Unit 7Safety is Everyone’s ResponsibilityTeaching objectives Knowledge &Ability1.Talk about safety issues2.know about workplace safety policy3.identify and prevent safety hazardsProcess&MethodSet a context of hotel work, point out the hazards and discuss about how to avoid them.Emotion&AttitudeTo let students realize the hazards in both office jobs and industrial jobs, to as to set a correct and serious attitude to the workspace safety.Teaching Focus 1.Expressions of safety issuesnguage points: safety; work-related injuries; suffer from eye strain;lift thing properly; potential; unexpected; due to, etc.Teaching Difficulties 1.Questions and answers in communicationes of expressions of describing safety hazards and solutions考点预测Vocabulary 单词emergency, slouch, strain, definitely, potential, industrial, avoidable, leak, chemical, manpower词组over time, no wonder, give sb.a hand, no way, for sure, walk into, on and on, in the long run, worn out, rule of thumb, keep in mind词形变化injure—injured—injurycomplain—complaintindustry—industrialaddition--additional词语辨析danger; risk; hazardwalk into; strike against; bump into; trip overSentences Look at how you’re slouching over....Aren’t you always complaining about back pain?It’s true that...It’s no wonder.May I have a word with you?Period 1 Warm-up&Listening & SpeakingStep 1. Preparing lessons&self-study, exploring the problems参考《活力课堂新学案》p.144-145. 课前预习单Check the exercises一、英汉互译二、句子翻译Step 2. Finishing plan & asking questionswarm-up p.100. task 1 match symbols with meaningstask 2 discussionpre-listening p.101. task 1 tick the postureP.103 task 5 tick the answersStep 3. Researching cooperatively & answering questionsWhile-listeningP.101. task 2 underline the causes of injures to the manP.103. task 6 true of false questionsP.103. task 7complete the sentences.Step 4. summing&chewing, summarizing knowledgePost-listeningP.102. task 3 circle the trip hazards & 4 give warningsP.104. task 8 hazards and solutions task 9 role-playStep 5. testing in class & improving skills参考《活力课堂新学案》p.147-148课堂探析单和课堂检测单补充知识点:1. safe -- dangerous -- risky adj.safety –danger (in--) – risk (at--) n. & v. risk doing sth.(任何情况) (主动碰运气、冒险)2. stop/ prevent sb. (from) doing sth. 阻止/ 防止某人做某事protect sb. (from) doing sth. 保护某人不做某事keep sb. from doing sth. 使某人远离做某事(from不可省) 以上句型在被动语态中from均不可省。
当代英美散文名篇选读（下册）练习答案方健壮广东外语外贸大学Unit 1 Why Don't We Complain?Key to Exercise II1. unctuously2. mortification3. discreet4. rectify5. ostentatiously6. bellicose7. deferentially8. reproofs9. virile 10. apathy 11. plenipotentiary 12. impervious 13. unobtrusive 14. doleful 15. fortified 16. telltale17. raring 18. whisked 19. notorious 20. resignation 21. primed 22. moaned 23. nonchalantly 24. visualize25. head-on 26. showdown 27. presumption 28. irksome29. intimated 30. complianceKey to Exercise III1. basis2. examples3. sticks4. rocks5. something6. outside7. comfort8. hand9. case 10. missiles 11. best 12. dust13. tools 14. craft 15. intriguing 16. aid17. tasty 18. though 19. items 20. measure21. serve 22. from 23. length 24. of25. section 26. somewhat 27. other 28. the29. by 30. fashion 31. use 32. They33. the 34. location 35. other 36. witness37. come 38. mirror 39. them 40. is41. though 42. is 43. while 44. did45. design 46. different 47. local 48. Since49. this 50. certainlyKey to Exercise IVAs the 20th-century nears its end, only a handfulamong China's writers can be clearly seen as to 1 ✓have had a creative center ∧ strong that they could 2 so overcome challenges and forging a united and enduring 3 forgebody of true rich and original work. Among 4 trulythem is Shen Congwen. Shen was born in the western 5 ✓part of Hunan in 1902 ∧ a family with military traditions 6 togoing back to several generations. The 7 toregion in which he grew up was in an area of wild 8 inrivers, hills and forests, a place ∧ little influence 9 where from the east coast urban centers had penetrated. 