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现代大学英语精读3第二版Unit4_Book3
a life by choice, out of principle → natural, healthy, independent
a life as slaves of their possessions → artificial, anxious, loss of virtue
Text Analysis
Diogenes and Alexander
Unit 4
Character Analysis
Structure
Detailed Analysis
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Character Analysis
Other people: half-men
Diogenes: the beggar (paras. 1-3)
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Live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escape complexities and extravagances: only so can you live a free life. (para. 4) His life’s aim was clear to him: it was “to restamp the currency”: to take the clean metal of human life, to erase the old false conventional markings, and to imprint it with its true values. (para. 5)
2. Writing: comparison and contrast • Diogenes—Alexander • Diogenes—other beggars/hermits/philosophers • Alexander—other Macedonians (officers & officials) Here, the alternating comparison/contrast (subject by subject) is used.
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大学英语精读3的Paraphrase㈡ 1. Y et, there was always in me…… somewhere else.P However, I always felt that I should pay a visit to some other places.2. I wandered the world through books.P I learned many aspects of the world by reading books.3.One poem committed to memory……in my mind.P I still remember one poem I learned in grade school.4.Perhaps only a truly discontented child……as I was.P Perhaps only a child who is truly dissatisfied with the reality can be attracted by books as I was.5.Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy.P Perhaps if a person really devotes himself or herself to reading and writing, he or she is bound to be restless.6.by the lure of what……normal childhood.P by the power of attracting which was an instinctive and normal thing to any child at my age 7.But the best part of me……and bring them to life.P But the best part ……at home: But my most unforgettable memory was always at home……8.In books I have traveled……but into my own.P While reading books, I have not only traveled to different places in the world, but roamed around my own inner world.9.There was waking, …… was never really a stranger.P Between the tome I woke up and the tome I went to sleep, I just read books, which is a parallel universe to me. And in this universe, I might be a newcomer, but was never a stranger. 10. My real, true world. My perfect island.P To me, these books were a real, true world, as well as a perfect island on which I preferred to stay.11.…as though she was starving and the book was bread.P Jamaica Kincaid was reading books with great eagerness, as if the books were her food. 12.Reading has always been my home,…… invincible companion.P Reading has always given me joy and comfort, food and drink, and strength and companionship.13. and come outside …… in their separateness.P and come into contact with the reality, who think themselves superior to others and feel shame To be friends with them.14. Had television and the movies supplanted books?P Had books given way to televisions and the movies ? Or\ Had books been replaced by televisions and the movies?15.We are the people who……went out of print.P We are the people who would make sure that Pride and Prejudice would always be available.16.It was still in the equivalent of ……one another.P We still found each other like we did when we were young17."Until I feared I would lose it,……To Kill a Mockingbird. P We often say that the starving know the value of food and the man dying of thirst knows the value of Water.㈣1. …done his business like a dog at the road side,……P He had emptied his bowels or passed water (urinated) like a dog at the roadside,……2. got scant thanks :P He seldom expressed his thanks to the people who had offered him some food 3. They were not quite sure…… Now he was back at his home.P Some were mad about wealth; some thirsted for power; some were crazy about sex……4. they amused himP These mad or insane people made him think that they were all ridiculous.5. He thought everybody lived……anxiously.P He thought that our life is too complicated, too costly, and gives us too much pressure. He argued that we should simplify our life.6. He was not the first to inhabit…out of principle.P He was not the first to live in a cask. But he was the first who ever did so because he wanted to, not by necessity, not being forced to . He based it on aprinciple.7. But he taught chief by example.P Diogenes also taught by talking to people, but he mainly taught by setting an example for others to learn from.8. Diogenes answered "I'm trying to find a man."P He actually meant that all people he could see were only half-men. Here the word "man" means a true man.by Diogenes' standard.9. …that will come after you lose the use of your hands.P … that so-called happiness will occur when your hands become useless.10. And so he lived……P And that was how he lived……11. Only twenty, Alexander was far older and……restrained and chivalrous.P Alexander looked far older than a man of his age normally does, and was much wiser than man of his age normally is.12. It is of course “ the people” who were amazed, not “silence”P here were the people who were amazed, but remained silent.13 .hey took it as a paradox. P They regarded it as a paradox.14. But Alexander meant it P But Alexander really meant what he had said.15. He knew that of all men then alive……the beggar were free.P Alexander knew that of all the people alive at that time, he was free because he had absolute power and Diogenes was free because he didn’t need any power.㈤1.There was once a town……in harmony with its surroundings.×Once upon a time there was a town in the central part of America where all living things2. Then some evil spell settled on the community:……but even among children.× Then, as by some evil power, disaster struck the community: strange diseasesquickly struck down large numbers of children; the cattle and sheep became ill and died.3.… a harsh reality we all shall know.×… some serious consequence that we all have to face.4.…a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.