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篇一：新视野大学英语视听说教程3答案

Unit1

Enjoy the colorful campus life!

Basic Listening Practice

1-5 CDBDA

Listening In Task 1

(1) the first day

(2) changing

(3) really good

(4) hard workers

(5) went over her head

(6) explained

(7) notes

(8) Wednesday

(9) participation

(10) education

Task 2

(1)extra training

(2)chemistry

(3)accounting

(4)many fields of study

(5)better potential

(6)business degree

(7)challenging

(8)how to learn

(9)better understanding

(10)narrow-minded

Task3

1.B 2.C 3. D 4.A 5.D

Let’s Talk

Task 1

(1)quality

(2)young

(3)25

(4)difficult

(5)government

(6)quality

(7)cut

(8)extra-cautious

(9)afford

(10)experience

(11)more

(12)blame

(13)budget

(14)puzzled

(15)service

Further Listening and Speaking

Listening Task:

Task1: Problems with our educational system

(1)standardized tests

(2)abilities and interest

(3)interest

(4)pressure

(5)well-rounded

(6)get into good colleges

(7)the rest of the school

(8)from bad to worse

Task 2: The final exam

(1)course

(2)quizzes

(3)semester

(4)confident

(5)party

(6)make

(7)missed

(8)they had a flat tire on the way back and didn't have a spare

(9)placed them in separate rooms, handed each of them a paper

(10)On the second page was a question 95 worth

Task3: Harvard University

1-5 BACDD

Viewing and speaking:

Task 1:University budget cuts

(1)increasing

(2)12 / twelve

(3)more

(4)facilities

(5)lecturers

(6)poorer

(7)grant

(8)one

(9)budget

(10)less

(11)young

(12)classic

(13)part-time

(14)growing

(15)two-year

Unit test

Part I

1.A 2.B 3.D 4.B 5.D

Part II

(1)for

(2)with

(3)opportunity

(4)tuition

(5)explore

(6)encounter

(7)adventure

(8)As with any country, it is not advisable to carry large amounts of cash around with you

(9)Traveler's checks are one of the safest and easiest ways to transport money, because you may have them r(转 载于:wWw.SmHaIDA.cOM 海达 范文 网:show,me,the,money3)eplaced if they get lost or stolen

(10)It is wise to bring about $100 with you in U.S. cash, so you will be able to manage upon your arrival in the States

Part III

1.C 2.A 3.B 4.D 5.A

Part IV

1.C 2.A 3.A 4.D 5.C 6.B 7.A 8.C 9.B 10.C

Uint2

Our globe is in danger!

I.Lead in

Task 1:

sandstorm ; air pollution ; deforestation

water pollution ; melting polar ice cap ; light pollution

drought ; desertification ; littering

Basic Listening Practice

1.B 2.D 3. A 4.A 5.C

Listening In

Task 1:We should have proper respect for nature!

(1)nature

(2)environmental problem

(3)pollution

(4)promote

(6)from occurring

(7)law

(8)throw away

(9)fined

(10)trash

Task 2:River pollution

1.D 2.A 3.B 4.C 5.D

Task3: Curbing carbon emissions

1.D 2.D 3.A 4.B 5.C

Let’s Talk

Task 1:Disappointment over climate negotiations

1) doesn't really actually commit anyone to doing anything,

2) the atmosphere simple can't take the kind of emissions we've been seeing in the business-as-usual scenario and there's no real commitment to change that.

3) There's no real commitment to put serious money on the table

4) It's not backed by action,

5) It does not constitute a... a deal.

6) It's a hollow shell

7) it lacks anything on emissions cuts

8) There's no guarantee that there will be new money, that the money will be real, that there's actually a commitment to get there, or that it will be channeled in new ways, Further Listening and Speaking

Listening Task:

Task1: The environment and the development

(1)water pollution

(2)overconsumption

(3)economic growth

(4)resources

(5)social advancement

(6)restricted

(7)government planning

(8)economic policy

(9)remarkable steps

(10)balance

Task 2: Thick cloud of pollution covering southern Asia

1.D 2.B 3.A 4.C 5.C

Task3: Mountain regions face a number of dangers

(1)negative

(2)report

(3)warming

(4)pressures

(5)mountainous

(7)make way for

(8)expect 98 percent of the mountain areas to experience severe climate change by 2055

(9)The UN is anxious to raise awareness of the problems facing mountain areas

(10)Thousands of villages in Europe are deserted most of the year

Viewing and speaking:

