大学英语外报外刊阅读教程 教学参考手册
第二版 端木义万 主编
Lesson 26
Answers to the Questions
V. 1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C VI.
1. The author thinks that the millennial generation is a generation that primps, dyes, pulls and shapes, younger and with more vigor.
2. Experian’s research finds that 43 percent of 6-to-9-year-olds are already using lipstick and lip gloss, 38 percent use hairstyling products and 12 percent use other cosmetics.
3. This is a group that’s grown up on pop culture that screams, again and again, that everything, everything, is a candidate for upgrading. Ads for the latest fashions, makeup tips and grooming products are circulated with a speed and fury unique to this millennium — on millions of ads, message boards and Facebook pages.
4. Statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery show cosmetic-surgery procedures performed on those 18 and younger have nearly doubled over the past decade.
5. The author, by ―level the playing field‖, means that standards of beauty are ubiquitous and people of all kinds have the same cosmetic options available to them.
Outline
I. (1) Specific example of Marleigh’s beauty care
II. (2—4) Millennial generation’s obsession with beauty 1. Starting grooming and beauty treatments at an early age 2. Surveys and findings III. (5) Analysis of the trend
1. Diva-ization of the generation 2. Influence of pop culture and ads
IV. (6—7) Effects of the trend 1. Waste of time and money
2. Big increase of young people seeking cosmetic treatments
Lesson 27
Answers to the Questions
V. 1. D 2. C 3. D 4. A VI.
1. Conserve is a Delhi non-profit organization recycling plastic bags into accessories. Anita Ahuja started it in order to clean up the streets of the Indian capital and help people who have problems.
2. When Anita Ahuja’s homemade products were popular at a fair at the US embassy, she realized she had finally found a successful recipe and decided to venture into accessories.
3. She, by using contracts in the Delhi government, got Conserve IDs for her ragpickers. She also got certificates of endorsement from Delhi’s chief minister and prominently displayed her own clout at the different units. She put together a group of garbage collectors, who, acting as middlemen, buy the plastic bags from 150 pickers in different pockets of the city. In this way, she ensured a regular supply of plastic bags.
4. The bags are sliced open, then washed in detergent, dipped in basil-scented water and hung out in the sun to dry, and after that were layered and compressed by heat in an ovenlike contraption. Staff and professional tailors then cut them out and sew the sheets into Conserve’s belts, bags and wallets.
5. It was difficult to train the trash pickers on the nuances of the different plastic bags because they spoke different dialects.
6. Anita Ahuja has turned down the suggestion of handing over the fabric because making the fabric alone is not so profitable.
Outline
I. (1-3) Brief accounts of Conserve 1. Conserve’s business
2. Anita Ahuja’s purpose in starting Conserve 3. Conserve’s success
II. (4-6) Conserve’s initial stage of development
1. Ahuja’s development of the idea of recycling plastic bags 2. Experiments with plastic bag recycling
3. Ahuja’s way to ensure a regular supply of plastic bags III. (7-13) Conserve’s business management 1. Conserve’s way of recycling plastic bags 2. Payment to collectors and pickers 3. Training of trash pickers
4. Markets for Conserve’s products
IV. (14-16) The way to gain capital for business development 1. Setting up a for-profit unit
2. Use of the money to pay the rent on a new factory
3. Turning down the suggestion of handing over the fabric V. (17) Bharti Sharma’s success at Conserve
Lesson 28
Answers to the Questions
V. 1. D 2. B 3. B 4. A VI.
1. Zach’s walk was 650-mile long. The aim of the walk was to raise funds to help homeless children.
2. Zach started the organization four years ago. By the end of the year, they had 27 truckloads of aid.
3. The walk was very hard. They spent two months trudging 10 or 13miles a day along sweltering back roads.
4. They raise money for their philanthropic organization through tutoring. They use the money to distribute blankets, clothing and soap to Washington’s homeless.
5. When Brittany and Robbie Berguist heard about a soldier overseas who couldn’t pay the phone bill for his calls home, they raised money by selling back old cellphones to be recycled. Since then, the siblings have sent more than 600,000 phone cards to troops and raised more than $ 5 million. For their philanthropic work, Brittany had been awarded so many community-service scholarships that she has enough to cover the entire cost of Stonehill College, and even the cost of graduate school.
