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新一代大学英语提高篇2第三单元课文读后感After reading the third unit of the advanced edition of New College English, I felt a sense of enlightenment and motivation. The text mainly focuses on the theme of multiculturalism and diversity, tackling issues such as racial discrimination, gender equality, and cultural differences. The stories and examples presented in the text shed light on the importance of understanding and respecting different cultures and perspectives.One of the stories that struck me the most was about a Chinese immigrant who faced discrimination and prejudice in a foreign country. Despite the challenges he faced, he remained resilient and determined to succeed. This story reminded me of the struggles that many immigrants face when trying to adapt to a new culture and society. It made me realize the importance of empathy and compassion towards others who may be different from us.Another story that resonated with me was about a young woman who fought for gender equality in her community. She faced resistance and criticism from traditionalists, but she never gave up on her beliefs. This story inspired me to stand up forwhat I believe in and to never be afraid to challenge the status quo.Overall, reading the third unit of New College English has broadened my perspective and deepened my understanding of the importance of multiculturalism and diversity. It has motivated me to be more open-minded, tolerant, and accepting of others. I believe that embracing diversity is the key to building a more harmonious and inclusive society. I look forward to continuing my journey of learning and growing through the pages of this insightful textbook.。
Professor Hawking thinks it important to keep everybody in touch with what science is about. In this article he explains why.霍金教授认为使每个人都了解科学是干什么的非常重要。
在这篇文章中，他对其中的缘由作了解释。
Public Attitudes Toward ScienceStephen Hawking1 Whether we like it or not, the world we live in has changed a great deal in the last hundred years, and it is likely to change even more in the next hundred. Some people would like to stop these changes and go back to what they see as a purer and simpler age. But as history shows, the past was not that wonderful. It was not so bad for a privileged minority, though even they had to do without modern medicine, and childbirth was highly risky for women. But for the vast majority of the population, life was nasty, brutish, and short.公众科学观斯蒂芬·霍金无论我们是否愿意，我们生活的世界在过去一百年间已经变化了许多，而且在未来的一百年里可能变化更多。
The U.S. already has high-speed trains: the Acela Express has been carrying millions of riders between Washington D.C., New Y ork, and Boston since 2000. It zips along at 150 miles per hour for relatively short distances —just over 25 miles per hour faster than its conventional counterparts. But compare it with high-speed trains in Europe and Asia that can reach speeds over 200 miles per hour on hundreds of miles of track. The problem is: tracks in the U.S. are not designed to support high-speed travel. Plus, any new express trains might have to share those lines with slower freight traffic. So is high-speed train travel even possible in the U.S.? W ell, the Obama administration hopes to make it so, setting aside $8 billion to create 10 high-speed lines between cities in the East, Southeast, Midwest, and West Coast. But it will take a lot more money to bring the U.S. passenger rail system up to the standards of, say, the French T rain àGrande Vitesse, which runs on delicate tracks and holds the record for the fastest train at 357 miles per hour. And Amtrak has proven woefully inadequate at providing passenger rail service in its three decades of existence, requiring constant infusions of government cash and rarely keeping to schedule. So do not expect high-speed trains to show up fast at your local station.Obama’s Stimulus Plan on High-Speed RailThe president joined vice president Biden in Florida to announce the administration’s biggest stimulus project of all. “Right here, in T ampa, we are going to start b uilding a new high rail line.” $8 billion to begin a European-style, clean energy, high-speed rail system. Planners hope it will eventually connect cities across the country, [the] largest infrastructure project since the interstate highway system. The White House claims it will create tens of thousands of jobs. The announcement is one of many plans in coming months to convince Americans —“Jobs must be our No. 1 focus in 2010” — that the president was dead serious last night when he said he’s pivoting to j obs.