how to succeed in it.
Others (books) are written by successful entrepreneurs who want to tell the
resources in the world.
Since those days we have learned far more about how the brain actually works.
our daily work and life.
Both sides of our brain are meant to be used together, just as we use both
Industrial designer Frank Novo recently described how he deliberately
That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously
And that from then on it is necessary to have an intelligent plan if progress is to
have a large vocabulary merely because of the opportunities of position.
A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five
accurate will be your thinking.
from mediocrity to success.
The new and higher position you have won will, in turn, give you a better
So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinions, be
aware of opinions
newspaper belonging to a party that is not yours.
For those who have enough psychological imagination it is a good plan to imagine with a person having a different bias. This has one advantage, and
I have sometimes been led actually to change my mind a result of this kind of
less dogmatic and cocksure through realizing the possible reasonableness of a hypothetical opponent.
Be very wary of opinions that flatter your self-esteem. Both men and women,
own sex.
capacity for moral choice.
They become very excitable, they lose all sense of individual or collective
panic.
Reading is a private, not a collective activity. The writer speaks only to
The orator speaks to masses of individuals, already well-primed with
what he likes with them.
facts.
They regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use of the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generations which are
There are no grey in his picture of the world; everything is either diabolically
Virtue and intelligence belong to human beings as individuals freely
But the subhuman mindlessness to which the demagogue makes his appeal, the moral imbecility on which he relies when he goads his victim into action,
women in masses.
are symptoms of herd-poisoning.
You can’t pick up a newspaper without reading of the nightmare that is child
My parents married when they were young and idealistic. I was only 2 when
Christmas or my birthday, and told me the package I never received “must have gotten lost in the mail,” I believed him whole heartedly.
remained my hero.
Until I was 13 or 14 years old, I was afraid to mail a letter for fear the same fate
about everything, became painfully obvious.
son.
One rather extreme point of view is that lying is always bad and that we should
an acceptable lie and a bad lie.
What he didn’t consider was that because of his lie, the family continued to live
jumping when he telephone or the doorbell rang.
another’s, to hurt a colleague’s chances of promotion so that the liar will be advanced.
But there is a fine line between normal dreams and ambitions on the one hand, and deceiving ourselves on the other, and we have to be careful where we
faults, we should take an honest look in the mirror.
But what may lie behind these differences is that one culture values factual
other people’s feelings.
In short, you will” act like” the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. Not
efforts or will power.
The man who conceives himself to be a “failure type person “will find some
way to fail, in spite of all his good intentions, or his will power, even if
The person who conceives himself to be a victim of injustice, one “who was
Because of this our experiences seem to verify, and thereby strengthen our
For example, a schoolboy who sees himself as an “F” type student, or one who
Yet, as we shall see later, almost miraculous changes have occurred both in grades of students, and in the earning capacity of salesmen-when they were
And, numerous experiments have shown that once the concept of self, are
seem to be consistent with each other.
mistakes and failures.
causes of unhappiness may perhaps be regarded as doubtful question.
people less painful than idleness.
choice, are at a loss to think of anything sufficiently pleasant to be worth doing.
the boredom that a man feels when he is doing uninteresting work is nothing in comparison with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with his days.
It is only where the best work is concerned that this measure ceases to be the
In this respect those women shoes lives are occupied with housework are
that are worthy to absorb the whole energies of a great man.
Every man who has acquired some unusual skill enjoys exercising it until it has
You kill your enemy, and when he is dead your occupation is gone and the
Great artists and great men of science do work which is in itself delightful;
then the most fundamental kind of power, namely power over men’s thoughts and feelings.
and from high school to college in a different state.
awareness of the other person’s intellect, temperament and particular interests.
sport is intensified.
intellectual women.
matter of feeling.
Between French friends, who have chosen each other for congeniality of their
Meeting after a long interval, friends are like a couple who begin to dance
English friends are formed outside the family circle, but they are not, as in
the family.
who did not have smallpox.
The normal Western approach to a problem is to fight it. The saying, “When
attitude toward problem-solving.
Once you have solved a problem laterally, you wonder how you could ever
Dr. A. Bridger, psychiatrist at Columbia University and in private practice in
the dangers involved and the difficulties, and concentrate instead upon the opportunity – for there is always opportunity in crisis.
his own right – a winner.
When we refer to a person as a winner, we do not mean one who beats the
A winner is not isolated from the general problems of society. He is concerned,
himself as totally powerless.
full range of possible behavior.
