death of marriage has been declared many times in American history; but no matter how many times it fails to die, the threat of death has existed all along.‖
15. The above considerations can be encapsulated in the following statement that a lover might express ... (Para. 16) The above considerations can be expressed briefly in the following sentence that a lover might say ...
encapsulate: express sth. briefly; summarize sth.
e.g. The chairman‘s short statement encapsulates the views of the committee.
→III. Key to the Exercises
1. Reading Comprehension
a. Choose the sentence that best expresses the meaning of the statement from the text. (1) A(2) B(3) C(4) C(5) A
b. Fill in the blanks with the information you‘ve learned in the text.
(1) those traditionally unique advantages of marriage, such as raising children and enhancing one‘s status and financial situation
(2) that marriage is dead, but that a growing number of adults are spending more of their lives single or living unmarried with partners
(3) get out of marriage (or any type of romantic relationship) and to get into a new marital relationship (or any other type of romantic relationship)
(4) although the attitudes toward marriage are largely dominated by a country‘s cultural and religious beliefs, the wish for a stable, long term relationship is still a desired goal
(5) accept the possibility of having shorter marriages, in which love is more likely to remain alive; accept that marriage should essentially involve a companionable love rather than a romantic one
2. Vocabulary
a. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words or phrases you have learned in the text.
(1) encapsulate(2) proclaim(3) companionable(4) respectability(5) intrinsically (6) justification(7) contractual(8) exclusivity(9) gratifying(10) flexibility
b. Choose the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the underlined one. (1) A(2) C(3) D(4) B(5) A(6) B(7) C(8) A(9) C(10) B
3. Cloze
Choose an appropriate word from the following list to fill in each of the following blanks. Each word can be used only ONCE. Change the form where necessary.
(1) equation(2) temporarily(3) how(4) back(5) version (6) or(7) problem(8) trap(9) into(10) presents
(11) romantic(12) insane(13) let down(14) what(15) last (16) though(17) marketed(18) wooed(19) caring(20) and
4. Translation
a. Chinese to English
1) Translate the following sentences into English.
(1) Potential investors exploring more promising areas, such as lowcarbon energy and infrastructure, are stymied because of the lack of a clear policy framework.
(2) Fortunately, most managers welcome such initiative, and they are increasingly willing to give their employees more responsibility, autonomy, and authority in their jobs.
(3) We are offering a package deal which includes the whole office computer system, staff training and hardware maintenance.
(4) Although this socalled continuous speechrecognition approach has indeed improved accuracy, it is by no means infallible.
(5) This is a concrete illustration of what we mean by one and the same thing having two contradictory aspects.
(6) Actual demand in a particular year, in particular in the private sector, depends on the economic factors and the commercial decisions of developers and consumers.
(7) If you ever need a blood transfusion, it‘s important that you only receive blood compatible with your own type.
(8) Therefore, the Europeanization of Chinese does not stem from an internal force, but rather originates from an external pressure.
2) Translate the following paragraph into English.
Most of us, when young, had the experience of a sweetheart being taken from us by somebody more attractive and more appealing. At the time, we may have resented this intruder—but as we grew older, we recognized that the sweetheart had never been ours to begin with. It was not the intruder that ―caused‖ the break, but the lack of a real relationship.On the surface, many marriages seem to break up because of a ―third party‖. This is, however, a psychological illusion. The other woman or the other man merely serves as a pretext for dissolving a marriage that had already lost its essential integrity.But the rejected lover or mate cannot afford to believe that his beloved has freely turned away from him—and so he ascribes sinister or magical properties to the interloper. He calls him a hypnotist or a thief or a homebreaker. In the vast majority of cases, however, when a home is broken, the breaking has begun long before any ―third party‖ has appeared on the scene.
b. English to Chinese
1) Translate the following paragraph into Chinese.
现代社会,大多数由于解除婚姻关系所受的惩罚已经取消,而婚姻关系提供的许多鼓励措施也能在其他的社会结构中获得。因此,选择保持婚姻关系更多的是因为爱的缘故,而不是传统婚姻的一些独特优势,如抚养孩子,提高身份地位和改善经济状况。如果一个人觉得她目前的婚
姻状态阻止她感受真挚的爱情,(从她的个人发展和满意度来看)她就没有太多的动力继续维持婚姻关系。事实上,现在许多离婚案件以缺乏爱情作为终止婚姻的理由,这表明爱情在当代婚姻中具有非同寻常的重要性。
2) Read the passage carefully and translate the underlined sentences into Chinese.
(1) 就生于不同国家、结合于第三国、目前在别国工作且子女、养老金和其他资产又散布于世界各地的跨国夫妇来说,他们的离婚大战在律师看来是福音,在其他人看来却是梦魇。 (2) 法国规定经济实力较弱的一方(通常是女方)离婚后必须立即自立;英格兰和美国一些州则要求终生赡养。有的国家仅要求对―婚后财产‖(即婚后创建的资产)进行分割,有的却要分割所有财产。
(3) 英国法院正逐步采用这样一个原则(在美国一些州已得到确立),即婚后妻子为增强丈夫财富创造能力所付出的努力必须给予补偿,也就是说现有资产以及丈夫未来的收入都必须与妻子分享。
(4) 第三,一旦离婚迫在眉睫,女方也许想移居英格兰或者美国(但应避免到佛罗里达之类―无赡养费‖的州);此时,男方宜留在欧洲大陆不动。 (5)戴安娜王妃的弟弟厄尔·斯宾塞同其第一任妻子离婚时,是在他们当时的居住地南非提起离婚诉讼的,这着实让他的妻子吃惊不小。因为如果放在他们曾定居过的英格兰,她也许就能得到更好的待遇。
Text BI Don‘t—The Case against Marriage
Key to the Exercises
a. Fill in the blanks with the words or phrases given below. Change the form where necessary.
(1) rote(2) feminist(3) staggering(4) consumerism(5) sanctity (6) caveat(7) subsidy(8) throes(9) debunk(10) fraction
b. Complete the sentences with the information given in the text. (1) rite of; an institution
(2) the divorce rate peaked; made singledom chic (3) their spouse (4) has risen
(5) unmarried taxpayers; a real tax break
(6) samesex couples; unmarried monogamists
(7) less competent, less ambitious; less likely to be hired (8) a business partner; love; chores (9) financial independence
(10) less realistic; naive, almost arrogant
c. Decide whether the statement is TRUE or FALSE according to the text. (1) T(2) T(3) F(4) F(5) T(6) T(7) T(8) F(9) F(10) T
Unit 5
Medicine and Illness
Text AOne Year Later: 5 Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic
→I. Background Information
1. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services based in Atlanta, Georgia. It works to protect public health and safety by providing information to enhance health decisions, and it promotes health through partnerships with state health departments and other organizations. The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease prevention and control (especially infectious diseases), environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, Injury prevention and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
2. The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on April 7, 1948, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which had been an agency of the League of Nations.
3. The BMCseries of journals are a collection of 64 online research journals published by BioMed Central. Like all BioMed Central journals, they have a policy of open access to the research articles they publish. Between them, they cover all major subject areas within biology and medicine. Two of the journals, BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, have a broad scope, and aim to publish particularly significant research. A third journal, BMC Research Notes, publishes research from all areas of biology and medicine without making impact or interest criteria for publication, while BMC Proceedings publishes conference proceedings. The other 60 journals specialize on a particular subject area.
4. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and healthrelated research. It consists of 27 separate institutes and offices which includes the Office of the Director. Francis S. Collins is the current Director.
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat
