大学英语快速阅读第三版2电子版

大学英语精读第二册（第三版）book2Unit1答案上海外语教育出版社一）1. bare2. empty3. empty4. bare5. empty6.empty二）1. shortly2.track down3.faint4.motioned5.at the sight of6.feel like7.slamming8.rang out9.contract10.made for11.heated12.emerged三）1. host2. sprang up/rang out3. impulse4. came to5. track down6. unexpected7. outgrow8. widened9. shortly10. emerge / spring up11. at the sight of12. made for13. crisis14. colonial四）1. Jimmy has outgrown the shirts his aunt made for him a few years ago.2. Does the doctor think the elderly lady is likely to survive the operation / it is likely that the elderly lady will survive the operation?3. The other day your cousin paid us an unexpected visit.4. Don't you see the nurse motioning us to be silent?5. Her face lit up with joy at his return.6. The sound of her footsteps grew fainter as she walked farther away.五）1.Additional advantageousAnxious conditionalCourageous curiousDangerous educationalEmotional famousIndustrial intentionalMedical mountionousMusical mysteriousNational occasionalPersonal practical2.Heated coloredpigtailed giftedbearded pointedexperienced agedskilled diseased六）1.The people questioned gave very different opinions on the issue.2. Can you see the man climbing on that rock?3. Several days passed before they came up with a satisfactory solution to the problems discussed.4. We were woken early by the sound of the birds singing.5. The chairman made it clear that those objecting should explain their reasons.6. After a day’s work, I felt I had little energy left.7. I knew of some of the athletes taking part.8. The success obtained surprised those who had given up the project as impossible. 七）1. During the time that2. As long as3. Although4. as long as5. whereas6. Although7. whereas8. Although1. They frightened the child into telling the truth.2. He tricked her into marrying him by pretending that he was the son of a millionaire.3. My tactless words forced the old gentleman into buying something he could not possibly afford.4. He finally talked me into accepting his terms.5. The girl persuaded her father into giving up smoking.6. Their severe criticism shocked her into realizing her selfishness.1. Guests are to be back in the hotel by twelve o’clock.2. An investigation is to be made next week.3. I am to meet them at the airport.4. You are to finish your homework before you watch TV.5. The medicine is to be taken three times a day after meals.6. Bob and Susan are to get married in October八）1.hosts2.heated3.argument4.impluse5.shortly6.emerged7.slam8.crawled9.crisis1.corner2.attention3.noticed4.shining5.directed6.there7.bed8.snake9.its10.feet11.from12.however13.do14.as15.forward16.neither17.still18.if19.through20.floor21.pulling22.under23.cried24.out25.to26.where27.made28.eyes九）1.do the cooking3.hardly thought so3.settled down4.half expected5.equipment6.boiled over7.why things were so quiet8.burning9.greeted10.battlefield十）1.她砰地关上门，一声不吭地走了，他们之间那场争执就此结束。

大学英语精读第二册（第三版）b00k2Unitl答案上海外语教育出版社一）1.bare2.empty3.empty4.bare5.empty6.empty二）1.shortly2.track down3.faint4.motioned5.at the sight of6.feel like7.slamming8.rang out9.contract10.made for11.heated12.emerged三）1.host2.spran gup/rang ou t3.impulse4. came to5.track down6.unexpected7 . outgrow8.widened9.sh ortly10.erne rge / spring up11.at th e sight of12. made for13. crisis14.colonial四）1.Jimmy has o utgrown the shirts his a unt made for him a few y ears ago.2.Does the doc tor think th e elderly la dy is likely to survive the operatio n / it is li kely that th e elderly la dy will surv ive the oper ation?3.The other day y our cousin p aid us an un expected vis it.4.Don’t you see the nurse motion ing us to be silent?6.The sou nd of her fo otsteps grew fainter as she walked f arther away.五）1.Addition al advan tageousAnxio us con ditionalCour ageous cu riousDangero us educa tionalEmotio nal famo usIndustrial intent ionalMedical mount ionousMusica I myst eriousNation al occ asionalPerso nal pr actical2.He ated co loredpigtail ed gifte dbearded pointedexp erienced a gedskilled disease d六）1.The peo pie question ed gave very different o pinions on t he issue.2.Can you see the man dim bing on that rock?3.Sev era I days pa ssed before they came up with a sati sfactory sol ution to the problems di scussed.4.W e were woken early by th e sound oft he birds sin ging.5.The chairman mad e it clear t hat those ob jecting shou Id explain t heir reasons .6.After a day’ s work,l felt I had little ener gy left.7.1 knew of som e of the ath letes taking part.8. The success obt ained surpri sed those wh o had given up the proje ct as imposs ible.七）1.Du ring the tim e that2.As long as3.Al though4.as long as5.wh ereas6.Alth ough7.where as8.Althoug h1.They fr ightened the child into telling the truth.2.He tricked her into marryin g him by pre tending that he was the son of a mil lionaire.3.My tactless words forced the old gen tleman into buying somet hing he coul d not possib ly afford.4.He finally talked me in to accepting his terms.5. The girl p ersuaded her father into giving up s moking.1.Gues ts are to be back in the hotel by tw elve o ’ clock .2.An inves tigation is to be made n ext week.3.1 am to meet them at the airport.4.You are to f inish your h omework befo re you watch TV.5.The m edicine is t o be taken t hree times a day after m eals.6.Bob and Susan ar e to get mar ried in Octo ber八）1.host s2.heated3.a rgument4.imp luse5.shortl y6.emerged7.slam8.crawle d9.crisis1.corner2.atte ntion3.notic ed4.shining5 .directed6.t here7.bed8.s nake9.its10.feet11.from12.however13.do14.as15.fo rward16.neit her17.still18.if19.throu gh20.floor21 .pulling22.u nder23.cried24.out 25.to 2 6.where27.ma de28.eyes九)l.do the coo king3.hardly thought so3 .settled dow n4.half expe cted5.equipm ent6.boiled over7.why th ings were so quiet8.burn ing9.greeted10.battlefie Id十)1.她砰地关上门，一声不吭地走了，他们之间那场争执就此结朿。

Key to Elite IIIUnit 1Passage 11.C2.B3.D4.B5.A II1.Unreal2. ImaginaryPassage 21.F2.F3.F4.T5.T II1.demonstration2.succeededPassage 31.D2.C3.B4.D5.A II1. trapped2. dangerPassage 41.F2.T3.T4.F5.F II1. citizens2. spreadingPassage 51.T2.F3.F4.F5.F II1. doubts2. mysteryPassage 61.B2.D3.C4.A5.D II1.ordinary2.matterUnit 2Passage 11.D2.C3.D4.A5.B II1. brought3.increasedPassage 21.T2.T3.F4.T5.F II1.countries2. unablePassage 31.D2.A3.B4.C5.A II1. added2. releasedPassage 41.T2.T3.T4.T5.F II1. combine2. willPassage 51.D2.A3.A4.C5.B II1. refused2. excusePassage 61.F2.T3.T4.F5.F II1. feeling2. defaultingUnit 3Passage 11.B2.B3.B4.D5.C II1. supply2. form/phasePassage 21.F2.T3.T4.F5.T II1. differ2. influencedPassage 31.D2.C3.B4.A5.B II1. inappropriate2.disappearPassage 41.T2.T3.F4.T5.F II1. adhere2. improvementPassage 51.B2.B3.D4.A5.B II1. differed2. certainPassage 61.F2.T3.F4.F5.T II1. COLLIDE2. RESEARCHERS/ PHYSICISTS/ SCIENTISTSUnit 4Passage 11.B2.D3.C4.C5.A II1. got/obtained2. answerPassage 21.B2.C3.A4.D5.B II1. directly2. abandoned/stoppedPassage 31.F2.T3.F4.F5.F II1. salute2. wayPassage 41.F2.T3.F4.T5.T II1. identified2. revealedPassage 51.B2.C3.C4.D5.B II1. interfere2. benefitedPassage 61.F2.T3.T4.T5.F II1. took2. allowedUnit 5Passage 11.B2.A3.D4.D5.D II1. It means “every moment”, “at all times”.2. It means to give you enough time to prepare for the traveling. Passage 21.T2.T3.F4.F5.FII1. memorize2. moralPassage 31.B2.C3.B4.A5.AII1. classic/do-nothing2. distractPassage 41.F2.T3.F4.T5.FII1.The author uses “survive” to express it is really difficult for kids to travel with adults since they have to follow all the decisions adults make.2. “Nap” probably means “a break during travelling” or “ a short rest period to refresh and reenergize.”Passage 51.A2.C3.B4.C5.BII1.airline2.accessPassage 61.T2.F3.F4.T5.FII1. The author actually spent 201 euros on the umbrella.2. It rains a lot, usually accompanied with strong wind.Unit 6Passage 11.D2.B3.A4.D5.BII1. gays2. academicPassage 21.T2.F3.F4.T5.TII1.nutrition labels2.beansPassage 31.B2.C3.D4.B5.DII1. According to an Australia study, the quitters show lower degree of cognitive decline than the ongoing smokers.2. It is partly because doctors and researchers know very little about tabacco’s biological effects on older people, and partly because in tobacco research, as in clinical trials generally, older adultsare underrepresented.Passage 41.F2.T3.F4.T5.FII1. It is the Ironman race in Germany that first motivated him, and these active commutes have become a routine after the competition.2. Because he is a physical-training instructors with the Royal Air Force who ensures that soldiers are prepared for the field.Passage 51.A2.D3.C4.A5.BII1. Since countless moms-to-be are doing resistance training during pregnancy, he takes it for granted that there must have been many researches in this regard which have proven their benefits.2. The first meaning is that this issue is closely related with babies; and the other meaning is that we are still at the preliminary stage on the research of this subject.Passage 61.F2.T3.F4.T5.FII1. marriage2. SinglismUnit 7Passage 11.A2.C3.C4.B5.BII1. suspected2. tapedPassage 21.A2.C3.A4.C5.AII1. shared2. ignoredPassage 31.C2.D3.D4.C5.BII1.Alternation of power2.AbsentPassage 41.T2.F3.T4.T5.FIIitary and overseas voters2.has hopes ofPassage 51.T2.F3.F4.F5.TII1.unpopularity2. a working relationshipPassage 61.F2.F3.T4.T5.F II1.approval2.campaign financeUnit 8Passage 11.B2.D3.B4.B5.B II1.VIEW-CHANGING2.REFLECTIONPassage 21.D2.A3.b4.B5.B II1.The decline in the importance of natural representation in art.2.MasterpiecePassage 31.B2.A3.C4.A5.A II1.Illustration2.Glimpse patterns of beingPassage 41.T2.T3.F4.F5.F II1.Painter and engineer of the duke2.EnteredPassage 51.T2.F3.f4.F5.T II1.Fragments2.Depict many sidesPassage 61.T2.F3.T4.T5.F II1.between problem solving with material and artistic skill2.interests and enthusiasmUnit 9Passage 11.A2.A3.A4.C5.B II1.Huge changes and a clash2.Were representative ofPassage 21.A2.A3.C4.D5.A II1.Its greatest cultural significance2.LocationPassage 31.D2.D3.C4.B5.C II1.Studios, manufacturers and online stores2.ParticipationPassage 41.F2.T3.F4.F5.T II1.Under the influence2.Inspired by BollywoodPassage 51.F2.T3.T4.F5.T II1.160 TO 72. A SIDE BENEFITPassage 61.T2.F3.T4.F5.T II1.Emulating smoking2.BoostUnit 10Passage 11.B2.A3.D4.A5.B II1.BRAVE ROLE MODELS2.CAPABILITYPassage 21.C2.B3.C4.B5.B II1.UNDER2.VERY FARPassage 31.A2.C3.C4.A5.D II1.OBSERVE2.OFFENCES AGAINSTPassage 41F 2.T 3.F 4.T 5.FII1.ASSOCIATION AND POLARIZATION2.RELIGION AND CONSERVATIVE POLITICSPassage 51.T2.T3.T4.F5. F II1.message maker, organizer2.ExpandPassage 61.F2.T3.F4.T5.F II1.determine2.The gay community。

Why I Love the CityA lot of my friends are moving out of the city. They 're buying houses in the suburbs because they want to get away from the noise, smog, traffic, and crime of the city. One friend says, "There's too much air pollution in the city. I prefer the suburbs, where the air is clean." Another friend complains about the traffic: "There are too many cars downtown! You can't find a parking place, and the traffic jams are terrible." Everyone complains about crime: "The city is full of criminals. I rarely leave my house at night—it's too dangerous."Before my friends move out of the city, they usually recite the advantages of suburban life: green grass, flowers, swimming pools, barbecues, and so on. Yet after my friends have lived there for a year or so, they realize that suburban life is not so pleasant as they were expecting. What causes this change? Their gardens! They soon learn that one unavoidable part of suburban life is yardwork. After they work all weekend in their gardens, they 're much too tired to take a swim in their pools or even to cook some meat on their barbecues. And they have another complaint: they can't live in the suburbs without a car. Most of my friends moved to the suburbs to avoid traffic, but now they have to commute to work downtown. They sit on a busy freeway two hours every day!My opinions about urban life are very different from my friends'—I live downtown? and I love it! Why? Well, first, I love nature—flowers, green grass, trees, and animals. In the city, I have all the advantages of nature: I can walk through the public park, smell the flowers, and sit on the grass under the trees. I can visit the animals in the zoo. Yet I have none of the disadvantages: I don't have to do yardwork or feed the animals. Also, in the city, I can get everywhere by bus? if there's a traffic jam, I can walk home.It seems that everyone is moving to the suburbs to avoid the crime of the big cities. I have a theory about urban crime, however, so I feel safe downtown. The criminal life will reflect changes in society: if people are buying homes in the suburbs, the criminals will soon follow. Criminals want to avoid noise, smog, and pollution, too. Soon, overcrowding and crime will be problems of the suburbs instead of the city!People on the MoveThe history of the American people is, in part, the history of the movement of the American people. They moved from the colonies of the East Coast to the open spaces of the West. They moved from the country and the farm to the city. More recently, Americans have been moving from the cities to the suburbs.Open Space; The Move WestPioneer Americans began moving from the East Coast to the West 250 years ago. They moved west for many reasons. One reason was the availability of unlimited open space and land for farming. Americans liked large open spaces, and they also liked the freedom andindependence to develop the land in their own way. Some of the land became farms. Important minerals were discovered in some areas, so some of the land became mines. Other large areas became cattle ranches. There seemed to be enough land for everybody. But it was a difficult life—a life of endless work and hardship.The CitiesAfter 1860, the Industrial Revolution changed the United States. Americans learned how to manufacture steel. They began to produce petroleum. The automobile was invented. Factories of all kinds began to appear, and cities began to grow up around the factories. Farmers and other country people moved to the growing cities in order to find jobs and an easier life. In the early 1900s, the cities were busy, exciting places. However, there was also a lot of poverty and hardship.The cities grew up—the buildings got taller—and the cities grew out—they spread out from the center. Private houses with yards and porches disappeared. Apartment buildings, each one taller than the next, took their place. More and more people moved to the cities, and the cities got bigger and bigger.Some cities could not spread out because there was no room to do so. These cities, of which New York is the best example, became more and more crowded. More people meant more cars, trucks, and buses, more noise, more pollution, and more crime. Many cities became ugly and dirty. Some people and some businesses began to leave the cities and move to the suburbs outside the cities.The SuburbsThe move to the suburbs is still happening. Americans are looking for a small piece of land that they can call their own. They want a house with a yard. However, they do not want to give up the good jobs they have in the city. In many cases, companies in the suburbs give them jobs. In other cases, Americans tend to commute to and from the cities where their jobs are. In recent years, more and more businesses are moving to the suburbs. They are attracting many people and the suburbs are becoming crowded.What Next?Americans have watched their big cities fall slowly into disrepair and die. Many middle-class people have left the cities, and only the very rich and the very poor are staying behind.Concerned Americans are trying to solve the problems of noise, dirt, crime, and pollution in the big cities. They are trying to rebuild bad sections of the cities in order to attract and keep business people. They are trying to make their cities beautiful. Now many Americans are thinking of moving back to the cities.Other Americans are finding that even the suburbs have become too crowded. They are looking for unpolluted open spaces and for an independent way of life. They are ready to move from the suburbs to the country.Perhaps Americans will always be on the move.Caution: Bumpy Road AheadStudents graduating from colleges today are not fully prepared to deal with the "real world." It is my belief that college students need to be taught more skills and information to enable them to meet the challenges that face everyone in daily life. The areas in which students need training are playing the credit game, planning their personal financial strategy, and consumer awareness.Learning how to obtain and use credit is probably the most valuable knowledge a young person can have. Credit is a dangerous tool that can be of tremendous help if it is handled with caution. Having credit can enable people to obtain material necessities before they have the money to purchase them outright. But unfortunately, many, many young people get carried away with their handy plastic credit cards and awake one day to find they are in serious financial debt. Learning how to use credit properly can be a very difficult and painful lesson indeed.Of equal importance is learning how to plan a personal budget. People have to know how to control money; otherwise, it can control them. Students should leave college knowing how to allocate their money for living expenses, insurance, savings, and so forth in order to avoid the "Oh, no! I 'm flat broke and I don't get paid again for two weeks!" anxiety syndrome.Along with learning about credit and personal financial planning, graduating college students should be trained as consumers. The consumer market today is flooded with a variety of products and services of varying quality and prices. A young person entering the "real world" is suddenly faced with difficult decisions about which product to buy or whose services to engage. He is usually unaware of such things as return policies, guarantees, or repair procedures. Information of this sort is vital knowledge to everyday living.For a newly graduated college student, the "real world" can be a scary place to be when he or she is faced with such issues as handling credit, planning a budget, or knowing what to look for when making a purchase and whom to purchase it from. Entering this "real world" could be made less painful if persons were educated in dealing with these areas of daily life. What better place to accomplish this than in college?Memory Lane Isn't What It Used to BeAbout this time every year, I get very nostalgic. Walking through my neighborhood on a fall afternoon reminds me of a time not too long ago when sounds of children filled the air, children playing games on a hill, and throwing leaves around in the street below, I was one of those children, carefree and happy. I live on a street that is only one block long. I have lived on the same street for sixteen years. I love my street. One side has six houses on it, and the other has only two houses, with a small hill in the middle and a huge cottonwood tree on one end. When I think of home, I think of my street, only I see it as it was before. Unfortunately, things change. One day, not long ago, I looked around and saw how different everything has become. Life on my street will never be the same because neighbors are quickly growing old, friends aregrowing up and leaving, and the city is planning to destroy my precious hill and sell the property to contractors.It is hard for me to accept that many of my wonderful neighbors are growing old and won't be around much longer. I have fond memories of the couple across the street, who sat together on their porch swing almost every evening, the widow next door who yelled at my brother and me for being too loud, and the crazy old man in a black suit who drove an old car. In contrast to those people, the people I see today are very old neighbors who have seen better days. The man in the black suit says he wants to die, and another neighbor just sold his house and moved into a nursing home. The lady who used to yell at us is too tired to bother anymore, and the couple across the street rarely go out to their front porch these days. It is difficult to watch these precious people as they near the end of their lives because at one time I thought they would live forever.The "comings and goings" of the younger generation of my street are now mostly "goings" as friends and peers move on. Once upon a time, my life and the lives of my peers revolved around home. The boundary of our world was the gutter at the end of the street. We got pleasure from playing night games, or from a breathtaking ride on a tricycle. Things are different now, as my friends become adults and move on. Children who rode tricycles now drive cars. The kids who once played with me now have new interests and values as they go their separate ways. Some have gone away to college, a few got married, two went into the army, and one went to prison. Watching all these people grow up and go away only makes me long for the good old days.Perhaps the biggest change on my street is the fact that the city is going to turn my precious hill into several lots for new homes. For sixteen years, the view out of my kitchen window has been a view of that hill. The hill was a fundamental part of my childhood life; it was the hub of social activity for the children of my street. We spent hours there building forts, sledding, and playing tag. The view out of my kitchen window now is very different; it is one of tractors and dump trucks tearing up the hill. When the hill goes, the neighborhood will not be the same. It is a piece of my childhood. It is a visual reminder of being a kid. Without the hill, my street will be just another pea in the pod.There was a time when my street was my world, and I thought my world would never change. But something happened. People grow up, and people grow old. Places change, and with the change comes the heartache of knowing I can never go back to the times I loved. In a year or so, I will be gone just like many of my neighbors. I will always look back to my years as a child, but the place I remember will not be the silent street whose peace is interrupted by the sounds of construction. It will be the happy, noisy, somewhat strange, but wonderful street I knew as a child.Unit 2Rosa Parks—A Hero of Civil RightsMost historians say that the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States was December 1, 1955. That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This brave woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined for violating a city law. However, her act of defiance began a movement that ended the laws that racially segregated America. Because of this, she also became an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere.Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents, James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a teacher, named her Rosa Louise McCauley. When she was two, she moved to her grandparents' farm in Alabama with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester. At the age of 11, she became a student at the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private school. The school believed that self-esteem was the key to success. This was consistent with Rosa 's mother 's advice to "take advantage of the opportunities, no matter how few they were."And the opportunities were few indeed. Mrs. Parks said in an interview: Back then, we didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.In the same interview, she explained that she felt fearless, because she had always been faced with fear. This fearlessness gave her the courage to fight her conviction during the bus boycott. "I didn't have any special fear," she said. "It was more of a relief to know that I wasn't alone."After attending Alabama State Teachers College, Rosa settled in Montgomery, with her husband, Raymond Parks. The couple joined the local chapter of the NAACP and worked for many years to improve the conditions of African-Americans in the segregated South.The bus incident led to the formation of the Montgomery Improvement Association. The Association 's leader was a young pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church named Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They called for a boycott of the city-owned bus company. The boycott lasted 382 days and brought recognition to Mrs. Parks, Dr. King, and their cause. A Supreme Court decision struck down the Montgomery law under which Mrs. Parks had been fined, and outlawed racial segregation on public transportation.After her husband died, Mrs. Parks founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. The Institute sponsors an annual summer program for teenagers called Pathways to Freedom. The young people tour the country in buses learning the history of their country and of the civil rights movement.Best of Friends, Worlds ApartHavana, sometime before 1994: As dusk descends on the quaint seaside village of Guanabo, two young men kick a soccer ball back and forth and back and forth across the sand. The tall one, Joel Ruiz, is black. The short, muscular one, Achmed Valdes, is white.They are the best of friends.Miami, January 2000: Mr. Valdes is playing soccer, as he does every Saturday, with a group of light-skinned Latinos in a park near his apartment. Mr. Ruiz surprises him with a visit, and Mr. Valdes, flushed and sweating, runs to greet him. They shake hands warmly.But when Mr. Valdes darts back to the game, Mr. Ruiz stands off to the side, arms crossed, looking on as his childhood friend plays the game that was once their shared joy. Mr. Ruiz no longer plays soccer. He prefers basketball with black Latinos and African-Americans from his neighborhood.The two men live only four miles apart, not even 15 minutes by car. Yet they are separated by a far greater distance, one they say they never imagined back in Cuba.In ways that are obvious to the black man but far less so to the white one, they have grown apart in the United States because of race. For the first time, they inhabit a place where the color of their skin defines the outlines of their lives—where they live, the friends they make, how they speak, what they wear, even what they eat."It's like I am here and he is over there," Mr. Ruiz said, "And we can't cross over to the other 's world."It is not that, growing up in Cuba 's mix of black and white, they were unaware of their difference in color. Fidel Castro may have officially put an end to racism in Cuba, but that does not mean racism has simply gone away. Still, color was not what defined them. Nationality, they had been taught, meant far more than race. They felt, above all, Cuban.Here in America, Mr. Ruiz still feels Cuban. But above all he feels black. His world is a black world, and to live there is to be constantly conscious of race. He works in a black-owned bar, dates black women, goes to an African-American barber. White barbers, he says, "don't understand black hair." He generally avoids white neighborhoods, and when his world and the white world meet, he feels always watched, and he is always watchful.For Joel Ruiz, there is little time for relaxation. On this night, he works as a cashier at his uncle 's bar in a black Miami neighborhood.Mr. Valdes, who is 29, a year younger than his childhood friend, is simply, comfortably Cuban, an upwardly mobile citizen of the Miami mainstream. He lives in an all-white neighborhood, hangs out with white Cuban friends and goes to black neighborhoods only when his job, as a deliveryman for Restonic mattresses, forces him to. When he thinks about race, which is not very often, it is in terms learned from other white Cubans: American blacks, he now believes, are to be avoided because they are dangerous and resentful of whites. The only blacks he trusts, he says, are those he knows from Cuba.Since leaving Havana in separate boats in 1994, the two friends have seen each other just a handful of times in Miami—at a funeral, a baby shower, a birthday party and that soccergame, a meeting arranged for a newspaper photographer. They have visited each other 's homes only once.They say they remain as good friends as ever, yet they both know there is little that binds them anymore but their memories. Had they not become best friends in another country, in another time, they would not be friends at all today.Coming to an Awareness of LanguageIt was because of my letters (which Malcolm X wrote to people outside while he was in jail) that I happened to stumble upon starting to acquire some kind of a homemade education.I became increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what I wanted to convey in letters that I wrote ... And every book I picked up had few sentences which didn't contain anywhere from one to nearly all the words that might as well have been in Chinese. When I skipped those words, of course, I really ended up with little idea of what the book said ...I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionary—to study, to learn some words. I requested a dictionary along with some notebooks and pencils from the Norfolk Prison Colony school.I spent two days just turning uncertainly the pages of a dictionary. I 'd never realized so many words existed! I didn't know which words I needed to learn. Finally, just to start some kind of action, I began copying.In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my notebook everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks. I believe it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read back to myself everything I 'd written in the notebook. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting. I woke up the next morning, thinking about those words—immensely proud to realize that not only had I written so much at one time, but I 'd written words that I never knew were in the world. Moreover, with a little effort, I also could remember what many of these words meant. I reviewed the words whose meanings I didn't remember. Funny thing, from the dictionary 's first page right now, that aardvark springs to my mind. The dictionary had a picture of it, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal, which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants.I was so fascinated that I went on—I copied the dictionary 's next page. And the same experience came when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I also learned of people and places and events from history. Actually, the dictionary is like a miniature encyclopedia. Finally, the dictionary 's A section had filled a whole notebook—and I went on into the B 's. That was the way I started copying what eventually became the entire dictionary. It went a lot faster after so much practice helped me to pick up handwriting speed.I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left the prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I wasreading on my bunk. You couldn't have gotten me out of books with a wedge. Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.She Wanted to TeachA railroad was being built all the way down the east coast off Florida, from Jacksonville to Miami and Negro workers were employed because they were cheap. A great many of them were in Daytona. Most of them had children. They were living in shacks worse than those in The Terry in Augusta. The children were running wild in the streets. Mary Bethune seemed to hear a voice say, "What is the place? Build your school there."Her husband, Albertus, wasn't so sure about her school. He thought Palatka was a pretty good place for them to live. Mary listened but she never gave up her idea. She knew that if she went to Daytona, Albertus would come too.One day she begged a ride for herself and her little boy with a family that was going to Daytona. It was only seventy miles away. But in 1904 the sand was deep on Florida roads. Practically no one had an automobile—certainly not the poor family that gave Mary and little Albert a ride. So it was three dusty days after they left Palatka before they reached Daytona. There Mary hunted up the only person she knew, and she and little Albert stayed with this friend for a few days.As she had done in The Terry in Augusta, Mary walked up and down the poor streets of Daytona. She was looking for two things—a building for the school she was determined to start and some pupils for that school.After a day or two, she found an empty shack on Oak Street. She thought this would do. The owner said she could rent it for $ 11.00 a month. But it wasn't worth that much. The paint had peeled off, the front steps wobbled so that she had to hang onto the shaky railing to keep from falling, the house was dirty, it had a leaky roof. In most of the windows the panes of glass were broken or cracked.Eleven dollars a month! Mary said she only had $ 1.50. She promised to pay the rent as soon as she could earn the money. The owner trusted her. By the time she was sure she could have the building, she had five little girls from the neighborhood as her pupils.What a school! A rickety old house and five little girls! The little girls pitched in and cleaned the house. The neighbors helped with scrubbing brushes, brooms, hammers, nails, and saws. Soon the cottage could be lived in, but there were no chairs, no tables, no beds. There was no stove. However, there were no pots and pans to cook in, even if there had been a stove.Mary set about changing these things. She found things in trash piles and the city dump. Nobody but Mary would have thought of making tables and chairs and desks from the old crates she picked up and brought home. Behind the hotels on the beach she found cracked dishes, old lamps, even some old clothes. She took them home too. Everything was scoured and mendedand used. "Keep things clean and neat" was her motto then; and as long as she lived the pupils in her school had to live up to that motto.Her little pupils had no pencils. They wrote with pieces of charcoal made from burned logs. Their ink was elderberry juice. What good was ink or a pencil if there was no paper to write on? Mary took care of that too.Every time she went to the store to get a little food, or a few pots and pans, she had each article wrapped separately. The pieces of wrapping paper were carefully removed and smoothed out. The little girls used this paper to write their lessons with their charcoal pencils.She needed a cookstove very badly but she couldn't pay for one. What should she do? Her little pupils had to have warm food.Unexpectedly, the problem was solved for her. One day a wrinkled old white neighbor said to her, "Can you read?"Mary said, "Yes.""Then will you read me this letter from my son? I can't find my glasses."Mary read the letter to her."Thanks," said the mother.Mary turned to go. "You 're welcome."The old woman stood by her open door and thought a moment. Then she said, "I got an old cookstove and I don't need it. Would you want it?"Unit 3Black Box Tells Its SecretsThe "black box" in an aircraft is actually orange in color with two white stripes painted on its surface."It is like a shock-proof, heat-proof tape recorder," says Mr. Hellyer, Cathay Airlines technical services superintendent of aircraft electronics. "About half the size of a home video recorder, it is bright orange in color so that, in the event of a crash, it can be more easily found. Inside its one-centimeter-thick steel case is a layer of waxy insulating material, three centimeters thick, for extra fire-resistance and to reduce the shock of impact. Inside this is the motor, electronics and 160 meters of magnetic tape which records about 50 aspects of the aircraft 's operation over the previous 25 hours."It weighs 10 kilograms and can withstand heat of 1200 ° C over half its surface area for 30 minutes as well as the weight of very heavy, sharpened spikes being dropped on it. It is almost indestructible. However, in the case of the EL AL aircraft which crashed into a tower block in Amsterdam only minutes after take-off, the device was so badly damaged by theresulting fire and explosion of the plane 's full petrol tanks that the tape could not be played back."The black box is also fitted with an underwater beacon which gives off ultrasonic signals when an aircraft crashes into the sea and this signal helps in the search for the location of the crash. In 1974 a TWA Boeing 707 exploded in mid-air above the Ionian Sea near Greece. When the wreckage was eventually found a month later, the black box was found lying on the ocean bed 3km below the sea surface, still signaling," he continued.The black box was made compulsory for all aircraft in the late 1950's and is located near the tail of the airplane. It is the safest area as the tail is usually found to be the least damaged after a crash. Next to it is another armored box, the cockpit voice recorder which records everything picked up by a microphone in the cockpit on a tape loop 30 minutes long. The two boxes look very similar and sometimes even rescuers mistake one for the other.At the front is another unit, not designed to withstand a crash. Called the brains of the system, this flight data acquisition unit collects data from all over the aircraft and compresses it into a single stream of digital data to be sent to the crash-proof recorder.After a crash and when the black box is found, the accident investigators play the tape and present their evidence. "The pilot could have been careless or the manufacturer could have been at fault or a bomb could have been placed on board," says Mr. Hellyer. "Whatever the cause, the black box can point the finger of blame.""Apart from that, the box is also used on a day-to-day basis to help locate any problems in maintenance, check each engine 's performance and in other ways. This data will ensure even more safety for passengers and crew," Mr. Hellyer concluded.Don't Fly with MeIn recent years a new and serious problem has arisen for international airlines and their passengers. This is the relatively new crime of hijacking. Once an unheard-of event, it has now become a common occurrence. The number of hijacks is increasing and the governments of the world are becoming more concerned about them.Who are these hijackers? The first ones (about 20 years ago) were usually political refugees—individuals who simply wanted to leave their country and fly to another. For instance Cubans in America used the hijack technique to get themselves back to Cuba. After the plane had taken off, the hijacker would force his way into the pilot 's cockpit and threaten him with a gun. This technique was often successful, because there is very little the pilot can do in these circumstances. If he refuses to do what the hijacker wants then there is a strong chance that the plane will crash and everyone on board will be killed.However, more recently, there have been serious developments in hijackers. Present-day hijackers usually have other motives for taking over a plane. They do not want simply to fly to another destination; they want to use the aircraft and the passengers on board as bargaining points for their political beliefs. They tell the world governments that unless their。

Unit 1textA-1Why I Love the City因为他们想要远离城市的喧嚣、烟,我的许多朋友都离开了这座城市。

它们是在郊区买房子那里的空气,雾、交通、和犯罪的城市。

一个朋友说,“有太多的空气污染的城市。

我更喜欢郊区交通堵塞,“有太多的汽车市区!你不能找到一个停车的地方是那么清新。

“另一个朋友抱怨交通:的幻影却”:“城市有许多罪犯。

我很少离开我的房子的情况都很可怕。

“每个人都在抱怨关于犯罪如太危险了。

然而在烤肉等等。

绿草、花卉、游泳池、他们通常会背诵优势郊区生活在我朋友搬离城市,:这因为他们期待。

,他们意识到郊区生活就不那么愉快,我的朋友们在那里住了一年左右的时间里郊区生活。

,一个不可避免的一部分yardwork!种变化的原因是什么?他们的花园他们很快了解到又要取他们的水池游泳甚至做一些,它们是非常累的一把,他们整个周末都在工作在他们的花园他们不能住在郊区没有一辆车。

我的大多数朋友都搬到郊肉放在他们的烤肉。

又有另一个投诉: ,但现在他们不得不上班市中心。

他们坐在一个繁忙的公路每天两个小时避开塞车区,,嗯,首先我的意见是非常不同的城市生活,从我朋友的我住在市区吗?和我爱它! ! !为什么?我可以步行通我有一切优势自然:我喜欢nature-flowers、绿草、树木和动物。

