Pre-class Work II
1. Paraphrase.
1) No. 12: He came back to get back the knife. After all, leaving ~he knife sticking out of the body is nota
pleasant scene.
No. 7: Especially when the person is one of his relatives.
No. 4: That's not funny at all. Don't make any joke about it.
2) No. 3: ... I've seen all kinds of cheating, lying and other dirty tricks in my life, but this little
demonstration is the worst I have ever seen.
3) No. 7: ... How do you think about him (Juror No. 11)? He came to America to escape persecution,
but now before he can take a deep breath, almost immediately, he is telling us Americans how to do
everything. I'm really amazed why he should be so conceited and rude.
4) No. 9: Your eyeglasses made two deep marks beside your nose. I haven't noticed it before. I guessit
must be very annoying.
No. 4: Yes, it is annoying.
No. 9: I don't know what you feel about that, since my eyesight is perfect and I've never worn glasses.
5) No. 3: You've showed unreasonable sympathy for those people. How terrible you all are. Are you going
to frighten me not to vote him guilty? You can't. I have the right to h01d my own point.
2, Learn to use reference books.
Find the correct definition of the following in the text.
1) figure: to think; to guess
2) beat: to arrive at the very spot
3) bear: to prove
4) stamp: to keep lifting each foot and bringing it down again very hard to make a noise
5) room: chance
6) term: a word or expression that has a particular meaning
7) bridge: a card game for four players who play in pairs
8) feature: a film being shown at a cinema
9) tie: the result of a game, competition, or election in which two or more people get the same number of
points, votes, etc.
10) impressions: marks
3. Find the synonyms of the following in a thesaurus.
1) crazy: insane, mad, unbalanced
2) to bother : to annoy, to trouble, to dismay, to worry, to disquiet, to disturb, to upset, to plague, to try
4. Word-building.
I) Give the corresponding nouns of the following.
(1) vote (2) assumption (3) dependence (4) risk
(5) objection (6) recreation (7) declaratl"on (8) obscurity
(9) plunge (10) description (11) annoyance (12) intimidation
2) Give the corresponding verbs of the following.
(1)to detect (2) to relate (3) to doubt (4) to differ
(5) to display (6) to execute (7) to stress (8) to breathe
(9) to disgust (10) to narrate (11) to switch
3) Translate the following using your acquired rules of word-building and point out which "-ing"
form denotes a gerund and which a present participle.
Participles: (2), (4), (6), (8), (11), (12), (13), (15), (16), (17), (18), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (25), (26), (27),
(28), (30), (31), (32), (34), (39), (40), (42), (44), (45), (46), (47), (49), (50)
Gerunds: all the rest
4) Study how these words are formed and make your own discoveries of rules of word building.
(4) Give the noun forms of the following.
resistance brilliance fragrance competence
existence evidence violence dependence
confidence reluctance persistence intelligence
More Work on the Text
II. vocabulary
1.Translate
1) into English.
(1) to risk being criticized (2) to present the evidence
(3) to capture the tiger (4) to twist the fact
(5) to cover one's blunder (6) to recreate the scene
(7) to stamp one's feet (8) to skip through one's fingers
(9) to put oneself in sb.'s place (10) to run for one's life
(11) to break the tie (12) to give a demonstration
(13) to obscure the truth (14) to take a deep breath
(15) to run the country
2) into Chinese.
(1)铁证(2)合理的怀疑
(3)重施脂粉；浓妆艳抹(4)精神压力
(5)陪审团意见分歧，无法做出决定(6)刑事(民事)法庭
(7)近(远)亲(8)最终判决
(9)旧货店(10)辩护律师
(11)潜在威胁(12)滋生地
2．Give synonyms and antonyms of the following．
1)Give synonyms．
(1)sure，certain
(2)to catch，to arrest，to seize，to take prisoner
(3)to calculate，to think，to believe，to presume，to guess
(4)common，usual，ordinary，familiar
(5)to join，to attach，tO combine，to unite，to link
(6)drawing，map，plan，chart
(7)show,demonstration，exhibition
(8)beautiful，attractive，good-looking
(9)terror,horror，great fear，fright，scare
(10)mistake，error
(11)to thrust，to attack，to hit at，to strike at，to charge
(12)fuss，excitement，uproar，disturbance
(13)strain，tension，pressure，burden
(14)bad，awful，terrible，nasty，unpleasant
(1 5)to terrify，to frighten，to make afraid，to bully
2)Give antonyms．
(1)near-sighted，short—sighted，myopic
(2)illogical，irrational，inconsistent
(3)old，ancient，outmoded，old—fashioned
(4)valueless，worthless(Not：invaluable)
