1、本章有 SKYG 断天涯提供背诵段落Unit112 I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do. It takes a couple of special qualities. One is a tolerance for solitude. Because we are so busy and on such a tight budget, we dont entertain much. During the growing season there is no time f
2、or socializing anyway. Jim and Emily are involved in school activities, but they too spend most of their time at home. 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。其一是耐得住寂寞。由于我们如此忙碌，手头又紧，我们很少请客。在作物生长季节，根本就没工夫参加社交活动。吉米和埃米莉虽然参加学校的各种活动，但他俩大多数时间也呆在家里。 13 The other requirement is energy - a lot of it. The way
3、 to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices. Instead, you do the work yourself. The only machinery we own (not counting the lawn mower) is a little three-horsepower rotary cultivator and a 16-inch chain saw. 另一项
4、要求是体力 相当大的体力。小范围里实现自给自足的途径是抵制诱惑，不去购置拖拉机和其他昂贵的节省劳力的机械。相反，你要自己动手。我们仅有的机器（不包括割草机）是一台 3 马力的小型旋转式耕耘机以及一架 16 英寸的链锯。14 How much longer well have enough energy to stay on here is anybodys guess - perhaps for quite a while, perhaps not. When the time comes, well leave with a feeling of sorrow but also with a
5、 sense of pride at what weve been able to accomplish. We should make a fair profit on the sale of the place, too. Weve invested about $35,000 of our own money in it, and we could just about double that if we sold today. But this is not a good time to sell. Once economic conditions improve, however,
6、demand for farms like ours should be strong again. 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。到走的时候，我们会怆然离去，但也会为自己所做的一切深感自豪。我们把农场出售也会赚相当大一笔钱。我们自己在农场投入了约 35，000 美金的资金，要是现在售出的话价格差不多可以翻一倍。不过现在不是出售的好时机。但是一旦经济形势好转，对我们这种农场的需求又会增多。15 We didnt move here primarily to earn money though. We came because we wanted to impr
7、ove the quality of our lives. When I watch Emily collecting eggs in the evening, fishing with Jim on the river or enjoying an old-fashioned picnic in the orchard with the entire family, I know weve found just what we were looking for. 但我们主要不是为了赚钱而移居至此的。我们来此居住是因为想提高生活质量。当我看着埃米莉傍晚去收鸡蛋，跟吉米一起在河上钓鱼，或和全家人
8、一起在果园里享用老式的野餐，我知道，我们找到了自己一直在寻求的生活方式。 Unit24.Yet this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me. 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 sla
9、ves from the American South. Between 1820 and 1860, as many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom. 但此地只是我所承担的繁重使命的一处停留地。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。在 1820 年至 1860 年期间，多达十万名黑奴经由此路走向自由。 5 In October 2000, President Clinton authorized $16 mi
10、llion for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights struggle in the U. S. The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati. And its about time. For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered, their exploits still largely uns
11、ung. I was intent on telling their stories. 2000 年 10 月，克林顿总统批准拨款1600 万美元建造全国“地下铁路”自由中心，以此纪念美国历史上第一次伟大的民权斗争。中心计划于2004 年在辛辛那提市建成。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。Unit34 It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip wires hooked up to
12、 a police station or private guard firm. Many suburban families have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open. 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。郊区的许多人家在露台上安装了玻璃滑门，内侧有装得很讲究的钢条，这样就没人能把门撬开。 5 It is not uncommon, in the most pleasant
13、 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。6 The lock is the new symbol of America. Indeed, a recent public-service advertisement by a large insu
14、rance company featured not charts showing how much at risk we are, but a picture of a childs bicycle with the now-usual padlock attached to it. 锁成了美国的新的象征。的确，一家大保险公司最近的一则公益广告没有用图表表明我们所处的危险有多大，而是用了一幅童车的图片，车身上悬着如今无所不在的挂锁。 7 The ad pointed out that, yes, it is the insurance companies that pay for stole
15、n goods, but who is going to pay for what the new atmosphere of distrust and fear is doing to our way of life? Who is going to make the psychic payment for the transformation of America from the Land of the Free to the Land of the Lock? 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？谁来对美国从自