Task 1:Santa's home town in danger

(1)signs

(2)warmer temperatures

(3)warmest

(4)snow

(5)attracts

(6)trouble

(7)normal

(8)season

(9)one-time

(10)white

Unit test

Part I

1.C 2.C 3.B 4.C 5.D

Part II

(1)chemicals

(2)atmosphere

(3)particles

(4)trapped

(5)lasts

(6)human-based

(7)progressed

(8)Even in Ancient Rome people complained about smoke put into the atmosphere

(9)Air pollution can have serious consequences for the health of human beings

(10)Cities with large numbers of automobiles or those that use great quantities of coal often suffer most severely from air pollution problems

Part III

1.A 2.C 3.D 4.C 5.B

Part IV

1.B 2.C 3.D 4.C 5.C 6.A 7.D 8.D 9.B 10.C

Unit 3

Culture makes me what I am

Task 1:On the first day

Collectivism Individualism Individualism Collectivism

篇二：初三英语阅读理解训练题及答案三

初三英语阅读理解训练题及答案三

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初三英语阅读理解训练题及答案三

（一）

Mr Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, "if anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea."

"OK, Dad," said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.

Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.

The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said, "Where is your father?" The boy put his hand into his

pocket at once and looked for the piece of paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, "No more."

The man was very surprised. He asked, "No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?"

"Burnt yesterday evening."

1. Mr Brown told his son that _____.

A. he would be away from home for four days

B. he would be back in seven days

C. he would be back in a month

D. he liked a cup of tea

2. Mr Brown wrote the words down on ________.

A. the wall B. the door

C. a piece of paper D. his son's pocket

3. A man came to visit the boy's father on ________.

A. the second day B. the third day C. the fourth day D. the fifth day

4. The man was very surprised because _________.

A. he thought the child's father was dead

B. the child didn't ask him to sit down

C. the child gave him a cup of tea

D. he couldn't find that piece of paper

5. What was burnt? ___________.

A. The piece of paper B. Mr Smith C. The visitor D. The boy

KEY: BCDAA

（二）

One of the things to be learnt in a foreign language is guessing all the time what kind of thing to come when listening to someone talking. People do this all the time in their own language, so it is necessary (必要的) to do this in a foreign language, too. Here are some examples.

1. "What's the matter？" "I went to a party last night, so I…"

2. "I feel so tired these days."" I think you'd better…"

3."Of course, she never stops talking. She is one of the most…"

You can see from the above three examples that the

context (上下文) helps a lot in understanding what is being talked about. So "guessing "is very important in

understanding English, especially (尤其)spoken English.

1.This passage tells us mainly about _________.

A. the importance of "guessing " in learning a foreign language

B. how to guess what one is going to talk about

C. some examples of right guessing

D. how important it is to guess all the time

2.from the context, we can see maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE I is _________.

A. "… so I didn't have a good time." B. "…so I went to bed very late."

篇三：6 trouble with money

6 trouble with money

When little bears spend every nickel and penny, The trouble with money is — they never have any！

Brother Bear and Sister Bear knew quite a lot about the ways of Bear Country.

They knew where the most beautiful wild They knew where the wild berries flowers grew. were the thickest and juiciest.

They knew the best spot for watching sunrises ...

and sunsets.

2. They knew where all the best honey trees were.

They even knew a very special

place where you could almost

always see a rainbow— from a

secret space behind the waterfall.

But there were some things they didn't know very much about.

One of the things Brother and Sister Bear

didn't understand very well was money.

Oh, they knew money was fun to have and even more fun

to spend. And whenever they got some —

as a present,

or for doing a chore [t∫?:] for a neighbor,

or for no reason at all from Grizzly Gramps, who tended to spoil them,

or from Papa Bear, who spoiled them even more—

they ran as fast as their legs could carry them to the Bear Country Mall and spent it ... for honey comb on a stick, a

balsawood glider that did loops, a tiny little mouth organ that only played three notes.

They never bought anything sensible, and they hardly ever saved. Once in a while Sister put

money in her piggy bank. But she usually shook it out again before it had a chance to cool off from her hot little hand.

Brother didn't even have a piggy bank.

Mama was becoming concerned about the cubs' carefree, spendthrift way with money.

“ I think Brother and Sister should have a regular allowance," she said one evening when she and Papa were working on the family books.

“An allowance!” said Papa.