10 ✓after a brief stint in an armed academy, Shen was 11 military assigned at 15 to a regiment stationing in a Hunan 12 stationedcountry town: there he mainly acted clerical work. 13 performed The regiment supposed task was to keep the peace 14 regiment'sand cleanse the surrounding areas off bandits, but 15 ofmilitary action was more sporadic, and Shen had 16 moreample time to observe at the minutiae of military 17 atlife, as well as the soldiers' responses to the 18 ✓civilians nearby. He also noticed carefully the 19 notedrhythms of the life of the Tujia and Miao tribal 20 thepeoples who armed, fished and hunted in the surrounding 21 farmed countryside. In 1922 he settled to Beijing, 22 indecided to be a writer. By 1935 he had completed 23 determined35 volumes of works: short stories, essays, 24 worked novels and translations of folk songs and rural 25 transcriptions tales.Shen is unusual for Chinese writers in his refusal 26 amongto be political. If politics impinges ∧ all on 27 athis work, it is only to set the scenery, and the 28 scenedetails are always left in hazy. What absorbs him 29 inis humane dignity and genuine emotion - the ways 30 humanthat men and women ∧ capable of responding to each 31 areother, and the ways that those response relate to 32 responsestheir culture's past and present. Shen is ∧ expert 33 anon loss. This can be seen in many ∧ his finest stories, 34 ofsuch as "The Husband", "Guishen" and "Sansan".Key to Exercise V1. We must complete the damming of the river before the rainy season sets in.2. You will get on to genetic engineering if you keep on working at it.3. On hearing his false accusations she was so carried away that she packed up her things and left him forever.4. I have been jobless for two long years, so I'll settle for any kind of work.5. He is completely tied up these days. Could you come again next week?6. The battle was raging fiercely. Suddenly we ran out of ammunition.7. His likes and dislikes asserted themselves not only in everyday life but also in his work.8. The VIP was so addicted to smoking and drinking that his private doctor found it very hard to prevail upon him to change such habits.9. Marshal Peng's manuscripts survived the cultural revolution because his niece had them stashed away somewhere in Hunan province.10. It would be a big mistake on your part to cover up the scandal for your friend.11. You must know it is now or never. What are you still hesitating for?12. Summoning up his last ounce of strength, the soldier pushed the drowning child ashore.Unit 2 College PressuresKey to Exercise II1. scribbled2. authentic3. unswervingly4. savored5. venerated6. induce7. intangible8. dimension9. visualize 10. sampled 11. exhilarated 12. accrue13. exhorted 14. tenacity 15. pay-off 16. synthesize17. vacillated 18. furtively 19. symptomatic 20. perceive21. contagious 22. reverse 23. juggled 24. nurture 25. circuitous 26. potent 27. positively 28. intertwined29. steer 30. drabKey to Exercise III1. jets2. job3. ever4. Indeed5. catered6. accused7. volume8. Too9. quality 10. matter 11. right 12. need13. low 14. more 15. no 16. specializing 17. viable 18. traffic 19. jostling 20. created21. result 22. some 23. hovering 24. background 25. business 26. invested 27. apart 28. list29. time 30. In-flight 31. attention 32. lure33. accent 34. Regular 35. room 36. offered37. it 38. snatch 39. proved 40. aircraft41. improve 42. are 43. inevitable 44. bearable45. there 46. to 47. process 48. passengers 49. attract 50. themselves 51. change 52. traveller53. flight 54. practice 55. businessmen 56. one57. thwart 58. passengers 59. But 60. airKey to Exercise IVA lot of the mental anguish of decision making 1 ✓comes because we often worry in ∧ factual vacuum. An 2 a endless number of stewing can be avoided if we do 3 amount what all good executives ∧ with a problem that can't 4 dobe settled: return it back for more data. A famous 5 send university dean once said, "If I have a problem ∧ has 6 thatto be faced at 3 o'clock next Tuesday, I refuse to 7 ✓make a decision about it when Tuesday arrives. In the 8 until meantime I concentrate on getting all the facts 9 ✓that bear ∧ the problem. And by Tuesday, if I've got 10 onall the facts, the problem usually solves by itself. 11 by But just gathering the facts won't solve hard 12 the problems. "The problem in coming up to a firm and 13 upclear-sighted decision," said and old veteran infantry 14 old commander and now commandant of the National War 15 ✓College, "is not only ∧ take possession of facts, but 16 to∧ marshal them in good order. In the army, we train 17 toour leaders to draw up ∧ we call an Estimate of the 18 what Situation. At first, they must know their objective. 19 At Except you know what you want, you can't possibly 20 unless decide how to get it. Second, we teach them to consider 21 ✓alternate means of attaining that objective. 22 alternative Very rarely that a goal, military or any other, can 23 thatbe realized in only one way. Next we line up ∧ pros 24 theand cons of each alternative, as far as we can see ∧. 