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Unit 1
Task
1:
【答案】
A.
Event
Year
Kenny G was
born.
1956
He
toured Europe with his High School band.
1971
He made his
first solo album. 1982
He
won released his most successful album.
1993
He won the Best Artist
Award.
1994
~
He broke the
world record for playing a single note.
1997
B
．
1)
F
2) F
3) T
【原文】
Saxophonist
Kenny G is now the world's most successful jazz
musician. He was born in 1956 as
Kenny
Gorelick in Seattle, USA, and he learned to play
the saxophone at an early age. When he
was just 15 years old, he toured Europe
with his High School band. After studying at
Washington
University he started his
career as a musician. In 1982 he signed for Arista
Records and made his
first solo album
Kenny G.
Success came slowly
at first, but during the 1990s Kenny became well-
known on the international
scene. He
released Breathless, his most successful album so
far in 1993, and in 1994 won the Best
Artist Award at the 21st American Music
Awards held in Los Angeles.
As
well
as
making
records,
he
also
found
time
to
play
in
front
of
another
famous
saxophone
player
—
US
President Bill Clinton
—
at
the
break the world record for playing
a single note (45 minutes and 47 seconds!) at the
J & R Music
World Store in New York in
1997.
During the last 20
years, Kenny G has played with superstars like
Aretha Franklin, Michael Bolton
and
Whitney Houston, and he has sold more than 36
million albums worldwide... and he hasn't
sung a note!
·
Task 2:
【答案】
1)
c
2) d
3) c
【原文】
Senn: Everybody always has this
misconception that female policemen don't do the
same thing
as men do, you know. I've
worked..
Interviewer: That's not true
Senn: That is not true!
I've worked my share of
graveyard shifts, and, you know, split
}
shifts, and
double-back and no days off, and...
Interviewer: Uh-
huh...
Senn:
...as much
as the next guy. There's no distinction used if
there's a male or female
officer
on
duty.
Two
men
on
duty
—I'll
refer
to
as
two
men,
’cause
in
my
field
there's
no
difference
between
the
genders.
We're
still
the
same.
Okay,
if
there's
two
men
on
duty
—
just
because
one's
a
female,
she
still
gets
in
on
the
same
type
of
call.
If
there's
a
bar
disturbance
downtown,
then
we
go
too.
There's
been
many
times
where
being
the
only
officer
on
duty
—that's
it!
It’s just me
and whoever else is on duty in the county.
They can come back
me up if I need assistance. And it does
get a little hairy.
You go
in there, and you have these
great big,
huge monster-guys, and they're just drunker than
skunks, and can't see three feet in
front of them.
And when they see you, they see fifteen
people, and you know... But still, there's
enough...
Interviewer: That's where the uniform
is important, I should imagine.
Senn:
Sometimes, you know.
If somebody is
going to…or has a bad day, and they are
out
to
get
a
cop,
you
know,
it
doesn't
matter
if
you're,
you
know,
boy,
girl,
infant
or
anything! When you've got
that cop uniform on, they'll still take it out on
you.
Interviewer:
Yeah...
Senn: But I think there's
one advantage to being a female police officer.
And that is the fact
that most men still have a
little respect, and they won't smack you as easy
as they would one of
the
guys.
Interviewer: Uh-
huh...
~
Senn: But I'll tell you
o
ne thing I’ve learned—
I'd
rather deal with ten drunk men that one drunk
woman any day of the week!
Interviewer:
Well, why is that
Senn:
Because women are so
unpredictable. You cannot ever predict what a
woman's
going to do.
Interviewer: Hmm...
Senn:
Especially, if she's agitated, you
know.
Interviewer: Emotionally
upset.
Senn:
Yeah.
I saw a lady one time just get mad at
the guy she was with
because
he
wouldn't buy
her
another
drink
—
take off
her high heel and lay his
head
wide open. Yuch! Oh, they can be
so vicious, you know.
?
Task
3:
【答案】
1) d
2)
b
3) b
4) b
【原文】
You are
watching a film in which two men are having a
fight. They hit one another hard. At the
start they only fight with their fists.
But soon they begin hitting one another over the
heads with
chairs. And so it goes on
until one of the men crashes through a
window
—
and falls thirty feet
to
the ground below. He is
dead
！
Of course
he isn't really dead. With any luck he isn't even
hurt. Why Because the men who fall
out
of
high
windows
or
jump
from
fast-moving
trains,
who
crash
cars
of
even
catch
fire,
are
professionals.
