2020年8月自考英语二预测考试内容

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When we use language to express our true feelings to someone it can open and deepen the connection between us. Language is a very powerful tool. How we use language shapes our world both internally and externally. How you use self-talk ---- what you say to yourself about yourself and about the world directly shapes your experience of both yourself and the world. How you deliver communication shapes the way the world responds to you. We can use language more effectively in both spheres: internal and external and directly influence the health and power of our personal relationships and our business relationships. 语言是把我们把其它生物区分开并且把我们定义为人的事物之一。当语言使用得很好时，它能引起他人内心深处的情感、激发他人采取行动、并且定义我们关系的本质。有时在诗歌里，并列的两个词或者某个短语会让人流泪，唤起大量的意象，让我们深受感动。我们已经看到最近语言被用于说服政治中，用于善意或恶意——取决于你的观点。当我们用语言来表达我们对某人的真实感受时，它可以打开并加深我们之间的联系。语言是一种非常强大的工具。我们如何使用语言，这从内部和外部塑造了我们的世界。你如何使用自我对话——你对自己和世界的看法直接影响了你对自己和世界的体验。你如何进行交流直接塑造了世界回应你的方式。我们可以在两个领域更有效地使用语言：内部和外部，并且直接影响我们人际关系和商业关系的健康和力量。 选文出自 P112 To become a flexible reader, you need to know how to select and use a reading style that is consistent with your purpose for reading. Knowingwhen and how to use different reading styles will make you a flexible reader. Study reading is the reading style used by flexible readers when their purpose is to read difficult material at a high level of comprehension. When using the study reading style, you should read at a rate that is slower than your normal reading rate. Furthermore, as you read you must challenge yourself to understand the material. Study reading will often require you to read material more than once to achieve a high level of comprehension. Sometimes, reading the material aloud will also help you improve your comprehension. 要成为灵活的读者，就要知道如何选择和使用一种与你的阅读目的相一致的阅读方式。知道在何时和如何使用不同的阅读方式，能够让你成为灵活的读者。研究型的阅读，是在阅读困难的需要高度理解的材料时，灵活读者所采用的阅读方式。当采用研究型阅读方式时，你就以比平常要慢的阅读速度。而且在阅读时还要挑战自我，力求理解材料。研究型阅读常常需要你反复阅读已达到高度理解。有时，大声朗读也会帮助你提高理解力。 选文出自 P112 As you learn the language, focus not only on the words and their meanings, but also on the way the words come together to make phrases. Learning how phrases come together in English will come with continued submersion in the language. For example, the word “kick” can mean many differentthingsdepending on how it is used in a phrase. When you say, “He kicked the ball”, you are using the word as a verb that means to strike the ball with the foot. On the other hand, you could say, “I get a kick out of that TV show.” This means that you enjoy the TV show, and has nothing to do with striking something with a foot. 你在学习语言的时候，不仅要专注于单词及其意思，而且还要专注于单词组合成短语的方式。学习英语中的短语是如何组合在一起，这将伴随着在语言中的持续沉浸。例如，这个单词“kick”能够表示许多不同的事，这取决于它是如何在短语中使用的。当你说“他kick球”，你把这个词用作动词，意思是用脚踢这个球。另一方面，你可以说，“我get a kick out of电视节目中。”这意思是你很喜欢这个电视节目, 并且和用脚踢什么东西无关。 Unit 1B 选文出自P118 (2016年4月填词补文来源) (2018年4月完形补文来源) English plays an important role in the workplace and when used in the correct and appropriate manner, it can help boost a career or a business. Some may need or want to study business English before they start their careers. Those who are already working have the opportunity to see what they can and cannot do effectively in English in their current job. A valuable skill to have in business is how to negotiate. You need to know what you want, as well as how to bargain and make concessions. Being able to deal with a conflict and knowing how to end negotiations can make a big difference to the outcome. Workplace English learning will encourage professional and efficient communication, which translates as good service to customers and business partners or suppliers, which can only be a positive for any business. 英语在工作场所中起着重要作用，当以正确和适当的方式使用时，它可以帮助促进职业或生意。有些人可能需要或想要在开始职业生涯之前学习商务英语。那些已经在工作的人有机会在他们目前的工作中看到他们能够和不能用英语有效地做些什么。 在商业中有一项宝贵的技能是如何谈判。你需要知道你想要什么，以及如何讨价还价和做出让步。能够处理冲突并知道如何结束谈判可以对结果产生重大影响。 职场英语学习将鼓励专业和有效的交流，这将为客户和商业伙伴或供应商提供良好的服务，这对任何企业都是有利的。 选文出自P119 Philip Randolph, the great African-American champion of labour and civil rights, ledconfrontations with three very popularpresidents. Mr. Randolph called for a march on Washington by thousands of African-Americans on July 1, 1941, if President Roosevelt would not take action to end discrimination in defense industries during World War II. Mr. Randolph was born in Florida. After much delay, the president met with Randolph, and one week later opened many defense jobs to black workers. A few years later, in 1948, Mr. Randolph threatened mass civil disobedience if president Truman did not end segregation against African-Americans in the military. On July 26, Truman approved the order that integrated the armed services. The last confrontation was with John F. Kennedy, who sought to stop the 1963 civil rights march on Washington. The march featured the Reverend Martin Luther King’s unforgettable “I Have a Dream” speech. 菲利普·伦道夫, 他是劳动和公民权利的伟大的非裔美国人的捍卫者，领导了与三位非常受欢迎的总统的对抗。伦道夫呼吁：如果罗斯福总统不采取行动结束二战期间的国防工业的歧视，那么成千上万的非洲裔美国人在1941年7月1日的华盛顿游行。伦道夫出生在佛罗里达州。耽搁很久以后，总统会见了伦道夫。一周以后，向黑人工人开放了很多国防工作。几年以后的1948年，伦道夫威胁说如果杜鲁门总统在军事方面没有消除种族隔离, 要进行大规模的非暴力反抗。7月26日，杜鲁门批准了在军队中取消隔离的命令，最后一次对抗是和约翰·肯尼迪, 当时约翰·肯尼迪正试图阻止1963年在华盛顿举行的民权游行。游行的主角是马丁路德金的令人难忘的“我有一个梦”演讲。 Unit 2A 选文出自 P128 (2017年4月完形补文来源) Lots of people don’t dare to make mistakes. They fear that they will be ridiculed or blamed by others. They fear that they will lose their money and belongings or be under a lot of stress. But risks are unavoidable and they do pave the way you must tread upon towards success. Have you ever heard of someone who achieves success without making any mistakes before? So it is only natural that making mistakes in your effort to reach your dreams is considered a must, and you shouldn’t worry about that as you may get a lot of advantages out of your mistakes. By making mistakes at least you then can distinguish between the correct and the incorrect portions of what you did. Anthony D’Angelo said: “In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what to do the next time”, and Robert Louis Stevenson even went to the extreme as to say: “Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” You needn’t worry about anything as long as you keep on going by wisely learning from your mistakes and trying even harder. 很多人不敢犯错误，他们害怕自己会被他人嘲笑或者谴责。他们害怕自己会失去自己的钱和财物，或者承受很大的压力。但是风险是不可避免的，它们的确铺就了通往成功的必经之路。你曾听说过有人没犯过错误就取得成功吗？ 所以，在你努力去实现梦想的过程中犯错误是必须的，这很正常的，你不应该担心，因为你可以会从错误中获得很多好处。通过犯错至少你可以辨别你做的事情中正确和错误的部分。安东尼·德·安吉洛说过：“为了成功，你必须先失败，以便你知道下一次该怎么做。” 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森甚至更加极端的说：“在我们的生活中不是要成功，而是要持续精神抖擞地去失败。” 你不需要担心任何事情，只要你不停止前进，明智地从错误中学习，并且更加努力去尝试。 选文出自 P129 (2016年10月填词补文来源) I clearly remember a period during which I felt like a failure. But what I eventually learned was that failing at one thing is not failing at all things. And, in fact, failure is a necessary part of growth. Life is filled with trial and error. In order to walk the path to success, you need to make some wrong turns along the way. What I learned, to use John C. Maxwell’s terminology, was to “fail forward”, to use each mistake to make myself better. One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind. A successful baseball player doesn’t look at an out that he makes and think of failure. He sees it within the context of the bigger picture. His perspective leads to perseverance. His perseverance brings longevity. And his longevity gives him opportunities for success. 