Unit 7练习参考答案

Unit 8
Part A
II. 1. sensational 2. jeopardized 3. dislocation 4. palpable 5. paranoid
6.scam
7. homogeneous
8. rectitude
9. demise 10. was lapped up Ⅲ.
1. The conclusion that leaps from the figures and into sensational headlines is that social dislocation, religious decline, public scandals, family fragmentation and the fear of crime have made us less trusting.
从统计数字到引起轰动的头版头条的结论是，社会混乱、宗教衰落、公共丑闻、家庭破裂以及对犯罪的恐惧等，使得我们越来越不信任他人。

2. These respondents who tell the researchers that "generally speaking, people cannot be trusted" are in fact blithely trusting distant strangers all day long.
这些受访者告诉调查者“总的来说，人们不可信”，可实际上他们整天都在毫无顾忌地相信那些远方的陌生人。

3. The list of our trustful ways goes on and on, distancing us from the primitive
peasant suspicion that keeps gold and a shotgun beneath the mattress.
我们信任他人的方面数不胜数，使我们越来越远离古代农民那种猜忌，他们把金子藏在床垫下同时放一把手枪。

4. I also much enjoyed its worried little digression into the negative side of social capital ---- old-boy networks, micro-communities that exclude outsiders, ethnic ghettos, and so forth.
我也对其中关于社会资本负面现象一些令人担忧的题外话感兴趣——老同学关系网、排斥外来者的小社区、少数民族的贫民窟等等。

5. The remedy for that is in the hands of politicians, who ought to police their own
ambition and greed and that of their corporate friends.
解决这一问题的方法掌握在各位政客手中，他们应该对自己及其商界朋友的野心与贪欲加以约束。

Ⅳ. Put the following sentences into English.
1. 你为什么总是找麻烦？你的解释根本行不通。

1. Why are you always courting trouble? Your explan ation doesn’t make sense at all.
2. 你知道母亲为你牺牲了多少，你可不能让她失望！
2. You know how much Mother has sacrified fo r you, so don’t let her down!
3. 每隔一会儿，老师就会插点题外话，免得大家对这个严肃的话题厌烦。

3. At intervals,the teacher would digress a little/make a little digression so that nobody would feel bored about the serious topic.
4. 产品使用寿命变短、产品快速激增，这就意味着在全球竞争中投资于创新至关
重要。

4. Shortening product life cycles and rapid product proliferation mean that investment in innovation is critical in global competition.
5. 如果说我们的环境问题还有什么办法解决的话，那全在于青年人了，他
们越早想行动越好。

5. If there is to be any remedy for our environmental problems, that remedy lies in the hands of the young people, and the sooner they start doing something about it, the better.
6. 随着与美国公司的业务逐渐增多，他的英语变得越来越像美国英语，越来越不
像英国英语。

6. With the ever growing business with the American companies, his English has become more American and less British.
7.有了这套设备，员工们就可以在家里工作，而不用每天乘车往返办公室了。

7. With such equipment, the staff can work at home instead of commuting to offices every day.
8. 不断恶化的经济形势使得公众对新总统的政策冷眼相看。

8. The worsening/deteriorating economic situation has made the public view the new president’s poli cies with a sour eye.
9.我们很容易责怪大众太轻信而购买这些减肥产品，但出售这些产品的公司才应
该真正负责。

9. It's easy for us to blame the public for being gullible enough to buy such dieting products, but it's the companies which sell them that should take the responsibility.
10. 孩子们已被调教成惯于把后妈当敌人对待，所以无论她想对他们说什么，他
们通常是闭着眼，撅着嘴，或摇着头，装出一副厌烦的样子。

10.The children have been conditioned to see their step-mother as an enemy, so whatever she tries to talk to them, they usually close their eyes, purse their lips, or shake their heads, affecting an air of being bored.
Part B
Passage 1
I. A A C D C
II.
ernment supported the railroad industry; the progress railroads represented
was not to be slowed down by requiring them often to pay damages to those unlucky enough to be hurt working for them.
政府支持铁路工业，铁路所代表的进程是决不能因为要赔偿因公受伤的倒霉蛋而耽误的。

1.Therefore the accident, though avoidable had the switchmen acted carefully, was a
“pure accident.”
因此，这个事故“纯属意外”，尽管调度员如果小心点，是可以避免的。

Passage 2
I. D C B AC
II.
1.The real problem is the person who gives way to a sudden temptation
and is in all other respects an honest and law-abiding citizen.
真正的问题是那种突然起了念头忍不住要偷窃的人，在别的时候他们完全是诚实守法的公民。

2.However, what is most worrying about the whole problem is, perhaps, that it is
yet another instance of the innocent majority being penalized and inconvenienced because of the actions of a small minority.
但是，整个问题最让人担心的是，这又是一个因少数人做坏而害得的多数人无辜受惩罚、遭不便的例子。