新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）
Unit 1
Part I
Exercises
I. Reading for information 。 A. Reading to find main ideas 1. A 2. C
B. Reading to find major details 3 . D 4. B
C. Reading to find relevant facts 5. C 6. A II. Translation
Translate the following sentences into Chinese. 1
A hundred papers in the boys' scrawls; he had shirked this work for weeks, feeling all the time as if a sword were hanging over his head.
有一百份卷子要批，而且全是男孩们用潦草的字迹写成的，这事他已经拖了好几个星期了。这些日子，他一直觉得头上仿佛悬着把剑。 2
I’ve spent a fortune on it behind closed doors. 我私下里已经花了一大笔钱来学习音乐了。
3 His face was beaded with perspiration. 他的脸上挂满了汗珠。
4 No judge delivering a sentence felt more pained and helpless.
没有哪个宣布判决的法官会比此时的谢卡尔更痛苦、更无助。
5 Truth required as much strength to give as to receive. 说出事实和接受事实同样需要勇气。
III. Summary
Complete the following statements with words and expressions from the box. Use their proper forms.
1 Truth is like the sun because no human being can ever look it straight in the face without blinking or being dazed . 2 Sekhar thought that morning till night , the essence of human relationships consisted in tempering truth so that it might not shock .
3 Sekhar practiced truth for only one day and he had three trials :The first one was with his wife , the second with his colleague and the last one with his headmaster
4 His wife took the apple pie as her culinary masterpiece while Sekhar thought that it wasn't good and he was unable to swallow it.
5 His colleague thought so and so was a fine man while Sekhar regarded him as mean and selfish .
6 The headmaster was eager to show off his singing , but his singing made Sekhar half stupefied .
7 Sekhar compared the headmaster's singing to three things: a dozen frogs , a buffalo , and loose window shutters in a storm.
8 Sekhar realized that truth required as much strength to give as to receive .
Part II Reading for Pleasure
Exercise
Answer the following questions. 1
After reading the story, what do you think about Hell?
Hell is not so terrible as most people think because it can be transformed into Heaven through hard work, courage, faith and love. The real Hell is in one’s heart. 2
What is your definition of Heaven now?
Heaven is a land of beauty and peace, and it is the result of our hard work. 3
What kind of people can rest in Heaven after they die? All those hardworking people with courage and determination can rest in
Heaven after they die, because although they cannot all reach Heaven in the first place, they can build Hell into Heaven. 4
What kind of people will end up in Hell? Those who are afraid of Hell and do not have courage to fight difficulties and
disasters will end up in Hell. 5
What is the moral of this parable?
This parable tells us that our destiny is controlled by ourselves.
Unit 2
Part I
Exercises
I. Reading for information 。 A. Reading to find main ideas 1. C 2. A
B. Reading to find major details 3 . B 4. C
C. Reading to find relevant facts 5. D 6. A II. Translation
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. It was 9 p.m. I threw a stethoscope around my neck and headed for Room712, the last room on the hall.
当时是晚上九点，我把听诊器挂在脖子上，朝走廊尽头的 712病房走去。
2. As I entered the room, Mr. Williams looked up eagerly, but drooped his eyes when he saw it was only me, his nurse.
我走进病房时，威廉先生急切地抬起头来，一看是我，他的护士，随即又垂下了眼睛。
3. Her voice was so utterly compelling that my hand trembled on the phone. 她的语气那样迫切，我握着话筒的手不由得颤抖起来。
4. My first thought was: Why put yourself through more pain? 我第一个念头是：你何必还要增加自己的痛苦？
5. A snowflake hit the window and melted away, gone forever. 一片雪花打在窗上，立即融化，永远地消失了。
III. Summary
Complete the following flowchart.
On Janie's 21st birthday, her father, Mr. Williams, had a fight with her over her boyfriend . Janie said \I hate you\ the house.
Janie never spoke to her father again, though she wanted very much to go to him for forgiveness . Several months later, Mr. Williams suffered a slight heart attack . He was admitted to hospital and his condition was stable .
