新标准大学英语综合教程3课文翻译
美国国家教育统计中心的数据表明，大约80%的美国大下学生至少要换一次专业。
有些学生上大学时就读父母或亲戚为他们选择的专业。
在大多数情况下，这些学生难以做出决定，因为他们不知道在决定变换被规划好的职业的时候该如何面对自己的亲人。
有些学生决定转专业是因为他们无法应付所学专业的基础课，而另一些学生则是因为他们实在厌恶所学的专业，必须换一个自已真.正喜欢的专业。
专家认为，意识到所学专业不适合自己的技能和天赋没什么错。
实际上，能意识到这一点是成熟的标志。
重要的是找到一个真正适合你的专业。
在转;专业之前，你需要见学业导师，跟教授或专业人员谈谈，做一些调查，问自己几个严肃的问题，看看你的选择是否正确。
Translation 2Reference: :As the Chinese saying goes, it is important to know oneself,The first person to put forward this no tion was Laozi, whowrote in his book Dao De Jing: "A person who knows othersis intelligent, but a person who knows himself is insightful."To <know oneself is to have a correct understanding ofo neself, including one's strengths and limitations, and to beclear-minded about what one can do, We cherish this virtueso much precisely because it is really hard for people toknow themsel ves. Knowing oneself is both part of aphilosophy of life and a virtue that can facilitateself- improv ement and attainment of a higher life goal.在西方，做父母的非常了解受父母过度保护的孩子的弱:点:这些孩子害怕冒险，缺乏决断力，缺少在现实生活中获得成功的手段; 上大学时，许多人无法较好地适应大学生活的严苛，退学是常有的事。
因此，父母非常注重培养孩子独立自主的能力。
他们给孩子提供大量的学习独立思考技能的机会，让孩子认识到独立自主的能力可以提升他们在课堂内外的学习效率及表现。
此外，他们还给孩子有限的选择，尊重孩子的偏好，帮助孩子出色地完成各项任务，以这种方式鼓励他们独立自主。
他们还让孩子参与筹划和决策的过程，让他们提出自己的看法。
尤其重要的是，他们鼓励孩子独立完成各项任务一包括日常家务活，并经常给予正面的鼓励，避免对Reference:Compared with the childhood of their parents, children nowdo enjoy a far better material life, but their emotional lifeseems less satisfying. They are less likely to play with theirpeers, for toys have replaced their playmates as their mostloyal friends. Their parents can always afford to buy them allkinds of expensive toys. The good thing about this is thatthey no longer pester their parentsto play with them all daylong, because toys and video games have lessened theirfeelings of loneli ness. But there are also negative effects:The addiction to toys and video games may cause a child's eyesigh to 2 deteriorate or result in reluctance to communicate with others. These phenomena should demandthe attention of both parents and s chools.Translation 1Reference;《格尔尼卡》是西班牙艺术家巴勃罗●毕加索1937年为抗. 议轰炸西班牙北部一个小村庄而作的一幅巨型壁画。
这、幅大型壁画高3.49米，宽7.76米，展示了暴力和混乱给人和动物带来的苦难以及对建筑物的破坏。
令人吃惊的是，整个壁画的色调由灰、黑、白组成，没有用鲜艳的红色来表现血腥的场面，但恐怖的景象却历历在目。
画面.上的人物并非用写实主义的画法来表现，而是采用立体派和抽象派的画法，但无辜平民惨遭屠杀的惨象却一公目了然:一位母亲怀抱死婴，张嘴尖叫，她仰面朝天，不伤心欲绝:一位士兵横尸地上，手里还紧握着-把断剑:另外三个人也都处于震惊和痛苦之中。
画面中的动物一-包括一匹受伤的马和一只哭泣的鸟一也都被描绘成这次屠杀的无辜受害者。
毫无疑问，描绘这些扭曲变形的骇人惨象的目的就是让观众感到震惊。
这种对人类悲苦惨状的描绘是对战争的残酷和荒谬的深刻控诉。
Translation 2Reference:In the Mogao caves in Dunhuang, the murals with“flyingapsaras" are one of the most wellknown artefacts. The flyingapsaras in the Dunhuang Grotto Murals are a product of theintermixing of Ind ian and Chinese culture. In India, flyingcelestial beings called “lying apsaras” appear mostly inmur als in Buddhist caves, while in the Chinese Daoisttradition, flying celestial beings are known as “fl yingimmortals". During the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southerndynasties, when the introduction of Buddhism in China wasat an early stage, people began to use the term 。
