Book 2 听力原文整理
Unit 1
Listening
Understanding Short Conversations
1 W: It’s time for “International Clock Talk”（国际时间交谈）! Time to discuss how you feel about time!
M: Well, since we all come from the same country, I think our views will be similar1. Q: Why does the man believe the people will have similar views?
2 W: It annoys me the way my foreign friends treat time.
M: I just read a book about this problem! It’s entitled International Clock Talk.
Q: Which problem is the book about?
3 M: Australians are so relaxed about time! It drives me mad!
W: That’s the way they are. While you’re here, you’ll have to get used to it.
Q: What advice does the woman give the man?
4 M: Have you noticed differences between our cultures?
W: Sure. In my country, people don’t care about time very much. Here, you take it seriously.
Q: How do people in the woman’s country feel about time?
5 W: Can you explain why you’re always five minutes late for conferences（会议）? M: Oh, I’m sorry. In my country, people are ofte n late.
Q: Why is the man late for conferences?
6 W: What do you appreciate most about life in Germany?
M: German people are rarely late for meetings. I never have to deal with latecomers. Q: What does the man like best about life in Germany?
7 M: I’v heard that Chinese people are very relaxed about time.
W: That used to be true. Nowadays, people are increasingly bothered by lateness. Q: According to the woman, how have Chinese people changed?
8 M: Why did you walk out of the restaurant abruptly（粗鲁地，突然地）? We had just started talking.
W: Just started? We were there for two hours! In my country, meals take 15 minutes!
Q: Why did the woman walk out of the restaurant so abruptly?
9 W: What did Mom think about her trip to Russia? I’m so looking forward to hearing about it.
M: She didn’t say much. When I picked her up at the airport this morning, she was just eager to get home to see Dad. She just said the food was great there.
Q: What is the relationship between the two speakers?
10 M: It’s only 6:30, and you’re done! I won’t finish work till 10. You are very efficient.
W: Well, Tom finished two hours earlier than me. That’s a sign of efficiency（效率）in my country.
Q: How many hours earlier did the woman finish her work than the man? Understanding a Long Conversation
M: You travel a lot. Which people do you think are the most time-conscious?
W: I think it’s probably the Swedes.
M: Really, what makes you say that?
W: Well, on my last trip to Sweden, I ordered a taxi to pick me up at my hotel at 6:25 am. I got to the street at 6:27, but the taxi had already left.
M: That’s a little hard to believe. Is it true?
W: Absolutely, everything runs on time there. There’s no room for mistakes. Everyone is very time-conscious!
M: They must seem very stiff and serious!
W: Sure, but once you get to know them, you find kind, caring people behind their serious faces.
M: This is very different from my experiences traveling in South America. Of course, people there are very kind, but they don’t care much about time.
W: I agree. South Americans don’t put very much stress on time. They’re always late for everything, but no one seems to mind.
Questions:
1 What does the woman think about Swedish people?
2 How long did the taxi driver wait for the woman?
3 Why does the woman say “there’s no room for mistakes” in Sweden?
4 According to the woman, what are Swedes usually like?
5 What do the man and the woman say about people in South America? Understanding a Passage
The biggest problem in my company has to do with culture, in particular our different ways of looking at time. People from some countries think it is OK to show up late for a meeting and some people even don’t think they need to come at all! As president of the company, however, it is my responsibility to tell them that this is not acceptable. Whereas in some other countries attending meetings is not considered
very important, in this country, and especially in this company, meetings must be attended on time. Not being on time causes inefficiency. I spent all night thinking about the exact words that I would use to explain my feelings. I even wrote my words down. I planned to discuss this problem at the meeting today, and entitled my speech “International Clock Talk”. Unfortu nately, I have a problem---no one came to the meeting!
Questions:
1 What is the company’s greatest problem?
2 Which of the following does the speaker consider is his duty as president of the company?
3 Why does lateness cause a decrease in efficiency?
4 What did the company president do the previous night?
5 Why couldn’t the president do what he had planned?
Unit 2
Listening
1 W: What did your coach（教练）tell you about running in tomorrow’s race?
M: He said, “All that glitters is Olympic gold,” to rem ind me of the Olympic spirit. Q: What was the coach’s advice to the man?
2 M: I watched a TV show last night, called “All that Glitters Is Olympic Gold”.
W: I watched that too. It was about the training and sacrifice（付出，牺牲）necessary for athletes to compete in the Olympics.
Q: What was the TV show about?
3 W: Running the hundred-meter dash is nothing compared to the passion1 necessary to run longer races.
M: Are you kidding? I’ve run both and I know they both require determination.
Q: Why does the man disagree with the woman?