× ...a history of how living things and their environment affect and relate to eachother.5.… the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vegetation…by the environment.×… the physical features and habits of the living things on earth have been Greatly shaped by their surroundings.6.… but it has changed in character.×… but the nature of this power to alter the environment has changed.7.This pollution is for the most irrecoverable.×In most case, the polluted air, soil, rivers and the sea cannot be restored to their original natural state.8. Or they pass mysteriously……from once pure wells.×Or they get deeper into underground streams, undergo some chemical processes somewhere, and then become new substances that contaminate wells, kill plants and make cattles as well as people that drink the water sick.9. Given time---time not in years……a balance has been reached.×When the environment changes, living things can adapt to their new surroundings, but it is a long process and it takes thousands of years for life to be in harmony with their modified world again.10. But in the modern world there is no time.×But in the modern world when man’s power to tamper with nature has become so great and he is so eager to change nature for short-term benefits, he does not think of the long-term interest of his own species.11. The rapidity of change follows…… deliberate pace of nature.×Man is changing nature rapidly while nature adjusts to the changes slowly. Therefore adjustment can never keep up with change, and a new balance between living things and their environment can hardly be reached.12. Radiation is now the unnatural creation of man’s tampering with the atom.×In the past, radiation was only sent out from radioactive substances in certain rocks; today man creates such harmful rays by causing the nucleus of the atom of such substances as radium to split.13.The chemicals are the synthetic creation of man’s tampering with the atom.× Nature dose not produce such things as chemicals. Chemicals are man-made and the results of man’s creative power.㈤14.And even this,……in an endless stream;….×It would take some magic power to make living things adjust to these chemicals in the life of generations. Even if this were possible, it would be useless, because new chemicals are continuously being created and produced.5. …find their way into actual use:×…manage to enter the market and be sold to farmers16. described as “ pests”×referred to as destructive insects17.…all this though the intended target……weeds or insects.×…all these serious consequences come about perhaps just because man wants to destroy a few weeds or insects.18. Can anyone believe it is pos sible……but “ biocides”.×Such number of poisons stored on the surface of the earth will surely make it unfit for all living things.19. destructive insects often undergo a “flare-back” or resurgence×The pests often return in even larger numbers.20.Thus the chemical war is never won,……in its violent crossfire.×Therefore, this fight between man and pests wil1 never come to an end, and all living things are affected by or fall victim to this chemical war.21.brought the threat of disease and d eath even to their own kind…× brought the threat of disease and death even to human beings themselves22.Nature has introduced……checks and balances.×Nature keeps living things in proportion, regulating their number through the check and balance mechanisms of itself23.… the devotion of immense acreage to a single crop×…planting a single crop on large aera of farmlan24. Such a system set the stage for……insect population.×Such a way of farming creates favorable conditions for the rapid increase of particular insects.25. In new territory,……in its native land,…×In new territory, since there are no natural enemies as those that did not allow it to multiply or grow too rapidly in their native land,……26. Thus it is no accident that ……are in troduced species.×That’s why the most trouble-making insects in this country are not native but introduced, which is not accidental at all.27. the explosive power of outbreaks and new invasions×the power of insects to multiply/breed in large numbers suddenly and quickly and their power to invade new territories28.We have subjected enormous numbers of people to……without their knowledge.×By spraying insecticides on food grains,vegetables and fruit, we have caused large number of people to absorb harmful chemicals without asking whether theywould like to do so and often without their knowing it.㈨1.In some respects, globalization is merely a trendy word for an old process.× To some extent, globalization is not new. The world has always been in the process of market expansion. What is new is the term "globalization", which became fashionable only recently.2.A decade later, even after Asia's 1997-98 financial crisis, private capital flows dwarf governmental flows.×Ten years later, even after Asia's financial crisis of 1997-98, private capital flows are still greater in number than governmental capital flows.3. The recent takeover struggle between British and German wireless giants isexceptional only for its size and bitterness.×The only difference between the recent takeover struggle between British and German radio giants and other cases is that this takeover is much bigger and a lot more bitter.4.Behind the merger boom lies the growing corporate conviction that many markets have become truly global.× The reason for the merger boom is that more and more business people now believe that many markets have truly become global. They are no longer producing just for the people in their own country. They want to combine or merge with others to become multinational companies.5. Among poorer countries, the best sign of support is the clamor to get into the World Trade Organization ... And 32 are seeking membership.×Many poorer countries want to join the World Trade Organization. This shows that they support globalization.6.Despite its financial crisis, rapid trade expansion and economic growth sharply cut the number of the desperately poor.×In spite of the financial crisis, rapid increase of trade and economic growth drastically reduced the number of the very poor people.7. two problems could neutralize its potential benefits.