Unit 7 The Chaser课文翻译综合教程三

Unit 10

The Transaction

William Zinsser

1 About ten years ago a school in Connecticut held “a day devoted to the arts,” and I

was asked if I would come and talk about writing as a vocation. When I arrived I found

that a second speaker had been invited — Dr. Brock (as I’ll call him), a surgeon who had

recently begun to write and had sold some stories to national magazines. He was going to

talk about writing as an avocation. That made us a panel, and we sat down to face a crowd

of student newspaper editors, English teachers and parents, all eager to learn the secrets

of our glamorous work.

2 Dr. Brock was dressed in a bright red jacket, looking vaguely bohemian, as authors

are supposed to look, and the first question went to him. What was it like to be a writer?

3 He said it was tremendous fun. Coming home from an arduous day at the hospital,

Unit 2

The Company Man

Ellen Goodman1

1 He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m.

Sunday morning.

2 The obituary didn’t say that, of course. It said that he died of a

coronary thrombosis — I think that was it — but everyone among his

friends and acquaintances knew it instantly. He was a perfect Type A2,

a workaholic, a classic, they said to each other and shook their heads

— and thought for five or ten minutes about the way they lived.

3 This man who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00

a.m. Sunday morning — on his day off — was fifty-one years old and a

vice-president. He was, however, one of six vice-presidents, and one of

three who might conceivably — if the president died or retired soon

enough — have moved to the top spot. Phil knew that.

4 He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night,

Unit 14

Homeless

Anna Quindlen

1 Her name was Ann, and we met in the Port Authority Bus Terminal several

Januarys ago. I was doing a story on homeless people. She said I was wasting my time

talking to her; she was just passing through, although she’d been passing through for

more than two weeks. To prove to me that this was true, she rummaged through a tote

bag and a manila envelope and finally unfolded a sheet of typing paper and brought out

her photographs.

2 They were not pictures of family, or friends, or even a dog or cat, its eyes brown-red

in the flashbulb’s light. They were pictures of a house. It was like a thousand houses in a

hundred towns, not suburb, not city, but somewhere in between, with aluminum siding

and a chain-link fence, a narrow driveway running up to a one-car garage and a patch of

Unit 7 The Chaser

Key to the Exercises

Text comprehension

I. Decide which of the following is likely to happen after the story.

C

II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.

1. F (Refer to Paragraph 5. The old man says that his stock in trade is not very large, but

it is varied and has extraordinary effects.)

2. F (Refer to Paragraphs 11 and 13. The price of a glove-cleaner, as he calls it, is very

high, five thousand dollars for a teaspoonful, but the love potion is very cheap.)

3. F (Refer to Paragraph 19. The old man claims that the effects of love potions are

permanent.)

4. T (Refer to Paragraphs 24 and 28. Austen says that Diana is fond of parties and,

although she is everything to him already, she does not care about his love at all. That is

why he decides to go to the old man for the love potion and whenever the old man