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閱讀教程2答案

1、 C A C B B D 2、 F T T T F T

3、 ①對于太多的人來說，學習似乎是使自己的意志屈服于外

界的指引，是一種奴役。

②然而，只要幸運，有決心，指導(dǎo)得法，人的精神不僅經(jīng)得起貧窮而且經(jīng)得起富裕的考驗。

③對一個人來說，形成完整和協(xié)調(diào)的人格與保持自身的衛(wèi)生、健康以及經(jīng)濟上的是同樣必要的，那些從來沒有認識到這一點的人已經(jīng)吃盡苦頭。

4、①First off all,the writer point out that there is a mistake about learning.Some young people dislike learning simply because they are educated in the wrong way.Learning is a natural pleasure that should be enjoyed.Then he develops this idea by examples to illustrate the different aspects:learning from books ,by travel and through practice.Learning can expand one＇s knowledge over a period of time. ②The chief danger of learning is laziness,sloth,routine,stupidity.It sneaks into people＇s mind like wind though the shutters ,causing people to slowly give up learning .We should realize that learning is a life-long endeavor,and only by continuous learning can one gain a 2

meaningful and rewarding life. Reading Skills 1、 2、 3、 4、 5、 6、 Students have improved SAT scores. Teenagers planned patrols. TV programs are less thorough than newspaper. Welcome to Our City is about the South and its people. Some films show little children fascinated at the world. One can communicated with the writer as one reads a book. 第二篇 1、 2、 A D C A C B ①朱麗讓我們?nèi)绱藶殡y，我真有點生氣。難道圣誕老人不存在的事實不是從同學那里得知的嗎？ ②我給他講述了事情的經(jīng)過，盡量使它聽起來滑稽有趣，希望他不要注意到我和杰里在處理這個問題是有多拙劣——我已經(jīng)開始把它稱為“圣誕老人事件”了。 ③我可以看出，他正在努力想辦法，任何辦法，只要可以解釋我們的行為，使其聽起來不那么有欺騙性，那么錯誤和愚蠢，雖然事實確實如此。 ④事情就這樣結(jié)束了。圣誕老人不存在的事實悲傷了片刻之后，生活又恢復(fù)了正常。 3、 ①Santa Claus is an imaginary old man with a long white beard and a red coat.Traditionally,young children in many countries are told that he brings them Christmas presents. Some legend goes like this:Santa 3

lives in nouthern Europe.There are varlous versions of the story,and some wonderfull movies,too. ②(Answer may vary,depending on your understanding.) 第三篇 1、 2、 A B B D C D ①他一去世，我自以為會長生不老的幻覺突然破滅了。 ②以后的歲月中，每當我默默期盼父親的信任支持時，總會不出預(yù)料遇到一副懷疑的表情。

③現(xiàn)在回想起來，他是故意不讓我們知道，免得掃了大家的興。

④捧著沉重的盒子，我猛然醒悟到，不管父親說的話聽上去多么令人泄氣，也抹殺不了他在我離開后用一張張剪報填滿盒子的實際行動。

3、 ①（Answers to this question may vary according to

individual opinions.）

②His father is a hard-working and casring person.Afer he returns from the Second World War to the United States,he starts a family and devoteds himself to raising the children.He is kind but strictwith the children.When he expresses his doubt about his son’s choice career,the son breaks up with him.But he is still very concernedabout his son’s future,and

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givehim guidance from time to time.He also shows his love by silently collecting informationabout his son’s career.When the writer receives the box from his father party two weeks before he died,he suddenly realizes that his father has been caring for him all the time. 第四篇

1、 C D A C D C

2、 ①collect herself-if you collect or your thought,you

make an effort to calm yourself or prepare yourself mentally.鎮(zhèn)定下來 collect-get control of one’s feelings

and

thoughts,especially

after

shock,surpriseor laughter.

②flash that big smile-if you flash a look or smile at someone,you suddenly look at them or smile at them.(臉上)露出微笑flash-show something for a short time.

