ESP快速阅读教程(初级)补充材料1
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大学英语ESP快速阅读教程（初级）UNIT ONEPassage Three1.What customers see in a commercial must conform to what they hear through the audio.2.Some production companies can achieve a low cost commercial package with still pictures ofhigh quality.3.The air time for your commercial should be long enough to reach your audience at leasttwice.4.By telling the customers how to contact or where to shop, you should call them to move andbuy as immediately as possible.5.The placement of your commercial determines the target audiences as well as the money youwill pay for its air time.6.In order to capture customer’s attention at the first time, your commercial should read shortand impressive.7.Make sure every factor in your commercial just match each other, and it will help people startto get to know your company easily and impressively.8.To make sure your commercial looks vivid and lively, you’d better have people wave andsmile in front of the camera.9.Don’t leave your call to action to the last few seconds of your commercial, which in mostcases will be cut off when airing.10.It’s not wise to put a bunch of video into your commercial within limited time.Key:1(4) 2(7) 3(9)4(5) 5(8) 6(3) 7(10)8 (1)9 (6)10(2)UNIT TWOPassage Two1.Andrew Dickson’s visit to Vietnam had a profound influence on his life.2.People were puzzled about his ethnic origin while he was traveling in China.3.Andrew found himself speaking Arabic more often instead of Chinese since he is nowworking in Syria.4.Andrew’s parents decided to travel to Vietnam with A ndrew and his sister for their 25thwedding anniversary.5.Andrew was determined to choose international diplomacy as his future career when hebacked to the US for his final school year.6.Andrew’s experiences in China contribute a lot to his rational unders tanding of foreign affairsand domestic issues.7.Courses taught in Chinese and Chinese Martial Arts were a tough experience to Andrew.8.In class, Andrew was more active and spoke Chinese more than his Asian classmates.9.Although Andrew didn’t complain about the university dorm, he transferred to a betterapartment.10.Andrew is faced with a job in which he has to deal with different tasks and work irregularly.KEY1.[C]2. [M]3. [O]4. [A]5. [N]6. [U]7. [G]8. [K]9. [I] 10. [P]UNIT THREEPassage Two1.An hour of studying this way could be worth two hours of studying in a loose condition.pared with those unimpressive students who always sit in the back of the class,professors are more tolerant for those who they are familiar with.3.Decide the amount of work you need to do and the amount of time you will have spent on it.4.Ask each other questions and explain things to each other.5.For most students, if they skip an hour of class, they will have to spend several hours catchingup.6.If you have piles of work waiting for you at home, you will feel guilt when you try to squeezetime for something else.7.Be sure some time be left behind for you to study on your own.8.If students are not able to keep up with all of the assignments, they will have to cram for thefinals.9.If you study in a lounge, chances are that you become distracted.10.If possible, choose the testing that you are good at.Key:1(11) 2(2) 3(10)4(9) 5(2) 6(7) 7(9)8 (5)9 (11)10(8)UNIT FOURPassage Two1.We are more attracted to one with strength and good temper mainly because our moms aresuch people.2.I fell in love with my husband at first sight and we had a happy marriage. (10)3.Fathers greatly influence their daughters’ marriage happiness.4.The “love map” is constructed when one is a little child.5.To have lasting marriage, we should find partners with similar social background butdifferent personalities.6.When couples fall in love at the first sight, they may find some attractive similarities as wellas differences in each other.7.The “love map” in our brains influences the choice of our ideal mates.8.People’s descriptions of their ideal mates are similar to those of their mothers because theirmothers greatly influence their “love map”.9.Besides similarities, people also seek differences in their mates. (8)10.Mothers influence their sons’ general attitude toward women. (6)Key: 1 (5); 2 (10); 3 (7); 4 (2); 5 (8); 6 (9); 7 (2); 8 (4); 9 (8); 10 (6)UNIT FIVEPassage Two1.The FBI’s computer system holds the fingerprints of the immigrants, government workers orcriminals.(7)2.Fingerprinting is not accurate in every detail because the crime-scene prints are oftenincomplete or dirtied.(9)3. A man was suspected of bombing a train station because one of his fingerprints matched acrime-scene print.(1)4.When the fingerprint scans are widely applied in our daily life, we are concerned aboutprivacy.(16)5. A new system has been developed by the FBI to search for matches between the records andcrime-scene prints.(8)6.The customers in the grocery stores can pay for groceries conveniently by means offingerprint scanners.（14）7.The improved computer systems will be developed by the computer scientists to matchfingerprints accurately.(3)8.In the earlier days, paper cards played an important role in storing fingerprint records.(6)9.One better way to collect fingerprints is to invent a scanner that would allow people not topress the finger on any surface.(12)puter scientists are repeatedly improving the techniques for analyzing prints to keep therequirements in balance.