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Unit 3Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following thepassage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Youmay not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Career breaks have long been regarded as a way to recharge batteries and perhaps mark a change from one career to 1 . But increasing numbers of employers now regard time spent by their staff working or traveling abroad as 2 experience that can bring benefits back home.Accountant Price Waterhouse Coopers allows its _ 3 _ to take career breaks testing from 14 weeks to four years. Liz Brown, UK partner responsible for people and knowledge, says this not only enables employees to learn new skills that may be valuable to clients, but also enables PWC to 4 _ for and retain the best recruits: “Our people are the 5 to our success and we must treat them that way. We recognize that much of what they do outside the workplace is the key to how they work with clients.”Cary Cooper, professor of organizational psychology and health at Umist in Manchester, says the benefits 6 on what you do during your break, your age and where you are in your career. For twenty-somethings who have gone into a career straight after college, he recommends working in other countries. Thirty and forty-somethings can 7 _ from working or travelling, 8 they treat the experience as “quality-of-life audits”.Cooper says the experience of traveling or living in foreign country can draw a 9 closer.A break can be a quick fix, enabling you to face the next 26 years of employment. For some people who feel they are not going to proceed farther up the work hierarchy, it can provide a(n) 10 to change direction or alter their work/life balance.Exercise 2Directions: Complete the following sentences by turning Chinese in brackets into English with the help of phrases given above in the box.1.In addition to Mitchell , Hillary may want to enlist Bill and Chelsea to _______________ (试着解决这个问题), definitely Jim Baker and Jimmy Carter , too.2. The rate of year-on-year change in consumer prices has been _______________ (徘徊在零增长区间) if petroleum products and other special factors are excluded.3. _______________ (正如人们常常说的那样), you cannot see the wood for the trees.4.I had hoped to win the football pools one day, but _______________(赢得了这么多钱却超出了我的期望）.5.It is quite evident that _______________（他们做了历史方面的调查研究）.6.We must pay attention to quality from the very start and oppose the tendency to _______________ (单纯追求数量).7. If _______________ (站在会计主体立场上选择运用会计政策), such a selection can helpan enterprise to stabilize its financial basis and obtain objective and just accounting information.8. The first lady said she has come to realize that her role as a wife for the President in the UnitedStates gives her a platform to speak out , _______________ (她也认为自己可以做出不一样的事情).9. When the meeting finished at 3:30, _______________（我们离火车开走还有差不多一个钟头的时间可以利用）.10. If markets don't respond , the administration may be pressed to _______________ (与其它国家携手干预), something many market watchers say may have limited impact.Exercise 3Passage 1Biologically, there is only one quality which distinguishes us from animals: the ability to laugh. In a universe which appears to be utterly devoid of humor, we enjoy this supreme luxury. And it is a luxury, for unlike any other bodily process, laughter does not seem to serve a biologically useful purpose. In a divide world, laughter is a unifying force. Human beings oppose each other on a great many issues. Nations may disagree about systems of government and human relations may be plagued by ideological factions and political camps, but we all share the ability to laugh. And laughter, in turn, depends on that most complex and subtle of all human qualities: a sense of humor. Certain comic stereotypes have a universal appeal. This can best be seen from the world-wide popularity of Charlie Chaplin’s early films. The little man at odds with socie ty never fails to amuse no matter which country we come from. As that great commentator on human affairs, Dr. Samuel Johnson, once remarked, “Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed in the same way.”A sense of humor may take various forms and laughter may be anything from a refined tingle to an earth quaking roar, but the effect is always the same. Humor helps us to maintain a correct sense of values. It is the one quality which political fanatics appear to lack. If we can see the funny side, we never make the mistake of taking ourselves too seriously. We are always reminded that tragedy is not really far removed from comedy, so we never get a lopsided view of things.This is one of the chief functions of satire and irony. Human pain and suffering are so grim; we hover so often on the brink of war; political realities are usually enough to plunge us into total despair. In such circumstances, cartoons and satirical accounts of somber political events redress the balance. They take the wind out of pompous and arrogant politicians who have lost their sense of proportion. They enable us to see that many of our most profound actions are merely comic orabsurd. We laugh when a great satirist like Swift writes about war in Gulliver’s Travels. The Lilliputians and their neighbors attack each other because they can’t agree which end to break an egg. We laugh because we meant to laugh; but we are meant to weep too. It is too powerful a weapon to be allowed to flourish.The sense of humor must be singled out as man’s