③make deals with the rats與老鼠做交易（即故意留東西給老鼠吃）make deals with:reach an agreement for mutual benefit

④stand for welfare cheaters容忍stand for-endure or tolerate

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⑤rest his mind感到寬慰rest-relax

⑥poke around the house-if you poke around or about for something,you search for it,usually by moving lots of objects.四處搜索poke-search for something 3、 ①“貧窮”是人們無法擺脫的一種心境，而“沒錢”只是

一種暫時的狀況。

②她教導(dǎo)我們說，人們有兩種擺脫生活困境的方法——笑或者哭。笑帶來更多的希望。

③我們會站在后門廊里分發(fā)食物給鄰居，仿佛我們在救濟窮苦人，然后我們也會收下他們帶來作為交換的事物。 ④當時的情景仍歷歷在目，那個社會福利工作者在屋子里四處搜索，冰冷的亞麻油氈地面上的煤炭、灰是他不由得皺起鼻子，而看到小蟲在洗滌槽的臟盤子里爬來爬去的時候她就禁不住搖了搖頭。

4、①The author’s mother is a very strong and capable woman.Being a single black mother with serveal kids and without a regular job,she receives relief from the government.But she doesn’s her hopes.Instead,she isi always optimistic in facing difficult in lifeand teaches the kids to face life courageously.When there is no money to pay the rent and the family is evicted by the landlord,she tries to persuade the landlord to

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let them stay on credit;when her children need money to by medicine,she spends the rent money on it.Then she work in a white family,doing all sort of household chores and eating little money to cover the family’s daily expreses .Yet she pays great attentions to the education of the children and hopes that they will have a better life when they grown up.②(The answer may vary,depending on different understanding of mother’s love.Mostly we can say that it is selfless devotion,care and concern,and spiritual guidance) Reading Skill

1、The views of New York from the bridge was beautifull 2、When I was an adolescent,I never have the best jobs:neither did I have the worst jobs

3、Marijoana use is associated with abnormal behavior 第五篇

1、 C D D C C B 2、 ①

They

are

mostly

educated,skilled

and as

middle-class,such

doctors,teachers,diplomats,businessmen,journalists,technical experts,etc.

②Africans think that black Americans are Americans

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first,blacks second

③He told them to be well prepared to face problems in Africa.They must be determined to help the black peopie in Africa

④He says that the decaying cities like Kinshasa and Dares Salaam seem to be future cities of Africa,while the developed cities like Johannesburge and Salisbury are becoming the past.He believes that the newly independent African countries will be the future of African⑤She recalled her experiences growing up in a black,middle-class community in Washinton D.C.,how she was discriminated,and how she excelled over white students at school

⑥It means that the black Americans who did go to Africa understood that they should have a correct attitudein helping their black brothers in Africa

3、②Because many black Americans who have returned to Africa found everything from joy to disillusionment,but no immediate acceptance simply because they are black. They would like to bring their expertise to help,but were

faced

with

suspicion,disdain,and

frustration.Because of the long separation of

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300years,because of the different environments in which they grow up,they find it difficult to embrace their homeland 第六篇

1、 B C C A D B

2、 ①或許自多納.巴特米在20世紀60年始發(fā)表作品以

來，還沒有哪一位作家在文學界引起過這么多議論 ②雖然他對擁有這份體面的工作心存感激，但是他并不真正認為具有寫作天分的人一定能夠教書

③他緊密結(jié)合原文，分析具體的細節(jié)，最后，談到時他感動的作品時，他身上的緊張會突然消失

④對于雷蒙來說，批評就像小說一樣，是一種共鳴，即把自己放在別人的位置來考慮問題

⑤對于一個靦腆的人而言，他愛交際的慷慨精神尤其難能可貴

3、①He was a shy,kind and generous person.As a writer,he didn’t see that anyone who had a gift in writing should be able to teach.Yet,as a teacher,he was respected by his students.His method of teaching is a spherical in that he preferred to listen to the students talk.He never asked his students to learn the theories,dut wanted them to conclude from practice.He felt that