“ Yes, so they can learn to use money sensibly-to save, to plan ahead."

"Oh, no!" said Papa. "They're much too young for that sort of thing. Let them enjoy themselves! They'll have to worry

about money soon enough when they're grownups," he added with a sigh.

But it was Papa who first lost patience with their carelessness about money.

It happened one day when the cubs had been at a mall spending some pennies a neighbor had given them form walking her dog.

That was when they saw the new video game. It was called Astro Bear and it looked very exciting.

"A video game ! At the mall!" Papa shouted. "You must think I'm made of money!"

The cubs thought no such thing, and when they pictured it, it seemed very strange. Mama could see that they were puzzled and she explained: " 'Made of money' is just a figure of speech, my dears."

That's when the cubs realized that the situation was serious. Because Papa Bear only used figures of speech when he was upset.

"You must think money grows on trees!" he shouted. Another figure of speech.

"Video games, indeed!" he continued, becoming more and more upset. "There was no such thing as video games when I was a cub! Why, I didn't know what money was until I was almost grown!"

"Precisely, my dear," interrupted Mama. "And that's why this might be a very good time to start Brother and Sister on a regular allowance, so they can-"

"Absolutely not!" roared Papa, knocking over a chair. "They must earn their money! That?s what life is about—working, earning money, saving for a rainy day!”

The cubs knew how really serious the situation must be. Papa had used three figures of speech and knocked over a chair. They decided right then and there to mend their careless, spendthrift ways. It turned out that the cubs were very good at earning money once they set their minds to it. First they gathered wild flowers from those special

places they knew about. Then they made them into bouquets[bu'kei] and sold them by the side of the road.

They gathered those fat, juicy wild benies and sold them door-to-door.

Brother and Sister were turning out to be even better at making money than they had been at spending it. They organized guided tours of Bear Country's finest beauty spots.

Business was very, very good.

Sister's piggy bank was jammed full.

They started a very successful pet-minding service.

Brother had to borrow Mama's sugar

bowl to keep the extra money in.

At last Papa was very impressed and

pleased. But when the cubs started to sell maps showing the location of all the best honey trees, Papa began to have doubts.

“Those honey trees are a family secret, " he

complained. "The cubs don't seem to understand that some things are more important than money.

“They?ve gone from caring too little about money to caring too much. Why, just look at them!They?re turning into greedy, selfish little misers right before our eyes!" he continued. He pointed at the cubs, who did, indeed, look like little misers greedily counting their money.

“Cubs" said Papa in his sternest voice, "we're going to have to have another talk.”

But before he could start his speech, the cubs took all the money they had earned selling flowers and berried, doing chores, minding pets, and selling honey-tree maps and dumped it on his lap. “Here, Papa!” said Brother. “This is for you!" “That?s right,”said Sister. "We thought if we made some money for you, you wouldn?t have to worry about it so much. We hope it's enough."

Papa was so startled, and so embarrassed at having been so wrong about them, that he was speechless. “ That?s very generous!” said Mama. “It?s quite a sum of money and I know Papa appreciates it. But I have what may be a better idea. Papa does worry about money, of course. Most mamas and papas do from time to time. But what Papa is really worried about is you. He wants to be sure you understand that there's more to know about money than how to spend it!'

''You know what I think?” said Papa. “I think we should start Brother and Sister on a regular allowance so they can learn to use money sensibly-to save, to plan ahead. ''An excellent idea!'' said Mama, smiling.

''What about the money we earned? ” asked the cubs. ''You earned it , and it's yours ,'' said Mama. ''What l suggest is that we take it down to the mall and put it in the

Bear Country Bank.”

''Good suggestion.” said Papa. ''That money can be your 'nest egg.? ''

篇四：外研社高中英语必修1-8课文原文(翻译)

