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新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）
Unit
2
Part I
Exercises
I. Reading for information
。
A. Reading to
find main ideas
1.B
2. A
B. Reading to find major details
3 . D
4. C
C. Reading to find
relevant facts
5. B
6. D
II. Translation
Translate the following sentences into
Chinese.
1
Is
love
an
art?
Then
it
requires
knowledge
and
effort.
Or
is
love
a
pleasantsensation,
which
to
experience is a matter of
chance, something one “fallsinto” if one is
lucky?
爱是一种艺术吗？如果是，
它就需要靠知识和努力来争取。
或者爱是一种愉快的感受，
能否体
验到它是机率的问题，如果一个人运气好就能够“坠入爱河”？
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2
Most
people
see
the
problem
of
love
primarily
as
that
of
“being
loved,”
rather
than
that
of
“loving,” of one’s
capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how
to be loved, how to be lovable.
大多数人认为爱这个问题主要是被爱，而不是主动去爱，或者主动去爱的能力。因此，他们的
问题便是如何被爱，怎样变得招人爱。
3 A second
premise behind the attitude that there is nothing
to be learnedabout love is the assumption
that the problem of love is the problem
of an“object,” not the problem of a
“faculty.”
关于爱没有什么可学，
这一想法背后的第二个前提是一个假设，
此假设认为爱的问题是对象的
问题，而不是能力的问题。
4
I am out for a
bargain; the object should be desirable from the
standpoint of its social value, and
at
the same time should want me, considering my overt
and hidden assets and potentialities.
我
来做一笔交易：
爱的对象从他的社会价值来看应该是理想的，
与
此同时他也应该出于对我显
性的和隐性的资质和潜力的考虑而接纳我。
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5
The
two
persons
become
well
acquainted,
their
intimacy
loses
more
andmore
its
miraculous
character, until
their antagonism, their disappointments, their
mutual boredom kill whatever is left of
the initial excitement.
两个人变
得很熟悉了，
他们的亲密感越来越多地失去了神秘色彩，
直到他
们的对抗、
失望和彼
此的厌倦抹杀了最初兴奋感消逝后残留下来
的点滴东西。
6 This attitude
—
that nothing is easier
than to love
—
has continued
to bethe prevalent idea about
love in
spite of the overwhelming evidence to the
contrary.
爱是再简单不过的事，这一观点至今仍然十分盛行，尽管有大量证
据与此相悖。