4 M: Do you think drug taking is widespread among amateur（业余的）athletes trying to get stronger?
W: It’s hard to say whether it’s true or not. So much of what we hear seems to be rumors（谣言）.
Q: Does the woman believe that there is a problem with amateur athletes taking drugs?
5 W: Do you think that he could have run in the Olympics if things had turned out(证
明是，结果是) differently?
M: Definitely. He had the heart. It was just his injury that cost him the opportunity to compete.
Q: Did the athlete compete in the Olympics?
6 M: I heard that when the athlete accepted the gold medal, he thanked his mom. W: That’s right. He swore(明确或郑重地说) that she was responsible for him developing the strength to win the race.
Q: Why was the athlete able to win the race?
7 W: Come on, you can eat this cake. You don’t have to deny yourself sweet food just because you’re in the Olympics.
M: Yes I do! With the games coming so soon, I have to stay on a healthy diet.
Q: Why does the man refuse the woman’s offer?
8 M: Most people who watch the Olympics would like to be like the athletes they see. W: Maybe they would. But I don’t think most of them have the determination to work so hard to get there.
Q: What does the woman think about people who watch the Olympic Games?
9 W: Are you noticing the frowns on the faces of the runners? Not one of them looks happy.
M: You can be sure the two runners from our country are happy. Out of the five races, they’ve won four.
Q: How many races have the runners from t he speaker’s country won?
10 M: Just hearing the Olympic song fills me with determination to go out and win. W: It was first played in 1896, but it wasn't the official song until 1958. I like it too. Q: In which year did the Olympic song become official?
Understanding a Long Conversation
W: Wow, you really look great. Have you been working out(做大运动量的锻炼)? M: Every day. I’m preparing for the Olympic Games.
W: Oh, no.
M: What? What’s the matter? You don’t think I can do it?
W: I don’t know how to tell you.
M: You don’t think I’m strong enough to enter, do you? Well, I’ll have you know I’m plenty strong. And If you say otherwise, you don’t know what you’re talking about. W: I know you’re strong. That’s not the problem.
M: Then you think my heart is weak. Bu t that isn’t so! I have amazing determination.
I swear, my passion is unmatched by any other amateur athlete in the world. I defy1 you to say otherwise.
W: I wouldn’t dare. I’ve seen you run and not quit, and I know your heart is strong. But that isn’t the problem.
M: What’s the problem then?
W: The Olympics ended yesterday.
Questions:
1 Why does the man look great?
2 How does the man feel about his own strength?
3 What does the man say about his passion?
4 How does the woman know the man has a strong heart?
5 What is the man’s problem, according to the woman?
Understanding a Passage
In the summer of 1936, Jesse Owens became famous all over the world. That summer, Jesse Owens, a black American, joined the best athletes from 50 nations to compete in the Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
There was special interest in the Olympic Games that year because Adolph Hitler was then the leader of Germany. He and his Nazi party believed that white people were better than other races, especially those with dark skin. They were all very surprised when Owens won four gold medals and set new world records.
Years later, Jesse Owens wrote that he was most proud of showing Hitler and the world how great a black man could be. Through everything, he never lost confidence in himself. Nor did he ever lose pride in himself. To this day, Jesse Owens is remembered as an amazing man who fully expressed the Olympics spirit. Questions:
1 Why were so many people interested in the 1936 Olympic Games?
2 According to the passage, what did the Nazi party believe?
3 What surprised Hitler and the Nazi?
4 What made Jesse Owens most proud?
5 Why is Jesse Owens remembered as a great man?
Unit 3
Understanding Short Conversations
1. M: Could you tell me about the pros and cons of mixed marriages?
W: I can tell you the pros, for sure. After being married to a foreigner for 20 years, I’ve yet to discover any cons.
Q: What can’t the woman tell the man?
2. M: The weeding is next week, but I still don’t know if marrying a person of a different race is right.
W: There are a lot of pros and cons of mixed marriages, but overall1 they’re good. Q: How does the man feel about mixed marriages?
3. M: The French have a lot of cha rm. I think you’ll enjoy being married to me. W: Not everything about them is charming. And I’m going to have some trouble dealing with the culture.
Q: What concern does the woman have about marrying a Frenchman?
4. M: Has anyone criticized you for marrying someone of a different race?
W: I expected people to. But they haven’t so far. Besides, I don’t care what people think. My wife and I hit it off A- OK.
Q: What did the man except?
5. M: That’s great you’re getting married, but do you have a clue about your new wife’s culture?
W: Sure. Learning about her people’s way of doing things was the first thing I did when I decide to marry her.
Q: What did the man do first when he decided to get married?
