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15 Translate the following sentences into English: 1.巨额投资(investment) 使这一地区的经济得以迅速发展. 2.他们为新一所医院开展筹款运动. 3.成功在于勤奋(diligence),这句话很正确.
4.他们都具有很高的道德标准,决不会受诱惑接受如此贵重的礼品. 5.有迹象表明,不少工厂正面临着十分困难的局面.
6.警方找到罪犯是谁的重要线索后，在几小时内就以武装抢劫罪拘捕了他。 7.调查揭示，对某些人来说，退休往往会造成主理上的病痛。
8.医疗队并没有一味抱怨（do more than complain）当地医院较差的工作条件,比如说,好几位医生就曾用自己的钱购置了简单的医疗器械.
READING ACTIVTTY
Skill: Review of Drawing Conclusions While Reading
In the previous unit, you were taught how to draw conclusions while reading. To draw an accurate conclusion usually depends on your ability to read critically, that is, to identify ideas first and then to evaluate these ideas. Now read the following short passage. Pay attention th the idea stated in the first sentence and decide whether this idea is satisfactorily developed.
Many of the smaller species of birds fly south for winter. Since the sparrow (麻雀) is small, it must fly south for winter.
If you read carefully, you may find that the conclusion \not acceptable. The sparrow is a small bird, but that does not necessarily mean that it must winter in the south.
In order to draw reasonable conclusions we have to build our conclusions upon facts or evidence and not upon our own opinions, likes, or dislikes, Of course our experience may prove useful, but most of our conclusions must be based on what we read in the passage. Passage
Read the following passage and do Exercises A and B that some after it. Found 创建
Label 把...称为
Navy 海军
Widow 寡妇
Troop 军队 部队
Secretary 秘书
Port 港口
Fee 费,酬金
Miracle 奇迹
Simply 仅仅;简单地
Southeast 东南的
Warmth 热情
Fisherman 渔民
Humor 幽默
Sportsman 运动员
Fare (轩,船等)费
Trap 使落入陷阱
Alike 同样地
Drown 淹没
Inspire 使产生灵感,启发
Roar 轰鸣
Supreme 最高的
Overhead 在头顶上
Court 法庭
Bomb 轰炸
Sacrifice 牺牲
Empire 帝国
A Question of Honor Allan Sherman
\保证)to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.\
So ends the Declaration of Independence. The men who founded the United States had many
differences, but they agreed on one thing: Honor. Two hundred years later we seem to have lost it. We seldom learn about Honor in school, because it isn't easy to teach its importance. It can't be measured in inches or counted like money. (1)Today honor has become a virtue for fools: if Abraham Lincoln were to walk ten miles to return a library look today, he'd be laughed at and labeled an idiot(白痴). Honor is for the old fashioned and the stupid - a fairy tale ideal left over from the stories of King Arthur and his knights (骑士). But is it? Consider these few true stories. THE BATHTUB NAVY
On May 26, 1940, as Hitler's armies overran(横行于) France, British and French troops retreated by the tens of thousands into the little French port of Dunkirk. From Dunkirk there was no place left to go but into the English Channel.
The mighty British navy had few ships small enough to dart in and bring out the men. (2) Thus the Free World could do nothing but sit by the radio in helplessness and sorrow, waiting for news that these vast armies of brave men had been wiped out.
Then, in the early hours of May 27, a miracle began to unfold(展示). From everywhere in the British Isles they came to southeast England - fishermen with fishing boats, noblemen with yachts, sportsmen with motor launches (摩托艇). The first of this tublike navy, captained by men with neither guns nor uniforms, set sail from Sheerness. By moonlight they putt-putted across the water, braving (冒着)the dangers of mines(水雷) and U-boats (潜水艇). As the morning sun lighted the beaches of Dunkirk, the first of the hundreds of small boats pulled onto the shore. The cheers of the trapped soldiers were drowned out by the roar overhead. German planes were bombing the beach as British planes tried to fight them off. The miracle of Dunkirk continued for nine days and nights. All together, 338, 226 British and French lives were saved.