6. Zach’s walk raised about $ 50,000. He plans to use some of the money for a playground at an emergency foster-care shelter at Tampa and for bedding, computers and other supplies at Sasha Bruce Youthwork.
Outline
I. (1-2) Zach’s final stage of the 650-mile fundraising walk II. (3-8) Zach’s Little Red Wagon Foundation 1. Zach’s identity
2. Development of the Little Red Wagon Foundation 3. Media’s attention to the Little Red Wagon Foundation III. (9-18) American children’s philanthropic efforts
1. Children’s change of image from mere poster children into high-profile CEO of their own
foundations
2. Timothy Hwang and Minsoo Han’s organization of Operation Fly 3. Effects of child philanthropic efforts
4. Efforts made by Brittany and Robbie Bergquist to help American soldiers abroad 5. Rewards to Brittany for her philanthropic efforts
IV. (19-23) Zach’s fundraising walk 1. Distance covered each day 2. Hardship endured on the way
3. Fund raised by the walk and the planned way to use the fund 4. Zach’s stress on the need to help homeless children V. (24-25) Social Support for Zach’s walk 1. Sponsors for the walk
2. Zach’s gratitude for the support and attention
Lesson 29
Answers to the Questions
V. 1. A 2. D 3. B 4. C VI.
1. They play an important role in the U.S. economy. They produce more than $1 trillion in annual revenues. Major credit card companies and banks are eager to get their business.
2. They work really hard. More than 4 in 10 work at least 6 days a week and 52 percent take less than a week off a year. When they aren’t at work, 59 percent still take calls and Emails
3. Most people think that the business of small businesses declines in summer because they believe customers go on vacation during summer.
4. The stock market changes don’t have an impact on them. Over half insist that the stock market doesn’t reflect economic reality.
5. According to Discover, a third of small business owners said that housing’s slide and the ensuing credit crisis have a significant impact on their business.
Outline
I. (1) Size, number, and importance of mom and pop businesses II. (2) Discover’s surveys of mom and pop businesses
III. (3-9) Major findings about the real world of mom and pop businesses 1. The owner’s view on being his/her own boss 2. Normal working hours
3. Business during the summer
4. Stock market changes’ impact on mom and pop businesses 5. Fuel price changes’ impact on mom and pop businesses
6. Health care provision mandate’s impact on mom and pop businesses 7. Minimum wage increase’s impact on mom and pop businesses IV. (10 - 11) This summer's mortgage fallout on small business
Lesson 30
Answers to the Questions
V. 1. C 2. D 3. D 4. A VI.
1. It provides bus transportation, hotel lodging and, tailgate food and entertainment.
2. He is launching a virtual coffee marketplace that matches javaholics with independent roasters and their beans across the country
3. Working in Corporate America doesn’t hold the same appeal because large employers are downsizing, and high entry salaries and stock options are less common now.
4. Berlin thinks that as a student, the risk of starting an entrepreneurial venture is relatively minimal and there is often little money to lose
5. According to Preiss, the coffee market place is moving toward customers who view it more like wine. They care where it comes from, where it is grown and the quality of the beans.
Outline
I. Specific example of Calle and Berlin
(1-4) 1. Change from football fans into entrepreneurs 2. Starting a business that serves football fans II. Fashion of college students’ launching businesses (5-8) 1. Students’ entrepreneurial venture across the US. 2. Example at Georgia State University 3. Example at Emory University 4. Example at Morehouse College
III. Students’ interest in business and the reasons for their interest (9-18) 1. Students’ keen interest in business
2. Reasons for students’ keen interest in starting up a business a. Repression’s impact
b. Minimal risk of initial investment c. Advantage provided by the technology VI. Way of business development
(19-30) 1. SEC Excursion’s way of developing business
2. David Preiss’s way of developing his coffee business
Lesson 31
Answers to the Questions
V. 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. A VI.
1. US President Bush called the G-20 summit.
2. The G-20 is expected to design new roles to meet the global financial crisis.
3. According to the author, the G-20 summit is likely to be remembered not so much for the action taken as for the milestone it marked and the emerging global economic order it heralded.
4. The new international economic order will reflect a diffusion of economic power and responsibility to countries like China, Brazil, and South Korea.
大学英语外报外刊阅读教程(第二版)课后习题参考答案
