classic work not only of military value but also of great philosophical significance, The Art of War is a precious heritage of brilliant ancient Chinese culture. Sun Wu disclosed in his book a series of military rules and principles, and put forward a complete system of military theory. His theory has been highly regarded by strategists since the Warring States Period and exerted strong impacts on their thought and practice. Moreover, it has yielded a worldwide influence in the field of military thought, enjoying extremely high prestige.
Unit 7
The American economy is built on credit. In the last decade, however, cheap credit made it too easy for people to buy houses based on pure speculation that real estate value would endlessly continue to increase. But the housing 1) E.slump set off a chain reaction in our economy. Individuals and investors could no longer resell their homes for a quick profit,2) J.mortgages no longer became affordable for many homeowners, and thousands of mortgages defaulted(违约), leaving investors and financial institutions to face the terrible consequences.
Iconic, isn’t it? Yes, it is true that credit got us into this mess, but it is also true that our economy is 3) B.incredibly unstable right now, and being that it is built on credit, it needs an inflow of cash or it could come 4) H.crashing down. This is something no one wants to see as it would 5) A.spread through our economy and into the world markets in a matter of hours, potentially causing a worldwide recession.
Credit in and of itself is not a bad thing. Credit 6) K.promotes growth and jobs. Poor use of credit , however, can be 7) G.catastrophic, which is what we are on the 8) I.verge of seeing now. So long as the rescue plan comes with changes to lending regulations and more 9) C.oversight of the industry, there is potential to 10) N.stabilize the market, which is what everyone wants. Whether or not it works is to be seen, but as it has already been voted on and passed, we should all hope it does.
上海自贸区（Shanghai Free Trade Zone）是中国政府于2013年设立在上海的自由贸易区。上海自贸区总面积为28.78平方公里，是中国大陆境内第一个自由贸易区，也是进行一系列经济改革的“试验田”（testing ground）。设立上海自贸区是顺应全球经贸发展新趋势，实行更加积极主动开放战略的一项重大举措。其主要任务是为全面深化改革开放探索新路径、积累新经验。上海自贸区作为试点（pilot project），是中国经济的“试金石”（touchstone），将为深化改革、促进经济活力起到积极的推动作用。
Shanghai Free Trade Zone is a free trade zone in Shanghai that was launched in 2013 by the Chinese government. Covering an area of 28.78 square kilometers, Shanghai Free Trade Zone is the first of its kind in China's mainland, and is regarded as a \trade zone is a significant measure taken to actively promote the opening-up strategy under the new global economic and trade situation. It undertakes a major task to explore new ways and accumulate new experience for the deepening of reform and opening up in an all-round way. As a pilot project, Shanghai Free Trade Zone will become a \
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reforms and boosting economic vigor.
Unit 8
Laughter is a(n) 1) J.automatic response to being touched by a tickle(搔痒) — a natural response from the child. This puts the tickler in 2) L.charge of how much or how long the child laughs. We adults don’t read children’s minds, but we often have a(n) 3) C.presumption that we can. So we usually think we ‘re aware of what’s too much tickling and when to stop. But it is possible to trap our children without knowing it. We parents become 4) O.attached to tickling because it seems to be a(n) 5) K.handy shortcut to laughter. We wish that our children are happy and love us, and tickling becomes our shortcut to get assured.
Rather than forcing laughter in this way, we can 6) G.confer upon them inner confidence if we will get down on the floor and invite them to be in playful physical 7) A.contact with us. If we find ways to give them much of the power, our children will laugh and laugh. Games like “I have a hundred hugs for you!” or “Where’s Jared? I know he’s around here somewhere.” let children laugh and laugh as we try to catch them, or try to find them, or try to 8) H.bounce them off our backs, and fail over and over.
The physical contact that requires more creativity than tickling allows us to 9) E.tumble around, to press our heads against their stomachs here and there for a second, and to manage an embrace before they make another daring escape. We get our affection across without trapping our children. And we give them chance to be inventive as they use their 10) D.intellect to figure out a hundred ways to outsmart us.