(5)to reveal，to show,to clarify
(6)tO approve，to agree，to accept，to welcome
(7)peaceful
(8)unconvinced，doubtful，uncertain
(9)upward
(10)expensive，costly，dear
(11) dishonesty
(12) educated, knowledgeable, well-informed
(13) inconspicuous, unnoticeable, invisible
(14) destructive
3. Translate.
1) More and more young people now favor the idea of spending their holidays traveling.
2) I am still in favor of having my parents live with us in their old age.
3) No facts have ever borne out the claim that with some methods one can learn a foreign language in
weeks or months.
4) Today all state-owned enterprises must bear their responsibilities for their losses.
5) He must be out of his mind to do that. How can you bear such an insult?
6) I have been to many interesting places in the world in my day. But now that I'm old, I still feel that "East
and West, Home is Best".
7) If you stick to these bad habits, you will risk losing your health.
8) I'm sick and tired of being told what to do with my personal life.
9) If I should fail, am I entitled to a makeup exam?
10) Under those pressures he still had the courage to stick to his theory.
11) There was a nail sticking out of that chair. It tore my favorite pants.
12) We must not run the risk of violating intellectual property rights.
13) We can't bear seeing all this garbage around. So we have decided to clean it up ourselves.
14) Stick this motto on the wall where we can all see.
15) One of the issues that remain in question in the conflict between Israel and Palestine is the issue of
Jerusalem.
16) It remained me of how we all tried to make steel in our backyard stoves in 1958.
17) He may have forgotten. I should have reminded him to attend this meeting,
18) Please remind everybody that tomorrow's volleyball match has been put off.
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word.
1) in 2) off 3) down on 4) out 5) into 6) out 7) aside
8) apart 9) up 10) into 11) out, at 12) in 13) in, on 14) in, in
Give verbs that can form collocations with the following nouns.
1) to make, to see, to get, to gain, to score, to give, to prove, to lose, to win, to come to, to get to (a/the
point)
2) to make, to pass, to obey, to break, to enforce, to respect, to revise, to lay down (a/the law)
3) to take, to change, to count, to have, to cast, to win, to get, to call for, to put to (a/the/one's vote)
7. Choose the right words in their proper forms.
1) (1) incredible (2) incredulously (3) incredible (4) incredulous
2) (1) announced (2) declared (3) announced (4) declared
(5) declare (6) announced
3) (1) arrested (2) caught (3) captured (4) captured
4) (1) annoyed (2) bother/disturb/annoy (3) disturb/bother (4) disturbed
(5) troubling (6) trouble
8. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.
(1) within (2) why (3) heavy (4) edge
(5) lay (6) dark old (7) something (8) though
(9) which (10) had fallen (11) on the front of (12) until
(13) asking (14) mind (15) about
IlL Grammar
1. Understand grammar in context: study the use of the modal + have done construction and
point out the concept each conveys.
(The perfect infinitive denotes a past action or condition. When it is used with modals, the concept it
expresses depends on the modal.)
1) improbability of a past action 2) probability of a past action
3) probability of a past action 4) probability of a past action
5) possibility of a past action 6) probability of a past action
7) possibility of a past condition/state 8) probability of a past action
9) necessity of a past action 10) probability of a past action
11) probability of a past action 12) subjective certainty of a past action
13) probability of a past action 14) obligation for a past action
15) probability of past actions
2. Rewrite the following sentences using could (not), may (not), must, would (not), should
(not) followed by a perfect infinitive.
1) Use "could (not)".
(1) couldn't have run to the door in 15 seconds
(2) couldn't have seen clearly who the murderer was
(3) couldn't have committed the crime since he was at home with his mother at the time
(4) couldn't have had a better time if you didn't invite us to this delightful party
2) Use "may/might (not)".
(1) may have been right
(2) may not have sent it
(3) may/might have killed the father with a similar knife
(4) may/might have left it behind in the train
(5) may not have passed our message to him
(6) might/may have been a spy working in the minister's office
(7) might/may not have seen me
(8) may/might not have seen the advertisement.
3) Use "must".