“flyingapsaras" to refer to the flying immortals in the murals. Later,with the development of Budd hism in' China, the artisticimages of Buddhist flying apsaras and Daoist flyingimmortals me rged with each other. The flying apsaras in theDunhuang Grotto Murals are a most ingenious crea tion ofancient Chinese artists, and a marvel in the history of worldart.Translation 1Reference:在欧洲，家庭是近几十年来发生变化最大的领域之一。
厂传统的欧洲核心家庭由一-对已婚父母和几个孩子构成，但现在这种家庭只是诸多选择中的一个。
日益下降的结婚率、离婚人数的增加、人们对同居的普遍接受、同性婚姻的合法化、日渐下降的生育率让欧盟家庭的平均人口数下降到了2.4人。
家庭对人们来说依然是至关重要.的。
84%的欧洲人认为家庭非常重要，这个数字是那些认为朋友很重要的人数的两倍。
也许影响最为重大的一-些变化和生育有关，因为随着时间的推移这些变化会引发人口结构上的重要改变。
在整个欧洲，人们不再把生育子女看作是对社会的责任，而是把它视为诸多生活选项中的一个。
在很多国家，丁克的做法被广泛接受。
这些改变背后的推动力似乎是个体化。
追求独立自主、隐私、自我实现和个人幸福的价值观已经变得越来越重要，这让那些注重集体目标的价值观失去了容身之所。
Translation 2Reference:China, with the largest population of elderly people in theworld, has become an ageing society. Meanwhile, China isalso a country undergoing social transition. It will be a longtime before a sou nd social welfare system can be established,which means that China is in a unique situation when itcomes to care of its ageing population. It is predicted that inthe next 50 years, family care for th e aged will still be thedominant practice in China. Filial picty has always been asignificant part of t raditional Chinese ethics. In today'sageing society, it will be all the more important to prom iotethe virtue of filial piety, as it will continue to play a crucialrole in encouraging people to take g ood care of their elderlyfamily members by providing daily care and emotionalTranslation 1Reference:美国梦是美国民族精神的体现。
新标准大学英语综合教程3课文翻译
新标准大学英语综合教程3课文翻译新标准大学英语综合教程3课后翻译答案We all sensed we were coming to the end of our stay here, that we would never get a chance like this again, and we became determined not to waste it. Most important of course were the final exams inApril and May in the following year. No one wanted the humiliation of finishing last in class, so the peer group pressure to work hard was strong. Libraries which were once empty after five o'clock in the afternoon were standing room only until the early hours of the morning, and guys wore the bags under their eyes and their pale, sleepy faces with pride, like medals proving their diligence.我们都觉得在校时间不多了，以后再也不会有这样的学习机会了，所以都下定决心不再虚度光阴。
当然，下一年四五月份的期末考试最为重要。
我们谁都不想考全班倒数第一，那太丢人了，因此同学们之间的竞争压力特别大。
以前每天下午五点以后，图书馆就空无一人了，现在却要等到天快亮时才会有空座，小伙子们熬夜熬出了眼袋，他们脸色苍白，睡眼惺忪，却很自豪，好像这些都是表彰他们勤奋好学的奖章。
(2020年7月整理)新标准大学英语综合教程3课文翻译.doc
Unit 01 Working Holiday AbroadHow My Working Holiday Changed MeHayley1 Now that I have been home for a while and have had time to reflect on my working holiday in Vancouver, I’ve thought a lot about who I was before I left for Canada and who I am prese ntly.1 我回到家已经有一段时间了，有空回顾在温哥华的打工度假经历。
对于去加拿大之前的自我和如今的自我，我思考了很多。
2 Prior to leaving, I was not in a good place. I had suffered a lot of personal blows and felt emotionally stretched. I lost my grandma, my job and had two car crashes in five months. I needed something to change in my life, and that came in the form of a working holiday visa.2 出发前，我的境况不好。
