【英语学习】
篇一：现代大学英语精读第二版第一册课后练习答案完全
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Vocabulary
4. Complete the sentences by translating the Chinese in the brackets
1. differ2. differently, different3. difference
4. serious, serious, seriously 5. seriousness, seriously polluted
6. Fortunately/ Luckily, pollution, seriously, pollute
7. attention8. attentively, attentive
4Translate the following sentences using words and expressions taken from the text.
1. 他们利用我们求助无门的困境把我们公司接管了。
They took advantage of our helpless situation and took over our company.
2. 虽然我们面前仍有困难，但我肯定我们中国人有智慧靠自己实现国家的和平统一。
Although there are still difficulties ahead of us, I am sure that we Chinese people will have the wisdom to bring about the peaceful unification of our country on our own.
3. 只强调国内生产总值是错误的，它会引起很多严重问题。
It is wrong to put emphasis on nothing but GDP. It will give rise to many serious problems.
4. 他喜欢炫耀他的财富，但是这完全是徒劳的，人们仍然像躲避毒药那样躲避他。
He loves to show off his wealth, but this is all in vain. People still avoid him as though he were poison.
5. 他不久就爱上了这个村子。他决心和村民一起把这个地方变成一个花园。 He soon fell in love with the village and was determined to make it a beautiful garden together with other villagers.
6. 我们必须花更多的钱来和全球气温上升作斗争。另外，我认为我们还必须采用严厉的法律措施。这不只是一个钱的问题。
We must spend more money fighting against global warming. In addition, we must resort to tough laws. It is not just a matter of money.
7. 当警察到达学校的时候，学生和老师还在一种茫然不知所措的状态。
When the police arrive at the school, the students and the teachers were still in a daze.
8. 这个腐败的官员还在死死抓住他的权力不放。他拒绝靠边站。
This corrupt official was still clinging to his power. He refused to step aside.
9. 当那个人最后进入视界时，我发现他原来是我父亲。不知道他怎么在这大雪中找到这个地方的。那时候，我放声大哭起来。
When the man finally came into view, I found it was my father. I didn‘t know how he managed to find this place in the blinding snow. At that moment, I burst into tears.
10. 她不时地偷偷朝他张望。 她发现自己第一次这样看一个年轻男子。
She glanced at him from time to time. It was the first time in her life that she had found herself looking at a young like that.
5. Fill u in the blanks with the correct prepositions or adverbs
1 of2 from 3 for 4 out 5 up 6 up7 up for 8. out
9. with
10. of11. of 12. of13. up
3. Fill in the blanks with ONE suitable word. 1. easy2. beginning3. But4. suddenly5. worried 6. If7. master
8. number9. habit10. go
4Translate the following sentences into English
1. 上大学之前，我没有想到大学生活如此丰富多彩。
Before I came to/ entered college, I had never thought life at college would be so rich and interesting.
2. 出生于20世纪90年代的中国大学生大多数是独生子女。
Most of the Chinese college students born in the 1990s are the only child of their families.
3.了解他的人都因为他出色的工作而钦佩他。
All those who know him admire him for his hard work.
4. 我那天缺课了，因为我不知道课已提前到了周四。
I missed the class because I didn‘t know it had moved up to Thursday.
5. 在某些国家，超重的人会受到一定的惩罚。
In some countries, those who are overweight will be punished one way or another.
6.在大火中失去家园的人们很快被安置到安全的地方。
Soon after the fire, those who had lost their homes were taken to a place of safety.
7. 再见面的时候，我们发现我们两人变化都很大。
When we met again, we found we both had changed a lot.
8. 以李教授为首的专家们很快就会来帮助农民解决问题。
A team of experts headed by Professor Li will soon come and help farmers solve their problems.
9.现在种着西红柿的那块地以往是荒地。
The field planted with tomatoes used to be wasteland.
10.我们老师叫我们读像矛盾、巴金那样大师们写的作品。
Our teacher told us to read books written by such masters as Mao Dun and Ba Jin.
