新世纪大学英语第三册1-6单元课后close原文及答案

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Unit 1
what it's like –they are failing to and significant the
interests and activities a sign that you expect love as a natural
of who you are. If your first love was someone remote—a film star, for example—
perhaps your first feelings were "in between": remote, but not absent;
near you, but English teacher, for instance. This is a sign of a very noble
UNIT 2
Women everywhere still suffer economic injustice, and —most
significant—
the enjoy physical safety as a form the other half enjoys it as a
natural Men who argue that laws can for this inequality simply can't
imagine what it's like to be yourself. This lifelong lack in
learn self-defense or carry guns, but the same as trusting in your own
women really need is a breakthrough in genetic engineering to ensure that
equal in physical strength right from the cradle.
Unit 3
If you want to develop the senses of there are many simple and enjoyable


your mind is responding to the food. Notice do you feel more hopeful, relaxed or serious than before? Or just hungrier?
UNIT4
The term “liberal arts” comes from the Latin root liber, meaning “free.” This term originally referred to seven fields of study which ,in ancient Greece, were considered arts of the mind, in contrast to the manual or mechanical arts.
The liberal arts now include fields other than the original seven (which, incidentally,were grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy ),but the basic concept still has an overwhelming influence on Western education was only for the wealthy, and was seen as an end in itself:Although it could open doors to a professional career, it was mainly regarded as the mark of a cultivated man. (Women were not permitted to pursue a liberal arts education in the Middle Ages). Eventually, liberal arts faculties were established at universities, and the liberal arts --- along with the idea of pursuing an education for its own sake --- because the standard for higher education in the Western word. The conviction that education should not be practical has never completely died out. For centuries law and medicine were thought of as primarily theoretical --- actually putting them into practice was viewed as low-class. The natural sciences were not treated seriously, and fields like economics an d management didn’t exist at all.
Unit 5
One of the most striking things about Americans is that they seem to expect everyone
—monoculturalism is typical of every

may be at the American definition of friendliness. To Americans,
being friends. This can, of course, when Americans meet people from more
glorified pattern of behavior that every generation of Americans is trained
degree. They're so good at being friendly – and it works at home –
that it will work everywhere.
UNIT6
My son Brian, who was in training to become an army pilot, was on his way to a party one evening when he stopped at a gas station to ask for directions. Just as he pulled up, one of the gas pumps exploded and Brian lost both his legs. Everyone agreed that Brain was lucky to have escaped with his life (the only other victim of the accident died on the spot) --- everyone, that is, except 0 Brian, who was filled with total despair.It wasn’t the pain and difficulty of adjusting to living with a handicap that he found so hard to bear; it was the sheer senselessness of the accident that had shattered his legs, his life and his dreams. He acknowledged the risks of his chosen profess ion, so if he’d suffered the same injury in a plane crash, he would’ve accepted it. If he’d been wounded in combat, he could’ve forgiven his enemy, or vowed to get revenge. But how can you forgive --- or get even with --- a leak in a gas pump? Where can you turn to find meaningful insight into the risks of stopping to ask for directions? Brian was given artificial legs, and months of physical therapy to help him function in his new life. But no one ever found any way to replace or revive the love of life that that meaningless accident destroyed. In a very real sense, I lost my son that night at the gas station: Even though his body survived, his spirit did not.。