The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite
seductive and so ugly.
beauty.
The one can call a man “beautiful”in French and in Italian suggests that
of Christianity – still retain some vestiges of the non-religious admiration for beauty.
perceive that the way women are taught to be involved with beauty encourages excessive self-admiration or love.
caring about how one looks.
To preen, for a woman, can never be just a pleasure. She is always under
consulting firm.
a sense of accomplishment.
Being a Renaissance man is in fashion nowadays, yet most people pursuing
Ultimate excellence is a product of total commitment, hard work over the
practicing strength.”
One of the mistakes people make believing they must correct their
Before a game with the Detroit lions, Lombardi shows films of only the successful running plays previously used against the Lions. That ways, his
was founded in 1980, it has produced over dozen prime-time series. Everyone needs support of some sort. It can be as simple as eyeglasses to
point.”If you don’t focus on strengths,”she says, “you’re playing a losing game.”
However primitive and simple his method of work may be, by the very fact of
There is no split of work and play, or work and culture. The craftsman’s way of
mode of production, the meaning and function of work changed fundamentally.
subdue his doubts and fears by developing a feverish activity.
For the vast majority of those who had only their physical energy to sell work
What happens to the industrial worker? He spends his best energy for seven or eight hours a day in producing “something”.
Work appears as something unnatural, a disagreeable, meaningless condition of getting the pay check, devoid of dignity as well as of importance.
In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the psychology of the worker and to his attitude toward his work, to the “human problem of industry”; but this very formulation is indicative of the underlying attitude;
It is a hostility toward work which is much less conscious than our craving for laziness and inactivity.
Many are equipped with fine educations and are understandably impatient to succeed as quickly as possible.
They want to be able to have their share of the good things in life while they
are still young enough to enjoy them.
The establishment, however, has traditionally believed that people should be rewarded according to their age and experience .Ability counts for less. Employers pay the smallest sum consistent with keeping you in a job.
If you are able, your abilities will be acknowledged and rewarded in due course – that is, after twenty or thirty years have passed.
By that time you will be considered old enough to join the Establishment and you will be expected to adopt its ideals.
There seems to be a gigantic conspiracy against young people.
While on the one hand society provides them with better educational facilities, on the other it does its best to exclude them from the jobs that really matter. Some young people do manage to break through the barrier despite the restrictions, but the great majorities have to wait patiently for years before they can really give full rein to their abilities.
One of the most tragic aspects of President Kennedy’s assassination is that mankind was deprived of a youthful leader.
I was well aware of the importance of the right kind of wife in furthering lawyer’s career.
I had my first date with Polly the following evening. This was in nature of a survey.
I went back to my room with a heavy heart. I had graving underestimated the size of the task.
I fought off a wave of despair. I was getting nowhere. Still, I am nothing if not persistent.
“Polly,” I said sharply,” it’s a fallacy. Eula Becker doesn’t cause the rain. She has no connection with the rain. You are guilt of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker. ”
“My dear,” I said, favoring her with a smile.
本文针对当前我国对外经济法规汉英翻译的一些实际问题，探讨了以翻译规律来
规范对外经济法规汉英翻译的可能性，提出了基本规律和特殊规律。本文指出，对外经济法规汉英翻译必须的遵循建立在服从法律英语的语言特点和表达规律基础上的对外经济法规翻译规律。研究结果表明这些规律都是通过分析法规译文中的典型错误，结合国内外翻译理论进行总结归纳才提出的，对经济法的翻译实践有重要指导意义。
This paper aims at some obvious errors in the translation of current China’s foreign economic laws and rules and probes into possibility of governing the C-E translation of those documents with a set of basic and specific principles proposed. It is also pointed out that translators of economic laws and rules should follow the particular principles based on the syntactic features and styles of legal English. The feelings indicated that these principles are proposed after the analysis of many translation errors, and the induction of relevant domestic and foreign translation theories. It is hoped that they are somewhat a guideline to translation of such documents.
There is just the same kind of difference between the mental operation of the man of science and those of an ordinary person as there is between the operations and the methods of a baker or a butcher weighing out his goods in common scales, and the operations of a chemist in performing a difficult and complex analysis by means of his balance and finely graduated weights.
科学家与普通人的思维活动的区别，无非是面包师或者屠夫的操作与化学家的操作的区别：前者用普通的秤来称货物，后者则用天平和分得很细的砝码来进行艰难而复杂的分析。
The method was largely developed by physicists, chemists and biologists; it was later adopted by people working in such areas as education, psychology and sociology, where the subjects of research were often people.