Vocabulary
4. Translate the following sentences, paying special attention to the words in bold type.
1. 一个男子突然站了起来，用他的鞋子朝他扔过去。幸亏他及时低头躲了过去。
2. 我们在他回家前把房间通通风吧。
3.她虽然八十好几了，但还能穿针引线。
4. 我们必须勇敢面对这个危险。总有人妖在我们这里浑水摸鱼。
5. 她清楚地知道，如果2把那钱放进口袋，她就会倒大霉。[head for:很可能遭受（不幸）；会招致]
6.会议是由一个刚刚平步青云，掌握大权的妇女主持的。
7. 正如老话所说，剥猫皮可以有很多种方法。 （不必墨守成规）
8. 一对年轻的恋人坠入爱河，仅因为此，他们被用石头活活砸死。
9. 我希望贫富差距能够缩小。前两天我见到一个饿极了的年轻人在一家饭馆狼吞虎咽地吃残羹剩饭。
10.桌子上的食品如此诱人，我都流口水了。
3. Complete the sentences by translating the Chinese in the brackets
1. is that we can‘t find enough foreign markets
2. is that with democracy there is no harmonious society
3. is that we should give/ allow students more freedom
4. is not strong enough to send him to prison
5. reliable enough to be her husband
6. is not big enough to hold so many people
7. There doesn‘t seem to be any different opinion
8. Because at that time there seemed to be enough food for everybody
9. Because there didn‘t seem to be any good reason at the time
10. because he was being followed at that time
11. my car is being repaired/fixed
12. I hear it is being criticized by many people
13 a good doctor, but he doesn‘t know much about history
14. an excellent English professor, but she doesn‘t know everything
15. we may be poor, but we are no beggars.
16. I shouldn‘t have told her in such a hurry
17. I shouldn‘t (have gone)
18. we should have listened to them
4 Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words and phrases
1. move in on, happened to 2. aware of
3. heard of4. think twice5. Because of, hand over
6. the other day, on duty7. on the case, as to 8. in the first place
5. Fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions and adverbs.
1 on 2 into 3 up 4 forward to 5 down upon 6 up 7 up to
6 Translate the following sentence into English
1. 在我看来，这似乎不可能，但是其他所有人看起来都很有信心。
It seems impossible to me, but all the others looked very confident.
2. 我们四下一望，没有一个仍然矗立的建筑物了。地震似乎把一切的摧毁了。 We looked around. There wasn‘t a building standing in sight. The earthquake seemed to have destroyed everything.
3. ---他这些日子里似乎情绪很低落，不知道为什么。
He looks to be in a low spirits. I wonder why.
---我觉得那是因为他似乎学习上没有多少进步。他怕被同学瞧不起。
I think it is because he doesn‘t seem to be making much progress in his studies. He is afraid of being looked upon by his classmates.
4. ---你在找什么，迪克？W
What are you looking for, Dick?
---我好像把钥匙丢了。真烦人。
I seem to have lost my key. How annoying!
5. 如果你发现一个字在中间说不通，你就该查查字典。这是掌握意思的唯一办法。
If you find a word that doesn‘t seem to make any sense in a sentence, you should look it up in the dictionary. That is the only way to learn to use a word.
6. 他们继续争吵了几个钟头，两人似乎谁也不愿听对方的话。我突然想起有人说过：“讨论是知识的交流，而争吵是无知的交换。”
They went on arguing for hours. Neither was willing to listen to the other. I suddenly remembered someone saying: ―Discussion is an exchange of knowledge while argument is an exchange of ignorance.‖
7. 那里的形式似乎非常复杂，政府已答应进行认真调查。
The situation there seems quite complicated. The government has promised to look into it.
8. 我爷爷似乎正在好起来，但是他任然需要有人照顾。
My grandpa seems to be getting better and better, but he still needs somebody to look after him.