“It was rhetoric about a pivot, but no pivot at all.” But Republican critics say, despite all the post-speech fanfare, the president spent only about five minutes of a 70- minute speech on specific proposals to create jobs in the short term. And Republicans say the centerpiece of the plan, a second stimulus expected to cost about $80 billion, is a non-starter. “One more so-called stimulus bill built on the same failed policies of the last stimulus bill.” The president also proposed tax breaks for small business to encourage job creation. But critics say they are too narrow to do much good. “I think they could be much much better and I think the net job creation from these tax cuts is going to be relatively small.”The president is not entirely pivoting to jobs. Today in Tampa he repeatedly brought up health care reform and his intention to keep fighting until it’s law.Competition between airlines and rail operators will further heat up thanks to the launch of China’s longest high-speed train link between Wuhan and Guangzhou. The line stretches more than 1 ,000 km and will slash the travel time from Wuhan to Guangzhou from 10 hours to just three. The link, on which trains will reach a top speed of 350 km per hour, is expected to pose a real threat to a irlines. “High-speed rail has three advantages over air travel: it is more convenient, more punctual and has a better safety record. This could help erode the airlines’ market share,”said Si Xianmin, chairman of China Southern Airlines. To deal with this threat, China Southern Airlines has unveiled several counter measures, including cutting ticket prices from Wuhan to Guangzhou by almost half for purchases made in advance.“If railway chiefs cut the number of low-cost tickets on slower trains too sharply, as they did when the country’s first high-speed link opened between Beijing and Tianjin last year, the airlines could win more passengers with their cheap offers. But whichever side wins, passengers will be the ultimate winner.” said Zhao Jian, a profess or at Beijing Jiaotong University. Wu Wenhua, a researcher with the National Development and Reform Commission’s comprehensive transport institute, says that “developing high-speed rail networks is in line with the demand for high-efficiency, low-emissions transport.” By 2020 China plans to have high-speed rail services running between 70 percent of its key cities, covering more than 80 percent of the present airline network.High-Speed Rail Boost T ravelNow travel agents in Fujian are also getting in on the action. They’ve got big plans for the World Expo, even those taking place in Shanghai. The province has just begun a special high speed rail travel package to bring in Taiwan tourists, just across the Strait. Let’s take a look.High-speed rail service between Fuzhou and Shanghai takes only five hours. The Fujian branch of China Travel Service has exclusive rights to the High Speed Rail Tours for the World Expo. And it’s counting on its location to bring in tourists from Taiwan.[Wang Ying, vice General Manager of Inbound Tours, CTS:] “Once in Fujian, they can stay in the region for two to three days. And then they can take the high-speed rail to Shanghai for the World Expo.” Packages range from 900 yuan to 3,000 yuan each. The tour operator says it’s already signed cooperative deals with some travel firms in Taiwan. Island residents can apply with them. [Wang Ying:] “Travel agencies in Taiwan are already estimating that the event could help Fujian attract 800,000 to one million Taiwan touris ts this year.” Tour operators say World Expo theme travel services are extremely popular in Taiwan. Fujian tourism authorities are also planning more World Expo tour packages to attract overseas Chinese from south-east Asian countries like the Philippines and Malaysia.。
新一代大学英语答案（Unit1-5）Unit 1iExplore 1Collocations①1.hung out2.at fault3.and the like4.when it comes5.take up6.on a broader scale②1.broke off the relationship2.established / discovered a connection3.sensed a close intimacy4.a casual / an old acquaintance5.fair-weather friends6.lifelong friendshipiExplore 2Collocations1.interact with2.In contrast3.in person4. a variety of5.have an advantage over6.say out loudUnit 2 iExplore 1Collocations①1.impact…have on2.mesh(ed) with3.are adept at4.confronted with5.on the job6.in effect7.enlisted the help of②1.was causing / raising problems2.broke / got out of the habit of3 bulid / develop / enhance / improve…emotional intelligence3.observe / read…reactions…monitor4.striking results5.develop / heighten / improve empathyiExplore 2Collocations1.add to2.colorful3.elicit4.better5.plain6.clear7.single8.devastatingly9.underestimate10.enhancing11.magnet12.intense②1.arrived at its primary purpose→achieved/served/accomplished/fulfilled its primary purpose2.add a bit of sugar in their soap→add a bit of sugar to their soap3.relieve the strong emotions and