25 them Then we choose the cause that appears most likely to 26 course achieve the results we want. Furthermore that does 27 Furthermore not guarantee success. But at least it allows us to 28 ✓decide as intelligent as the situation permits. It 29 intelligently prevents us from going of on a half-baked hunch that 30 offmay turn out to be disastrous.Key to Exercise V1.I was really up the creek when I went into the department store and found that I had no money with me.2.Goods were piling up at the docks because the workers had gone on strike against terrible working conditions.3.As a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party, Huang was privy to many top state secrets.4.People want their wages to catch up with the price hike.5.Dialectical materialism and historical materialism can help us see things in perspective.6. He asked the barber to thin out his thick hair.7.In accordance with the requirements of a market economy, the State Council cutback on the number of departments directly involved in economic management. 8.In his first speech at the Legislative Council the Chief Executive made much ofthe role of high technology in economic development.9.I cannot conceive of a blind man working as a radio sports commentator.10.He should have retired long ago. Why does he still hang on to power?Unit 3 The PoliticianKey to Exercise II1.merit2.rove3.upbraided4.doles5.incumbent6.remedy7.humane8.candid9.enchanted 10.intricate 11.virtues 12.enterprising 13.literally 14.intrinsically 15.sagacity 16.fraud17.oversight 18.derision 19.preposterous 20.plightKey to Exercise III1.economies2.If3.but4.firms5.free6.rich7.confusion8.economist9.advantage 10.in 11.differences 12.international 13.there 14.check 15.at 16.to17.low 18.country 19.because 20.emerging 21.productivity 22.link 23.value 24.want25.up 26.equalize 27.unit 28.demand 29.drive 30.demonstrates 31.sort 32.only33.Malaysia's 34.words 35.equal 36.costs37.than 38.acquire 39.soar 40.Yet41.rising 42.wages 43.seen 44.also45.most 46.narrowing 47.tend 48.still49.gaps 50.another 51.behind 52.goods53.those 54.gain 55.different 56.relative57.say 58.be 59.more 60.developing 61.America 62.exporters 63.test 64.in65.cases 66.across 67.alikeKey to Exercise IVThe story of our English language is typically one 1.✓of massively stealing from other languages. That 2.massive is why English today has an estimated diction of 3.vocabulary over one million words, while the other languages 4.the have far less. French, for example, has only about 5.fewer 75,000 words, ∧ that includes English expressions like 6.and snack bar and hit parade. ∧ French, however, do not 7.Thelike borrowing from foreign words because they think 8.fromit as corrupts their language. The government tries 9.asto outrule words from English and passes decrees 10.outlaw saying jumbo jet is not desired; so they invent a 11.desirableword, gros porteur. French kids are supposed to talk 12.say balladeur instead of walkman - but they don't. Walkman13.✓is fascinated because it isn't even English. Strictly 14.fascinating speaking, it ∧ invented by the Japanese manufacturers 15.was who put two simple English words together to name on 16.on their product. That doesn't bother to us, but it does 17.to trouble the French. Such as is the glorious messiness 18.asof English. That happy tolerance, ∧ willingness to 19.that accept words from anywhere explains for the richness 20.forof English and why it has become, up to a very real 21.up extent, the first true global language. The English- 22.truly speaking peoples have defeated all effort to build 23.efforts fences round their language. Indeed, English isn't 24.✓the especial preserve of grammarians, teachers, 25.special writers or the intellectual elite. It is and alwayshas been the tongue of the common.Key to Exercise V1.They are looking to the new manager to bring the company back to profitability.2.He is itching for the meeting to end so that he can go and see the football match.3.The visitors politely refrained from saying what they really thought of our school.4.Though miracles seldom happen, she is still hoping against hope that her daughter and son-in-law would reconcile with each other.5.You should divest your booklet as much as possible of technicalities.6.He is bent on building up his health through exercise.7.He was only half in earnest when he promised not to interfere in her social activities.8.Should Taiwan proclaim independence, we would be compelled to resort to force.9.Suddenly he let off a joke and the tense atmosphere at once relaxed.10.You can't work off that tale on me. I know your tricks just too well.11.These right-wing newspapers are abusing us up hill and down dale, but we won't be toppled as a result.Unit 4 