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criticism was an art of empathy,and encouraged his students to achieve their own success.He was kind and generous in helping his students and friends to overcome difficulties 第七篇

1、 D B D B C A 2、 T T T F T T

3、 ①母親的遺體還沒下葬，我就已經(jīng)領(lǐng)會了他的去世所隱含

的全部意義

②直到我乘火車離開斯科特堡去北方的那一天，我雖時很有可能或被毆打致死

③在那些日子里，我整天充滿了幻覺，想著我?guī)椭用撘蝗喊兹吮┩降淖反?p>④然而，當火車飛速行駛，電線桿向著我們呼嘯而來又呼嘯而過時，我覺得自己正逃離一種厄運，而我那些留在家鄉(xiāng)的親戚朋友已經(jīng)深陷其中

4、①In paragraph 2,the writer first mentions that his family is a pious Christian one,contented with whatever they have for life.Then he lists some acts of racial discrimination,such as segregated schools,the peanut gallery and the drugstore in town.He also lists the insulting names by which the white people call the

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blacks.After that he tells the reader several possible ways of being killed,in order to show the cruelty of the prejudice and the fear on the part of the black people.Finally he mentions the killing in other places.Put together ,this details form a picture of the racial prejudice against the blacks and the cruel reality facing them.In paragraph 8,he describes his hometown in Kansas about the land,the seasonal changes,the animals,and the farming activities.He uses noun phrases instead of complete sentences to indicate that he thinks of all those objects

②The writer uses flashbacks in his narration.He begins the story from the time his mother was buried and his family were gathering money for his journey north.Then he recalls his childhood experience in his hometown,from general to the specific case of his cousin,who went out to the working the South,and ended up being wanted.Then he returns to his journey on the train,and expresses his deep felling for his native land.At the end of the story,as the train was moving closer to the destination,he remembered his mother’s words and looked forward to the future in the north.

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Reading for Facts

1、 Galileo’s use of the telescope helped to develop

modern astronomy. 2、 B

3、 Through the use of a telescope. 4、 16. 5、 D 第八篇 1、D C D A B C

2、①威利在撥動盤子里的食物，企圖把其中一部分藏在餐刀下面，把其余的分散開，以便使盤子看上去是空的，但事實上他一口也沒用吃。

②“看著我，兒子。你以為你父親是什么樣的人？你認為我會讓你7歲就出去打工，然后拿你掙的錢花？”

③“你要提那些流血甚至犧牲的人想想。他們之所以這樣做，就是為了不讓其他的人只把你看成黑人劇團演出的一個雜耍而已?！?p>④“你不認為一個男人比你更了解應(yīng)該怎樣對他的兒子說話嗎？你不認為我能讓他像我一樣成為一個真正的男子漢嘛？”

3、①Mr.Sherldan was cutting his steak with his left

hand.Mr.Sherldan was eating beans ,Willie was playing

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with his food on the plate and Emma was looking at them and ponderinin her mind. The mother was trying to let Willie eat some beans, but he just refused. Then she asked her husband about his trip to town, and they talked about it.Suddenly,Willie burst out with his idea of going to the summer stock with his uncle, and Mr.Sheridan was greatly annoyed.②Mr.Sheridan showed complete disagreement with Willie ’idea. He was excited ,annoyed and a little angered. Mr.Sheridan was more neutral on this matter, because her father ans brother were actors. She thought that Willir’s decision should be respected and that he should have the right to choose what he wanted to do. She tried to persuade her husband. 第九篇 1、B B C C A D

2、①我沒有想到他會涉獵毒品。

②成年人的危險標準與他們的不同，他們也知道一點。因此他們總是對我們所說的話半信半疑。

③這就是一種最基本的代溝：父母最害怕自己的孩子發(fā)生不測，而孩子卻總是極力擺脫父母的保護。

④也許我對基酰胺的重新出現(xiàn)所表現(xiàn)的真正警惕會給他提一

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個醒。

3、①The writer uses the following techniques in his essay

to convey his strong love for his son,as well as the message that parents should care about their children and warm them against drugs:1)by addressing the readers directlyat the beginning to arouse their attention;2)by using some short,simple sentences to express his strong feeling,such as“This isn’t going to be easy”etc.3)by alternating narration of the funeral with menmories of Joe;4)by using the italicized font to separate the recollection from the present.

