1、Unit 1 .1Task 2:3Unit 2 .26Unit 3 .50Unit 4 .80Unit 5 .103Unit 6 .127Unit 7 .146Unit 8 .161Unit 9 .187Unit 10 .208Unit 11 .236Unit 12 .258Unit 13 .281Unit 14 .301Unit 15 .326Unit 1Task 1:【答案】A.Event YearKenny G was born. 1956He toured Europe with his High School band.1971He made his first solo album
2、. 1982He won released his most successful album.1993He won the Best Artist Award. 1994He broke the world record for playing a single note.1997B1) F2) F3) T【原文】Saxophonist Kenny G is now the worlds most successful jazz musician. He was born in 1956 as Kenny Gorelick in Seattle, USA, and he learned to
3、 play the saxophone at an early age. When he was just 15 years old, he toured Europe with his High School band. After studying at Washington University he started his career as a musician. In 1982 he signed for Arista Records and made his first solo album Kenny G.Success came slowly at first, but du
4、ring the 1990s Kenny became well-known on the international scene. He released Breathless, his most successful album so far in 1993, and in 1994 won the Best Artist Award at the 21st American Music Awards held in Los Angeles.As well as making records, he also found time to play in front of another f
5、amous saxophone playerUS President Bill Clintonat the “Gala for the President“ concert in Washington, and to break the world record for playing a single note (45 minutes and 47 seconds!) at the J but often they felt like people without a country. They had given up their own, but they didnt understan
6、d their new one. They didnt really feel a part of it. And the people of the new one didnt always welcome them.They came for the sake of their children, but in America their children often rejected them. To the children, their parents seemed old-fashioned. They didnt learn the new language quickly. S
7、ome didnt learn it at all. Their parents customs made children ashamed.Gradually, however, problems were overcome. For most immigrants, life in America was better. It certainly was better for their children and for their grandchildren.Task 6:【答案】A.The Life Story of Thomas EdisonOhio，1847，industrial
8、development, 1931, a modern nationI. A. curiosity，desireB. 1857，station masters sonC. 1863II. A. New York City，electricity，report the pricesB. New Jersey，invented，producedC. organized industrial researchD. 1877E. 1879III. A. 1,000B. motion-picture machineC. photographyD. streetcars，electric trainsIV
9、. B. turn off all powerC. the progress of manB.1) F2) F3) T4) T5) F【原文】When Thomas Edison was born in the small town of Milan, Ohio, in 1847, America was just beginning its great industrial development. The time in which he lived was an age of invention, filled with human and scientific adventures,
10、and Edison became the hero of that age.As a boy, Edison was not a good student. His parents took him out of school and his mother taught him at home, where his great curiosity and desire to experiment often got him into trouble. When he was ten, Edison built his own chemistry laboratory. He sold san
11、dwiches and newspapers on the local trains in order to earn money to buy supplies for his laboratory. His parents became accustomed, more or less, to his experiments and the explosions which sometimes shook the house.Edisons work as a sales boy with the railroad introduced him to the telegraph and w
12、ith a friend, he built his own telegraph set. He taught himself the Morse telegraphic code and hoped for the chance to become a professional telegraph operator. A stroke of luck and Edisons quick thinking soon provided the opportunity.One day, as young Edison stood waiting for a train to arrive, he
13、saw the station masters sot wander into the track of an approaching train. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The thankful station master offered to teach Edison railway telegraphy. Afterwards, in 1863, he became tan expert telegraph operator and left home to work in various cities.Six
14、 years later, in 1869, Edison arrived in New York City, poor and in debt. He went to work with a telegraph company. It was there that he became interested in the uses of electricity. At that time electricity was still in the experimental stages, and Edison hoped to invent new ways to use it for the
15、benefit of people. As he once said: “My philosophy of life is work. I want to bring out the secrets of, nature and apply them for the happiness of man. I know of no better service to render for the short time we are in this world.“The same year, when he was only 22 years old, Edison invented an impr
16、oved ticker-tape machine which could better report the prices on the New York Market. The ticker-tape machine was successful, and Edison decided to leave his job and concentrate wholly on inventing. When the president of the telegraph company asked how much they owed him for his invention, Edison wa
17、s ready to accept only $3,000. Cautiously he said: “Suppose you make me an offer.“How would $40,000 strike you?“ the president inquired. Edison almost fainted, but he finally replied that the price was fair.With this money, and now calling himself an electrical engineer, Edison formed his own “inven