Portrait of an ActressKey to Exercise II1.congenial2.seasoned3.grated4.growled5.phantoms6.insubstantial7.scribble8.buffet9.stumbled 10.s ham 11.i ncongruous 12.d omesticity 13.f orsake 14.s olitude 15.s urging 16.o utrageous 17.c ontradicted 18.m inute 19.r ambling 20.d efy21.s tockKey to Exercise III1.as2.separate3.across4.else5.might6.taste7.sail8.at9.arrival 10.after 11.rather 12.auspicious 13.left 14.not ter 16.extensively 17.full 18.soldiers 19.rest 20.colonisation 21.integration 22.adopted 23.by 24.remoteness 25.invaders 26.hands 27.time 28.survived 29.either 30.literally 31.wealth 32.treasures 33.all 34.unearthed 35.discovered 36.around37.examples 38.dramatic 39.stretches 40.line41.Romans 42.beyond 43.his 44.remains 45.length 46.preserved 47.are 48.with49.locations 50.foot 51.contours 52.Romans eful 54.for 55.these 56.and57.still 58.blocks 59.offers 60.remainsKey to Exercise IVThat poor countries need high savings to growfast has become a dictum of development economics.The Asian miraculous economies provide a dramatic 1.✓_____ contrast with Latin America. Asian domestic saving 2.savings rates have often well over 30% of GDP. In most of 3.been Latin America (Chile except), they are closer to 15 4.exceptedpercent. Asian economies have been growing up at 5.up over 5% a year for the past decade. Latin America 6.✓has been barely grown at all. Economists have long 7.been suspected that low savings partly explain for this 8.for difference. But as capital poured ∧ in the early 9.in 1990s, it was an easy point to remember. In the 10.forget new global capital market, perhaps countries could 11.✓rely on flowins of foreign money to make up for 12.inflows what they failed to save at home. So Mexico’s crash 13.Then rudely reminded everyone of the risks involving in 14.involved such a strategy.The trouble is in that high savings seem to be 15.in both a cause and a consequence of highly growth. 16.high When economies grow faster, people get richer. 17.fast They can afford to save more ∧ their income without 18.of cutting current consumption. These high savings in 19.higher turn fuel more investment and high growth: a 20.higher virtuous circle. The difficulty is getting it to start.Key to Exercise V1.He fobbed me off with promises that he never intended to keep.2.There will be a good deal of rain next month; at any rate the weather forecasterssay so.3.Fear came upon her as the sudden ringing of the doorbell at midnight waked herup.4.There is no reason to believe that you will leave a stronger impression by talkingabove the heads of your audience.5.His earnings are out of proportion to his skills and ability.6.Your information may throw light on the cause of his death.7.Your parents were surely on the rack until they heard from you.8.Being in such a hurry, he took a suit from his wardrobe at a venture and rushedout.Unit 5 A Wagner MatineeKey to Exercise II1.legacy2.scourged3.fumbled4.upshot5.reverted6.doggedly7.haggard8.conjecture9.inert 10.trepidation 11.excruciatingly 12.matinees 13.drowsy 14.jocularity 15.deluge 16.interminably 17.seething 18.Myriad 19.infatuation 20.contour 21.slender 22.turmoil 23.gaunt 24.aloofness 25.perceiveKey to Exercise III1.about2.seen3.wealthy4.to5.children6.average7.of8.societyst rgely 11.into 12.Republican 13.being 14.eroded 15.help 16.growing 17.attention 18.grab 19.hear 20.quest21.issue 22.set 23.awarding 24.child25.acknowledgement 26.extra 27.quotas 28.incentives 29.much 30.downturn 31.aware 32.richer33.good 34.scapegoats 35.taking 36.hit37.expect 38.at 39.loudest 40.nomination 41.try 42.pick 43.Under 44.pander45.wants ed 47.funnily 48.altogether 49.hopefuls 50.places 51.simply 52.hand53.if 54.behind 55.friend 56.either57.selling 58.ordered 59.astonishment 60.less-qualified 61.having 62.in 63.the 64.person65.candidate 66.thinking 67.If 68.votes69.from 70.the 71.been 72.losers73.women 74.Even 75.Action 76.say77.don’t78.and 79.Angry 80.inKey to Exercise IVDesertification in the United States is flagrant.Underground groundwater supplies beneath vast areas 1.underground are dropping down precipitously. Whole river systems 2.down have dried ∧ ; others are choked with sediment washed 3.up from denuded land. Hundreds ∧ thousands of acres of 4.ofprevious irrigated crop land has been abandoned to 5.previously wind or weeds. Several millions acres of natural lion grassland are eroded at unnaturally high rates as a 7.eroding result of cultivation or overgrazing. All being told, 8.being about 225 million acres of land are undergoing through 9.through severe desertification. Federal subsidies encourage 10.