②The writer thinks that kids don’t know treacherous drugs can be.They think they are invulnerable,and don’t listen to their parents so much.Adults’ standards of risk are different from theirs,and they discount what the parents tell them.They don’t believe that drugs are as dangerous as their parents warm of them.In a word,kids struggle constantly to free themselves of the protectionof their parents.The writer doesn’t expect them to obey their parents totally,he doesn’t want to smother them,but he doesn’t want to

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assume anything,either.Parents should warn them of the danger of taking drugs. 第十篇 1、A B C D D B

2、①但是，這種改變絕非順利。專家們不斷地推進這一變化，說互聯(lián)網(wǎng)將會像電的發(fā)明和自來水的使用一樣改變我們的生活。

②互聯(lián)網(wǎng)仍然處在一個混亂的全球建設(shè)階段，人們可以將其與一個多世紀前發(fā)達國家的電氣化進程相比。

③我們正在通往數(shù)字化仙境的路上，在那里，互聯(lián)網(wǎng)將神奇的變成無所不能的私人助理。

④戴維.庫斯博坦預(yù)言，建設(shè)一個穩(wěn)定的計算基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施將會使互聯(lián)網(wǎng)在2005年就可成為一種成熟的信息公用事業(yè)。 3、①The internet and the invention of electricity and running water are similar in:1)They are both significant and revolutionary in changing people’s life;2)They both spring up in a moment and spread quickly to almost everywhere;3)In the beginning,the infrastructure is lagging behind,so it is not stable to use.The internet affects our life in almost every aspect,from daily life to politics ,commercial,social and cultural lives.

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②Optimists see a bright future of the internet.They keep pushing it forward,saying that it will be as life-changing as electricity or running water.They see the plan as a rite of technological passage.They also see enormous potential for the information network to increase human productivity.Pessimists see the problems of the internet as inadequate or under-developed,and they also warn the loss of privacy.The think that it may take away the time gor thought. Reading Skills ①、 Fact ②、 Opinion ③、 Opinion ④、 Fact ⑤、 Opinion ⑥、 Fact ⑦、 Fact ⑧、 Opinion ⑨、 Fact ⑩、 Opinion 第十一篇

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1、A B D C B C

2、①牢固建立起來的壟斷公司將垮掉，我們將在人際接觸上進入一個新的、沒有電纜連接的時代，這將不僅改變?nèi)藗兊臉I(yè)務(wù)往來，而且改變?nèi)藗兊男袨?p>②那些可以說像世界上第一次無線變革一樣震撼地球的變化正在發(fā)生

③寬頻本身就是無線發(fā)明怎樣才能夠擺脫常規(guī)智慧約束的一個閃亮的例子

④要記住的重要一點是，隨著這些（無線通信的）方法越來越多地出現(xiàn)，其結(jié)果將與失去電纜越來越無關(guān)，而越來越是關(guān)于為以前無法想象的活動做好準備

3、①Because some breakthrough was achieve in

tele-communications in that decade.After the invention of telephone,people had been experimenting on wireless communications,and Guglielmo Marconl,the Italian inventor,invented the radio telegraph system that changed the way people communicated at that time ②Wi-Fi is a radio bandwidth that is used in connecting computers on the internet,hence it is called”wireless network”.It is extended to such applications as GPS,Bluetooth,REID and ZigBee 第十二篇

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1、C D A B C D

2、①They are archiving their lives as they happen through

blog entries and photos taken on cameras and phones,and they organize these together and openly on the web,l.e.they comment on each other regualarly ②Social networking sties will keep us in touch with friends even when our ageing minds cannot retrieve their manes.

