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1、The most frightening words in the English language are.Our computer is down. ” You hear itmore and more when you are in business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said,f m sorry, I cansell you a ticket. Our computeris down. ”If y

2、our computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”fcan write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”I looked down the counter and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her,What do you do? ”We give the computer

3、the information about your trip,and it tells us whether you can fly withus or not. ”So when it goes down, you go down with it. ”That s right, sir. ”How long will the computer be down? I wanted to know.f have no idea. Sometimes it down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There is no way we can f

4、ind out without asking the computer, and since its down it wont answer us. ”After the girl told me they had no backup（備用的）computers. I said, Let forget the computer. What about your planes? Theye still flying, arenthey? ”I couldnt tell without asking the computer.”Maybe I could just go to the gate a

5、nd ask the pilot the he flying to Washington. ” I suggested.I wouldnt know what gate to sent you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldnt take you if you didnt have a ticket.”Is there any other flight to Washington within the next few hours?”I wouldnt know,she said, pointing at the

6、dark screen.Only IT knows. IT can tell me. ”By this time there were quiet a few people standing in line. The word spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people left, some people started to cry and still others kicked luggage.在英語語言中最可怕的話是：“我們的電腦岀故障了。”當(dāng)你在進(jìn)行業(yè)務(wù)時，你聽到這話越來越多了。有一天，我在機場候買

7、去華盛頓的機票，售票處里的女孩說，“對不起，我無法給你岀票。我們的電腦岀 故障了?！薄叭绻碾娔X岀故障了，我手寫一張票吧。”“我無法手寫給你。只有電腦是唯一允許這樣操作的?！蔽业皖^掃視了柜臺，每個乘客只是站在那里喝著咖啡，盯著黑色屏幕。然后我問她：“那你做什么 呢？”“我們把你的旅行信息輸入電腦，它會告訴我們您是否能飛或不能。”“所以，當(dāng)電腦出現(xiàn)故障，你和電腦一起停工?！薄皼]錯，先生。”“電腦出故障會有多長時間？ ”我想知道?！拔也恢馈Ｓ袝r停10分鐘，有時停兩個小時。除了問電腦我們沒有其他辦法知道，因為它出故障也 就不會回答我們?！迸⒏嬖V我他們沒有備用的電腦之后。我說：“讓我們忘掉電腦。

8、那么你們的飛機怎么樣了？它們是 不是還在飛行呢？”“不問電腦我無法告訴你?！薄耙苍S我只能走向大門，去問飛向華盛頓的飛行員。”我建議?！拔也恢滥阍撨M(jìn)什么大門。即使飛行員要飛華盛頓，如果你沒有機票，他也不能帶上你?！薄霸谖磥韼讉€小時里，還有沒有其他飛往華盛頓的航班？”“我不知道，”她指著黑色屏幕說。“只有 它知道。只有它能告訴我。” 到這時候還有相當(dāng)一部份人在排隊。電腦岀故障這個詞傳播到其余旅客。有些人離開，有些人哭了起來，還有一些人踢行李。P321 （2）Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper everyday. So

9、me people have as manyas two or three different newspapers. But why do people read newspapers?Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings, battles lost and won, kingsor rulersoverthrown（ 推翻）or killed took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by words

10、of mouth. Today we can read in our newspapers of important things that happen in far away countries on the same day.Besides giving news from all over the world, newspapers tell us a lot of other useful information.There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories, a

11、nd of course, advertisements（ 廣告）.There are all kinds of advertisements. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising space（ 廣告版面）,but it is worth the money because news of what they make in factories goes into almost every home in the country. For those who make newspapers, adve

12、rtisements are also very important. Money from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.Newspapers often have information on gardening, cookery and fashion（時裝）as well as a small butvery popular part on jokes and cartoons.幾乎每個家庭每天至少購買一份

13、報紙。有些人購買多達(dá)兩種或三種不同的報紙。人們?yōu)槭裁纯磮蠹垼?五百年前，重大事件，戰(zhàn)爭輸贏，國王或統(tǒng)治者被推翻或殺死的新聞信息要過上幾個月甚至數(shù)年才能 從一個國家傳播到另一個國家。那時的新聞信息通過口頭傳播。今天，我們能夠在報上看到同一天里在遙 遠(yuǎn)的國度發(fā)生的重要事件。除了來自世界各地的新聞，報紙還給我們提供了其它很多有用的信息。有天氣預(yù)報，廣播，電視和電 影預(yù)告，書評，故事，當(dāng)然，還有廣告。有各種各樣的廣告。他們支付給廣告版面數(shù)千美元，但這是值得 的，因為他們在工廠發(fā)生的新聞信息傳入幾乎每一個在鄉(xiāng)間的家庭。對于經(jīng)營報紙和廣告的那些人也是非常重要的。廣告收入使他們有可能以低廉的價格岀售他們的報

