Unit 1
VII 1.Learning strategies help me make the difficult task of studying English easier. For instance, it is beneficial to treat new words in different ways according to how frequently they occur in everyday use: active words you must practice over and over again; useful words you must commit to memory; words that seldom occur in everyday situations require just a nodding acquaintance. It also pays watch out for idiomatic ways of saying things in English. As idiomatic usage often causes difficulties for Chinese students, you must pay close attention to the way native speakers communicate. Language learning is, in fact, an active process. Students who make a conscious effort to practice English, who seek out opportunities to use what they have learned, are more successful than those who rely on the teacher to do the whole job. Undoubtedly, it is all important to put into practicethrough speaking and writing what you have absorbed form reading and listening.
VII 2.Many of you are studying English and you may be wondering why it is so difficult to learn. It is actually not that difficult to learn if you know some basic facts about the language and culture that it reflects. Perhaps the first thing you need to know about English is that it is made up of several other languages such asFrench, German, Latin, Greek and Anglo-Saxon. In addition, there are words from Spanish in English and many AmericanIndians words and names; even some Chinese and Japanese words have found their way into the English language. This borrowing of words from other languages is one of the key reasons for some of the difficulties that people meet with while they are learning English.
Unit 2
IX 1.幸好附近有家医院，我们立刻把他送到了那里。
Fortunately there was a hospital nearby and we took him there at once.
IX 2.胜利登上乔治岛(George Island)后，船长向指挥部(the headquarters)发了一份无线电报。 After succeeding in landing on George Island, the captain sent a radio message to the headquarters.
IX 3.他决心继续他的实验，不过这一次他将用另一种方法来做。
He is determined to continue his experiment but this time he'll do it another way. IX 4.她在读这部小说时，不禁想起了她在农村度过的那五年。
When she read the novel, she couldn't help thinking of the five years she had spent in the countryside.
IX 5.玛丽觉得单靠自己的力量执行她的计划是困难的。 Mary thought it difficult to carry out her plan all by herself.
IX 6.我们认为他不能在一刻钟内走完那段距离，但他却成功地做到了这一点。
We didn't think he could cover the distance in a quarter of an hour, but he succeeded in doing it. IX 7.甚至在他的医生告诉他患有肺癌之后，奇切斯特扔不肯放弃环球航行的宿愿。
Even after his doctor told him he had lung cancer, Chichester would not give up his old dream of sailing round the world.
IX 8.我正忙着做一种新的補鼠(rats)装置时，马克走来拖着我出去看花展了。
I was busy making a new device for catching rats when Mark came and dragged me out to a flower show.
Unit 3
IX 1.那位名演员似乎很乐意在剧中扮演一个次要角色。
That famous actor seemed content to play a minor part in the play. IX 2.国庆节要到了，咱们把寝室彻底(thorough)打扫一下吧。
National Day is round the corner. Let's give our bedroom a thorough clean. IX 3.她非常勉强地同意让一位年轻医生为她做手术。
She agreed, very reluctantly, to be operated on by a young doctor.
IX 4.他们已经安排好让我们明天去游览长城，我相信我们在那一定会玩得很开心。
They've arranged for us to visit the Great Wall tomorrow. I'm sure we'll have a good time there. IX 5.老人读完信后失望之极，竟用颤抖的手指把它撕得粉碎。
After reading the letter the old man was so disappointed that he tore it into little bits with trembling fingers.
IX 6.老两口为他们的孙子感到骄傲，因为他在第28届奥运会上获得了两枚金牌和一枚铜牌。 The old couple were proud of their grandson, who won two gold medals and a bronze at the 28th Olympic Games.
IX 7.即使他的祖母不能来参加他的生日宴会，她也会寄给他一件可爱的礼物。对这一点汤姆深信不疑。
Even if his grandmother could not come to his birthday party, she would send him a lovely present. Tom was sure of that.
IX 8.昨天是玛丽的二十岁生日。她父亲寄给她一双靴子，她母亲为她买了一盒巧克力(chocolates)。而她的男朋友则带给她一束红玫瑰。
It was Mary's twentieth birthday yesterday. Her father sent her a pair of boots. Her mother bought her a box of chocolates. And her boyfriend brought her a bunch of roses.
Unit 4
III 3.1Being a sailor(水手) involves long periods of time away from home. III 3.2 The mayor put forward a proposal to improve public transportation.
III 3.3 Both parents should take equal responsibility for the emotional needs of their children. III 3.4 At first glance the essay looked quite good, but actually it was full of mistakes. III 3.5 Though Washington, D.C. is the seat of government of the United States, New York is actually the nation’s most important city.
III 3.6 He was so disturbed to hear of his mother’s illness that he could no longer concentrate on his studies.
III 3.7 Atypical summer day in that area is hot and dry.
III 3.8 Mr. Smith kept thinking hard, but failed to come up with a workable plan. III 3.9 Enid considered teaching a worthwhile career.
III 3.10 Einstein once said:”Imagiation is more important than knowledge.”
III 3.11 The government is taking effective measures to overcome current difficulties. III 3.12 The houses in our neighborhood are very expensive. III 3.13 I am afraid that the gap between rich and poor is still widening in our country. III 3.14 His spare-time activities includes cooking, tennis and swimming.
III 4.1 Ted is expected to come up with some good after he has considered the problem. III 4.2I hear young people under 18 are prohibited from buying cigarettes in that country. III 4.3Taking responsibility for yourself is part of the process of growing up. III 4.4Efforts to bring together people of different races and cultures have not met with complete success.
III 4.5The United States experience a sharp rise in its birth rate after the Second World War, known as the “baby boom”.
III 4.6 The crop failure was due in part to the drought.
VII 1. It is proposed in this article that television be prohibited for a period of time each evening. As social scientists have long noted, excessive television watching damages a family’s ability to communicate with one another; and may actually lead to some forms of mental illness as well as a rising rate of divorce. Forcing families to turn off their television set each evening may indeed be a way of bringing them together. Therefore, this proposal may well be a worthwhile one. It would, however, involve some difficulty in putting it into effect, as few Americans would be willing to give up a single moment of television time.
IX 1. 接受这份工作就得经常在周末上班，但约翰并不在意。
To take this job would involve working on weekends frequently, but John didn't mind. IX 2. 众所周知，肺癌至少部分地是由于吸烟过多而引起的。
It is well known that lung cancer is caused at least in part by smoking too much. IX 3. 我的祖父母说，发明电视的那个人曾住在他们那个地段。
My grandparents said that the man who invented television had once lived in their neighborhood.
IX 4. 我提议咱们会后马上去办公室找史密斯教授，邀请他参加我们的英语晚会。
I propose that we go to find Prof. Smith in his office right after the meeting and invite him to our English evening.
IX 5. 她因为那病开过两次刀，身体十分虚弱，几乎站不起来。
Having been operated on twice for the disease, she was so weakened that she could barely stand up.
IX 6. 教育家们认为，伴随着电视机长大的一代人，在电视机前花的时间太多，以致没有足够的时间学习了。
Educators think that the generation growing up with television spend so much of their time in front of the TV that they do not have enough time to study. IX 7.我真希望你能拿出一个比这更好的解决办法来。
I do hope that you can come up with a better solution than this one.
IX 8. 乍一看，这幅画并不好，但经过仔细观察，我们才发现它的确实一副杰作。
At first glance the picture didn't look very good, but after examining it carefully, we found that it was indeed a masterpiece.