He asked the nurse to call his daughter , and to get him a pencil and paper . His respiration speeded up, and he began to breathe very fast.
The nurse called Janie, and Janie said that she would be in the hospital in 30 minutes . Mr. Williams had a cardiac arrest .
The doctors tried every means to save him but failed .
Mr. Williams passed away before his daughter could reach the hospital . Janie slumped against the wall, looking pathetic and painful. Accompanied by the nurse , Janie went to see her father's body . Janie leaned over the bed and buried her face in the sheets.
The nurse found a note written by Mr. Williams and gave it to Janie. Janie read the note twice , and hugged the scrap of paper to her breast.
Her tormented face grew radiant and peace began to glisten in her eyes, because from that note she knew that her father had forgiven her.
Part II Reading for Pleasure
Exercise
Answer the following questions.
1 What was the relationship between Roger and Tony? They used to be schoolmates in Landon High School.
2 Why couldn't Roger recognize Tony at first?
Because Tony had changed a lot from a big burly guy to a very thin man.
3 What kind of person was Tony when he was young? He was a bully when he was young.
4 Why did Roger give Tony his card?
He wanted to tell Tony that he had forgiven him and wanted to be friends with him.
5 How did Roger feel when he saw Tony in the wheelchair?
At first he was very surprised to see that Tony had changed so much, then he felt very sorry for him and wanted to be friends with him.
Unit 3
Part I
Exercises
I. Reading for information 。 A. Reading to find main ideas 1. D 2. C
B. Reading to find major details 3 . D 4. B
C. Reading to find relevant facts 5. A 6. C II. Translation
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. Obsessions drive people to do all sorts of strange things. Harriet Magnis’s obsession drove her to
commit one of the strangest crimes in history.
痴迷往往会使人们做出各种各样奇怪的事情。哈丽雅特?玛格妮丝的痴迷驱使她犯下了有史以来最荒唐的罪行。
2. Even though he was at sea for two or three years at a stretch, and was home for only a few days at a time, Harriet loved him deeply and her tragic failure to provide him with a child haunted her.
尽管他在海上一待就是两三年，每次回家也只能待上几天，哈丽雅特还是深爱着他。不幸没能为他生下一男半女，她心里非常不安。
3. She had succeeded in deceiving him for three years, but now she knew that she either had to produce a three-year-old boy who looked like Richard, or had to spill the whole truth to him.
她成功地骗了他三年，可是现在她明白，她要么得找出一个长相像理查德的三岁男孩，要么就得向他彻底坦白。
4. But after he left , Harriet became panicky, especially when the neighbors began to ask questions about the sudden appearance of her “child” and even more so when the wanted notices appeared in the local post office.
可是丈夫走后，哈丽雅特便恐慌起来，特别是当邻居们开始问她怎么突然有了个孩子的时候。而当通缉令出现在当地邮局时，她更是惶惶不可终日。
5. In due time the letter was delivered to Richard’s ship, but not to him. In his anxiety to see his little son again, Richard had jumped ship and gone AWOL. 信如期送到了理查德服役的船上，但没有到他手里。理查德因为急于再次见到自己的儿子而离船开了小差。
III. Summary
Complete the following statements with words and expressions from the box. Use their proper forms.
1 Harriet loved her husband deeply, but she was troubled by the fact that she was unable to provide him with a child . Her obsession with having a child drove her to commit a crime .
2 In order to make her husband happy, she told him that she was pregnant. And she succeeded in deceiving her husband for three years. But her lies got her into deep water . When her husband grew suspicious, she decided to steal a child .
3 Harriet went to London looking for a boy of the right age. Finally, she found Thomas and kidnapped him. Her husband was in ecstasy when she took the boy to meet him.
4 Filled with fear and remorse, Harriet took Thomas back to London. She also wrote a letter to her husband, telling him the truth, which was delivered to the captain of the ship for her husband had gone AWOL .