×… two problems could offset the possible benefits.8.The global economy may be prone to harsher boom-bust cycles than national economies individually.×Once integrated with the world market, nations will naturally be more vulnerable to the fluctuations of the world economy. The capital flows in and out a country, for example, can create a boom or bust very quickly and with much harsher effects.9.The Asian financial crisis raised questions on both counts.×The Asian financial crisis brought these two questions to people's attention: investment funds were not well used and trade flows became too lopsided.10.The ensuing spending boom in turn aided Europe, Japan, and the United States by increasing imports from them.×The growth in spending that followed helped Europe, Japan, and the United States by increasing imports from them.㈨11.What prevented the Asian crisis from becoming a full-scale economic downturn has been the astonishing U.S. economy.× It was the surprisingly vigorous growth of the U. S. economy that saved the Asian crisis from escalating into an all-round economic depression.12.The world economy.., has been flying on one engine.× The world economy has been driven by only one country's economy, namely the economy of the United States. In other words, the world has become too dependent on one country's prosperity.13... a slowdown or recession--reflecting a decline in the stock market, a loss ofconsumer confidence or higher interest rate-- might snowball into an international slump.×…a slowdown of the U.S. economy might develop into a serious international depression because the world economy is so dependent on it.14.Japan is projected to grow ...×Japan is expected to grow ... / Japan is predicted to ... / Japan is estimated to 15. If the forecasts materialize--and the OECD's growth estimates for Japan exceed most private forecasts--they will restore some balance to the world economy and relieve fears of a global recession.×If the forecasts come true--and the Os growth estimates for Japan are higher than most private forecasts---they will, to some extent, help the world economy return to its earlier balance, and reduce the fear of a worldwide recession.16. It remains possible that abrupt surges of global capital, first moving into Asia andthen out, will have caused, with some delay, a larger instability.×It is still possible that sudden increase or withdrawal of the world's capital, first moving into Asia and then out of it, will have made Asia more unstable.17. It is precisely this logic that has persuaded so many countries to acceptglobalization.×It is exactly this way of thinking that has persuaded so many countries.18 .But this does not mean that a powerful popular backlash, with unpredictableconsequences, is not possible.×But this does not mean that a powerful hostile reaction from ordinary people, which will have unpredictable consequences, is not possible.19.A plausible presumption is that practical politicians would try to protect their constituents from global gluts.× We can presume that practical politicians would no doubt try to protect their voters from the flood of products from other countries.20.If too many countries did, globalization could implode.×If too many countries tried to protect their constituents from global gluts, globalization could collapse violently from the inside.21.It's a scary prospect. Economic interdependence cuts both ways.22.It's a terrifying possibility. Economic mutual dependence can have good and bad effects.。
现代大学英语（精读）笫三册——lesson11
Julia Roberts
In the drama Erin Brockovich (2000) Roberts plays a divorced mother. The role earned Roberts the Golden Globe Award for best dramatic actress and the Academy Award for best actress.
2. Do you think that PG& E deliberately cheat these people?
---Yes.
3. What do you think should the woman and her family do if there’s really something poisonous in their water? ---They should bring a suit against the PG&E company.
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Greenpeace
A large international pressure group that aims to protect the environment. Its members are well known for taking direct action and putting their own lives in danger in order to stop people from harming the environment. For example, they often go out in small boats to stop people from killing whales or throwing poisonous materials into the sea.
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学习-----好资料Lesson one1.Virtue is, indeed must be, self-centered.(para4)正确的行动是，确实也必须是以自我为中心的。
By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.2.The essentials are familiar: the poverty of the poor was the fault of the poor. And it wasbecause it was product of their excessive fecundity…..(para5)他的基本观点为人熟知：穷人的贫穷是他们咎由自取，贫穷是热门过度生育的结果The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.3.Poverty being caused in the bed meant that the rich were not responsible for either itscreation or its amelioration. (para6)贫穷源于过度生育意味着富人不应该为产生贫穷和解决贫穷承担责任The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked toundertake the task of solving the problem.4.It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God(para8)这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用。
It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature or tohuman society.5.It declined in popularity, and reference to it acquired a condemnatory tone.(para9)然而在20世纪，人们认为社会学中的达尔文进化论有点过于残酷，遭到了普遍的质疑，人们提及它都带有谴责的口吻。
现代大学英语精读3第二版Unit8_Book3
appearance
character
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Detailed Analysis
Part IIhat way did Russell’s mother’s ways reflect the values of the time she lived in?
Detailed Analysis
Part I: Discussion
1. Russell says, ―At the age of eighty my mother had her last bad fall…‖ What inferences can you draw from this sentence? 2. What was his mother’s state of mind after her last bad fall? 3. Russell says, ―…when I did phone back she was all right, although she wasn’t all right, of course…‖ He uses the phrase ―all right‖ twice. Do they mean the same? 4. Russell’s mother stayed in a nursing home. What is a nursing home? 5. Do you think it is a good idea for children to send their aged parents to this kind of institutions?
Never trust anyone over thirty!
