新视野大学英语读写教程4(第三版)课本练习参考答案
[1-5单元A部分]
UNIT ONE Section A
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1. As the gender barriers crumbled, the number of women working as lawyers, doctors, or bankers began to increase significantly form the mid-20th century.
随着性别障碍的瓦解,从20世纪中期开始,从事律师、医生或银行家工作的女性数量开始显著增加。 2. With the data collected each year, the owner of the shop can discern customer trends and how things like weather and economic indicators affect sales performance.
通过每年收集的数据,店主可以了解顾客的趋势,以及天气和经济指标对销售业绩的影响。
3. His supervisor pushes and motivates him in such a positive manner that he is not only able to reach but to surpass his personal goals.
他的上司以一种积极的方式推动和激励他,使他不仅能够达到,而且能够超越自己的目标。
4. He is a man with a(n) shrewd business sense. He has built his initial investment into a substantial and even excessively large fortune.
他是个精明的生意人。他把最初的投资变成了一笔可观的、甚至是巨额的财富。
5. The conversion of nuclear radiation directly into electricity was an exciting possibility that was being vigorously explored in many laboratories in the 1950s.
将核辐射直接转化为电能是20世纪50年代许多实验室正在积极探索的一种令人兴奋的可能性。
6. I was not only shocked but also disgusted that the report tried to distort the scientific facts in such a manner that even some highly-educated people were fooled.
我不仅感到震惊,而且感到恶心,因为这份报告试图歪曲科学事实,甚至一些受过高等教育的人也被愚弄了。
7. Sixty-two and blessed with his mother’s skin, the fisherman had withstood a lifetime of exposure to the sun and looked as radiant as a man in his forties.
62岁的渔夫和他母亲的皮肤很有福气,他一生都在阳光下曝晒,看上去像四十多岁的人一样容光焕发。
8. French educator Louis Braille invented a simple but ingenious code which has had an impact on the lives of generations of people who are blind.
法国教育家路易斯·布莱叶发明了一种简单而巧妙的密码,这种密码对几代盲人的生活产生了影响。
9. The senators didn’t expect us to ask such tough questions, and when we finally did, they got stumped and didn’t know what to say.
参议员们没想到我们会问这么棘手的问题,当我们终于提出时,他们被难住了,不知该说些什么。
10. This newly established university supports the proposition that a more diverse higher education system is desirable since it would enhance opportunities for lifelong learning.
这所新成立的大学支持这样的观点:更多样化的高等教育体系是可取的,因为它将增加终身学习的机会。
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1. Contrary to the predictions of some local economists, who always warned that higher wages and benefits would lead to slower growth and business bankruptcies, these policies had exactly the opposite effect.
一些当地的经济学家的预测,相反,总是警告说,更高的工资和福利将导致经济增长放缓和企业破产,这些政策已经完全相反的效果。
2. There are growing concerns about the climate effects, such as melting ice caps, droughts, floods, etc., due to rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.
人们越来越担心气候的影响,如冰帽融化、干旱、洪水、等,由于大气温室气体浓度上升。
3. Long considered one of the great delicacies, goose liver most commonly appears on the menu of French dishes in high-end restaurants.
长期以来被认为是一位伟大的美味佳肴,鹅肝最常出现在法国菜在高档餐厅的菜单。
4. For the sake of the world’s future prosperity and for its elimination of hunger and disease, reforms and innovations must be pursued with urgency.
为了世界的未来繁荣和消除饥饿和疾病,改革和创新必须与紧迫感。
5. Many smart people became accountants instead of scientists because the science they were exposed to in school made accountancy seem more attractive by comparison.
许多聪明的人不再是科学家,而是成为了会计师,因为他们在学校接触到的科学使会计工作相比之下更有吸引力。
6. Despite the deepening economic gloom, he believes automobile sales will likely grow vigorously over the next three years as long as loan interest rates remain low.
尽管深化经济低迷,他认为汽车销售可能会蓬勃发展在未来三年内,只要贷款的利率仍然很低。
7. The nearly high-tech park helps the university become a(n) magnet for some of the most ambitious young business minds form around the country.
这个近乎高科技的公园让这所大学成为吸引全国最具雄心的年轻人商业头脑的磁石。
8. Photographs of this quality are rare among UFO Photographs, but in this particular shot you can clearly see a disc-shaped metallic object.
这质量是罕见的不明飞行物的照片照片,但在这个特殊的镜头你可以清楚地看到一个圆盘形金属物体。
9. Since the scope of agriculture is wide, the administrators and information personnel involved in it must have a good mastery of the field.
由于农业的范围宽,管理员和人员的信息,必须有很好的掌握。
10. Employers decide to create a(n)vacancy only when the expected profit of a filled o job exceeds the hiring costs for a new employee.
只有当一份全职工作的预期利润超过新员工的雇佣成本时,雇主才会决定创造一个职位空缺。
11. Parents often suffer deep feelings of guilt if their children fail to succeed, or don't into responsible and law-abiding members of society.
如果孩子没有成功,或者没有成为社会上负责任、遵纪守法的一员,父母往往会深感内疚。
12. I respect the need for secrecy at a particular point in family life. But I do believe that family members do better when they can speak openly about things that really matter.
我尊重在家庭生活的某一特定时刻需要保密。但我相信,当家人能公开谈论真正重要的事情时,他们会做得更好。
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? Have you ever heard People say that they tend to be more of a right-brain or left-brain thinker?
From books to television programs, you have probably heard the term 1)C mentioned numerous times, or perhaps you have even taken an online test to 2)I determine which type best describes you.
? Do different parts of the brain really control different bodily and mental functions? Over the
years, a theory that has 3)A gained in popularity is that the right brain and the left brain are 4)O responsible for different modes of thought and that the way in which a person thinks will depend on which side of his brain works more actively.
? People who rely more 5)F heavily on the right half of their brain tend to be more imaginative
and spontaneous. They are interested in patterns, shapes and sizes, for the right brain is associated with 6)H artistic ability like singing, painting writing poetry, etc. Left-brain dominated people are quite 7)M opposite in the way they think. They tend to be more logical and 8)K analytical in their thinking and usually stand out in mathematics and word skills. ? While the different functions of the two brain parts may have been 9)J distorted and
exaggerated by popular psychology, understanding your strengths and weaknesses in certain areas can help you develop better ways to learn and study. For example, if you are usually 10)D stumped in trying to follow verbal instructions, an activity often cited as a right-brain characteristic, you can benefit from writing down directions and developing better organizational skills.
从书籍到电视节目,你可能听过无数次提到这个词,或者你甚至参加过在线测试,以确定哪种类型最适合你。
大脑的不同部位真的控制着不同的身体和精神功能吗?多年来,一种越来越流行的理论是,右脑和左脑负责不同的思维模式,一个人的思维方式将取决于他的大脑哪个部分更活跃。
更依赖右脑的人往往更有想象力,更自然。他们对图案、形状和大小感兴趣,因为右脑与唱歌、绘画、写诗等艺术能力有关。左脑主导的人的思维方式完全相反。他们的思维更有逻辑性和分析性,在数学和文字