1、概念难以理解。Many of us find the notion of aboundless universe hard to grasp.5 因为在法律和规章中有许多漏洞,一小撮投机倒把者一夜之间暴富就没有什么奇怪的了。Therebeing so many loopholes in the lawsand regulations, it is little wonderthat a handful of speculators gotrich overnight.6 旅游事业的空前兴旺使这个从前只住三百人的边境小镇突然繁荣起来。An unprecedented boom intourism
2、 brought sudden prosperityto the small border town, which wasformerly inhabited by only threehundred people.7 根据这一消息,该国已经具有制造核武器的能力。In the light ofthis information, that countryalready has the capabilities to makenuclear weapons.8 他不顾朋友的反复警告,把所有的钱都投向了高风险企业。Regardless of repeated warningsfrom his fri
3、ends,he staked all hismoney on high-risk ventures.第三单元如果你着手干一番事业而失败了,不要丧失信心。“我失败了三次”与“我是一个失败者”之间有着天壤之别。只要你对自己不持否定的想法,不把自己与失败等同起来,而是试图从失败中吸取教训,你很可能在未来取得成功。你可曾想过,那些屡遭失败的人往往是自我形象不佳的牺牲品?他们的失败常常不是由于外部原因而是内部原因。无数的例子证明如果能劝使这些人改变观点并建立起正面的自我形象,他们的表现会发生奇迹般的变化。成功可能在任何时候到来-三十岁,四十岁,或是在似乎失败了一辈子之后。早年成功固然甜蜜,但晚年的成功往
4、往更有滋味。If you started on some ventune andfailed, do not despair(lose heart.There is a world of differencebetween”I have failed three times”and “I am a failure”. So long as youdo not hold a negative concept ofself or indentify with failures but tryto learn from them, you stand agood chance to succeed
5、in thefuture. Did it ever occur to you thatthose who fail repeatedlly are oftenvictims of a poor self-image? Oftentheir failures are due to internalcauses rather than external causes.Numerous cases have borne it outthat if they can be induced tochange their viewpoint andconstruct a positive self-ima
6、gemiraculous changes may take placein their performance. Success cancome anytime at thirty , forty oreven after a lifetime of apparentfailure. Early triumphs may besweet, but success in later life oftentastes even better.WritingSome young people seem to have apessimistic outlook on life. Theytend to
7、 believe they will neveramount to much bacause they arenot talented in anything whatsoever.Yet I think they are far fromjustified in feeling that way.There young men and women mayhave met with failures at one timeof another, consequently theygeneralize about their abilities andaptitudes and conclude
8、 that theywont be able to get far in life. Itneeds to be pointed out here,however, that generalization isoften dangerous. Just bacause onefails in one area doesnt mean hewill be unsuccessful in another. Asa matter of fact, there are otheroptions for his life if the path hechooses leads to failure.Fu
9、rthmore success belongs to theperseverings, as the saying goes.Instead of asking themselves howmuch genius they have displayed,young people should askthemselves how hard they haveworked. So long as they persist intheir efforts, they are bound to getsomewhere. As is known to all, theearly life of man
10、y a great man wasa mess. Thomas Edisons teachertried to get him out of the classbecause he was”addled”. CharlesDarwins father once shouted”Youcare for nothing but shooting dogsand rat-catching, and you will be adisgrace to yourself and all yourfamily!”But later they respondedto the challenge of thei
11、r lives bygreat perseverance and successfinally came their way.Obviously no young people need tobe pessimistic about his future. Hehas one special advantage over thegreatest man alive time! Seize thehour! Seize the minute! It,s neverlate for success.第五单元Scientists are a small group ofpeople who stri
12、ve to gain insightsinto nature and seek order from theseeming disorderliness. They arecredited with a special ability toreflect and analyze as well as theinfinite patience in makingobservations and cillecting data.However ,ability and patience donot account for all scientificdiscoveries, which often
13、 havemuch to do with creativeimagination. Indeed ,a leap ofimagination is usually the first steptowards discovery. In additionscientists are noted for theirhonesty. They put a high premiumon honesty, largely bacause it isessential testing and every mistakeor lie is bound to be found out.Thus ,if sci
