第一单元
“‘在画画呢!’她大声说道。‘多么有趣。可你还在等什么呢? 把画笔给我---大的那支。’她猛地用笔蘸起颜料，还没等我缓过神来，她已经挥笔泼墨在惊恐不已的画布上画下了有力的几道蓝色。谁都看得出画布无法回击。我不再迟疑。我抓起那支最大的画笔，迅猛异常地向我可怜的牺牲品扑了过去。自那以后，我再也不曾害怕过画布。”
1.When his wife died of a stroke in her sixties, the 72-year-old retired profeor was overwhelmed by grief.Life would be too difficult for him without anybody to rely on.
2.Last month two amateur painters held an exhibition of their pictures in London.Many people went to see it, including a few celebrated profeors.
3.When seven astronauts died in the Challenger disaster in the mid-1980s, it plunged the whole world into shock and grief.
4.After completing her second prime ministry, she remained actively involved in political affairs.She came to the rescue several times when the government was in difficulty.
5.After his failure in the election campaign, Dr.Smith retired to a small village, where he tried his hand at farming.
6.As long as you keep working hard all your life, you will recall your past with a glow of satisfaction.
7.We must awaken people to the importance of environmental protection now, or it will soon be too late.
8.That official was removed from office for being involved in a political scandal.Had he known this would happen, he might have acted differently.第二单元
儒教也为亚洲人的成功提供了另一个要素。在孔夫子的哲学中，家庭起着最重要的作用----这种定向引导人们为家庭的荣誉而学习工作，而不仅仅是为了他们自己。一个人永远无法报答他的父母，而且在亚洲人中间还有一种责任感、乃至负罪感，这是一种如同新教哲学在西方一样的强大力量。
9.Female students constitute the majority of our cla.By contrast, their cla is made up of males only.
10.American children can usually watch TV three hours a day, whereas their Chinese counterparts have to work on their homework during most their after-school time.
11.His development of a series of new research methods led to his huge succe.He said he owed all this to his parents‟ encouragement.
12.He resented being excluded from discuions that directly concerned his future.
13.The fact that these problems are continually showing up suggests that this new device has to be readjusted.
14.As one of the many Asian students who have surged into the best American universities in recent years, Zhang Hua says that many of his ideas are based on traditional Chinese philosophy.
15.To start with, it is not merely money that makes Mr.Young work so hard.He is committed to educating the young and tires to motivate them to get ahead in life.
16.As time was running out, we drove even faster in the hope that we could make it to the airport in time.
第三单元
从一开始，乔治就被所有的日本雇员欣然接受。日方经理通常不信任任何被派去代表美方业主的人，但乔治生性随和，没有人把他看作是对自己职业的一种威胁。所以他们喜欢就广泛的各类问题征求他的意见，包括大洋彼岸他们的合作伙伴的古怪行为。公司上下的工程师们都珍视乔治的专业知识和他友好而技能熟练的帮助，他们已养成了一有问题----任何问题，就找他帮忙的习惯。办公室里的秘书们都热衷于帮助这个讨人喜欢的单身汉学习日语。
1.When this temporary job came to an end, George was offered a
permanent job, which he accepted at once.
2.To ensure that their ventures in Japan are profitable, the American
companies need cultural translators even more than language translators.
3.As a cultural translator, George was eager to help the Japanese employees who came to ask his advice on a great many matters, both within and outside of his field of expertise.
4.Somehow or other, George persuaded the American manager to go along with the Japanese accountant‟s decision, thus smoothing over the conflict between the two.
5.Conflicts and arguments do arise at times between the American
managers and their Japanese counterparts.But since both parties have the good sense to compromise, these conflicts are prevented from escalating into big emotional battles.
6.All the Japanese employees, the personnel manager included,
appreciated George‟s frequent help with the multitude of problems they run into.
7.My spoken Japanese is not good enough to expre myself well.Please don‟t get offended if I sometimes say stupid things.