(1) must have been written by a woman
(2) must have been very exciting
(3) must have been hard to get him to support the campaign
(4) must have snowed all night
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(5) must have lied " I
(6) must have happened between the two of them
4) Use "would (not)".
(1) wouldn't have quarreled over such trivial matters
(2) would have lied just to attract attention
(3) wouldn't have stabbed downward
(4) wouldn't have invested heavily in real estate in a country on the brink of a civil war
(5) wouldn't have been defeated by a computer
5) Use "should (not)".
(1) shouldn't have broken the sad news to her like that
(2) should have told her the truth about her birth
(3) shouldn't have walked all the way home
(4) should have thought that/should have asked if
3. Translate the sentences using the "modal + have done" construction.
1) When I looked at my watch, he must have guessed my thoughts.
2) It was so silent that you could have heard a pin drop.
3) Don't worry. The children might have gone to their grandparents' place.
4) You shouldn't have criticized your staff like that. They've done their best.
5) I believe many other people would have done what I did under the circumstances.
6) The druggist was a short man who could/might have been any age from fifty to a hundred.
7) As all staff members had access to the information, any one of them could have downloaded the
document.
8) The man who saved two old ladies from a burning house said that others would have done the same
under the circumstances.
9) As his best friend, you should have advised Lao Wang to make up with his wife before it was too late.
10) I definitely wouldn't have devoted all my time and energy to surfing on the Internet as he did last
4. Put in appropriate connectives.
(l) and (2) but (3) that (4) Since (5) and
(6) But
(7) as (8) But (9) where (10) as (11) who (12) that
5. Complete each of the following sentences with the most likely answer.
t) A 2) A 3) C 4) B 5) C 6) D 7) D 8) C 9) B
10)A 11) C 12) D 13) C 14) D 15) C
IV. Written Work
Summarize the reasonable doubts the jurors raise in this part of the play within 200 words.
1) Juror No. 2 had a reasonable doubt about the downward angle of the stab wound. First, the boy was shorter
than his father. Second, anyone who was handy with the switch knife like the boy would use h underhand.
The boy wouldn't have stabbed down.
2) No. 9 doubted the eyesight of the woman who testified that she saw the killing take place. She had marks
on the sides of her nose which could only be made by eyeglasses. As no one wears glasses in bed, she
couldn't have identified a person 60 feet away at night without wearing glasses.
3) If the boy had killed his father he wouldn't have gone back three hours later to get his knife. And he
couldn't have run out in a state of panic because then he would have had to be calm enough to wipe off his
fingerprints.
4) The fact that the boy couldn't remember the names of the movies he said he saw on the night of the murder
couldn't be used as evidence against the boy either, because when No. 8 asked No. 4 the name of the movie he
had seen only a couple of days before, he couldn't answer accurately. ( 185 words.)
Lesson Eight The Kindness of Strangers Mike Mclntyre 1. One summer I was driving from my home town of Tahoe City, Calif, to New Orleans. In the middle of the desert, I came upon a young man standing by the roadside. He had his thumb out and held a gas can in his other hand. I drove right by him. There was a time in the country when you' d be considered a jerk if you passed by somebody in need. Now you are a fool for helping. With gangs, drug addicts, murderers, rapists, thieves lurking everywhere, "I don't want to get involved" has become a national motto. 