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新编英语教程3paraphrase（英译英UNIT1~10）
新编英语教程3paraphrase（英译英UNIT1~10）Unit 11. Being very short of money and wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing asI did so, that without a degree and with no experience of teaching my chances of landing the job were slim.Para: Because I was in bad need of money and was eager to do something of me, I applied for the job, but at the same time that I did so, I was afraid that the possibility for me to get the job was very smal l because I didn’t have a university degree, nor didI have any teaching experience.2. …three days late r a letter arrived, summoning me to Croydon for an interview. Para: …three days later I received a letter, asking me to go to Croydon to have an interview.3. He looked at me with an air of surprised disapproval, as a colonel might look at a private whose bootlaces were undone.Para: He cast a look at me with the same surprise and dislike as a colonel would look at a soldier when his bootlaces came loose.4. The headmaster and I obviously had singularly little in common.Para: Apparently the headmaster and I had no similar interests.5. The teaching set-up appalled me.Para: The way teaching was organized filled me with terror.6. I should have to spilt the class up into three group and teach them in turn at three different levels.Para: I should have to divide the class into three groups ofthree different levels and teach them one after another.7. It was not so much having to tramp a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a crocodile of small boys that I minded, but the fact that most of my friends would be enjoying leisure at that time.Para: I felt troubled not because I had to walk for a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a group of boys, but because at that time most of my friends were having a good time and relaxing.8. The prospect of working under a woman constituted the ultimate indignity.Para: The fact that I would have to work under a woman in future made me feel totally humiliated.Unit 21. Accordingly, the two boys had always been allowed to climb freely over it.Para: Therefore….2. There was a croaking answer.Para: In a deep, hoarse sound…3. He looked his good-bye at the garden and raged that he had to leave it -----leave it and PeterPara: He said goodbye to the garden by looking at it and felt furious that …..4. Town gardens are small, as a rule, and the Longs’ gardens was no exception to the rule.Para: Usually often that not, town gardens are small; the same is the case with the Long’s garden.5. Mrs. Long clung to the case for a moment, claiming his attention first.Para: Mrs. Long held the case tight for a while, in an effort tocall his attention first.6. She kissed him, gave him a dismissive push towards the car and then followed him to it.Para: She kissed him, pushed him towards the car so as to send him away and then followed him to it.7. How grateful we are to you both for taking him at such short notice.Para: How can we thank you enough for taking Tom away so quickly, we had hardly any time to ask for your consent.8. Tom waved good-bye angrily to his mother, and then , careless even of the cost to others, waved to an inflamed face pressed against a bedroom window.Para: Tom waved good-bye angrily to his mother, and then, without considering the pain and suffering it might give others, Tom waved good-bye to Peter whose red, feverish face was pressed against the bedroom window.9. Tom closed the car window and sat back in his seat, in hostile silence.Para: Tom closed the car window and sat back in his seat, keeping very quiet and strong resentment and unfriendliness.10. I hope we get on reasonably well.Para: I hope we can get along with each other quite well.Unit 31. …after a half hour or so of idle talk, we began to steer the conversation.Para: …after about half an hour of casual chatting, we began to make the conversation follow the course as we had planned.2….it does seem a coincidence, really, doesn’t it?Para: …it really looked as if we two had planned our trips together, doesn’t it?3. …that’s what Dr. Double L. Dee would call an extraor dinary concurrence of events. Para: …that’s what Dr. Double L. Dee would call an amazing coincidence.4. But remember that Captain Pratt didn’t go by the same route as Captain Smitherton ----- that makes a difference, you know.Para: But remember that two captains in opposite directions and that is quite important, you know.5. “well,” broke in my uncle.P ara: “well,” my uncle interrupted.6. Here Smitherton found his voice at last.Para: Here Smitherton began to speak at last.7. And here Kate ended the quarrel by jumping up as if she had a new thought. Para: Kate jumped up to bring the quarrel toa close by pretending that a new idea had struck her.8. It is a judgment on you about you know what.Para: You are being judged about something that you don’t r eally know.Unit 41. …the income from the estate probably amounted to about $200 a year.Para: …most likely, the money he made from his estate reached about $200 a year.2. There is no country where Shakespeare’s work is not read with something very likeawe because there is something fascinating about a men…Para: People all over the world read Shakespea re’s work with a feeling of profound respect and wonderment because there is something about him which made people charmed.3. ..almost every detail of his personal life is suppositionrather than fact.Para: we do not base every minute and particular detail of his personal life so much on facts on guesswork.4….But his activities, like those of nearly every playwright of his day, are so vague that he could have been born in Roman times.Pare: We are so uncertain about his activities that we might as well say that he was born when the Romans occupied a long time ago.5. …had made a thriving business out of its most famous citizen for a long time. Para: Because of its most famous citizen, Stratford-upon-Avon has made a lot money for a long time.6. … he has s uch a fine reputation that it is well worth the journey just to be able…Para: …he enjoys such high prestige that it is worthwhile to make a journey to Stratford-upon-Avon just to be able…7. he can next be traced in 1592 in London…Para: After that we know he was in London in 1592.8. Shakespeare soon became sufficiently well-known for managers and other influential people to refer to him in writing.Para: soon Shakespeare became so famous that manager and other powerful people often mentioned him in their writing.Unit 51. …by grace one of the engineering feats of the century, for richer or poorer, better or worse, England and France are getting hitched.Para: Thanks to one of the remarkable construction achievements of the 20th century, whether owe likes it or not , England and France are on the way of getting geographically connected.2. The Chunnel rewrites geography, at least in the English psyche. The most has been breached. Britain no longer is an island.Para: As far as the British are concerned, the Chunnel has changed the geographical pattern which long separated Britain from Continental Europe.3. The Chunnel is a work in progress.Para: The Chunnel is under construction.4. …I imagine 180 feet of Channel above my head…Para: I picture the transport scene of the Chunnel 180 feet above this tunnel .5. And there are 56 million more behind them.Para: and soon the whole French population will take the Chunnel transport and come over to visit British.6. …we will work on selling the idea.Para: We will promote the Chunnel transport business by informing people of the benefits that this new means of transport will bring them.Unit 61. But is this science-fiction-like picture of the atom exploding peacefully beneath the bonnet of a car possible.Para: But is it possible for the atom to explode beneath the bonnet of a car without doing any harm to the people? For sucha ting to a happen is just like science fiction.2. In theory it is, since already the atom has been harnessed to drive submarines and an atomic engine is already in existence.Para: Theoretically it is possible, now that atomic energy has been used to drive submarines and an atomic engine has been made.3. …there are many problems still to be conquered beforesuch an engine can in fact be fixed in a car.Para: An engine like that cannot really be installed in a car until we have solved many problem.4. …the motoring world will be well on th e way to an atomic car.Para: The automobile industry will make great progress in the waking of an atomic car.5. The effect of such an explosion would be felt for several miles around.Para: In an area for several miles around people would be affected by the results of such explosion.Unit 71. …or pose as unusual.Para: …or pretend to be uncommon/out of th e ordinary.2. …flavored with cheap face-powder and chain-smoking.Para: …filled with the odor of women’s low quality face-powder and that of men’s cig arettes…3. Are you strong-minded enough to…?Para: Do you have enough strong will power to …4. …, only to be told that…?Para: …then you are just told that …5. “The truth will out.”Para: The truth will become publicly known.6. a book more in evidence than Shakespeare or the Bible,…Para: a book which can be seen in more places than the works by Shakespeare or the Bible.7. … to escape from idle or inquisitive chatterbox, or somebody who wants something for nothing…Para: to keep away from some lazy or curious gossip, or from somebody who only wants something but not to give anythingin retrun.8. …or from some reporter bent on questioning you…Para: or from some reporter who is determined to question you.9. …your back is chilled by the cold look of somebody,…Para: somebody’s cold stare behind your back is sufficient to wake your blood run cold…10. ..there are two things for which the English seen to show particular aptitude…Para: The English seem to be especially gifted in two things…Unit 81. The desire to pick up with an attractive dust-jacket is irresistible, although this method of selection ought not to be followed,…Para: You wish to buy a book with a lovely cover is so strong and powerful that you can’t resist it, although this method of selec ting a book is not recommended.2. You soon become engrossed in some book or other…Para: You ar e soon absorbed in a book…3. You can wander round such places to your heart’s content.Para: You can move about from one place to another until you are completely satisfied.4. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing.Para: An assistant should remain relatively inconspicuous until you have finished looking at the book.5. …something which had only vaguely inter ested you up till then.Para: …something in which you had preciously only had aslight interest.6. Apart from running up a huge account, you can…Para: In addition to getting large bills for the books, you can…7. …he was dismayed to find the book missing from its usual place and was about to leave when he noticed the owner of the shop beckoning to him.Para: …he was very disappointed to find that the book was not in the place where it was usually put and was on the point of leaving; just then he saw the owner of the shop signaling to him.8. Expecting to be told off, he went towards his.Para: Thinking that hr would be scolded, he went up to him.Unit 91. I found myself on varied assignments, all the way from ship news to sports reporting.Para: I found I was giving different kinds of assignments, ranging in variety from ship news to sports reporting.2. There was noting spectacular in Mr. Jacobs’ manner or appearance; but when he spoke about prizefights, he was no longer a bland man but a colossus…Para: There was nothing in Mr. Jacobs’ appearance and manner that would attract public attention, but when he talked about prizefight, he was not ordinary any more, he looked like a giant.3. You knew you were listening to Number One.Para: You know you were listening to the most authoritative prizefight promoter.4. So far as he was concerned, there was no mystery to it.Para: he saw nothing mysterious in boxing.5. he …went down, was counted out, and never came out of the coma.Para: he feel to the floor, did not stand up when the referee counted the seconds from one to one, and never regained consciousness.6. The Paret fight produced a flurry of investigations.Para: The Paret fight resulted in a great deal of, fervent public interest all several investigations.7. One question that was solemnly studied in all three probes concerned the action of the referee.Para: After careful investigation and through and serious examination by the three organizations was found to be of common concern – the action of the referee.8. No crowd was ever brought to its feet screaming and cheering at the sight of two men beautifully dodging and weaving out of each other’s jabs.Para: when the crowd saw two boxers exquisitely move from side to side to avoid the opponent’s quick str aight punch to the head, nobody would get to his feet, crying out in a shrill voice and shouting in great joy.9. The time the crowd comes alive is when a man is hit hard over the heart or the head, when his mouthpiece flies out, when blood squirts out of his nose or eyes, when he wobbles under the attack and his pursuer continues to smash at him with poleax impact.Para: the time when the crowd is brought to a cheerful and excited mood is when a boxer receives hard blows over his heart and head, when his mouthpiece falls off, when blood oozes from his nose or eyes, when he moves unsteadily from side to side under the attack, and his opponent chases him and goes on with his heavy blows and hard punches with the force of a poleax.10. Put the blame where it belongs – on the prevailing moresthat regard prizefighting as a perfectly proper enterprise and vehicle entertainment.Para: Find out where the responsibility really lies – it lies in the dominant and controlling social customs and standards that look upon prizefighting as a complete suitable undertaking and a form of recreation.Unit 101. …a succession of startled substitutes had stood before them, ducked, winced and fled.Para: … a few teachers one by one, took the place of the former teacher. None of them could clam down in front of the students. They could not deal with the situation and drew back in great fear and at last resigned in a hurry.2. I had reason enough to distrust my thumb.Para: I had many reasons to doubt of my own ability to keep the class under my thumb.3. It was plain the headmaster thought they had got nowhere.Para: It was obvious that the headmaster thought those teachers had made no progress in the students’ leaving.4. It was all wrong; my mood was all placatory; I was, inwardly, all white flag. Para: All things were wrong. I just waited to please the boys. And the only thing in my mind was to surrender.5. The room was easily traced by the noise that was coming from it.Para: It was very easy to find the classroom along the noise coming from it.6. …that was the worst of it –that these improprieties couldn’t be nailed down. Para: The most unfortunate thing under the situation was that I could not say clearly what improper things students were doing.7. …an awful pointless indign ation mounted in me.Para: …a terrible useless anger grew in me.8. But in cold blood I could think of no practical substitute for these dramatic punishments.Para: But when I calmed down and thought it seriously, I could not find any useful punishment and really be carried out.。
现代大学英语精读3-unit-4课后答案(新)
Unit 4 Wisdom of Bear WoodI Pre-class work1. Paraphrase.1) I spent most of my time wandering in the forests and the fields alone, acting Robin Hood, daydreaming collecting bugs and bird-watching. (Para. 3)2) To live a quiet life and not to get involved with other people was my way of avoiding any friendship that I would only have to abandon the next time we moved. (Para. 3)3) But one day I began a friendship just by chance. (Para. 3)4) I started to take a long walk.., to a dense growth of trees called Bear Wood. (Para. 4)5) Yes, they are watchful; But the bad thing is that some gamekeepers have been killing them since they got here and they were brought into this place form somewhere else, not born and raised here. (Para.11)6) I looked at the cabinets with glass windows that contained statues and models carved out of ivory and stone trays of butterflies fastened with pins and.., about twelve birds that were made into specimens. (Para. 18)7) I learn a lot of knowledge, taught by nature itself, about the things I can see--the birds, insects, trees, and flowers, and the things I cannot see--ideas, scientific laws and principles. I also learn a lot about the things that change, including life itself, as well as the things that are changeless like friendship, love, and many basic values. (Para. 37)2. Learn to use the dictionary and other reference books.1) Give the definition of the following.