必修一 Module 1 My First Day at Senior High

My name is Li Kang. I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing. It is the capital city of Hebei Province. Today is my first day at Senior High school and I’m writing down my thoughts about it. My new school is very good and I can see why. The teachers are very enthusiastic and friendly and the classrooms are amazing. Every room has a computer with a special screen, almost as big as a cinema screen. The teachers write on the computer, and their words appear on the screen behind them. The screens also show photographs, text and information from websites. They’re brilliant! The English class is really interesting. The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen. We’re using a new textbook and Ms Shen’s method of teaching is nothing like the teachers at my Junior High school. She thinks that reading comprehension is important, but we speak a lot in class, too. And we have fun. I don’t think I will be bored in Ms Shen’s class! Today we introduced ourselves to each other. We did this in groups. Some students were embarrassed at first but everyone was very friendly and it was really nice. Ms Shen gave us instructions and then we worked by ourselves. Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting. We do this in a fun way, with spelling games and other activities. I like her attitude very much, and the behaviour of the other students shows that they like her, too. There are sixty-five students in my class — more than my previous class in Junior High. Forty-nine of them are girls. In other words, there are three times as many girls as boys. They say that girls are usually more hard-working than boys, but in this class, everyone is hard-working. For our homework tonight, we have to write a description of the street where we live. I’m looking forward to doing it!

My After-school Activities .As the students of modern times, we have colorful school life. Everyday, we learn plenty of knowledge on different subjects in class. And our school organizes many extracurricular activities in order to help us put what we have learned into practice. After class, we take part in various activities, like playing football, basketball, badminton, etc. They are good for our health. Besides, we are able to join in the lectures organized by literature association, music group, art group, where you can enjoy famous works, learn to play instruments or draw pictures. Also, there are chances for us to use computers in the laboratory and talk with some foreign teachers about anything we are interested in at the English corner. Now, most of us may operate computers freely and have a good command of spoken English. In addition to the after-class activities mentioned here, there are still many others such as sports meeting, debate, social investigation, etc. All those activities make our school life attractive and interesting. We will take advantages of the experience in the future.

Moudle 2

My New Teachers

They say that first impressions are very important. My first impression of Mrs. Li was that she was nervous and shy. 人们常说第一印象很重要。李老师给我留下的第一印象是既紧张又胆怯。 I think perhaps she was, as it was her first lesson with us. But now, after two weeks, the class really likes working with her. 我想，可能她就是这样，因为这是她给我们上的第一节课。但是，过了两周了，全班学生真的喜欢上她的课。 She's kind and patient, and she explains English grammar so clearly that even I can understand it! 她非常和蔼，又有耐心，英语语法解释得如此清楚，连我都能够明白！ She avoids making you feel stupid! I've always hated making mistakes or pronouncing a word incorrectly when I speak English, 她避免让人感到愚笨！讲英语时，我总是憎恶出错或者是憎恶发音不正确， but Mrs. Li just smiles, so that you don't feel completely stupid! 但是，李老师只是笑一笑，因此，你不会感到完全愚笨！ I think maybe she goes a bit too slowly for the faster students, but for me it's wonderful! I feel I'm going to make progress with her. 我想可能对于好学生来说她的课进行得有点慢，但对我来说，真是太棒了！我觉得我跟着她学习肯定将取得进步。 I'd guess that Mrs. Chen is almost sixty. She's very strict—we don't dare to say a word unless she asks us to. She's also very serious and doesn't smile much. 我猜想陈老师几乎快 60 岁了。她很严格――――除非她让我们讲话，我们一句话也不敢说。她还很严肃，很少微笑。 When she asks you to do something, you do it immediately! 当她要求你做某事时，你就马上去做！ There are a few students in our class who keep coming to class late but they're always on time for Mrs. Chen's lessons! 陈老师的课，我们班几位不断迟到的学生，总是准时上陈老师的课。 Some of our class don't ike her, but most of us really appreciate her because her teaching is so well organised and clear. And a few students even admit liking her! 我们班有的同学不喜欢她，但大多数同学都很欣赏她，因为她的课讲得很清楚、教学组织得又好。一些学生甚至承认喜欢她！ During scientific experiments, she explains exactly what is happening and as a result my work is improving. 在做科学实验时，她对发生的现象解释得很准确，因此，我在实验方面在取得进步。 Physics will never be my favourite lesson, but I think that I’ll do well in the exam with Mrs Chen teaching me. 物理绝对不是我最喜欢的科目，但我想由陈老师教我，我会考出好成绩。 Mr. Wu’s only been teaching us for two weeks and he’s already very popular. I think this is because he really enjoys teaching Chinese literature ---吴老师仅仅教过我们两个礼拜，他已经很受欢迎了。我想这是因为他的确喜欢教中国文学 he loves it, in fact! He’s got so much energy, this is one class you do not fall asleep in! He’s about 28, I think, and is rather good-looking. 实际上，他喜爱中国文学！他精力是那样充沛，上他的课，你不会想睡觉（不会感到困倦） ！我想他大约 28 岁，长得很帅。 He talks loudly and fast, and waves his hands about a lot when he gets excited. He’s really amusing and tells jokes when he thinks we’re getting bored. 他讲话语速快、声音洪亮，当讲到兴奋的时候，不时挥手。他上课真很有趣，当他认为我们疲倦的时候，就给我们讲笑话。 Even things like compositions and summaries are fun with Mr. Wu. I respect him a lot. 即使是象作文和总结这样的事情，吴老师也搞得很有趣。我很尊敬他。