③In his own archive,he keeps photos,songs,files and friends and connections.He tags his photos so that he won’t forget the persons in the pictures.In his parents’ box,they keep some old photos,but they couldn’t remember the person in the photos when they become old,and when they die,all the memories will be lost

④It is reshaping how our minds develop:destroying our capacity to organize our memory for ourselves,reducing memory to mere bits of disconnected stimulus and so,in the extreme,undermining our capacity to develop a distinct identity based on our own narrative of our lives

⑤He is glad that his past was not recorded in his

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friends’social networking sites,warts and all 4、 ①(Nowaday,many young people keep blogs or maintain

their own web pages by making use of the web services such as QQ,MSN,Facebook,hotmail,etc.Students may talk about what they keep on such pages) ②(Opinions vary) 第十三篇 1、C D C B A B 2、F F T T T F

3、①我從來沒有想到她用手來觸摸東西，撫摸我的臉或是我給她看東西的方式是奇怪的。

②接著她尖叫起來，并迅速的把手縮回去，然后我要立即把鳥扔到外面去，同時警告我不要再讓她碰到這樣的東西。。 ③憑著她那靈敏的耳朵和鼻子，她綜合起來判斷總會得出正確的答案

④當他們把我的寶貝兒子放在我的手臂上時，我，就如我的母親一樣，可以看到我的孩子并知道他有多漂亮

4、①The author shows her deep love for her blind mother

by using moving words to express her emotion and examples of her mother’s care.“It never accurred to me that it was strang...”“I never question her ability to do this task.”“I could never quite reckon

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with her powers of...”The author remembers how her mother “l(fā)ooked up”her picture,combed her hair,and applied bandage on her wounds.She also gives the following examples:1)The case of the dead bird;2)She took a cookie and her mother found out about it by hearing;3)Her mother brought a dog in the room and was found out;4)She use her mother’s perfume and her mother smelt it;5)She was watching TV and her mother knew it;6)She was playing with water rather than taking a bath,and her mother knew it

②Her mother said so because she knew her daughter so well

that

she

could

tell

what

her

characters,hobbies,wishes and worries were.She understood her personality since she brought her up personally.So she said she really knew what she looked like inside Reading Skills (1)at 6:30 p.m (2)A half-hour later (3)The storm kept coming (4)raindrops began pelting Singal words:

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c e h a g d f i b 第十四篇 1、B C D C A B

2、①Because they didn’t want to hurt her.They knew she was gaining weight,but they love her so much that it was out of the question to discuss the topic in front of her②First of all,after she entered adulthood,she begin to gain weight naturally.Then,marriage and settling down gave her a stable life,and without much worry,she could become fat easily.She just didn’t care about herself much,and ate and drank a lot all the time.She didn’t have the determination to reduce weight

③The author was deeply hurt by the boy’s words.They stung like a whip.She suddenly realized that she was just plain fat.She made up her mind that no one would ever call her fat again

④She was committed to shedding the weight and getting into shape.She started a rigorous program of running and dieting.She joined a gym and managed to make some friends.She prepared healthy food for the family and exercised regularly with the children

⑤She is feeling energetic ,healthy ,confident ,strong

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and pretty.She has changed her attitude,her life-style and self-image.She starts caring about how she feels rather than how she look 3、①People consider it offensive to call others

“fat”,because they think that one’s size is a personal thing,and others have no right to interfere.Also they think that “fat”has the connotation of “clumsy”,“stupid”,“dumb”.The author was deeply hurt by the boy’s words simply because her family loved her so much that no one in the family would like to point out the obvious fact

②It is one’s will and determination that is most important in combating factness.Also one needs perseverance.After she lost some weight successfully,she realized that the most important is one’s attitude,or one’s feeling for oneself.So long as you feel comfortable and lead a healthy life,it is OK whether you are fat or not

第十五篇 1、C D A C A B

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2、①羅斯知道，在這樣的一團漆黑中，在這樣的風雨中，田德菲爾德四周還有4000英尺高的群山，讓飛行員降落是很困難的

②數(shù)分鐘后，已經(jīng)別無選擇。一場反常的雷暴吞沒了他的飛機——這是一名新手飛行員所碰到的最糟糕的事情 ③在任何情況下，側(cè)風著陸都是危險的，而現(xiàn)在的危險就是他有可能機頭先著陸，使機身側(cè)翻打滾