9. 经济学家已经得出结论：危机似乎很快就要结束了，世界经济正在好转。 Economists have come to the conclusion that the crisis seems to be coming to an end. World economy is looking up.
10.这次病后，我看了看我的银行账本。使我伤心的是，账上的余额几乎是零。我前三年存在银行的钱全花完了。
When I got well I looked at my bank account. To my sadness, I found my balance was almost zero. All my sayings in the past three years were gone.
7. fill in each blank with the correct form of the appropriate word in the brackets. Ago and before:
1. 和过去式连用，不能和现在完成式连用
2. 说“现在的多长时间以前”用ago; 说“过去某时的多长时间以前”用before。所以通常ago 用于过去式，before用于过去完成式中。
Eg. Two years ago, I left the company, which I had joined two years before.
Grammar
3. Fill in each blank of the passage with ONE suitable word
1 type/ kind 2 lending3 for 4 is5 pay 6 opening
7 balance8 store/keep/save/put9 changes 10 withdraw
4 Translate the following sentence using one of the patterns listed in Grammar exercise 1-2
1. 你还是试一试别的方法吧。
You ought to try a different method.
2. 要不你再去和写作老师谈一谈？
I think you ought to talk with our writing teacher about it.
3. 我们还是立即向警方报告这次失窃吧。
We ought to report the theft to the police immediately.
4. 你的父母身体不好，你多去看看他们吧。
You ought to see your parents more often now that they are not in good health.
5. 你不该对长辈那样大声嚷嚷。
You shouldn‘t have shouted at the elders like that.
6. 这么重要的会议你是不该迟到的。
You shouldn‘t have been late for such an important meeting.
7. 难道吉姆不是你的朋友吗？他提出要帮你，你是不该拒绝的。
Isn‘t Jim your friend? You shouldn‘t have turned down/ rejected his offer of help.
8. 作为一个大学生，你是不该把业余时间都花在网络游戏上。
As a college student, you shouldn‘t have spent all your free time playing computer games.
9. 万一我这次失败了，我还会再试第二次的。
If I failed this time, I would try for the second time.
篇二：现代大学英语精读1 paraphrasing
Unit 1
1. They did not make me happy, however, as this was the day I was to be thrown into school for the first time. (1)
Paraphrase:
But my new clothes did not bring any happiness to me, because it was the day I was forced to go to school for the first time.
2.“Why school?” I asked my father. “What have I done?”(3)
Paraphrase:
Why do I have to go to school? I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong to be punished like this.
3. I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled building. (5)
Paraphrase:
I didn’t think it was useful to take me away from home and put me into that building with high walls.
4. It was not all a matter of playing and fooling around. (15)
Paraphrase:
What we did at school wasn’t just playing and wasting time doing nothing useful.
5. In addition, the time for changing one’s mind was over and gone and there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home. (16)
Paraphrase:
Besides, it was impossible for us to quit school and return to the good old days when we stayed home playing and fooling around all day. Our childhood was gone, never to come back.
Unit 2
1. If banks were required to sell wallets and money belts, they might act less like churches. (para. 1)
Paraphrase:
Banks act like churches which usually control people’s life and can interfere in people’s life. So, the author thinks it is ridiculous for banks to act like churches.
Paraphrase:
uncurled hair, a thin mustache looking like a line drawn by a pencil, and a neat and tidy brown suit
3. Everything about him suggested a carefully dressed authority. (para. 3)
Paraphrase:
Everything about him—his clothes, manner, etc. indicated that he was a carefully dressed man who had an important position and power.
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4. I moved in for the kill. (para. 19)
Paraphrase:
I began to prepare to kill, destroy or defeat my enemy.
5. I zeroed in on the officer. (para. 20)
Paraphrase:
I’m going to have a strong argument to silence the bank officer.
6. Look, … we’re just wasting each other’s time. (para. 29)
Paraphrase:
Look, let’s stop talking about this because it is a waste of time./You are just talking nonsense. I don’t want to listen to you any more.
