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Section 22 Radio二十二 广播

1.When television became popular, people thought the radio would not survive. 电视开始流行时,人们认为广播将无法生存。

2.As we all know today, that was wrong. 正如今天我们看到的,那是错误的。

3.In fact, most people in the west listen to radio more than they watch TV. 事实上,在西方,大多数人听广播比看电视多。

4.Do you believe that? 你相信吗?

5.Well, they listen in the morning when they are getting ready to go to work. 早晨,准备上班时,他们听广播。

6.They listen when they are driving their cars. 他们开车时听。

7.Some listen when they are walking in the street. 有些人走路时听。

8.Sometimes we see people with walkmans. 有时,我们看见有人带着“随身听”,

9.But we don’t know if they are listening to radio or to their own music. 但不知他们是听广播还是听他们自己的音乐。

10.For many many years, we learned about new music only from the radio. 多年以来,人们只能从广播上听到新的音乐。

11.Today perhaps television programs like MTV are taking over. 现在,这个作用也许正被电视上的MTV取代了。

12.Have you heard of the BBC and VOA? 你听说过BBC或VOA吗?

13.Then you probably know these from learning English. 也许你在学习英语时认识了他们。

14.Many students in China use the radio to help them study language. 许多中国学生听广播学语言。

15.Although there are television stations like CCTV9 which can help, radios are cheap to buy and easy to carry around. 尽管也有诸如中央电视台第九频道这样的帮助,但收音机比较便宜,也比较容易携带。

16.So radio still has some advantages over television. 这么说来,与电视相比,收音机还是有一定优势的。

Section 23 Newspapers二十三 报纸

1.Why is it called a newspaper? 它为什么被称作报纸?

2.Because it contains news of course. 当然因为它包含了新闻。

3.But Modern newspapers contain much more than just news. 然而,现代报纸所包含的内容远不只是新闻。

4.They have competitions and puzzles and advice. 他们有竞赛题、填词魔方和建议。

5.They are one of the oldest forms of mass communication. 它们是大众传播最古老的方式。

6.They are printed in virtually every language in the world. 几乎世界上的每一种语言都有报纸。

7.Newspapers find their way into almost every home in the world. 世界上几乎每个家庭都有报纸。

8.Some print pictures in color today. 现在,有些报纸的图片是彩色的。

9.Some are more like magazines than newspapers. 有些与其说是报纸,不如说更像杂志。

10.Front page news is a term from newspapers, which has come into our daily language. “首页新闻”是一个报纸用语,它已成为我们的日常用语。

11.Try to think of all the kinds of newspapers there are, 试着想想各种不同的报纸。

12.what about company newspapers, local newspapers, national and international financial newspapers? 公司内部报纸、地方报纸、国内及国际新闻报纸,怎么呢?

13.There are too many to know them all. 太多了,实在无法全都了解。

14.But we can know the importance of newspapers. 但我们知道报纸的重要性。

15.How many uses do you know for old newspapers? 你知道旧报纸有几种用途吗?

Section 24 School二十四 学校

1.I like school, I hate school. 我喜欢学校,我讨厌学校。

2.Why do people feel like that. 为什么人们会有这种感受呢?

3.Which are you, a lover or a hater? 你是哪一种?爱者还是讨厌者?

4.Do you or did you enjoy school and learning? 你现在或是以前喜欢上学学习吗?

5.So what makes a school good or bad? 那学校的好坏是什么决定的呢?

6.Perhaps it is the teachers. 也许是老师。

7.If you have good caring teachers, you will enjoy learning. 如果你有关心你的好老师,你会喜欢学校的。

8.Or is it the classmates that make it good or bad? 或者是同学决定学校的好与坏?

9.Why do we spend so many years at school? 为什么我们在学校花那么多年的时间?

10.It should prepare us for our adult life. 为我们的成年生活做准备吗?

11.Was your school successful at doing that? 你的学校在这方面做得成功吗?

12.People can have very strong ideas about what school should and shouldn’t do. 人们对学校该做和不该做的事情都非常明确吗?