④當時一點兒時間都不能耽擱。然而，此時此刻的時間卻似乎向前無限延伸，即使在這雨中漆黑泥濘的飛機跑道上 3、①Nathan Ross noticed a small airplane circling Tenterfield.As the plane was bucking and yawing,the pilot must have been in trouble.Ross used his ham radio to get into contact with the pilot,comforting him and promising to help him.Then he got a call from Robert Wild,and the two of them decided to guide the pilot to the airstrip in town.When they were preparing to light the runway,a sudden lightning struck the town and cause a blackout.Ross used the flash light on his car and other cars to guide the pilot to a safe landing

②Yasi was completing a solo exercise and building up hours in the sky to that he could get a license as a commercial pilot.Half an hour after he took off,a storm

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was forming and approaching him.He was caught in the storm.He tried stay calm,listen to instructions by Ross,and fly carefully to the airstrip.He controlled the airplane carefully,first reducing the speed,then aiming at the runway with the help of the car lights.Finally he succeeded in landing on the ground 第十六篇 1、B A C C D C

2、①你能對自己自立的能力充滿自信，不用時刻惶恐不安，擔心沒有了他你無法適應(yīng)生活

②即使你和某位男士交往頗深，但作為單身女性，你還可以選擇與他斷絕來往，改變主意而重新開始自己的生活 ③白馬王子雖然難求，但在人生路途中說不定在某個時刻有那么一個人至少會讓你考慮結(jié)婚的問題

④雖然單身生活對某些人有無限的吸引力，但總的來說，結(jié)婚的好處及其長期效應(yīng)應(yīng)給大多數(shù)人帶來最大的滿足 3、①The advantages of a single life are:1)you have the freedom that married people don’t have;2)you are in charge of your own life;3)there is less pressure on you to adhere to the traditional role model for a woman;4)the single lady often holds mystery and allure;5)as a single woman,you have the option of

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cutting loose with anyone;6)you can avoid the dull routine of life.The advantages of married life are:1)you don’t feel londly;2)you are not regarded as unable or unwilling to commit;3)you don’t live like a pig and are not a “bird wheel”;4)it has the satisfaction and rewards that a single life doesn’t have;5)even after a divorce,you are considered brave because at least you tired

②The writer compares the divorced people to lemmings in order to tell us that married is not like the cliff or the sea that the lemmings go to for death.He wants to tell us that there is a lot going for marriage,and that’s why the divorced people remarry again and again to search of the good of it Reading Skills Exercises

1、The way migrant workers are treated by the growers is worse than it ought to be 2、B 3、A 4、A 第十七篇

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1、C C A D B D

2、①經(jīng)過12個月全職呆在家里，那些再次成為家庭主婦的人一定會報名去讀藝術(shù)基礎(chǔ)班，或者是開始接受心理教育 ②按照帕金森法則，一件工作可以拖延至抽得出的時間去完成，但是，但是即使你以最悠閑的方式也不可能把照看十幾歲的小孩變成一份全職工作

③在我過去13年作為公共管理顧問的工作中，那個詞組是我聽到的用來描述我每天瘋狂忙于工作、孩子、家庭和丈夫頻率最高的一個詞語

④他們需要得到安慰、鼓勵、擦干眼淚、接送、有用的信息、你所讀過的書，以及你的經(jīng)歷

3、①Because teenagers under the age of 16 are not eligible for applying a driver’s licence,they need their parents to take them to school,to the movies,etc,all the time

②(Students may be ask to talk in groups) 第十八篇 1、B A D C C B

2、①She encouraged her to make wishes and work hard to get them

②After the divorce from her husband,Blair’s mother moved to Annapolis,MD so that she could stay with her

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parents while she looked for work

③She chose the program that allows students to combine school school with paid internships that help fund tuition

