新视野大学英语4原文.docx

1、新视野大学英语4原文1.a关于艺术家1.b买东西 我家的好名声 羞耻感2.a卓别林2.b革命家 妇女 姆戈叭3.a福利救济3.b陪客人在泰国旅游4.a中国的发展4.b信息高速公路5.a关于孤独5.b萨拉 大学 室友冲突6.a商业道德6.b警员配枪7.a人类基因7.b关于天才的研究8.a黑人白人8.b青春 美容 利害9.a迪斯尼 文化9.b迪斯尼主题公园1.We never go to church other than for funerals and weddings1.I have no ambitions other than to live an independent life1.H

2、e insists the disigns have no great meaning,other than that they appealed to his eye . . 1.He doesnt eat pork but other than that, hell eat just about everything .1.I dont know the exact location of the church other than that its somewhere in the town center1.With all this work on hand,shouldnt have

3、 been to the cinema last night1.I would have told him the answer had it been possible,but I was so busy then1.They hurried there only to find the meeting canceled.In fact,they neednt have gone at all1.If Henry did not attend the conference last night ,he must have had too much work to do 1.Philip mi

4、ght have been injured seriously in the car accident1.With so much going on at the office, it is a wonder to find that Mr has much time left for anything else.1.It is a surprise for us to find that television enjoy its greatest competitive advantage on information. 1.You will soon find that it is a w

5、aste of time to argue with him1.Its a comfort to know that theres always someone to keep an eye on the kid.1.It is a relief for us to learn that the driver was able to control the car during the stormy weather. 1.Mu father always gets information from the local library, You might as well go there to

6、 see whether there is the information you need.1.While you live alone,you can dou as you like,We might as well call it freedom.They miss you very.You might as well ring and tell them youre going to visit them.Its no good waiting for the bus.We might as well walk home.1.This passage is too difficult

7、for us to read. We might as well find an easier one to read. 1. The wanted man is believed to be living in New York.2. Many people are said to be homeless after the floods. 3. Three men are said to have been arrested after the explosion. 4. The prisoner is thought to have escaped by climbing over th

8、e wall. 5. Four people are reported to have been seriously injured in the accident. 1. What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution. 2. This is nothing less than a call to restore the vitality of the American Dream. 3. Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to

9、 bring computers and ordinary people together. ,4. The experience of sightseeing in the wonderful island is nothing less than exciting and I am moved to tears.5. He was very concerned that she should not be tired or bored; he wanted to make sure that the holiday would be nothing less than perfect fo

10、r her.1.a.An artist who seeks fame is like a dog chasing his own tail who, when he captures it, does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it. The cruelty of success is that it often leads those who seek such success to participate in their own destruction.Dont quit your day job! is advic

11、e frequently given by understandably pessimistic family members and friends to a budding artist who is trying hard to succeed. The conquest of fame is difficult at best, and many end up emotionally if not financially bankrupt. Still, impure motives such as the desire for worshipping fans and praise

12、from peers may spur the artist on. The lure of drowning in fames imperial glory is not easily resisted.Those who gain fame most often gain it as a result of exploiting their talent for singing, dancing, painting, or writing, etc. They develop a style that agents market aggressively to hasten popular

13、ity, and their ride on the express elevator to the top is a blur. Most would be hard-pressed to tell you how they even got there. Artists cannot remain idle, though. When the performer, painter or writer becomes bored, their work begins to show a lack of continuity in its appeal and it becomes diffi

14、cult to sustain the attention of the public. After their enthusiasm has dissolved, the public simply moves on to the next flavor of the month. Artists who do attempt to remain current by making even minute changes to their style of writing, dancing or singing, run a significant risk of losing the au

15、diences favor. The public simply discounts styles other than those for which the artist has become famous.Famous authors stylesa Tennessee Williams play or a plot by Ernest Hemingway or a poem by Robert Frost or T.S. Eliotare easily recognizable.The same is true of painters like Monet, Renoir, or Da

16、li and moviemakers like Hitchcock, Fellini, Spielberg, Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou. Their distinct styles marked a significant change in form from others and gained them fame and fortune. However, they paid for it by giving up the freedom to express themselves with other styles or forms.Fames spotligh

17、t can be hotter than a tropical junglea fraud is quickly exposed, and the pressure of so much attention is too much for most to endure. It takes you out of yourself: You must be what the public thinks you are, not what you really are or could be. The performer, like the politician, must often please

18、 his or her audiences by saying things he or she does not mean or fully believe.One drop of fame will likely contaminate the entire well of a mans soul, and so an artist who remains true to himself or herself is particularly amazing. You would be hard-pressed to underline many names of those who hav

19、e not compromised and still succeeded in the fame game. An example, the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, known for his uncompromising behavior, both social and sexual, to which the public objected, paid heavily for remaining true to himself. The mother of a young man Oscar was intimate with accused

20、him at a banquet in front of his friends and fans of sexually influencing her son. Extremely angered by her remarks, he sued the young mans mother, asserting that she had damaged his good name. He should have hired a better attorney, though. The judge did not second Wildes call to have the woman pay

21、 for damaging his name, and instead fined Wilde. He ended up in jail after refusing to pay, and even worse, was permanently expelled from the wider circle of public favor. When things were at their worst, he found that no one was willing to risk his or her name in his defense. His price for remainin

22、g true to himself was to be left alone when he needed his fans the most.Curiously enough, it is those who fail that reap the greatest reward: freedom! They enjoy the freedom to express themselves in unique and original ways without fear of losing the support of fans. Failed artists may find comfort

23、in knowing that many great artists never found fame until well after they had passed away or in knowing that they did not sell out. They may justify their failure by convincing themselves their genius is too sophisticated for contemporary audiences.Single-minded artists who continue their quest for

24、fame even after failure might also like to know that failure has motivated some famous people to work even harder to succeed. Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, had his first novel Look Homeward, Angel rejected 39 times before it was finally published. Beethoven overcame his father, who did not be

25、lieve that he had any potential as a musician, to become the greatest musician in the world. And Pestalozzi, the famous Swiss educator in the 19th century, failed at every job he ever had until he came upon the idea of teaching children and developing the fundamental theories to produce a new form o

26、f education. Thomas Edison was thrown out of school in the fourth grade, because he seemed to his teacher to be quite dull. Unfortunately for most people, however, failure is the end of their struggle, not the beginning.I say to those who desperately seek fame and fortune: good luck. But alas, you m

27、ay find that it was not what you wanted. The dog who catches his tail discovers that it is only a tail. The person who achieves success often discovers that it does more harm than good. So instead of trying so hard to achieve success, try to be happy with who you are and what you do. Try to do work

28、that you can be proud of. Maybe you wont be famous in your own lifetime, but you may create better art.1.b. One summer day my father sent me to buy some wire and fencing to put around our barn to pen up the bull. At 16, I liked nothing better than getting behind the wheel of our truck and driving in

29、to town on the old mill road.Water from the mills wheel sprayed in the sunshine making a rainbow over the canal and I often stopped there on my way to bathe and cool off for a spellnatural air conditioning. The sun was so hot, I did not need a towel as I was dry by the time I climbed the clay banks

30、and crossed the road ditch to the truck. Just before town, the road shot along the sea where I would collect seashells or gather seaweed beneath the giant crane unloading the ships. This trip was different, though. My father had told me Id have to ask for credit at the store.It was 1976, and the ugly shadow of racism was still a fact of life. Id seen my friends ask for credit and then stand, head down, while a storeowner enquired into whether they were good for it. Many store clerks watched black youths with the assumption that the