14、紙并且仍然能夠盈利。報紙經(jīng)常有園藝，烹飪和時裝方面的信息，也有笑話和漫畫方面的一小塊但非常流行的版面。P322 （3）Many students are injured or killed in different kinds of accidents.Chen haoyu, a teacher at Beijing No. 25 middle School and a self-protection expert, gives youngstudents advice on how to deal with danger: If you are robbedKeep clam. If you

15、 cannot cry for help or run away, give the robber your money. Try and remember what the robber looked like and tell the police. If you are in a traffic accidentIf you are hurt by a car, take down the registration number, if it is a bicycle, try to contactyour parents before you let the rider go. Thi

16、s is in case you dont realize how seriously you are hurt. If it is raining hard and there is lightningDont stay in high places and keep away from trees. When there is a fireGets away as fast as you can. But wet material on your body and try to find an exit. Do not takeelevator! If someone is drownin

17、gIf you can swim, dont get into the water. Cry out for help. Remember that danger is never as far away as you think. Look after yourself at all times!許多學(xué)生在各類事故中受傷或死亡。陳浩宇，一位北京第25中學(xué)教師和自我保護(hù)的專家，給年輕學(xué)生關(guān)于如何處理危險的建議：?如果被搶劫保持沉默。如果你不能呼叫求助或逃離開，把你的錢給強盜。設(shè)法記住這個強盜長什么樣子，報告警 察。?如果岀交通事故如果你被汽車撞了，記下車牌號，如果是自行車，在你讓騎車人離開之前

18、，設(shè)法聯(lián)系你的父母。這是 在你不知道你傷得有多嚴(yán)重的情況下。?如果天下大雨并有雷電不要停留在高處，遠(yuǎn)離大樹。?當(dāng)發(fā)生火災(zāi)盡你的可能快速撤離。隨身帶上濕的東西，并設(shè)法找到一個岀口。不要乘電梯！?如果有人溺水如果你不會游泳，不能跳入水中。呼叫求助。?請記住此類危險從來不是你想象中的遙遠(yuǎn)。你自己時時要當(dāng)心！P323 （4）Suppose（假設(shè)）a man has a car accident. He is hurt badly and is unconscious（ 失去知覺的 ）;that is, he can think, speak, or hear. His family takes him

19、 to the hospital. The doctors tell the family that his brain（ 大腦）is dead. A machine can make him breathe.Now the patients（病人）family must answer some difficult questions. Should they think he isdead? Should they ask the doctors to use the machine to make him breathe? Sometimes machines can make an un

20、conscious person breathe for years. However, if his brain is dead, he will never think, speak, or hear again. Then, should his family ask the doctors not to use the machine and let him die?Someone who is unconscious can say he wants to die. Can his family say this for him? Some people think this is

21、a good idea. Some think otherwise（不同地）.Many people are hurt when machines keep a person alive. The unconscious person doesnt knowthis. Machine only make the family and friends hurt longer.假設(shè)一個男子岀了車禍。他傷的很重，失去了知覺；也就是說，他不能思考，不能說話，不能聽見。他的家人送他到醫(yī)院。醫(yī)生告訴家人，他的大腦已經(jīng)死亡。一臺機器可以輔助他呼吸?，F(xiàn)在，病人的家屬必須回答一些棘手的問題。他們可以認(rèn)為他死了嗎

22、？他們可以要求醫(yī)生使用機器使他呼吸嗎？有時機器可以使昏迷不醒的人呼吸多年。但是，如果他的大腦已經(jīng)死亡，他再也不能思考，不 能說話，不能聽見了。那么，能允許他的家屬要求醫(yī)生不使用機器，讓他死去嗎？昏迷不醒的人無法說岀他想死。他的家屬能替他說嗎？有些人認(rèn)為這是一個好主意。另有一些人持不同認(rèn)識。當(dāng)機器維持一個人活著的時候，許多人受到了傷害?；杳圆恍训娜瞬恢肋@一點。機器僅能造成他的家人和朋友更長時間的傷害。P324 （5）Most people want to work, but it has become more difficult in todayworld to find work for

