular at a fair at the US embassy, she realized she had finally found a successful recipe and decided to venture into accessories.3. She, by using contracts in the Delhi government, got Conserve IDs for her ragpickers. She also got certificates of endorsement from Delhi’s chief minister and prominently displayed her own clout at the different units. She put together a group of garbage collectors, who, acting as middlemen, buy the plastic bags from 150 pickers in different pockets of the city. In this way, she ensured a regular supply of plastic bags.4. The bags are sliced open, then washed in detergent, dipped in basil-scented water and hung out in the sun to dry, and after that were layered and compressed by heat in an ovenlike contraption. Staff and professional tailors then cut them out and sew the sheets into Conserve’s belts, bags and wallets.5. It was difficult to train the trash pickers on the nuances of the different plastic bags because they spoke different dialects.6. Anita Ahuja has turned down the suggestion of handing over the fabric because making the fabric alone is not so profitable.OutlineI. (1-3) Brief accounts of Conserve1. Conserve’s business2. Anita Ahuja’s purpose in starting Conserve3. Conserve’s successII. (4-6) Conserve’s initial stage of development1. Ahuja’s development of the idea of recycling plastic bags2. Experiments with plastic bag recycling3. Ahuja’s way to ensure a regular supply of plastic bagsIII. (7-13) Conserve’s business management1. Conserve’s way of recycling plastic bags2. Payment to collectors and pickers3. Training of trash pickers4. Markets for Conserve’s productsIV. (14-16) The way to gain capital for business development1. Setting up a for-profit unit2. Use of the money to pay the rent on a new factory3. Turning down the suggestion of handing over the fabricV. (17) Bharti Sharma’s success at ConserveLesson 28Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. D 2. B 3. B 4. AVI.1. Zach’s walk was 650-mile long. The aim of the walk was to raise funds to help homelesschildren.2. Zach started the organization four years ago. By the end of the year, they had 27 truckloads of aid.3. The walk was very hard. They spent two months trudging 10 or 13miles a day along swelteringback roads.4. They raise money for their philanthropic organization through tutoring. They use the money todistribute blankets, clothing and soap to Washington’s homeless.5. When Brittany and Robbie Berguist heard about a soldier overseas who couldn’t pay the phonebill for his calls home, they raised money by selling back old cellphones to be recycled. Since then, the siblings have sent more than 600,000 phone cards to troops and raised more than $ 5 million. For their philanthropic work, Brittany had been awarded so many community-service scholarships that she has enough to cover the entire cost of Stonehill College, and even the cost of graduate school.6. Zach’s walk raised about $ 50,000. He plans to use some of the money for a playground at anemergency foster-care shelter at Tampa and for bedding, computers and other supplies at Sasha Bruce Youthwork.OutlineI. (1-2) Zach’s final stage of the 650-mile fundraising walkII. (3-8) Zach’s Little Red Wagon Foundation1. Zach’s identity2. Development of the Little Red Wagon Foundation3. Media’s attention to the Little Red Wagon FoundationIII. (9-18) American children’s philanthropic efforts1. Children’s change of image from mere poster children into high-profile CEO of their ownfoundations2. Timothy Hwang and Minsoo Han’s organization of Operation Fly3. Effects of child philanthropic efforts4. Efforts made by Brittany and Robbie Bergquist to help American soldiers abroad5. Rewards to Brittany for her philanthropic effortsIV. (19-23) Zach’s fundraising walk1. Distance covered each day2. Hardship endured on the way3. Fund raised by the walk and the planned way to use the fund4. Zach’s stress on the nee d to help homeless childrenV. (24-25) Social Support for Zach’s walk1. Sponsors for the walk2. Zach’s gratitude for the support and attentionLesson 29Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. A 2. D 3. B 4. CVI.1. They play an important role in the U.S. economy. They produce more than $1 trillion in annual revenues. Major credit card companies and banks are eager to get their business.2. They work really hard. More than 4 in 10 work at least 6 days a week and 52 percent take less than a week off a year. When they aren’t at work, 59 percent still take calls and Emails3. Most people think that the business of small businesses declines in summer because they believe customers go on vacation during summer.4. The stock market changes don’t have an impact on them. Over half insist that the stock market doesn’t reflect economic reality.5. According to Discover, a third of small business owners said that housing’s slide and the ensuing credit crisis