(11)Key: 1(7) 2(9)3(1)4(16)5(8)6(14)7(3)8(6)9(12)10(11)UNIT SIXPassage Three1.Banks take advantage of the long time third parties need to process customers’ requests.2.If you want to move money from one bank to another, wire transfer is most efficient but moreexpensive than a certified check.3.The requirements and costs for closing an account are not easy to find in print brochures andweb pages.4.Nonprofit Consumers Union calls for shorter time for switching banks and free accountclosing fees.5.If you want to keep the bare minimum in your account, you will have to pay a monthlymaintenance fee.6.Banks will try every means to keep you as their customers.7.Even after you withdraw all the money in an account, you may still be charged maintenancefees and overdrafts.8.It may take as long as more than a month for a newly-opened account to take effect.9.The secret shoppers from the nonprofit Consumers Union were told that an account in Chasemust be closed at a branch.10.In some banks, a closed account will be reopened if any attempt to deposit into it or towithdraw from it is made.Key: 1 (6) 2 (7) 3 (2) 4 (10) 5 (6) 6 (1) 7 (9) 8 (3) 9 (5) 10 (8)UNIT SEVENPassage One备注：1—9题归为第二段, 总共两段.1.Flood insurance is not covered in most regular home insurance.2.You are likely to have several days to prepare for a hurricane.3.It is best to evacuate before you are required.4.Melting can be minimized by keeping your freezer door closed.5.You’d better withdraw enough money for a fortnight because ATMs and banks may not beworking when a major hurricane occurs.6.Watching news about hurricanes is important because you will be told when a hurricane iscoming and you can get out of your area beforehand.7.When a hurricane is coming, pack your car with those things you need when you are awayfrom home and things that are likely to get lost.8.If you leave at four o’clock in the morning, you will avoid the main flow of traffic.9.When they are around little children who might easily be frightened, parents should keepcalm, and make the hurricane evacuation into an unexpected holiday.10.Hurricanes last for 6 months in the US and cause a lot of worries for every American.Key: 1. (2<point 6>) 2. (2<point 3>) 3. (2<point 10>) 4. (2<point 8>) 5. (2<point 15>)6. (2<point 9>)7. (2<point 14>)8. (2<point 18>)9. (2<point 17>) 10. (1)UNIT EIGHTPassage Three1.He has started an aggressive schedule to connect people outside his own company.2.However, a lack of investment in yourself begins to show gradually over time.3.I hold that it’s necessary for very educated professional to read the newspaper often.4.The researchers at Columbia University have shown that inadequate sleep makes people eattoo much.5.To improve your skills is essentially important at every stage of your career.6.People in your company will be willing to help you even with some extra effort when theyknow and like you.7.If you invest more in yourself, you’re likely to be a more interesting and healthier person.8.It is important to take international vacation because it can broaden your horizon.9.If your company has set aside professional development dollars for you, you should use themto take part in some conferences.10.Th ose cut corners didn’t happen suddenly.Key: 1(6) 2(1) 3(7) 4(11) 5(9) 6(5) 7(12) 8 (10) 9 (8) 10(2)UNIT NINEPassage One1.Before you go abroad and do business there, don’t leave anything to chance and find out asmuch as possible about the country so as to ensure that you can leave a good impression.2.Many aspects should be taken into consideration if you are doing business internationally.3.If you don’t have enough understanding about these areas, you are more likely to commit fauxpas when you are there.4.People’s perception, processing and interpretation of information are all affected by culture.5.By learning a few simple phrases will be helpful in determining a person’s perspective of you.6.American businessmen are likely to touch each other to show their casual way ofcommunication.7.Ask your colleagues something about greeting, appropriate behaviors, code of dressing, etc.8.Owl, as a symbol of wisdom in some countries, represents bad luck in India.9.Even if your business partners turn up late due t o their casual approach to timekeeping, you’dbetter be punctual.10.If you are so ambitious as to try to say too much in their language, you may cause trouble. Key:1(9) 2(1) 3(2)4(6) 5(3) 6(5) 7(2)8 (7)9 (4)10(3)UNIT TENPassage One1.The financial experts were not dispersing risk to strong hands rather than to weak hands.2.The function of supervision agencies in a modern capitalist system is to offer protection tokeep markets from driving the economy into danger.3.Credit rating agencies overestimate the value of houses according to the out-of-date data orwrong model.4.Financial experts of Wall Street invented securities in order to distribute risks widely.5.The cost of default and falling prices was often passed to those banks who lack the financialstrength to survive financial difficulties.6.Investors expected too much of the higher returns rather than considering the higher risks.7.The reason why lenders still provide loans to those who couldn’t afford the payment is thatthey believe that the value of the house would be more than the loan.8.If lenders believe they can ignore the borrower’s ability to pay because the price of housing isgoing up, a credit bubble comes into being.9.The banks’ practice of slicing up individual mortgages and assembling t he pieces intosecurities made the situation worse.10.Supervision agencies failed to protect inexperienced consumers from mortgage loans thatthey even didn’t understand.Key:1(7) 2(9) 3(12) 4(3) 