④She made a network call to Cisco asking for professional advice

⑤She worked very hard and earned the support the CEO.She was very aggressive and willing to learn ⑥He showed her a good example in managing a big company 3、 ①(Answers may vary,but the following factors are

equally

important

in

Blair’s

success.Belief ,attitude ,and the role modest set by her mother) ②(Answer is open) 第十九篇 1、D B B D B A 2、F T T T F F

3、①我花很多時間思考語言的力量——如何激起某種情緒，引發(fā)某種視覺形象、某種復(fù)雜的思想或簡單的真理

②就在上個星期，當我和母親一起沿著街道走過時，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己在關(guān)注我所使用的英語，我和她在一起的時候所說的英語③我一直感到煩惱的是，除了用“破碎的”一詞之外，我實

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在想不出別的什么詞來描述媽媽所說的英語，好像它是受到損壞，需要修理的，好像她想缺少某種整體性和完美性 ④盡管我的英語技能從未被認為有欠缺，但與數(shù)學相比，英語課不能算是我的強項

4、①The writer is not being self-contradictory.When she says that her mother’s English is broken,that it limits her perception of her,that it had an effect on her possibilities,she is simply repeating the facts that are known to all.But she grew up with that kind of English,and it still using it with her family.So it can be said that her mother’s language is perfectly clear, natural,that it helps to shap her way in life.She has all the reasons to show respect for her mother’s use of English

②(The answers may depend on the readers,but there are a

variety of ways to analyze the sample) Reading Skills

1、 The experience of enjoying a watermelon

2、 The watermelon sunning:telling if it is ripe;the melon

cooling in a tub of water;the children standing around;the cutting;the sight of the meat and seeds;the eating

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3、 We go through all the steps from the cooling to the

serving to eating 第二十篇 1、D C A B B D

2、①In English,“proud”means to have proper respect for oneself,one’s

work,one’s

family,etc.

In

Italian,orgoglioso means self-importance

②They use it frequently,and with pride,to demonstrate how much you love someone

③Because whenever she and husband bring gifts to their relatives in the Italy,they all love them and cry out,“That’s beautiful!”

④She describes it as “the ugliest thing I’ve laid eyes on since Grandma James decided to make a Cabbage Patch doll with her own pantyhose.”It is a rectangular,beige agate with a metal stick in the center

⑤Because there are cultural implications with the words in the language used by the people.They associate the words with the realities in their lives to make them meaningfull

3、①The meaning of a word is related to its cultural

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implications which are projected in the word as people of a country use it in its own way.For example,“sexy”in English means “causing or intending to cause sexual desire;erotic”.In Italian,it means beautifull,and is the ultimate compliment

②They should learn the meanings from the context,both textual and situational.They should understand the cultural implications that go with the words 第二十一篇 1、 C A B C D B

2、 ①據(jù)說人們思考是以說話開始的，而說話則是以思考為結(jié)

束的，因為語言和文化很有趣的交織在一起

②然而，盡管英式英語與美式英語共享一個語法體系，其中兩者只有一些細微的差別，而且主要表現(xiàn)在口語層次上，美式英語的詞匯還是在諸多方面賦予了美語鮮明的特色 ③最初的定居者到達北美后，看到種種不同于他們家鄉(xiāng)的地理特征，不斷發(fā)現(xiàn)新的動植物，而人們也從事各種新的活動，發(fā)展新的興趣

④這種形象的或隱喻的特征可以從與美國生活有關(guān)的其他一些表達法上看出來

3、 ①In the colonial days,settlers who came to North

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America were mainly from Europe.In addition to the British immigrant,people from other countries also came to settle there.They brought their own languages with them,and added to the English vocabulary with some

words

from

their

native

languages.Later,immigrants from Asian countries alos brought their language with them,thus there are Chinese,Japaness and Korean elements in the Ehglish vocabulary.As the settlers labored to make a living,they encountered new land,new animals and new plants.They engaged in new activities.So more words are coined to meet their needs.They also use old words in new senses to accommodate their needs in daily activities.All these can be seen in American language ②(The answer to this question depends on how the students view the Chinese language and what examples they may prohuce) 第二十二篇 1、A C B D A D