(1) odds and ends: small things of various kinds without much value(2) rather than: instead of2) Find the synonyms and the antonyms of the following in a Thesaurus.(1) immense antonyms: little, small, tiny, minute(2) to glow synonyms: to radiate, to blare, to blaze, to brighten, to gleam, to shine3. W0rd-building.l) Give corresponding nouns of the following verbs.(1) possession (2) endurance (3) penetration(4) encounter (5) retirement (6) suspicion/suspect(7) abandonment (8) inclination (9) exploration(10) recovery (11) warning (12 ) proceeding(13) fascination (14) form/formation (15) glimpse2) Give corresponding nouns of the following adjectives.(1) anxiety (2) misery (3) density(4) instinct (5) familiarity (6) essence(7) immensity (8) stupidity (9) suddenness(10) invisibility (11) generosity (12) productivity(13) fondness (14) equivalency3) Guess the meaning of the following, based on the rules of word-building you have learned.(1)一个吸引人的故事(2)一番引言，开场白(3)令人惊异的快速康复(4)一份费力的工作(5)集体的努力(6)一个可爱的人(7)一番深刻的分析(8)渴望权力的人们(9)使铁路行业私有化(10)一位非常娇惯子女的母亲(II)一次毫无意义的行动(12)秘密的行为(13)被认为是不可触知的(14)他那好笑的笨拙的样子(15)外汇收入(16)看上去可疑的(17)能见度低(18)听起来迂腐的(19)有很多崇拜者(20)积累的资金(21)易变的天气(22)无色的液体(23)冗长的讲话4) Study carefully and discover new rules of word-building.(1) the adjectives used as verbs(2) the suffix "-ify" added to the end of a word to change it to a verb, meaning to make something be in the stated state or condition(3) the compound nouns consisting of two words with the first one as the object of the action denoted by the second one More Work on the TextII Vocabulary1. Translate1) into English.(1) to explore the secrets of nature (2) to endure pain and suffering(3) to earn everyone's admiration (4) to suspect a dirty plot(5) to introduce this sheep (6) to surround the enemy(7) to demand an open apology (8) to extend her hand(9) to roam the fields (10) to dangle his feet(11) to catch one's breath (12) to give permission(13) to abandon hope (14) to accumulate experience(15) to form a strong team (16) to possess property(17) to design a new model (18) to collect facts2) into Chinese.(1)一次有收获的经历(2)看起来似乎不同(3)零星的东西(4)古老的城堡(5)铁丝网篱笆(6)石雕的人或动物像(7)人间天堂(8)制成标本的鸟(9)密集的月桂树丛(10)铺着柔软地毯的地板(11)一种珍稀动物(12)潜在的购买者(13)晒干了的树叶(14)样子很熟悉的房子(15)笨拙的动作(16)退休工人(17)面上有玻璃的书架(18)高倍望远镜2. Give synonyms and antonyms of the following.1) Give synonyms.(1) to wander (2) to give up(3) great, large, massive, huge (4) heavenly, sacred(5) heaven (6) to look at(7) to continue (8) dear(9) lasting (10) attractive, admirable(11) silently (12) to watch(13) weak (14) to alarm, to give a start(15) to gather (16) to teach(17) to own (18) to surprise, to astonish(19) sadly thoughtful (20) alert, watchful, cautious2) Give antonyms.(1) minor (2) unhappy, displeased (3) thin(4) hell (5) public (6) introduced(7) invisible (8) unseen (9) harmful(10) colorless (11) center (12) great3. Translate.1) There are still hundreds of millions of people in the world today who earn less than a dollar a day.2) So many people get stomach cancer. I suspect that the water we drink may be seriously polluted.3) We have earned strong support of the government to make smoking illegal in public places.4) He has earned the great admiration of the people as an honest government official.5) Old people in China today are not inclined to live with their children.6) I am inclined to look at things from the bright side.7) The smugglers seem to know all our actions. I suspect that someone among us is passing secret information to them.8) She says that she just doesn't feel inclined to work today.9) We could not identify the body because it was too badly burnt.10) These people roam from place to place without regular jobs and without social identity. More and more people now regard it as unfair.11) I still regard it as important for our young people to care about their national identity.12) With regard to flood control, I am still inclined to think that to plant more trees is more important than anything else.4. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words.1) B 2) D 3) A 4) A 5) D 6) D 7) B/C 8) C5. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate expression below.1) wrench myself away from it 2) care to 3) keeping to herself4) Thanks to, as it were 5) odds and ends 6) went by, at ease7) with a will 8) filled up 9) at ease10) brim over 11) bursting with 12) verges on13) slipped through 14) verges against 15) warned against, as it were6. Choose the right word in the given context.1) (1) crawl (2) climbed (3) crept (4) creep/crawl2) (1) tone (2) tune (3) tune (4) tone3) (1) extend (2) expand (3) extended (4) expand4) (1) doubt (2) suspect (3) doubted (4) suspect5) (1) lonely (2) alone (3) alone, lonely (4) alone7. Translate with special attention to the different meanings of the same word or word which happen to have the same spelling.1)讨厌鬼就是那种你希望他听的时候他却偏要说的人?2)你要是三分钟之内还打不出油，就别再钻了。
现代大学英语-第三册-Unit5-Silent-Spring
degradation (desertification, land pollution, soil pollution)
– understanding complicated paragraphs – reading for gist – inferring the author’s attitudes/feelings/opinions/conclusions – drawing inferences
Background
II. Detailed Discussion of the Text
❖1. There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings.(---1)
In her latest work, however, Miss Carson is not so gentle. More pointed than poetic, she argues that the widespread use of pesticides is dangerously tilting the so-called balance of nature. Pesticides poison not only pests, she says, but also humans, wildlife, the soil, food and water.
