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Tara: Well, it's just that I haven t found the right person yet.

Sun-hee: I don't get it. You've been on three unsuccessful dates, and you still think it's a good idea, Why?

Tara: Well, for one thing, I wouldn't say all my dates have been completely unsuccessful. I may not have met \

Sun-hee: Yeah, but you can have fun anywhere. You don't need to go searching through a news paper for \

Tara：Sun-hee, it can happen! My friend Karen just got engaged to a man she met through the personals, and she dated lots of men before she met him. Sun-hee: And that means …

Tara: Never give up! (looks at paper) Ooh! Here's one: \looking for attractive female for casual dating.\

Sun-hee: He's probably a total Romeo ... \... \dating\no way' he's sincere.

Tara: Stop it. Hey, here's one: \you attracted to intelligence? Do you enjoy a good personality? Are good looks important, but looks aren't everything?\

Sun-hee: Hmm ... \too cute.

Tara: Why do you say that? You've never even met him.

Sun-hee: Well, first of all, he's writing about his \second of all, he's saying that looks shouldn't be important for the person he dates, which probably means he's not that attractive.

Tara: You are so fussy! No wonder you haven't tried dating through the personals yet. Sun-hee: If you must know, I did answer a personal ad ... once. Tara: Yeah? What happened?

Sun-hee: We went out for dinner, and all he did was talk about himself----and his old girlfriend! Oh, it was awful!

Tara: OK, that does sound terrible, but they're not all bad.

Sun-hee: Hmm…maybe you're right. Let's see, what else do you have here? ... Here's one: \female seeks interesting Sunday afternoon activity other than sitting at home reading silly personals. Really into Brad Pitt. Feels like seeing his new movie… Tara：All right. Let's go. Track 3-8-OL-9

Sun-hee tells Tara that personal ads will not help her find a relationship. Tara says she hasn’t met “Mr. Right” yet, but she’s still had fun on dates she made through the personals. Then Tara reads some ads out loud and Sun-hee finds something wrong with each one. Tara thinks Sun-hee is too fussy and says,” No wonder you haven’t tried dating through the personals yet.” Sun-hee says she did answer a personal ad once, and it was an awful experience. Then Sun-hee pretends to read an ad about an “intelligent female” who feels like seeing Brad Pitt’s new movie. When Tara realizes Sun-hee is joking, she decides to stop reading the ads and go out to a movie with Sun-hee. Unit1 1.

Our hens keep us in eggs, with several dozen left over to sell each week. 自家饲养的鸡提供鸡蛋，每星期还能剩余几十个出售。

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Soon Jim, 16 and Emily, 13, the youngest of our four children, will help me make some long-overdue improvements on the outdoor toilet that supplements our indoor plumbing when we are working outside.

过些时候，四个孩子中的两个小的，16岁的吉米和13岁的埃米莉，会帮着我一起把拖了很久没修的室外厕所修葺一下，那是专为室外干活修建的。 3.

In between such chores, I manage to spend 50 to 60 hours a week at the typewriter or doing reporting for the freelance articles I sell to magazines and newspapers. 在这些活计之间，我每周要抽空花五、六十个小时，不是打字撰文，就是为作为自由撰稿人投给报刊的文章进行采访。 4.

There is, as the old saying goes, no rest for the wicked on a place like this -- and not much for the virtuous either.

正如老话说的那样，在这种情形之下，坏人不得闲――贤德之人也歇不了。 5.

The answer, decidedly, was no, and so -- with my employer's blessings and half a year's pay in accumulated benefits in my pocket -- off I went.

答案无疑是否定的。于是，带着老板的祝福，口袋里揣着作为累积津贴的半年薪水，我走了。 6. 7.

When it comes to insurance, we have a poor man's major-medical policy. 至于保险，我们买了一份低收入者的主要医疗项目保险。

I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do. It takes a couple of special qualities.

我想，不是所有热爱乡村的人都会乐意过我们这种生活的。这种生活需要一些特殊的素质。 8.

How much longer we'll have enough energy to stay on here is anybody's guess -- perhaps for quite a while, perhaps not.

没人知道我们还能有精力在这里再呆多久--也许呆很长一阵子，也许不是。 unit 2 The Freedom Givers

1. Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress, my guide back to a time when the surrounding

settlement in Dresden, Ontario, was home to a hero in American history.

我身边是一位苗条的黑衣女子，把我带回到过去的向导。那时，安大略省得雷斯顿这一带住着美国历史上的一位英雄。

2. Carter's devotion to her ancestor is about more than personal pride: it is about family honor.

For Josiah Henson has lived on through the character in American fiction that he helped inspire: Uncle Tom, the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ironically, that character has come to symbolize everything Henson was not..

卡特对其先辈的忠诚不仅仅关乎一己之骄傲，而关乎家族荣誉。因为乔赛亚·亨森至今仍为人所知是由于他所激发的创作灵感使得一个美国小说人物问世：汤姆叔叔，哈丽特·比彻·斯陀的小说《汤姆叔叔的小屋》中那个逆来顺受的黑奴。具有讽刺意味的是，这一人物所象征的一切在亨森身上一点都找不到 3. Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged

the Underground Railroad, a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South.