这种（科学）方法在很大程度上先是由物理学家、化学家和生物学家使用，后来为在教育学、心理学和社会学等领域内（其研究对象是人）工作的研究人员所采纳而发展起来的。
历史业已证明，人类对于资源的认识、开发和利用，以及利用资源制造生产工具的能力，是社会生产力发展水平的重要标志，也在一定程度上决定了一定的社会基本结构和发展形态。
History has proved that man’s understanding of natural resources and his tapping and utilizing of them, as well as his capability of making tools of production to make use of these resources, are a milestone the level of development of social productive forces. And they too, to some extent, have decided the basic structure and pattern of development of a given society.
Part Two:Structure and Written Expression(20%) Directions:For each question decide which of the four choices given will most suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked、Mark your choices on the Answer Sheet、 11. Whether the extension of consciousness is a “good thing”for human being is a question that a wide solution、 A.admits of B、requires of C、needs of D、seeks for 12.In a culture like ours, long all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that the medium is the message、 A.accustomed to split and divided B.accustomed to splitting and dividing C.accustomed to split and dividing D.accustomed to splitting and divided 13.Apple pie is neither good nor bad; it is the way it is used that determines its value、 A、at itself B、as itself C、on itself D、in itself 14. us earlier, your request to the full、 A、You have contacted…we could comply with B、Had you contacted…we could have complied with C、You had contacted…could we have complied with D、Have you contacted…we could comply with 15.The American Revolution had no medieval legal institutions to or to root out, apart from monarchy、 A、discard B、discreet C、discord D、disgorge 16、Living constantly in the atmosphere of slave, he became infected the unconscious their psychology、No one can shield himself such an influence、 A、on…by…at B、by…for…in C、from…in…on D、through…with…from 17、The effect of electric technology had at first been anxiety、Now it appears to create 、 A、bore B、bored C、boredom D、bordom 18、Jazz tends to be a casual dialogue form of dance quite in the receptive and mechanical forms of the waltz、 A、lacked B、lacking C、for lack of D、lack of 19、There are too many complains about society move too fast to keep up with the machine、 A、that have to B、have to C、having to D、has to 20、The poor girl spent over half a year in the hospital but she is now for it、 A、none the worse B、none the better C、never worse D、never better 21、As the silent film sound, so did the sound film color、 A、cried out for…cried out for B、cry out for…cry out for C、had cried out for…cried out for D、had cried out for…cry out for 22、While his efforts were tremendous the results appeared to be very 、 A、trigger B、meager C、vigor D、linger 23、Western man is himself being de-Westernized by his own speed-up, by industrial technology、 A、as much the Africans are detribalized B、the Africans are much being detribalized C、as much as the Africans are being detribalized D、as much as the Africans are detribalized 24、We admire his courage and self-confidence、 A、can but B、cannot only C、cannot but D、can only but 25、In the 1930’s, when millions of comic books were the young with fighting and killing, nobody seemed to notice that the violence of cars in the streets was more hysterical、
2018考博英语翻译练习题及答案【十篇】 仰望天空时，什么都比你高，你会自卑;俯视大地时，什么都比你低，你会自负;只有放宽视野，把天空和大地尽收眼底，才能在苍穹泛土之间找到你真正的位置。无须自卑，不要自负，坚持自信。以下我无忧考网为考生整理的《2018考博英语翻译练习题及答案第二部分【十篇】》供您查阅。 2018考博英语翻译练习：泡腊八蒜 考博英语翻译题型多为汉译英，各博士招生院校大多都有此题型，考博英语复习初期阶段新东方在线考博频道为考博生们整理了一些考博英语翻译练习，供大家平日复习。 泡腊八蒜是中国北方，尤其是华北地区的一个习俗。顾名思义，就是在阴历腊月初八的这天来泡制大蒜。其实材料非常简单，就是醋和大蒜瓣儿。做法也是极其简单，将剥了皮的蒜瓣儿放到一个可以密封的罐子、瓶子之类的容器里面，然后倒入醋，封上口放到一个冷的地方。慢慢地，泡在醋中的蒜就会变绿，最后会变得通体碧绿的，如同翡翠碧玉。老北京人家，一到腊月初八，过年的气氛一天赛过一天，
