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全新版大学英语(第二版) 全新版大学英语第二版综合教程3
全新版大学英语(第二版) 全新版大学英语第二版综合教程3
全新版大学英语(第二版) 全新版大学英语第二版综合教程3
课文B
夏天打工时,作者常常替巴卢先生修剪草坪。惟一的问题是,巴卢先生似乎从来没钱支付工钱。然而,他实际上所给予的却远比工钱珍贵。
夏日阅读
迈克尔·多里斯
十四岁那年,我在暑里替人修剪草坪挣些钱,不出几个星期,我就有了不少客户。客 户们种植的花卉我得记住不能剪去,他们会将东西遗落在草地上或故意插在地里,通过这些 我逐渐认识了他们。我对大多数客户了解至深,事先就能知道他们会抱怨些什么,哪些特别 的要求不能掉以轻心。(1)而且,我从邻居偏爱的付款方式中了解到了一点他们的情况:有的按干的活儿给钱,有的按月支付——或者有的压根儿不付钱。
巴卢先生属于后一类,而且他总有理由。有一天他兑不开一张五十元的钞票,又有一 天他支票用完了,还有一天我上门时他干脆就溜出去了。撇开钱这档子事,他倒也还是个挺 不错的老头,每次看见我,老远就挥手或脱帽致意。我猜他退休金不多,可能出过工伤,整不了自己的园子。没错,我全都记着帐,可我对这点钱并没太在意。(2)也就是剪剪草,何况巴卢先生住宅外面的那一点草坪修剪起来花不了多少时间。
到了一年中热的七月中旬,一天傍晚前,我走过他家,他开了门,示意我进去。门厅里凉凉的,帘子遮去了阳光,过了一会儿我的眼睛才适应室内的暗淡光线。
“我欠你工钱,”巴卢先生开口道,“不过……”
我想省得他费神找新的借口了, 就说,“没事。别放在心上。”
“银行把我的账弄错了,”他没理我的碴儿,接着说。“一两天里就会改过来。在这当儿,我想你不妨挑——两本书作为我的首付款。”
他朝墙那边指了指,我这才发现到处都堆着书。就跟图书馆一样,只不过没有分门别类罢了。
“别着急,”巴卢先生鼓动说。“读也好,借也好,留着也行。找你喜欢的。你平常都爱读什么书啊?”
“我不知道。”我的确不知道。我通常是弄到什么就读什么,从房里买到的平装书,图书馆里借得到的书、杂志,到麦片包装盒背面的说明,还有连环漫画,什么都看。有意识地找出一本特别的书来读对我是件新鲜事,不过我觉得这主意挺不错——于是我开始在书堆中翻找起来。
“这么多书你都读过啊?”
“这不算多,”巴卢先生说。“这根本不算多,只不过是我自己的藏书,都是值得再读——遍的。”
“那就替我找一本吧。”
他眉一抬,头一侧,望着我,就像是在给我量体裁衣似的。过了片刻,他略—“点头,便在一堆书中搜寻,然后递给我一本暗红色封面的精装本,挺厚的。
“《后的正义》,”我念道。“安德烈·施瓦兹巴特著。是讲什么的?”
“你来告诉我,”他说。“下个星期。”
晚饭后我坐在室外一张不舒服的餐椅里打开了书。(3)读了几页,院子就消息了,夏夜也消失了;我一下子就进入了二战期间对犹太人的这一令人悲痛的惨剧中,进入了以一个正派人物为代表的善与恶之间非同寻常的冲突中。书译自法文,译文优美朴素,令人不忍释手。天色终于暗了下来,我回到室内,读了一个通宵。
时至三—卜年后的今天,我仍清晰地记得当时的经历。那是我初次有心地接触世界文学,我被一部所能包含的集聚的力量深深震撼。但我缺乏足够的词汇表达我的情感,因此,第二个星期,当巴卢先生问我“怎么样”时,我只回答说:“书真好。”
“那就留着吧,”他说。“要不要我再介绍一本?”
我点点头,拿到了一本平装本的玛格丽特·米德的《萨摩亚人的成年》。
长话短说,无论当年还是次年,巴卢先生分文未付我替他割草的工钱,但我在达特默思大学教了十五年的人类学。(4)盛夏阅读不是我原先认为的仅仅借以消磨时光的娱乐,不是躺在吊床上无忧无虑、打开书本就什么都忘掉的一种消遣(虽然自从那个夏天以来我曾多次以这种方式自娱自乐)。一本书,如果在恰当的时候,恰当的季节,在日常事务的间歇中出现在你的面前,就会改变你此后的人生道路。
Book 2
Unit 5 Overcoming Obstacles
Text A True Height
Key to Book 2 Unit 5
Vocabulary
I. 1.
1) startled 2) mere
3) motion 4) sweating
5) stretched out 6) vain
7)On one occasion 8) anxiety
9) emotions 10) ashamed of
11) In my mind's eye
12) recurring
2.