7.… has been shaking this boy down…(para. 30)
Paraphrase:
… has been getting money from the boy by using threats…
8. Anyway, the police are on the case…(para. 30)
Paraphrase:
Anyway, the police are working on the case…
9. Not that I ever heard of.(para. 32)
Paraphrase:
I have never heard of such rules.
Unit 3
1. My husband moved into our house as is the way with us in Esarn. (para. 1)
Paraphrase:
When we got married, we followed the tradition in Esarn and my husband came to live with my family.
2. He has ears which don’t hear, a mouth which doesn’t speak, and eyes that don’t see. ( para. 2)
Paraphrase:
He does not notice what is happening around us and to our children, nor does he express his thoughts and feelings. (The woman is complaining that her husband does not bother about their children’s troubles.)
3. … and it is no longer fertile, bleeding year after year and, like us, getting old and exhausted. (para. 3)
Paraphrase:
Our land is getting poorer with each passing year, like us who are getting old, weak and tired.
4.… but in a bad year, it’s not only the ploughs that break but our hearts, too. (para. 3) Paraphrase:
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When there is a draught, the soil is so hard that it breaks the ploughs and we feel so sad that our hearts break too.
5. Only ten years ago, you could barter for things, but now it’s all cash. (para. 4)
Paraphrase:
Just ten years ago, we could exchange one thing for another, but now we have to buy everything from the market.
6. Shops have sprung up, filled with colorful plastic things and goods we have no use for. (para. 4)
Paraphrase:
Shops have suddenly appeared in the village selling attractive plastic things and things we don’t need.
7. As for me, I wouldn’t change, couldn’t change even if I wanted to. (para. 7)
Paraphrase:
I didn’t want to change myself and my life, and actually I did not have the ability to change even if I wanted to.
8. Yes, this bag of bones dressed in rags can still plant and reap rice from morning till dusk. (para. 7)
Paraphrase:
Though I’m poor, old and weak, I can still work in the rice field all day.
9. I am at peace with the land and the condition of my life.(para. 9)
Paraphrase:
I am content with my land and accept my situation in life without complaint.
10. I have been forcing silence upon her all these years, yet she had not once complained of anything. (para. 9)
Paraphrase:
All these years, I hardly talk with her or listen to her, so she has to keep silent about her thoughts and feelings, but she has never told anyone else about her unhappy feelings about my silence.
11. Still the land could not tie them down or call them back.(para. 10)
Paraphrase:
My children grew up and had happy days on this land, but this could not prevent them from leaving for cities or attract them back from cities.
12. Sickness comes and goes, and we get back on our feet again. (para. 11)
Paraphrase:
Inevitably we sometimes fall ill, but when we get well again we can always get back to our normal life and work on our land.
Unit 4
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1. Ausable was, for one thing, fat… Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never altogether lost the New England accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago. (para. 2)
Paraphrase:
Ausable was, for one reason, fat… His French and German were not very good, but acceptable. Although he had been in Paris for twenty years, he never lost the American accent.
2. …a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. (para. 4) Paraphrase:
…an untidy fat man just has an ordinary phone call agreeing to meet somebody later in his room. There are no other imagined things as a beautiful lady with dark eyes putting a slip of message secretly into his hand.
3. The fat man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood as aside to let his frustrated guest enter. (para. 4)
Paraphrase:
The fat man laughed to himself when he opened the door of his room and gave way to his dissatisfied guest.
4. You are disillusioned. (para. 5)
Paraphrase:
You are disappointed because what you believe in has turned out to be wrong.
5. Before long you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which several men and women have risked their lives, come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. (para. 5)
Paraphrase:
Soon you will see a document/a report come to me. Several people took chances in order to get it. When I receive the paper, I will place it in the hands of the proper authorities.
By then I will have fulfilled my mission.
6. For halfway across the room, a small automatic pistol in his hand, stood a man. (para. 6) Paraphrase:
In the middle of the room, there was a man with a small automatic pistol in his hand.