13.Whether schools are to prepare us for adult life or further education, they are important. 不论从为我们的成年做准备的角度,或是从继续教育的角度来看,学校都很重要。

14.So it maybe just a matter of luck if we get to a good school or not. 所以,至于你能否上好学校,只能看运气了。

15.That luck, however, can change our whole life. 也许就是这点运气,会改变我们的一生。

Section 25 University二十五 大学

1.Most people do not go to university. 大多数人没有上大学。

2.Some say it is only the lucky ones who go there. 有人说只有幸运者才能上大学。

3.Probably we all will agree that to go to university is special. 也许,我们都认为能上大学是特殊的。

4.Have you heard of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Stanford? 你听说过剑桥、牛津、哈佛、斯坦福吗?

5.Some universities become world famous. 有些大学是举世闻名的。

6.Universities often produce famous men and women. 大学常会涌现出有名望的男男女女。

7.They become leaders in politics, business, science and art. 他们成为政治、商业、科学和艺术界的领导。

8.But university is not just about learning. 但是大学不仅仅是学习。

9.It is here where people make life long friends. 人们在这里结识了终生的朋友。

10.Whilst university, people make decisions that affect their whole lives. 大学时代,人们作出的决定将影响他的一生。

11.Universities produce medicines and science, technology and research that can benefit human kind. 大学产生了对人类有益的医药、科学和技术等各项科研活动。

12.Some universities are so big that they are like a whole town. 有些大学大得象一座城。

13.We call this a campus. 我们称之为“大学城”,

14.But not all universities are campus universities. 但不是所有的大学都能形成大学城的规模。

15.Some are spread around a city or a town and do not group everyone together in the same place. 有些大学的校园并没有把每个人都集中在同一地点,而是分布在城镇的各个不同的地点。

16.Whichever they are, they all play an important part in the present and future of the world. 无论在哪里,现在还是将来,他们将起重要的作用。

Section 26 Electricity二十六 电力

1.If we try to think of the most important inventions, electricity will surely be on the list. 如果让我们想一想什么是最重要的发明,电一定榜上有名。

2.For the last 100 years, it has played an important part in the development of the modern world. 在过去的一百年里,它在现代社会的发展过程中扮演了十分重要的角色。

3.It affects everyone’s life in one way or another. 它以这样那样的方式影响着人们的生活。

4.It is probably present the moment we are born and it stays with us throughout our lives. 现在,也许从出生开始,电就伴随我们一生。

5.When the electricity goes off, we call it a power cut. 如果断电了,我们称之为“能量断了”。

6.Major power cuts in cities can have disastrous results for commerce and for life. 城市里大规模的断电会给商业及日常生活带来灾难性的后果。

7.Try to think of all the things, organizations etc. that truly depend on electricity. 想一想,那些完全依赖于电的机构等。

8.In fact, it is probably more difficult to think of those not dependent on it. 事实上,要想到一些不依赖电的东西更难。

9.We also call electricity power, which shows how important it is. 我们也把电称为能量,其重要性由此可见。

10.We could say that we take electricity for granted. 可以说我们对电熟视无睹。

11.In the modern world, the making of electricity is a major concern. 现代社会,发电是非常重要的一件事。

12.Its production can harm our environment. 电的生产过程对环境有害。

13.Because of this, scientists and engineers are researching new ways of making it. 因此,科学家和工程师们正探索新的发电途径。

14.Without it, our lives will change dramatically. 没有了电,人们的生活会发生巨大变化。

15.And it is unlikely to be for the better. 但不会变得更好。

Section 27 Environment二十七 环境

1.What exactly is the environment? 到底什么是环境?

2.It’s the world around us. 是我们周围的世界。

3.You mean the sky and trees and things like that. 你指的是天空、树木等等。

4.Well, yes. But it can be even closer to home. 没错,但可以说它更接近我们的家。

5.In fact, your home is an environment. 实际上,你的家也是一个环境。

6.So it is anything that is around us, yah? 那么,就是指我们周围的一切吗?

7.Yah. But most people today think of it as nature. 是的,但现在大多数人认为环境就是大自然。

8.That’s what I thought at first. 一开始,我也这么想。

9.Well, it has become very important today to think of the natural environment. 嗯,现在人们对自然环境的关注已经显得十分重要地。

10.Is that because we are afraid of what is happening in nature? 是不是因为我们都担心大自然发生的变化?

