西安交通大學(xué)研究生綜合英語II課后習(xí)題答案

1、Unit 1 Putting in a Good Word for Guilt2. Vocabulary: (1) An increasing number of childrens books attempt to portray life as it is for members of disadvantaged and minority groups. This year saw the publication of a rich assortment of realistic fictions for children aged 8-12 and older.assortment n.

2、 A collection of various kinds; a variety多種多樣;一批品種多樣的收藏；多種多樣(2) People with narcissistic personality disorder have a great sense of self-importance. They seek excessive admiration from others and fantasize about unlimited success or power.narcissistic adj.自戀的,自我陶醉的narcissist narcissistically adv. (3

3、) Studies on film consumers had indicated teenage audience as s a prime market, with the result that Hollywood filmmakers obsessively catered to that market, sometimes at the expense of adult fare.obsessively adv.強(qiáng)迫性地, 著迷似地obsessive adj.1 Of, relating to, characteristic of, or causing an obsession著迷

4、,與著迷有關(guān)的或具有著迷特征的obsessive gambling著迷于賭博2 Excessive in degree or nature急迫的,在程度或性質(zhì)上過分的an obsessive need to win急迫的想贏的欲望obsessiveness n.名詞obsess vt.(魔鬼、妄想等)纏住; 迷住常用被動(dòng)結(jié)構(gòu)使窘困; 使煩擾be obsessed by with 被.附上纏住, 迷住心竅obsessor (4) Robinson found many savages on this island. They were seen warring, slaying and eati

5、ng each other, and sacrificing one another by thousands to their gods.slaying = slay v.tr.及物動(dòng)詞動(dòng)詞各種形態(tài)：slew,slain, slaying，slays1 To kill violently兇狠地殺死The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night.在那天夜晚，埋葬了在戰(zhàn)斗中犧牲了的戰(zhàn)士。2 Slang To overwhelm, as with laughter or love【俚語】 深深感動(dòng); 壓倒, 克服; 使禁不住大笑Th

6、ose old jokes still slay me.那些古老的笑話仍讓我感動(dòng)。Middle English slen, slayen中古英語 slen, slayenslayer n. 殺人者, 兇手比照詞匯：destroy; exterminate; kill ; put to death (5) Attempting to make money from the growing legion of both female and male fans of basketball, he started to write love stories with basketball as on

7、e of the elements.legion n.1 The major unit of the Roman army consisting of 3,000 to 6,000 infantry troops and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.古羅馬軍團(tuán)：古羅馬軍隊(duì)的主要單位，由3,000至6,000名步兵和100至200名騎兵組成2 A large military unit trained for combat; an army.軍隊(duì)，兵團(tuán)：被訓(xùn)練以用于戰(zhàn)斗的龐大的軍事單位；軍隊(duì)3 A large number; a multitude.See Synonym

8、s at multitude大量；眾多.參見 multitudea legion of followers大批追隨者M(jìn)iddle English: legioun中古英語 legiounfrom Old French legion源自 古法語 legion對(duì)照詞匯：army, battalion, company, division, force, outfit, regiments, quad, team, troop, unit (6) Being somewhat older than he was, they instilled into him a false idea of the

9、ir superiority, and it was by this means they retained him in their “seta set of wild, dissipated (閑游浪蕩的) young men.instillinstillv.tr.及物動(dòng)詞詞形：in.stilled， in.still.ing， in.stills也作 in.stils1 To introduce by gradual, persistent efforts; implant:逐漸的，持續(xù)地灌輸；灌輸：“Morality . . . may be instilled into their

10、minds(Thomas Jefferson)“道德可以灌輸?shù)剿麄兊念^腦中(托馬斯杰弗遜)Middle English： instillen中古英語 instillen (7) It is perhaps difficult for White South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accept communists as their friends.ingrainedadj.Firml

11、y established; deep-seated根深蒂固的；牢固的ingrained prejudice; 根深蒂固的偏見the ingrained habits of a lifetime一生的根深蒂固的習(xí)慣 (8) While administration officials were kept busy answering the charges, the secretary and chairman hustled back and forth between committees on both sides of the Capitol defending the pace an

12、d scope of the defense effort.hustle詞形：hustled， hustling， r.不及物動(dòng)詞 To work or move energetically and rapidly趕忙，有干勁兒：精力充分、動(dòng)作迅速地工作或運(yùn)動(dòng)Come on, now! Hustle!We hustled to get dinner ready on time.我們忙著把晚餐按時(shí)準(zhǔn)備好hustle for美口費(fèi)力氣想得到, 竭力爭取 (9) Thousands of soccer fans stormed the gates of an already

13、overcrowded stadium, minutes before game time. 49 people were killed and 47 injured in the stampede.stampeden.1 A sudden frenzied rush of panic-stricken animals驚逃，受驚嚇的動(dòng)物突然狂奔2 A sudden headlong rush or flight of a crowd of people逃竄，一哄而散，人群突然猛沖或飛奔There was a stampede of panic-stricken crowd from the b