have a significant impact on their business.OutlineI. (1) Size, number, and importance of mom and pop businessesII. (2) Discover’s surveys of mom and pop businessesIII. (3-9) Major findings about the real world of mom and pop businesses1. The owner’s view on being his/her own boss2. Normal working hours3. Business during the summer4. Stock market changes’ impact on mom and pop businesses5. Fuel price changes’ impact on mom and pop businesses6. Health care provision mandate’s impact on mom and pop businesses7. Minimum wage increase’s impact on mom and pop businessesIV. (10 - 11) This summer's mortgage fallout on small businessLesson 30Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. C 2. D 3. D 4. AVI.1. It provides bus transportation, hotel lodging and, tailgate food and entertainment.2. He is launching a virtual coffee marketplace that matches javaholics with independent roasters and their beans across the country3. Wor king in Corporate America doesn’t hold the same appeal because large employers are downsizing, and high entry salaries and stock options are less common now.4. Berlin thinks that as a student, the risk of starting an entrepreneurial venture is relatively minimal and there is often little money to lose5. According to Preiss, the coffee market place is moving toward customers who view it more like wine. They care where it comes from, where it is grown and the quality of the beans.OutlineI. Specific example of Calle and Berlin(1-4) 1. Change from football fans into entrepreneurs2. Starting a business that serves football fansII. Fashion of college students’ launching businesses(5-8) 1. Students’ entrepreneurial venture across the US.2. Example at Georgia State University3. Example at Emory University4. Example at Morehouse CollegeIII. Students’ interest in business and the reasons for their interest(9-18) 1. Students’ keen interest in business2. Reasons fo r students’ keen interest in starting up a businessa. Repression’s impactb. Minimal risk of initial investmentc. Advantage provided by the technologyVI. Way of business development(19-30) 1. SEC Excursion’s way of developing business2. David Preiss’s way of developing his coffee businessLesson 31Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. AVI.1. US President Bush called the G-20 summit.2. The G-20 is expected to design new roles to meet the global financial crisis.3. According to the author, the G-20 summit is likely to be remembered not so much for the action taken as for the milestone it marked and the emerging global economic order it heralded.4. The new international economic order will reflect a diffusion of economic power and responsibility to countries like China, Brazil, and South Korea.5. They welcome the expansion of the world economic club to include them. But they are also demanding a bigger role in international economic decision-making.6. He recognizes the growing role of developing economies. He expects the summit to take up special reforms that acknowledge a changed world.7. He warned against overzealous attempts to reinvent the system.OutlineI. (1-3) Appearance of the G-20 and the significance1. Appearance of the G-202. Significance of its appearanceII. (4-7) Likely achievement of the G-20 summit1. No significant accords expected2. A likely call for broad international participation in effort to stimulate global economy3. Likely formation of working groups4. The likely host for a follow-up summitIII. (8-10) Impact of the G-20 summit1. A new international economic order2. Recognition of the importance of emerging economic powersIV. (11-14) Developing economic powers’ responses1. Welcoming to expansion of the world economic club2. Demanding the recognition of particular needsa.Access to investment fundsb.Dependence on export marketsV. (15-18) Bush’s attitudes and expectations1. Recognizing the growing role of developing economic powers2. Expecting specific reforms to improve the system3. Warning against overzealous attempts to reinvent the free-market systemLesson 32Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. DVI.1. Ten years ago, Amazon sold books.2. Today, Amazon’s business in Britain is very large. It is receiving 1 million orders a day, having transformed itself into a giant shopping mall. It is now challenging all the major high street chains for the title of Britain’s biggest retailer.3. It is expanding very fast. Earlier this yea r it opened one of Europe’s largest warehouses in Swansea, 60% bigger than its existing monster-sized distribution center in Milton Keynes. But already the firm is seeking a site for another huge warehouse. It is tooling up for its next move, with the launch early next year of a low-cost, music download service that could rival Apple iTunes.4 The traditional way of online shopping in Britain is searching out the cheapest price for eachindividual purchase at price comparison