8.with a solid understanding of traditional Chinese medicine and a good mastery of English, dr.Zhang is highly qualified to train foreign doctors who came to China to study Chinese medicine.
第四单元
成功鼓励人们重复过去的行为，因而远不及失败这个老师来得好。你可以从一次极糟的晚会中学会如何举办一次成功的晚会，从第一次不当的选房中学到下次选房时要注意些什么。即使一次看似彻底的失败也能激发新的思路，引起方向的改变。
1.Protecting children from the knowledge that they have failed is anything but beneficial to their growth and development.
2.Emerson does not think there is a world of difference between succe and failure.
3.A mature person is one who is good at turning failure into succe.
4.She was so obseed with becoming a succe in ice skating that she never prepared herself for challenges of the real world.
5.He suffered a complete nervous breakdown when he learned that his company had gone bankrupt.
6.When talking about his succe, Mr.Smith is very prone to exaggeration.
7.The company started by selling radios but now has branched out into selling computers as well.
8.In fact, failure is nothing to be afraid of.Once we learn how to use it, it can make a positive contribution to our growth and development.第五单元
要做到工作学习两不误很困难。“我要一直熬夜学习，每天一大早又要去上班。我上课时很难集中思想，上班时也很难受，因为我实在太累了，”她说。不过她第一学期最后还是得了两个A。.
1.The university offered Priscilla only a small loan and she had to come up with the rest of the money herself.
2.With small income from her restaurant job, marry could barely make (both) ends meet.That‟s why she found some cleaning work to do in the apartment building where she lived.
3.During her first semesters, she often stayed up late studying because she knew she had to get the highest GPA in her cla to qualify the scholarship.
4.Anyone who wants to find employment in/ with that company must have at least a master‟s degree; if not a Ph.D.otherwise he or she will not be accepted.
5.Only if you completely throw yourself into your studies will you ultimately achieve your long-term goal of becoming an archaeologist.
6.In the office Beth always looked happy and had a ready smile.But deep down, she was tired of being a secretary.She wanted to do something more creative.
7.A migrant farm laborer from Mexico, my father was overjoyed when I was accepted by the University of Washington and became the first person in my family to attend college.
8.When Priscilla looked back on her years of hard struggle, she said that it was no easy job to balance work and study.
第六单元
他被称为“活着的最有才华的人”，“20世纪后期最伟大的天才”，以及“爱因斯坦的继承人”。因《时间简史》一书而闻名遐迩为众人所知的斯蒂芬霍金是一个多重意义上的明星科学家。霍金擅长于用一种为非科学家所喜爱的文体揭示宇宙的奥秘，这种天赋使他声誉鹊起，也使他的书在英国和美国都成了畅销书。该书因在《星期日泰晤士报》十大畅销书名单上持续了184周，并在全世界销售了500多万册而在《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》上赢得了一席之地——对一本科学书籍来说，这简直是前所未闻的成功。
1.Stephen Hawking, a British scientist specializing in theoretical cosmology has been proclaimed the greatest genius of the late 20th century.
2.Every time he releases a new record, the singer dreams of its/ it earning a place in the „top-ten‟ list one the radio.
3.Located to the northwest of London, Oxford University is well known/ noted far and wide for its academic excellence.
4.An intellectual giant, Einstein was responsible for modern man‟s new concept of time and space.
5.This medical research is aimed at finding new treatments for inherited blood diseases, because the drugs now in use cannot cure these complicated diseases.
6.This year is the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of our university.A private school initially, it has now become a world-famous university specializing in theoretical research.
7.Two years ago, bob was feeling bored with his job as a restaurant manager.Luckily he won a scholarship to the state university.
8.Asked what kind of student Stephen was at college, Prof.white, the then Chair of the Physics department, recalls: “ He impreed me as a very bright student with an instinctive insight into physics.”
21世纪大学英语第二册_Reading_Aloud___Uint~Unit8原文及翻译