✓the conservation of arid land resources. For example, 11.exploitation low interest loan for irrigation and ∧ water delivery 12.other systems encourage farmers and municipalities to mine 13.✓out groundwater. Federal disaster relief and commodity 14.out programs encourage arid-land farmers to plow out 15.up naturally grassland to plant crops such as wheat, ∧ especially, 16.and cotton. Federal grazing fees that are well above 17.below the free market price encourage overgrazing of the 18.✓commons. The market, too, reserved powerful incentives 19.provides to exploit arid land resources beyond their carry 20.carrying capacity. When commodity prices are highly relative to 21.highly the farmer’s operating cost, the benefit on a production- 22.return enhancing investment is always invariably greater 23.always that that on a conservation investment. If the United 24.✓States is good on its ways toward overdrawing the arid 25.well land resources, then the policy choice is simply topay now for the appropriate remedies or pay far morelater when productive benefits from these resourceshas been largely terminated.Key to Exercise V1.He was the only person who was not formally dressed at the banquet, so he feltout of place.2.The pollution was so serious that to all intents and purposes the lake was “dead”.3.Whether or not the task could be completed ahead of time depends on your goingabout the business in the right way.4.Let this lesson sink into our mind.5.The township head finally prevailed upon his superior to believe in his innocence.6.Why did you pick him as your secretary? He can’t so much as write a letter ofintroduction!7.In short, more research is needed before a definite decision can be made.8.If a country exports nothing but raw materials, it will be at the mercy of worldprices.9.He should have been removed from the leading position long ago since he onlycared for his own interests and was dead to others’ sufferings.Unit 6 Thinking as a HobbyKey to Exercise II1.norms2.marooned3.incomprehensible4.innocence5.plonked6.musing7.depravity8.exalted9.impediment 10.reeled 11.staggered 12.bulged 13.detested 14.pious 15.proposition 16.stampeded 17.conferred 18.portentous 19.deficiencies 20.bolstered 21.beamed 22.inscrutable 23.mingle 24.amiability 25.conceded 26.sordid 27.irreverent 28.delinquent 29.gregarious 30.revered 31.aweKey to Exercise III1.nestled2.where3.doing4.fall5.through6.wild7.about8.muted9.cat 10.vibrations 11.drum 12.darkness 13.bark 14.still 15.sounds 16.incessantly 17.shrill 18.chorus 19.spills 20.runs21.cascade 22.masks 23.day 24.trees25.desperate 26.testifies 27.I 28.Outside 29.and 30.atop 31.acacia 32.witness33.lumbering 34.plays 35.dry 36.forefeet 37.table 38.eventually 39.drink 40.graceful 41.rainless 42.itself 43.calls 44.setting45.discover 46.crown 47.sprinkle 48.water49.buds 50.midst 51.anticipation 52.on53.growth 54.maximum 55.Do 56.become 57.a 58.To 59.call 60.you61.if 62.within 63.yearn 64.do65.digs 66.sight 67.acaciaKey to Exercise IVIn many parts of the world Landmines aren’t markedwith alarming signs. They are marked with blood, 1.warning detonated by the foot of passing civilians. The 1980 2.feet UN Weapons Convention dictates that “parties of a 3.to conflict ∧ record the location all pre-planned 4.shall mine fields laid by them.” Wars dictate likewise. 5.otherwise In ∧ heat of battle landmines are scattered in huge 6.the numbers. Angola alone has over nine million buried 7.✓landmines. That’s one against every single member 8.forof the population. So they are also dropped with 9.So scant regard for their whereabout, fired from launchers, 10.whereabouts or dropped from helicopters ∧ planes. This means 11.and there’s much chance of mapping the weapons with any 12.little accuracy. When the trouble ends and the soldiers 13.✓disappear these weapons remain to wreak a havoc on 14. athe local population. In Poland people are yet being 15.still killed or injured at landmines 50 years after world 16.byWar II ended. But even if ∧ military had a rough idea 17.theon where they had left their landmines there is 18.on little chance they could remove ∧. Modern plastic mines 19.them are increditably difficult to detect, while other 20.incredibly varieties are merely too dangerous to try and defuse. 21.simply Huge tracts of Africa are “no-go” areas because of 22.