华北大部分地区在腊月初八这天有用醋泡蒜的习俗。 译文参考： Laba garlic bulbs in the north,particularly in North China,a custom. As the name suggests,at the eighth daytime of the twelfth lunar day the Chinese people are apt to cook garlic.In fact,the materials is very easy, that is,vinegar and garlic petal.Approach is extremely simple too,the rinded garlic cloves can be sealed into a jar,flasks and the favor inside the container,then pour vinegar,sealed port into a cold location. Slowly, the garlic drenched in vinegar ambition turn green,and finally transform entire body green as emerald jade.Old Beijing human,1 to the eighth daytime of the twelfth lunar month,one day outdo the air of Chinese New Year day in most parts of north China this day be serviceable in the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month vinegar and garlic bulbs custom. 解析： 大蒜：garlic
大学英语预备阶段练习（一） （Unit 1~4） ⅠWord Building Directions: Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words given in the brackets. 1.Thank you very much for your ____ advice. I followed it and succeeded at last. (value) 2.His business has ____ rapidly since his brother came to help. (development) 3.After a two-day discussion, we finally found a ____ to the difficult problem. (solve) 4.Prices ____ high for quite a while .People began to complain about it. (remaining) 5.I don’t think it ____ to finish all the work today. We can go on with it tomorrow.(necessity) 6.It is obviously not ____ to leave a 3-year-old boy alone at home. (properly) 7.The tourists saw a beautiful ____ when they climbed onto the top of the mountain.(scene) 8.Traveling in the desert is a challenging ____ to most people. ( inexperience) 9.____, I don’t think it possible to finish the task in two days. (person) 10.The government must make sure that the economy is developed in the right ____.(direct) ⅡVocabulary and Structure Directions: Choose the best one from the four choices to complete the sentence. 11.The temperature ____ throughout the day in that part of the country. A. very B. remains C. differs D. varies 12.The game is full of violence and will certainly have a bad ____ on young players. A. meaning B. pain C. loss D. influence 13.The warm-hearted elderly lady downstairs is always ____ to help others. A. real B. ready C. practical D. polite 14.The question is ____ difficult in the exam today. Don’t you think so? A. therefore B. since C. rather D. otherwise 15.She used to live in a lovely ____ building near the sea. A. 3-story B. 3-stories C. 3-classed D. 3-classes 16.There are different ____ of transport in big cities for you to choose when you go out. A. means B. mean C. meanings D. meaning 17.They did not take a rest until the job was ____ finished. A. straightly B. specially C. completely D. fairly 18.The bookstore owner ____ the old magazines with a new ones to attract more readers. A. required B. reviewed C. repeated D. replaced 19.Would you like to buy the book? It is ____ reading. A. worthy B. firm C. further D. worth 20.She wears sunglasses to ____ her eyes from the sunshine in summer. A. prepare B. produce C. protect D. provide 21.We all like her very much for her pleasant ____: kind, gentle and warm-hearted. A. character B. chance C. chairman D. skills 22.All the students enjoyed the wonderful ____ by the professor that afternoon. A. discussion B. lecture C. advice D. solution 23.If you have confidence in yourself first, you will not be _______ by others easily. A.won B. doubled C. defeated. D. delayed 24.The little girl developed a strong _______ on her new friends.
