大学英语精读第四册课文翻译
Unit 1个大学男孩不清楚赚钱需要付出艰苦的劳动被一份许诺轻松赚大钱的广告吸引了。男孩们很快就明白如果事情看起来好得不像真的那多半确实不是真的。轻轻松松赚大钱约翰•G•哈贝尔“你们该看看这个”我向我们的两个读大学的儿子建议道。“你们若想避免因为老是向人讨钱而有失尊严的话这兴许是一种办法。”我将挂在我们门把手上的、装在一个塑料袋里的几本杂志拿给他们。塑料袋上印着一条信息说需要招聘人投递这样的袋子这活儿既轻松又赚钱。“轻轻松松赚大钱!”“我不在乎失不失尊严”大儿子回答说。“我可以忍受”他的弟弟附和道。“看到你们俩伸手讨钱讨惯了一点也不感到尴尬的样子真使我痛心”我说。孩子们说他们可以考虑考虑投递杂志的事。我听了很高兴便离城出差去了。午夜时分我已远离家门在一家旅馆的房间里舒舒服服住了下来。电话铃响了是妻子打来的。她想知道我这一天过得可好。“好极了!”我兴高采烈地说。“你过得怎么样?”我问道。“棒极了!”她大声挖苦道。“真棒!而且这还仅仅是个开始。又一辆卡车刚在门前停下。”“又一辆卡车?”“今晚第三辆了。第一辆运来了四千份蒙哥马利-沃德百货公司的广告第二辆运来四千份西尔斯-罗伯克百货公司的广告。我不知道这一辆装的啥但我肯定又是四千份什么的。既然这事是你促成的我想你或许想了解事情的进展。”我之所以受到指责事情原来是这样由于发生了一起报业工人罢工通常夹在星期日报纸里的广告插页必须派人直接投送出去。公司答应给我们的孩子六百美金任务是将这些广告插页在星期天早晨之前投递到四千户人家去。“不费吹灰之力!”我们上大学的大儿子嚷道。“六百块!”他的弟弟应声道“我们两个钟点就能干完!”“西尔斯和沃德的广告通常都是报纸那么大的四页”妻子告诉我说“现在我们门廊上堆着三万二千页广告。就在我们说话的当儿两个大个子正各抱着一大捆广告走过来。这么多广告我们可怎么办?”“你让孩子们快干”我指示说。“他们都是大学生了。他们自己的事得由他们自己去做。”第二天中午我回到旅馆看到一份紧急留言要我马上给妻子回电话。她的声音高得很不自然而且有些颤抖。家里又运到了好几卡车的广告插页。“有百货公司的廉价商店的杂货店的食品店的汽车行的等等。有些像整本杂志那么厚。我们这里有数十万页说不定是几百万页的广告!我们家整个房子从东墙到西墙从南墙到北墙统统堆满了广告一堆又一堆比你大儿子还要高。现在只剩下一点点空间刚够一个人走进去从十一种插页中各取一份卷在一起套上橡皮筋再塞进一只塑料袋内。我们的塑料袋足够供应全美所有的外卖餐厅!”她越讲声音越响几乎震耳欲聋。“这么多的广告必须在星期日早晨七点以前统统送出去。”“嗯你最好让孩子们尽快地捆扎装袋等会儿我再跟你谈。我有个午餐约会。”我餐后回来妻子又打来一只紧急电话。“你午餐吃得不错吧?”她用悦耳的声音问道。我吃的牛排好极了但这次我学乖了还是不说为妙。“糟透了”我报告说。“一种什么酸溜溜的鱼我想大概是鳗鲡吧。”“不错嘛。你的大学生儿子已经雇了他们的弟弟妹妹和两三个邻居的小孩帮忙工钱一人五块建起了流水作业线。用外交术语来说事情‘有进展’。”“这确实令人鼓舞。”“不并非如此”她纠正说。“相反非常叫人泄气。他们干了好几个小时了。装好的塑料袋一直堆到天花板但一切努力收效很小。这些广告宣传品简直就像是不停地自行生产出来一样!”“还有一件事”她接着说“你那上大学的儿子必须明白威胁雇员说要揍他们是不可能使他们卖力的。”我跟大儿子一通上话便咆哮道“你如果再威胁那些孩子我就对你不客气了!白痴!你应该给奖金对装袋最多的工人每小时奖励一块。”“可那要减少我们的利润啦”他提醒道。“那些孩子不帮你按时将所有的广告投送出去你就什么利润也得不到。如果他们不干你们俩就得亲手搬走所有的广告。而在把它们搬掉之前你们吃不成也睡不成。”电话里出现了短暂的沉默他在思考。接着他说“爸爸你刚才使我深受启迪令我恍然大悟。”“那就干吧!”“是阁下!”到第二天傍晚我妻子就有许多事报告了。奖金计划行之有效可后来有人对能否兑现表示怀疑提出把钱拿出来给大家看看。接着工人队伍里的一位活动家声称老板每人拿几百块钱工人们决没有理由满足于每人五块外加一点点竞争性的奖金。劳工组织人宣布所有工人的工资都应该达到每小时五块钱!在老板答应之前他们不再干活儿一分钟也不干。罢工持续了不到两小时。通过调解双方达成协议每小时两块。渐渐地大堆的广告开始减少。结果全部工作比最后限期星期日早晨七点提前三个小时完成。等我回到家里孩子们已经结了账。劳务支出150元汽油费 40元还有40元买礼品——几盒糖果送给乐于助人的邻居他们主动开出自家的车帮助投递还有一打玫瑰送给他们的母亲。除去以上开支他们每人得到185元——大约相当于他们所干的91小时的最低工资的三分之二。虽然如此可正如一个儿子所说那还是“足够”他们花一阵子使他们“避免那种有失尊严的事。”几个星期过去了一切都很好。后来一个星期六的上午我们两个小儿子的奇怪举动引起了我的注意。他们不停地将一个又一个的纸箱从房屋四处的角落里搬出经过前门送到人行道边。我以为他们的妈妈在指挥他们清除破烂好让垃圾车运走呢。正在这时我听到他们在议论经济问题。“哟我们会赚许多钱呢!”“我们要发财啦!”经查问发现他们正在把我们的全部图书“出售或出租”。“不成!不成!”我叫道。“不能把我们的书卖了!”“哎唷爸我们以为你用不着它们了呢!”“书永远不会'用'不着的”我尽力解释道。“你肯定用不着了。你都看过了再也不用了。没有错。既然不用还不如卖点钱。我们想避免那种有失尊严的事不再伸手向你要„„”
Lesson One Thinking as a Hobby
Answers:
I. I have concluded that there were three grades of thinking since
I was a child, while myself could not think at all. The subject of
thinking was first brought up to me by my headmaster, in whose
study I was shown the statuettes of Venus, leopard and the Thinker,
which stands for love, nature and pure thought respectively. I was
demanded to learn thinking there. People like Mr. Houghten
provided me the image of Grade-three thinking, which is often full of