我清楚地记得有段时间我觉得自己就是个失败者。但我最终学到的是，在一件事情上失败并不是在所有事情上都失败。事实上，失败是成长的必要组成部分。生活充满了尝试和错误。为了走上成功之路，你需要在前进的道路上做一些错误的转弯。我所学到的是，用约翰·麦斯威尔的话说，就是“向前失败”，用每个错误让自己变得更好。人们对失败的最大问题之一是，他们过于迅速地判断自己生活中的孤立情况，并将其贴上失败的标签。相反，他们需要牢记大局。成功的棒球运动员不会把一次出局看作是失败。他是从全局的角度来看待它。他的这种观点让他能够坚持到底。坚持带来了长远。长远使他有机会成功。 Unit 2B 选文出自 P137 There are several key abilities that allow successful people to fail forward instead of taking each setback personally. First, successful people don’t blamethemselves when they fail. They take responsibility for each setback, but they don’t take the failure personally. Second, successful people don’t define themselves by individual failures. They recognize that each setback is a small part of the whole. Third, achievers are willing to vary their approaches to problems. That’s important in every walk of life. If one approach doesn’t work for you, if it brings repeated failure, then try something else. To fail forward, you must do what works for you, not necessarily what works for other people. Finally, successful people are resilient. They don’t let one error keep them down. They learn from their mistakes and move on. 有几种关键能力使得成功人士可以在失败中前行，而不是把每个挫折个人化。首先，成功人士失败的时候不会自责。他们为每个挫折承担责任，但是他们不把失败个人化。第二，成功人士不用个别的失败来定义自己。他们认识到每一次挫折都是整个过程的一小部分。第三，成功人士愿意改变他们对待问题的方法。这对于每个行业来说都很重要。如果一种方法不奏效，如果它带来反复失败，那么就要尝试别的方法。要在失败中前行，你必须做对你有用的事，不一定是对别人有用的事。最后，成功人士是有韧性的。他们不会让一次错误压制自己。他们从错误中学习，然后继续前进。 选文出自 P138 Finding a reliable used car at an affordable price requires both planning and persistence. A good starting point is narrowing down the type of car you want or need. Be realistic. You may envision yourself cruising around town in a little convertible, but that won’t leave much room for the kids and dogs. Once you’ve settled on the basic vehicle, do some research to find out which vehicles have good reliability ratings. The internet and books can help you pick out the high maintenance turkeys. The next step is finding the model you are looking for. Used car lots will give you an idea of price, but they can be expensive and full of used car salesmen. Check your local paper, car buyers’ magazines and the Internet. When you finally track down what looks good, arrange to have your mechanic inspect it. Never omit this step. After your mechanic gives the car the OK, all that’s left is to haggle over the price. 在可承受的价格下找到一辆可靠的二手车需要计划和坚持。一个好的起点是缩小你想要或需要的车型。要现实一点，你可能会想象自己开着一辆敞篷车在小镇上游逛，但那样不会给孩子和狗留下很多空间。一旦你选定了基本的车辆，做一些调查找出哪些车辆具有良好的可靠性评级。因特网和书籍可以帮你挑选出维保成本太高的汽车。下一步是找到你要找的型号。二手车市场会给你一个价格的概念，但是它们可能会很贵，也会有很多二手车销售员。查一下你当地的报纸，汽车买家杂志和因特网。当你最终确定看起来不错的车，安排你的机械师检查一下。绝不要省略这一步。当你的机械师说这辆车可以后，剩下的就是在价格上讨价还价。 Unit 3A 选文出自 P149 (2017年10月填词补文来源) In the daily drama and comedy of our life, it’s nice to have friends. While family is extremely important, friends are a different support system of your choosing. As the saying goes, “You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends.” Choosing them wisely can make your life more exciting and inspiring. Deciding whom you choose as your friends says as much about you as it does them. You may choose your friends based on similar interests. You may choose them because you’re both polar opposites of each other and find this interesting and intriguing. Often, friends become “friends” because they naturally attract each other because of similar personalities and temperaments. Sometimes it’s just circumstances that bring two individuals together who then become friends. Whatever prompts a friendship, developing one is a very rewarding experience. This is especially true when, before you know it, a certain friendship turns into a unique lifelong close friendship. Again, it’s been said that a person normally has only a couple of very close friends in their life. Think of whom you consider as truly close friends. These are those select individuals you can trust and share deep thoughts and concerns with, without any reservations. 在我们生活的日常戏剧和喜剧中，有朋友很好。虽然家庭是非常重要的，但朋友是你的选择中的不同的支持系统。俗话说，“你不能选择你的家庭，但是你可以选择你的朋友。”明智的选择他们会使你的生活更加的振奋和鼓舞人心。 决定选择谁作为你的朋友，不仅表明他们是什么样的人，也说明你是什么样的人。你可能会根据相似的兴趣去选择你的朋友。你可能选择他们因为你们是截然相反的并且你觉得这很有趣。通常，朋友之所以成为朋友，是因为他们因相似的个性和气质而互相吸引。有时仅仅是环境把两个人聚在一起然后成为朋友。 无论是什么促进了友谊，发展一段友谊是一种非常值得的经历。特别是不知不觉间，一段友谊变成一份独特的终身的亲密友谊。而且，据说一个人一生中通常只有几个非常亲密的朋友。想一下你认为谁是真正亲密的朋友。这些人是你可以信任和分享内心想法及担忧并且没有任何保留的人。 选文出自P150 It’s so easy to take good friends for granted. Like a comfortable pair of gloves, old friends wear well. But friendships that suffer from busyness and over-familiarity can’t afford to be neglected too long. They need renewal. If you want and need to keep true friendship alive and well, please, consider and think over a list of the most important qualities. Probably it will help you to understand why you and your best friends haven’t called up for ages, why you’re getting embarrassed while being asked “Whom are you going to have fun with this weekend?” You may neglect your intimate friends from time to time, but if you fail to cultivate these qualities -- loyalty, forgiveness, honesty, and dedication -- you can’t expect to keep true friends. 我们很容易就把好朋友认为是理所当然的。就如同是一副舒服的手套一样，老朋友经久耐用。但是，忙碌和过度熟悉的友谊不能被忽视太久。它们需要更新。如果你想很好地保持真正的友谊，请考虑和思考一份最重要的品质清单。或许它能帮你理解为什么你与好朋友已经多年没有通电话，为什么你被问到“这周末跟谁一起玩”时会感到很尴尬。你可能时不时忽略你亲密的朋友，但是如果你不能培养这些品质——忠诚、宽恕、诚实和奉献——你就不能指望有真正的朋友。 Unit 3B 选文出自P157 Now, your idea of a good friend is still the person who gives you the better of the two choices, holds your hand when you’re scared, helps you fight off those who try to take advantage of you, thinks of you at times when you are not there, reminds you of what you have forgotten, helps you put the past behind you, but understands when you need to hold on to it a little longer, stays with you so that you have confidence, goes out of their way to make time for you, helps you clear up your mistakes, helps you deal with pressure from others, helps you become a better person, and most importantly loves you! 现在，你认为好朋友仍然会把两种选择中更好的留给你；在你感到恐惧时握住你的手；帮助你抗击那些试图利用你的人；当你不在时会想起你；提醒你忘记了些什么；帮你摆脱过去，但如果你需要在过去中多停留一会儿，他也会理解；和你在一起让你有信心；特地为你腾出时间；帮你澄清你的错误；帮助你处理来自他人的压力；帮助你成为一个更好的人；而最重要的是，爱你！ 选文出自P158 My little niece, a ten-month-old baby, is the most lovely child I have ever seen. Her face is like a red apple and her eyes are like bright stars. When you carry her in your arms, she likes to put her arms around your neck. All the grown-ups in the family love her very much and often try to make her smile. But quite often it is she who makes us laugh. Once I winked at her and she smiled. When I did it again, she watched me attentively. Then she tried to imitate. While I closed one eye to wink, she had to close both eyes at the same time, and then quickly opened them again. And that was her way to wink. We all burst into laughter. When we looked at her again, she was staring at us, puzzled, as if she were asking, “What are you laughing at?” We all love this gorgeous, cute little baby. 我的小侄女，一个十个月大的小宝宝，它是我见过的最可爱的孩子。她的脸像一个红苹果，她的眼睛像明亮星星。当你把她抱在怀里时，她喜欢搂着你的脖子。家里面所有的大人都很爱她，经常试着逗她笑。但常常是她让我们发笑。有一次我向她眨了眨眼，她笑了。当我再做一次的时候，她用心地看着我。然后她试着模仿。当我眨一只眼睛的时候，她不得不同时闭上双眼，然后又很快睁开了。那就是她眨眼睛的方式。我们都大笑起来。当我们再看她时，她正盯着我们，疑惑不解，仿佛她正在问：“你们在笑什么？” 我们都喜欢这个漂亮可爱的小宝贝。 