第一单元

1 As the gender bariers crumbled ,the number of women working as lawyers,doctors, or bankers began to increase significantly from the mid-20th century

随着性别歧视者的瓦解，从事律师、医生或银行家工作的女性人数从20世纪中叶开始显著增加。

2 With the data olleted each year, the owner of the shop can discern customer treiendsand how things like weather and economic indicators affect sales performance.

根据每年收集的数据，商店的所有者可以辨别顾客的需求以及天气和经济指标等因素如何影响销售业绩。

3 His supervisor pushes and motivates him in such a positive manner that he is not onlyable to reach but to surpass . his personalgoals.

他的主管以积极的方式推动和激励他，使他不仅能够达到，而且能够超越。他的个人爱好。

4 He is a man with a(n) shrewd business sense. He has built

his initial investment into asubstantial and even excessively large fortune.

他是一个有精明商业头脑的人。他已经把最初的投资建立在一个绝对的甚至是巨额的财富上。

5 The conversion of nuclear radiation directly into electricity was an exciting possibilitythat was being vigorously explored in many .laboratories in the 1950s.

直接将核辐射转化为电能是一种令人兴奋的可能性。20世纪50年代，许多实验室都在大力探索这种可能性。

6 I was not only shocked but also disgusted that the report tried to distort thescientific facts in such a manner that evensomehighly-educated people were fooled.

报告试图歪曲科学事实，以致于一些受过高等教育的人被愚弄，这不仅让我感到震惊，也让我感到厌恶。

7 Sixty-two and blessed with his mother's skin, the fisherman had withstood a lifetimeof exposure to the sun and looked as radiant as a man in his forties.

这位渔夫有着母亲的皮肤，经受住了一辈子的日晒，看上去像四十多岁的人一样容光焕发。

8 French educator Louis Braille invented a simple but

ingenious code which has had an impact on the lives of generations ofpeople who are blind.

法国教育家路易斯·布莱叶发明了一种简单但巧妙的密码，它对几代盲人的生活产生了影响。

9 The senators didn't expect us to ask such tough questions, and when we finally did, they got stumped and didn't know what to say.

参议员们没料到我们会问这么棘手的问题，当我们最终问了之后，他们被难住了，不知道该说什么。

10 This newly established university supports the proposition that a more diverse highereducation system is desirable since it would exhance opportunities for life long learning.

这所新成立的大学支持这样一个观点，即一个更加多样化的高等教育系统是可取的，因为它为终身学习提供了机会。 七

1 The brick walls of the ruined buildings were dripping with green mold andmoisture, and she shivered involuntarily,looking down to avoid the sight.

被毁坏的建筑物的砖墙上滴着绿色的霉菌和湿气，她不由自主地打了个寒颤，俯视着避开视线。

2 As urban populations exported finished goods in exchange for raw materials fromneighboring populations, organized tradegrew substantially

随着城市人口出口制成品以换取邻近人口的原材料，有组织的贸易大幅增长

3 Knowing just how quickly a wildfire can spread, some residents of the village decided to leave their homes after the flames flared up nearby

知道野火蔓延的速度有多快，村里的一些居民决定在附近的火势爆发后离开他们的家。

4 Biology teachers often make an analogy between the heart and a pump in order to help studentsunderstand how the heart works.

为了帮助学生了解心脏的工作原理，4位生物老师经常把心脏和泵作类比。

5 They would like to set a date for their wedding and announce their engagementto their families and friends as soon aspossible.

他们想为他们的婚礼定一个日期，并尽快向他们的家人和朋友宣布他们的订婚。

6 He was determined not to sour a perfectly good day with the memory of one jealous classmate trying to make a fool out of him in front of the entire class.

他决心不让一天过得非常愉快，因为他想起了一个嫉妒的伙伴试图在全班同学面前愚弄他。

7 The couple made a pact never to work at the same time, so that one of themwas always on full- time parenting duty, andtheir child wouldn't have to be looked afterby strangers. 这对夫妇约定永远不要同时工作，所以他们中的一个总是全职做父母，他们的孩子不必被陌生人照顾。

8 The president said that it's the worst carthquake ever to hit the country, and that he had appealed to the world for help,asking in particular for heavy- lift heicoptersаЫlе lо аrrу rеl?еf ?uрl?? ?ntо thе ??оlаtеd mountain areas.

总统说，这是有史以来最严重的一次喀什地震，他呼吁全世界提供帮助，特别是向重型直升机“黑鸟”寻求帮助。

第二单元

1We need to improve the quality of educationso that our