课文翻译
Unit 1
Text
A young man finds that strolling along the streets without an
obvious purpose can lead to trouble with the law. One misunderstanding
leads to another until eventually he must appear in court for trial……
一个青年发现，在大街上毫无明显目的地游逛会招致警方的责罚。 误会一个接一个发生，最终他只得出庭受审……
A Brush with the Law
与警察的一场小冲突
I have only once been in trouble with the law. 我平生只有一次跟警方发生纠葛。
The whole process of being arrested and taken to court was a rather
unpleasant experience at the time, but it makes a good story now. 被捕和出庭的整个过程在当时是一件非常不愉快的事，但现在倒成了一篇很好的故事。
What makes it rather disturbing was the arbitrary circumstances both of
my arrest and my subsequent fate in court. 这次经历令人可恼之处在于围绕着我的被捕以及随后庭上审讯而出现的种种武断专横的情况。
It happened in February about twelve years ago. 事情发生在大约12年前，其时正是2月。
I had left school a couple of months before that and was not due to go to university until the following October. 几个月前我中学毕业了，但上大学要等到10月。
Unit 3
Text A
Comprehension of text
1. He changed his perspective and observed people who did not have smallpox.
2. He wants to give a good example of lateral thinking.
3. He compares the human brain to a computer and the change of one's point of view to the
reprogramming of the computer.
4.1t is to fight it.
5. He calls it vertical thinking.
6. He used the technique of lateral thinking.
7. The key is to make a shift in emphasis instead of fighting the problem head-on.
8. They should change their point of view and regard themselves as their body's keeper.
9. Very often lateral thinking yields much better results than vertical thinking.
10.It is approaching the target from a sideways point of view instead of approaching it directly.
Vocabulary
1 .tactic 2.utmost 3. structure
6.head-on 7.dead end 8.erased
Unit 3
I. Word Study
confession v. to acknowledge or admit
Examples: to confess to a crime to make confession of sins I must confess that I haven’t read it.
admit: 通常指因外界压力、良心或判断而承认某事的存在或真实性，含“不情愿”之意。
acknowledge: 指“公开承认”，常用于过去隐瞒或否认之事。
confess: 着重承认自己的过错或罪恶，因此有“忏悔”、“坦白”的含意。
drive n. [C; U] (psychology) desire to attain a goal or satisfy a need
Examples: Hunger is a human drive.
The profit drive dominated the entire company at the expense of its other responsibility.
Unit 3
一、课文
Every teacher probably asks himself time and again: Why am I a teacher? Do the
rewards of teaching outweigh the trying moments? Answering these questions is not a
simple task. Let's see what the author says.
也许每位教师都一再问过自己：为什么选择教书作为自己的职业？教书得到的回报是否使老师的烦恼显得不值得多谈？回答这些问题并非易事。让我们看看本文的作者说了些什么。
Why I TeachPeter G. Beidler
Why do you teach? My friend asked the question when I told him that I didn't
want to be considered for an administrative position. He was puzzled that I did not
want what was obviously a "step up" toward what all Americans are taught to want
when they grow up: money and power.
我为什么当教师
彼得·G·贝德勒
你为什么要教书呢? 当我告诉一位朋友我不想谋求行政职务时，他便向我提出这一问题。所有美国人受的教育是长大成人后应该追求金钱和权力，而我却偏偏不要明明是朝这个目标“迈进”的工作，他为之大惑不解。
Certainly I don't teach because teaching is easy for me. Teaching is the most
difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my living: mechanic, carpenter,