16、由之国到锁之国这一蜕变作出精神赔偿呢？8 For that is what has happened. We have become so used to defending ourselves against the new atmosphere of American life, so used to putting up barriers, that we have not had time to think about what it may mean. 因为那就是现状。我们已经变得如此习惯于保护自己不受美国生活新氛围的影响，如此习惯于设置障碍，因而无暇考虑这一切意味着什么。Unit5
17、21 Always the college professor, my dad had carefully avoided anything he considered too sentimental, so I knew how moved he was to write me that, after having helped educate many young people, he now felt that his best results included his own son. 身为大学教授的爸爸向来特别留意不使用任何过于感情化的文字，因此， 当他对我写道，在教了许许多多的年轻
18、人之后，他现在认为自己最优秀的学生当中也包括自己的儿子时，我知道他是多么地感动。22 The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a “simple, old-fashioned principal“ had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes that he had retired in self-doubt. “I heard more of what I had done wrong than what I did right,“ he said, adding that my
19、letter had brought him welcome reassurance that his career had been appreciated. 纳尔逊牧师写道，他那简单而老派的传统校长的岁月随着学校里发生的如此迅猛的变化而结束，他怀着自我怀疑的心态退了休。 “说我做得不对的远远多于说我做得对的， ” 他写道，接着说我的信给他带来了令人振奋的信心：自己的校长生涯还是有其价值的。23 A glance at Grandmas familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside he
20、r white rocking chair, watching her “ settin down“ some letter to relatives. Character by character, Grandma would slowly accomplish one word, then the next, so that a finished page would consume hours. I wept over the page representing my Grandmas recent hours invested in expressing her loving grat
21、efulness to me - whom she used to diaper! 一看到外祖母那熟悉的笔迹，我顿时回想起往日站在她的白色摇椅旁看她给亲戚写信的情景。外祖母一个字母一个字母地慢慢拼出一个词，接着是下一个词，因此写满一页要花上几个小时。捧着外祖母最近花费不少工夫对我表达的充满慈爱的谢意，我禁不住流泪从前是她给我换尿布的呀。课后句子翻译Unit11) We have a problem with the computer system, but I think it is fairly minor.2) My father died when I was too young to
22、live on my own. The people of my hometown took over responsibility for my upbringing at that point.3) the toys have to meet strict safety requirements before they can be sold to children.4) Radio and television have supplemented rather than replaced the newspaper as carriers of new and opinion.5) Wh
23、en it comes to this magazine, it is a digest of articles from many newspapers and magazines around the world.1. 什么？ 你说那听起来不像你府上的生活？其实，不仅仅是你一个人这么想。事实上，大多数人可能都跟你一样这么想的。2. 例如， 交给比弗吧一剧中妈妈带着珍珠项链，穿着高跟鞋做家务。爸爸整个周末都穿着西装，系着领带。3. 要是电视网或有线电视没有中意的节目，录像制品商店可以提供好莱坞制作的品质迥异的节目：新近发行的电影、动画片、 “成人”电影、体育锻炼节目、旅游、体育及入门指南录像
24、带。4. 如今，妈妈在看她的有线电视销售服务节目的时候，爸爸可能想租一部动作片。而在姐姐想看辛普森一家时，弟弟妹妹却在玩让我们炸毁土星的电子游戏。Unit21. 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.2. Under threat of constant sand storms, we were compelled
25、to leave our cherished village and move to the new settlement.3. According to a recent online survey, a lot of consumers say they may be motivated to consider buying products shown in TV commercials.4. Having spotted a truck driver dumping contaminated waste alongside the river, the old man reported
26、 to the police at once.5. 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.1 这一和平的不服从行为在蒙哥马利引发了抗议， 最终使少数民族权利在法律上发生了变化，开创了美国民权运动的新时代。2 后来她解释说，这儿似乎是她结束受
27、人摆布，弄清如果有的话她究竟有何人权的地方。3 但是，蒙哥马利的黑人团体认为应该团结在她周围组织抗议活动，她是适合担此重任的公民，因为她是该市最优秀的公民之一。4 他说：“只有极少人能说自己的行动和行为改变了国家的面貌。 罗莎帕克斯就是那些人中的一个。”Unit31). The Internet is changing the way people live, no matter whether they are in urban or rural areas.2). Medium-sized and small companies are more vulnerable to the thr
28、eat of the global economic crisis than large ones.3). With regard to our term papers, the professor asked us to analyze the chart of unemployment first, and then provide critical reflections on the nations economic development.4). It never occurred to him that their team would win the basketball mat
29、ch by a large margin.5). Looking back on my twenty years teaching in high school, I attributed my success to patience, talent, and the constant pursuit of knowledge.Unit56). Grandma took it for granted that food prices would soar, so she bought a lot of rice.7). I can quote you several instances of
30、her dedication to science.8). The 1980s saw the start of the swift development of some special economic zones in China.9). Tension between the two countries stemmed in part from the latest spy affair.10). 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.
