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第一单元

1.

But, from the historical perspective, we are now a little more mature,realistic

:four hundred years

ago, people regarded happiness with wonderment, thinking that it befell someone as a result of an

inexplicable arrangement made by the mysterious universe.

2.

Happiness in shakespeare's time, and even afterwards, was associated with wealth, success and

position, which in some way, came upon a certain person, who would express such an occasion in

the form of great joy or excitement.

3.

Happiness is no longer accidental,indeed, it becomes an objective to achieve.

4.

People definitely varied in their opinions as to what has given rise to happiness and what

happiness actually means.

第二单元

1.

They were amazed at my being so stubbornly inquisitive over that issue, unable to figure out how

i could be so ignorant of what was going on about so commonplace a practice in the american

economic and political life.

2.

When immorality prevails, it's practically no use talking convincingly about conscience.

3.

Many americans are always preaching about human equality, but will take a firm stand against the

issue of equal rights in their communities and schools.

4.

It seems that they are also brave enough to take the risk in reiterating their worry,

which ,consequently, makes them such unforgivable bores to those successful social climbers.

5.

Ultimately, only these people may hopefully help to create a society that is characterized by its

moral strength that leads to its continuous existence instead of its moral degradation that ends in tis

destruction.

第三单元

1.

We tend to believe that we are a harmonious impartial and benevolent people, living under

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approved laws but not by the will of any individual in the government.

2.

If we ignore this other aspect of the fact, we shall fail to look at our nation from an unbiased

perspective.

3.

No mater how hard we persuaded ourselves to believe that indians and negroes were inferior to us,

we ,in actual fact, were quite clear that they ,just like us, were God's children.

4.

The evidence regarding such suppression as recorded in american history is amply supplied in

american literary works.

5.

What the whites refused to encounter in their description of the past was actually recounted in the

dreams and fantasies in artistic forms.

第四单元

1.

From the footsteps of that frightened woman, i, for the first time ,realized that my being born a

black has unfortunately enabled people, at the sight of me, to adjust their distance from me in a most

unfriendly manner.

2.

I was also well aware that i looked exactly like a bad boy who would intrude, from time to time,

into the neighborhood from a slum nearby.

3.

To be a man, you must acquire the power to scare and subdue people.

4.

When i was a boy, i saw many juvenile delinquents taken away by the cops.i have since attended

several funerals,too.

5.

I was not in a position to prove my identity. What i could think of was that i walk quickly to join

someone who could verify who i was.

第五单元

1.

But such case were sufficient in number to make it seem as if there were justification for the

increasing fear of communists.

2.

Joseph mccarthy thought it was high time that he should come upon the stage, declaring that he

held a list of names of active communists who were striving to ruin the government now.

3.

He was kept fully occupied, but he didn't seem to be successful.

4.

Then in wheeling that February evening at the beginning of the 50s, joe, at last, was fortunate

enough to have seized a wonderful chance and ,like a meteor, started to climb up the political ladder.

5.

From that moment, it seemed that the senator had placed the entire country under his control.

第六单元

1,what the book tries to tell is that the iks have become an unalterably repulsive people, self-centered,

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irrational ,inconsiderate and unfeeling, as a result of the disintegration of their traditional culture.

2,it should be agreed first of all that human beings are an evil breed. Living in this world all for

nothing but their own interests,and they may show some love and sympathy, simply because they

were taught to develop such as their habits.

3,they never talk except when they make rude demands and impolite refusals.

4,they will laugh to see ill luck befall other people.

5,the lonely ik, banished in the desolation of a vanished culture, has found another way to protect

himself.

第八单元

Under the blows of peasant wars and kingly conquest, the isolated existence of early feudalism gave

way to centralized monarchies.

=peasant wars and monarchical triumphs concluded the early separate feudal societies, and the

unified and centralized kingdoms assumed power.

And in turn the great national adventures of the english and spanish and portuguese sailor-capitalists

brought a flood of treasure and treasure-consciousnes s back to europe.

=a nationwide fervor of seafaring merchants in england, spain and portugal to explore countries

overseas consequently brought back a lot of wealth and renewed a noticeable wealth-awareness

among the european nations.

=the attitude of christopher columbus was representative of a time in history, which quickened the

formation of a society characterized by an ambition for success and a craving for money.

=along with this social change, there was little wonder that power began to descend upon the

merchants, because they were financially knowledged, and depart from the contemptuous gentlemen,

because they were financially ignorant.

=it was not so easy for bookkeeping to be adopted as a necessary accounting device, and double

entry was not universally accepted as an accounting mechanism until the 17

th

century

第八单元课文解读

The new science

The great

chariot

of society, which for so long had run down the gentle slope of tradition, now found

itself powered by an internal combustion engine. Transactions and gain provided a new and startling

motive

forces

could

have

been

sufficiently

powerful

to

smash

a

comfortable

and

established

world and institute in its place this new society. There was no single massive

cause

. It

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was not great events, single adventures, individual

laws, or charming

personalities

which

brought

about

the

economic

revolution.

It

was

a

process

of

internal

,

there

was

the

gradual

emergence

of

national

political

spirit

in

Europe.

Under

the

blows

of

peasant

wars

and

kingly

conquest, the isolated existence of early feudalism gave way to centralized monarchies.

A

second

great current of change was to be found in the slow decay of the religious spirit under the

impact

of

the skeptical, inquiring, humanist views of the Italian Renaissance. Still another

deep

current lies in

the

slow social

changes

that

eventually

rendered

the

market

system

possible.

In

the course

of

this

change,

power

naturally

began

to

gravitate

into

the

hands

of

those

who

understood

money

matters--the merchants---and away from the disdainful nobility,who did not.

在这 个变化之中，

权利

便自然而然地从那些鄙视财迷的高尚者的手中 转入那些懂得经营钱财的商人的手中。

课后部分答案

C

TFFTT

1,the analogy is drawn between the movement of a chariot and the development of society. Social

development had been steady but slow, following the traditional ways. But now something growing

from inside society itself provided a strong driving force, drastically pushing society forward.

2, no,this is the question the excerpt is intended to answer.

3,the simile

new way of life out of the old.

第二单元课文解读

American Dilemma

翻译

About

seven

years

ago,

I

accepted

an

invitation

to

participate

in

a

seminar

on

the

ethical

and

moral

problems of American society that was sponsored by the Aspen Institute in Colorado. Among the other

invited

guests

were

business

executives,

college

presidents,

judges,

government

officials,

managing

editors, professors and theologians.

大概七年前，我应邀参加一个由科罗拉多阿斯彭研究所（

Aspen

Institute

）赞助的研讨会，探讨有

< br>关美国社会道德伦理问题。出席会议的还有企业家、大学校长、法官、政客、执行编辑、教授和