个人生活上经受了许多打击，精神压力很大。
我失去了我的祖母，我的工作，5个月里遭遇两起车祸。
我需要生活得到改变，于是便有了打工度假签证这回事。
3 In less than three months I filled out the necessary paperwork, booked my plane ticket and fled Brisbane. I spent fifteen months living and working in Vancouver, Canada and eighteen months in total away from Australia. This is how that working holiday changed me and my life.3 在不到三个月的时间里，我填写了所需的表格，订好了机票，逃离布里斯班。
新大学英语综合教程1-3单元课文翻译
Unit one 绿化，永无止境【1】环保主义思想已经深深的扎根于校园。
你可以看到环保运动已经蔓延到了全国，从加利福利亚大学戴维斯分校的“零浪费”运动场到纽约州瓦瑟学院07级学生献给学校的价值10000美元的太阳能电池板。
环保意识已经深入到同学们的内心，他们通过开展一些竞赛活动来推进回收再利用，并且大幅减少学生宿舍能源的使用。
学校里还开设了一些与环境相关的课程与专业，甚至还设立了一些奖学金。
这些新的举措是很有意义的。
高等教育明确定位，不仅是要为社会培养有环保意识的公民，还要培养环保工程师，环保建筑师和环保政策的制定者。
康奈尔大学的校长David Skorton说得好：“可持续发展势在必行。
”【2】想要寻找环保运动已经广泛开展的证据，只要关注全国各大学都热衷参与RecycleMania 竞赛就能找到答案。
2008年的冠军不是像哈佛和斯坦福大学这些以环保著称的著名学府，而是在密歇根州的一所微不足道的大学——卡拉马祖大学。
在十周的比赛中，卡拉马祖大学的同学们总共回收利用了59%的废物。
（哈佛是27%，斯坦福是30%）。
环保社团的成员们还开展了名为“宿舍风暴”的活动。
他们在每个寝室都埋伏了同学来专门观察和宣传那些减少浪费的行为。
他们还收集校内垃圾桶内的可回收材料——甚至运送塑料泡沫和废旧电脑到公司以便加工后再利用。
他们把废弃的书拆开来使得纸张可以再利用。
一些旧的椅子、杯子、扬声器和钢琴都在校园的二手货交易中重获新生，满屋子都是一些二手货，当然还是免费的。
【3】环保建筑也如春笋般突然出现在校园中，从杜克大学里带有环保屋顶的“智慧屋” （一间同时可作为绿色生活实验室的宿舍）到加州大学在默赛德新校区，那里的所有建筑都达到了美国绿色建筑委员会制定的标准。
缅因州的福尔曼大学也实施了一项最不寻常的计划。
在2008年6月，福尔曼大学与南方生活杂志协力创建了名为“绝壁村屋”的太阳能展示区。
它占地3400平方英尺，在将来也许会成为环保主义者的梦想住宅。
新标准大学英语综合教程3课文与课后翻译unit4
7 Translate the paragraphs into Chinese.1 Even grown men who do market research have trouble visualizing what a public relations man does with his day, and it is a safe bet that the average systems analyst is as baffled about what a space salesman does at the shop as the average space salesman is about the tools needed to analyze a system.即使是那些从事市场研究工作的成年人也难很想象公关部的人每天都在做些什么。
一名普通的系统分析师肯定不知道空间推销员在店里都干些什么，就好像空间推销员对分析系统的工具也一窍不通一样。
2 So run the clichés, anyway. But it is only our obsession with novelty, ignorance of deeper historical atterns and arrogant insistence on our own importance that leads us into this kind of talk. Hoping to prove our superiority over the generations that preceded us, we boast that we live in a period of unprecedented change. Yet there is a good case that we do not, in fact, live in very interesting times at all.不管怎么说，这就是那耳熟能详的套话。
新标准大学英语综合教程3 unit3 课文翻译
新标准大学英语综合教程3 unit3 课文翻译Unit3Active reading 1我们是怎样听音乐的我们都按照各自不同的能力来听音乐。
但为了便于分析，如果把听的整个过程分成几个组成部分，那么这个过程会更清晰一些。
从某种意义上来说，我们听音乐有三个不同的层次。
由于缺乏更好的术语，我们姑且把它们命名为：（1）感官层次；（2）表现层次；（3）纯音乐层次。
把听的过程机械地分割为以上三个假想的层次，唯一的好处是让我们更清楚地了解自己是怎样听音乐的。
听音乐最简单的方式是为了去获取乐声带来的纯粹的愉悦感，这是音乐的感官层次。
在这个层次上，我们只是听音乐，不做任何思考。
我们打开收音机，一边做着其他的事情，一边心不在焉地沉浸在音乐中。
乐声本身的魅力带我们进入一种无需思考的美妙心境。
令人意外的是，许多自认为是合格的音乐爱好者在听音乐时过多地使用了这一层次。
他们去听音乐会是为了忘却自我。
他们把音乐当成一种慰藉，一种逃避，由此他们进入了一个可以忘却日常生活的理想世界。
当然，他们也没有在思考音乐。
音乐允许他们离开现实，到另一个地方去做梦，因为音乐而做梦，做有关音乐的梦，却从没有真正欣赏过音乐。
的确，乐声的魅力是一种强大而原始的力量，但是你不该让它占据你过多的兴趣空间。
感官层次是音乐的一个重要层次，非常重要，但并不是音乐的全部。
音乐存在的第二个层次就是我所说的表现层次。
一提到这个问题，我们马上就进入到一个颇具争议的领域。
作曲家总是设法避开有关音乐表现方面的讨论。
斯特拉温斯基不是曾经声称他的音乐是一个“物体”，是一件有自我生命的“东西”，除了纯音乐性的存在之外没有任何别的含意吗？斯特拉温斯基这种不妥协的态度可能源于这样的一个事实：有那么多的人尝试着从众多的音乐作品中读出完全不同的含意。