6. M: I’ve heard that you canceled your wedding plans. What’s the problem?
W: Money is very important to people from her culture. She left me when she discovered I’m poor!
Q: Why was the wedding canceled?
7. M: I can’t believe hoe good your Chinese language skills are! How did you improve so quickly?
W: I married a Chinese man. We talk every day. He’s helped me a lot.
Q: What does the woman’s husband help her with?
8. M: I have a question for you. Would you ever marry a person from another culture?
W: That’s a tough one! If I do, it’ll probab ly be someone from a culture similar to mine.
Q: What Kind of woman would the man marry?
9. M: Our marriage is falling apart. Didn’t you know your family wouldn’t approve of you marrying a foreigner?
W: I never expected it to be a problem. It’s not their marriage after all; it’s ours.
Q: What is the man’s relationship to the woman?
10. M: I’ve been thinking about getting married. Do you know what the divorce rate of mixed marriages is?
W: What do you mean, mixed races or mixed religions? The rate for the first is 65 percent; the second, 70 percent.
Q: What is the divorce rate of marriages between people of different races? Understanding a Long Conversation
W: Grandpa, Mom told me that you have been married twice. Is that true?
M: Yes, I’m afraid1 so.
W: T hat’s a surprise. What happened to your first wife?
M: Your grandma was my first wife.
W: But…
M: And your grandma is my second wife. You see, I met her while I was in Germany during the war. We knew we loved each other from the moment we met, so we got ma rried right away. But we weren’t ready for the resistance we received from her family. Her mother insisted that Americans and Germans weren’t compatible. So she divorced me.
W: Too bad. What happened then?
M: Three years later, we met again in New York, quite by accident. I was working at the port and she was on a boat coming to the U.S. when we saw each other again after all that time, we decided to overlook her parent’s advice. We got married again, and we’ve been happy ever since.
1. What did the girl hear from her mother? A
2. How did the girls grandparents feel when the first met? B
3. Why did the girl’s grandparents get divorced? D
4. How did the girls grandparents meet again after their divorce? D
5. What did the girl’s grandparents decide to do afte r they met again? A Understanding a Passage
Marriage can exchange people a great deal, and marriage to a person of a different culture can exchange a person even more. As someone who has married a foreigner, I know. I’m a Canadian who married a Chinese ma n. At first, I harbored some reservations. I wasn’t sure how compatible we’d be. Somehow, however, we made it work. And I found myself growing to become more like him. I started picking up Chinese characteristics and began speaking English with a Chinese accent! My brother joked, saying I was even beginning to look Chinese! My husband has changed a lot too, becoming more like Canadians in attitude. I supposed this is something of a compromise wherein we met each other in the middle. I suspect that we still continue to grow more alike as time goes by; that is exciting to me. A person, after all, should change during his or her life time.
1. According to the speaker, which circumstances cause the greater change in people after they are married? B
2. How did the woman fell when she first got married? D
3. What joke did the woman’s brother make about her? D
4. How has the woman’s husband changed? A
5. Why does the woman feel good about her recent change? B
Unit 4
Understanding Short Conversations
1. M: Excuse me. You’ve been here for six hours. Are you waiting for someone? W: I’m afraid so. I’m supposed to meet my new girlfriend. I can’t believe how late she is!
Q: What surprises to the man?
2. M: I heard a song on the radio by Elvis, called “A Big Hunk o’Love”.
W: I know that song, it’s really happy though, which is why I don’t like it. Love song should be sad, like love.
Q: Why does the woman NOT like the song?
3. M: You found love in India? How romantic! It’s my dream to fall in love in a foreign country!
W: It was really exciting at first. After I got used to it rough, it was kind of boring. Q: How did the man’s feeling of love change?
4. M: More than once, I thought about killing myself after I lost my boyfriend.
W: Just about everyone gets depressed, b ut you can’t let those feelings get the better of you.
Q: According to the man, why does everyone experience after a breakup (破裂)?
5. M: You look so happy! What’s going on to make you smile like that?
W: For the first time in years, my sister has found l ove. I’m going to meet the guy today.
Q: Why is the man happy?
6. M: I can help you find your old girlfriend if you can give me more information about her.
W: Name, old address…that’s all I can tell you. But maybe it doesn’t matter. I probably should try to forget her.
Q: Why can the man’s old girlfriend NOT be found?
7. M: Hey, you look great! Am I wrong, or has something changed about you?
W: Something big! I found a man who really makes me happy. He’s brightened up my life.
Q: What do you know about th e woman’s new boyfriend?
8. M: You’ve been writing me letters for years. When are you going to admit your
love for me?
W: what? Love? No, I’m just being friendly. You think everyone loves you!