Module 3

My First Ride on a Train 我的首次火车之旅

My name is Alice Thompson. I come from Sydney, Australia and I’m 18 years old. 我是爱丽丝·汤普森。我来自澳大利亚的悉尼,今年18岁。 Recently I had my first ride on a long-distance train. And what a ride! A friend and I traveled on the famous Ghan train. 近来我进行了首次远程火车之旅。真是太棒了! 我和一位朋友乘坐的是有名的阿富汗火车。 We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in the middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometers away. 我们在悉尼上车, 在澳大利亚中部的艾丽普林斯下车,行程四千多公里。 We spent two days and nights on the train. 整个旅程花费了我们两天两夜。 The train was wonderful and the food was great. We ate great meals cooked by experts! 坐火车很舒服而且车上的食物也很可口。我们吃的美味饭菜是烹饪大师们做的。 For the first few hundred kilometres of the journey, the scenery was very colourful. 在旅程开始的几百公里, 风景优美。 There were fields and the soil was dark red. 有成片的田野,那里的土壤是深红色。 After that, it was desert. The sun shone, there was no wind and there were no clouds in the sky. 接着是沙漠。艳阳高照,没有风而且晴空万里。 Suddenly, it looked like a place from another time. We saw abandoned farms which were built more than a hundred years ago. 可是接着,时空像是突然发生了转变。映入眼帘的是建造于一百多年前一些废弃的农庄。 The train was comfortable and the people were nice. 火车很舒服而且车上的人也都很友好。 During the day, I sat and looked out of the window, and sometimes talked to other passengers. 白天,我坐着看窗外,有时和别的旅客说说话。 I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes (I'm studying Chinese at school). 我看书, 听着汉语录音带(我在学校学汉语)。 One night,at about midnight, I watched the night sky for about an hour. The stars shone like diamonds. 一天晚上, 大约是在半夜,差不多有整整一个小时我都在注视着夜晚的天空。星星像钻石一样眨着眼。 Why is the train called the Ghan? A long time ago, Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country. 为什么火车叫阿富汗号？很久以前,澳大利亚人到国家中部地区有很长一段路程。 They tried riding horses, but the horses didn't like the hot weather and sand. 他们试着骑马,但那些马不喜欢炎热的天气和沙漠。 A hundred and fifty years ago, they brought some camels from Afghanistan. Ghan is short for Afghanistan. 一百五十年前, 他们从阿富汗带入了一些骆驼。Ghan是阿富汗的缩写。 Camels were much better than horses for travelling a long distance. 作长途旅行,骆驼比马匹强多了。 For many years, trained camels carried food and other supplies, and returned with wool and other products. 多年来, 经过训练的骆驼驮运食物及其他用品, 返回时还带着羊毛和其他产品。 The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s. 直到二十世纪二十年代,阿富汗人和他们的骆驼还在做着这样的工作。 Then the government built a new railway line, so they didn't need the camels any more. 那时政府建了一条新的铁路线,所以阿富汗人不再需要骆驼了 In 1925,they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem. 在1925年, 他们通过了法律,如果它们引发问题，允许人们射杀骆驼。 In 1935, the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day. 在1935年,一个城镇的警察仅一天就射杀153头骆驼。