11.Sure. It is really only in the last 50 years that we have realized what harm we are causing to the natural environment. 没错,只是到了近50年我们才真正认识到我们对自然环境的破坏。

12.But the damage was started long before that, wasn’t it? 但危害的产生远比这个时间更久,不是吗?

13.I suppose it’s started with industrial revolution about 300 years ago. 我认为它大约始于300年前的工业苦命时期。

14.That’s not very long, if you think how old the world is. 与地球的年龄相比,这不算太久远。

15.No. But most of the environmental damage had been increasing dramatically over the past 100 years. 说得对,几乎所有的环境破坏老师近百年来才开始不断加剧的。

16.Yes. But now we are aware of it, we are doing our best to rectify it. 是的,但是现在我们已经意识到这一点,并正在设法挽救。

Section 28 Acid Rain二十八 酸雨

1.50 years ago, no one talked about acid rain.50年前,没人谈论酸雨。

2.Then we didn't really know the harm it was causing to the world.那时,我们没有真正了解它对世界的危害。

3.Today almost every adult and school child is aware of acid rain and its effects. 现在,几乎所有成年人和学生都认识到酸雨及其危害性。

4.It affects people all around the world. 它对全世界的人都有影响。

5.Even those who are not responsible for its creation suffer from it. 即使那些与其产生无关的人。也被其所累。

6.It is caused mostly by the burning of fossil fuels. 它大都是由于燃烧化石燃料而致的。

7.Fossil fuels are coal, gas, oil and peat and create carbon when they are burned. 化石燃料指的是煤、天然气、石油和煤,它们燃烧时会产生碳。

8.Carbon is both necessary and dangerous in our world. 在我们这个世界上,碳既有用也有害。

9.Plants and trees need carbon dioxide, CO2, to breeze. 植物和树木需要呼吸二氧化碳。

10.Carbon monoxide, CO, however, is poisonous to us. 一氧化碳却对我们有害。

11.When carbon and other elements get into the air, they mix with water in the clouds. 碳和其他的元素进入空气时,便与云层里的水分混合。

12.The clouds move around the world and produce rain. 云在空气中漂浮,并产生雨。

13.This rain is like an acid and it destroys trees, plants, rivers and fish when it falls. 落下的雨呈酸性,破坏了树木、植物、河流及鱼类。

14.The more trees it destroys, the more difficult it is for nature to redress the balance. 树木被破坏得越多,大自然就越不容易重新取得平衡。

15.The burning of fossil fuels must be controlled in order to assist in the prevention of acid rain. 为了防止酸雨,必须控制燃烧矿物燃料。

Section 29 Global Warming二十九 全球的暖化

1.Some people say the earth is getting warmer. 有人说地球正在变暖。

2.They blame something called greenhouse gasses. 人们把它归结为“温室效应”。

3.The greenhouse gasses destroy the higher atmosphere that keeps our planet from getting too hot. 温室效应破坏了保护我们地球(以免地球)应得太热的高空大气层。

4.CFCs are the gasses that cause one of the biggest problems in global warming. 氟氯化碳是导致全球变暖的主要气体。

5.CFCs destroy some of the ozone that is in the higher atmosphere. 氟氯化碳破坏了高空的部分臭氧层。

6.The ozone layer helps us by filter out some of the harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun. 臭氧层过滤了阳光中的部分有害的紫外线。

7.These rays can cause skin cancer in humans. 这些射线会使人致癌。

8.These rays can also help to heat up our planet. 这些射线也会使我们的星球升温。

9.Over the polar ice caps, we now have holes in the ozone layer. 在两极的冰川地带,人们发现了臭氧层的破洞。

10.These, people believe, contribute to world’s global warming. 人们认为这些是因为地球变暖导致的。

11.One of its effects could have is to speed up the melting of the polar ice caps. 其影响之一,就是加速极地冰川的融化。

12.If these melt too quickly, the level of the sea will rise too fast for us to control it. 如果这些冰川融化得太快,每平面将快速上升,让人无法控制。