2. Several states later I was still thinking about the hitchhiker. Leaving him stranded in the desert did not bother me so much. What bothered me was how easily I had reached the decision. I never even lifted my foot off the accelerator. 3. Does anyone stop any more? I wondered. I recalled Blanche DuBois's famous line: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Could anyone rely on the kindness of strangers these days? One way to test this would be for a person to journey from coast to coast without any money, relying solely on the good will of his fellow Americans. What kind of Americans would he find? Who would feed him, shelter him, carry him down the road? 4. The idea intrigued me. 5. The week I turned 37, I realized that I had never taken a gamble in my life. So I decided to travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic without a penny. It would be a cashless journey through the land of the almighty dollar. I would only accept offers of rides, food and a place to rest my head. My final destination would be Cape Fear in North Carolina, a symbol of all the fears I'd have to conquer during the trip. 6. I rose early on September 6, 1994, and headed for the Golden Gate Bridge with a 50-pound pack on my back and a sign displaying my destination to passing vehicles: "America." 7. For six weeks I hitched 82 rides and covered 4223 miles across 14 states. As I traveled, folks were always warning me about someplace else. In Montana they told me to watch out for the cowboys in Wyoming, In Nebraska they said people would not be as nice in Iowa. Yet I was treated with kindness everywhere I went. I was amazed by people's readiness to help a stranger, even when it seemed to run contrary to their own best interests. 8. One day in Nebraska a car pulled to the road shoulder. When I reached the window, I saw two little old ladies dressed in their Sunday finest." I know you're not supposed to pick up hitchhikers, but it's so far between towns out here, you feel bad passing a person," said the driver, who introduced herself as Vi. I didn't know whether to kiss them or scold them for stopping. This woman was telling me she'd rather risk her life than feel bad about passing a stranger on the side of the road. 9. Once when I was hitchhiking unsuccessfully in the rain, a trucker pulled over, locking his brakes so hard he skidded on the grass shoulder. The driver told me he was once robbed at knifepoint by a hitchhiker. "But I hate to see a man stand out in the rain," he added. "People don't have no heart anymore." 10. I found, however, that people were generally compassionate. Hearing I had no money and would take none, people bought me food or shared whatever they happened to have with them. Those who had the least to give often gave the most. In Oregon a house painter named Mike noted the chilly weather and asked if I had a coat. When he learned that I had "a light one," he drove me to his house, and handed me a big green army-style jacket. A lumber-mill worker named Tim invited me to a simple dinner with his family in their shabby house. Then he offered me his tent. I refused, knowing it was probably one of the family's most valuable possessions. But Tim was determined that I have it, and finally I agreed to take it. 11. I was grateful to all the people I met for their rides, their food, their shelter, and their gifts. But what I found most touching was the fact that they all did it as a matter of course.
Unit 1 Your college years 1你可曾考虑过作为一个大学生你生活中正在发生和即将发生的变化？你可曾想到过大学时代教授们以及其他教职工为了你的成长和发展制定了目标？你可曾注意过你在从青少年渐渐成人的过程中会发生某些变化？尽管大学生很少想这些，但是在大学生时代很可能会发生一些主要的变化。 2在这段时期，学生们正经受自我认同危机，他们努力要了解自己的身份，掌握自身的优缺点。当然，优缺点他们兼而有之，且两者都为数不少。重要的是人们如何看待自己，其他人又如何看待他们。皮尔斯和兰多曾在一篇文章中探讨了爱立信在《国际社会百科全书》中有关理论，根据他们的观点，性格特征是由先天基因（即父母的遗传物质）所决定，由外部环境而形成，并受偶然事件的影响的。人们受环境的影响，反过来也影响他们的环境。人们如何看待自己扮演的这两个角色无疑正是他们性格特征的部分表现。 3学生们经历自我认同危机的时候，他们也开始渐渐独立，但是可能仍然非常依赖父母。这种介于独立与依赖之间的冲突常常发生在青少年末期。事实上，这种冲突很可能因为他们选择继续接受大学教育而愈发激烈。高中一毕业，一些学生便会立即走入社会开始工作。这种选择的结果就是他们可能他们在经济上获得独立。但是大学生已经选择了用几年的时间继续掌握新知并且发展自我，因此他们在一定程度上还要依赖父母。 41984年4月杰利弗·A·霍夫曼在《心理咨询杂志》上发表了《即将成人的青年与父母的心理距离》，文章中他提及了人与父母产生心理距离的四个不同方面。第一，独立处理日常生活的能力，它包括个人独立处理实际事物和自身事务的能力，如理财的能力、选购服装的能力和决定每天工作日程的能力。第二，态度独立，即个人学会正确看待和接受自己与父母的态度、价值和信仰上的差异。第三个心理分离过程是情感独立，霍夫曼将这一过程定义为“摆脱父母的认可、亲近、陪伴和情感支持的过分依赖”。例如，大学生们会随自己所愿自由选择专业，而且并不认为必须征得父母的认同。第四是摆脱“对父母的过度内疚、焦虑、疑惑、责任、反感和愤怒的心理”。大学生们需要退一步看清自己在介于独立与依赖之间的冲突中所处的位置。 5可能大学生们面临的最紧张的问题之一就是构建自己的性别特征，这包括与异性之间的关系和对未来自身男性或女性角色的设计。每个人必须将其性格特征定义为男性或女性角色。这一过程中兴奋与受挫并存。也许没有什么比恋爱更能让学生们情绪低落或高涨的。例如，我曾经和一位年轻的大学生共事，一次他欢呼雀跃的进了我的办公室，面带笑容，声音激动。年轻人宣布：“我刚度过了人生中最灿烂的一天。”他继续解释他是如何与一位超凡脱俗的女子相遇的，而且这份浪漫的爱情与他梦中所期待的完全一致。而不倒一个星期，同一个年轻人却拖着脚步神情沮丧的进了我的办公室。他在同一张椅子上坐下来，深深地叹了口气，宣布说：“我经历了人生中最糟糕的一天。”他和那个年轻女子刚刚吵过架，两人的关系不再看好。因而，大学生们与异性交往的方式对他们的情感必定有所影响。 6于此同时，这些刚刚成年的大学生也在学习如何在成年人的世界里奉献和收获情感。在这一角度上，成长不仅要处理与异性之间的关系，还要处理与两性及所有年龄段的朋友之间的关系。随着他们渐渐成人，他们与异性交往的方式也在发生变化。这时作为成年人他们应该思索如何与同龄人和睦相处并有礼有节，如何与他们生活中的青少年儿童和睦相处，如何与他们的父母和睦相处并表达自己的感情。举个我在西南浸礼教会学院读研究生时的例子，当我刚刚修完一门咨询课程后，我去探望父母。在学习这门课的过程中我渐渐意识到，当我的世界不断扩展，新的机遇不断出现时，我的父亲，一个年过花甲之人，正在亲眼目睹自己的世界在变小，选择在变少。在家的那些日子里，我和父亲几次谈心，共同探讨了我课程的内容以及它如何应用到我的生活中。我发觉自己正以一种不同的方式看待父亲，并且把他看作一个我可以鼓励的朋友。我有意识的去鼓励这个从前鼓励过我的人。我在以一种不同的方式与父亲交流。 7大学生的另一个变化就是内化他们的宗教信仰、价值尺度和道德观念。从出生开始，就有一位或更多的父母成为他们的榜样，教给他们特定的信仰、价值和道德。然而，当他们到了青春期，这些问题却遭到了质疑，在一些情况下甚至遭到了反叛。现在他们刚刚成年，他们有机会为自己决定人生中将会如何选择何种信仰、价值和道德。60年代末，一位生活在极度歧视其他种族的环境中的年轻女子深信自己种族的
大学英语精读第一册答案 大学英语精读第三版第一册答案 Unit1 1) e 2) g 3) j 4) a 5) b 6) i 7) c 8) d 9) h 10) f 1) handling 2) summarized 3) process 4) absorb 5) are bound to 6) feel free 7) for instance 8) strategies 9) complained 10) has committed to memory
11) Nevertheless 12) rely on 13) Apart from 14) command 1) over and over again 2) ata time 3) put it into practice 4) watching out for
5) by no means 6) concentrate on 7) In addition t 8) in detail 1) action 2) employ 3) announce 4) examination 5) communication 6) express 7) compose 8) improvement 9) concentration 10) management 11) consider 12) motivate 13) development 14) movement 15) discuss 16) operate 17) division 18) production 19) educate 20) repeat 1) additional 2) add
综合英语 1 Comprehensive English1 【学分】4 【学时】64 【编写】袁邦照【审核】程莹 （一）授课对象 四年制本科英语专业学生 （二）课程的性质和地位 本课程是是本科英语专业低年级的一门学科基础课程，是英语专业基础阶段全面培养和提高学生语言能力和交际能力的一门课程，在整个基础英语教学中具有重要奠基作用。本课程的教学，是在学生已初步掌握一定的英语词汇、语音、语法基本知识和听、说、读、写基本技能的基础上进行的，因此，主要教学目的在于进一步提高学生综合运用英语的能力，特别是要加强口笔头语言表达能力，同时加深对词汇、语法、写作、修辞等方面的知识，同时指导学生学习方法，培养逻辑思维能力，为进一步接受英语专业高年级教育打下全面的牢固的基础。本课程以课文教学为中心，采用精讲多练、讲练结合的方式，主要通过语言基础训练与篇章讲解分析，启发学生学习语言的积极性和自觉性，使学生逐步提高语篇阅读理解能力，了解英语各种文体的表达方式和特点，扩大词汇量和熟悉英语常用句型，具备基本的口头与笔头表达能力，并逐步形成用英语思维的能力。 （三）课程教学的目标 1.改变观念：帮助学生尽快熟悉大学学习环境和自主学习方法；使学生养成良好的学习习惯；培养学生的独立工作能力。引导学生改变应试学习的观点，逐步树立“To know English is to speak English.”的观念。 2.语音：通过一对一纠音练习，语音模仿秀等，整顿学生的语音面貌，提高学生的朗读技巧。 3.词汇和语法：盘活中学所学语法和词汇，使之成为语言交际的实际技能。认知词汇3000-4000个(其中含中学已学2 000个)，熟用其中1600-1800个及其最基本的搭配。听力：能在15分钟听写根据已学知识编写的材料(词数120左右，念四遍，第一、四遍语速为每分钟100个词，第二、三遍根据意群停顿)，错误率不超过8%。要求学生每天收听CRI及VOA的Special English。熟悉新闻广播的特点和语速。 4.口语：能使用课文中的重点词汇和短语复述课文；能用英语正确表达所学的功能意念，以达到实际交流运用的目的。 5.阅读和写作：能读懂词汇量为2000-2500的浅易材料及简易读物，阅读速度每分钟60-80个词，理解基本正确，能抓住中心大意。对重点句子能够释义。学会初步使用“英英”
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Unit 6 Preview 1. Listen to the recording of the text and choose the statement that best reflects your understanding. 1. D 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. D Vocabulary 1. Become familiar with the rules of word formation. 1. Give the corresponding nouns for the following verbs. 1. strain 7. realization 13. assurance 2. teasing/tease 8. burial 14. astonishment 3. dawn 9. scattering/scatter 15. expectation 4. Death 10. grasp 16.insurance 5. leak 11. appreciation 17. reflection 6. inspection 12. flight 18. belief 2. Give the corresponding verbs for the following nouns. 