a social survey –my neighbourhood 一．

A lively city It's great to see you again, John. 约翰，很高兴又见到你了。 It's great to see you! It's been six years since we last saw each other, you know. 见到你真是太好了！要知道，我们 6 年没见面了。 And this is the first time I've visitedyour hometown. Yes, I'm so glad you could come. 而且这是第一次来到你的家乡。是的，你能来，我真是很高兴 你知道，我去过中国很多地方，也游览过一些美丽的城市，但这是我到过的最吸引人的地方之一。 You know, I've seen quite a lot of China and I've visited some beautiful cities, but this is one of the most attractive places I've been to. It's so lively, and everyone seems so friendly. Yes, it's one of the most interesting cities on the coast,everyone says so. 它生机勃勃，人们看上去都那么友好。是的，大家都说这是最富有的沿海城市之一。 I feel very fortunate living here. And I love living by the seaside. You live in the northwest of Xiamen, is that right?Yes, that's right. 生活在这里我感到很荣幸。我喜欢在海边生活。你住的地方是在厦门的西北面，对吗？是的。 What's the climate like?Pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in the winter. 这里气候怎么样?夏天相当热，相当潮湿，可是冬天可能很冷。 Sounds OK to me. There are a lot of tourists around. Don't they bother you? 对我不成问题。这里到处都有游客。他们对你们有干扰吗？ Yes, they can be a nuisance in the summer because there are so many of them. 是的，游客太多了，夏天有时候会有点讨厌。 Oh, look at that huge apartment block!Yes, they've just completed it. 哎哟，看看那栋高大的公寓楼！是啊，刚刚完工的。 The rent for an apartment there is very high. I believe you! This area's so modern! 租一套那儿的公寓要不少钱呢。这我相信！这是一个很现代化的地方啊！ Yes, this is the business district. They've put up a lot of high-rise buildings recently. And there are some great shopping malls. 对，这是商业区。最近他们建造了许多摩天大厦，也有一些大商场。 See, we're just passing one now. My wife's just bought a beautiful dress from one of the shops there. 瞧，我们正好经过一个商厦呢。我太太刚从那边的一家买了件衣服，好漂亮。 Maybe I could buy a few presents there. I'll take you there tomorrow. Now we're leaving the business district and approaching the harbour. 也许我可以去那买些礼物。明天我带你去那吧。现在我们要离开商业区去港口。 We're entering the western district, the most interesting part of the city. It's got some really pretty parks ... 我们即将进入西区，也就是这个城市最有趣的地区。那有一些非常漂亮的公园...... It seems lovely. Is that Gulangyu Island, just across the water? Yes, it is. It's a gorgeous island with some really interesting architecture. 看上去很不错。水那边是鼓浪屿海岛吗？是的。那是个很迷人的海岛，岛上有一些非常有意思的建筑。 So they tell me. Do you think we could stop and walk around for a while? Yes, I was just going to do that. We can park over there. 他们也是这么跟我说的。你觉得我们可以停下来逗留一会儿吗？可以啊，我正想那么做呢。我们可以在那边停车。 A friend's told me about a nice little fish restaurant near here. Shall we go there for lunch? That sounds great. I'm starving! 有朋友跟我说起过这附近有一家很不错的渔家小饭馆，我们去那吃午餐怎么样？听起来不错。我快饿死了！

a lesson in a Lab Passage A 很难想象没有金属的世界。

It is hard to think of a world without metals. 不同的金属有不同的用处，比如说，钢材用于制造汽车，铁用于制造电子设备。 Different metals have different uses, for example, steel is used in cars, and iron is used in electrical equipment. 当我们使用金属的时候，知道它们和不同物质的反应是很重要的，例如水和氧气。 When we use metals, it is important to know how they react with different substances, for example, water and oxygen. 金属和这些物质的反应是有顺序的。