中央电视台春节联欢晚会（简称“春晚”）自1983年开办以来，已成为中国人文化生活中不可缺少的文化消费品和一个挥之不去的文化符号。虽然众口难调，但必须承认的是，“春晚”已成为公众所不可缺少的“新民俗”。春晚不仅是一台晚会，更是一种仪式与象征，一种文化与标签，一种情感与寄托。随着时代发展及新媒体的出现，观众的选择和需求日渐多样化，“春晚”也在与时俱进，以满足大众日益增长的文化需求。
The CCTV Spring Festival Gala (Spring Festival Gala for short), which was started in 1983, has become an indispensable cultural consumer product and a cultural symbol in the cultural life of the Chinese people. Though it's hard to satisfy the tastes of all the people, it has to be admitted that the Spring Festival Gala has become a \more than a gala; it is a ritual and a symbol, a culture and a label, and an emotion and a place where people entrust their hearts to. With the development of the times and the emerging of new media, the audiences are having more diversified choices and demands. Correspondingly, the Spring Festival Gala is also advancing with the times to satisfy the growing cultural needs of the people.
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Unit 1
1. Most cities in the country have introduced “Clean Air Zones” whereby factories and households are only allowed to burn smokeless fuel. 这个国家的大部分城市都引入了“洁净空气区”，因此工厂和家庭住户只被允许使用无烟燃料。
2. He knows that the pursuit of social status can consume vast amounts of his time and effort.
他知道追求社会地位会消耗掉他大量的时间和精力。
3. The doctors are at a loss because so far no medicine has been found to inhibit the spread of the disease.
医生们都束手无策，因为到目前为止还没有发现能够阻止这种疾病传播的药物。 4. We see many special education directors trying to maintain the quality of their programs with much less money and much smaller staff.
我们看到很多特殊教育主管们在资金和人手都减少的情况下仍尽量维持着原有的教学质量。
5. People there are told it is their patriotic duty to support the national economy by buying their own products.
那里的人们被告知，购买国货支持本国经济是他们应尽的爱国职责。
6. Darwin’s thinking both drew upon and transcended the conventional ideas of his time.
达尔文的思想既是基于那个时代的传统思想，同时又超越了那些思想。
7. In spite of all your endeavors , there may be times when you encounter difficulties in the training process.
尽管你很努力，有时也会在培训过程中遇到困难。
8. My advice to Mr. Stewart is to think carefully before entering into a career in medicine, as this is a field which requires a lot of dedication and long working hours.
我对斯图尔特先生的建议是，在入职医药领域之前一定要三思，因为干这一行需要很强的奉献精神，而且工作时间也长。
9. Most Chinese parents would prefer to choose some professions that are stable and could bring prestige and economic benefits.
大部分中国父母都会选择那些稳定的、名声好的、挣钱多的工作。
10. It’s legally possible for an elderly person to nominate someone to act for them, should they become incapable of looking after themselves.
如果一个年纪大的人无法照顾自己，他可以指派一个人来代理自己，这是符合法律规定的。
Unit 2
1. Kids are more likely to intervene in a situation if they believe their parents expect them to help.
如果他们确信父母需要他们的帮助，孩子很愿意插手。
2. The first lesson I learned as a newcomer for the company was never to underestimate the degree of difficulty I would face in career advancement.
作为公司的新人，我学到的第一课就是，不要低估职业发展将面临的困难程度。
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3. Just as I started to think that I was never going to get well, the illness began to recede .
正当我认为我的病好不起来的时候，疾病开始消退了。
4. Whatever the decision is, I would like you to know that your department is my first choice and I deem it a great honor if I could study in your department. 不管决定是什么，我想让你知道贵系是我的第一选择并且我认为如果能在贵系学习是极大的荣幸。
5. During one particularly bleak moment in my career, a senior colleague of mind said to me, “If you follow your dreams, the money will come. Follow the money, and you’ll lose your dreams.”
在职业生涯暗淡的一刻，一位同事对我说：“如果追随梦想，金钱自然会来，相反，你将失去你的梦想。”
6. Unless we can find a way to appraise nature and then invest in protecting it, our basic life-support systems are going to collapse.