Unit 4A 选文出自 P168-169 We all get the Monday blues from time to time, but there are ways to improve your working life and be happy at work. If you’re going through a rough patch at work or are lacking job satisfaction, check out these ways to boost your mood and have a happier work day. If your workday often leaves you feeling stressed and overwhelmed, it is time to calm things down by getting more organized. Firstly, make sure you arrive a few minutes early for work to give you time to organize your tasks for the day and get mentallyprepared. Secondly, organize your space by clearing away any clutter and streamlining your workspace. Finally, make a list of everything that need to do that day in order of priority. If you can, try taking care of the more difficult things first to help take a weight off your mind. Variety is the spice of life, and this is never truer than when it comes to your working day. Following the same routine day in, day out can quickly cause boredom and dissatisfaction to set in, so try making every day a little different in any way you can. Try doing routine tasks in a different order, talking to someone new or taking a different route to work. If you really can’t shake up your workday itself, instead try organizing something fun and different to do on your lunch break every so often. 我们都会时不时地有星期一忧郁症。但是有一些方法可以改善你的工作生活并在工作中感到快乐。如果你工作中正经历一段困难的时期，或者缺乏工作满意度，看看这些方法可以提高你的情绪，让你拥有一个更快乐的工作日。 如果你的工作日经常使你感到有压力和不知所措，是时候变得有条理以让事情平静下来。首先，确保你提前几分钟到达工作时间，让你有时间安排一天的工作，并做好心理准备。第二，整理你的空间，要清除杂物和简化的工作空间。最后，按照优先顺序列出当天需要做的每件事的清单。如果你可以，试着先处理一些比较困难的事情以帮助减轻你的压力。 多样性是生活的调味品，当谈到你的工作日时这再正确不过了。日复一日过着相同的生活会很快引起厌倦和不满，所以试着尽可能让每一天都有一点不同。尝试以不同的顺序执行例行任务，和某个新人聊天，或者选择不同的工作方式。如果你真的不能让你的工作日振奋起来，那就试着时常在午餐时间组织做一些有趣和不一样的事情。 选文出自 P169-170 (2015年10月完形补文来源) Whether you are waiting tables or a brain surgeon, any job you do is about serving others and making their life better on some level. We have all had experiences where someone working in their job has lifted us up and made a difference to our day or brought us down and made our day worse. We have all met wonderful people cleaning floors and people who are not so wonderful who have amazing jobs. So whatever your job, how do you bring love to work? Be grateful for your work. Being grateful doesn’t mean you have to stay in a job you don’t like but it will help you to develop a more positive mindset when you are there. You don’t like your job, but you may enjoy being with your colleagues. This is something to be thankful for. When you practice gratefulness it will really allow you to develop a more useful outlook and be happier at your work. 不论你是餐馆里的服务员还是脑外科医生，你做的任何工作都是服务他人，并且使他们的生活在某个程度上过得好一点。我们都曾经有过这样的经历：一些在他们岗位上工作的人鼓舞了我们，使我们的一天变得不同，或是让我们非常沮丧，使我们的一天变得更糟。我们都遇到过非常优秀的人在做扫地的工作，而那些不太优秀的人却有着令人惊讶的好工作。因此，不管你做什么工作，你如何把爱带入工作？要对自己的工作心怀感激。心怀感激并不是说要一直做自己不喜欢的工作，心怀感激能帮你在那里工作时培养积极的心态。你不喜欢自己的工作，但是你也许喜欢跟同事们待在一起。这就是应该感激的事。当你践行感恩时，它会让你形成一个更有用的人生观，也能让你更满意自己的工作。 Unit 4B

选文出自 P178-179 Before you make up your mind about which way to go, take a hard, honest look at your motivation for starting a company. Too many are looking to get rich, escape the corporate grind, and work shorter hours with more free time. None of those reasons is likely to lead to success. If you are focused on solving a customer problem or need, believe you can do what you do better than anyone else, dying to work long hours, wear many hats, and juggle endlessresponsibilities, then you have the right startup mindset. You also need certain personality traits. One of them is a willingness to work very hard all by yourself, at least for the first year or so (and possibly longer). 在你决定走哪一种路之前，先仔仔细细、认认真真地审视一下你开公司的动机。太多人想变得富有，逃避公司枯燥乏味的工作，更短的工作时间和更多的空闲时间。这些理由都不可能带来成功。如果你专注于解决客户的问题或需求，相信你能够比别人做得更好；渴望工作很长时间，身兼数职，承担无尽的责任，那么你就能有了正确的创业心态了。你还需要一些个性特征。其中之一就是愿意独自努力工作，至少在第一年（也许更长时间）。 选文出自 P179 A first date can end up beingcategorized as a successful, a clingy, a boastful or an awkward one. Successful first dates include both parties expressinginformation about what they like, who they are, and so forth. Usually, these dates will end in tentative plans for a second one. Clingy (黏附的) dates end up with one of the parties practically begging for information about the other. However, the non-clinger is not interested. On boastful dates, one member of the duo (一对) talks about all of his or her skills, talents, and abilities. The listening end of the pair is never asked about his or her life. Awkward first dates generally involve lots of silence or one or both of the partners not knowing how to act appropriately. While many dates occur every day, they can generally fall into one of these categories. 第一次约会可能会最终被归类为成功的，粘人的，自夸的或者是尴尬的。成功的第一次约会包括双方都要表达他们喜欢什么，他们是谁，等等。通常这些约会是以试探性的下一次的约会计划而结束。粘人性的约会是以其中一方几乎一直在乞求另外一方的信息而结束。但不粘人的那一方是不感兴趣的。在一个自夸的约会里，这一对里面的其中一方谈论的都是他或她的技能，天赋和能力。而听的那一方从不被问及他或她自己的生活。尴尬的第一次约会通常包含很多的沉默，或者一方或双方都不知道如何适当行动。虽然每天都有很多约会，但它们通常都可以归入这些中的一类。 Unit 5A 选文出自 P201 The purpose of life is to satisfy the soul, and though acknowledging your accomplishments can help in this effort, it cannot take you the full distance. The only thing that can satisfy your soul is an answer to the question, who am I? You are an individualizedexpression of life, of greaterconsequence and magnitude than anything you will ever accomplish. When we focus on the fact that we are enough now, the beginning, the middle and the end of every journey -- whether it’s finding a mate or getting a better job -- is filled with a sense of well-being. We may complete an experience and even be thrilled by the outcome, but we know that we are no more complete than when we started out. You see, we are either enough right now or we’re not; and if we are, then we’re challenged, by our enoughness to live that way. The problem is, most of us don’t listen to the inner voice that says, “You’re enough because you exist.” We ignore it because being enough doesn’t fit the image we have of ourselves. We have spent so much time thinking of ourselves as not being enough that enoughness seems very far away. We may have a sense of being surrounded by the Life Force, but we forget that the Life Force is also within us. And if the Life Force is within us, we are enough. 生命的目的是为了满足灵魂,虽然认可你的成就能有助于这种努力，但它不能带你走完全程。唯一能够满足你灵魂的是要回答，我是谁？你是生命的一种个性化表达，比你所能完成的任何事情都更重要。 当我们专注于我们现在知足这一事实，每一段旅程的开始，中间和结尾——无论是寻找伴侣，还是找到更好的工作——都充满了一种幸福感。我们可能会完成一段经历甚至会为结果而激动，但我们知道，我们并不比刚开始时更完整。 你明白，我们现在要么知足，要么没有。如果我们知足，那么我们就会被我们的知足挑战而去以那样的方式生活。 问题是，我们大多数人都不会听内心的声音说，“因为你存在，所以你是富足的。”我们忽略它因为知足并不符合我们对自己的设想。我们花了太多的时间来认为我们自己还不够，富足似乎很遥远。我们可能有一种被生命力包围的感觉，但我们忘记了生命力也存在于我们体内。如果生命力在我们体内，那我们就应知足。 选文出自P202 Once upon a time in a land far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything: animals, spiders, insects, etc. One day while walking through the woods the nice old man found a cocoon of a butterfly. He took it home. A few days later, a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it never was able to fly. 从前，在一片遥远的土地上，有一个非常好的老人，他爱一切：动物，蜘蛛，昆虫等。一天当他步行穿过树林的时候，这个好心的老人发现了一只蝴蝶的茧。他把它带回家。几天后，出现了一个很小的开口，他坐下来观察了这个蝴蝶好几个小时，蝴蝶努力挣扎着让自己的身体挤出那小洞口。接着它似乎不再有任何的进展。好像已经尽其所能，而不能再向前一步了。然后这个老人决定帮助这只蝴蝶，所以他拿来了一把剪刀，把把茧的剩余部分剪掉。这只蝴蝶很容易就出来了，但是永远都飞不起来。 Unit 5B 选文出自P209 Walt Disney said “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”. You must first dare to dream, then from the dream comes a plan of action. Dreams are only dreams until they are put into action. For without action the dream will remain dormant and unfulfilled. Though obstacles will arise and moments of fear and doubt may wish to discourage, a dream to succeed becomes a reality with persistence and determination. If you ask any famous entrepreneur how they got where they are today, they would tell you by being persistent. Their success was the direct result of many failings. The best thing about failure is that it becomes an ingredient in the end result of a fulfilled dream. 