在这个城市里,动物园里的动物。

然而到目前为止我还坐在草地上在树下。

我可以参观,过公共公园,闻闻花香,?到处都可以让我乘公共汽车吗:我不需要做yardwork或喂动物。

同时,在这个城市,没有一个缺点我可以走回去。

如果有交通堵塞,所以我觉得,似乎每个人都搬到郊区,避免罪恶的大城市。

我有一个理论的城市犯罪的,然而罪犯罪犯将步其后尘。

安全的市中心。

罪犯将反映在社会生活的变化:如果人们买了房子在郊区,!,想避免噪音、烟雾、污染了。

不久而不是城市郊区过于拥挤和犯罪的问题,testA-2People on the Move他们移到东海岸的殖民地到开放空间的历史运动的美国人民。

6.A Long and Healthy LifeHave you wished for a magic pill or magic formula (方法) that would let you live happily forever ? If you have, don’t feel alone! It’s a very common, natural wish that has a long history. Spanish explorers of the sixteenth century even tried to find a fountain of youth in what is now the state of Florida. The water of this legendary (传说中的) fountain, which no one has yet found ,was believed to restore youth and good health to those who drank it.Biologists today don’t expect that anyone will find a magical fountain of youth. Growing older is a natural part of the life cycle that can’t be reversed(倒退) .As human beings grow older ,organs such as the heart and lungs may stop functioning properly. Sight and hearing may become weak .And the human body becomes more likely to come down with serious illness from which it cannot recover.Considered together, changes that bring about the decline(衰退) of an organism are called aging .Because of aging ,many biologists believe that there may be a maximum(最大的) age limit to which even the healthiest organisms can live. For human beings, this maximum age limit is about 110 years.Perhaps the most important thing that you can learn from your study of human biology is that you have a lot of control over the aging process in your own life .In fact; within our control are many physical and mental factors that have much to do with aging. For example ,each of us ,as recent research indicates, can do many things to help prevent heart and vessel(血管) disease ,which causes half the deaths each year in the United States .We can avoid eating a lot of fatty meat. Eating too much of these types of animal fats can lead to the clogging(阻塞) and hardening of blood vessels . We can cut back on smoking and hopefully of sugar we eat. We can exercise regularly and strengthen the heart and other organs. And we can remember to take time out each day for ourselves, time just to relax. Exercise ,recreation(娱乐), and relaxation all reduce stress－inner tension that is hard on all body organs.One final thing we can do is to try to keep aware of advances made in health education. Information is often available free of charge from health clinics or schools.(406 words)Comprehension ExercisesⅠ. Choose the best answers to the following questions.1.Which of the following is the leading cause of death in the United States?A. Heart disease.B. Cancer.C. Alcohol.D. Smoking.2. What happens as people grow older?A. They dream of a magic pill to help them live a happy and long time.B. They come down with serious illnesses.C. Their organs become weak and may stop working properly.D. Their blood vessels become clogged.3. In the opinion of biologists,＿＿＿.A. the aging process can be reversedB. the aging process can be controlled and slowed downC. the aging process can be got rid ofD. the aging process can go beyond its limit4. We can slow down the weakening of all our body organs by＿＿＿.A. not eating animal fatB. limiting drinking and smokingC. exercise, recreation and relaxation to blood vesselsD. preventing the clogging and hardening of blood vessels5. Besides physical and mental factors, which of the following also contributes to living a long and healthy life according to the passage?A. Health education.B. Traditional medicine.C. Artificial organs.D. The invention of magic pills.Ⅱ. Judge whether or not the following statements agree with the information given in the passage,and mark Y for YES,N for NO ,or NG if information is not given in the passage.( ) 1.Few people have the wish of finding a magic pill that would be of help to live happily forever.( ) 2.Many biologists believe that each species has a natural maximum age limit.( ) 3.From the passage we know that there is much we can do to help prevent many diseases.( ) 4.Mental factors have little to do with good health. ( ) 5.Doctors believes that regular exercise reduces the chances of getting heart disease.7.The Earth's PastIf the history of the earth could be compressed 〔压缩〕into the span of one year's time,the story of the human race would be written as the the last two hours of the final day!This fact gives you an idea of just how old the Earth is no written record to tell us the Earth's geological past ,the Earth has left a record in the form of fossils.A fossil is the preserved remains or traced of an ancient living thing.Fossils are most often found buried in rock,but they may bones,shells,and woodyalso be found in caves,ancient tar(沥青) beds,and the solid ice that covered the Earth's polar regions.In all these places,fossils are protected from damaging effects of weathering and erosion(侵蚀).Usually only the hard parts are preserved.The hard part can include ones,shells,and woody tissues.The soft parts,like flesh,either decay or are eaten by animals before they can be preserved.One exception is when an organism is subjected to extreme cold.Then the entire body may be preserved in ice.Sometimes the remains of an organism are preserved after after having been changed into a completely different form.For instance,coal deposits on the Earth are actually the fossilremains of plants.When plants decompose(腐烂),eventually only deposits of carbon remain.When the carbon is under extreme pressure for a long period of time,it is slowly transformed into coal.Coal is called a"fossil fuel"because of the way it is created.Fossils can help geologists(地质学家)learn about how animal and plant species have changed over time.Since geologists can date the rocks that the fossils are in,they can also tell during what time period in the past a species lived.For example,on the geologic calendar,you can see that fish first appear in the era labeled Paleozoic(古生代).This means that the oldest rocks discovered to contain fish fossils are between 225 million and 600 million years old.We can assume that fish existed in the world at least 225 million years ago.Fossils are also used to study extinct(灭绝的) species.There are no longer any living woolly mammoths(猛犸) on the Earth,but we can know what a woolly mammoth looked like by studing the frozen bodies found in Siberia.(406 words)Comprehension ExercisesⅠ.Choose the best answers to the following question.1.How old is the Earth?A.Over 225 million years.B.Over 600 million years.C.Between 225 and 600 million years.D.Over 4 billion years.2.We know the age of the life on the Earth because ____.A.there is written record of the Earth's geological pastB.some fossils are found in good shape.C.the earth contains a record in the form of fosssils.D.some scientists have studied some extinct animals3.Where can we find fossils besides in rock and caves?A.In water.B.In woody tissues.C.In solid ice.D.In coal.4.How is coal created?A.The remains of dead plants are transformed into depositsof coal under extreme pressure over a long time.B.The remains of dead animals have been changed into a completed different form.C.Rocks and tar beds have bee different form over time.n changed into a completely different form over time.D.The soft parts of organisms have been changed into a completely different form.5.Fossils are usually found in rock,caves,ice and so on.Why?A.Because these are the places where fossils can form.B.Because these are the places where fossils can be protected from the damage of weathering and erosion.C.Because these are the places where fossils can be changed into a completely different form.D.Because these are the places where dead animals and plants can decompose and be transformed.Ⅱ.Complete the following sentences with the informationgiven in the passage.1.____ of ancient animals and plants in rock are known as fossils.2.Fossils are most often found in rock,caves,tar beds andice,where they can be preserved from the damage of ____.3.Coal is made from the remains of ____ that have been changed into a completely different form.4.____ of an organism can not be preserved except in solid ice.5.Fish are estimated to have on the Earth for____.8.Plastic Trash an environmental ConcernWith the invention of polymers(聚合物),chemists gives us plastic.As a consumer product,plastic is strong,versatile(用途广泛的),and durable(耐用的).It can hold up under heat and pressure and can be subjected to total submersion(浸泡)in water (even ocean water)and not be affected.You canleaveit outside,and the weather.Unlike most other materials,plastic does not naturally decay〔腐烂〕.For useful consumer products,this remarkable durability is a blessing.Plastic bottles are light and unbreakable;plastic bags do not leak or tear as easily as paper bags do.But when these items are ready for the garbage,it's an environmental nightmare!Millions of tons of plastic garbage litter ourhighways and beaches.Plastic trash even affects marine life in the oceans.According to the National Academy of Sciences,more than 600,000 plastic containers and bags are thrown into the oceans every day.Fisherman lose or throw away an estimated 150,000 tons of plastic fishing gear (渔具)each year.At least forty-two species of seabirds are known to snack on plastic ,a habit that is often fatal(致命的).In addition tens of thousands of seals,sea lions,and turtles die each year after becoming caught in bits of fish netting.What should we do with the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic and other polymer products that end up in the garbage each year?We could burn it.However,that creates a thick,black smock that is not only intolerable but is also a dangerous form of air pollution.We could bury it,but solid waste dumps have their own pollution problems.Too often,trash in the dumps is not buried for a long period of time and becomes a health hazard(危险) for birds and other land animals,including nearby human residents.What's more,highly populated countries with limited land may find that land is far too valuable to use as a dump site.Obviously,a large-scale solution to the plastic trashproblemis not yet in sight.However,individuals can help by keeping some of that plastic out of the garbage for as long as possible.For example,people who get plastic bags from the grocery store could save them and reuse them.Some people may choose not to buy plastic products when the same item is available in paper or glass.Of course,these are only small steps,but they could eventually be part of a large solution.(412 words) Comprehension ExercisesⅠ.Choose the best answers to the following question.1.What's the main idea of passage?A.Plastic is an ideal material.B.Plastic garbage has become an environmental concern.C.Plastic is a consumer product.D.No way has been found to solve the plastic trash problem.2.What are the main properties(特性)of plastic as a useful consumer product?A.Strong,versatile,durable.B.Cheap,convenient,reusable.C.Soft,light,unbreakable.D.Waterproof,unable to decay,burnable.3.Plastic trash affects the life of seabirds.For example,____.A.they are often caught in bits of netting.B.sea water is polluted by plastic trash.C.they mistake plastic trash for food.D.sea beaches are littered with plastic garbage.4.Which of the following properties of plastics makes plastic garbage a great environmental concern?A.Light weight.B.Strength.D.Resistance to weathering and decay.5.Which of the following methods is environmentally sound in dealing with plastic trash?A.Dumping it in the ocean far away from shore.B.burning it at sea.C.Not mentioned in this passage.D.Leaving it in the open air.Ⅱ.Judge whether or not the following statements agree withthe information given in the passage,and mark Y for YES,N for NO ,or NG if information is not given in the passage.( )1.Presently efforts to deal with plastic trash have got somewhere.( )2.Burying plastic trash will lead a shortage of land for human use.( )3.The durability of plastics is of great help to daily life in every respect.( )4.Obviously a large-scale solution to the plastic trash problem is to keep plastic out of garbage for as long as possible.