websites and then ordering from a raft of different retailers. The author says that this way may now be redundant because Amazon offers the cheapest prices for most products.5. The main reason for Amazon’s offer of cheaper prices is the benefit of scale: no shops and no staff in them, and no carrying inventory in 500 different places at the same time. Huge volumes of business enable Amazon to get better commercial terms than anyone else.6. By ―the social aspect to shopping‖ the author means that a lot of customers want to be able to pop around to a local shop, talk about a product, speak to the shopkeeper and have a chit-chat.7. The out-of-town shopping centers and online retailers will cause the bankruptcy of local independent stores and the disappearance of money from the locality.8. According to Guardian Money, if customers buy all their Christmas presents on Amazon, they should be aware that if the item breaks down after six months, it appears that all the company will offer them back is 10% — 20% of the initial price.OutlineI. (1-4) Development of Amazon in Britain1. Transformation into a giant shopping mall2. Further expansion3. Price competitiveness4. Many online competitors’ decision to join Amazon’s marketplaceII. (5-6) Reasons for Amazon’s price competitiveness1. Benefit of scale2. Ability to get better commercial termsIII. (7-10) Impacts of Amazon’s development on Britain1. Posing a threat to Britain’s local independent stores2. Causing the loss of social contact in shopping3. Taking money out of the local areas4. Explanation given by Amazon’s Brian McBrideIV. (11-20) Problems with Amazon’s service1. No full protection of customers’ interests when products are found shoddy2. Case of David Handly3. Case of Ray FerrisLesson 33Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. D 2. D 3. A 4. CVI.1. Louis Gill has taken to laying out cots and mattresses between the shelter’s 174 registered beds to cope with the rush of homeless families brought to his doors by the financial crisis.2. According to Louis Gill, in the preceding year homeless families increased by 34 percent and homeless children increased by 24 percent.3. The author thinks that the recession has caused ravages including a surge in foreclosures and unemployment approaching 10 percent and driven thousands of families onto the streets.4. According to administration officials, the typical homeless person has changed to become less focused on the chronologically homeless or single individual homeless to somebody who is part ofa family whether it be a mother or a father, or a child in a homeless family.5. The life of homeless young women is particularly fraught with danger because they are at much greater risk of being victimized when they have no stable home. It can be more difficult to obtain needed services.6. They suggest that rural and suburban areas were particularly ill-equipped to cope with the new wave of homelessness7. The department has allocated $1.5 billion over the next three years to combat homelessness nationwide.OutlineI. (1-2) Specific example of Bakersfield Homeless Center1. Going beyond capacity to cope with the rush of homeless families2. Fast increase of homeless families and childrenII. (3-5) Change in the make-up of homeless people1. Gill’s idea about the changea. Original stereotype of a homeless personb. Present increase of people becoming homeless due to the economic crisis2. Government figures supporting Gill’s experienceIII. (6-11) HUD’s report about the homeless1. Increase of homeless families nationwide and in rural and suburban areas2. Distribution of homeless people3. Change of homeless stereotypes4. Dangerous situation faced by homeless women5. Issues left out in the reportIV. (12-15) HUD’s study and findings1. Way of study: measuring changes in the number of homeless people2. Case study’s findingsa. Inability of rural and suburban areas to cope with the new wave of homeless peopleb. Increase of homeless people in some statesc. Case of a Kentucky emergency shelterV. (16) Efforts made by HUD and local areas to help the homelessLesson 34Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. C 2. A 3. A 4. AVI.1. In 2003, the Congress passed the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban.2. The three lower courts criticize the law because the law does not have an exception for protecting the health of pregnant women.3. The Supreme Court upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban4. They hold that the ban is harmful to women’s health and interferes with medical decision making and opens the floodgates for states to chip away at Roe.5. Jay Sekulow believes that state legislatures will now be emboldened to pass other restrictions, including ones requiring informed consent.6. According to David Masci, abortion could become a more visible issue in the next presidential election, and at the very least, the ruling will force candidates, who have already weighed in along partisan lines, to speak more clearly about where they stand7. If the majority comes to see the decision as the first step towards dismantling Roe, it would mobilize Americans in ways abortion opponents would regret.OutlineI. (1—3) Supreme Court’s ruling and its effect1. Illegality of partial-birth abortion2. Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban3. Limited effect of the rulingII. (4—6) Views on the ruling’s impact1. Abortion-rights activists’ view2. Abortion opponents’ view3. Jay Sekulow’s viewIII. (7) Ruling’s effect on politicians: forcing them to speak even more clearly about their stand IV. (8) Prospects of anti-abortion movementLesson 35Answers to the QuestionsV. 1.B 2. D 3. C 4. AVI.1. David Shipler’s description of the bleak world of the American working poor is a kind of domino model of a downward economic spiral.2. His book is based on his interviews of scores of people. The book lacks the first-person focus and angry wit of Nickel and Dimed. But poverty is in the details, and he lays those in abundance.3. Convenience stores in poor neighborhoods routinely advance cash to their customers at the at interest rates of about 20% for a two-week loan. If the debt can’t be paid, it’s gladly rolled over——for another 20%. One study in Illinois found that the average customer had 10 renewals of that kind, which meant that in the space of a few months, he or she owed twice as much in interest that had been borrowed.4. The essence of Shipler’s message is that working poverty is a seamless web of challenges, some personal, some erected by a society content to let the federal minimum wage languish at a $5.15 an hour.5. Unscrupulous bosses make workers falsify their time sheets so that they can work longer hours for the same pay. Labor contractors deduct exorbitant housing costs from the worker’s pay, but warehouse them in filthy barracks.6. Shipler’s solutions are a higher minimum wage, better job training and medical coverage for the almost 44 million who have none.7. The author says so because the working poor don’t vote in anything like the numbers of their more affluent neighbors, therefore carry no real weight and the economic situation is gloomy, the economic boom of the 90s is gone, the job creation is feeble, and the time limits on welfare are kicking in.OutlineI. (1) Shipler’s description of the working poor’s lifeII. (2-5) Aim, features, essence of the book1. Shipler’s aim in writing the book2. Main features of the book3. Shipler’ dissection of the extortionate are loan fees4. Essence of Shipler’s messageIII. (6-7) Analysis of the working poor’s own problems1. Problems on the part of the working poor2. Nothing to fall back on when they stumbleIV. Shipler’s solution and the author’s commentLesson 36Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. C 2. A 3. B 4. BVI.1.Tom Mauser is the father of Columbine victim Daniel Mauser. He maintains a memorial pageto his son because he wants to arouse Americans’ attention to the gun violence problem and get their action.2.America’s gun violence is very serious. Each year America loses 11,000 to gun homicide, andthree times that number are injured.3. The reasons for Americans’inaction about gun violence problem are the gun lobby’s greatinfluence on the public and American s’ fear about an armed takeover. They are convinced that any form of gun control is a major step toward the total elimination of all guns.4. No, punishment alone isn’t enough because in most cases once they lose loved ones it is toolate, and because punishment doesn’t stop shooters intent on committing suicide following their rampage.5. They put the issue on the statewide ballot and won by a margin of 70 percent to 30 percent.6. The author suggests that Americans should put more measures on the ballot or learn to putmore pressure on elected officials to offset the relentless badgering of the gun lobby.I. (1-3) American’s reaction to the frequent gun violence1. Tom Mauser’s effort to get public attention to the gun violence problem2. Need for far more attention and action3. Most Americans’ passive reaction to gun violenceII. (4) Serious extent of gun violenceIII. (5-6) Reasons f or Americans’ weak reaction to gun violence1. Powerful influence of the gun lobby2. Public fear about armed takeover and total elimination of all gunsIV. (7-10) Difficulty in preventing gun violence1. Punishment’s limited effect2. Existence of the gaping gun loophole3. Sale of military style assault weapons4. Political leaders’ submission to the hard-core gun supportersV. (11-12) Measures to solve the gun violence problem1. Colorado’s measures to close the gun show loophole2. Need to put more measure on the ballot and more pressure on elected officialsVI. (13-14) Gloomy prospects1. Difficulty is enforcing reasonable