沃尔特迪斯尼说：“我们所有的梦想都可以实现，如果我们有勇气去实现它们。”你必须首先敢于梦想，然后从梦想中得到一个行动计划。梦想只是梦想，直到付诸行动。因为没有行动，梦想就会一直沉睡，无法实现。尽管障碍会出现，恐惧和怀疑的时刻可能会让人泄气，但一个渴望成功的梦想伴随着毅力和决心会变为现实。如果你问任何一个著名的企业家他们是如何获得今天的成功的，他们会告诉你是因为坚持不懈。他们的成功是许多失败的直接结果。失败的最好之处就在于它是最终实现梦想的一个要素。 Unit 6A 选文出自 P218-219 Money management can actually be broken down into a very simple practice that even a fourth grader can do in his life. The basic step to being on your wealth path is knowing how much you can invest the rest. If you are alreadyworking, arrange with your company to direct a predetermined amount of your payroll into a forced savings fund and then you will learn to live with the rest. Ideally, the amount that is left for you to work with is smaller, and this particular practice is actuallycalled “learning to pay yourself first”— despite bills and other payables, you will come first. The beauty of this money management practice to get you on the wealth path is that you will be forced to cut your wastefulspending. You will learn to live with what you have and figure out the little avenues in your life where you can stop the financial leaks. With this, you will find that you have extra money to invest with. Now that you have a sizeable amount, the next thing that you can do is figure out where to put the extras that have accumulated over time so you can generate money and make it grow with very little effort from you. There are many things you can find to put your money in. 金钱管理实际上可以被分解成一个非常简单的做法，甚至是一个四年级的学生在他的生活中也可以做到。通向你财富道路的基本步骤是你知道剩下多少可以投资。如果你已经在工作，安排你的公司将你的工资总额预先设定一个强制性的储蓄基金，接下来你将会学习用剩下的这一部分来生活。理想情况下，留给你自己的数额是比较少的。这种特殊的做法其实被称为：“学会先支付自己”。尽管有账单和其他的应付款，但你是第一位。 这种能让你走上财富之路的金钱管理做法的美妙之处在于你将被迫削减自己的浪费性开支。你将学会用现有的条件来过日子，并且在生活中找出那些可以阻止金钱流失的小方法。这样你会发现自己有额外的钱去投资。既然你已经有了一大笔钱，接下来你可以做的就是弄明白该把这些随时间累积起的额外的钱放在哪里才能赚钱，并且不费什么力气就可以让它增长。你可以发现有很多事可以投资。 选文出自 P219-220 Whether or not children are allowed to handle their own pocket money, parents and stepparents will surely be budgeting a certainamount of cash for their children’s everyday needs and wants. Kids don’t need a great deal of money, but ideally, they should have enough so that they can learn to spend some and save some. Many parents help children to learn about the importance of spending by asking kids to separate their money into at least three portions. One is for immediate spending, one for short term savings (outings, video games, etc.) and the third is for long term savings (a car, college, etc.). In some families, they add a forth category, which is for donating, teaching children the value and importance of helping those less fortunate. 不管是否孩子们被允许自己管理零花钱，父母和继父母肯定要预算出一定数额的现金来满足孩子日常的各种需求。孩子们不需要太多钱，但是理想的情况是，他们应该有足够的钱以便他们能学会花掉一些和存下一些。好多家长帮助孩子了解花钱的重要性，通过要求小孩把钱分成了至少三份。一份是马上要花的钱，一份是短期储蓄（外出活动、电子游戏等等），第三份是长期储蓄（汽车、大学等等）。在有些家庭里，他们还增加了第四种，用来捐款，这样教导小孩帮助那些不幸的人的价值和重要性。 选文出自 P220 So what are some specific things you can do? For starters, if you aren’t a reader, you should start with that. Reading books can really expand your mind and allow you to learn so many different skills and gain knowledge that will help you in all areas of your life. You can also take course and attend seminars. These programs are taught by people who have spent decades figuring out how to make some aspect of their life work and now they are going to teach you how to do it. Of course, you want to do some research before you invest in some of these seminars and make sure you’re not just paying for some sales presentation. 所以你可以做什么具体的事情呢？对于初学者们，如果你不是一个读者，你就应该从阅读开始。读书可以真正的拓展你的思维，让你学到很多不同的技能，获得知识，这对你生活的方方面面都有帮助。你也可以参加课程和研讨会。这些课程的授课者花了几十年来弄清如何让他们生活中的某些方面更有效，现在他们来教你如何做。当然，在你投资这些研讨会之前，你需要做一些调查，确保你不只是因为一些(课程)销售推介而付费。 Unit 6B 选文出自 P226 How do people think of money? There is a truth that many people value money too highly. They think money is all and believe that “money is a passport to anything”. So they can do anything, even immoral and illegal things in order to have money. Robbers are ready to kill others cruelly for merely dozens of dollars. Traders are ready to cheat in commerce to appropriate more money. Officials themselves, who have much power and influence on society, trample on their honor and others’ interests. 人们是怎么看待金钱的？事实上，许多人过于看重金钱。他们认为金钱就是一切，相信“金钱是万能的通行证”。因此，为了钱，他们可以做任何事情，甚至是不道德的和违法的事情。劫匪仅仅为了几十美元就愿意残忍地杀害别人。商人为了获得更多金钱而愿意在生意中欺诈。官员们拥有权力和对社会的影响力，他们践踏自己的荣誉和他人的利益。 Unit 7A 选文出自 P236-237 Our words have power, and our speech has the power to set the energy or the directions we choose in our lives. If we say good and positive things, good and positive things (experience) happen to us. These words give us the opportunity to experience life from a positive or optimistic point of view. If, on the other hand, we come from negativity and say negative things, accordingly, negative things happen to us or we end up seeing life as one big problem or disappointment. While we are all familiar with our external speech or voice, we also have another voice that we work with and interact with every day. This is our “inner voice”. While at first glance you may think: “what is inner voice?” But when you come right down to it, we are all familiar with our inner voice. Our inner voice is that small utterance that comes from deep within us, whose job it is to provide us with guidance. This is a different kind of communication than what comes from our normal waking consciousness, which I call our “analyzer”. When our analyzer is talking, the communication we receive tends to seem more like a nonstop conversation that goes on inside our heads all day and sometimes well into the night. 我们的言语充满力量，我们的讲话可以设定我们生活中的能量和选择的方向。如果我们说好的积极的事情，那好的积极的事情就会发生在我们身上。这些话让我们有机会从积极或乐观的角度去体验生活。另一方面，如果我们从消极的角度来说消极的事，相应的，消极的事情就会发生在我们身上，或者我们最终会把生活看成是一个大麻烦或者失望。 虽然我们都很熟悉我们外部的言语和声音，但我们也有另一种我们每天打交道的声音。就是我们的“内心的声音”。虽然乍一看你可能会想“什么是内心的声音？” 但当你开始正视它时，我们都很熟悉我们内心的声音。我们内心的声音是来自心灵深处的微小话语，它的工作就是为我们提供指导。这是一种完全不同于我们平常意识清醒时的交流，我把它称之为我们的“分析仪”。当我们的分析仪在说话的时候，我们接收到的交流倾向于更像是一种不间断的谈话，在我们的头脑中持续一整天，有时还会持续到深夜。 选文出自 P237-238 Your inner voice is there to help guide you along the path called life. How many times has your inner voice told you to do something and then you, in turn, choose to ignore its promptings, only to find out it was a big mistake? I’ll bet, at that moment, you say to yourself, “I should have listened to myself.” Sometimes the promptings of our inner voice are subtle, reminding us to pay a bill or call a friend. Other times our inner voice can be more insistent, reminding us over and over of some unfinished business for perhaps days, weeks or even years. If your inner voice lasts more than a week, i.e., you find the same thoughts and feelings coming back to you over and over again, then you know that this is your inner voice looking for expression. Trust the information you are receiving, and use it to guide you into action. 你内心的声音是来帮助指导你沿着名叫生命的道路前行。有多少次你内心的声音告诉你去做什么事情，而你反过来选择忽视它的提示，结果却发现这是一个很大的错误呢？我确信，在那个时刻，你对自己说：“我本应该听自己的。” 有时候，我们内心声音的提示是不易察觉的，提醒我们要付账单或给朋友打电话。其他时候我们内心的声音会更持续不断，一连几天、几周，甚至几年一次又一次地提醒我们还有事情没有完成。如果你内心的声音持续了一个多星期，也就是，你发现一次又一次地产生同样的想法和感受，你就会知道这是内心的声音正在寻求表达。