乔赛亚·亨森只是一长串无所畏惧的男女名单中的一个名字，这些人共同创建了这条“地下铁路”，一条由逃亡线路和可靠的人家组成的用以解放美国南方黑奴的秘密网络。

4. And it's about time. For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered,

their exploits still largely unsung. I was intent on telling their stories.

真是该建立这样一个中心的时候了。因为地下铁路的英雄们依然默默无闻，他们的业绩依然少人颂扬。我要讲述他们的故事。

5. The Bible, in bidding us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, said nothing about color.\

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“《圣经》上只是要我们给饥者以食物，无衣者以衣衫，但没提到过肤色的事。”

6. Word spread that fleeing slaves could always find refuge at the Coffin home.

人们传说，逃亡黑奴在科芬家总是能得到庇护。 unit 3 The Land of the Lock

1. the last one in for the evening would close up, and that was it.

晚上最后一个回家的人把门关上，这就行了。

2. It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip

wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm.

取而代之的是防盗锁、防护链、电子报警系统，以及连接警署或私人保安公司的报警装置。

3. It is not uncommon, in the most pleasant of homes, to see pasted on the windows small notices

announcing that the premises are under surveillance by this security force or that guard company.

在最温馨的居家，也常常看得到窗上贴着小小的告示，称本宅由某家安全机构或某个保安公司负责监管。

4. The ad pointed out that, yes, it is the insurance companies that pay for stolen goods, but

who is going to pay for what the new atmosphere of distrust and fear is doing to our way of life?

广告指出，没错，确是保险公司理赔失窃物品，但谁来赔偿互不信任、担心害怕这种新氛围对我们的生活方式所造成的影响呢？

5. For some reason we are satisfied when we think we are well-protected; it does not occur to

us to ask ourselves: Why has this happened? Why are we having to barricade ourselves against our neighbors and fellow citizens, and when, exactly, did this start to take over our lives? 出于某种原因，当我们觉得防范周密时就感到心满意足；我们没有问过自己：为什么会出现这种情况？为什么非得把自己与邻居和同住一城的居民相隔绝，这一切究竟是从什么时候开始主宰我们生活的？ 6. If you work for a medium- to large-size company, chances are that you don't just wander in

and out of work.

如果你在一家大中型公司上班，你上下班很可能不好随意进出。

7. With electronic X-ray equipment, we seem finally to have figured out a way to hold the

terrorists, real and imagined, at bay; it was such a relief to solve this problem that we did not think much about what such a state of affairs says about the quality of our lives. 凭借着电子透视装置，我们似乎终于想出妙计让恐怖分子无法近身，无论是真的恐怖分子还是凭空臆想的。能解决这一问题真是如释重负，于是我们不去多想这种状况对我们的生活质量意味着什么。 8. What better word to describe the way in which we have been forced to live? What sadder

reflection on all that we have become in this new and puzzling time? 还有什么更为可悲地表明我们在这个令人困惑的新时代所感受到的惶恐之情呢？ unit 4 The Watery Place

1. It looked like a shooting star at first, but then the track of light broadened into two things

that looked like rocket exhausts and the thing came down without a sound.

一开始像是颗流星，可接着那轨迹越来越亮，变成两个光点，就像是火箭喷出的气流，那个东西一点没出声就着落了。

2. \would like to have you make immediate arrangements for the important men of your U.S.A.,

as you call it, to be brought here for discussions leading to your people joining our great organization.\

“我们希望您马上与贵国，即你们所说的美国的要人联系，前来此地商讨加入我们组织的事宜。”

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3. It is not our way to force ourselves or our organization on people who do not wish us or it.

我们将不再返回。我们会在你们地球周围发布警告，不再会有人前来。” unit 5 Writing Three Thank-You Letters

1. Most of her holds contained thousands of cartons of canned or dried foods.

多数船舱装着成千上万箱罐装或风干的食品。

2. I was one of the Murzim's several cooks and, quite the same as for folk ashore, this

Thanksgiving morning had seen us busily preparing a traditional dinner featuring roast turkey. 我是军市一号上的一个厨师，跟岸上的人一样，那个感恩节的上午，我们忙着在准备一道以烤火鸡为主

的传统菜肴。

3. I made my way out there, breathing in great, deep draughts while walking slowly about, still

wearing my white cook's hat.

我信步走去，一边深深呼吸着空气，一边慢慢地踱着步，头上仍戴着那顶白色的厨师帽。

4. Not one time had I ever bothered to express to any of them so much as a simple, sincere \

you.

我一次也没想过要对他们中的任何一位真心诚意地说一句简单的谢谢。

5. I realized, swallowing hard, that about half of them had since died -- so they were forever

beyond any possible expression of gratitude from me.