确实，要准确地说出一部音乐作品的含意已经很难了，要肯定并确定地说出来，还要使每个人对你的解释都感到满意，是难上加难。
但我们不该因此走到另一个极端，不能去剥夺音乐“表现”的权利。
新标准大学英语综合教程3课文翻译_珍藏版
我们所谓的激动人心的时代其实很乏味
为激动人心的时代也许真的很乏味。
就拿“坏事成三”这种想法来说吧（就像等公交车一样，要么不来，要么一下来三辆！）。 这种流传甚广的观念可能根本经不起科学的检验，但是它必定有一些现实的依据，不然的话也不会有这么个说法了。 那么，什么样的解释才是合理的呢？
理东西。 父亲可能会带着孩子去他干活的地方，让他看着自己修马车，或是打桌子。 要是孩子问“爸爸，您是干什么的？”，爸爸会用孩子能理解的语言回答他，比如：“我是修蒸汽机的”，或者“我是做马项圈的”。
礼上才送偶数数量的花。
著居民一样，根据阴历来过节，而这又完全是另外一回事儿了。
去欧洲寻求更好的生活。 他们向从事此项非法生意的黑帮支付高达两千欧元的费用，可是旅途极不舒服，卫生条件极其恶劣，而且还要遭受烈日的暴晒。这还算好的了，有时候，那些严重超载的船只到不了对岸，几天之后海水会把他们的尸体冲到欧洲南部的海滩上。 那些到达蓝佩杜萨岛的人则被迅速集中起来，押送到拘留中心，由那里的官员决定是否允许他们“避难”，允许避难就是给移民居住权。 许多人会被遣送回家，有些人则偷偷地登陆，躲开了移民官——但他们往往没有意识到他们是在一个小岛上，当他们去向当地人打听火车站的位置时，当地人会感到很吃惊。
回纽约的时候会给孩子们带几条小鳄鱼。 后来短吻鳄越长越大，不像小时候那么可爱了。大人们只好把它们扔进抽水马桶里冲掉。 但是其中一些短吻鳄活了下来，所以现在有一些成年短吻鳄在纽约曼哈顿街区下面游荡。
年年初，我们三个人聚在一起，设计了研究方案。 方案决定让我接受八个有关音乐技巧训练的测试，涵盖各种音乐活动，比如高音音准练习、音阶和节奏练习。 我还要学唱两首歌，一首是约翰 ? 拉特的《盖尔人的祝祷文》，另一首是亨德尔的《请让我哭泣吧》。 听帕姆唱这两首歌，让我想起了写这本书的动力：为什么进化会创造出这样的一个物种，拥有如此美妙的歌喉？
新标准大学英语综合教程3课后翻译答案汇总
一、英译汉1、We all sensed we were coming to the end of our stay here, that we would never get a chance like this again, and we became determined not to waste it. Most important of course were the final exams in April and May in the following year. No one wanted the humiliation of finishing last in class, so the peer group pressure to work hard was strong. Libraries which were once empty after five o’clock in the afternoon were standing room only until the early hours of the morning, and guys wore the bags under their eyes and their pale, sleepy faces with pride, like medals proving their diligence.我们都觉得在校时间不多了，以后再也不会有这样的学习机会了，所以都下定决心不再虚度光阴。
当然，下一年四五月份的期末考试最为重要。
我们谁都不想考全班倒数第一，那也太丢人了，因此同学们之间的竞争压力特别大。
以前每天下午五点以后，图书馆就空无一人了，现在却要等到天快亮时才会有空座，小伙子们熬夜熬出了眼袋，他们脸色苍白，睡眼惺忪，却很自豪，好像这些都是表彰他们勤奋好学的奖章。
2、Tomorrow? It’s all a lie; there isn’t a tomorrow. There’s only a promissory note that we are often not in a position to cash. It doesn’t even exist. When you wake up in the morning it’ll be today again and all the same rules will apply. Tomorrow is just another version of now, an empty field that will remain so unless we start planting some seeds. Your time, which is ticking away as we speak (at about 60 seconds a minute chronologically; a bit faster if you don’t invest your ti me wisely), will be gone and you’ll have nothing to show for it but regret and a rear-view mirror full of “could haves”, “should haves” and “would haves”.明天行吗？明天只是个谎言；根本就没有什么明天，只有一张我们常常无法兑现的期票。
新大学英语综合教程1-3单元课文翻译
Unit one 绿化，永无止境【1】环保主义思想已经深深的扎根于校园。
你可以看到环保运动已经蔓延到了全国，从加利福利亚大学戴维斯分校的“零浪费”运动场到纽约州瓦瑟学院07级学生献给学校的价值10000美元的太阳能电池板。
环保意识已经深入到同学们的内心，他们通过开展一些竞赛活动来推进回收再利用，并且大幅减少学生宿舍能源的使用。
学校里还开设了一些与环境相关的课程与专业，甚至还设立了一些奖学金。
这些新的举措是很有意义的。
高等教育明确定位，不仅是要为社会培养有环保意识的公民，还要培养环保工程师，环保建筑师和环保政策的制定者。
康奈尔大学的校长David Skorton说得好：“可持续发展势在必行。
”【2】想要寻找环保运动已经广泛开展的证据，只要关注全国各大学都热衷参与RecycleMania 竞赛就能找到答案。
2008年的冠军不是像哈佛和斯坦福大学这些以环保著称的著名学府，而是在密歇根州的一所微不足道的大学——卡拉马祖大学。
在十周的比赛中，卡拉马祖大学的同学们总共回收利用了59%的废物。
（哈佛是27%，斯坦福是30%）。
环保社团的成员们还开展了名为“宿舍风暴”的活动。