Moudle 6

因特网是世界上的信息最大储存源,它可以通过电脑来访问。 The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, and it's accessible through a computer. 它含有数以百万计的数据。 It consists of millions of pages of data. 1969 年,美国的一个防御组织 DARPA 发明了一种通过电话把多台电脑进行连接的方式。 In 1969, DARPA, a U.S. defence organisation, developed a way for all their computers to "talk" to each other through the telephone. 他们创建了一个叫做 DARPANET 的电脑网络。 They created a network of computers called DARPANET. 在 15 年间,只有美国军方可以利用这种交流系统。 For fifteen years, only the U.S. army could use this system of communication. 1984 年,美国的国家科学基金会发明了 NSFNET 网。 Then in 1984, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) started the NSFNET network. 它使得大学也可以利用这种系统。 It then became possible for universities to use the system as well. NSFNET 就以内部网络或―因特网‖而闻名。 NSFNET became known as the Inter-Network, or "Internet". 万维网是一个网络系统,它允许电脑用户通过因特网来访问众多网站上的信息。 The World Wide Web (the web) is a computer network that allows computer users to access information from millions of websites via the Internet. 目前,大约百分之八十的网络用语都是英语,但这一比率正在下降。 At the moment, about 80 percent of web traffic is in English, but this percentage is going down. 到 2020 年时,较多的用语可能会是汉语。 By 2020, much web traffic could be in Chinese. 全球信息网是于 1991 年由一个英国的科学家蒂姆.贝尔纳斯-李创建的。 The World Wide Web was invented in 1991 by an English scientist, Tim Berners-Lee. 读大学时,贝尔纳斯-李用一台废旧电视机制成了他的第一台电脑! Berners-Lee built his first computer while he was at university using an old television! 1989 年,当他在瑞士工作时,他提出了创建万维网的想法。 He came up with the idea of the World Wide Web in 1989 while he was working in Switzerland. 蒂姆.贝尔纳斯-李使得每一个人而不仅仅是大学或军队来使用因特网。 Berners-Lee made it possible for everyone to use the Internet, not just universities and the army. 他设计了第一个―网页浏览器‖,它使得计算机用户可以访问其他电脑的文件。 He designed the first "web browser", which allowed computer users to access documents from other computers. 从那时起,网站日益增多,因特网也日益普及。在五年内,因特网用户就从 60 万户增加到 4000 万户。 From that moment on, the web and the Internet grew. Within five years, the number of Internet users rose from 600 000 to 40 million. 因特网已经使得千万人成为百万富翁,但是,蒂姆.贝尔纳斯-李却不是其中的一个。 The Internet has created thousands of millionaires, but Berners-Lee is not one of them. 世界上的任何人都可以用他的万维网进入因特网。 Everyone in the world can access the Internet using his World Wide Web system. 如今他还是一名位于波士顿的麻省理工大学里的讲师。 He now works as a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.

篇五：Don’t Show Me the Money!

Don’t Show Me the Money!

THESPIAN friends perform “The Seagull” in their garden. Only minutes into the first act, a lovely young woman named Masha, sick of hearing the lovesick schoolteacher

Medvedenko whine about his penury, blurts out, “All you ever do is talk and talk about money.” That’s when it dawns on me: I’m sick of the subject, too. For the rest of Act I, I find myself ruminating about the glut of financial data that daily clogs the news: Libor and MF Global Holdings; HSBC’s money-laundering of Mexican drug-cartel money; “the London Whale” whose huge trades cost J.P. Morgan Chase billions; leveraged buyouts and mortgage-backed securities and and stimulus packages, Bain Capital and the tottering euro and the Greek bailout. Saul Bellow referred to this quotidian fretting about world affairs as “crisis chatter.” Today’s crises are all about what is euphemistically called “the financial services industry” — that is to say, they’re all about money.

Call it Wall Street porn. Not only do we know more than most of us wish to know about how the rich live — we even know, thanks to the deep-digging efforts of the business reporters over at Bloomberg, how much they have. But there is such a thing as knowing too much: Did Larry Ellison buy a Hawaiian island for $600 million? And did that include the hotels? Is George Soros’s net worth $18 billion? $20 billion? (Anyway, why begrudge him? He’s probably given half of it away.) And when we talk about the 99 percent who aren’t rich, shouldn’t that leave just 1 percent who are? Then why are we always hearing about the 0.1 percent and the .01 percent? Valiant fact-checkers are off the hook on this one: my point is that the exact numbers don’t matter.

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We’re all aware of the vast and still growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, we all know the global economy is a mess. But do we have to hear about it every waking minute of every day? We’re in trouble when the earnestly liberal NPR begins its morning broadcast with a program called “Planet Money.”

I can’t even go for a bike ride without being reminded that we all share it now. My admirable neighbor Nathan, who makes a living doing odd jobs and is a militant

nonparticipant in the global economy, has staked a cardboard poster on his lawn that reads, in blue letters, We are the 99 percent.

Why is it that the richer the rich get, the more their doings preoccupy the rest of us? What happened to the tacit social prohibition against talking about money? In part, it’s the fault of the media (as usual). “Who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out”: King Lear’s shrewd assessment of the human tendency to keep score is especially suited to our own historical moment, when everything is done in public. I didn’t ask for a peek at Warren Buffett’s portfolio: in order not to know how much preferred stock he acquired in Goldman Sachs I would have to confine my periodical reading to National Geographic.

The problem is: I need to know about money. Like most everyone else in the middle class, I’m scared. Reverberations from the largely bank-induced financial debacle of 2008 still ripple outward, lapping at our retirement plans and hard-earned savings. It never occurred to me that I would have to learn about I-bonds and TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities) at an age when I would have thought I was finally safe from the tortures of high school math — worse, would have to learn higher math just to avoid getting swallowed by the London Whale and his pod. I would love to catch up on the first four seasons of “Breaking Bad”; instead I sit up late at night with a calculator trying to figure out if I have enough for retirement.