✓landmines, while in countries with going-on conflicts, 23.on-going an area that it was sage one day can be mined the 24.it nest. That is why a worldwide ban of the production, 25.on export and use of anti-personnel landmines is calledfor by the International Committee of the Red Cross.Key to Exercise V1.It is high time you and I came to an understanding about our respective duties.2.International trade is one of the important issues, which must be faced bycountries that aspire to economic development.3.As it was to o wet to go outside, we had to be contented with playing indoors.’4.At the recent session of the Provincial People’s Congress the governor spoke atlength about Guangdong’s plan to catch up with and surpass the four little dragons of Asia.5.To complement eac h other’s advantages, Guagnzhou Foreign LanguageUniversity merged with Guangzhou Foreign Trade College in 1995. Many institutions of higher learning in China have followed suit in recent years.6.In order to do away with nuclear threat, it is necessary to completely prohibit andthoroughly destroy nuclear weapons.7.It goes without saying that the spread of the common speech makes for closernational unity.8.The new president is no better than his predecessor. He is, if anything, morecunning and more hypocritical.9.Not fully prepared, she left out an important detail in her account.10.That journalist is not welcome to our country; he is given to confusing right andwrong.11.We set out very early for the railway station lest we should be delayed by trafficjams.Unit 7 Once More to the Lake Key to Exercise IIKey to Exercise IIIKey to Exercise IVKey to Exercise III1.Looking out of the window, the spy saw a police car draw up opposite his hotel.2.The field of inquiry has now narrowed down to three people.3.Ou tside of the setter, all members on the US women’s volleyball team are over1.85 meters tall.4.The boss always left us to our own devices; he did not mind how the work wasdone as long as it was finished in time.5.Because some unexpected problems in the experiment have cropped up here, Iwon’t return home for supper tonight.6.The car hit a big tree and rolled over twice before coming to a stop.7.We had to turn away hundreds of people because all tickets had been sold out.8.The fog was so dense that we could not make out who was coming towards us.9.The prospect of a record-breaking economic growth had the government leaderslicking their chops.10.The city’s reporters were very troublesome, but the new mayor soon had themeating out of his hand.Unit 8 Inner RingKey to Exercise II1.imploringly2.spontaneous3.devoured4.senioritypromised6.sandwiched7.unscrupulous8.perverse9.unawares 10.consorting 11.propitiate 12.prompted 13.mainspring 14.makings 15.genial 16.esoteric17.prophecy 18.servitude 19.servility 20.pell-mell 21.hierarchy 22.probation 23.reprimands 24.evasion25.pining 26.lured 27.court 28.stales29.wakeful 30.trivialitiesKey to Exercise III1.boom2.exotic3.curiosity4.craze5.burst6.winner7.which8.taking9.owning 10.market 11.high-quality unched 13.as 14.minimum 15.investment 16.joined17.chick 18.breeder 19.rears 20.set21.guaranteed 22.For 23.by 24.show25.over 26.flock 27.earn 28.with29.mature 30.habit 31.operation 32.secure33.attracted 34.enticing 35.initial 36.produce37.claimed 38.livestock y 40.as41.a 42.eaten 43.ago 44.sales45.from 46.for 47.not 48.gone49.whether 50.point 51.like 52.content53.up 54.been 55.at 56.said57.and 58.flavor 59.if 60.theKey to Exercise IVWe believe that the optimum rate of population growthfor the United States ( ∧ for the world) is negative until 1.and such time like the scale of economic activity, 2.asand its environmental effects, ∧ reduced to a level that 3.is would be sustained indefinitely. We are convinced that 4.sustainable if present rates of population and economic growth was 5.are allowed to continue, the end final result, within the 6.final lifetimes of many of us, would inevitably be near to 7.to universal poverty in a hopeless polluted nation and 8.hopelessly world. We agree to Herman Daly who has pointed out 9.withthat the human economy is ∧ subset of the biosphere, and 10. athat the correct scale of economic activity related to 11.relative the biosphere is already far too large enough to be 12.enough sustainable indefinitely. We believe that calls upon 13.for merely slowing down rapid population growth are also 14.also totally inadequate. Such proposals, while presented as 15.✓a solution, fail to dress the central issue: how to 16.address create a national (and world) economy that will become 17.be sustainable indefinitely. At present or the even higher 18.at standards of population, neither the application of 19.levels science and technology, nor simplifying life-styles, or 20.nor any combination of ∧ two, can offer any hope of reducing 21.the our influence on the environment to a sustainable 22.impact level. We must reduce over consumption use (in the US e and other developed countries) by simple life-styles. 