1. stream 6. Accept 2. state 7. encounter 3. relate 8. Collect 4. form 9. radiate 5. recognize 10. identify 3. Decide whether the missing letter is e, o or a. （注意：在不发音的e结尾的动词后面加er, or或ar时，应先删去该字母e；在以重读闭音节结尾的动词后面加er, or或ar时，如结尾只有一个辅音，则该辅音必须双写。） 1. reporter 10. supporter 19. composer 2. professor 11. visitor 20. interpreter 3．Editor 12.1iar 21.beggar 4．Adviser 13. seller 22. sailor 5．Robber 14. murderer 23. announcer 6. actor 15.traveler 24. manager 7. aggressor 16. scholar 25. invader 8. beginner 17. author 26. creator 9. passenger 18. successor 27. dealer 4. Translate the following expressions, paying attention to the different use of the suffix “-ful”. 1．令人羞愧的结果 10.带着哭腔；声泪俱下地 2．满满一碗米饭 11.吃一大口 3．色彩鲜艳的衣服 12.一厢情愿的想法 4．一个令人快乐的人 13.有希望的形势
Nettles Our farm was small-nine acres. It was small enough for me to have explored every part of it. Each of the trees on the place had an attitude and a presence-the elm looked serene and the oak threatening, the maples friendly, the hawthorn old and crabby. Even the pits on the river flats had their flats had their distinct character. The girls as well as the boys were divided into two sides. Each girl had her own pile of balls and was working for paticular soldiers, and when a soldier fell wounded he would call out a girl’s name, so that she could drag him away and dress his wounds as quickly as possible. I made weapons for Mike, and mine ws the name he called. There was a keen alarm when the cry came, a wire zinging through your whole body, a fanatic feeling of devotion. When Mike was wounded he never opened his eyes. He lay limp and still while I pressed slimy large leaves to his forehead and throat and-pulling out his shirt-to his pale tender stomach, with its sweet and vulnerable belly button. One morning, of course, the job was all finished, the well capped, the pump reinstated, the fresh water marvelled at. And the truck did not come. There were two fewer chairs at the table for the noon meal. Mike and I had barely looked at each other during those meals. He liked to put ketcup on his bread. His father talked to my father, and the talk was mostly about well, accidents, water tables. A serious man. All work, my father said. Yet- he-Mike’s father-ended nearly every speech with a laugh. The laugh had a lonely boom in it, as if he were still down the well. Sunny and I had been friends in Vancouver years before. Our pregnancies had dovetailed, so that we had managed with one set of maternity clothes. In my kitchen or in hers, once a week or so, distracted by our children and sometimes reeling for lack of sleep, we stoked ourselves up on strong coffee and cigarettes and launched out on a rampage of talk about our marriages, our personal deficiencies, our interesting and discreditable motives, and our forgone ambitions. We read Jung at the same time and tried to keep track of our dreams. During that time of life that is supposed to be a reproductive daze, with the woman’s mind all swamped by maternal juices, we were still compelled to discuss Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and “The Cocktail Party”. He had slept in the guest bedroom the night before but tonight he’d moved downstairs to the fold-out sofa in the front room. Sunny had given him fresh sheets rather than unmarking and making up again the bed he had left for me. Lying in those same sheets did not make for a peaceful night. I knew that he wouldn’t come to see, no matter how small the risk was. It would be a sleazy thing to do, in the house of his friends. And how could he be sure that it was what I wanted? Or that it was what he really wanted? Even I was not sure of it. Up till now, I had always been able to think of myself as a woman who was faithful to the person who she was sleeping with at any given