13.The effect of a rise in the height of the sea will be dramatic. 海平面升高带来的影响产销量悲剧性的。

14.Many of the world’s major cities will be under sea water. 世界上许多重要的城市将被淹没在海水中。

15.So, global warming can be very dangerous to our future environment. 就是说,全球变暖对未来环境的影响将是十分危险的。

Section 30 Climate Change三十 天气变化

1.El Nino, which is not an English name, is playing an important part in our lives. 厄尔尼诺,不是英文名称,正在对我们的生活产生很大的影响。

2.We often hear people talk about the strange weather we are having nowadays. 现在,我们常会听人们谈论到许多我们近来才出现的奇怪的气候现象。

3.The changing weather patterns are not fully understood yet. 人们还没有完全气候变化的模式。

4.El Nino is one which is not clear in scientist’s minds. 厄尔尼诺就是科学家们至今还无法理解的现象之一。

5.It is a sort of warming of the seas that move around the earth. 它是陆地周围海洋变暖的一种现象。

6.Many strange weather phenomenon are blamed on El Nino. 许多奇怪的气候现象都被认为与厄尔尼诺有关,但这也许不是真正的原因。

7.But this may not be the real case. 全球变暖,臭氧层的破坏、酸雨等都有可能对气候产生影响。

8.Global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer, acid rain etc. can all have an effect upon the weather. 人们都在谈论的这些影响是什么呢?

9.What are these effects that everyone is talking about? 热带风暴出现在非热带地区。

10.Tropical storms are appearing in non-tropical areas. 地球上的某些地区温度升得太高,庄稼无法生长。

11.Some parts of the world are heating up too much and crops are failing, deserts are extending, turning arable land into unfarmable land. 沙漠化正使农耕地区变成不可耕作。

12.Floods are coming to areas that have never experienced than before. 洪灾出现在从未出现过的地区。

13.Unnatural weather occurrences are happening everywhere. 不正常的天气现象在各地出现。

14.We are not certain what the long term effects will be. 我们无法长期的影响会是什么。

15.It is certain, however, that we must pay attention to these occurrences. 然而,我们必须关注这些现象是肯定的。

Section 31 Marriage三十一 婚姻

1.Marriage is an almost universal act. 婚姻是一种普遍性的人类活动。

2.It is the coming together of two people to share their lives in an official way. 它是两个人走到一起,共同合法地生活。

3.In many countries, it has a religious connection. 在许多国家,婚姻与宗教有关。

4.It is one of the oldest ceremonies remaining in most cultures. 在许多文化国度里,它是保存至今最古老的仪式之一。

5.Most countries and religions set a minimum age for marriage. 许多国家和宗教规定了结婚的最小年龄。

6.This will vary from country to country. 这会因国家的不同而有差异。

7.In the UK, for example, a couple may marry at 16 years old. 以英国为例,一致通过夫妇可以在16岁结婚。

8.If a marriage is to be dissolved, we call this divorce. 如果一段婚姻破裂了,我们可以称之为“离婚”。

9.Some religions do not permit divorce. 有些宗教不允许离婚。

10.In the 20th century, some people decided to live together without getting married. 20世纪,有些人决定同居而不结婚。

11.This can be called common-law marriage. 这被称为“事实婚姻”。

12.Most people do this because they want a trial marriage before the real thing. 许多人这么做是因为他们想在真正的婚姻之前先“试婚”。

13.It was thought that it was easier than going through divorce if the relationship didn’t work. 他们认为,如果两人相处不来,这样分手比通过离婚方式容易一些。

14.However, the law in many countries considers this, and after a few years of living together, similar laws to divorce apply. 许多国家的法律也考虑到这一点,如果两人住在一起多年了,分手则采用类似离婚的法律。

15.So, marriage is still popular even though common-law marriage is still tried first, as people may eventually marry anyway.但是尽管有人尝试“事实婚姻”,最终的人不是占多数。

Section 32 Death三十二 死亡

1.It is surprising how different cultures treat death. 奇怪的是,不同的文化对待死亡态度是不同的。

2.The ceremonies surrounding it vary from culture to culture, country to country. 与其有关的仪式因文化和国家的不同而有不同。