他们在每个寝室都埋伏了同学来专门观察和宣传那些减少浪费的行为。
他们还收集校内垃圾桶内的可回收材料——甚至运送塑料泡沫和废旧电脑到公司以便加工后再利用。
他们把废弃的书拆开来使得纸张可以再利用。
一些旧的椅子、杯子、扬声器和钢琴都在校园的二手货交易中重获新生，满屋子都是一些二手货，当然还是免费的。
【3】环保建筑也如春笋般突然出现在校园中，从杜克大学里带有环保屋顶的“智慧屋” （一间同时可作为绿色生活实验室的宿舍）到加州大学在默赛德新校区，那里的所有建筑都达到了美国绿色建筑委员会制定的标准。
缅因州的福尔曼大学也实施了一项最不寻常的计划。
在2008年6月，福尔曼大学与南方生活杂志协力创建了名为“绝壁村屋”的太阳能展示区。
它占地3400平方英尺，在将来也许会成为环保主义者的梦想住宅。
新标准大学英语综合教程3unit9-10课后答案（含课后翻译）
新标准大学英语综合教程3 unit9-10 课后答案（含课后翻译）Unit9Active readin g 2Matchthe wordsin the box with theirdefini tions.Comple te the senten ces with the correc t form of the words.Choose the rightwordsor expres sions to comple te the senten ces.a b a b b b a b a bLangua ge in useRewrit e the senten ces using-someth ing or -odd.1. Thereare about20 people waitin g in the corrid or outsid e.Thereare twenty-odd people waitin g in the corrid or outsid e.2. The new lectur er is betwee n 50 and 60, I think.The new lectur er is fifty-someth ing, I think.3. Why don't you invite all your friend s who are in theirthirti es?Why don't you invite all your thirty-someth ing friend s?4. I reckon that therewere 200 people in the cinema.Therewere two hundre d-odd people in the cinema.5. I don't know how old she is, maybebetwee n 70 and 80.I don't know how old she is, maybesevent y-someth ing.Rewrit e the senten ces usingas much / many ... as ther is / are. Follow the exampl e.1.In Britai n for every curiou s surnam e there is an intere sting place name.Thereare as many curiou s surnam es in Britai n as thereare intere sting placenames.2.For each commun ity in the capita l thereis a majorcultur al festiv al.Thereare as many majorcultur al festiv als in the capita l as thereare commun ities.3.Thereis a lot of confus ion aboutthe new traffi c rules, and thereis the same amount of dissat isfac tionaboutthe change s in the openin g hoursof shops.Thereis as much confus ion aboutthe new traffi c rulesas thereis dissat isfac tionaboutthe change s in the openin g hoursof shops.4.For each member of our organi zatio n thereis a differ ent opinio n aboutwhat we shoulddo.Thereare as many differ ent opinio ns aboutwhat we should do as thereare member s of our organi zatio n.5.I've got the feelin g that the number of proble ms to resolv e on this projec t is equiva lentto the number of starsin the sky.Thereare as many proble ms to resolv e on this projec t as thereare starsin the sky.1. Who doesn't suppor t the policy?Femini sts.2. How long has the policy worked?Hundre ds of years.3. Who doesn't want to see it abused?Icelan dic people.4. If the policy change d, what mightsome people want to do?They mightwant to give theirchildr en unusua l names.5. What is Snowmo bilean exampl e of?It is an exampl e of a ridicu lousname and abuseof the naming system.Read the explan ation s of the words. Answer the questi ons.1.(a)Ten to one.(b)I will have a ration al attitu de.(c)They are toally unreas onabl e.(d)No, it is rather large.2.(a)Yes, becaus e people pay you a largeamount of money.(b)Growin g cities(c)No, I am not really hungry.3.