negative thoughts→ release/shiftthe strong emotions and negative thoughts4.turn your world back→turn your world around5.akin with lighting a fire →akin to lighting a fire6.uncovered him →gave him away/betrayed him7.keep these painful experiences arm’s length afar →keep/ put thesepainful experiences at arm’s lengthUnit 3iExplore 1Collocations①1.In … terms2.get in the way of3.rather than4.check out5.came down to6.in vain7.in the first instance8.conform to9.transform … into10.put … down②1.present / report; findings2.conduct / do / perform experiments3.effective / novel methods4.distinctive / main / unique characteristics5.hazy / vague notion6.test the hypothesis7.bold hypothesis8.considerable / dramatic / gradual / significant changesiExplore 2Collocations1.had missed the point2.accounts … for3.turned out to be4. a layer of5.at the edge of6.interfere with7.not to mention8.migrate toUnit 4iExplore 1Collocations①1.in view of2.exclude…from3.felt compelled to4.share responsibility5.denied6.seek refuge7.by extension8.poured…into②1.exposed2.delivering3.private4.public5.gathered6.under7.systematic8.honorable9.ultimate10.with11.for12.toiExplore 2Collocations①1.out of print2.came off press3.subscribe to4.account for5.recede into6.appeal to7.to …belong8.get enough of②1.restage2.general3.sobering4.substantial5.mortally6.double7.aliveUnit 5iExplore 1Collocations①1.exercise of power2.soft power3.engage in4.gobble up5.soak up6.turn the tables7.by happenstance8.baby steps9.be perceived as10.dating back②1.dynamic/ major/ strong economy2.active diplomacy3.attract investment4.aggressive/ enormous/ gradual/ massive/ rapid expansion5.delay reformsiExplore 2Collocations1.rise to power2. a blessing in disguise3.adapting to4.trade…for5.taken… for granted6.in denial7.raise the bar on8.get on with欢迎您的下载，资料仅供参考！致力为企业和个人提供合同协议，策划案计划书，学习资料等等打造全网一站式需求9.。
新一代大学英语综合教程1 课后翻译UNIT 12、Indeed, we might feel as if we are suddenly awash in friends. Yet right before our eyes, we're also changing the way we conduct relationships. Face-to-face chatting is giving way to texting and messaging; people even prefer these electronic exchanges to, for instance, simply talking on a phone.Smaller circles of friends are being partially eclipsed by Facebook acquaintances routinely numbered in the hundreds. Amid these smaller trends, growing research suggests we could be entering a period of crisis for the entire concept of friendship. Where is all this leading modern-day society? Perhaps to a dark place, one where electronic stimuli slowly replace the joys of human contact.确实如此，我们似乎感到突然之间好友数量井喷。
不过，我们眼前也正在改变为人处世的方式。
面对面的聊天正在被短信取代；相比打个电话，人们甚至更愿意使用这些电子交流方式。
脸谱网上的熟人圈儿动辄数百人，相比之下，现实生活中规模较小的朋友圈则显得黯淡少光。
Characteristics of scienceCharles Van Doren1.Science, in our common everyday sense of the word, is a human activitycharacterized by three things.2.First, science is practiced by special people with a specific view of the world.Scientists try to be objective, unsentimental and unemotional. They do not let their feelings get in the way of their observations of real things, facts, as they call them.They often work in laboratories or in other areas where they can carefully control what they are working on. They do not just wander out onto the dock at sunset and look at the world with wonder, as a poet might. Ideally, they are also both honest and check them out and then utilize them in their findings so others can check them out and then utilize them in their own work. They do not claim more than they can prove, and often even less. But they are very proud of their calling and prefer to talk to other scientists rather than anybody else, especially poets, who tend to make them feel uncomfortable, to put them down.(Of course poets also feel scientists return the favor.)3.Second, science deals almost exclusively with things, not ideas or feelings, andwith the external world and its workings, not inner states and their workings, despite the effort of some psychologists to be or seem scientific. The human body is considered to be or seem scientific. The human body is considered to be a part of the external world; the soul is not. Therefore, scientists work to understand the body but not the soul. Most scientists doubt the soul exists. The solar system and the universe are also part of the external world, although we have little enough direct evidence of their mode of existence. Scientists tend to assume the basic conditions of nature on Earth are the same everywhere in the cosmos.4.Mankind is only questionably part of the external world in this sense. Scientistsare generally reluctant to deal with the behavior of large groups of men and women. Thus economists, for example, struggle to be considered scientists, but usually in vain. The