23、everybody. The economies of the world need to grow by 4% each year just to keep the old numberof jobs for people. often this is not possible, and so more people are without work. Some people haveno jobs now because new machines can do the work of many people in a shorter time. Also, machines do not

24、ask for more money and longer holidays. In all of the countries of the world machines are taking work from people, not only in factories but also on the farms. One machine can often do the work of forty percent of people. About 75,000 people are moving to the cities a day to look for jobs, but only

25、70% of them can find jobs.大多數(shù)人想要工作，但在當(dāng)今世界每個人都找到工作已成為很大困難。世界經(jīng)濟(jì)需要每年增長4%,僅能維持原先的就業(yè)人數(shù)。通常這是不可能的，所以好多人沒有工作?，F(xiàn)今有些人沒有工作，是由于新機器能 用較短時間完成許多人的工作。此外，機器不會要求更多的工資和較長的假期。在世界上所有國家，機器 不僅在工廠，而且在農(nóng)場正取代人的工作。一臺機器通常能夠完成人工作的40%。每天約75,000人移居到城市找工作，但只有其中70 %可以找到工作。P325 （6）On Thursday morning, more than 100 citizens in Nanjing

26、, the capital of East China JiangsuProvince, donated blood at a local station as a result of the local promotioncampaign of thecountry blood donation law which took effect late last year . Some 82.3 percent of the blood in the local supply（ 供應(yīng)）centre has been donated, compared with last year where a

27、 large amount of blood was purchased（購買）.As many as 12,000 local people have freely donated their blood so far, ensuring（ 保證）an abundant supply for use in local hospitals.周四早上，在中國東部江蘇省省會南京， 100多名市民在當(dāng)?shù)?？電視臺獻(xiàn)血，以作為去年年底生效的國 家獻(xiàn)血法的本地宣傳活動。與去年同期那里大量購買的血液相比，已有 82.3%捐贈到當(dāng)?shù)毓┭行摹５侥壳盀橹?，多達(dá)12,000名當(dāng)?shù)厥忻駸o償捐獻(xiàn)了自己的鮮血，為當(dāng)?shù)蒯t(yī)

28、院的使用保障了豐富的供應(yīng)。P326 （7）In the past, when people had problems, they went to their families or friends to get advice.Today, it is possible to get advice from radio show, TV programs and telephone hot lines, too. A hotline is a telephone line that offers a direct way of getting in touch with（同, 聯(lián)絡(luò) ）advis

29、ers. Mosthot lines are completely anonymous（不具名的）.Callers do not have to say their names or telephone志愿者）. 專業(yè)人員）,numbers. Most hot lines are usually free, too. Callers do not have to pay for the advice or the phone calls-even if the calls are long distance（ 長途）.At some hot lines, the advisers are vo

30、lunteers（ Other hot lines pay their advisers for their words. Usually the advisers are professionals（ with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short class before starting to work on the hot line. All the advisers listen to people and help them settle thei

31、r problems.在過去，當(dāng)人們遇到問題，他們向家人或朋友咨詢。今天，也可以從廣播節(jié)目 電視節(jié)目和電話熱線 得到咨詢。熱線是一條電話線，提供了一個與顧問聯(lián)絡(luò)的直接方式。大多數(shù)熱線是完全匿名的。呼叫者不 必說岀他們的名字或電話號碼。大多數(shù)熱線通常也是免費的。呼叫者不必支付咨詢費或電話費，即使是長 途電話費。有些熱線的顧問是志愿者。其他熱線給它們的顧問支付報酬。顧問通常是有多年教育和經(jīng)驗的 專業(yè)人士，但有時候，顧問在開始熱線電話工作以前只經(jīng)過短期培訓(xùn)。所有的顧問傾聽來電，幫助他們解 決問題。P328 （8）Here are four messages on Alan Marshall answ

32、erphone.Monday 9:21Alan? Alan, if you re at home, please answer the phone. Are you really not there? Well, I justlike to say that I m very angry with you and your father is too. You know how much he loves our monthly family lunches. This is the fifth one youre missed. I hope youve got a really good

33、reasonthis time. Oh, umm, this is your mother speaking.Monday 10:21Mr. Marshall, this is Stefi Rosen, Mr. Prince assistant. Im calling to confirm（確認(rèn)） tomorrow lunch with Mr. Yamada of Rising Sun Computer Games. Mr. Prince wants you to know what his meeting is very important. Please remember to bring