They
do
this
for
a
living.
These
men
are
called
“stunt
men”.
That
is
to
say,
they
perform “tricks”.
There are two sides to their work. They
actually do most of the things you see on the
screen. For
example, they fall from a
high building. However, they do not fall on to
hard ground but on to
empty cardboard
boxes covered with a mattress. Again, when they
hit one another with chairs,
the chairs
are made of soft wood and when they crash through
windows, the glass is made of
sugar!
But although their work
depends on trick of this sort, it also requires a
high degree of skill and
training.
Often a stunt man’s success depends on careful
timing. For example,
when he is
up
Naturally
stuntmen are well-paid for their work, but they
lead dangerous lives. They often
get
seriously injured, and sometimes killed. A
Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the
edge of a cliff a thousand feet high.
His parachute failed to
open
—
and he was killed.
In spite of all the risks,
this is no longer a profession for
“
men
only
”
. Men no longer dress
up as
women when actresses have to
perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there
are
“
stunt
girls
”
too
！
Task 4:
【答案】
1) He
started writing poetry when he was about 14 or
15.
2) He has published four
books.
3) His first book
came out when he was about 26. It wasn’t easy. He
go
t a lot of his work rejected
at first.
…
4) The British,
or at least the English, are embarrassed by it.
They’re embarrassed by people who
reveal personal feelings, emotions,
thoughts and wishes.
【原文】
When
Thomas
Edison
was
born
in
the
small
town
of
Milan,
Ohio,
in
1847,
America
was
just
beginning its great
industrial development. In his lifetime of eighty-
four years, Edison shared in
the
excitement of America’s growth into a modern
nation. The time in which he lived was an age
of
invention,
filled
with
human
and
scientific
adventures,
and
Edison
became
the
hero
of
that
age.
As
a
boy,
Edison
was
not
a
good
student.
His
parents
took
him
out
of
school
and
his
mother
taught
him
at
home,
where
his
great
curiosity
and
desire
to
experiment
often
got
him
into
t
rouble. When he was six, he
set fire to his father’s barn “to see what would
happen.” The barn
burned down.
When he was ten, Edison
built his own chemistry laboratory. He sold
sandwiches and newspapers
on
the
trains
in
order
to
earn
money
to
buy
supplies
for
his
laboratory.
His
parents
became
accustomed,
more
or
less,
to
his
experiments
and
the
explosions
which
sometimes
shook
the
house.
Edison’s work as a sales boy with the
railroad introduced him to the telegraph and, with
a friend,
he built his own telegraph
set.
Six years later, in
1869, Edison arrived in New York City, poor and in
debt. He went to work with a
telegraph
company. It was there that he became interested in
the uses of electricity.
Task 5:
【答案】
1815
，
1914
，
35million
;
I.
A.
villages
，
seaport
B.
danger
，
long ocean
voyage
C.
a new land
，
a new
language
D.
finding a place to live
II.
a better lif
e
，
opportunity
，
freedom
III.
A.
England, Germany, Russia, Hungary
B.
Roman Catholic, Jewish
!
C.
customs
，
languages
IV.
A.
Americanized<
/p>
，
disappeared.
B.
haven't disap
peared
，
customs
，
identities
V.
A.
were cheated
，
prej
udice
，
mistreated
B.
hardest
，
least-pai
d
，
dirtiest
，
most overcrowded
D.
rejected
，
old-
fashioned
，
ashamed
overcome
【原文】
、
Thousands of people came to American
cities before Blacks and Puerto Ricans did.
Between 1815
and 1914, more than 35
million Europeans crossed the ocean to find new
homes in the United
States.
Most
of
these
immigrants
were
ordinary
people.
Few
were
famous
when
they
arrived.
Few
became famous afterward. Most had lived
in small villages. Few had ever been far outside
them.
Most of them faced the same kinds
of problems getting to America: the hardship of
going from
their
villages
to
a
seaport,
the
unpleasantness
—
even
danger
—
of
the
long
ocean
voyage,
the
strangeness
of
a
new
land,
and
of
a
new
language,
the
problem
of
finding
a
place
to
live,
of
finding work in a new, strange
country.
Every immigrant had
his own reasons for coming to America. But nearly
all shared one reason:
They hoped for a
better life. They considered America a special
place, a land of opportunity, a
land of
freedom.