北京大学2007年博士研究生入学考试英语试题 Part One: Listening Comprehension略 Part Two: Structure and Written Expression (20%) Directions: For each question decide which of the four choices given will most suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked. Mark your choices on the ANSWER SHEET. 21._________ before we leave the day after tomorrow, we should have a wonderful time together. [A] Had they arrived [B] Would they arrive [C] Were they arriving [D] Were they to arrive 22._________ last year and is now earning his living as an advertising agent. [A] He would leave school [B] He left school [C] He had left school [D] He has left school 23.Some people viewed the findings with caution, noting that a cause-and-effect relationship between passive smoking and cancer remained _________. [A] to be shown [B] to have been shown [C] to have shown [D] being shown 24.__________ that should be given priority to. [A] It is the committee has decided [B] It is only the committee has decided [C] It is what the committee has decided [D] It is what has the committee decided 25. The most interesting new cars may owe __________ the simple wisdom of hiring a few talented people and allowing them to work. [A] less local free-spiritedness than [B] less local free-spiritedness than to [C] to less local free-spiritedness than to [D] less to local free-spiritedness than to 26. Over the years, Jimmy Connors __________ phenomenal displays of tennis and temper—and at the U.S. Open last week, he exhibited both again. [A] has treated spectators with [B] has treated spectator for [C] has treated spectators [D] has treated spectators to 27. Summer holidays spent on the hot ghetto streets are __________ the time middle-class students devote to camps, exotic vacations and highly organized sports. [A] as hardly culturally enriching as [B] as hardly enriching culture as
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A. some modern women prefer a life of individual freedom. B. the family is no longer the basic unit of society in present-day Europe. C. some professional people have too much work to do to feel lonely. D. Most Europeans conceive living a single life as unacceptable. 5.What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage? A. To review the impact of women becoming high earners. B. To contemplate the philosophy underlying individualism. C. To examine the trend of young people living alone. D. To stress the rebuilding of personal relationships. Passage Two American dramas and sitcoms would have been candidates for prime time several years ago. But those programs －though some remain popular －increasingly occupy fringe times slots on foreign networks. Instead, a growing number of shows produced by local broadcasters are on the air at the best times. The shift counters longstanding assumptions that TV shows produced in the United States would continue to overshadow locally produced shows from Singapore to Sicily. The changes are coming at a time when the influence of the United States on international affairs has annoyed friends and foes alike, and some people are expressing relief that at least on television American culture is no longer quite the force it once was. “There has always been a concern that the image of the world would be shaped too much by American culture,” said Dr. Jo Groebek, director general of the European Institu te for the Media, a non-profit group. Given the choice, he adds, foreign viewers often prefer homegrown shows that better reflect local tastes, cultures and historical events. Unlike in the United States, commercial broadcasting in most regions of the world －including Asia, Europe, and a lesser extent Latin America, which has a long history of commercial TV －is a relatively recent development. A majority of broadcasters in many countries were either state-owned or state-subsidized for much of the last century. Governments began to relax their control in the 1980’s by privatizing national broadcasters and granting licenses to dozens of new commercial networks. The rise of cable and satellite pay-television increased the spectrum of channels. Relatively inexperienced and often financed on a shoestring, these new commercial stations needed hours of programming fast. The cheapest and easiest way to fill airtime was to buy shows from American studios, and the bidding wars for popular shows were fierce. The big American studios took advantage of that demand by raising prices and forcing foreign broadcasters to buy less popular programs if they wanted access to the best-selling shows and movies. “The studio priced themselves out of prime time,” said Harry Evans Sloan, chairman of SBS Broadcasting, a Pan-European broadcaster. Mr. Sloan estimates that over the last decade, the price of American programs has increased fivefold even as the international ratings for these shows have declined. American broadcasters are still the biggest buyers of American-made television shows, accounting for 90% of the $25 billion in 2001 sales. But international sales which totaled $2.5 billion last year often make the difference between a profit and a loss on show. As the pace of foreign sales slows －the market is now growing at 5% a year, down from the double-digit growth of the 1990’s －studio executives are rethinking production costs. 6. Which of the following best characterizes the image embodied in American shows? A. Self-contradictory B. Prejudice-free C. Culture-loaded D. Audience-targeted 7. The intervention of governments in the 1980’s resulted in __________ . A. the patenting of domination shows and movies B. the emergence of new commercial networks C. the promotion of cable and satellite pay-television D. the intense competition coming from the outside 8. The phrase “on a shoestring” (Para. 6) most probably means __________. A. in need of capital B. after a fashion C. on second thoughts D. in the interests of themselves 9. The main reason why American dramas and sitcoms are driven out of prime time is that ____. A. they lose competitiveness B. they are not market-oriented C. they are too much priced D. they fall short of audience expectations 10. American studio producers will give thought to production costs __________. A. if they have no access to popular shows B. because their endeavors come to no avail C. since bidding wars are no longer fierce D. as international sales pace slows down Passage Three How shops can exploit people's herd mentality to increase sales 1. A TRIP to the supermarket may not seem like an exercise in psychological warfare—but it is. Shopkeepers know that filling a store with the aroma of freshly baked bread makes people feel hungry and persuades them to buy more food than they had intended. Stocking the most expensive products at eye level makes them sell faster than cheaper but less visible competitors. Now researchers are investigating how “swarm intelligence” (th at is，how ants，bees or any social animal，including humans，behave in a crowd) can be used to influence what people buy. 2. At a recent conference on the simulation of adaptive behaviour in Rome，Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani，a computer scientist from the Florida Institute of Technology，described a new way to increase impulse buying using this phenomenon. Supermarkets already encourage shoppers to buy things they did not realise they wanted: for instance，by placing everyday items such as milk and eggs at the back of the store，forcing shoppers to walk past other tempting goods to reach them. Mr Usmani and Ronaldo Menezes，also of the Florida Institute of Technology, set out to enhance this tendency to buy more by playing on the herd instinct. The idea is that, if a certain product is seen to be popular, shoppers are likely to choose it too. The challenge is to keep customers informed about what others are buying. 3. Enter smart-cart technology. In Mr Usmani's supermarket every product has a radio frequency identification tag, a sort of barcode that uses radio waves to transmit information，and every trolley has a scanner that reads this information and relays it to a central computer. As a customer walks past a shelf of goods, a screen on the shelf tells him how many people currently in the shop have chosen that particular product. If the number is high, he is more likely to select it too.