time. My sleep was shallow, my dreams monotonously lustful, with irritating and unpleasant subplots. All night-or at least whenener I woke up-the crickets wre singing outside my windows. At first I thought it was birds. I had lived in cities long enough to have forgotten how crickets can make a perfect waterfall of noise. The bushes right at the edge of the grass looked impenetrable, but close up there were little openings, the narrow paths that animals or people looking for golf balls had made. The ground sloped slightly downward, and we could see a bit of the river. The water was steel gray, and lookedto be rolling. Between it and us there was a meadow of weeds, all in bloom-goldenrod, jewelweed with its red-and-yellow bells, and what I thought were flowering nettles with pinkish-
Lesson One Half a Day Naguib Mahfous 1. I walked alongside my father, clutching his right hand. All my clothes were new: the black shoes, the green school uniform, and the red cap. They did not make me happy, however, as this was the day I was to be thrown into school for the first time. 2. My mother stood at the window watching our progress, and I turned towards her from time to time, hoping she would help. We walked along a street lined with gardens, and fields planted with crops: pears, and date palms. 3. "Why school ?" I asked my father. "What have I done ?" 4. "I'm not punishing you, " he said, laughing. "School's not a punishment. It's a place that makes useful men out of boys. Don' t you want to be useful like your brothers?" 5. I was not convinced. I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled building. 6. When we arrived at the gate we could see the courtyard, vast and full of boys and girls. "Go in by yourself, " said my father, "and join them. Put a smile on your face and be a good example to others. " 7. I hesitated and clung to his hand, but he gently pushed me from him. "Be a man, " he said. "Today you truly begin life. You will find me waiting for you when it's time to leave. " 8. I took a few steps. Then the faces of the boys and girls came into view. I did not know a single one of them, and none of them knew me. I felt I was a stranger who had lost his way. But then some boys began to glance at me in curiosity, and one of them came over and asked, "Who brought you?" 9. "My father, " I whispered. 10. "My father's dead, " he said simply. 11. I did not know what to say. The gate was now closed. Some of the children burst into tears. The bell rang. A lady came along, followed by a group of men. The men began sorting us into ranks. We were formed into an intricate pattern in the great courtyard surrounded by high buildings; from each floor we were overlooked by a long balcony roofed in wood. 12. "This is your new home, "said the woman. "There are mothers and fathers here, too. Everything that is enjoyable and beneficial is here. So dry your tears and face life joyfully. " 13. Well, it seemed that my misgivings had had no basis. From the first moments I made many friends and fell in love with many girls. I had never imagined school would have this rich variety of experiences. 14. We played all sorts of games. In the music room we sang our first songs. We also had our first introduction to language. We saw a globe of the Earth, which revolved and showed the various continents and countries. We started learning numbers, and we were told the story of the Creator of the universe. We ate delicious food, took a little nap, and woke up to go on with friendship and love, playing and learning. 15. Our path, however, was not totally sweet and unclouded. We had to be observant and patient. It was not all a matter of playing and fooling around. Rivalries could bring about pain and hatred or give rise to