unconscious prejudice, ignorance and hypocrisy. The grade-two
thinker tends to find the deficiencies of the others, and may enjoy
moments of delight, but it does not make for personal security. A
still higher grade of thought demands people set out to find the truth
and get it .Though these grade-one thinkers were few, I aspired to
大学思辨英语教程精读4unit1textB答案
1、I could ______ control my feelings and cried loudly when I heard the bad news. [单选题] *
A. hardly(正确答案)
B. ?really
C. clearly
D. nearly
2、Was（）that I saw last night at the concert? [单选题] *
A. it you(正确答案)
B. not you
C. you
D. that yourself
3、You can't rely on Jane as she is _____ changing her mind and you will never know what she is
going to do next. [单选题] *
A. occasionally
B. rarely
C. scarcely
D. constantly(正确答案)
4、 While I _____ the morning paper, a headline caught my eye.. [单选题] *
A. have read
B. was reading(正确答案)
C. had read
D. am reading
5、He can’t meet his friends tonight because he _______ do homework. [单选题] *
A. has to(正确答案)
B. need
C. have to
D. don’t have to
6、You could hardly imagine _______ amazing the Great Wall was. [单选题] *
A. how(正确答案)
B. what
C. why
D. where
1 / 83 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 圣才电子书 Unit 7 一、练习答案 I. Cloze (20 points) 1—5: CDBBD 6—10: CCBAD 11—15: BCAAD 16—20: BCADD II. Grammar & Vocabulary (30 points) 21—25: CCDCD 26—30: DCBAD 31—35: ADCAC 36—40: BCBAB 41—45: DACAD 46—50: BCDAB III. Reading Comprehension (20 points) 51—55: ADBBC 56—60: ABDCC 61—65: DBACD
2 / 83 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 圣才电子书 66—70: ADCBD IV. Writing (30 points) Section A: Composition Should Citizens Be Granted Full Right to Whatever Name They Choose? I think citizens should be granted full right to whatever name they choose as long as the name meets the requirement of the law. But naming with a Chinese characters plus an English letter, as the father of the graduate student did, is not a good idea. It is not very appropriate and normal. Normally, our names consist of three Chinese characters, which is quite different from the names in other countries. The first one is the family name. The second one is the generation name and the last one is the given name. This is the general rule for a Chinese name. In fact, nowadays, a lot of people omit the generation name. However, this is acceptable. The student had trouble in transferring her hukou because of her name. This trouble is caused by not following the rules of writing personal names. What’s more, our Chinese characters are unique without numbers that can not be the same with other languages. But the English letters are different from Chinese characters. If we use the letters, the pronunciation is a big problem, because those letters can also be found in other languages with different