中国矿业（北京）2011年博士入学考试题 考试科目：英语 Part One Cloze (15 points) Directions: Fill each of the blanks in the passage with one suitable word. One word that you might have learned when you were studying about sound is frequency. Frequency means 1 fast the sound wave vibrates. Faster vibrations produce 2 pitched sounds. The notes in a musical scale indicate the 3 or frequency of the sound. 4 word that can describe a sound is intensity. Intensity 5 to the amount of energy in a sound wave, and it 6 a sound’s loudness. Printed music will often include notes about how loud or 7 to play each section of the music. Timbre is another 8 used to describe musical sounds. It describes how the same note will have 9 sounds when played 10 different instruments. For example the same note may sound soft and pretty when played on a flute, 11 strong and brassy when played on a trumpet. The timbre of a note comes from both the actual note 12 is played 13 also its overtones, 14 are other higher and lower sounds that are produced 15 the same time. Part Two Reading Comprehension (40 points) Directions: In this part there are five passages, each followed by questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one. Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the following passage. The last of the dinosaurs lived during a time called the Cretaceous period. This time period lasted from about 135 million to 65.5 million years ago. Some sources give the years of 146,145, or 144 million to 65 million years ago. In the Cretaceous period, the middle of North America was covered by a shallow sea. The Atlantic Ocean began opening up between Europe and North America as those continents rifted. Other continents that had begun pulling away from each other in the Jurassic continued drifting apart. India was an island by itself. Evergreen trees, mosses, and ferns had been the main types of plants, but now in the Cretaceous, flowering plants appeared. Bees did, too. Hardwood trees like oaks and maples first appeared in the fossil record.
博士研究生英语综合教程答案及参考译文 KEY TO THE EXERCISES Unit One Science Text 1 Can We Really Understand Matter? I. Vocabulary 1. A 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. D 6. B 7. B 8. C II. Definition 1. A priority 2. Momentum 3. An implication 4. Polarization 5. the distance that light travels in a year, about 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion km. 6. a contradictory or absurd statement that expresses a possible truth 7. a device that speeds up charged elementary particles or ions to high energies III. Mosaic 1. The stress: (Omitted) Pronunciation rule: An English word ended with–tion or –sion has its stress on the last syllable but one. 2. molecule 3. A 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. A 8. A IV. Translation A.(Refer to the relevant part of the Chinese translation) B.In September 1995, anti-hydrogen atom—an anti-matter atom—was successfully developed in European Particle Physics Laboratory in Switzerland. After the startling news spread out, scientists in the West who were indulged in the research of anti-matter were greatly excited. While they were attempting to produce and store anti-matter as the energy for spacecraft, they raised a new question: Many of the mysterious nuclear explosions in the recent one hundred years are connected with anti-matter. That is to say, these hard-to-explain explosions are tricks played by anti-matter. They are the ―destruction‖ phenomenon caused by the impact between matter and anti-matter. V. Grouping A.Uncertainty: what if, illusory, indescribable, puzzle, speculation, seemingly, in some mysterious way B.Contrast: more daunting, the hardest of hard sciences, do little to discourage, from afar, close scrutiny, work amazingly well C. Applications of Quantum mechanics: the momentum of a charging elephant, building improved gyroscopes 1. probabilities 2. illusory 3. discourage 4. scrutiny VI. Topics for Discussion and Writing (Omitted) WRITING?STRATEGY?DEFINITION I. Complete the following definitions with the help of dictionaries. 1. To bribe means to influence the behavior or judgment of others (usually in positions of power) unfairly or illegally by offering them favors or gifts.