Key to
Learning to Read: An English Reading Course
Book IV
Unit 1
Part I
I. Reading for information: 1.A 2.D 3.C 4.A 5.B 6.D
II. Translation
1.我进入寿险这一行,做得还算不错。我有幸与几个最棒的寿险推销员一起被指任为一委员 会会员。一时间我吓得要命。
2. 一般的成功人士为了将来的收获,甘坐冷板凳且推迟享受。反观诸多快速成功者,他们期望太多而且渴望一蹴而就。当回报不能立刻兑现时,他们就变得灰心丧气,愁苦不堪。
3. 我一直在找寻那些有天赋、能自律的人。然后培养他们的爱心和忠诚。我招募他们,激励他们,每当我们取得什么成绩,我与他们一起分享荣誉。
4. 有一次,一场盛大的开幕典礼定于周末举行,而我们的大部分家具还在我们与批发商两地之间的卡车上,距这里有数天的车程,于是我们便到外面以零售价购买了价值5,000美元的货品,这样做吞噬了我们大部分的利润,可我们不能让建筑商失望。
5. 美国总统亚伯拉罕.林肯本可能被他貌似的平凡所击垮。他出身贫寒,外表丑陋,然而却颇有建树,给世人眼中的“平凡”予新的涵义和尊严。
III.
1. set their sights high, achieve their goals
2. is little related to, university-educated fast-trackers, self-discipline
3. overpowering ego, bring out the best in people
4. broaden their knowledge base
5. stick with, keep your word
Part II
II.1.F 2. T 3. F 4.F 5. T
Part III
Passage 1: F T F T F
Passage 2: F F T F T
Passage 3: B D C A B
Passage 4: A C B C D
Passage 5:21. equivalent 22. sponsored 23. goals 24. pays 25. invested
26. prospect 27. rated 28. associated 29. pursue 30. barrier
Passage 6: 31.mission 32. significance 33. flow 34. ongoing 35. immediately
36. indirectly 37. transmission 38. Above 39. foundation 40. thereby
Passage 7: 41.headed 42. longings 43. desires 44. self-esteem 45. discrimination
46. shower 47. aware 48. Times 49. frustrated 50. very
Unit 2
Part I
I. 1.C 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. B 6. C
II.
1. 等等!我不管谁把那块馅饼切成两块,但不论谁切,都得给另一方挑选的权力。
2.很多情况下,冲突双方的需求并非对立。如果关注点从击败对方转向解决问题,那么每个人都能受益。
3.如果工会赢了,罢工期间损失的工资将超过争得的利益。相反,由于罢工,资方的损失将超过为避免罢工而答应其要求的成本。所以,罢工必两败俱伤。
4.相反,我们应该认识到我们真正的利益是互补的,进而彼此相同:“我们该怎样协作,使馅饼更大,大家分得的份额更多?”
5. 如果那卖主宽容和气,通情达理又富有同情心,他就该把价格谈到497美元,使那对夫妇得到快乐和满足。为他们省了247美元却最终令他们付出了三倍于此数目的怒火帐。
III.
1. mutual satisfaction shift… from…to
2. in opposition producing a creative outcome complementary
3. uniqueness identical victorious
4. satisfy their needs unconscious and unacknowledged
5. an exchange of material subjects obtain your objective
Part II
II. 1. F 2. F 3. T 4.F 5.F 6. T
Part III
Passage 1: T T F F F
Passage 2: F T F F T
Passage 3: C A B D B
Passage 4: B C D A D
Passage 5:21. meet 22. limits 23. issued 24. adequate 25. consume
26. ready 27. do 28. value 29. critical 30. treat
Passage 6: 31.odds 32. obsessively 33.measured 34. welcome 35. supposed
36.based 37. produce 38. vary 39. better-off 40.Nevertheless
Passage 7: 41.touch 42. priority 43. capitalize 44. range 45. compels
46.long-term 47. between 48. while 49.illuminate 50.challenge
Unit 3
Part I
I.
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. C 6. D
II.
1.,你过着日常生活, 这时不知从哪冒出个人告诉你,你患了癌症,一直健康的人如何体会这种状况啊!
2. 她说:“如今的幸存者是仰仗着早先参加临床试验的人而活下来的”。似乎我去做化疗是顺理成章的,希望我的经历,不管结果怎样,会有助于那些以后患乳腺癌的女性。
3. 尽一切可能满足自己,笑对人生,保持你的仪表容颜。
4. 这可以成为一个千载良机,让你更加内省,并在个人成长道路上大步向前。
III.
1. are struck with have a good chance of
2. go through introspect and analyze
3. sink in
4. survivor take an active role informed
5. in control options
6. optimistic diagnosed challenging situation
7. keep the skin whole
8. applied tolerate
9. worked wonders going for
Part II
I.
1. Suffering from a major heart attack, Rose did not have health coverage. So she had a hard time to pay the hospital bill.
2. Policy makers failed to pay attention to people who didn’t enjoy the health care program and hospitals that didn’t provide free or reduced cost care.
3. As a non-profit national consumer advocacy agency, Community Catalyst hears stories from people being turned away from their local hospitals and tries to help.
4. It develops a net work of organizations fighting for health care, which addresses the problems of related hospital free care.
5. Communists have established public hospitals with missions to serve those who don’t have financial resources; non-profit hospitals are tax-free; several states require hospitals to provide some level of free care in exchange for various public funds.