( )5.It is suggested in this passage that we use more paper or glass instead of plastic products so as to reduce plastic trash.9.Meat Industries Are Destroying the PlanetRisk of mad cow disease，and heart disease isn't the only reason to eat less meat：the planet simply cannot sustain a population that increasingly feeds on animal protein(蛋白质),says the U.K. Government's Sustainable Development Commission. The problem lies in that animals consume vast supplies of land, crops, water and other resources in order to produce a much smaller quantity of animal protein for human consumption. The fast growing population of animals for use in the human food supply is being described as,"...one of the biggest environmental crises we're now facing."Then, there's the environmental impact of raising so many animals for food in the first place. Thousands of acres of rain forest continue to be cleared in South American in order to convert jungle to grazing land(牧场)for cattle. That alone is alarming, and yet that's only the beginning. Cows, chickens and pigs produce waste on a massive scale, and that waste is often drained directly into rivers or-this is true-fed back to other animals. Then, there's the use of water while they grow. As water becomes increasingly scarce in decades to come, this will become an issue of great contention(争论). So,it seems that from an environmental point of view, responsible citizens should greatly reduce their consumption of animal protein. Finally,there's the ethics(行为准那么)of eating meat. One of the reasons I don't eat red meat in particular is because red meat comes from intelligent mammals(哺乳动物): cows and pigs.These beings have social structures, they communicate with each other, and they communicate with each other, and they most definitely feel pain. To raise an intelligent animal for no purpose other than to slaughter(屠杀) it and sell its flesh is, in my opinion, evil. The further you go down the scale of intelligence, the less evil this becomes. Killing a chicken and eating it is not so evil, since chickens don't have the intelligence of cows and pigs. Consuming bacteria(in yogurt(乳酸), for example) is not at all evil, since bacteria are not capable of feeling pain, it seems. But Pigs? Pigs are as intelligent as dogs. Would you slaughter your pet dog and eat it? If not, then why would you support the slaughter of animals with similar intelligence? And remember: every time you buy bacon or sausage, you are indirectly slaughtering another pig, another intelligent being.What do you think? Do you believe mammals have souls? Do you think cows and pigs are capable of feeling and understanding pain? Does your pet dog understand pain? Can the planet sustain a population that consumes that consumes large quantities of animal protein? How could societies shift to plant sources of protein? Give it some thought.1题，Choose the best answers to the following questions.1.What is the main idea of the first two paragraphs?A.The earth will not sustain us if we continue to raise animals.B.Eating meat will do harm to our health.C.Meat consumption is becoming one of the biggest environmental crises.D.Intelligent animals lake cows and pigs have feelings and souls.2.Why does the author hold that meat industries are destroying the planet?A. Because they increase the risk of mad cow disease and heart diseaseB. Because animals raised for food consume a vast amount of resources like land,water and so onC. Because killing and eating intelligent animals has destroyed our ethics and souls.D. Because the number of intelligent animals has been greatly reduced3.What does the writer mean by saying"The further you go down the scale of intelligence,the less evil this becomes"?A. Killing low-intelligence animals is less evil than killing high-intelligence animalsB. It is not evil to raise animals for human foodC. Responsible citizens should greatly reduce their consumption of animals proteinD. Animal intelligence is still an issue of great contention4.What attitude does the author take towards the consumption of animal protein?A. OptimisticB. PessimisticC. CriticalD. Positive5.What does the author suggest at the end of passage?A. People should care much about animal intelligenceB. The human population should be considerably reducedC. People should consume more plant protein while reducing animal proteinD. We should raise cows and pigs just as we raise our dogs2题:Complete the following sentences with the information given in the passage.1.The passage tells us that killing and selling the flesh of _______is evil.rge areas of ______are being cleared in order to create moregrazing land.3.The author thinks it is not evil at all to consume ______,because they cannot feel pain.4.It is reasonable for human beings to reduce ______from an environment point of view.5.It is less evil to kill a chicken than to kill a pig because chicken are ______as pigs.10.The HuntersA guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.He and a friend go duck hunting in winter,and of course all the lakes are frozen.These two guys go out on the lake with the guns,the dog,and of course the new vehicle.They drive out onto the lake ice and get ready.Now,they want to make some kind of a natural landing area for the ducks,something for the decoys to float on.In order to make a hole large enough to look like something a wandering duck would fly down and land on,it is going to take a little more effort than an ice hole drill.So,out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite with a short,40-second fuse.Now these two men do takeinto consideration that they want to place the stick of dynamite on the ice at a location far from where they are standing and the new Navigator,because they don't want to take the risk of slipping on the ice when they run from the burning fuse and possibly go up in smoke with the resulting blast.They light the 40-second fuse and throw the dynamite.What happens then?Their dog,highly trained for seeking and picking back things thrown by the owner,takes off at a high rate of doggy speed on the ice and captures the stick of dynamite with the burning 40-second fuse about the time it hits the ice.The two men yell,scream,wave their arms and wonder what to do now.The dog,cheered on,keeps coming.One of the guys grabs the shotgun and shoots at the dog.The shotgun is loaded with buckshot,hardly big enough to stop it.The dog stops for a moment,slightly confused,but continues on.Another shot and this time the dog,still standing,because really confused, and of course terrified,thinking these two geniuses have gone mad. The dog takes off to find cover under the brand-new Navigator. —BOOM!—The dog and the Navigator are blown to bits and sink to the bottom of the lake in a very large hole,leaving the two idiots standing there with this "I can't believe this happened"look on their faces.1题：Choose the best answers to the following questions.1.The Lincoln Navigator in this passage is .A. a carB. A stick of dynamiteC. A decoyD. A dog2.Why do the two men yell and scream when they see the dog capture the stick of dynamite?A. Because they what will result from the dog's actionB. Because that is what they expectC. Because they are pleased to see itD. Because they quite appreciate the dog's skill3.Why do the two guys use dynamite?A. Because they want to make a large hole in the iceB. Because they want to smoke ducks downC. Because they want to go up in smoke with the resulting blastD. Because they want to frighten ducks and make them fly out4.Why dose one of the two men shoot at the dog?A. Because the dog is frightened by the dynamite and has gone madB. Because the dog tries to run away from themC. Because the dog is cheered by the two men's shoutingD. Because the dog picks up the dynamite and runs toward them5.In the passage,an"I can't believe this happened"look on one's face is .A. a disappointed lookB. a pitiful lookC. a surprised lookD. an embarrassed look2题:Judge whether or not the following statements agree with the information given in the passage,and mark Y for YES,N for NO,or NG if information is not given in the passage.( )1.From the story we know that the dog is smart and understands his masters very well.( )2.The two guys do consider placing the dynamite far away form where they are standing and the Navigator.( )3.Their dog is well trained for running after and picking back things thrown by the owner.( )4.The dog,confused and terrified by the gunshot,tries to find some place to hide itself.( )5.The blast sends the dog and the two men up in smoke.11.The Woman Who Thought She Was Going to Be RobbedOn a recent weekend in Atlantic City,a woman won a bucketful of quarters(面值25美分的硬币)at a slot machine(投币赌博机).She took a break from the slots for dinner with her husband in the hotel dining room.But first she wanted to put the quarters in her room.She carried the coinladen bucket to the elevator she noticed two en already aboard.Both were black.One of them was big,very big.The first thought was:These two are going to rob me.Her next thought was:Don't be silly;they look like perfectly nice gentlemen.But she could not move a step out of fear.She stood and stared at the two men.She feltanxious,nervous and ashamed.She hoped they didn't read her mind.Surely they knew that her hesitation(犹豫)about joining them in the elevator was all too obvious.Her face became red.She couldn't just stand there,so with a mighty effort of will she picked up one foot and stepped forward and was on the elevator.Avoiding eye contact,she turned around stiffly and faced the elevator doors as they closed.A second passed,and thenanother second,and then another.Her fear increased!The elevator didn't move.Panic consumed her."My God,"she thought," I'm trapped and about to be robbed!"Her heart sank.Then... One of the men said,"Hit the floor."Instinct(本能)told her:Do what they tell you.The bucket of quarters flew upwards as she threw out her arms and collapsed on the elevator carpet.A shower of coins rained down on her."Take my money and spare me,"she prayed.More seconds passed.She heard one of the en say politely,"Ma'am,if you'll just tell us what floor you're going to,we'll push the button."She lifted her head and looked up at the two men.They reached down to help her up.Confused,she struggled to her feet."When I told my man here to hit the floor,"said the average-sized one,"I meant that he should hit the elevator button for our floor,ma'am".She was too ashamed to speak.She wanted to burst out an apology,but words failed her.How do you apologize to two perfectly respectable gentlemen for behaving as though theyoing to rob you?(406 words)Comprehension ExercisesⅠ. Choose the best answers to the following questions.1.What was the woman doing in the hotel before she went to the elevator?A.She was having dinner with her husband.B.She was staying in her hotel room.C.She was taking a break from dinner.D.She was gambling.2.Why did the woman hesitate before she stepped into the elevator?A.Because there were two strangers in the elevator .B.Because she thought the men in the elevator would rob her.C.Because she froze and could not move herself.D.Because she did not want to join the men in the elevator.3.What did the average-sized man mean by saying"Hit the floor"?A.Throw your money on the floor.B.Lie down on the floor.C.Push the elevator button for our floor.D.Step heavily on the floor.4.What happened when the average-sized man said,"Hit the floor"?A.The bucket of quarters dropped to the floor.B.The woman's heart sank to the floor.C.The woman pushed the button for the floor.D.The woman collapsed onto the elevator floor.5.How did the woman feel at the end of the story?A.Shameful and embarrassed.B.Anxious and nervous.C.Confused and panicky.D.Wronged and angry.Ⅱ.Complete the following sentences with the information given in the passage.1.When she was walking to the elevator,the woman was carrying__.2.With a great effort of will the woman stepped into the elevator___.3.The woman turned around and faced the elevator doors so as to ___with the two men.4.The woman felt___ to apologize to the two gentlemen for behaving as if they were going to rob her.5.The average-sized man wanted the big man to___ when he said,"Hit the floor"12.E-Mail and Tomatoes.An unemployed man is desperate(拼命的)to support his family.He applies for a job as a janitor(看门人)at a large firm and easily passes a test.The human resources manager tells him,"You will be hired at a minimum wage of $5.15 an hour.Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the loop.Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day."Taken aback,the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor an e-mail address.To this the manager replies,"Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a hightech firm.Good day."Astonished,the man leaves.Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet,he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling beautiful red tomatoes.He a crate(筐)of the tomatoes,carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes.In less than two hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes a 100% profit.Repeating the process several times more that day,he ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries for his family.During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day.He is getting up early every day and working intothe night.He multiplies(使...成倍增加) his profits quickly.By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs fifteen previously unemployed people,all selling tomatoes.He continues to work hard.Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse,plus two tomato farms.Planning for the future,he decides to buy some life insurance(保险).Consulting with an insurance adviser,he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances.Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess(摆弄)with a computer and has no e-mail address,the insurance man is astonished,"What,you don't have e-mail?No computer?No Internet?Just think where you would be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!""Ha!"snorts the man."If I'd had e-mail five years ago I would be sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.15 an hour."(406 words)Comprehension ExercisesⅠ. Choose the best answers to the following questions.1.Why does the main apply for the job as a janitor?A.Because he is in urgent need of a job.B.Because he doesn't have any professional training.C.Because he passes the test.D.Because he has got some information and advice from the manager.2.What does the insurance man mean by saying,"Just think where you should be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!"?A.The man would have got the job as a janitor if he had had e-mail five years ago.B.It is impossible nowadays for a person not to have a computer and e-mail.C.The man's life would be much better now if he had e-mail and a computer five years ago.D.The man would be well-informed if he had a computer five years ago.3."...we get you in the loop."(paragraph 1)means that___.A.we can know where you are.B.We can put you on the staff of our company.。