7. I’m going to raise the devil with the management this time. (para. 11)
Paraphrase:
(He was making up a story, which turned out to be a trap for Max.
To make Max swallow this bait, Ausable pretended to be angry with the management and explained to Fowler (not to Max) why he was going to complain to the management about the balcony.)
8. It might have saved me some trouble had I known about it. (para. 12)
Paraphrase:
If I had known about it, I would not have spent so much effort.
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9. I wish I knew how you learned about the report, … (para. 15)
Paraphrase:
I want to know how you succeeded in finding out the report, but I have no idea.
10. Keeping his body twisted so that his gun still covered the fat man and his guest, … (para. 22)
Paraphrase:
He twisted his body in order to point his gun right at the fat man and his guest.
Unit 6
1. My ancient jeep was straining up through beautiful countryside when the radiator began to leak. (para. 1)
Paraphrase:
When the radiator started to drip, my old jeep was trying hard to climb up the mountain in the scenery rural area.
2. The over-heated engine forced me to stop at the next village, which consisted of a small store and a few houses that were scattered here and there. (para. 1)
Paraphrase:
Due to the high temperature of the engine, I had to stop at the next village, which contained a small shop and several houses that were loosely distributed.
3. He, in turn, inspected me carefully, as if to make sure I grasped the significance of his statement. (para. 3)
Paraphrase:
Then he examined me with great caution in the way of ensuring whether I understood the importance of his words.
4. As a product of American education, I had never paid the slightest attention to the green banana, except to regard it as a fruit whose time had not yet come. (para. 5)
Paraphrase:
As someone educated in the United States, I naturally had never paid any attention to the green banana, except to take it as a fruit which was not yet ripe or which was not yet ready to be picked and eaten.
5. It was my own time that had come, all in relation to it. (para. 5)
Paraphrase:
It was me who had come to know the green bananas, and everything connected with it. According to the author, every civilization has special geniuses (symbolized by the green banana), which have existed for many years. But they will not come to your notice and benefit you until and unless you are ready to go out and meet them.
6. I had been wondering for some time about what educators like to call “learning moments”, and I now knew I had just experienced two of them at once. (para. 5)
Paraphrase:
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篇三：现代大学英语精读1课本内容及翻译
Lesson OneHalf a Day
Naguib Mahfous
1. I walked alongside my father, clutching his right hand. All my clothes were new: the black shoes, the green school uniform,
and the red cap. They did not make me happy, however, as this was the day I was to be thrown into school for the first time.
2. My mother stood at the window watching our progress, and I turned towards her from time to time, hoping she would help.
We walked along a street lined with gardens, and fields planted with crops: pears, and date palms.
3. "Why school ?" I asked my father. "What have I done ?"
4. "I'm not punishing you, " he said, laughing. "School's not a punishment. It's a place that makes useful men out of boys.
Don' t you want to be useful like your brothers?"
5. I was not convinced. I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from my home and throwing
me into the huge, high-walled building.
6. When we arrived at the gate we could see the courtyard, vast and full of boys and girls. "Go in by yourself, " said my
father, "and join them. Put a smile on your face and be a good example to others. "
7. I hesitated and clung to his hand, but he gently pushed me from him. "Be a man, " he said. "Today you truly begin life.
You will find me waiting for you when it's time to leave. "
8. I took a few steps. Then the faces of the boys and girls came into view. I did not know a single one of them, and none of
them knew me. I felt I was a stranger who had lost his way. But then some boys began to glance at me in curiosity, and one of them came over and asked, "Who brought you?"
9. "My father, " I whispered.
10. "My father's dead, " he said simply.
11. I did not know what to say. The gate was now closed. Some of the children burst into tears. The bell rang. A lady came
along, followed by a group of men. The men began sorting us into ranks. We were formed into an intricate pattern in the great courtyard surrounded by high buildings; from each floor we were overlooked by a long balcony roofed in wood.