(a)Machin es are a myster y to me.(b)Yes, I have to sit next week's test.(c)No, I thinknamesneed to be more imagin ative.4.(a)Spendi ng a lot.(b)A sudden increa se in powerflow caused by someth ing like lightn ing may damage electr icalapplia nces.(c)No, run, becaus e people are sudden ly rushin g toward s you like a wave on a beach.(d)When a sudden powerf ul emotio n fillsyou, it is very diffic ult to contro l.5.(a)Yes, or things will be disorg anize d.(b)No, thereis plenty of public transp ort to use.(c)I thinkit is mainly becaus e they want a change.(d)Yes, or else I cannot revise laterTransl ate the paragr aphsinto Chines e.1. In Europe, the Romans starte d callin g people by theirgivenname and family name in Latinfrom 300 BC, but it wasn't common practi ce throug houtEurope untilthe 10th or 11th centur y, when first, the lordsand gentry, then middle-classcitize ns, and finall y everyo ne used surnam es. The necess ity for surnam es arosewhen the popula tionbeganto grow. Sudden ly therewas more than one person with the same name in a villag e, so surnam es were used. Genera lly, thesesurnam es were not handed down to the next genera tion, but afterthe fall of the RomanEmpire, Irelan d was one of the firstcountr ies to adoptheredi tarysurnam es, and Irishsurnam es are foundas earlyas the10t h centur y.在欧洲，罗马人从公元前300年起就用拉丁文的姓和名来称呼别人，但是一直到公元10或者11世纪，这种做法才在整个欧洲流行起来，最先是在贵族阶层中间，然后是城市的中产阶级，到最后所有人都开始使用姓氏。
新标准大学英语综合教程3智慧版第二版summarywriti
新标准大学英语综合教程3智慧版第二版summarywritiUNIT 11.1 catching crabsIn the fall of our final year.our mood changed.The relaxed atmosphere had disappeared,and peer grouppressure to work hard was strong.Meanwhile,at the back of everyone's mind was what we would do nextafter graduation.As for me,I wanted to travel.and I wanted to be a writer.l braced myself for some resistanceto the idea from my father,who wanted me to go to law school,and follow his path through life.However,he supported what I wanted but he made me think about it by watching the crabs.The cagewas full of crabs.One of them was trying to escape,but each time it reached the top the other crabs pulled itback.ln the end it gave up lengthy struggle to escape and started to prevent other crabs from escaping.Bywatching crabs,my father told me not to be pulled back by others.and to get to know himself better.1.2We are all dyingLife is short.We never quite know when we become coffin dwellers or trampled ash in the rose gardenof some local ceremony.So there's no point in putting our dreams on the backburner until the right timearrives.Now is the time to do what we want to do.Make the best of our short stav and fill our life with theriches on offer so that when the reaper arrives.we've achieved much instead of regrets.UNIT 22.1supermanThe extract from Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath is a combination of her real lifeand imaginary life in her childhood.ln the real life,Plath was a winner of the prize for drawing the best CivilDefense signs,lived by an