34、 to interactivity designs（互動設(shè)計） with you. He says that Mr. Yamada is ready to pay for the world rights（版權(quán)）on your new game! Therestaurant is The Four Stars in Gower Streetand I ve booked a table for a quarter past one. Be there on time please!Monday 11:23My name is Karen Miller. Im a producer at Int

35、eractive Computer Games, Australia. I saw yourgame Kill the Enemy! ” at the International Computer Game Fair. I think your work is great and Ilike to discuss buying the rights for my part of the world. Someone at the fair said that youreworking on a new game which is even more interactive. How inter

36、active can you get? Perhaps we interact over lunch? I m in London until Wednesday. My mobile number is 0277417 6130800.Monday 12:31Hello, Alan. Its Daisy. Did you have a good weekend? Hows the new game going? I miss you. Bye.有關(guān)艾倫馬歇爾的錄音電話的四條消息。星期一 9:21艾倫？艾倫，如果你在家里一樣，請接電話。難道你真的不在？嗯，我只是想說，我，還有你的父親 對你很生

37、氣。你知道他是多么重視我們的每月家庭午餐。這是你第五次缺席了。我希望這次你找到一個很好的理由。哦，嗯，？這是你母親的留言。星期一 10:21馬歇爾先生，我是斯特菲羅森，普林斯先生的助手。我打電話來確認(rèn)明天與旭日電腦游戲的山田先生 的午餐會。普林斯先生希望你知道這個會議很重要。請記住帶上你的互動設(shè)計。他說，山田先生準(zhǔn)備為你 的新游戲付款購買全世界版權(quán)！餐廳在高爾街上的四星星，我已經(jīng)預(yù)訂了一點一刻的座位。請準(zhǔn)時到來！星期一 11:23我是凱倫米勒，澳大利亞互動電腦游戲的制片人。我在國際電腦游戲博覽會上看到你的游戲“殺敵！”。我覺得你的游戲很精彩，我很愿意與你商談購買我的部份世界版權(quán)。在博覽會上有人

38、說你正在創(chuàng)作的一個 新游戲具有更強的互動性。你怎么取得互動性的？也許我們互動一次午餐？我在倫敦逗留到星期三。我的 手機號碼是0277417 6130800。星期一 12:31艾倫，你好。我是戴西。周末過得愉快嗎？新游戲進(jìn)展如何？我想你。再見。P329 （9）Cool is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that isa little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different mea

39、nings.Cool can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say,ft cool. You may think, He so cool, ” when you see yourfavourite footballer.We all maximize（ 擴大）the meaning of cool .You can use it instead of many words such as tea

40、cher asked her students to write about the waterfall they had visited. On one studentpaperwas just the one sentence, ft so cool. Maybe he thought it was the best way to show that he saw and felt.But the story also shows a scarcity（ 不足）of words. Without cool some people have no words to show the same

41、 meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility（可信性）.Can you thinkof many other words that make your life as colorful as the wordcool? I can, and I think they arealso very cool.酷”是一個具有多種含義的詞。其本義是用來表達(dá)一個溫度有點冷。由于世界變化了，這個詞有許多 不同的含義?？帷笨梢杂脕肀磉_(dá)對幾乎所有的東西感興趣的感覺。當(dāng)你在街上看到一輛名牌汽車，也許你會說，這很酷。當(dāng)你看到你最愛的足球運動員

42、，你可能想：”他太酷了 。我們都在擴大酷”的意思。你可以用它代替許多話，比如老師要求她的學(xué)生描寫他們觀賞過的瀑布。 在一個學(xué)生的作文里只有一個句子，這太酷了。也許他認(rèn)為這是最好的方式來表達(dá)他看到的和感受到的。但這個故事也顯示岀詞語的匱乏。不用酷”有些人就沒有詞語來表達(dá)同樣的意思。所以保留一些 可信性是很重要的。你能想到許多其他詞語使你生活得如同酷”字一樣豐富多彩嗎？我能做到，我覺得他們也很酷。P330 (10)Today there are about 7,000,000 Americans in colleges and universities. In the United States

43、nearly half of the population( 人口 ) are young persons under twenty-five. Many of them will soon be in charge of( 掌管)the country. So their ideas are important to everyone in the country, and it is necessary for older people to understand what young people think and feel.College students today have st