Q: According to the woman, what mistake has the man made?
9. M: So, what makes you think that your marriage will last, when 50 percent fail? W: Fifty? Nah, That number is more like 30 or 40 percent. And in my family, there are no divorces.
Q: What is the divorce rare in the man’s family?
10. M: Honey, don’t you ha ve any objections to our daughter having a boyfriend? W: None whatsoever! Having a boyfriend will teach her how to become a loving wife someday.
Q: What is the relationship between the man and the woman?
Understanding a Long Conversation
W: Another letter.
M: For me?
W: Who else? It’s from…
M: Hey, don’t look at that! It’s private1! Give it here!
W: OK! Sorry! I was just a bit curious. You’ve been getting a lot of these letters lately. And they’re always in these pink envelopes. It makes me wonder if you’ve got a girlfriend. That’s all.
M: If you must know, yeah, I have a girlfriend.
W: I thought so! So, what does she look like?
M: I don’t really know. So far, we’ve only communicated by mail. I’ve never seen her.
W: Not much of a girlfriend, then, is she?
M: I think I’m in love with her. Isn’t that what it means to have a girlfriend?
W: Well, that wouldn’t have been enough for your father and me. We wouldn’t have fallen in love without meeting. To be in love, you have to see a person, at least.
M: The love I have for my girlfriend is spiritual; I don’t have to see her. You wouldn’t understand.
1. Why does the woman want to see the letter? B
2. What does the woman want to know? A
3. According to the man, what doesn’t know? C
4. According to the woman, what must all people in love have? D
5. What is the relationship between the speakers? B
Understanding a Passage
“Going to war was the greatest thing to have ever happened to me,” said Albert Thomson, a former1 soldier. Some people might find this strange, especially considering that Thomson lost an arm and the use of both legs in combat. “Of course, I don’t like the fighting,” Thomson said. What he did like is that, by going to the war,
he met the woman who would become his wife and the mother of his four children. On effect of World War II was that it brought many young people from different countries together. When peace was achieved, these young people often fell in love with people of different nationalities. During World War II, an estimated3 1,000,0000 American soldiers married women from over 50 different countries. In the Pacific, 16,000 of the 1,000,000Americans soldiers married Australian and New Zealand women. Of these, 12,000 went to the U.S. Many of the relationships failed, but some were as happy as Thomson’s.
1. What did Thomson lose during the war? C
2. What did Thomson enjoy about the war? B
3. What is spoken of as a positive effect of World War II? D
4. How many U.S. soldiers married Australian or New Zealand women? B
5. What do we know about these marriages? A
新视野大学英语第二版第3册课后习题选词填空、完型、翻译答案 第一单元 3 1 beneath 2 disguised 3 whistles 4 restrain 5 grasp 6 longing 7 praying 8 faithful 9 pledge 10 drain 4 1 tell …on you 2 track down 3 work it out 4 picking on me 5 reckoned with 6 call on 7 on his own 8 get through 9 in disguise 10 revolves around 5 G O D I K L B F A N 6 1 advise 2 level 3 problems 4 necessity 5 skills 6 experience 7 solution 8 value 9 tool 10 manner 7 1 air-conditioned(装空调的；有冷气的) 2 handmade（手工制作的） 3 thunderstruck（非常吃惊的） 4 heartfelt（衷心的；诚挚的） 5 data-based（基于数据的） 6 self-employed（自主经营的） 7 custom-built（定制的；定做的） 8 weather-beaten（饱经风霜的） 8 1. well-informed（对……非常熟悉的） 2 new-found（新获得的） 3 hard-earned（辛苦挣得的） 4 soft-spoken（说话温柔的） 5 newly-married（新婚的） 6 widely-held（普遍认为的） 7 well-meant（出于好意的） 8 well-educated（受过良好教育的） 9 1 no matter how different it may seem form any other substance 2 no matter what a woman tries to do to improve her situation 3 no matter what excuse he gives 4 no matter what anyone else may think 5 no matter how they rewrite history 10 1 just as we gained fame in victory, we lost nothing in defeat 2 just as the head teacher plays a significant role in the school, Jane plays a significant role f leader in the classroom. 3 whoever was out there obviously couldn’t see him just as he couldn’t see them.