除非我们能找到一种方法来评估自然并投资保护它，否则我们的基本生命保障系统将会崩溃。
7. The blizzard(暴风雪) moved south, turning into an icy rain that paralyzed the airports for three days.
暴风雪向南移动，变成冰冷的雨，使机场陷入瘫痪三天。
8. In this introduction we have diagnosed some of the causes of the illness and, in the following chapters, we will draw attention to its various unpleasant symptoms. 在介绍中我们已经分析了疾病的部分起因，在接下来的章节中我们将会关注疾病的不同症状。
9. In those days, divorce under any circumstances was socially unacceptable and there was great dismay in the family who went through it. 在那些日子里，任何情况下的离婚都是社会无法接受的。那些经历了离婚的家庭都有很多苦楚。
10. Every time she talked about being rejected in her hunt for a job, she seemed on the brink of tears, and I would quickly switch the conversation to another topic.
每次她谈及找工作被拒绝的事情都似乎要哭出来，我会快速转到下一个话题。
Unit 3
1. As a number of authors point out, the urge to migrate is a(n) integral part of human nature.
正如很多作者指出，迁移的冲动是人性的组成部分。
2. Children should be allowed to cherish those few years of innocence before they have to learn the truth about the real world.
孩子们应该珍惜童真的时光，之后他们不得不学习面对这个真实的世界。
3. He has been afflicted by a horrible disease, from which one of his best friends died two weeks ago.
因为可怕的疾病，他一直饱受折磨，他最好的朋友也因此疾病于两周前去世。 4. The results of the survey are noteworthy and useful despite being from a small sample.
虽然来自小样本，但调查结果是值得注目且有价值的。
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5. The director said that they needed a young actress who could portray someone who was both unbalanced and confident at the same time.
导演说他们需要一个能把这个既自卑又自信的角色表现得淋漓尽致的女演员。 6. Praise must be used wisely to compliment students who perform up to expectations and to and to encourage students to perform to maximum levels. 应智慧地去表扬那些已达到目标的学生，同时鼓励他们发挥最高水平。
7. In the domain of research, it is an accepted fact that scientific publications have to be written or translated into English to get published, acknowledged, and cited. 在科研领域，一个公认的事实是科学出版物必须书面翻译成英文发表、承认和引用。
8. He received a(n) anonymous call threatening to disclose details of his affair if he didn’t pay the money.
他收到一通匿名电话威胁说如果不支付这笔钱将会披露他的所有事情。
9. The movie presents Lincoln as a strong-willed, conscientious man who led the US through a moral, constitutional and political crisis.
电影展现出林肯作为一个坚强的，有责任心的人带领美国度过了道德、宪法和政治危机。
10. It is understandable that the health and welfare of their family is a(n) perpetual concern for this young couple.
家庭的健康和福利是这对年轻情侣永恒关心的问题，这是可以理解的。
Unit 4
1. Although secondary education is compulsory, parents are not required to send their children to state schools.
即使中等教育是强制性的，但也没有要求家长们将子女送到公立学校。
2. The economic situation has been worsening, causing economists to contemplate whether the present policies are sustainable.
日益恶化的经济状况使得经济学家们深思当前的政策是否继续可行。
3. He was found guilty and was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he died very quickly, aged only 47.
他被判有罪被囚禁在伦敦塔，在那里它他很快死就死去了，年仅47岁。
4. It is obvious that the future of the Internet is to globalize more and more areas of the world, and that e-commerce and e-entertainment are going to go for more and more markets. 显然，互联网的未来是使越来越多的地区全球化，电子商务和电子娱乐将会获得越来越多的市场。
5. However, your current losses should soon be offset by gains; the fund will produce a positive return of 11.6 percent over a nine-month period. 然而，你当前的损失会很快被收益所抵消，这笔资金将会在9个月的时间里产生11.6%的收益。
6. Because she was so tall and slim, all the clothes looked marvelous on her and the other girls would groan their envy. 由于她个子高又苗条，所有衣服穿在她身上都很好看，其他女孩会发出嫉妒的叹息声。
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