相信你收到的信息，并且用这种信息来指引你的行动。 Unit 7B 选文出自 P244 A smile costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich that they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in a business, and is the countersign of friends. It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged and sunshine to the sad. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is no earthly good to anybody till it is given away. And if in the last-minute rush of Christmas buying some of our salespeople should be too tired to give you a smile, may we ask you to leave one of yours? For nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give! 微笑，不花分文，却创造了很多。得到的人，会因此更加富足；给予的人，却不会因此贫穷。微笑发生在刹那间，给人留下的印象却是久远的。没有一个富裕的人因生活中没有微笑会过得很好（再富裕的人没有微笑也不会过得很好），贫穷的人也会因为它的益处而更富有。微笑为家庭创造幸福，为工作增添善意，是友谊的象征，是疲倦者的休息，是征服气馁的日光，是失望者的阳光。微笑不能买到，不能求到，不能借到，也不能偷到，因为在被给予他人之前是毫无用处的东西。如果销售人员在最后一分钟的圣诞节抢购中因太累而不能给你一个微笑，可否请你给他们一个微笑呢？因为没有比那些把微笑都送给别人的人更需要得到一个微笑。 选文出自 P245 (2014年10月 完形补文来源) The erosion of the middle of the labor market is easy to misinterpret, because its roots are multiple. During the 1970s, the entry into the work force of an unprecedented number of women and young adults born during the baby boom resulting in too many workers for the jobs available, and depressed wages. The decline of the middle also has something to do with the explosive growth in world trade since 1960. As manufacturing technologies have become more mobile, and multinational firms more footloose, production itself has helped to provoke the shifts in the job market. For example, fewer American workers would have been needed to make steel in 1980 than in 1960 even if the pressures of global competition had not been a factor, because new machines have made many of their tasks redundant. Finally, the high rate of unemployment caused by these trends has tended to drive wages down further, especially at the low end, since it forces unskilled workers to compete for their jobs with unemployed people who are willing to do work for less. 中层劳动力市场的衰退很容易被误解，因为它的根源是多重性的。在二十世纪70年代人数空前的女性和婴儿潮期间出生的人进入劳动力市场，导致工人太多，而且工资降低。中层劳动力的衰退也与1960年以来世界贸易的爆炸性增长有关。随着制造业技术的变得越具移动性，跨国公司更加自由，生产性工作从美国转移到工资很低的国家。此外，技术本身也引起了劳动市场的改变。例如，即使没有全球竞争压力这个因素，在1980需要的生产钢铁的美国工人比1960年少得多，因为新机器使他们的很多工作变得多余。最后，这些趋势造成的高失业率往往会进一步压低工资，尤其是低端工作，因为它迫使没有技能的工人与那些为了更少报酬而愿意工作的失业人员竞争。 Unit 8A 选文出自 P255-256 Gifts are those talents and abilities that flow almost effortlessly from us. Gifts are sometimes confused with skills. While skills can be developed, gifts are something we are born with—they are what we discover as we try new things and find that some things are as natural to us as breathing. When we intentionally make a decision to create our life and work based on our gifts, we are not only more likely to succeed, but can also more thoroughly enjoy the journey toward creating and realizing our full potential. Take inventory of your life to determine where you are utilizing learned and developed skills as opposed to expressing and honoring your innate gifts. Are you operating based on what you think you “ought” to be doing or are you living an authentic life that is rich and fulfilling? Even if you are not in a place to pursue a new career based on your gifts, look for ways to make your gifts known to others and demonstrate them in as many areas of your life as possible. The more your gifts are called upon, the more naturally you will fully accept and promote those gifts. The more you express your life through your innate gifts, the more you will excel. It’s a beautifully self-perpetuating process once you make the decision to begin. Your gifts are your signature, your unique paintbrushes—use them to express your greatness and make your mark on the world! 天赋是几乎毫不费力地从我们身边流露的才能和能力。天赋有时会与技能相混淆。虽然技能可以培养，但天赋是我们与生俱来的——它们就是当我们尝试新事物时所发现的对我们像呼吸一样自然的事。 当我们有意地根据我们的天赋去做一个创造生活和工作的决定时，我们不仅更有可能成功，而且能够更彻底的享受这一创造和实现我们的全部潜能的旅程。 检视你的生活来确定哪些地方是在运用你的学习和培养的技能，而不是在表现和尊重你与生俱来的天赋。你会根据你认为你应该做什么而行事，还是在过一个丰富而充实的真正生活？ 即使你现在不处于能基于天赋去追求新事业的环境，但也可以寻找方法让你的天赋为别人所知，并且把天赋展现在生活中尽可能多的领域。你越常运用天赋，你越能自然地接受和促进天赋。你越是通过你内在的天赋去表达你的生命，你就会越优秀。一旦你决定开始，这就是一个美好的自我促进的过程。 你的天赋是你的签名，你独特的画笔——用它们来表现你的伟大，并在世界上留下你的印记！ 选文出自 P257 There will be moments when the only thing left is for us to question our existence. There are always days when we get so lonely and depressed and the world has lost its colors. There will be times when we lose all reasons for living and life will seem so hard that we wish there was no such thing as tomorrow. But then again, we should also know that problems are just another bitterness in life trying to twist the personage in each of us and corrupt our perceptions about life. When these times happen, do not succumb to the temptations of giving up. Yes, the only way to be happy is to suffer willingly. 有时候，唯一剩下的就是我们质疑自己存在的意义。我们经常会感到孤独寂寞，情绪低落，感觉世界都已失去颜色。有时候我们失去了所有活着的理由，生活将如此艰难，我们希望没有明天。但是，我们也应该知道问题只不过是生活中的另一种痛苦，它企图扭曲我们每个人的形象，破坏我们对生活的看法。这个时候，不要屈服于放弃的诱惑。是的，快乐的唯一方式就是心甘情愿地受苦。 选文出自 P257 Who is the father of democracy? Not Thomas Jefferson, as many people oddly seem to think. It was, in fact, the little known Cleisthenes. He first introduced democracy to the Greek city states in 508 BC, after he gained political power in Athens. From 508 to 502 BC, he began to develop a series of major reforms, leading to the formation of Athenian Democracy. He made all free men living in Athens and Attica citizens, giving them the right to vote as part of a democratic society. He also established a council. All citizens over the age of thirty were eligible to sit on the council, encouraging public involvement in the government. While the format may not be the same as the many democracies around the world today, there is no doubt that this was the first step. 谁是民主之父？不是托马斯·杰斐逊，很多人很奇怪地认为是他。事实上，是鲜为人知的克里斯提尼，他是在公元前508年，在雅典获得政治权力后，最先向的希腊城邦引入民主。从公元前508年到公元前502年，他开始进行一系列重大改革，这导致了雅典民主的形成。他让所有生活在雅典和阿提卡的市民都获得了自由，给予他们投票权，作为民主社会的一部分。他还成立了一个议事会。所有30岁以上的公民都有资格列席议事会，这鼓励了公众参与政府事务。尽管这种模式可能与当今世界各地的许多民主不同，但这无疑是向民主迈出的第一步。 Unit 8B 选文出自 P265 Steve Jobs was adopted by a family in Mountain View, California. While still in high school, Jobs’ interest in electronics prompted him to call William Hewlett to ask for some parts for a school project. Hewlett provided the parts and then made an offer to Jobs to intern at Hewlett-Packard for a summer. There, Jobs met Steve Wozniak, a talented and knowledgeable engineer five years older than the high school student. Their friendship would eventually be the foundation on which Apple was built. 史蒂夫·乔布斯被加州山景城的一个家庭所收养，还在高中的时候，对电子产品的兴趣促使乔布斯给威廉·休利特打电话，为完成学校的项目要了一些零件。休利特提供了这些零件，主动提出让乔布斯夏天到惠普公司实习。在惠普，乔布斯遇到了沃兹尼亚克，沃兹尼亚克是个非常有天赋的工程师，知识广博，比乔布斯大五岁。他们之间的友谊为后来苹果公司的创建奠定了基础。 选文出自 P265-266 As more and more people take advantage of e-mailing, three categories of e-mail have emerged. One category of e-mail is junk mail. When most people sign on to their computers, they are greeted with a flood of get-rich-quick schemes, invitations to pornographic websites, and ads for a variety of unwanted products. E-mail users quickly become good at hitting the “delete” button to get rid of this garbage. The second category that clogs most people’s electronic mailbox is forwarded mail, most of which also gets deleted without being read. The third and best category of e-mail is genuine personal e-mail from genuine personal friends. Getting such real, thoughtful e-mail can almost make up for the irritation of the other two categories. 