Part III
Passage 1: T F T T F
Passage 2: T F T F F
Passage 3: C C B A D
Passage 4: B A D C D
Passage 5:21. technical 22.modify 23.unwanted 24.solution 25. medical 26.mishaps 27. risk 28.distinction 29.undergo 30.thought
Passage 6: 31.maintaining 32.repair 33.vital 34. presence 35. specific
36.manufactures 37. destruction 38. rich 39. swallow 40.Powdered
Passage 7: 41.components 42.essential 43.obtained 44. extracts 45.absorb
46.efficient 47.quality 48.fill 49.convert 50. moves
Unit 4
Part I
I.
1. C 2. B 3. A 4. B 5. D 6. A
II.
1. 别去细算这笔账了,这些白领血汗工厂是公司美国最成功的骗局。
2. 多年来,唯我独尊的公司一直是通过压榨他们的雇员来保持低廉的劳动成本。
3. 大量裁员使得人们不得不回答这个问题,精打细算的公司管理者应该会对该问题
对他们底线的影响感到不寒而栗的。
4. 一份压力很大的工作满足了参与超越自身之事的渴求,而工作16小时的日子意味着你不必处理生活中的杂乱琐事。
5. 但是黑暗中总有一线光明,血汗公司的裁员迫使选择面广、才智卓越的年轻人思考:在其他地方他们或许会更幸福。
6. 他们可以雇用不那么精明的员工,但那样的话他们首先失去的就是对客户有吸引力的智囊人才。
III.
1. college grads; Ivy League
2. Lured; buy in
3. savvy; sacrifice
4. skip their love affairs; midlife crisis
5. handle the stress; wonder; lifestyle
6. glamour
7. vie for
8. sweatshops; lay off; decision
Part II
I.
1. They think it’s a humanist right, a major premise for a civilized and dignified life as other Europeans.
2. The corporate culture model in the post-New Deal was a paternalist one; unlike the current stock-price-is-God model, workers got more vacation time.
3. The figure of companies that don’t offer paid vacation is rising in recent years.
4. The average American’s response is neither admiration nor envy; they are proud of their own condition and show contempt for their European worker counterparts.
5.They incorporate the corporate culture propaganda of Reagan’s time within themselves so well as their conscious or subconscious guiding principles.
Part III
Passage 1: F F T T F
Passage 2: T F F T T
Passage 3: A B D B C
Passage 4: A C B C D
Passage 5:21. suffering 22.attention 23.prime 24.sign 25. labeled
26.wide 27. pressure 28.caught 29.pace 30.disoriented
Passage 6:31.birth 32.unique 33.characteristics 34. apart 35. inhabit 36.endangered 37.population 38.enables 39.intriguing 40.unfortunately
Passage 7: 41.issue 42.copyright 43.personal 44. borders 45.legislate
46.predators 47.harmful 48.doubt 49.experienced 50.full-length
Unit 5
Part I
.
1. B 2. D 3. C 4. A. 5. A . 6. C.
.
1. 当然,他们最热衷于谈论的话题是人际关系:男人不愿意
,女人的独立,啥时候生孩子,或者是越来越多地讨论究竟要不要孩子。
2. 希腊曾被认为是欧洲最为传统的社会之一,正教会要求人们结婚生子的严格戒律在过去占主导地位。
3. 在英国,像《无子无女享人生》这样的书市场越来越大。身为记者的尼克?德华格说,她写这本书的目的就是“让决定不生小孩的女人知道她们的感受绝对正常”。
4. 事实上,人口学家说,是家庭生活幸福的20世纪50年代和60年代才不把历史
放在眼里。
5. 在美国和西欧的大城市,成家不要孩子长期以来都很常见,这种家庭模式在更为传统的农村地区也正快速地得到人们的认可。
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1. childlessness, odd, held sway, barren, cast suspicion on
2. timing, given, swath of the population
3. shift, disparate, extending, postponing
4. spawned, capitalize on, cater to
5. product, infertility, a complex combination of factors
6. households, gaining acceptability
Part II
I.
1. Because support for working mothers is almost non-existent (though recently that’s begun to change). Child care is expensive, men don’t help out, and some companies strongly discourage mothers from returning to work.
2. From the sentence “At the same time, around the world it’s mostly men who are at the head of a growing backlash against the childless”, we can say that men are more against childlessness.
3. In Germany, economists and politicians have demanded that public pensions for the childless be slashed by up to 50 percent.
4. France recently raised child subsidies to increase sharply with children numbers three and four.
5. Because polls among young adults today show a continued decline in their ideal family size.
Part III
Passage 1: T T F T F
Passage 2: T F F T F
Passage 3: B B C A D
Passage 4: D A A B C
Passage 5:21. way 22.nerve 23.thought 24.kindness 25. critically
26.consultation 27. determined 28.final 29.take 30.flooded
Passage 6: 31.behalf 32.sorrow 33.survivors 34. ranging 35.banned 36.symbolic 37.specifying 38.acknowledged 39.laboured 40.amounted
Passage 7: 41.as 42.differences 43.opposed 44. reconcile 45.reunited
46.lay 47.example 48.reflect 49.heights 50.splendor
Unit Six
Part I
I.
1.B 2.D 3.A 4.A 5.C 6.D
II.
1. 我们的血液藏有我们是谁的秘密。人类基因组99.0%是一样的;我们的相似之处远远多于相异之处。
2. 离我们最近的共同祖先—基因上的“亚当”和“夏娃”—已经被追溯到非洲,在世界各地也发现了其他让人感兴趣的祖先。