1) Mrs. White's birthday coincides with her huand's.
2) They make big profits on the stuff they sell by creating an artificial shortage, which sends the prs soaring / results in the soaring of prs.
3) It has been a week of alternate sunshine and rain.
4) Politics and philosophy he been his lifelong passions, although he studied economics at university.
5) Tension came over her, as she waited for her first TV interview.
3.
1) media; dedication to; grace.
2) his compes; in excent; hug him; congratulate him on
3) emotions; numerous; intensity; passion for
II. Collocation
1) Mike, a Green, made the suggestion that a large park be built near the community.
2) In a letter to his daughter, Mr. Smith expressed his wish that she (should) continue her educa?tion to acquire still another degree.
3) There is no reason to hold the belief that humans he no direct moral responsibility to safe?guard the welfare of animals.
4) Children need to feel safe about the world they grow up in, and it is unwise to give them the idea that rything they come into contact with might be a threat.
5) Anxiety can result from the notion that life has not treated us fairly.
6) Nobody belid his claim that he was innocent.
III. Words with Multiple Meanings
1.1 work out in the gym for one hour ry morning.
2. Florence has worked as a cleaner at the factory for five years.
3. The wounded man worked his way across the field on his hands and knees.
4. The safe load for a truck of this type works out at about twenty-five tons.
5. It is difficult to understand how human minds work.
6. To my disappointment, the mar's plan of promoting the new products doesn't work at all.
7. The teacher has a lot of experience of working with children who don't know how to learn.
8. The medicine began to work one hour after the child took it.
.Comprehensive txercises
I. Cloze
(A) Text-related
1. In my mind's eye
2. groan
3. compe
4. intensity
5. anxiety
6. tense
7. sweat
8. tension
9. soaring
10. recurring
11. brought me back to earth
12. fantasy
13. sweat
14. congratulate
15.numerous
16. media
(B)Theme-related
1. engineer
2. forget
3. convinced
4. how
5. build
6. accident
7. thought
8. only
9. sharp
10. touched
11. instructions
12. finally
II. Translation
1.
1) It is the creativity and dedication of the workers and executives that turned the company into a profitable business.
2) The prs of food and medicine he soared in the past three months.
3) We plan to repaint the upper floors of the off building.
4) His success shows that popularity and artistic merit sometimes coincide.
5) I don’t want to see me beloved grandmother lying in a hospital bed and groaning painfully.
2.
Numerous facts bear out the argument/statement/claim that in order to recover speedily from negative emotion, you should allow yourself to cry. You needn’t / don’t he to be ashamed of crying. Anxiety and sorrow can flow out of the body along with tears.
Consider the case of / Take Donna. Her son unfortunay died in a car accident. The intensity of the blow made her unable to cry. She said, “It was not until two weeks later that I began to cry. And then I felt as if a big stone had been lifted from my shoulders. It was the tears that brought me back to earth and me survive the crisis.”
天还早2003年12月,我的个赛季作为一个救援军贝尔电话 ,当我所面对的问题.穿着干净的女人和她年幼的儿子走到釜站立得住.她搜查了她的钱包,而对于一些,男孩抬起头看着我.我还能看到混乱和好奇心在他的脸上.“你是穷吗?”
“嗯,”我结结巴巴地问,试图思考."我的苹果比一些人,但也不如别人.”他的母亲责备他,他们急忙得去做的东西.他的问题,然而,不离开我.
我从来没有认为我是穷人,但我也不会否认某些事实.每次我填写我1040表格,我落入一个收入情况.在过去35年里,我已经做了一个度.我的电视是一个明确的设置,有人给我八年前.不过,我觉得没有什么比一个昙花一现的念头来获得物质上的东西很多其他的人.我的1999汽车显示磨损及105000英里.但它仍然是可靠的.我的公寓很谦虚而宁静和放松.我的衣服很适合我的工作,它主要是在户外.我可以满足小的电脑需要在图书馆.
尽管我没有,我不觉得贫穷.
但有一个关键部位的我的生活在什么地方我不太好了.在一个中,那么多的情感能量,就是财富的追求上,我想要去的地方.
在对比关系,东西只是并不意味着多对我.我想大部分人也有同样的感觉,除了有后果,没有特定的物品.
有世界各地的人谁会考虑我的生活方式是充足的.
每年临近结束的时候,当我穿上救世军是红色的围裙,发生在我的内心深处.而不是感觉的地方经济,我开始感觉到真正的归属感.当我打电话给我的铃,人们停止分享他们的个人故事多少是被帮助的时候
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