现代大学英语精读 课后习题答案

Unit1

1. By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.

2. The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.

3. The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not

be asked to undertake the task of solving the problem.

4.

It

is

only

the

result

or

effect

of

the

law

of

the

survival

of

the

fittest

applied

to nature or to human society.

5. People began to reject Social Darwinism because it seemed to glorify brutal

force and oppose treasured values of sympathy, love and friendship. Therefore,

when it was mentioned, it was usually the target of criticism.

6. The desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for the poor had not been

abandoned; it had only been put off.

7. Government officials,

on the

whole,

are

good; it is very rare that some would

pay high prices for office equipment to get kickbacks.

8. It is a very popular story and has been accepted by many but it is not true.

9. Belief can be useful in the search for truth, but more often than not it is

accepted because it is convenient and self-serving.

10. George Gilder advances the view that only when the poor suffer from great

misery will they be stimulated to make great efforts to change the situation,

in other words, suffering is necessary to force the poor to work hard.

1.

贫富不均乃共和政体最致命的宿疾。

2.

他们的贫穷只是一种暂时性的不幸，如果他们贫穷但却温 顺，他们最终将成为世界的

主人。

3.

热恋的夫妇应该在梅西百货商店过夜，而不是他们的新房。

4.

美国这朵玫瑰花以其华贵与芳香让观众倾倒，赞不绝口， 而她之所以能被培植就是因

为在早期其周围的花蕾被插掉了，在经济生活中情况亦是如此 。这是自然规律和上帝的

意志在起作用。

5.

（它已成为）经济上收入不菲的行业。

6.

没有哪种压迫比身无分文更厉害，

也没有哪种对思想和行为的束缚比一无所有来得更

全面彻底。

7.

我们珍惜自由式对的。正因为珍惜自由，我们就不能以此 为借口，不给最需要自由的

人自由。

8.

不管他们生活在埃塞俄比亚，还是在纽约的南部布朗克斯 区，甚至是洛杉矶这样的天

堂，人们都决心不去为这些人操心。

9.

如上述所说，他在华盛顿高层当中有无比的威望。

10.

同情心，加上与之相关的社会努力是人们这个年代，最 令人不快的行为和行动方针。

Unit3

1. What people do may unintentionally cause droughts, floods, and neat waves.

2. The Earth we see in photos, posters, and ads, which appears so beautiful, is

not

the

true

reflection

of

the

world

we

live

in,

such

image

lulls

us

into

complacency.

3.

Human

activities

have

taken

place

over

such

large

areas

and

with

such

intensity

that they have already caused disastrous effects on ecology.

4. The fish could play its role because it became a necessary link with the

processes preceding it and the processes

following it in the ecological system.

5. When cars are produced to serve such narrow purposes, it is not surprising

that some of their characteristic qualities are harmful to the environment.

6. The farmer applied more and more fertilizer, and the production did rise but

did not increase at the same rate of the fertilizer.

7.

People

eat

plants

and

animals,

and

their

waste

is

flushed

into

the

sewer

system.

After

being

processed,

the

waste

is

still

waste.

the

residue

will

go

into

rivers,

oceans, and will have harmful effect on the aquatic ecosystem.

8. If the ecosystems are not upset by outside intrusion, they will remain the

same with very little change.

9.

The

characteristics

of

the

objects

and

materials

in

the

technosphere

are

rapid

change and great variety.

10. If we take side in the war of the two words, we are doing so at the risk of

failing to have a clear understanding of the nature and cause of the war, thus,

we lose the chance to really solve the grave environmental crisis.

1.

< br>我们一直在滥用这股强大的力量，就像传说中的魔术师的师弟一样，并没有意识到我

们的这种行为很可能会导致灾难性的后果。

2.