44、rong opinions( 觀點)about right and wrong. They are interested in making a better life. They see much that is wrong in the lives of their parents. It is hard for them to see what is right and good in the older ways. Because of this, there is often trouble in American families.今天，大約有7,000,000美國人就讀高校。在美

45、國近半數(shù)的人口是二十五歲以下的青少年。他們中許多 人將在不久掌管這個國家。因此對國家中的每個人而言，他們的想法是很重要的，而且成年人理解年輕人 的想法和感受是必要的。今天的大學(xué)生具有強烈的對錯觀。他們對創(chuàng)造一個美好生活感興趣。他們看到在父母生活中的很多不 足。讓他們用老觀念去看什么是正確而好的是很困難的。正因為如此，在美國家庭往往存有煩惱。P332 (11)How are you? is a nice question. It a friendly way that people in the United States greet each other, but when a person

46、says How are you? he expects() to hear the answerFine, even ifthe person friend isn fine. The reason is that How are you? isn really a question, and fine isn really an answer. They are common ways of sayingHello and Hi.Sometimes people also don say exactly what they mean. For example, when someone a

47、sks,Doyou agree? the other person may be thinking.No, I don agree. I think you are wrong. But itdoesn sound very polite, so he may say,f m not so sure. It a nicer way to say that you don agree with someone.People also don say exactly what they are thinking. For example, when a person wants to finish

48、 talking with other people on the phone, he may sayI have to go now . Sometimes he oftengives an excuse, Someone is at the door , Something is burning so on. The excuse may be real, orit may not. It a polite way to stop a conversation and it doesnhurt the other person feeling.It an important way tha

49、t people try to be nice to each other, and it a part of the game of language.你好嗎？是一個友善的問題。這是一種美國人民互相問候?qū)Ψ降挠押梅绞?，但是?dāng)一個人說：你好嗎？即使這人的朋友不是很好，他期望聽到的回答：”好，。原因是，你好嗎？不是一個真正的問題，”好 也不是一個真正的回答。它們是說你好”和 嗨”的常見方式。有時候，人們不是精確地說出他們的意思。例如，當(dāng)有人問，你是否同意？其他人可能會想。不,我不同意。我認(rèn)為你錯了。不過，這聽上去不是很有禮貌，所以他可能會說，”我不那么肯定。這是一個較好的方式來表達(dá)你不同意某人。

50、人們也不是精確地說出他們的所想。例如，當(dāng)一個人要結(jié)束與他人在電話中的交談，他會說：我得走了。”有時候，他常常給岀一個借口，有人在門口 ”，有東西燒糊了 ”等。借口可能是真實的，也可能不真實的。這是一種停止談話的禮貌方式，這樣不會傷害他人的感覺。這是一個人們盡量善待對方的重要途徑， 這也是語言游戲的一個部分。P333 （12）It isn strictly true that one half of the world is rich and the other half is poor. Its one thirdthat is very rich and tow-thirds that ar

51、e very poor.People in the rich countries don understand the great difference between them and those inthe poorer countries. A very simple is that a dog or a cat in North America eats better than a childin the poorer countries. A fisherman is South America may be catching fish which is made into pet

52、food, and his own children are not getting enough to eat for their bodies to grow properly.Although a lot of the world s natural resources（ 資源）like oil come from these poorer countries, people in the richer countries are using about sixty times as much of these resources as people in Asia of Africa.

53、 And its the richer countries that deicide that kind of prices they are ready to payfor these resources.And the process the richer countries get for their own exports（出口 ）, however,are always rising. So they are getting richer and richer and the poorer countries are getting poorer.世界上一半是富人，另一半是窮人，這不

54、完全正確。世界上三分之一的人非常富有，三分之二的人非常貧窮。在富裕國家的人們并不了解他們與在貧窮國家的人們之間的巨大差異。一個顯見的事是，狗或貓在北美吃的比在較貧窮國家的兒童吃的更好。一個南美漁民可能把捕到的魚制成寵物食品，而他自己的孩子得 不到足夠的身體正常生長所需的東西吃。雖然世界上的自然資源比如石油來自這些貧窮國家，在富裕國家的人享用的資源約為在亞洲，非洲人 民的六十多倍。富裕的國家決定了他們愿意支付這些資源的價格。而這個過程中較富裕的國家由于他們岀口得到的卻總是在上升。因此，他們越來越富，窮國越來越窮。P335 （13）From the time we were babies we have been taught our