14、entists find any counterevidence whatever, instead ofsuppressing or concealing theevidence,they modify or evenabandon their ideas. In this way,scientists have built up anenormous body ofknowledge,which helps us to betterunderstand ourselves and theworld arround.科学家是一小群努力洞悉自然,在表面的杂乱无序中寻求规律的人,他们具有一种特殊
15、的思考与分析能力,具有无限的耐心进行观察和收集数据。但是,并不能把一切科学发现都归因于能力和耐心,科学发现常常与创造性的思想力紧密相关,的确,想象力的飞跃往往是通向发现的第一步。另外,科学家也以诚实而著称。他们非常重视诚实,主要是因为诚实对他们的事业至关重要。他们提出的每一个理论都要受到进一步的检验。每一个错误或谎言必将被发现,因此,如果发现了与他们的想法相矛盾的证据,科学家不是隐瞒证据,而是修改甚至放弃他们的想法。这样,他们积累了及其大量的知识,这些知识帮助我们更好地了解自己及周围的世界。期中题1、A practicable way for foreignlanguage learners
16、to improve theirfluency is to learn large numbersof words their idiomatic usagethrough reading.外语学习者提高其流利程度的一个可行的方法是通过阅读学会大量的词汇及其习惯用法。2、An eternal problem that hauntsthe third world countries is how todevelop the economy quicklywithout damaging the environment.不断困扰第三世界的一个问题是如何快速发展经济而不损害环境。3、It is ha
17、rdly consistent with theconcept of “user-friendly” bankingto charge those high fines.收取这么高的罚款跟银行方便顾客的概念很不一致。4、Bond grabbed hold of thevicious attacker and flung him tothe ground.邦德一把抓住这个凶狠的袭击者,并把他摔倒在地上。5、We must set up an effectivemedia network to allowinformation to circulate rapidly.我们必须建立起一个有效的传媒
18、网络以使信息能快速传播。第七单元One day, we received an invitation to my fathers birthday party. Jenny thought that my father was voluntarily reaching out to me for a reconciliation and we should accept the invitation. At the same time I was in the midst of abstracting an important case and preparing for the coming
19、 exams, so I informed her in the simplest terms that there would never be a reconciliation. My refused obviously made Jenny feel unhappy. As a rational woman, she didnt quarrel with me but tried her best to persuade me. I was filled with fury bacause I thought Jenny had bugged me deliberately. Going
20、 out of my mind, I did an unforgivable thing. I shouted to her, hurled the phone toward her. The instant I hurled the phone, I felt regretful. When I turned to look at Jenny, she had gone.I searched everywhere. Nothing . I was scared to death and didnt know what to do next. As I was ready to give up
21、, I suddenly saw Jenny sitting in front of our house. I went up to her and said,”Im sorry, Jenny-.” But she cut off my apology, then said,”Love means not ever having to say youre sorry.”一天,我们收到一份去参加我父亲生日宴会的请帖。詹妮认为我父亲是在主动向我伸出手来求和,我们应该接受邀请。我当时正忙于摘录一个重要案例,忙着对付即将来临的考试,所以我只用最简单明了的话告诉她永远不会有和解的一天。我的拒绝显然使詹妮
22、很不高兴,但作为一个理智的女人,她并没有跟我争吵。她只是尽量使徒说服我。但这反而使我满腔怒火,以为詹妮是在故意惹我心烦。我当时准时发疯了,因为我做了一件我永远不会原谅自己的事情我对着詹妮大声叫嚷,把电话对着她掷去。但我刚掷出去就后悔了。当我转身去看詹妮时,她已经不在了。我出去到处寻找,但哪里也看不到詹妮。我吓得要死,不知道接下来该怎么办。当我正准备放弃努力时,突然看到詹妮坐在我们的房前。我走到她身边说,“詹妮,对不起。”但她打断了我的道歉,说:“爱就意味着永远不必说对不起。”第八单元1、During my childhood , I was so fascinated with the ide
23、a of travelling around theworld that I would spend severalhours in my grandfathers studyspinning the globe and dreamingof the places I would like to visit.我小时候完全被周游世界的想法迷住了,常在爷爷的书房里一呆几个小时,一边转动着地球仪,一边梦想着去游览的地方。2、This afternoon a time bombexploded in one of Londonsbiggest supermarket, evoking agreat p
24、anic among the popolation.今天下午一枚定时炸弹在伦敦最大的超市之一爆炸,在人们之间引起极大地恐慌。3、Accompanied by his father.Bill went to the police station andconfessed to the police officerthat he had robbed an old man ofhis gold watch two weeks before.在父亲的陪同下,比尔去了警察局,对警官坦白说他曾在两周前抢劫了一位老人的金表。4、After getting engaged to Jane,Stephen s
25、tarted working hard forthe first time in his life.Andbefore long he distinguishedhimself as a young theoneticalphysicist.与简订婚后,斯蒂芬生平第一次开始用功了。不就他便作为一名年轻的理论物理学家而崭露头角。5、Prof.Stone is distinguished forhis strictness. But ,to everyonessurprise, the speech he made athis daughters wedding lastSaturday was full of wit andhumor.斯通教授以严厉而著称。但令人惊奇的是,他在上周六他女儿的婚礼上的讲话却妙趣横生,充满幽默。6、It i
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