restrictions due to gun lobby’s stranglehold on policy makers2. Overwhelming voices of fearLesson 37Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. B 2. A 3. A 4. DVI.1. It was the most powerful ever in the region, measured a preliminary magnitude of 7.0. It rockedthe island of Haiti, collapsing a hospital, the presidential palace and other buildings, triggering massive panic and claiming thousands of lives.2. The earthquake was so destructive because it measured a magnitude of 7.0, was centered about10 miles west of Port-au-Prince and was shallow, and it hit one of the city’s most denselypopulated areas.3. According to Fajardo, relief efforts were hampered by poor road conditions and lack of security.4. The installations of the UN Peacekeeping Force sustained serious damage. The headquarterscollapsed and troops were trying to find survivors amid the wreckage of the five-story building.5. The US government promised to provide both civilian and military disaster relief andhumanitarian assistance.6. US officials planned to send teams to assess Haiti’s needs, but first they wanted to determinewhether airport runways were able to receive cargo planes.I. (1) NewsleadSummary of the news story about the Haiti earthquakeII. (2 – 4) Impact of the earthquake1. Catastrophic destruction2. Issuing of tsunami alerts and reports about aftershocksIII. (5) Specifics about the earthquakeSize and location of the earthquake and time of its occurrenceIV. (6 – 9) Details about the effects of the earthquake1. Casualties and damages2. Stern’s account3. Photos showing damagesV. (10 – 11) Background information about Haiti’s1. Poverty2. Disasters caused by storms, military coups and gang violenceVI. (12 - 18) More details about the quake’s damages1. Rodger’s account2. Fajardo’s account3. Joseph’s account4. Alain LeRoy’s accountVII. (19 - 26) America’s response to the quake1. Obama’s pledge to help2. Hillary Clinton’s offer of help3. US Embassy personnel’s account4. US officials’ planVIII. (27 - 30) Further details about the earthquake’s damages1. AP’s account2. Godfrey’s account3. Impact on Cap-Haiten: little damage4. Buzard’s accountLesson 38Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. B 2. C 3. C 4. AVI.1. President Lech Kaczynski’s plane crashed in Smolensk, Western Russia on April 10, 20102. The aim of President Lech Kacz ynski’s trip was to attend the commemoration of the KatynForest Massacre.3. The crash killed 97 people, of whom 88 were passengers.4. The crash was a stunning blow to Poland and threw the whole nation into grief. Poles mournedthe death of their leaders and united in their grief. Thousands massed outside the PresidentialPalace, laying flowers and lighting candles.5. Relationship between Poland and Russia has been strained ever since the Katyn ForestMassacre. The crash happened at the moment that the two countries were beginning to come to terms with the killing of Poland’s officers. So, the relationship took a chilling twist. For poles, it was a wound which is difficult to heal.6. The Law and Justice Party lost numerous important leaders in addition to the president.Although Mr. Kaczynski had been trailing far behind his opponent in the polls, the outpouring of sympathy from the mourning public might benefit his party in the moved-up presidential election.7. According to the article, Russia’s leaders, acutely aware of the potential fallout of the crash,immediately reached out to Poland with condolences. Mr. Putin left Moscow to meet Mr. Tusk at the site of the crash, and President Medvedev recorded an address to the Polish people, saying, ―All Russians share your sorrow and mouring.‖OutlineI. (1 – 2 ) News leadSummary of the news story about the Polish jet crashII. (3 – 5) Impact of the crash on the relationship between Poland and Russia1. A stunning blow to Poland2. A difficult-to-heal woundIII. (6 – 7) Possible cause of the crash1. Air traffic controllers’ warning and order2. Plane’s descent in spite of the warning and the orderIV. (8) Information about the passengersV. (9 – 15) Polish people’s reaction to the crash1. National grief over the crash2. Examples of Niemczyk, Figurski and Tusk3. Background information about the aim of the trip4. Welesa’s comment on the crash: the second disaster after KatynVI. (16 – 18) Effects of the crash on Poland’s politics and relations with other c ountries1. Repercussions on the coming presidential election2. Effects on Poland’s relationship with other countriesVII. (19 – 22) The two governments’ responses1. Kaczynski and Tusk’s arrival at Katyn2. Background information about the two countrie s’ half-a-century relationship3. Russian leaders’ prompt offer of condolencesVIII. (23 - 26) Additional information about the cause of the crash1. Category and age of the plane2. Officials’ repeated request for a replacement of the plane3. Russian ne ws media’s reports about the crashIX. (27 - 29) Additional information about the passengers1. Number of Polish passengers2. Information about the high ranking passengers3. Information about KaczynskiX. (30 - 31) Impact on Poland’s plan to host America’s missiles1. Kaczynski’s support for the plan2. Unlikely change of the planLesson 39Answers to the QuestionsV. 