external world of scientists contains some things, like quanta, quarks and quasars, that are as mysterious as angels and normally as invisible. But this does not trouble them, as they believe they can deal effectively with the elementary particles that they cannot see and according to the uncertainty principle never can see, but not with angels, which will probably never appear to scientists because scientists do not believe in them.5.When you come right down to it, the external world is anything that scientists canmeasure and describe in mathematical terms, and it excludes everything they cannot. This means the external world is a rather hazy notion, but the idea behind it is not hazy at all.6.Third, science deals with whatever it deals with in a special way, employingspecial methods and a language for reporting results that is unique to it. The best-known method, but not necessarily the most often employed, consists of experiment, Which involves getting an idea – from where, most scientists do not question – framing it in a testable hypothesis, and then testing the hypothesis in acontrolled environment to find out whether or not is id valid. The environment must be carefully controlled so that extraneous elements do not intrude to invalidate the experiments, and so that others can repeat the experiment in the hope of arriving at the same result, which is the best evidence of its reliability.7.But it is the language in which results are reported and in which the work itself isdone and with which it is controlled – namely, mathematics – that is perhaps the most distinctive characteristic of all. Most scientists would say that if you cannot describe what you are doing in mathematical terms, you are not doing science, and they prefer to report their results in mathematical terms because doing so is much easier and quicker (for them) and because scientists all around the world can understand them.8.It is also important that the work itself is done mathematically, which means thatthe observations being studied must be transformed into –or reduced to –numbers in the first instance, so they can be studied in a rational manner. The old idea of the earliest Greek scientists –that the world is essentially intelligible because it is some how conformed to the human mind – is thus converted into the Pythagorean view that the world, at least the external world that is the subject matter of science, is essentially mathematical and thus intelligible because the human mind is essentially mathematical, too.9.Wherever mankind has been able to measure things, which means to transform orreduce them to numbers, it has indeed made great progress both in understanding and in controlling them. Where human beings have failed to find a way to measure, they have been much less successful, which partly explains the relative failure of psychology, economics and literary criticism to acquire the status of science.10.Science was the major discovery, or invention, of the 17th century. Men of thattime learned – and it was a very great, revolutionary discovery – how to measure, explain and manipulate natural phenomena in the way that today we call scientific.Since the 17th century, science has progressed a great deal and has discovered many truths, and conferred many benefits, that the 17th century did not know. But it has not found a new way to discover natural truths. For this reason, the 17th century is possibly the most important century in human history. It instituted irrevocable change in the way human beings live on Earth. We can never go back to living the way we live in the Renaissance, for instance. We can only wonder whether the change was in all ways for the better.。
Characteristics of scienceCharles Van Doren1.Science, in our common everyday sense of the word, is a human activitycharacterized by three things.2.First, science is practiced by special people with a specific view of the world.Scientists try to be objective, unsentimental and unemotional. They do not let their feelings get in the way of their observations of real things, facts, as they call them.They often work in laboratories or in other areas where they can carefully control what they are working on. They do not just wander out onto the dock at sunset and look at the world with wonder, as a poet might. Ideally, they are also both honest and check them out and then utilize them in their findings so others can check them out and then utilize them in their own work. They do not claim more than they can prove, and often even less. But they are very proud of their calling and prefer to talk to other scientists rather than anybody else, especially poets, who tend to make them feel uncomfortable, to put them down.