For the men of His Majesty's (陛下) Bathtub Navy, the finest hour of all - the hour of greatest honor - took place on the beaches at Dunkirk.
AN OPEN HEART
My Aunt Edith was a widow of 50, working as a secretary, when doctors discovered what was then thought to be a very serious heart disease.
Aunt Edith doesn't accept defeat easily. She began studying medical reports in the library and found an article in a magazing about a well- known heart surgeon, Dr. Michael DeBakey, of Houston, Texas. He had saved the life of someone with the same disease. The article said Dr. DeBakey's fees were very high; Aunt Edith couldn't possibly pay them. But could he tell her of someone whose fee she could pay? So Aunt Edith wrote to him. (3)She simply listed her reasons for wanting to live: her three children, who would be on their own (自立) in three or four more years; her little -girl dream of traveling and seing the world. There wasn't a word of self- pity -only warmth and humor and the joy of living She mailed the letter, not really expecting an answer.
A few days later, my doorbell rang. Aunt Edith didn't wait to come in; she stood in the hall and read aloud: Your beautiful letter moved me very deeply. If you can come to Houston, there will be no charge for either the hospital or the operation. Signed: Michael DeBakey
That was seven years ago. Since then, Aunt Edith has been around the world. Her three children are happily married. (4)For her age, she is one of the youngest, most alive people I know - all because of an open - heart surgeon who knew how to honor his profession, and how to open his own heart.
THE STUBBORN(倔强的)SEAMSTRESS(女裁颖缝)
On December 1,1995, Mrs. Rosa Parks boarded a bus in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, paid her fare and took a seat in the front of the Negro section at the back end. It felt good to sit down after a long day's work. At the next stop, however, the driver told the Negroes to move back to make roon for new white passengers.
All but one of the blacks gave up their places obediently. Rosa Parks hesitated. The bus was now full: if she got up, she would have to stand all the way home. A white man waiting for her seat glared impatiently. At that moment, something in Rosa Parks snapped. Maybe her soul had had enough of humiliation(羞辱); maybe it was just that her feet were tired. Anyway, the 42-year-old seamstress refused to give up her seat.
Black and white passengers alike stared at the troublemaker. The bus driver hailed(呼叫)a policeman. Mrs. Parks was arrested.
Montgomery's 17,000 Negroes were enraged(激怒). Some wanted violence-\the buses, tip(翻倒) them over.\传道士) who had been inspired by the non-violent ways of Mahatma(圣雄) Gandhi, they organized a boycott(联合抵制) of the bus line.
The boycott lasted 280 days, and cost the bus line millions of dollars. Finally, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed(确认) that segregation （隔离） on the buses was unconstitutional. Rosa Parks could now wit anywhere on a bus. Although most of us have forgotten her, the revolution she started changed America. For the unknown preacher, however, there was no way back to obscurity (无名). Martin Luther King, Jr., had a dream. And the world - at least in part because of Rosa Parks - was finally ready to honor that dream, and to listen.
... Acts of honor, all of them ... Acts of sacrifice, integrity(正直), love. And no one is laughing. Perhaps we have not lost our sacred Honor after all.
Exercise A Questions:
1. which of the following statements in ONT true?
a. older generations thought highly of honor as an expression of noble spirit.
b. nowadays teachers seldom teach students about honor because it is difficult to bring home to (使清楚地认识) them the idea of honor and its importance.
c. people think that Abraham Lincoln was a fool because he walked ten miles to return a library book. d. to many people honor seems to have gone out of style and no longer has a place in real life.
2. The Bathtub Navy
a. was a special fleet(舰队) attached to the mighty British navy.
b. was a peculiar fleet made up of all sorts of small boats manned by civilians. c. was a special fleet under the command of Winston Churchill.
d. was an emergency fleet under the direct control of the king of England
3. In the first story the author intends to tell the reader that
a. the French and British armies were totally defeated by the German armed forces in 1940. b. the British pi8lots fought bravely against the German planes over the beach at Dunkirk. c. Winston Churchill hailed(欢呼) the miracle performed by the Bathtub Navy.