Unit21) fruitful 2) evolution 3) limitations 4) versions 5) Despite6) intends 7) In short 8) access 9) nowhere 10) super11) messy 12) online1) despite 2) contracting 3) data 4) intended 5) (his) limitations6) fruitful 7) uncovered 8) definitely 9) view 10) milder 11) notable12) quest1) think up 2) bring up 3) took out 4) setting back 5) gives off6) springing up 7) came to 8) lit up 9) made for 10) left behind1)made 2)snow 3)shot 4)state 5)beaten 6)wind 7)felt 8)enemy1)loving 2)man 3)saving 4)record 5)cutting 6)fact 7)raising 8)tone1)the youngest in his family 2)the cheapest here 3)The smallest4)the most dangerous 5)the deaf and the blind 6)All the sick and the wounded7)the employed and the unemployed 8)happy people 9)the young10)Intelligent people1) Martin was about to go to bed when there was a knock at the door.2) The travelers were about to cross the river when a storm broke.3) The film was about to start when cries of "Fire" were heard.4) I was about to write to Aunt Sophia when she came to visit us.5) Jenny was about to leave when Mark arrived so she stayed a little longer.1) An officer is meant to set a good example to his men.2) The diagram is meant to explain how the machine works.3) Examinees are meant to write their names at the top of the paper.4) Parents are meant to love all their children equally.5) This experiment is meant to test a new theory recently proposed by some American scientists.1) Despite 2) data 3) download 4) web 5) limitations 6) fruitful 7) uncover8) evolution 9) notable 10) view 11) In short 12) thinking up1) Asking 2) their 3) had 4) no 5) could 6) way 7) imagine 8) instead 9) what10) If 11) encourage 12) child 13) follow 14) do 15) deal/cope 16) same17) when 18) as 19) creative 20) toVII. DictationOne of the ways you can encourage children to be creative is to talk things over rather than to give instructions or make a model when they ask for help. If you show a child how to draw aflower or a person, they will try to draw one just like yours. This can be frustrating because no matter how hard children try, their pictures will not be as "good" as yours because they do not have the skill that you have. Chances are that children will compare the two pictures and not be happy with their own. They may even decide not to try. Be creative yourself and think of ways to encourage children's creativity.IX. Translation翻译迅速方便地获得信息是很重要，但学会以新的方式看信息甚至更为重要。