12. "This is your new home, "said the woman. "There are mothers and fathers here, too. Everything that is enjoyable and
beneficial is here. So dry your tears and face life joyfully. "
13. Well, it seemed that my misgivings had had no basis. From the first moments I made many friends and fell in love with
many girls. I had never imagined school would have this rich variety of experiences.
14. We played all sorts of games. In the music room we sang our first songs. We also had our first introduction to language.
We saw a globe of the Earth, which revolved and showed the various continents and countries. We started learning
numbers, and we were told the story of the Creator of the universe. We ate delicious food, took a little nap, and woke up to go on with friendship and love, playing and learning.
15. Our path, however, was not totally sweet and unclouded. We had to be observant and patient. It was not all a matter of
playing and fooling around. Rivalries could bring about pain and hatred or give rise to fighting. And while the lady would sometimes smile, she would often yell and scold. Even more frequently she would resort to physical punishment.
16. In addition, the time for changing one' s mind was over and gone and there was no question of ever returning to the
paradise of home. Nothing lay ahead of us but exertion, struggle, and perseverance. Those who were able took advantage of the opportunities for success and happiness that presented themselves.
17. The bell rang, announcing the passing of the day and the end of work. The children rushed toward the gate, which was
opened again. I said goodbye to friends and sweethearts and passed through the gate. I looked around but found no trace of my father, who had promised to be there. I stepped aside to wait. When I had waited for a long time in vain, I decided to return home on my own. I walked a few steps, then came to a startled halt. Good Lord! Where was the street lined with gardens? Where had it disappeared to? When did all these cars invade it? And when did all these people come to rest on its surface? How did these hills of rubbish find their way to cover its sides? And where were the fields that bordered it? High buildings had taken over, the street was full of children, and disturbing noises shook the air. Here and there stood conjurers showing off their tricks or making snakes appear from baskets. Then there was a band announcing the opening of a circus, with clowns and weight lifters walking in front.
18. Good God! I was in a daze. My head spun. I almost went crazy. How could all this have happened in half a day, between
early morning and sunset? I would find the answer at home with my father. But where was my home? I hurried towards the crossroads, because I remembered that I had to cross the street to reach our house, but the stream of cars would not let up. Extremely irritated, I wondered when I would be able to cross.
19. I stood there a long time, until the young boy employed at the ironing shop on the corner came up to me.