随着越来越多的人使用电子邮件，三类电子邮件出现了。一类电子邮件是垃圾邮件。当大多数人登录到他们的电脑时，他们就看到一大批快速致富手段、色情网站的邀请，以及各种不需要的产品的广告。邮件用户很快地就习惯点击“删除”键来摆脱这些垃圾。第二类阻塞了大多数人的电子邮箱，就是转发邮件，多数都是在没有读的情况下就被删除掉。第三类，也是最好的一类电子邮件，是真正的私人朋友寄来的真正的私人邮件。收到如此真实的、体贴的电子邮件，几乎可以弥补其它两类带来恼怒。 Unit 9A 选文出自 P286 A young woman went to her mother and told about her life and how things were so hard for her. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed that as one problem was solved, a new one arose. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She placed carrots, eggs, and ground coffee beans respectively in three pots with boiling water. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. Her mother brought her daughter closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich flavor. Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they actually changed the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. 一个年轻的女人去找她的母亲，诉说着她的生活对于她是多么的艰难。她已经厌倦了争吵和挣扎。似乎当一个问题被解决了，一个新的问题就出现了。她的妈妈把她带到厨房。她把一些胡萝卜，鸡蛋和磨碎的咖啡豆分别放在三个装有沸水的壶里。大约20分钟后，她关掉了炉子。她的妈妈把她拉近了，让她去摸胡萝卜。她照做了，并注意到它们很软。接着母亲让女儿去拿一个鸡蛋并且剥开它。把壳剥开之后，她观察到煮硬的鸡蛋。最后，母亲让女儿去喝咖啡。当在尝到浓郁的味道的时候，女儿笑了. 她的妈妈解释到，这些物体每一个都面临着同样的逆境：沸水。每一个的反应都不一样。胡萝卜在放进去之前是强壮的，坚硬的，不屈不挠的。然而在被沸水煮了之后，它变软了变弱了。鸡蛋原来是易碎的。它薄薄的外壳保护了里面的液体，但是在经历过沸水后，它的内部变得坚硬。但是，最独特的是磨碎的咖啡豆。当它们在沸水中时，它们实际上改变了热水——这带来痛苦的环境。当水变热时，它会释放出香味和味道。如果你像豆子一样，当事情最糟糕的时候，你会变得更好并且改变你周围的环境。 选文出自 P287 These fears and self-doubts determine the way we interact and behave at work. The workplace is a ruthless arena. You need to be your own bodyguard. To survive this race, you’ve got to be independent, responsible, confident and determined. Above all, you need to value yourself and realize you’re all you’ve got! Or else, simply put, you’re dead meat! Getting ahead in any profession requires faith in oneself. That is why you find some people with mediocre (普通的) talent, but with great inner drive, achieving much more than people with vastly superior talent. Positive thinking generates positive attitudes, responses and feelings, which in turn draw the blue print for our success. On the other hand, negative attitudes, full of fears, doubt and worry, reinforce negative behavior. But we can empty our mind of such thoughts and feed them with positive information. Replace fear with faith, doubt with determination, worry with work and hate with love. 恐惧和自我怀疑决定了我们相互交往和工作的方式。工作场所是一个无情的竞技场。你需要自己保护自己。要想在这场比赛中生存下来，你必须要独立、负责、自信、坚决。首先，你需要重视自己并意识到自己就是你所拥有的一切！或者，简单地说，你死定了！在任何职业中取得领先都需要对自己的信心。这就是为什么你发现有些人没有什么天赋，但是内在动力很强大，取得的成功远远多于那些卓越天赋的人。积极的思考会产生积极的态度、反应和感觉，这反过来会为我们画下成功的蓝图。另一方面，态度消极、充满恐惧、疑虑重重、忧心忡忡，这样会强化消极的行为。但是，我们可以清空头脑中的这些想法，而填充积极的信息。用信心代替恐惧，用决心代替疑虑，用工作代替忧虑，用爱代替恨。 Unit 9B 选文出自 P294-295 Trouble comes to all, but while it makes some people stronger and better in every way, it submerges others so that they never rise again. The trouble is the same, yet it is how it is met that makes the difference. Those who meet difficulty and adversity in the feeble strength of their finite minds and false personality are speedily overwhelmed and broken by the storms of life. But those who rely upon, and have faith in, the Power within them, can never be overwhelmed, neither can they ever be defeated. The Power, being infinite, is always sufficient, no matter how great the need may be. One who realizes his own real spiritual identity knows that he can never be defeated, and that he can never really fail. He may lose his body through the change that is called death but he, the true man, can never die. Neither can he fail, though he may be defeated a thousand times; he must rise again. 问题人人都会有，虽然它让有些人在各个方面都变得更强更好，但它也吞没了有些人使他们一蹶不振。问题是一样的，但正是如何去面对问题才造成了不同。那些用有限的思维和虚假的人格去无力地面对困难和逆境的人很快就会被生命的风暴所压倒和摧残。但那些依靠且信赖内心力量的人，绝不会被压倒，也绝不会被打败。力量是无穷的，无论需求多大，它总是充足的。一个意识到自己真正精神身份的人知道他绝不会被打败，也绝不会真正失败。他可能会因为被称为死亡的变化而失去自己的身体，但他——那个真正的人——永远不会消亡。他也不会失败，尽管他可能被打败一千次；他必将重新崛起。 选文出自 P295 (2015年4月完形补文出题来源) Voice and text chat, in addition to instant messaging, are quickly becoming preferred ways of communicating with others online. For language learners, these forms of communication allow users to share ideas about themselves and the world in almost real time, and students can establish friendships with people from around the globe, and thus, it can be easy way to learn languages and world cultures. However, care and consideration should be given when finding friends on the internet because you really don’t know who the person is at the other end. Thus, always use a nickname when chatting online and never give out personal information including your age, where you live, and the name of the school where you attend. Also, be careful about meeting online acquaintances in person, and if you do so, make sure it is in a public place and go with a friend or family member. Finally, contact local authorities if you feel you are in danger. Again, chatting with others can be a fun and educational activity if you use care when doing so. 除了即时通讯，语音和文字聊天很快成为了与他人在线交流的首选方式。对于语言学习者，这些聊天的形式几乎可以让用户实时的分享他们想法，学生可以和来自世界各地的人建立友谊，因此，这成了学习语言和世界文化的一种容易方式。 然而，当在网上交朋友的时候，也应该注意和留心，因为你不知道在另一端的人是谁。因此，当你在网络上聊天的时候要一直使用昵称，不要给出包括你年龄、住址、学校的名称等个人信息。并且，亲自去见网络上的认识的人时一定要小心。如果你要去见，一定要确保是在公共场合，而且和一个朋友或者家人一起去。最后，如果你感觉自己处于危险中，就要联系地方当局。再说一次，如果你很谨慎，那么和其他人（在网上）聊天会是很有趣并且有教育意义的活动。 Unit 10A 选文出自 P305 Often referred to as green transport, sustainable transportation is the way of the future. Transport powered by gas and petrol is running on a limited time frame, as both these sources are unsustainable in the long run. In contrast, sustainable transportation offers an option to a world rapidlyrunning out of renewable fuel sources. It refers to any kind of transport that has a low impact on the environment, such as walking, cycling, mass transit, green vehicles, and car pooling, amongst others. Any mode of transport is deemed sustainable if it has a low environmental impact and uses little or no fuel. Walking is the best example of sustainable transportation, as it does not require any gas. However, walking can be impractical if you are travelling longer distances. Cycling is another green transport option and is a far more practical option for longer commutes. Using public transportation, such as buses or trains, is also more sustainable compared to private vehicles. The amount of fuel used to transport a bus full of people is more effective compared to a single person driving a personal car. A sustainable transport system has a positive impact on the environment, and helps to promote social and economicsustainability in the communities it serves. Increased mobilityusuallyresults in better socioeconomic conditions. 通常被称为绿色交通，可持续交通是未来之路。由天然气和汽油驱动的交通是在有限的时间内运行，因为从长远来看，这两种资源都是不可持续的。相比之下，可持续的交通运输为这个正在快速耗尽可再生能源的世界提供了一个选择。它指的是任何对环境影响很低的交通，比如步行、自行车、公共交通、绿色车辆、拼车等等。 如果对环境的影响很小并且很少使用或不使用燃料，那么任何运输方式都被认为是可持续的。步行是可持续交通的最好的例子，因为它不需要任何汽油。然而，如果你要走比较远的路程，那步行是不切实际的。骑自行车是另一个绿色交通方式，对于更长的通勤来说，这是一种更实际的选择。 使用公共交通，如公共汽车或火车，与私家车相比也更加可持续。运送一辆满载乘客的公共汽车所使用的燃油量与一个人驾驶一辆私家车相比更有效。 一个可持续的交通系统对环境有积极的影响，并且有助于促进它所服务的社区的社会和经济的可持续性。流动性的增加会产生更好的社会经济条件。 选文出自P306 Is public transportation a better alternative to driving? Well, this depends on preference and/or the individual’s circumstances. There are those who prefer to drive themselves, but this is not to say that public transportation isn’t a better-suited means of travel for many. In the grand scheme of things, it’s probably cheaper. There are no car payments or insurance premiums to worry about. You have no maintenance or fuel costs. From an environmental perspective, it is more efficient for larger numbers of people to travel from place to place together. 