3.Even the colors associated with death vary. 就连与死亡相关的颜色也有所不同。

4.In western cultures, black or grey are linked to death. 在西方文化里,黑色和灰色与死亡相关。

5.In Asia, brighter colors are normal. 在亚洲,鲜艳的颜色则很常见。

6.In western cultures, it is not polite to talk a lot about death. 在西方文化里,过多地谈论死亡的事不太礼貌。

7.In other cultures, it may not be an uncommon talking point. 在其它文化里,它也许不是一个不寻常的话题。

8.The forms of burial vary also. 葬礼的方式也有所不同。

9.In the west, people maybe cremated, that is burned to ashes and then buried. 在西方,人死后可以被火化,就是说尸体烧成灰后再埋葬。

10.They may also choose to be buried as a whole body. 人们也可以选择死后全尸土葬。

11.They will be buried in a special place called a cemetery. 人死后被安葬在一个特别的地方,叫“公墓”。

12.In some other places, they may be burned on a funeral pyre. 在有些地方,人死后也许在葬礼后被火化。

13.What happens to us after we die is always a subject of variety and difference. 我们死后会发生什么,永远都有许多不同的答案。

14.Some think that after death there is nothing. 有人认为死了什么都没有了。

15.Others think that there is a life after death or even reincarnation. 还有人认为死后还有一个生命甚至还有轮回。

Section 33 Birth三十三 出生

1.Of course, none of us can remember our own birth. 几乎没有人能记得自己是怎么出生的。

2.If we could, I wonder what we would remember. 如果可能,真不知道我们能记得什么。

3.For the mothers, it is a painful but usually a delightful experience. 对母亲们来说,这是一个艰苦而又兴奋的经验。

4.Hundreds of years ago, mothers and babies may die at the time of birth. 几百年前,母亲和婴儿们都有可能在出生的那一时候死去。

5.Today, however, this is far less common. 现在,这样的事已经很少发生了。

6.A mid-wife is usually present at the birth to assist the mother and the baby. 出生时通常有一位接生婆在场帮助产妇和婴儿。

7.In some countries, the father likes to be present at the birth. 有些国家,父亲也会在接生现场。

8.In the 9 months before the baby is born, the mother is said to be pregnant. 在婴儿出生前的九个月里,母亲被称为“孕妇”。

9.Pregnancy changes many things in the woman’s body, not just in her stomach. 怀孕期间,不仅仅是腹部,女性身体的许多方面都会发生变化。

10.In modern society, there are many different ways of delivering the baby. 在现代社会里,接生的方式多种多样。

11.Some mothers even have the baby under water. 有些母亲甚至在水里临盆。

12.One of first things we do when we are born is to cry. 我们出生的后所做的鳘件事就是哭。

13.This enables us to take our first breath after the umbilical cord is cut. 这样做可以帮助我们在脐带被剪断后进行第一次呼吸。

14.Then we quickly learn how to get food from our mothers. 很快地,我们就学会从母亲那里获取食物。

15.From then all our lives are different. 从此以后我们的一切生活都不一样了

Section 34 Clothes三十四 服装

1.“Clothes make us the man”, states an old English saying. “人*衣装”是一句古老的英国谚语。

2.But is it true? 真是这样吗?

3.If we think carefully, we will find that it is often the case. 如果仔细想想,我们会发现情况通常是这样的。

4.For example, when we see a man in a suit and tie, what do we think? 比方说,当我们看见一位男士穿西装打领带时,我们会怎么想呢?

5.Different professions may require different clothing. 不同的职业对服装有不同的要求。

6.Why is this? 为什么这样呢?