Unit1 Americans believe no one stands still. If you are not moving ahead, you are falling behind. This attitude results in a nation of people committed to researching, experimenting and exploring. Time is one of the two elements that Americans save carefully, the other being labor. "We are slaves to nothing but the clock,” it has been said. Time is treated as if it were something almost real. We budget it, save it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; we also charge for it. It is a precious resource. Many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness of each lifetime. Once the sands have run out of a person’s hourglass, they cannot be replaced. We want every minute to count. A foreigner’s first impression of the U.S. is li kely to be that everyone is in a rush -- often under pressure. City people always appear to be hurrying to get where they are going, restlessly seeking attention in a store, or elbowing others as they try to complete their shopping. Racing through daytime meals is part of the pace
Unit 1 Section A 艺术家追求成名，如同狗自逐其尾，一旦追到手，除了继续追逐不知还能做些什么。成功之残酷正在于它常常让那些追逐成功者自寻毁灭。 对一名正努力追求成功并刚刚崭露头角的艺术家，其亲朋常常会建议“正经的饭碗不能丢～”他们的担心不无道理。 追求出人头地，最乐观地说也困难重重，许多人到最后即使不是穷困潦倒，也是几近精神崩溃。 尽管如此，希望赢得追星族追捧和同行赞扬之类的不太纯洁的动机却在激励着他们向前。享受成功的无上光荣，这种诱惑不是能轻易抵挡的。 成名者之所以成名，大多是因为发挥了自己在歌唱、舞蹈、绘画或写作等方面的特长，并能形成自己的风格。 为了能迅速走红，代理人会极力吹捧他们这种风格。他们青云直上的过程让人看不清楚。他们究竟是怎么成功的，大多数人也都说不上来。 尽管如此，艺术家仍然不能闲下来。 若表演者、画家或作家感到无聊，他们的作品就难以继续保持以前的吸引力，也就难以保持公众的注意力。 公众的热情消磨以后，就会去追捧下一个走红的人。 有些艺术家为了不落伍，会对他们的写作、跳舞或唱歌的风格稍加变动，但这将冒极大的失宠的危险。 公众对于他们藉以成名的艺术风格以外的任何形式都将不屑一顾。 知名作家的文风一眼就能看出来，如田纳西?威廉斯的戏剧、欧内斯特?海明威的情节安排、罗伯特?弗罗斯特或 T.S.艾略特的诗歌等。
同样，像莫奈、雷诺阿、达利这样的画家，希区柯克、费里尼、斯皮尔伯格、陈凯歌或张艺谋这样的电影制作人也是如此。 他们鲜明独特的艺术风格标志着与别人不同的艺术形式上的重大变革，这让他们名利双收，但也让他们付出了代价，那就是失去了用其他风格或形式表现自我的自由。 名气这盏聚光灯可比热带丛林还要炙热。骗局很快会被揭穿，过多的关注带来的压力会让大多数人难以承受。 它让你失去自我。你必须是公众认可的那个你，而不是真实的你或是可能的你。艺人，就像政客一样，必须常常说些违心或连自己都不完全相信的话来取悦听众。 一滴名气之水有可能玷污人的心灵这一整口井，因此一个艺术家若能保持真我，会格外让人惊叹。 你可能答不上来哪些人没有妥协，却仍然在这场名利的游戏中获胜。 一个例子就是爱尔兰著名作家奥斯卡?王尔德，他在社交行为和性行为方面以我行我素而闻名于世。虽然他的行为遭到公众的反对，却依然故我，他也因此付出了惨痛的代价。在一次宴会上，他一位密友的母亲当着他的朋友和崇拜者的面，指责他在性方面影响了她的儿子。 他听了她的话以后大为光火，起诉了这个年轻人的母亲，声称她毁了自己的“好”名声。但是，他真该请一个更好的律师。 结果是，法官不仅不支持他提出的让这个女人赔偿他名声损失费的请求，反而对他本人进行了罚款。 他由于拒交罚款最终还被送进了监狱。更糟糕的是，他再也无法获得更多公众的宠爱。在最糟糕的时候，他发现没有一个人愿意拿自己的名声冒险来替他说话。
01. 她连水都不愿喝一口，更别提留下来吃饭了。 She wouldn't take a drink, much less would she stay for dinner. 02. 他认为我在对他说谎，但实际上我讲的是实话。 He thought I was lying to him, whereas I was telling the truth. 03. 这个星期你每天都迟到，对此你怎么解释？ How do you account for the fact that you have been late every day this week? 04. 他们利润增长，部分原因是采用了新的市场策略。 The increase in their profits is due partly to their new market strategy. 05. 这样的措施很可能会带来工作效率的提高。 Such measures are likely to result in the improvement of work efficiency. 06. 我们已经在这个项目上投入了大量时间和精力，所以我们只能继续。 We have already poured a lot of time and energy into the project, so we have to carry on. 07. 尽管她是家里的独生女，她父母也从不溺爱她。 Despite the fact that she is the only child in her family, she is never babied by her parents. 08. 迈克没来参加昨晚的聚会，也没给我打电话作任何解释。 Mike didn't come to the party last night, nor did he call me to give an explanation. 09. 坐在他旁边的那个人确实发表过一些小说，但决不是什么大作家。 The person sitting next to him did publish some novels, but he is by no means a great writer. 10. 他对足球不感兴趣，也从不关心谁输谁赢。 He has no interest in football and is indifferent to who wins or loses. 11. 经理需要一个可以信赖的助手，在他外出时，由助手负责处理问题。 The manager needs an assistant that he can count on to take care of problems in his absence. 12. 这是他第一次当着那么多观众演讲。 This is the first time that he has made a speech in the presence of so large an audience. 13. 你再怎么有经验，也得学习新技术。 You are never too experienced to learn new techniques. 14. 还存在一个问题，那就是派谁去带领那里的研究工作。(Use an appositional structure.) There remains one problem, namely, who should be sent to head the research there. 15. 由于文化的不同，他们的关系在开始确实遇到了一些困难。 Their relationship did meet with some difficulty at the beginning because of cultural differences. 16. 虽然他历经沉浮，但我始终相信他总有一天会成功的。 Though he has had ups and downs, I believed all along that he would succeed someday. 17. 我对你的说法的真实性有些保留看法。 I have some reservations about the truth of your claim. 18. 她长得并不特别高，但是她身材瘦，给人一种个子高的错觉。 She isn't particularly tall, but her slim figure gives an illusion of height. 19. 有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？(Use "it" as the formal subject.) It is a great pleasure to meet friends from afar. 20. 不管黑猫白猫，能抓住老鼠就是好猫。(as long as) It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice. 21. 你必须明天上午十点之前把那笔钱还给我。 You must let me have the money back without fail by ten o'clock tomorrow morning. 22. 请允许我参加这个项目，我对这个项目非常感兴趣。 Allow me to take part in this project: I am more than a little interested in it. 23. 人人都知道他比较特殊：他来去随意。(be free to do sth.) Everyone knows that he is special: He is free to come and go as he pleases. 24. 看她脸上不悦的神色，我似乎觉得她有什么话想跟我说。 Watching the unhappy look on her face, I felt as though she wished to say something to me. 25. 他说话很自信，给我留下了很深的印象。(Use "which" to refer back to an idea or situation.)