5(8) 6(14) 7(10) 8 (11) 9 (5) 10(9)UNIT ELEVENPassage Two1.If the students visit a Web site selling questions, these cheaters’ marks will be canceled.2.For the sake of many parents protecting their kids’ fingerprinting, high-school students canshow their ID to take college exams.3.GMAT is an admission test organized by business school council.4.It is said that business-school students cheat more than other students, mainly because theyjust follow some corporations’ dishonest examples to defend themselves5.Any identifiers should not be kept for a long time, which is proposed by a privacy official.6.There are still a lot of security methods used in other admission tests, e.g. ink or digitalfingerprinting.7.Palm vein scans are much more accurate and expensive than fingerprinting devices.8.Paper fingerprints should be discarded after a certain period for fear of privacy concerns.9. A palm scan takes an infrared photo of the blood going through hands, so the vein pattern isdifferent from each other.10.The high-tech identity check is more likely to be accepted by consumers, because they thinkfingerprinting is often related with the police.1(9),2(11), 3(7),4(8), 5(12),6(10),7(6), 8(13), 9(2),10(4),UNIT TWELVEPassage One1.People can safely buy drugs from drugstores because of supervision. (9)2.Republicans are supported by Wall Street financial giants.(3)3.Warren is the first one to come up with the idea that consumers should be protected whenbuying financial products.(5)4.Obama’s supporters have lost their patience.(7)5.Wall Street banks played a part in the US financial crisis.(3)6.The terms and conditions of loan companies are lengthy and difficult to understand.(8)7.Obama has not appointed Warren because the Republicans will disagree with theappointment.(6)8.The new consumer-protection agency is praised because it is to protect ordinary people, notbanks or lenders. (4)9. A new consumer-protection bureau will be set up to safeguard ordinary Americans.(1)10.Who will be in charge of the new consumer-protection agency is uncertain.(2)答案：1. (9)2. (3)3.(5)4.(7)5. (3)6.(8)7. (6)8.(4)9.(1) 10.(2)UNIT THIRTEENPassage One1.In spite of the fact that the idea of superfoods has been inputting in the United States ofAmerica, the number of people getting stout and the diseases related to fat is still very high.2.It is a long time and lots of energy that people have to use to reduce obesity andobesity-related diseases by eating superfoods, but it is rewarding in the future.3.When superfoods are first recommended, they are not used to lose weight.4. A superfood must be easily available to common people, nutritious to make people livelonger and healthy.5.The reason why blueberries are chosen as a superfood is that they can help people with a lotof things such as fighting diseases.6.The foods chosen as superfoods must be nutritious and low in calories to aid people toprevent aging and some serious diseases.7.Every berry is healthy and frozen berries are super as well.8.Eating superfoods that are full of fiber, protein and vital nutrients can make people loseweight.9.It is certainly a new type of nutrition concept that focusing on what you eat instead of whatyou can’t can make people lose weight.10.When you are on a diet, the more you can’t eat something, the more you are desirous ofthem.Key:1(28) 2(29) 3(19) 4(16) 5(1) 6(18) 7(1) 8(10) 9(11) 10(3)UNIT FOURTEENPassage Three1.American food industry has provided wider selection of products than ever before.2.Evidence shows that way modern food is processed makes more of its calories available fordigestion.3.If the BWI is approaching 50, people without injuries have become less flexible.4.Nowadays, the young people in America live shorter than their parents since more of themsuffer from obesity-related conditions.5.People’s lifestyle s have become more inactive.6.When there were enough crops, the government used to pay farmers not to grow them inorder to support farmers.7.There are so many factors contributing to obesity, therefore, people should adopt a systemsapproach.8.The NO. 1 likely cause of obes ity is the country’s massive overproduction of food that gotunderway a generation ago.9.We’re not sure whether sin taxes and insurance breaks will encourage people to eat less junkfood.10.People are pleased to hear that if they lose 10% of their weight, they will gain significanthealth benefits.1. (7)2. (7)3. (2)4.(3)5. (8)6. (6)7. (9)8.(5)9.(11) 10. (10)UNIT FIFTEENPassage One1.Almost every country with fully developed industry has a birthrate of no more than twochildren.2.People with economic knowledge can make a better plan of their retirement, while peoplewithout plans will spend almost more than two times as much money as others.3.There are more and more old people in America, but the social security nets that help themare not improving.4.Although people are getting further in blood in this aging world with smaller families, we arestaying closer.5.With the limited resources, we have to use our intelligence to make a full use of them.6.People are trying everything to make their life longer.7.As families are shrinking, generations stay close to take care each other.8.The number of the close relatives of a family is dropping. Meanwhile, people is living longerthan before.9.Our family is carrying more burdens while public and private support is getting weaker.10.Both scientists and ordinary people play an important role in the aging of world’s population. Key: 1(4) 2(10) 3(6) 4(15) 5(9) 6(5) 7(14) 8(3) 9(11) 10(2)。