7.It maybe because our clothes tell others which professional or social group we belong to. 也许我们的服装能告诉人们我们从事什么职业或者属于哪一种社会群体的。

8.People feel more comfortable if they can identify which group we are in. 如果人们能判断出我们是属于哪一社会群体的,他们会感觉比较舒心。

9.Usually males and females wear different types of clothing. 男女服装的款式通常是不同的。

10.In the 20th century, however, this changed. 然而,到了20世纪这一点改变了。

11.Women started to wear some of the traditional male clothing. 妇女们开始穿起了一些传统的男子服饰。

12.Even different cultures are starting to change their clothes. 甚至不同文化(国度),他们的服饰也开始发生变化。

13.Around the world, western style clothing is becoming more popular. 在世界范围内,西式服装正越来越流行。

14.Perhaps this is not always such a good thing. 这也许不是一件好事。

15.Variety in clothing can make our society more attractive and interesting. 不同的服装款式使我们的社会更迷人、更有趣。

Section 35 The Body三十五 身体

1.Throughout the world, our bodies are different colors. 从全世界范围来看,人的身体有不同的颜色。

2.Hair, eyes and skin may vary according to our genes. 头发、眼睛和皮肤会出生的不同而有差异。

3.Other aspects of our body, thought, are roughly the same. 身体的其他部位基本上是相同的。

4.Most of us can name all the external parts of the body. 我们大多能说出身体表面各个部位的名称。

5.We usually can name several of our internal main organs. 通常,我们也懂得几种主要内脏器官的名称,

6.Such as heart and lungs. 如心脏、肺等。

7.To know all of the names of the parts of our bodies, we need to study for many years. 要了解我们身体各个部位的名称,我们得花好多年的时间来学习。

8.Our bodies are really very marvelous things. 我们的身体的确非常奇妙。

9.The way that they continue to work year after year is wonderful. 它们生生不已的方式,的确十分奇妙。

10.Of course, we need to take care of our bodies with the right diet and exercise. 当然,要保养好自己的身体,需要正确的饮食和运动。

11.As we gain more knowledge about our bodies, so we understand better how to take care of them. 对身体了解得越多,我们就越懂得如何更好地保护它。

12.In the last 100 years, people are taller, stronger and live longer. 近100年来,人们长得更高、更壮,寿命也更长了。

13.This is because doctors and scientists know much more about how our bodies work. 这是因为医生和科学家们对我们身体的运作规律有了更多的了解。

14.Their work has not stopped. 他们的研究仍然没有停止 ,

15.And we can expect that we will go on learning more. 我们期待着能了解更多。

16.Then our bodies will be even better equipped to handle our life styles. 那时,我们将有更健康的身体去安排自己的生活方式。

17.Perhaps soon most people will expect to live beyond 100 years old. 也许不久的将来,人们可望活到超过100岁。

Section 36 Illness三十六 疾病

1.No one goes through life without getting ill. 没有人一生从不生病的。

2.We usually think of illness as a bad thing. 我们总认为生病是件坏事。

3.Sometimes, thought, it is necessary to be ill, especially when we are young. 有时,生病是必须的,特别是小时候。

4.That’s because we need to build up immunity against disease and sickness. 那是因为我们必须建立起抵御病毒和疾病的免疫力。

5.Most children will get measles and mumps etc. when they are quite young. 大多数孩子小的时候会出疹子,得腮腺炎。

6.Then the effect of these illnesses is not usually very bad. 这些病的后果并非不好。

7.If we get them when we are older, it can be much worse for us. 如果大一点的时候才得这些病,对我们更不好。

8.Throughout history, we have fought against diseases and illnesses and many will have been eradicated from most countries by the end of this century. 有史以来,我们已经同疾病做了许多斗争,许多疾病也将在本世纪末在许多国家完全被消除了。

9.But new ones seem to come along to challenge us, or perhaps these new ones were always there but we did not identify them. 但是似乎又有新的疾病袭来,向人们提出挑战。 也许,这些新的疾病一起都存在,只是我们没有发现。

10.AIDS, Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome, for example, we know is a modern disease. 以爱滋病为例,这是我们知道的一种新的疾病。

11.It may take decades to find a really effective cure for it. 人们也许要花几十年,才能找到真正有效的对治之道。

12.However, we can be encouraged by modern science, which has found cures for most illnesses. 令人鼓舞的是,现代科学已给攻克了许多疾病。

13.What about the common cold? 那常见的感冒呢?

14.One of oldest illnesses is still the most illusive to cure. 最古老的疾病仍然是最骓医治的。

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