新视野大学英语（第二版）第二册读写答案 Unit 1 Section A I Comprehension of The Text 1. The attitude is that if one is not moving ahead he is falling behind. 2. Time is treated as if it were something almost real. (People budget it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; they also charge for it.) They do this because time is a precious resource. 3. Everyone is in a rush — often under pressure. City people always appear to be hurrying to get where they are going, restlessly seeking attention in a store or elbowing others as they try to complete their shopping. 4. Don’t take it personally. This is because people value time highly and they resent someone else ―wasting‖ it beyond a certain appropriate point. 5. New arrivals in America will miss opening exchanges, the ritual interaction that goes with a cup of coffee or tea and leisurely chats. 6. Americans produce a steady flow of labor-saving devices. They communicate rapidly through faxes, phone calls or emails rather than through personal contacts. 7. The impersonality of electronic communication has little or no relation to the significance of the matter at hand. 8. It is taken as a sign of skillfulness or being competent to solve a problem or fulfill a job with speed in the U.S. Vocabulary III 1. charge 2. convention 3. efficient 4. obtain 5. competent 6. assessing 7. fulfill 8. conducting consequently 10. significance IV．
新视野三版读写B2U4Text A College sweethearts 1I smile at my two lovely daughters and they seem so much more mature than we,their parents,when we were college sweethearts.Linda,who's21,had a boyfriend in her freshman year she thought she would marry,but they're not together anymore.Melissa,who's19,hasn't had a steady boyfriend yet.My daughters wonder when they will meet"The One",their great love.They think their father and I had a classic fairy-tale romance heading for marriage from the outset.Perhaps,they're right but it didn't seem so at the time.In a way, love just happens when you least expect it.Who would have thought that Butch and I would end up getting married to each other?He became my boyfriend because of my shallow agenda:I wanted a cute boyfriend! 2We met through my college roommate at the university cafeteria.That fateful night,I was merely curious,but for him I think it was love at first sight."You have beautiful eyes",he said as he gazed at my face.He kept staring at me all night long.I really wasn't that interested for two reasons.First,he looked like he was a really wild boy,maybe even dangerous.Second,although he was very cute,he seemed a little weird. 3Riding on his bicycle,he'd ride past my dorm as if"by accident"and pretend to be surprised to see me.I liked the attention but was cautious about his wild,dynamic personality.He had a charming way with words which would charm any girl.Fear came over me when I started to fall in love.His exciting"bad boy image"was just too tempting to resist.What was it that attracted me?I always had an excellent reputation.My concentration was solely on my studies to get superior grades.But for what?College is supposed to be a time of great learning and also some fun.I had nearly achieved a great education,and graduation was just one semester away.But I hadn't had any fun;my life was stale with no component of fun!I needed a boyfriend.Not just any boyfriend.He had to be cute.My goal that semester became: Be ambitious and grab the cutest boyfriend I can find. 4I worried what he'd think of me.True,we lived in a time when a dramatic shift in sexual attitudes was taking place,but I was a traditional girl who wasn't ready for the new ways that seemed common on campus.Butch looked superb!I was not immune to his personality,but I was scared.The night when he announced to the world that I was his girlfriend,I went along