18、tion factory“ in Newark, New Jersey. Over the next few years he invented and produced many new items, including the mimeograph machine, wax wrapping paper, and improvements of the telegraph.In 1877 Edison decided he could no longer continue both manufacturing and inventing. He sold his share in the
19、factory and built a new laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was the first laboratory of its kind devoted to organized industrial research. One of the first inventions to come from his new laboratory was an improvement of Alexander Bells telephone. Edison invented a more powerful mouthpiece whic
20、h removed the need to shout into the telephone. But his great inventions were still to come.On August 12, 1877, Edison began experimenting with an instrument which he had designed and ordered to be built. It was a cylinder, wrapped in tinfoil and turned by a handle. As it revolved, a needle made a g
21、roove in the foil. Turning the handle, Edison began to shout.“Mary had a little lambWhose fleece was white as snow!“He stopped and moved the needle back in the starting position. Then, putting his ear close to the needle, he turned the handle again. A voice came out of the machine:“Mary had a little
22、 lamb,Whose fleece was white as snow!“Edison had just invented the phonograph, a completely new concept: a talking machine.While he was perfecting his phonograph, Edison also worked on another invention. He called it “an Electric Lamp for Giving Light by Incandescence“. Today we call it the light bu
23、lb.For years other inventors had experimented with electric lights, but none of the lights had proven economical to produce. Edison, in studying the problem, spent over a year experimenting. He tested 1,600 materials (even hairs from a friends beard) to see if they would carry electric current and g
24、low. Finally, on October 21, 1879, he tried passing electricity through a carbonized cotton thread in a vacuum glass bulb. In his own words Edison described the experiment: “. before nightfall the carbon was completed and inserted in the lamp. The bulb was exhausted of air and sealed, the current tu
25、rned on, and the sight we had so long desired to see met our eyes.“ The lamp gave off a feeble, reddish glow, and it continued to bum for 40 hours. Edisons incredible invention proved that electric lighting would be the future light of the world.Edison was now so famous as an inventor that people th
26、ought there was nothing he could not do. They began to call him “the wizard“, as if he could produce an invention like magic. Few people realized how hard Edison worked, often 20 hours a day, and that most of his inventions were the results of hundreds of experiments.For 60 years Edison was the worl
27、ds leading inventor. He patented over 1,000 inventions which changed our way of living. He was one of the earliest inventors of the motion-picture machine. His invention of the phonograph was joined with photography to produce talking pictures. He also perfected the electric motor which made streetc
28、ars and electric trains possible.It is no wonder that Edison received many honors during his life for contributions to the progress of mankind. The United States gave him its highest award, a special Congressional Medal of Honor. Yet, in spite of all his fame, Edison remained a modest man. He prefer
29、red to continue his work, rather than rest on his achievements. His motto was: “I find what the world needs; then I go ahead and try to invent it.“ He never considered himself a brilliant man and once remarked that genius was “2 percent inspiration and 98 percent perspiration“.When Edison died in 19
30、31, it was proposed that the American people mm off all power in their homes, streets, and factories for several minutes in honor of this great man. Of course, it was quickly realized that such an honor would be impossible. Its impossibility was indeed the real tribute to Edisons achievements. Elect
31、ric power had become so important and vital a part of Americas life that a complete shut-down for even a few seconds would have created chaos. As “one of the great heroes of invention“, Edison rightfully belongs among Americas and the worlds great contributors to the progress of man.Task 7:【答案】A.1)
32、c2) a3) d4) c5) c6) aB.1) Thats because the explosion robs the fire of oxygen.2) Once the fire is out, the well still needs to be covered, or capped, to stop the flow of oil. This is the most dangerous part of the process. Any new heat or fire could cause the leaking well and the surrounding area to
33、 explode.3) In March of 1991, Red Adair went to Kuwait. He and his crews were called in to help put out oil well fires.4) He has spent his 76th birthday in Kuwait working side by side with his crew.5) At his funeral, many family members and friends honored him by wearing red clothes.【原文】Paul Neal Ad