(Of course poets also feel scientists return the favor.)3.Second, science deals almost exclusively with things, not ideas or feelings, andwith the external world and its workings, not inner states and their workings, despite the effort of some psychologists to be or seem scientific. The human body is considered to be or seem scientific. The human body is considered to be a part of the external world; the soul is not. Therefore, scientists work to understand the body but not the soul. Most scientists doubt the soul exists. The solar system and the universe are also part of the external world, although we have little enough direct evidence of their mode of existence. Scientists tend to assume the basic conditions of nature on Earth are the same everywhere in the cosmos.4.Mankind is only questionably part of the external world in this sense. Scientistsare generally reluctant to deal with the behavior of large groups of men and women. Thus economists, for example, struggle to be considered scientists, but usually in vain. The external world of scientists contains some things, like quanta, quarks and quasars, that are as mysterious as angels and normally as invisible. But this does not trouble them, as they believe they can deal effectively with the elementary particles that they cannot see and according to the uncertainty principle never can see, but not with angels, which will probably never appear to scientists because scientists do not believe in them.5.When you come right down to it, the external world is anything that scientists canmeasure and describe in mathematical terms, and it excludes everything they cannot. This means the external world is a rather hazy notion, but the idea behind it is not hazy at all.6.Third, science deals with whatever it deals with in a special way, employingspecial methods and a language for reporting results that is unique to it. The best-known method, but not necessarily the most often employed, consists of experiment, Which involves getting an idea – from where, most scientists do not question – framing it in a testable hypothesis, and then testing the hypothesis in acontrolled environment to find out whether or not is id valid. The environment must be carefully controlled so that extraneous elements do not intrude to invalidate the experiments, and so that others can repeat the experiment in the hope of arriving at the same result, which is the best evidence of its reliability.7.But it is the language in which results are reported and in which the work itself isdone and with which it is controlled – namely, mathematics – that is perhaps the most distinctive characteristic of all. Most scientists would say that if you cannot describe what you are doing in mathematical terms, you are not doing science, and they prefer to report their results in mathematical terms because doing so is much easier and quicker (for them) and because scientists all around the world can understand them.8.It is also important that the work itself is done mathematically, which means thatthe observations being studied must be transformed into –or reduced to –numbers in the first instance, so they can be studied in a rational manner. The old idea of the earliest Greek scientists –that the world is essentially intelligible because it is some how conformed to the human mind – is thus converted into the Pythagorean view that the world, at least the external world that is the subject matter of science, is essentially mathematical and thus intelligible because the human mind is essentially mathematical, too.9.Wherever mankind has been able to measure things, which means to transform orreduce them to numbers, it has indeed made great progress both in understanding and in controlling them. Where human beings have failed to find a way to measure, they have been much less successful, which partly explains the relative failure of psychology, economics and literary criticism to acquire the status of science.10.Science was the major discovery, or invention, of the 17th century. Men of thattime learned – and it was a very great, revolutionary discovery – how to measure, explain and manipulate natural phenomena in the way that today we call scientific.Since the 17th century, science has progressed a great deal and has discovered many truths, and conferred many benefits, that the 17th century did not know. But it has not found a new way to discover natural truths. For this reason, the 17th century is possibly the most important century in human history. It instituted irrevocable change in the way human beings live on Earth. We can never go back to living the way we live in the Renaissance, for instance. We can only wonder whether the change was in all ways for the better.。