令人难过的是，我意识到，他们中有一半已经过世了――因此他们永远也无法接受我的谢意了。 6. I reminded the Reverend Nelson how each morning he would open our little country town's

grammar school with a prayer over his assembled students. I told him that whatever positive things I had done since had been influenced at least in part by his morning school prayers. 我跟纳尔逊牧师提及他如何每天清晨和集合在一起的学生做祷告，以此开始乡村小学的一天。我告诉他，我后来所做的任何有意义的事，都至少部分地是受了他那些学校晨祷的影响。

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reading of their letters left me not only astonished but more humbled than before. 一次“邮件点名”带给我外祖母，爸爸，以及纳尔逊牧师的回信――我读了信，既震惊又深感卑微。 第一单元

1.我们的计算机系统出了毛病，但我觉得问题比较小

We have a problem with the computer system, but I think it is fairly minor. 2.父亲去世时我还小，不能独立生活。就在那时，家乡的父老乡亲接过了养育我的责任 My father died when I was too young to live on my own. The people of my hometown 3.这些玩具必须得在达到严格的安全要求后才可以出售给儿童

The toys have to meet strict safety requirements before they can be sold to children. 4为新闻和舆论的载体，广播和电视补充了而不是替代了报纸

Radio and television have supplemented rather than replaced the newspaper as carriers of new and opinion.

5.至于这本杂志，它刊载了世界各地许多报纸杂志上文章的摘要

When it comes to this magazine, it is a digest of articles from many newspapers and magazines around the world.. 第二单元

1.虽然受到全球金融危机后果的巨大影响，但是我们仍然相信我们能够面对挑战，克服危机。 Though greatly affected by the consequences of the global financial crisis, we are still confident that we can face up to the challenge and overcome the crisis.

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2.在持续不断的沙尘暴的威胁下，我们被迫离开我们喜爱的村庄，搬迁到新的地方

Under threat of constant sand storms, we were compelled to leave our cherished village and move to the new settlement.

3.根据最近的网上调查，许多消费者说他们也许会有兴趣考虑购买电视广告中播放的产品 According to a recent online survey, a lot of consumers say they may be motivated to consider buying products shown in TV commercials.

4.看到卡车司机把污染的废弃物倒在河边，老人马上向警方报告

Having spotted a truck driver dumping contaminated waste alongside the river, the old man reported to the police at once.

5.一些科学家坚信人们总有一天会喜欢转基因农作物的，因为它们能够提高产量，帮助发展中国家战胜饥荒和疾病

Some scientists hold to the firm conviction that people will come to like genetically modified crops someday since they can increase yields and help combat hunger and disease in the developing world. 第三单元

1.无论是在农村还是城市，因特网正在改变人们的生活方式

The Internet is changing the way people live, no matter whether they are in urban or rural areas. 2.和大公司相比，中小公司更容易受到全球经济危机的威胁

Medium-sized and small companies are more vulnerable to the threat of the global economic crisis than large ones.

3.关于期末论文，教授要求我们先分析失业图表，然后对国家的经济发展提供批评性的见解 With regard to our term papers, the professor asked us to analyze the chart of unemployment first, and then provide critical reflections on the nation’s economic development. 4.她从来也没有想到他们队会以大比分赢得那场篮球赛

It never occurred to him that their team would win the basketball match by a large margin. 5.回顾二十年的中学教学，我把我的成功归结为耐心，才能和不断对知识的不断追求

Looking back on my twenty years’ teaching in high school, I attributed my success to patience, talent, and the constant pursuit of knowledge. constant pursuit of knowledge. 第四单元

1.红十字会派遣的志愿人员非常小心地对村里的饮用水进行消毒，以避免爆发瘟疫

The volunteers sent by the Red Cross disinfected, with greatcaution, the drinking water in the village so as to avoidan outbreak of plague. 2.爱因斯坦用了多年时间试图把电磁学理论和引力理论结合起来，但没有成功。

Einstein spent many years trying to unify the theories of electromagnetism and gravity but failed.

3.因其在激发学生创造性想象力方面的出色表现，王教授获得了校长奖

Professor Wang received the Presidential Award for his excellence in stimulating students' creative imagination.

4.因存在一些设计上的重大缺陷，董事会没有同意那个经济刺激计划

As there were some major design flaws, the board of directors didn't approve of the economic stimulus package.

5.乔丹意识到没人能给他帮助，终于得出结论他必须面对现实，独自接受挑战

Having realized that nobody could help him, Jordan finally came to the conclusio

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n that he had to face reality and take up the challenge by himself. 第五单元

1.奶奶想当然地认为粮价要上涨，所以买了许多大米

Grandma took it for granted that food prices would soar, so she bought a lot of rice. 2.我可以给你引用几个例子来会说明她献身科学的精神

I can quote you several instances of her dedication to science. 3.20世纪80年代中国一些经济特区开始迅速发展起来

The 1980s saw the start of the swift development of some special economic zones in China. 4.两国关系的紧张部分是由于最近的间谍事件

Tension between the two countries stemmed in part from the latest spy affair.

5.彼得已在一家律师事务所当了多年律师。你可请他做你的律师，当你需要法律与援助时，由他代你行事 Peter has worked in a law firm for many years. You can consider having him as your lawyer to act on your behalf when you need legal help.

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