公共交通是比自己开车更好的选择吗？这取决于偏好或者个人所处的环境。有一些人喜欢自驾，但是这并不意味公共交通对许多人来说不是一种更适合的出行方式。从大局来看，公共交通可能比较便宜，无需担心汽车开销或保险费。你没有维修费和燃料费。从环境的角度来看，更多人一起从一个地方到另一个地方（公共交通）会更有效。 选文出自P306 Location, location, location -- it’s a well-worn word in real estate. It not only influences living quality but also decides whether you can enjoy much convenience in such aspects as working, schooling of children; and even traveling. New research shows yet another reason why it’s important. It decides how green a home really is. Housing near public transportation uses less energy than homes in the suburbs. That’s the finding of a study released by the US. 位置，位置，位置——这对于房地产商来说已经是老生常谈了。这不仅影响生活质量，而且决定着你是否可以享受在诸如工作和孩子上学等方面的便利，甚至是旅行。最新研究表明另一些为什么重要的原因。位置决定了一个家的环保程度。靠近公共交通的住房比郊区的住宅使用更少的能源。这是美国发布的一项研究的结果。 Unit 10B 选文出自P312 When it comes to personal finance, we are all looking for ways to save more money. Our household budgets are filled with both big and small expenses that we imagine can be cut out to save us loads of cash or, at the very least, spent better elsewhere. One of the things you have surelyconsidered is using public transportation rather than your own vehicle. It would be easy to assume that public transportation is cheaper, because a bus token is far less expensive than gas, but those are not the only costs to consider. Take a step back to your high school economics class and try to remember the lesson about opportunity costs. These, as you might recall if you were awake for that class, are the things you give up when you choose one option over another option. Although they are not measured in dollars and cents, they still have to be considered whenever you make a financialdecision. 提到个人理财，我们都在寻找各种方式来省更多的钱。我们的家庭预算中包含着大大小小的开支，我们认为这些开支可以被削减，以节省我们大量的现金，或者，至少在其他地方花得更好。你肯定考虑过的事情之一是使用公共交通工具，而不是你自己的车。 人们很容易认为公共交通更便宜，因为公共汽车的投币要比汽油便宜得多，但这并不是唯一需要考虑的成本。回到你的高中经济学课堂上，试着记起关于机会成本的课程。这些——如果你当时在课堂上是清醒的话就能回想起来——是你选择一个选项而不是另一个选项时所放弃的东西。虽然它们不是用美元和美分来衡量的，但是无论何时你做出财政决策时，仍然得考虑它们。 选文出自 P313-314 Many Americans have turned into driving or walking billboards. Much as we all claim to hate commercials on television, we don’t seem to have any doubts about turning ourselves into commercials. Our car bumpers, for example, advertise lake resorts, underground caverns, and amusement parks. Also, we wear clothes marked with other people’s initials and slogans. Our fascination with the names of designers shows up on the backs of our sneakers and the pockets of our shirts and blue jeans. Similarly, we wear T-shirts filled with all kinds of advertising messages. For instance, people are willing to wear shirts that read “Dillon Construction,” “Nike,” or even “I Got Crabs at Ed’s Seafood Palace.” These messages belong on highway billboards. In conclusion, we say we hate commercials, but we actually pay people for the right to advertise their products. 许多美国人已经变成了行驶的或行走的广告牌。虽然我们都声称讨厌电视上的商业广告，但我们似乎对把自己变成商业广告没有任何疑虑。例如，在我们的保险杠上，为度假胜地，地下洞室，还有游乐园做广告。此外，我们还穿着标有别人姓名首字母和口号的衣服。我们对设计师的名字的迷恋出现在我们的运动鞋的背面和衬衫及牛仔裤的口袋里。 同样地，我们穿的T恤衫上充满了各种各样的广告信息。比如，人们愿意穿写有“迪伦建设”“耐克”或者甚至是“我在艾德的海鲜宫买了螃蟹”的衬衫。这些信息本应属于高速公路广告牌。 总之，我们说我们讨厌商业广告，但实际上我们付钱给人们（来取得）为他们的产品做广告的权利。 Unit 11A 选文出自 P325-326 Don’t we find it irresistible? The Internet is everywhere, and it is loved and used by everyone for everything. Many of us get up in the morning, and before saying hello to anyone we live with or before even having breakfast, we sit down and use and enjoy the Internet. We get our news, receive our mail, send our letters, write to our teachers, do our shopping, arrange our lives, schedule our travels, meet new friends, review all the knowledge in the universe, and most of us do it while we are sitting in a chair looking at the screen. Can life get any better? I think any of us who make the Internet a daily companion would agree that nothing has been the same since we first decided to go online. A quick survey reveals that most people will tell you that they use the Internet to stay in touch with others. Most of us say that writing or receiving e-mail is our number one use of Internet. We do this at home, at work, or wherever we sit down at a computer. We send and receive e-mails for fun, for personal reason, for daily business, and in all areas of our work. The Internet allows us to communicate from room to room, city to city, or country to country for the same price and the same immediate speed. Correspondence is king of Internet use. 难道我们没有发现它是不可抗拒的吗？互联网无处不在，而且它都被每个人所喜爱和使用来做任何事。我们很多人早晨起床，在对同我们生活在一起的人问好之前，或甚至在吃早晨之前，我们就坐下来使用和享受互联网。我们获取新闻，接收邮件，发送信件，给老师写信，购物，安排生活，计划旅行，结识新朋友，回顾宇宙中所有的知识，当我们坐在椅子上看屏幕的时候我们大多数人都会这样做。生活能变得更好吗？我认为任何一个将互联网作为日常伙伴的人都会同意，自从我们第一次决定上网后一切都变的不一样了。 一个快速地调查显示，大部分人们会告诉你他们使用互联网来和其他人保持联系。我们大多数人说，写或收电子邮件是互联网对我们的首要用途。我们在家里，在工作，或者在任何我们坐在电脑前的地方都这样做。我们发送和接收电子邮件为了开心、为了私人原因、为了日常事物，还有我们工作的方方面面。互联网使我们能够以同样的价格和同样的即时速度，从房间到房间、城市到城市、或国家到国家进行交流。通信是互联网的使用之王。 选文出自 P326-327 Relationships are becoming increasingly common across the Internet in all their varied forms. Tens of thousands of people are exploring online romances and millions more are forging friendships over the Internet. In our new digital age these online relationships could very well be the next logical step for humanity. People have the opportunity to know all manner of folk they would never meet in their day-to-day life. These online relationships often cross cultural, economical, national, age and societal boundaries in ways not even possible in the real world. However, when you are talking to people online, you have no way of telling what the person you are talking to is like. Without the ability to see someone, you cannot properly judge them, and you never know what sort of person you are talking to until you make the dangerous step of meeting them in real life. 在互联网上，各种形式的关系正变得越来越普遍。成千上万的人们正在寻求网络恋情，还有数百万的人在互联网上建立友谊。在我们新的数字化时代，这些网络关系很可能是人类下一个合乎逻辑的步骤。人们有机会了解他们在日常生活中永远不会遇到的各种各样的人。这些网络关系常常跨越文化、经济、国家、年龄和社会的界限，在现实世界中是不可能的。 然而，当你在网上和人们交流的时候，你没有办法知道和你说话的人是什么样的人。不能看见某个人，你就不能正确的判断他们，你永远也不知道你在跟哪种人说话，除非迈出危险的那一步去与他们在现实生活中见面。 选文出自 P327 My friend Nancy and I decided to introduce her elderly mother to the magic of the Internet. Our first move was to access the popular Ask Jeeves website. We told her it could answer any question she had. Nancy’s mother was very skeptical until Nancy said, “it’s true, Mom. Think of something to ask it.” As I sat with fingers poised over the keyboard, Nancy’s mother thought for a while and responded, “How is Aunt Helen feeling?” 我的朋友南西和我决定让她年迈的母亲了解互联网的魔力。我们的第一步是访问流行的Ask Jeeves网站。我们告诉她，Ask Jeeves网站可以回答她的任何问题。南西的妈妈很是怀疑，直到南西说：“这是真的，妈妈，想一些事情来问问它。”当我坐下来把手指放在键盘上的时候，南西的妈妈想了一下然后说，“海伦阿姨感觉怎么样?” Unit 11B 选文出自 P334 Internet TV most often refers to television shows that are available to watch on the Internet via downloading or streaming video. Most networks now feature their television programs on Internet TV sections of the show’s official website. However, these are often only viewable to Internet users located within the United States. Unlike streaming video, downloadable video allows users to keep the video content on their computers, and is the most popular method of watching Internet TV. The major benefits of Internet TV include programming selection and flexibility. Unlike regular television, Internet TV users can select virtually any program and episode they choose to watch at any given time. Internet TV watchers also don’t need to record programs with a digital video recorder in order to pause, rewind or fast forward through certain sections -- both streaming and downloading sites allow users these capabilities with Internet TV. 