In his ominously titled book, “Are We Rome?” Cullen Murphy noted that the senatorial aristocracy of the ancient world — “by one estimate two thousandths of one percent of the population” — was fine with a lopsided household income. “The very tiny Roman elite accepted the chasm between themselves and everyone else as the divinely ordained natural order and an affirmation of their own virtue.” I suspect that few in our own tiny elite feel that way. “Most Americans don’t want our society to be like this, and we remain at heart a middle-class nation,” Mr. Murphy suggests.

So why don’t we do something about it — close a few tax loopholes, regulate the banks — instead of gazing at the glossy real estate brochures that come in the mail? Is it possible that our fascination with the rich reflects some flaw in the nation’s value structure that cuts across class lines? Does subscribing to Architectural Digest make us unwittingly collusive in the perpetuation of wealth inequity? Is the middle class enabling the upper class? None of this has been lost on the great Keynes biographer Robert Skidelsky, whose new book, “How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life,” co-written with his son Edward, identifies an “ethic of acquisitiveness” in the air. To explain this trend, the Skidelskys

invoke the phenomenon of what sociologists refer to as “bandwagon goods” — “goods that are desired because others already have them.” This insatiable, competition-fueled appetite for stuff we don’t need shackles us to “continuous, objectless wealth-creation — something that did not exist in earlier times, and that remains, in some sense, peculiar to capitalism.”

As I read their book, I was reminded of “The Gift,” Lewis Hyde’s classic study of exchange systems in so-called “primitive” cultures. Published in 1983, this haunting anthropological elegy to lost civilizations was prescient. Mr. Hyde made the case that advanced capitalist nations, blinded by “market triumphalism,” had lost any sense of the rituals and beliefs that once defined us as a society, the institutions that bound us together: “We’ve witnessed the steady conversion into private property of the art and ideas that earlier generations thought belonged to their cultural commons, and we’ve seen the

commodification of things that a few years ago would have seemed beyond the reach of any market.” We now inhabited a world in which everything was for sale.

Nearly three decades later, Michael Sandel, a professor of government at Harvard, has confirmed Mr. Hyde’s premonitions in his new book, “What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets.” Mr. Sandel’s argument is that in our zeal for growth we have

“monetized” goods and services — education, medical care, access to national parks, clean air, even the right to immigrate — once available free. We’ve made the country itself a corporation. (In a recent speech, Mitt Romney, apparently referring to the United States, promised “to make sure this company deals with its challenges.”)

“The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed,” Mr. Sandel observes. “It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don’t belong.” Gone is the time when art was appreciated

as art, not as an investment; when a nest egg was for security, not to be shown off like a Fabergé; when politics was about issues, not war chests. The idea of producing something for fun or pleasure or the creation of beauty has become obsolete.

In a society in which money is the measure of all things, it becomes hard to assess your achievements in other terms. The breakdown of community — of church and

neighborhood and work that provides a firm identify — has forced us to find alternative ways of determining our place in the social order. It makes no more sense to ask the derivatives salesman to monitor himself, to pull back from the pursuit of maximum profit, than to ask A-Rod to go easy on the home runs. It’s their job; it’s what they do.

The same week that I saw “The Seagull,” I attended a performance of “The Magic Flute” in a small, 19th-century town hall that seated 90 (and, I’m glad to say, was filled to capacity). Tickets were $30. I’ve seen Mozart’s joyous opera many times, and this was the best by far. The singers were superb; the mini-orchestra played with gusto; the makeshift

costumes were touchingly inventive. How did the cast members get paid? Or did they? The production was instructive: there was a soprano from a local conservatory, an

itinerant freelance tenor, a baritone working toward his M.A. in musicology. Some of the staff worked pro bono (as did the actors in our local production of “The Seagull,” who donated two weeks of their summer vacation in return for free meals and a sojourn in the country). It was an exhilarating event. You couldn’t monetize it; you couldn’t commodify it; you couldn’t load it up on your bandwagon of goods. You could only experience it.

Money is a kind of poetry, declared Wallace Stevens, who worked for a Hartford insurance company and knew what he was talking about. But isn’t it also true that poetry is a kind of money?

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