1. D 2. C 3. B 4. CVI.1. The early returns from Afghanistan’s presidential election had the smell of a decorous massage job.2. Karzai is very good at the traditional form of Afghan politics, crating alliances among tribal and ethnic factions. He distributes money to those allies and in this way gain their support.3. The military situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated. The Taliban have grown in strength. It is widely expected General McChrystal will be requesting more troops.4. No. Obama’s dilemma is not as stark as has been posed in recent press accounts. The military has become far more nuanced when it comes to making requests of Presidents. The negotiations about what McChrystal can officially request will not take place anywhere near the public eye. It is very likely that more troops will be sent. Most Democrats have little desire to reverse themselves. They don’t want to hurt the President, and they don’t want to be perceived as weak on defense come election time.OutlineI. (1) Election situation1. Early returns from the presidential election2. Fraudulent managementII. (2) Absurdity of holding the election1. Factors preventing a fair election2. Karzai’s problemsIII. (3) Military situation in Afghanistan1. Taliban’s growth of strength2. Expected request from General McChrystal for more troopsIV. (4-6) Discussion about Obama’s next move1. Analysis of the situation facing Obamaa. Not a dilemma as stark as has been posed in recent press accountsb. The military’s response: far more nuanced in making requestsc. Most democrats’ response: having little desire to reverse themselves2. Discussion about the right thing to do in Afghanistana. Nothing wrong with the invasionb. Wrong to ignore traditional Afghan ways of social organizationc. Legitimate to question the present way of Afghan nation-buildingd. Need to work out a better plan。
现代大学英语精读5课后问题详解
现代⼤学英语精读5课后问题详解Lesson 1Vocabulary1. Manhood: the state of being human2. White lie:harmless or trivial lie，esp．one told in order to avoid hurting sb．3. black sheep：person regarded as a disgrace or a failure by other members of his family or group4. To upset: to defeat5. Affirmation: stating sth．as truth firmly and forcefully6. To strain: to make the greatest possible effort7. Off base: mistaken8. (a) want (of) : lack of9. Ringing cry: rallying callParagraph1. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy.It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people.2. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.3. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when a negro is fully convinced that he/she isa Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.4. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.Power in its best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.5. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability and talents.At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was).6. …the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber.A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong.7. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by animal necessity.This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed.8. …when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.…when the unfair practice of judhing human value by the amount of money a person has irs done away with.9. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality. Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.10. Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds.Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination.Translation1. A white lie is better than a black lie.⼀个⽆关紧要的谎⾔总⽐⼀个恶意的谎⾔要好。
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In 2008, approximately 6% of all mortgage loans in the United States were in default, and a huge portion of the increased mortgage loan defaults were what are referred to as “sub-prime” loans(次级贷款）. The bursting of the U.S. housing bubble, which peaked in 2006, caused the values of securities tied to U.S. real estate pricing to plummet(骤然下降）, and resulted in the threat of total collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout(紧急援助）of banks by national governments, and downturns(衰退） in stock markets around the world. The crisis also played a significant role in the failure of key businesses, declines in consumer wealth estimated in trillions of US dollars, and a downturn in economic activity leading to the 2008-2012 global recession and contributing to the European sovereign-debt crisis(欧 洲主权债务危机）.