24.simplifying We must reduce resource depletion ∧ pollution per unit 25.andof consumption through more wasteful use of energy and 26.efficient materials. We must, above all others, reduce the size 27.other of our population by a negative rate of population ∧. We 28.growth urge upon Congress and President Clinton to set, as a 29.upon top priority national goal, ∧ achievement of a negative 30.the population growth rate until the scale of economicactivity reaches a sustainable level.Key to Exercise V1.It is good to know that they went of their own accord to a mountainous area towork at the grass-roots level.2.You ought to ask your uncle. Being a director of the firm, he is surely in the know.3.He is a clever boy but apt to get into mischief.4.It is impossible for me to do ample justice to such an important subject in a shortessay.5.We can now easily account for many things that were thought to be mysterious bythe ancients/.6.Sometimes the interests of private enterprises do not coincide with those of thenation. So it is necessary to give them correct guidance.7.When the effects of the drug wore off, the headache returned.8.It is no easy task to enable 80 million people to shake off poverty in a matter offive years.9.Since he lived in the feudal society, he could not be immune to feudal ideas.10.The central government requests all its departments and other regions to work uptheir support to the development of the western part of China.。
Unit 7 Make a LivingText A Life of a SalesmanI. Vocabulary1. disabled, impatient, solitary, crushed, feel like, lashed, echoing, paused, betrayed, laundry, section, tilted2. cared forhang onwas laid up withare gaining onkicked upwent offdrop…offstraighten out3. sometimes didn’t register with her.in disorder, drawers pulled out, shoes and boots scattered.was transferred from Father’s account to my account.a pledge to contribute 100,000 dollars to the Children in Need charity campaign.The most profitable business in that province.4. gaining on, off balance, was laid up in, scar ona cripple/crippled, sugery, limitations, in literaturecommission, on the phone, his territory, never registers withII. Usage1. I never did go over these books, although I probably shouldhave.2. I know this is a personal question. You don’t have to answer me if you don’t want to.3. I think this topic should have attracted far more attention from philosopher than it has.4. “I think you’re right.” ---“I’m sure I am.”5. “He thought that the comdition was hereditary in his case.”---“well, it might be.”6. “Sugar?”---“No. Maybe next time.”7. The house is only a building. It is a place to live, nothing more.8. DIANE: You didn’t! Tell me you didn’t!FATHER: Oh, yes. Anything for my children.III. Word Familybored, boredom, bored, boringly, boringencouraged, encouragingly, encouraging, encouragementfrozen, freeze, freezing, freezer, freezeComprehensive ExercisesI. Clozeoff, feet, signature, commission, on the phone, laid up, surgery, territory, disorder, applying for, dignity, didn’t, read, come, money, because, earning, doing, own, Obviously, valueII. Translation1. Translate the sentences into English, using the words or phrases in brackets.1) I grew terribly scared when I heard sound of footsteps echoing round the hallway at midnight yesterday.2) The name-brand sports shoes are guaranteed for 12 months.3) Snowstorms threw communications and transportation into disorder.4) I’ve been suffering a lot of stress from work altely. I feel like taking a vacation at the seaside.5)Living in an apartment is all right, but it has its limitations---for example, you don’t have your own garden.2. Translate the passage into English, using the words or phrases given below.Tom was born a cripple, with one of his lower limbs useless. Early in his childhood, he learned that unless he so exerted himself as to rise above his limitations, he could not earn a living, and unless he succeeded in making a living on his own, he could not win/gain the respect of others. That was the price he had to pay for his dignity as a human being.Tom applied for numerous jobs, only to be turned down, before he finally got one as a delivery boy for a Pizza Hut. He then worked as a sales representative for a sportwear company in a territory no one else would want. Today he owns a fairly profitable retail shop in his hometown, and hires several people to work for him.。