1A An artist who seeks fame is like a dog chasing his own tail who, when he captures it, does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it. The cruelty of success is that it often leads those who seek such success to participate in their own destruction. "Don't quit your day job!" is advice frequently given by understandably pessimistic family members and friends to a budding artist who is trying hard to succeed. The conquest of fame is difficult at best, and many end up emotionally if not financially bankrupt. Still, impure motives such as the desire for worshipping fans and praise from peers may spur the artist on. The lure of drowning in fame's imperial glory is not easily resisted. Those who gain fame most often gain it as a result of exploiting their talent for singing, dancing, painting, or writing, etc. They develop a style that agents market aggressively to hasten popularity, and their ride on the express elevator to the top is a blur. Most would be hard-pressed to tell you how they even got there. Artists cannot remain idle, though. When the performer, painter or writer becomes bored, their work begins to show a lack of continuity in its appeal and it becomes difficult to sustain the attention of the public. After their enthusiasm has dissolved, the public simply moves on to the next flavor of the month. Artists who do attempt to remain current by making even minute changes to their style of writing, dancing or singing, run a significant risk of losing the audience's favor. The public simply discounts styles other than those for which the artist has become famous. Famous authors' styles—a Tennessee Williams play or a plot by Ernest Hemingway or a poem by Robert Frost or T.S. Eliot—are easily recognizable. The same is true of painters like Monet, Renoir, or Dali and moviemakers like Hitchcock, Fellini, Spielberg, Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou. Their distinct styles marked a significant change in form from others and gained them fame and fortune. However, they paid for it by giving up the freedom to express themselves with other styles or forms. Fame's spotlight can be hotter than a tropical jungle—a fraud is quickly exposed, and the pressure of so much attention is too much for most to endure. It takes you out of yourself: You must be what the public thinks you are, not what you really are or could be. The performer, like the politician, must often please his or her audiences by saying things he or she does not mean or fully believe. One drop of fame will likely contaminate the entire well of a man's soul, and so an artist who remains true to himself or herself is particularly amazing. You would be hard-pressed to underline many names of those who have not compromised and still succeeded in the fame game. An example, the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, known for his uncompromising behavior, both social and sexual, to which the public objected, paid heavily for remaining true to himself. The mother of a young man Oscar was intimate with accused him at a banquet in front of his friends and fans of sexually influencing her son. Extremely angered by her remarks, he sued the young man's mother, asserting that she had damaged his "good" name. He should have hired a better attorney, though. The judge did not second Wilde's call to have the woman pay for damaging his name, and instead fined Wilde. He ended up in jail after refusing to pay, and even worse, was permanently expelled from the wider circle of public favor. When things were at their worst, he found that no one was willing to risk his or her name in his defense. His price for remaining true to himself was to be left alone when he needed his fans the most. Curiously enough, it is those who fail that reap the greatest reward: freedom! They enjoy the freedom to express themselves in unique and original ways without fear of losing the support of fans. Failed artists may find comfort in knowing that many great artists never found fame until well after they had passed away or in knowing that they did not sell out. They may justify their failure by convincing themselves their genius is too sophisticated for contemporary audiences. Single-minded artists who continue their quest for fame even after failure might also like to know that failure has motivated some famous people to work even harder to succeed. Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, had his first novel Look Homeward, Angel rejected 39 times before it was finally published. Beethoven overcame his father, who did not believe that he had any potential as a musician, to become the greatest musician in the world. And Pestalozzi, the famous Swiss educator in the 19th century, failed at every job he ever had until he came upon the idea of teaching children and developing the fundamental theories to produce a new form of education. Thomas Edison was thrown out of school in the fourth grade, because he seemed to his teacher to be quite dull. Unfortunately for most people, however, failure is the end of their struggle, not the