most important quality because it is associated with laughter. And laughter, in turn, is associated with happiness. Courage, determination, initiative, theses are qualities we share with other forms of life. But the sense of humor is uniquely human. If happiness is one of the great goals of life, then it is the sense of humor that provides the key.1. The most important of all human qualities is ________.A) a sense of humorB) a sense of satireC) a sense of laughterD) a sense of history2. The author mentions about Charlie Chaplin’s early films because ________.A) they can amuse peopleB) human beings are different from animalsC) they show that certain comic stereotypes have a universal appealD) they show that people have the same ability to laugh3. One of the chief functions of irony and satire is _______.A) to show absurdity of actionsB) to redress balanceC) to take the wind out of politiciansD) to show too much grimness in the world4. What do we learn from the last sentence of Paragraph 3 “It is too powerful a weapon to be allowed to flourish”?A) It can reveal the truth of political events with satireB) It can arouse people to riotC) It shows tragedy and comedy are relatedD) It can make people laugh5. Who is Swift?A) A novelist B) A poetC) A dramatist D) An essayistPassage 2Admittedly, minor accidents and slip-ups continue to shake public confidence in nuclear power. Given the unquantifiable risks that nuclear power carries, it is only right that the industry is subject to the test of public opinion and due political process. However, this argues for exceptional vigilance, regulatory scrutiny and accountability --- and not for bans or shut downs.Those nuclear operators with a good safety record deserve to have licenses renewed, so that existing plants may run to the end of their useful lives. The Bush administration’s enthusiastic support goes a lot further than this; however, it also wants to see new plants.Proponents of new nuclear power stations make these arguments in their favor. They will enhance energy security by lessening dependence on fossil fuels; far from being environmentally harmful, they will be beneficial because they will reduce the output of greenhouse gases; and, most crucially, the economies of nuclear power has improved from the day when it was wholly dependent on bail out and subsidy.Yet these arguments do not stand up to scrutiny. The claim that governments should support nuclear power to reduce their vulnerability to the OPEC oil cartel is doubly absurd. Little oil is used in power generation; what nuclear power displaces is mostly natural gas and coal, which are not only more plentiful than oil but also geographically better distributed. Security is enhanced not by seeing energy self sufficiency but through diversification of supplies. Creating lots of fossil material that might be pinched by terrorists is an odd way to look for security anyway. What about the argument that climate change might be the great savior of nuclear power? Global warming is indeed a risk that should be taken more seriously than the Bush administration has so far done. Nuclear plants do not produce any carbon dioxide, which is the principal of greenhouse gas. However, rushing in response to build dozens of new nuclear plants would be both needlessly expensive and environmentally unsound. It would make far more sense to adopt a carbon tax, which would put clean energy sources, such as solar and wind on an equal footing with nuclear, whose waste poses an undeniable (if remote) environmental threat of its own for axons to come. Governments should also dismantle all subsidies on fossil fuels--- especially for coal, the dirtiest of all. They should adopt reforms that send proper price signals to those who use power, and so reduce emissions. Global warming certainly provides one argument in favor of nuclear power, but it is not sufficient on its own to justify a nuclear renaissance. ( 复兴)1. What is the public’s opinion about nuclear industry?A. People have little confidence in nuclear power for the potential disaster of nuclear accidents.B. People think it important to exercise strict monitoring and effective management of the existing plants.C. People believe that the best way to avoid nuclear disaster is to shut down all the nuclear power stations.D. People agree to prohibit the existing nuclear plants from running to the end of their useful lives.2. the most important reason why the Bush administration support more new nuclear power plants is that ________.A. they will increase energy securityB. they help lessen dependence on fossil fuelsC. they are environmentally friendlyD. they need little government financial support3. According to the author energy security can only be achieved by _______.A. using less oil in power generationB. replacing fossil fuels with more nuclear powerC. seeking energy self sufficiencyD. expanding the sources of power energy4. According to the passage, which of the following is the least helpful in protecting the environment?A. Encouraging the use of clean energy sourcesB. Cutting off subsidies on all fossil fuelsC. Adopting price reform to reduce emissionD. Promoting the resurgence of nuclear power5. It is implied that __________________.A. nuclear power stations may become the targets of terrorist attacksB. the Bush administration did not give weight to environmental protectionC. carbon dioxide is the principal source of greenhouse gasesD. nuclear waste will turn to be an environmental threat in the long run。