34、air was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen fifteen. He was one of five sons of a metal worker. He also had three sisters. While growing up, he became known as Red Adair because his hair was bright red. The color became a trademark for Adair. He wore red clothes and red boots. He drove a red car, and
35、 his crew members used red trucks and red equipment.During World War Two, Adair served on a trained army team that removed and destroyed bombs. After the war, he returned to Houston and took a job with Myron Kinley. At the time, Kinley was the leader in putting out fires in oil wells. Red Adair work
36、ed with Myron Kinley for fourteen years. But in nineteen fifty-nine, Adair started his own company. During his thirty-six years in business, Red Adair and his crews battled more than two thousand fires all over the world. Some were on land. Others were on ocean oil-drilling structures. Some fires we
37、re in burning oil wells. Others were in natural gas wells.Red Adair was a leader in a specialized and extremely dangerous profession. Putting out oil well fires can be difficult. This is because oil well fires are extinguished, or put out, at the wellhead just above ground. Normally, explosives are
38、used to stop the fire from burning. The explosion robs the fire of oxygen. But, once the fire is out, the well still needs to be covered, or capped, to stop the flow of oil. This is the most dangerous part of the process. Any new heat or fire could cause the leaking well and the surrounding area to
39、explode. Red Adair developed modern methods to extinguish and cover burning oil wells.They became known in the industry as Wild Well Control techniques. In addition to explosives, the techniques involved large amounts of water and dirt. Adair also developed special equipment made of bronze metal to
40、help extinguish oil well fires. The modern tools and his Wild Well Control techniques earned Red Adair and his crews the honor of being called the “best in the business.“Red Adair was known for not being afraid. He was also known for his sense of calm and safety. None of his workers were ever killed
41、 while putting out oil well or gas fires. He described his work this way: “It scares youall the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everyones face, when you are finished and packing, it is the best smile in the world; and there is nobody hurt, and the well is under control.”One of Red
42、Adairs most important projects was in nineteen sixty-two. He and his crew put out a natural gas fire in the Sahara Desert in Algeria. The fire had been burning for six months. This famous fire was called the “Devils Cigarette Lighter.“ Fire from the natural gas well shot about one hundred forty mete
43、rs into the air. The fire was so big that American astronaut John Glenn could see it from space as he orbited Earth.The desert sand around the well had melted into glass from the extreme heat. News reports said Adair used about three hundred forty kilograms of nitroglycerine explosive material to pu
44、ll the oxygen out of the fire.Adairs success with the “Devils Cigarette Lighter“ and earlier well fires captured the imagination of the American film industry. In nineteen sixty-eight, Hollywood made an action film called Hellfighters. It was loosely based on events in Red Adairs life. Actor John Wa
45、yne played an oil well firefighter from Houston, Texas whose life was similar to Adairs. Adair served as an advisor to Wayne while the film was being made. The two men became close friends. Adair said one of the best honors in the world was to have John Wayne play him in a movie.In nineteen eighty-e
46、ight, Adair fought what was possibly the worlds worst off-shore accident. It was at the Piper Alpha drilling structure in the North Sea. Occidental Petroleum operated the structure off the coast of Scotland. The structure produced oil and gas from twenty-four wells.One hundred sixty-seven men were k
47、illed when the structure exploded after a gas leak. Red Adair had to stop the fires and cap the wells. He faced winds blowing more than one hundred twenty kilometers an hour, and ocean waves at least twenty meters high.In March of nineteen ninety-one, Red Adair went to Kuwait following the Persian G
48、ulf War. He and his crews were called in to help put out fires set by the Iraqi army.The Red Adair Company capped more than one hundred wells. His crews were among twenty-seven teams from sixteen countries called in to fight the fires. The crews efforts put out about seven hundred Kuwaiti fires. The
49、ir efforts saved millions of barrels of oil. Some experts say the operation also helped prevent an environmental tragedy. The job had been expected to take three to five years. However, it was completed in just eight months. Red Adair had spent his seventy-sixth birthday in Kuwait working side by side with his crew. When asked when he might retire, he told reporters: “Retire? I do not know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work, and he is productive out there and he feels goodkeep at it.“Still, Red Adair finally did retire in nineteen ninety-f