beginning. I say to those who desperately seek fame and fortune: good luck. But alas, you may find that it was not what you wanted. The dog who catches his tail discovers that it is only a tail. The person who achieves success often discovers that it does more harm than good. So instead of trying so hard to achieve success, try to be happy with who you are and what you do. Try to do work that you can be proud of. Maybe you won't be famous in your own lifetime, but you may create better art. 1B One summer day my father sent me to buy some wire and fencing to put around our barn to pen up the bull. At 16, I liked nothing better than getting behind the wheel of our truck and driving into town
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第二册 新视野大学英语（第二版）第二册Unit 1 Unit 1 Section A I Comprehension of The Text 1. The attitude is that if one is not moving ahead he is falling behind. 2. Time is treated as if it were something almost real. (People budget it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; they also charge for it.) They do this because time is a precious resource. 3. Everyone is in a rush — often under pressure. City people always appear to be hurrying to get where they are going, restlessly seeking attention in a store or elbowing others as they try to complete their shopping. 4. Don’t take it personally. This is because people value time highly and they resent someone else “wasting” it beyond a certain appropriate point. 5. New arrivals in America will miss opening exchanges, the ritual interaction that goes with a cup of coffee or tea and leisurely chats. 6. Americans produce a steady flow of labor-saving devices. They communicate rapidly through faxes, phone calls or emails rather than through personal contacts. 7. The impersonality of electronic communication has little or no relation to the significance of the matter at hand. 8. It is taken as a sign of skillfulness or being competent to solve a problem or fulfill a job with speed in the U.S. Vocabulary III 1. charge 2. convention 3. efficient 4. obtain 5. competent 6. assessing 7. fulfill 8. conducting consequently 10. significance IV． 1．behind 2. at 3. in 4. out 5. to 6.to 7. in 8. with 9. but 10.for V. 1. L 2. C 3. D 4. N 5. O 6.A 7.E 8.G 9.I 10.K Word Building VI 1. commitment 2. attraction 3. appointment 4. impression 5. civilization 6. composition 7. confusion 8. congratulation 9. consideration 10. explanation 11. acquisition 12. depression VII. desirable favorable considerable acceptable drinkable advisable remarkable preferable 1. advisable 2. desirable 3. favorable 4. considerable 5. remarkable 6. preferable 7. drinkable 8. acceptable
Unit1 1、她连水也不愿喝一口，更别提留下来吃饭了。（much less） She wouldn't take a drink much less would she stay for dinner. 2、他认为我在对他说谎，但实际上我讲的是实话。（whereas） He thought I was lying to him,whereas I was telling the truth . 3、这个星期你每天都迟到，对此你怎么解释？（account for） How do you account for the fact that you have been late everyday this week. 4、他们的利润增长的部分原因是采用了新的市场策略。（due to） The increase of their profits is due partly to the their new market strategy. 5、这样的措施很可能会带来工作效率的提高。（result in） Such measure are likely to result in the improvement of work efficiency 6、我们已经在这个项目上投入了大量时间和精力，所以我们只能继续。（pour into） We have to carry on because we have already poured a lot of time and energy into this project 1.I don’t think that he would commit robbery ,muchless would he commit Violent robbery. 我认为他不会抢劫,更不用说暴力抢劫了. 2. Men earn ten dollars an hour on average ,whereas women only seven dollars. 男工平均工资每小时10美元,而女工才每小时7美元. 3.Once the balance in nature is disburbed ,it will result in a number of unforeseeable effect. 自然界的平衡一旦遭到破坏,就会带来很多不可预知的影响. 4.The final examinati on is close at hand ; you ‘d better spend more time reading. 期终考试迫在眉睫,你最好多花点时间看书. 5.What is interesting is that consumers find it increasingly difficult to dientify the nationality of certain brands. This is due partly to globalization and partly to changes in the location of production. 有趣的是,消费者发现越来越难以辨别某些品牌的原产国.其部分原因来自于全球化带来的影响,部分原因是由于产地的变化. 6.A recent survey showed that women account fot 40percent of the total workforce. 最近一次调查表明,妇女占总劳动力的40%. Unit3 1、你再怎么有经验，也得学习新技术。 You are never too experienced to learn new techniques. 2、还存在一个问题，那就是派谁去带领哪里的研究工作。（Use an appositional structure) There remains one problem,namely ,who should be sent to head the research there. 3、由于文化的不同，他们的关系在开始确实遇到了一些困难。 There relationship did meet with some difficulty at the beginning because of cultural differences. 4、虽然他经历浮沉，但我始终相信他总有一天会成功的。 Though he has had ups and downs ,I believed all along that he would succeed someday. 5、我对你的说法的真实性有些保留看法。