airport and had an Uncle who bore resemblance to Superman.in herimagination.the airport was her Mecca and Jerusalem because of her fiving dreams.Superman fulflled herdream at the moment.David Stirling,a bookish boy,also worship Superman.During the recess at school,he and the authorplayed Supermanpared with their school-mates who played the routine games they feltthey were outlaws but had a sense of windy superiority.They also found a stand-in,Sheldon Fein,who laterinvented tortures.2.2cultual childhoodsHistorically,childhood has undergone enormous transformations in terms of children's responsibilitiesandparental expectations.Culturally,childhood is socially constructed.The interplay of history and culturaleads to different understanding of childhood,consequently it is advisable not to impose ideas from oneculture to understand childhood in another culture.UNIT 33.1how we listenFor the sake of clarify,we split up the process of listening to music into three hypotheticalplanes.Firstly,the sensuous plane.lt is a kind of brainless but attractive state of mind engendered.by the mere sound appeal of the music.Secondly,the expressive plane.lt is when we believe each pieceof music has a theme,which mirrors a different world of feeling,such asgaiety,sadness.Thirdlythe musical plane.lt is the ability to experience different musical elements,suchas melodies.the rhythmsthe harmonies,the tone colors etc.We usually listen to music on all three planes.3.2the mystery of Gir with a Pearl EarringThe painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of Dutch painter Johannes V ermeer's masterworks.ltshows a striking young woman wearing an exotic costume and a turban,peering overher shoulder straightout at the viewer.As the name implies,it uses a pearl earring for a focal point.lt has been referred to as theMona Lisa of the north,because,like Leonardo da Vinci's painting,it appears to be a simple likeness of awoman with an enigmatic smile,yet which contains levels of meanings and questions.So much mystery inthe painting contributes to its worldwide popularity and generates a thoroughly rewarding novel and a wellcomposed film.UNIT 44.1work in corporate Americain today's American jobs are not what they used to be.Not long ago,when a father was asked about hisjob he could answer in terms that a child could come to grips with.Nowadays,when the parent take hisoffspring to his place of business in glass buildings that are really incomprehensive tochildren.What'smore.it's safe bet t hat even grown men have trouble visualizing what other men does in their jobs with hisday.Therefore.it's not difficult to imaqine a poor child may.answer mulling over"after it beats me the mysteries of work,when his friends asks him of his father's.ob4.2our supposedly exciting times are really rather dull.L_iving in a world of unprecedented/dazzling change,there are never been anything quite likeit.However,we are just ignorant of/about deeper historical pattems,take globalization