Immigrants came
from many different countries: England, Germany,
Denmark, Finland[, Russia,
Italy,
Hungary and many others.
They came with many different
religions: Roman Catholic, Jewish, Quaker, Greek
Orthodox.
They brought many
different customs and many languages.
Some
people
have
called
the
United
States
a
pot
After
immigrants
were
here
awhile
—
in the
melting pot
—
they became
Americanized. Differences were
gradually disappeared.
Some
people
say
no.
America
isn't
a
melting
pot.
It's
more
like
a
salad
bowl.
Important
differences
between
groups
of
people
haven't
disappeared.
Many
groups
have
kept
their
own
ways,
their customs, their identities, and this has
given America great strength.
Melting pot Salad bowl Perhaps there's
some troth to both ideas.
In
any case, life in America was hard for most
immigrants
—
especially at
first. Often they were
cheated. Often
they met with prejudice. They were often laughed
at, even mistreated, by people
who
themselves had been immigrants.
》
Most of them
soon found that the streets of America weren't
paved with gold. They usually got
the
hardest
jobs,
and
those
that
paid
the
least,
the
dirtiest
places
to
live
in,
the
most
overcrowded tenements.
They came to be citizens of a new
country; but often they felt like people without a
country. They
had given up their own,
but they didn't understand their new one. They
didn't really feel a part of
it. And
the people of the new one didn't always welcome
them.
They came for the sake
of their children, but in America their children
often rejected them. To the
children,
their parents seemed old-fashioned. They didn't
learn the new language quickly. Some
didn't learn it at all. Their parents'
customs made children ashamed.
Gradually, however, problems were
overcome. For most immigrants, life in America was
better. It
certainly was better for
their children and for their
grandchildren.
Task 6:
【答案】
A.
The Life Story
of Thomas Edison
Ohio
，
1847
，
industr
ial development, 1931, a modern nation
*
I.
A.
curiosity
，
desire
B.
1857
，
station
master
’
s son
C.
1863
II.
A.
New York City
，
ele
ctricity
，
report the
prices
B.
New Jersey
，
invent
ed
，
produced
C.
organized
industrial research
D.
1877
E.
1879
【
III.
A.
1,000
B.
motion-
picture machine
C.
photography
D.
streetcars
，
electric trains
IV.
B.
turn off all
power
C.
the progress of man
B.
1)
F
>
2)
F
3) T
4) T
5)
F
【原文】
When Thomas Edison was born in the
small town of Milan, Ohio, in 1847, America was
just
beginning its great
industrial development. The time in which he lived
was an age of invention,
filled with
human and scientific adventures, and Edison became
the hero of that age.
As a boy, Edison was not a
good student. His parents took him out of school
and his
mother
taught
him
at
home,
where
his
great
curiosity
and
desire
to
experiment
often
got
him
into
trouble. When
he
was
ten, Edison
built
his
own
chemistry
laboratory. He
sold
sandwiches and
newspapers
on
the
local
trains
in
order
to
earn
money
to
buy
supplies
for
his
laboratory.
His
parents
became
accustomed,
more
or
less,
to
his
experiments
and
the
explosions
which
sometimes shook the house.
Edison’s work as a sales
boy with the railroad introduced him to the
telegraph and with a
friend, he built
his own telegraph set. He taught himself the Morse
telegraphic code and hoped
for the
chance to become a professional telegraph
operator. A stroke of luck and Edison's quick
thinking soon provided the
opportunity.
…
One
day,
as
young
Edison
stood
waiting
for
a
train
to
arrive,
he
saw
the
station
master's
sot
wander into the track of an approaching
train. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to
safety.
The thankful station master
offered to teach Edison railway telegraphy.
Afterwards, in 1863, he
became tan
expert telegraph operator and left home to work in
various cities.
Six years
later, in 1869, Edison arrived in New York City,
poor and in debt. He went to work with a
telegraph company. It was there that he
became interested in the uses of electricity. At
that time
electricity was still in the
experimental stages, and Edison hoped to invent
new ways to use it for
the benefit of
people. As he once said:
secrets of,
nature and apply them for the happiness of man. I
know of no better service to render
for
the short time we are in this world.
The same year, when he was only 22
years old, Edison invented an improved ticker-tape
machine
which
could
better
report
the
prices
on
the
New
York
Market.
The
ticker-tape
machine
was
successful, and Edison decided to leave
his job and concentrate wholly on inventing. When
the