“an anti-humanitarian crank, a priestess of nature, and a hysterical woman”
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Study the following sentences carefully and then paraphrase them in English:Unit One Your College Years1.… identity is determined by genetic endowment (what is inherited from parents),shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events. (2)Who we are is determined by three things: first, our genes, or what our parents have given us, our legacy; second, environment, and third, luck or opportunities.2.These religious, moral, and ethical values that are set during the college yearsoften last a lifetime. (7)These values that are established during the college years often last a lifetime. It is believed that our character or basic moral principles are formulated during this period of time.3.These are exciting times yet frustrating times. Probably nothing can make studentsfeel lower or higher emotionally than the way they are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with.It is difficult for a college student to make a clear role of being a man or a woman in the future because they feel excited and confused about their sexual roles. They may feel happy and unhappy, without much hope for the future.4.Probably nothing can make students feel lower or higher emotionally than the waythey are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with. (5) When students are in a romantic relationship with the opposite sex, they are most likely to feel unhappy or happy emotionally.5.It may be heightened by their choice to purse a college education. (3)If they choose to continue their education, they will face an even more serious struggle between the desire to be independent and the need to depend on the financial support of their parents.6.While students are going through an identity crisis, they are becomingindependent from their parents yet are probably still very dependent on them. This independence/dependence struggle is very much part of the later adolescence stage.They have been away from their parents and become independent, but somehow they can not be completely independent from their parents because they still need their parents to provide the money to support their life and study.Unit 3 A Dill Pickle1.She shivered, hearing the boatman's song break out again loud and tragic, andseeing…She was very sensitive to art and music and she felt excited as the man was describing the beautiful picture.2.… although at the time that letter nearly finished my life. I found… and I couldn'thelp laughing as I read it.To write such a break-up letter was very difficult for Vera. The letter reminded them of the heart-broken feeling and it finished both the man and the woman. But he trivialized the letter, and even mocked the letter, which hurt Vera deeply.3.His was the truer.That memory about the ridiculous scene gradually disappeared. After all, it was a wonderful afternoon. His memory was the truer one. They did have a good time on that whole afternoon.4.… she felt the strange beast that had slumbered so long within her bosom stir,stretch itself, yawn, prick up its ears, and suddenly bound to its feet, and fix its longing, hungry stare upon those faraway places.Her strong desire to go to those places held so long in her bosom now awoke. The desire became stronger and stronger. She was burst with her desire.5.He let it go at that.He didn't pursue the matter, showing once again how self-centered he was. Under normal circumstance, a man would be dying to know what had happened to the woman to force herself to part with her beloved piano.Unit 4 Diogenes and Alexander1.Live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escape complexities andextravagances: only so can you live a free life. (4)Only when you live without artificial and false conventions and avoid complex lives can you live a free life.2.In order to procure a quantity of false, perishable goods he has sold the only true,lasting good, his own independence. (4)People get only some false and easily spoiled material goods at the cost of their own everlasting independence.3.The other great philosophers of the fourth century B.C., such as Plato andAristotle, taught mainly their own private pupils. (6)Other Greek philosophers of the time, such as Plato and Aristotle, gave lessons only to their own pupils.4.Diogenes took his old cask and began to r oll it up and down. “When you are all sobusy,” he said, “ I feel I ought to do something!” (9)When the Corinthians were busy preparing for the coming war, Diogenes rolled his cask up and down to ridicule their silly behavior.Unit 5 Silent Spring1.There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live inharmony with its surroundings. (1)Once upon a time there was a town in the central part of America where all living things seemed to co-exist peacefully with their environment.2.In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed andflickered across a background of pines.In autumn, the oak, maple and birch trees turned yellow, red or brown, thus making a beautiful show of colors against the dark green of pine trees.3.The chemicals are the synthetic of man's inventive mind, creations having nocounterparts in nature.Nature does not produce such things as chemicals. They are man-made, the result of man's creative power.4.The whole process of spraying seems caught up in an endless spiral.The more insecticides are sprayed, the less effective they will become in destroying the “pests” then more deadly chemicals will be developed to kill them.This process will go on endlessly.5.Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape and holds the species withinbounds by the built-in checks and balances.Nature keeps living things in proportion, regulating their number through the check and balance mechanisms of itself.Unit 8 In My Day1. She gazed at this improbably overgrown figure out of an inconceivable futureand promptly dismissed it. (Para.4)She looked steadily at me and could not recognize me because I was much too big for the son in her mind. She simply could not imagine the distant future when her little Russell would be that tall and big. Therefore, she immediately put that thought out of her mind.2.…she tripped on the stairs and tumbled down, ending at the bottom in the debrisof giblets, hot gravy,and battered turkey. (para. 15)As she was running upstairs with the turkey, she stumbled, fell down, and landed at the bottom of the stairs. The turkey flew from her platter to the ground, with its giblets, hot gravy all over the place.3.For ten years or more the ferocity with which she had once attacked life had beenturning to a rage against the weakness, the boredom, and the absence of love that too much age had brought her. (Para.32)For many years, she once attacked life with fieceness, but now it was gone. In its place was an uncontrollable anger. she was angry about her declining health, her boredom and her loneliness.4.I …had written her with some banal advice to look for the silver lining, to counther blessings instead of burdening others with her miseries. (Para.33)In a letter I had advised her to make a special effort to appreciate the good things in her life and not to worry those who came to see her by complaining about her unhappiness and suffering.5.If a parent does lift the curtain a bit, it is often only to stun the young with someexemplary tale of how much harder life was in the old days. (Para.40)If a parent tells the children something about his or her past, it often turns out to be a moral lesson about how hard life was for him or her, which does not make sense to the children.6.Instinctively, I wanted to break free, and cease being a creature defined by hertime. (Para.48)When my mother was young, I was her future. But I didn’t like it. I wanted to be free and independent. I wanted to live my own life and did not want to live my life by my mother’s standards.7. We all come from the past, and children ought to know what it was that went intotheir making...（Para. 49）We all come from the past, and children ought to know what it was that went into their making…We all come from the past, and children ought to know what made them what they are today, to know that life is a continuous process, it is like a human cord made of many people starting from a long time past continuing to the present day, a nd it can not be separated or understood just by one person’s life.。