2、①在一層冰涼的積雪覆蓋下，冰層積累到幾千英尺厚然后在自身重量的作用下開始移動，嚴寒夏天的邊緣一點點的向赤道推進

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②除非可能發(fā)生核戰(zhàn)爭——這樣大量的物種滅絕可能是人類有史以來面臨的最嚴峻的威脅

③有些分子太復(fù)雜，有些分子制作起來花費太高，因此人工無法制作，如果我們想受益于各種物種，物種本身就必須得到保護

④動物園、園圃，種子庫以及其他各種為保護單個物種建立的場所可以起到至關(guān)重要的幫助作用，但因為人力物力，我們不可能面面俱到

3、①The most important cause is the ice age,in which ice covered most past of the earth.Glaciers,volcanoes.and perhaps even meteors and comets have razed the earth and wiped out numerous species.Extinction is a normal by-product of evolution.As new species come into being,old ones that are not adaptable to the environment would die out naturally

②First of all,human beings depend on other species for medicine.Many natural species have the chemicals that humans need but cannot synthesize easily.The store of food for humans also depends ultimately on the continued existence of wild species.Human beings have cause damages to the ecology of the earth,which may cause some species to die.Only by protecting whole systems can we

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begin to stop the flood of extinction Reading Skills Exercises 1、 D 2、 B 3、 C 4、 B 5、 B 6、 A 第二十三篇 1、B A B D A C

2、①The Copernicans were imagined human-like creatures inhabiting

the

imaginary

planet

called

the

Copernicus ,which is actually the name of a Polish astronomer

②The picture will be desolate and dreary in the first months,without much to be seen.Because the universe was at its beginning stage,and the earth was just forming

③The spectators will become alarmed in the fear that

man has somehow been left out.They have been watching the film for mouths but still they don’t

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see any signs of the man

④The civilization of human beings only occupies the last five or six minutes of the film,as compared to the long history of the earth,which runs the duration of a whole year

⑤They have cause a great damage to the earth by cutting down the burning the trees,depriving the soil of its protective cover.They have impoverished the land and created pollution.They have plundered its wealth 3、①This scientific fable is similar to other fables in two ways.First,the story is built upon the analogy of the evolvement of the universe as seen on the time-lapse film.Second,it has a moral,which is about men’s relation with the environment.The basis of the analogy is the fact that the universe formed over a long,long time.In order to illustrate the time it took for the universe to evolve and that since human civilization began,the writer compares the former to almost the whole year,i.e.365 days,and the later to five or six minutes ②It is very difficult to answer the question in a complete way.We are optimistic that humanity will last forever,since the development in science will help us

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solve all the problems we encounter.On the other hand,there are evidences that humans will incur great disaster or even the doom.One example may be the greenhouse effect on the earth.The other may be the supply of food or energy.Students may develop the ideas on their own 第二十四篇 1、A C D B D C

2、①此時大樓隆隆作響，搖晃不停，我開始清醒過來，拉住我的一名同事，迅速躲到一扇門后

②我打電話給家里的保姆，讓他傳呼我的妻子，告訴她說有一顆爆炸了，我還好，正在往外跑

③到了85樓，我和一名勇敢的同事折回到我們的辦公室，想把那位留在里面的搭檔拉出來

④從這一層開始，消防隊員、，不帶狗的WTC K-9人員，只要是帶徽章的人，都往樓上走，而我們往下走

⑤不管怎樣，現(xiàn)在我們知道，并不是爆炸，而且可能會有更多的飛機飛過來。我們明白過來

3、①When the first plane hit their building,l.e.the North Tower,they had no idea of what happened,They felt as if there were an earthquake.They suspected that a bomb had gone off somewhere.Then,as ceilings collapsed and smoke

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came in,they started to go downstairs to leave the building.Some even stayed in the office,waiting for rescue.They climbed downstairs in an orderly way ②Because they thought that the worst was over.None of them had expected the building to collapse in 20 minutes.But they also want to be calm,steady and act like a gentleman

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