for example,fromhistorical context point of view,the world is almost meaningless.We simply do not live in a age of greattechnological innovation for all our enthusiasm about internet and iPod.With staggering 90 percent of all webtrafic is local,we are always be told the I nternet has"opened up"the world.As the Chinese curse runs"Mayyou live in interesting times",it can bring chaos and anxiety in the in the wake.UNIT 55.1dinner at Joanne'sWhen a young black man arrives in a crowded and expensive restaurant the head waiter makes him sitin the least comfortable place,even though a table has been booked for him and a"Ms Rogers".When Ms Rogers arrives the waiter realizes that she is a well-known Senator,and Ms Roger realizesthat her friend has been treated badly because of the color of his skin.The waiter realizes his mistaketoo.and tries to make up for it.but it'stoo late.5.2we theyThe writer uses stories about doing business between Swedes and Saudis to illustrate the differencesbetween an individualist and a collectivist approach to business.They have different concepts of the role ofpersonal relationships in business.The Swedes believe the business is done.with a company while the Saudis think it should be done with a person they know and trust.Then thewriter compares the characteristics of the collectivist and those of the individualist.In the most collectivist societies,the families are usually extended families while in the individualistsocietiesnuclear families are prevalent.People consider themselves as part of a"wegroup or in-group inthe collectivist societies.ln contrast.the individualist think of themselves as“"their personal identity which isdistinct from other people's.A practical and psychological dependence relationship develops between theperson and the in-group in the collectivist societies.However,rarely do people depend on a group in theindividualist societies.UNIT 66.1 Last man downThe text from Last Ma Down offers an eyewitness account of defining historical event of 9/11 attackfrom the perspective of Richard Picciotto,a firefighter,his story is that of a man,a hero,and a tragic eventthat inspired the nation.His recount isn't one of death and destruction,but a celebration of life and it'sunpredictable nature.6.2 Eleanor RooseveltThe passage offers a hero who contrasts with brave firefighters.This time she is a woman of power andprevilege who still wanted to devote herself to the sucess she believed in.Living in a male-dominated world,Eleanor Roosevelt showed gro wing concern for women's issuesalong with those for labor issues.youth and civil rights issuesEleanor created new First Lady profile.She held a press conference for the female only.She was agreat supporter for FDR,her wheel-bound husband,whose career as the US president offered heropportunity to come into her own.After FDR's departure,she still held public posts to use her power to her beliefs.Anna Eleanor Roosevelt never ran on a par with men,she set the place.。