网络电视常常指的是可以通过互联网下载或流媒体观看的电视节目。大部分的网络在该节目官方网站的网络电视部分上播放他们的电视节目。然而，这些常常只能是美国境内的网络用户才能看见。与流媒体视频不同，可下载视频允许用户将视频内容保存在电脑上，这是观看互联网电视最流行的方式。 网络电视最主要的好处包括节目的选择性和灵活性。与传统的电视不一样，网络电视用户几乎能够在任何给定的时间选择他们想看的任何节目和剧集。网络电视观看者也不需要为了某些部分的暂停、倒回或者快进而用数码相机录制节目——流媒体和下载网站都允许用户使用网络电视的这些功能。 选文出自 P335 My hometown and my college town have several things in common. First, both are small rural communities. For example, my hometown, Gridlock, has a population of only about 10,000 local residents. Similarly, my college town, Subnormal, consists of about 11,000 local residents. This population swells to 15,000 people when the college students are attending classes. A second way in which these two towns are similar is that they are both located in rural areas. Gridlock is surrounded by many acres of farmland, which is devotedmainly to growing corn and soybeans. In the same way, Subnormal lies in the center of farmland that is used to raise hogs and cattle. Thirdly, these towns are similar in that they contain college campuses. Gridlock, for example, is home to Neutron College, which is famous for its Agricultural Economics program as well as for its annual Corn-Watching Festival. Likewise, the town of Subnormal boasts the beautiful campus of Quark College, which is well known for its Agricultural Engineering department and also for its yearly Hog-Calling Contest. 我的家乡和我的大学城有许多共同之处。首先，都是小型乡村社区。例如，我的家乡Gridlock，当地居民只有大约一万人。同样地，我的大学城Subnormal，大约有1.1万名当地居民。当大学生来上课的时候，这里人口涨到1.5万人。这两个城镇的第二个相似之处是它们都位于农村地区。Gridlock被很多英亩的农场包围着，这些农场主要用于种植玉米和大豆。同样地，Subnormal位于用来养猪和牛的农场中心。第三，这两个城镇的相似之处在于它们都包含大学校园。比如说Gridlock是Neutron大学的所在地，它以其农业经济学项目和其一年一度的“玉米观赏节”而闻名。同样地，Subnormal镇也拥有Quark大学的美丽校园，这所大学因它的农业工程系还有每年的“猪叫比赛”而闻名。 Unit 12A 选文出自 P345-346 Nothing takes its toll on the body like stress. In addition to the mental damage that it causes, stress is also linked to many diseases, including cancer. Unfortunately, in today’s world, most of us are experiencing a stressful life with no way to get out of it — or so we think. If you are one of the many people who want to alleviate your stress, you can learn some simple techniques to help you get out of the vicious cycle of leading a stressful life. Your stressful life does not just affect you, but everyone around you. It affects your relationships as well as any children or co-workers. Most of all, it can actually make you physically ill. Do you really want to go through the rest of your life feeling “stressed out”? Do you like the idea of feeling “out of control” and that everything in life is a trial? Perhaps it is time for you to confront this situation and seek help to restore some sort of balance in your life and break free from this cycle. There are many facets to stress. Stress manifests itself in many different ways and can be either self-induced or something that occurs in life. We can never eliminate stress from our lives, as stressfulsituations are part of life. However, we can learn to react to stress in a positive manner and take control of the situation rather than allowing the stress to remain in control. 没有什么能像压力一样对身体造成伤害。除了会引起精神损害之外，压力和很多疾病有关，包括癌症。不幸的是，在当今世界，我们大部分人都正在过着有压力的生活，没有办法摆脱它——或者我们这样认为。 如果你是很多想减轻压力的人之一，你可以学习一些简单的技巧来帮助你走出一个充满压力的生活的恶性循环。你充满压力的生活不仅影响你，还有你身边的每一个人。它影响你的人际关系以及你的孩子或同事。最重要的是，它实际上会让你身体生病。 你真的想度过“压力很大”的余生吗？你喜欢感觉“失控”，觉得生活中的一切都是一种磨难？或许是时候你去面对这些处境，然后寻求帮助来恢复你生活中的某种平衡，并且挣脱这种循环。 压力有很多方面。压力通过不同的方式来显示它自己，它可能是自己引起的，或者是生活中发生的一些事情。我们永远不能从我们的生活中消除压力，因为有压力的情景也是生活中的一部分。然而，我们可以学习用积极的方式来对压力做出反应并控制局面，而不是一直被压力控制。 选文出自 P346 Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different and each of us is special. Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. Don’t let life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time you live ALL the days of your life. Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us together. Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going. Don’t forget that a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way. 不要拿自己和别人比较来贬低自己的价值。因为我们都是不一样的，我们每一个人都是独特的。不要用别人认为重要的事物来设定你的目标。只有你知道什么对你才是最好的。不要因为活在过去或者未来而让生命悄悄的从你的手指中溜走。过好你生活中每一天，你就可以过好生命中的所有日子。不要怕承认自己不够完美。把我们绑在一起的就是这条脆弱的线。不要生活得太匆忙以至于你不仅忘了你曾到过何处，也忘了你将要去向何方。不要忘记一个人最大的情感需求是感受到被欣赏。不要漫不经心的使用时间或言语。这两样无法收回。人生不是一场比赛，而是一次旅程，每一步都要细细品尝。 Unit 12B 选文出自 P354-355 During one’s lifetime it is oneself that one spends the most time being with or dealing with. But it is precisely oneself that one has the least understanding of. When you are going upwards in life you tend to overestimate yourself. It seems that everything you seek for is within your reach; luck and opportunities will come your way and you are overjoyed that they constitute part of your worth. When you are going downhill you tend to underestimate yourself, mistaking difficulties and adversities for your own incompetence. It’s likely that you think it wise for yourself to know your place and stay aloof from the world wearing a mask of cowardice, behind which the flow of sap in your life will be retarded. To get a thorough understanding of oneself is to gain a correct view of oneself and be a sober realist, aware of both one’s strength and shortage. 在一个人的一生中，花最多的时间相处或打交道的正是他自己。但最不了解他的人恰恰是他自己。当你的人生向上走的时候，你容易高估自己。似乎你追求的一切都在你的能力范围之内；幸运和机会将向你走来，然后这些构成了你的价值的一部分，你就感到欣喜若狂。当你走下坡路的时候，你容易看轻你自己。把困难和逆境误认为是你自己的无能。很可能，你认为自己懂分寸并带上怯懦的面具远离世界这样做是明智的，而这背后你的生命元气将受到阻碍。彻底了解自己是要正确地认识自己，做一个清醒的现实主义者，既知道自己的长处，也知道自己的不足。 选文出自 P355-356 Buying a new puppy can have significant effects on a household. For one thing, the puppy keeps the entire family awake for at least two solid weeks. Every night when the puppy is placed in its box, it begins to howl, yip (犬吠), and whine (闹声). Even after the lights go out and the house quiets down, the puppy continue to moan. A second effect is that the puppy tortures the family by destroying material possessions. Every day something different is damaged. Family members find chewed belts and shoes, gnawed (咬) table legs, and ripped sofa cushions leaking stuffing. In addition, the puppy often misses the paper during the paper-training stage of life, thus making the house smell like the public restroom at a city bus station. Maybe the most serious problem, though, is that the puppy causes family arguments. On one hand, parents argue with children about who is supposed to feed and walk the dog. On the other hand, children argue about who gets to play with the puppy first. These continual arguments, along with the effects of sleeplessness and the loss of valued possessions, can really disrupt a household. Only when the puppy gets a bit older does the household settle back to normal. 买一只新的小狗对一个家庭有很大的影响。首先，小狗让这个家庭至少足足两周持续醒着的状态。每天晚上，当小狗被放在它的盒子里面的时候，它开始嚎叫，犬吠，哀叫。甚至在灯灭后，房子也安静下来了，小狗仍在继续呻吟。第二个影响是，小狗通过毁坏物质财产来折磨家庭。每天都有不同的东西被损坏。家庭成员发现皮带和鞋子被咀嚼，桌子腿被咬，沙发垫子被撕扯后漏出填充物。此外，小狗经常在纸训阶段未尿在纸上，因此让房子闻起来像是城市公交车站的公共厕所。不过，也许最严重的问题是，小狗会引发家庭争吵。一方面，父母和小孩争吵的是谁该去喂狗和遛狗。另一方面，孩子们争吵的是谁先和小狗玩。这些持续不断的争吵，伴随着失眠的影响和有价值财产的损失，真的会破坏一个家庭。只有当小狗长大一点后，家庭才会恢复正常。