Background Information 1. The financial crisis 2008年金融危机
The 2008 financial crisis is considered to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was triggered by a complex interplay of policies, which were adopted by American government to stimulate the economy and encouraged people to buy houses. Banks provided easier access to loans for subprime borrowers(次级贷款人）, and over-evaluated the bundled sub-prime mortgages(次级抵押贷款） based on the theory that housing prices would continue to escalate. Unfortuately home prices peaked in the winter of 2005-06 and started to go down, and the house of cards stared to cromble(崩 溃）. People could no longer increase their mortgage debt to pay previous debts.
editorial n ． 社 论
editorial office 编辑
部
editor's notes 编 者
按
exclusive n．独家新 闻
expose n．揭丑新闻； 新闻曝光 extra n ． 号 外 eye-account n．目击 记;记者见闻
edge n.
The Author
Shannon Bond is a reporter and FT. com editor in New York. She joined the FT in 2008 after receiving her MS from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She has also written for Market Watch, Politico and UPI. com.
Lesson Five
Debt Burden Alters Outlook for US Graduates
Word supplement
daily n ． 日 报
dateline n．新闻电头
deadline n．截稿时间
dig vt．深入采访；追
踪(新闻线索)；“挖”(新
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digest n ． 文 摘
3. The US Senate's wrangle over student loans参议院关于学生贷款的争斗
With student loans rocketing in recent years, both Democrats(民 主党） and Republicans（共和党） agreed to freeze student loan rates and keep them form doubling from 3.4% to 6.8% which would be effective on July 1, 20112. Their chief remaining dispute is how to pay for the $5.9 billion cost of keeping those rates low. When it comes to that, each side has in effect taken a political hostage: House Republicans would cut spending from Obama's prized health care overhaul law(被认为非常重要的奥巴马 的医疗保险改革法案）, Senate Democorats would boost payroll taxes(工资税）on owners of some private corporations and House Democrats would erase federal subsidies(联邦补贴）to oil and gas companies. That is how the US Senate was wrangling over how to extend a modest (适当的补贴）for student loans.
Teaching Assistantships are a source of aid provided to graduate students who assist faculty members in tlasses. A research assistantship is a form of funding in which a student works as an "assistant" in exchange for partial or full tuition and/or a stipend.(奖学金）
Jason Abbruzzese is a web editor at FT. After graduating from Boston University with a degree in journalism, he worked for the Sentinel & Enterprise in central Massachusetts before receiving a master's degree in inernational affairs from the Australian National
Robin Harding is US Economics Editor for the Financial Times, and covers the US Federal Reserve and the US Treasury(美国财政部）. Based in Washington, his beat includes US economics, financial markets and business. He studied economics at Cambridge and also holds a master's degree in economics from Hitotsubashi University(一桥大学）in Tokyo.
Generally, a scholarship or fellowship grant is any amount paid or allowed to, or for the benefit of, an individual to aid in the pursuit of study or research. A tuition waiver is a program initiated by states that allows students to attend publicly funded higher education institutions by "waiving" tuition and fees under certain criteria.
Non-Service Scholarships do not require an individual to perform a past, present or future service in order to receive payment, and include Fellowship(助学金）, Scholarship(奖学金）, Tuition & Fee Waiver(全免学杂费）and other awards offered by specific institutions, while service Assistantships require an individual to perform some service in order to receive payment, and include Teaching Assistantship(助教金）and Research Assistantship(助研 金）。