Unit 1 1.adolescence .青春期 2.adolescent .青少年时期 3.adulthood.成年 4.affection .喜爱 5.affirm. 断言 6.agenda.日程表 7.Approval .同意，批准 8.attitudinal .态度的 9.counsel .建议 10.crisis . 危机 11.encyclopedia .百科全书 12.endeavor.尝试 13.endowment.天赋 14.ethical.道德的 15.evaluate.估算，评估 16.excessive.过分的，极度的 17.feminine .女性的 18.functional .职务的 19.genetic 基因的 20.heighten . 提高 21.inherit遗传，继承 22.inhibition压抑的情绪 23.interaction合作 24.internalize内化 25.masculine 男性的 26.newscast 新闻广播 27.option 选择 28.peer 同龄人 29.perceive理解 30.prejudiced 偏见 31.rebel抗议 32.resentment 怨恨 33.seminary学院的 34.theological神学的 35.wardrobe衣橱 Unit 2 36..abate 减弱 37..akimbo两手叉腰 38..barrel桶 39..bookworm极爱读书的人 40..careerism追求个人事业成功 41..clan家族 42..coax 哄骗https://www.doczj.com/doc/279644988.html,prise 组成 https://www.doczj.com/doc/279644988.html,pulsion 冲动 45..convent女修道院 46..corollary 推论 47..couched 表达 48..courser骏马 49..crayfish小龙虾 50..curled卷曲的 51..discontented不满足的 52..dishearten 让人失去希望 53..dogged顽强的 54..domino---多米诺骨牌 55..equivalent等效 56..ethos精神 57..exclusivity---排他性，排外性 58..flatten使平整 59..frigate- 护航舰 60..gable---三角墙 61..guillotine- 断头台 62..hale--健壮的 63..installment- 一期 64..interior--内部的 65..inveterate- 积习难改的，成瘾的 66..invincible 太壮而无法击败 https://www.doczj.com/doc/279644988.html,tter-下半年 68..literacy-有文化的 69..literati-识字的 70..lure 诱惑力 71..mockingbird--知更鸟 72..ottoman- 奥斯曼帝国 73..parallel平行的，同时的 74..perplexed- 迷惑的 75..plummet--暴跌 76..portray-- 描绘，勾画 77..prance-欢腾 78..prize-对---很重要 79..pundit-某一学科的权威，专家 80..safari-野外狩猎 81..Saint--圣徒，圣人 82..sanction-批准 83..seduce 诱使 84..sling-挂在 85..snobbery- 势力 86..solace安慰
大学英语精读第三版第一册Book1 Unit1 1)e 2)g 3)j 4)a 5)b 6)i 7)c 8)d 9)h 10)f 1) handling 2) summarized 3) process 4) absorb 5) are bound to 6) feel free 7) for instance 8) strategies 9) complained 10) has committed to memory 11) Nevertheless 12) rely on 13) Apart from 14) command 1) over and over again 2) at a time 3) put it into practice 4) watching out for 5) by no means 6) concentrate on 7) In addition t 8) in detail 1)action 2)employ 3)announce 4)examination 5)communicati on 6)express 7)compose 8)improvemen t 9)concentratio n 10)manageme nt 11)consider 12)motivate 13)developme nt 14)movement 15)discuss 16)operate 17)division 18)production 19)educate 20)repeat 1) additional 2) add 3) addition 4) addition 1) effectively 2) effect 3) effective 4) effect 1) helpful 2) help 3) helpless 4) help 5) helplessly 6) helpfully 7) helpful 1) reliant 2) reliable 3) reliance 4) relies 5) reliably 6) reliable 1) repetition 2) repeating 3) repeatedly 4) repeated 5) repetition 1) In my opinion 2) According to Mary 3) In our opinion 4) According to today's papers 5) In most doctors' opinion According to most doctors 1) Shakespeare was not only a dramatist but also an actor. 2) Miss Crain not only took me home in her car, but also came the next day to see if I had recovered. 3) Hainan Island attracts tourists not only in winter but also in summer. 4) There is always a black market not only in Britain, but also in other European countries. 5) At the Athens Olympics in 2004, Liu Xiang not only won a gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles, but also broke the Olympic record. 1) It is true that your sentences are all grammatically correct, but they don’t make any sense. 2) It is true that they lost that battle, but they still went on fighting. 3) It is true that Tom’s very clever and hardworking, but I still don’t think he is the right person for the job. 4) It is true that learning English is by no means easy, but we can make the task easier by using some learning strategies. 1) strategies 2) frequently 3) over and over again 4) commit to memory 5) acquaintance 6) watch out for 7) communicate 8) process 9) opportunities 10) rely on 11) put into practice 12) absorbed 1) if 2) about 3) it 4) know 5) up 6) as 7) addition 8) even 9) into 10) other 11) for 12) while 1) memorize 2) a matter of