20. He stretched out his arm and said, "Grandpa, let me take you across."
第一课 半日
1 我走在父亲的一侧，牢牢地抓着他的右手。我身上穿的，戴的全是新的：黑鞋子，绿校服，红帽子。然儿我一点儿也高兴不起来，因为今天我将第一次被扔到学校里去。
2 母亲站在窗前望着我们缓缓前行，我也不时的回头看她，希望她会救我。我们沿着街道走着，街道两旁是花园和田野，田野里栽满了梨树和椰枣树。
3 “我为什么要去上学？”我问父亲，“是我做错了什么了吗？”
4 “我不是在惩罚你，”父亲笑着说道，“上学不是一种惩罚。学校是把孩子培养成才的地方。难道你不想象你哥哥们那样，成为一个有用的人吗？”
5 我不相信他的话。我才不相信把我从家里拽出来，扔进那个大大的，高墙围绕的建筑里对我有什么真正的好处呢。
6 到了学校门口，我们看到了宽阔的庭院，站满了孩子。“自己进去吧，”我父亲说，“加入他们。笑一笑，给其他的孩子做个好榜样。”
7 我紧抓着父亲的手，犹豫不决。但是父亲却把我轻轻地推开了。“拿出点男子气概来，”他说，“从今天起你就要真正开始自己的生活了。放学时我会在这等你的。”
8 我走了几步，便看见了一些孩子的面孔。他们中我一个也不认识。他们也没有一个认识我的。我感觉自己像是一个迷了路的陌生人。然而这时有些男孩开始好奇的打量我，其中一个走过来问到，“谁带你来的？”
9 “我爸爸”我小声说道。
10“我爸爸死了，”他简短地说。
11我不知道该说些什么。这时学校的门已经关上了，有些孩子哭了起来。接着，铃响了，一位女士走了过来，后面跟着一群男人。那些人把我们排成几行。使我们形成一个错综复杂的队行，站在那四周高楼耸立的院子里。每层楼都有长长的阳台，阳台上带有木制顶棚，从阳台上可以俯视到我们。
12“这是你们的新家，”那位女士说道，“这儿有你们的父母。一切能带给你们快乐，对你们有益的事物，这儿都有。因此擦干你们的眼泪，快快乐乐地面对生活。”
13这样看来我之前的顾虑都是毫无根据的了。从一开始我就结交了许多朋友，并且爱上了许多女孩。我从未想过学校的生活是如此丰富多彩。
14我们玩着各种各样的游戏，在音乐室里我们唱着第一次学会的歌。我们第一次接触到了语言的学习。我们看见了一个地球仪，旋转它，便能看见世界上的各个大洲和国家的名称。我们还开始学习数字，听老师将造物主的故事。吃过美味的食物，小睡之后，我们醒来又继续在友谊和爱之中嬉戏，学习。
15然而，校园生活并不是完全甜蜜和阳光普照的。我们还必须遵守纪律，耐心听讲。学校生活也不光是嬉戏和无所事事。同学间的竞争还可能引起痛苦，仇恨，甚至打斗。虽然那位女士有时面带微笑，但也经常会对我们大声吼叫并责骂我们，甚至，更常见的是体罚我们。
16另外，我们再也不能改变主意，再也不能回到天堂般的家里了。摆在我们面前的只有努力奋斗和坚持不懈。一旦机会来了那些有能力的人就会抓住它们去获取成功和幸福。
17铃响了，宣告一天学校生活的结束。孩子们匆匆奔向大门，这时大门被打开了。我向我的朋友和“女友们”告完别，走出了校门。我四处张望却没发现父亲的踪影。他答应我会在校门外等我的。于是我走到一边去等他。当我等了好久，他也没来的时候，我决定自己回家。我走了几步，却惊奇地站住了。我的天哪!那条两边是花园的街道怎么不见了？消失到哪里去了？是什么时候这些车辆闯到马路上的？又是什么时候这些人来到街道上歇憩的？这一座座垃圾堆又是怎样堆到街道两旁的？街道旁的田野又到哪里去了？取而代之的是林立的高楼。街道上挤满了孩子。嘈杂声震荡着空气。街头巷尾站着杂耍艺人，他们或玩着戏法，或是让蛇从篮子里出现。接着，一个乐队奏起了音乐，宣布马戏表演的开始，小丑和举重大力士走在前面。
18我的天!我感觉一片茫然，头晕目眩，几乎快要疯了。这一切怎么可能就在从清晨到日落的这半天时间里发生？或许回到家，父亲会告诉我答案的。但是，我的家又在哪里？我赶紧奔向十字路口，因为我记得要穿过那条街道才能到家，但车流不息，我极为恼怒，我知何时才可以过去。
19我久久的站在那里，直到在街道熨衣店里工作的小男孩向我走来。
20他伸出手臂来说道：“爷爷，我扶您过马路吧。”
单元测验：
Quiz
Explain the following words and phrases in English
1.take sb. across2.beneficial 3.cling to
4. conjurer 5.convince6.curiosity
7.daze8.exertion9.halt
10.intricate11.irritated12.misgiving
13.observant14.overlook15.perseverance
16.rank17.revolve18.scold
19.startled 20. in vain
Keys
1.take sb. to the other side2.useful
3. to hold closely; refuse to let go 4. a magician
5. to make sb. believe; to persuade 6.the desire to learn and know
7.a condition of being unable to think or feel clearly
8. effort9. a stop or pause
10. very complicated11. annoyed
12. feelings of doubt and fear13. careful to observe (rules)
14. to see a place from a building or window
15. to keep trying to do sth. in spite of the difficulties16. a line (of people)
17.to move or turn in a circle around a central point
18. to angrily criticize sb. , especially a child
19. surprised and often slightly frightened20. without result
Lesson TwoGoing Home
Pete Hamill
1. They were going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There were six of them, three boys and three girls, and they got on the bus at
34th Street, carrying sandwiches and wine in paper bags. They were dreaming of golden beaches and sea tides as the grey, cold spring of New York vanished behind them. Vingo was on the bus from the beginning.
2. As the bus passed through New Jersey, they began to notice that Vingo never moved. He sat in front of the young people,
his dusty face masking his age, dressed in a plain brown suit that did not fit him. His fingers were stained from cigarettes and he chewed the inside of his lip a lot. He sat in complete silence and seemed completely unaware of the existence of the others.
3. Deep into the night, the bus pulled into a Howard Johnson's restaurant and everybody got off the bus except Vingo. The
young people began to wonder about him, trying to imagine his life: perhaps he was a sea captain; maybe he had run away from his wife; he could be an old soldier going home. When they went back to the bus, one of the girls became so curious that she decided to engage him in a conversation. She sat down beside him and introduced herself.
4. "We're going to Florida," the girl said brightly. "You going that far?"
5. "I don't know," Vingo said.
6. "I've never been there," she said. " I hear it's beautiful."
7. "It is," he said quietly, as if remembering something he had tried to forget.
8. "You live there?"
9. "I was there in the Navy, at the base in Jacksonville".
10. "Want some wine?" she said. He smiled and took a swig from the bottle. He thanked her and retreated again into his silence.
After a while, she went back to the others as Vingo nodded in sleep.
11. In the morning they awoke outside another Howard Johnson's and this time Vingo went in. The girl insisted that he join
them. He seemed very shy and ordered black coffee and smoked nervously, as the young people chattered about sleeping on beaches. When they got back on the bus, the girl sat with Vingo again. After a while, slowly and painfully, he began to tell his story. He had been in jail in New York for the last four years, and now he was going home.
12. "Are you married?"
13. "I don' t know."
14. "You don't know?" she said.
15. "Well, when I was in jail I wrote to my wife. I said, 'Martha, I understand if you can't stay married to me.' I said I was
going to be away a long time, and that if she couldn't stand it, if the kids kept asking questions, if it hurt her too much, well, she could just forget me. Get a new guy—she's a wonderful woman, really something—and forget about me. I told her she didn't have to write to me or anything, and she didn't. Not for three-and-a-half years."
16. "And you're going home now, not knowing?"
17. "Yeah," he said shyly. "Well, last week, when I was sure the parole was coming through I wrote her again. I told her that if
she had a new guy, I understood. But, if she didn't, if she would take me back she should let me know. We used to live in Brunswick, and there' s a great oak tree just as you come into town. I told her if she would take me back, she should tie a yellow ribbon to the tree, and I would get off and come home. If she didn't want me, forget it, no ribbon and I'd understand and keep going on through."
18. "Wow," the girl said. "Wow."
19. She told the others, and soon all of them were caught up in the approach of Brunswick, looking at the pictures Vingo
showed them of his wife and three children. Now they were 20 miles from Brunswick, and the young people took the
window seats on the right side, waiting for the approach of the great oak tree. Vingo stopped looking, tightening his face into the ex-con's mask, as if fortifying himself against still another disappointment. Then it was 10 miles, and then five, and the bus became very quiet.
20. Then suddenly all of the young people were up out of their seats, screaming and shouting and crying, doing small dances,
shaking clenched fists in triumph and exaltation. All except Vingo.
21. Vingo sat there stunned, looking at the oak tree through his misty eyes. The tree was covered with yellow ribbons, 30 of
them, 50 of them, maybe hundreds, a tree that stood like a banner of welcome, blowing and billowing in the wind. As the young people shouted, the old con slowly rose from his seat, holding himself tightly, and made his way to the front of the bus to go home.
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