14、urning hotel.一群驚惶失措的人們, 從失火的旅館中跑了出來。 3 A mass impulsive action 蜂擁a stampede of support for the candidate.紛紛支持那個(gè)侯選人 (10) For a fleeting moment I felt uneasy. Like many Americans making their first trip to an unfamiliar Asian city, I had harbored qualms about just how I might be received.qualmn.A sudd

15、en disturbing feeling不安，疑慮；突然引起不安的感覺qualms of homesickness思鄉(xiāng)癥3.Paraphrase: (1) But then it came to my mind that people have given up guilt for too long a time. During that period of time of about ten years or more, those welcome psychologists solved peoples mental problems by writing books instead o

16、f giving clinical treatment. And they are trying to advocate the concept that nobody should feel guilty for anything.(2)In the past, it was commonly thought that to love himself, everyone should first give up his guilt. For the most part of the past ten years, people deliberately ignored the sense o

17、f guilt without understanding its meaning and significance.(3)Whats more, we would never be one of those who give up their guilt while becoming more and more deteriorated in excessive admiration of themselves.(4)There are people who are tortured by unreasonable guilt. Of course we are not willing to

18、 be one of them or guide our children to be one of them.(5)In such a changeable world, our sense of duty is very likely to change our feeling. Now an old concept may conflict with a new one on what we should do. There is a great difference between our belief and the education we got, and that differ

19、ence results in the sense of guilt.(6)If guilt represents the contradiction of our standards of behavior, it is a good thing full of strength and humanness.(7)In some aspect, the so-called bad feeling reflects the best nature of human being. Because we dont want to feel guilty, we will not do bad th

20、ings.(8)In that aspect, guilt can make us civilized and force us by conscience to be good people instead of putting ourselves in the first place urgently.4. Cloze: Guilt can be a feeling of (1) remorse about an action or situation in which you had some culpability or (2) responsibility. Sometimes we

21、 can feel guilty even there is no (3) reason.Any ideas about what has (4) triggered the guilt? What is of interest in our context is the neurotic sense of guilt which is a form of (5) anxiety mostly connected to repressed, murderous rage. The person feels as if he had (6) committed a moral crime.Doe

22、s too much (7) criticism really cause too much guilt? Harsh parenting leads to decreased (8) empathy, guilt, and selfcontrol. Children are more likely to (9) develop a sense of morality/ conscience if parents use induction. Guilt means that a person does something that (10) violate their moral code,

23、 (11) value system, or their sense of right/ wrong and good/ bad. In other words, once they do something (12) against their duty, people will have the sense of guilt. In the final analysis we judge things by whether they (13) fulfill the purpose for which they were made. It is a (14) generally accep

24、ted principle that one cannot condemn something for (15) failing to achieve what it was never (16) intended to achieve. If man is merely a (17) biochemical machine, he cannot be (18) judged on any moral grounds (19) since the behavior of machines is predetermined by their very (20) nature and is in

25、no sense “moral.5. Translation:A. Translate the following paragraph into Chinese.To be happy, a man must feel, firstly, free and, secondly, important. 人要想快樂，首先必須感到自由，其次，必須感到自己重要。He cannot be really happy if he is compelled by society to do what he does not enjoy doing, or if what he enjoys doing is

26、ignored by society as of no value or importance. 假設(shè)迫于社會(huì)壓力做自己不樂意做的事，或者樂于做的事被認(rèn)為一文不值，毫不重要，得不到社會(huì)的成認(rèn)，那么這樣的人是不可能真正快樂的。A man is a laborer if the job society offers him is of no interest to himself but he is compelled to take it by the necessity of earning a living and supporting his family. 倘假設(shè)一個(gè)人對(duì)社會(huì)給予他的差事

27、不感興趣，干下去只是出于謀生和養(yǎng)家糊口的需要，那么此人就只是個(gè)雇傭勞動(dòng)者。A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do. 倘假設(shè)一個(gè)人打心眼里對(duì)社會(huì)掏錢讓他干的差事感興趣，那么他就是一個(gè)工作者。Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it.

28、 一件差事究竟是勞動(dòng)還是工作并不取決于差事本身，而是取決于干這個(gè)差事的人的喜好。The difference does not coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job. 這種差異并不等同于體力和腦力勞動(dòng)之間的區(qū)別。Which a man is can be seen from his attitude toward leisure. 從一個(gè)人對(duì)休閑的態(tài)度可以看出他屬于哪類人。To a worker, leisure means simply the hours he needs to relax and re

29、st in order to work efficiently. 對(duì)工作者而言，休閑不過是放松休息幾個(gè)小時(shí)，為的是工作起來效率更高。He is therefore more likely to take too little leisure than too much. 所以他很可能花很少的時(shí)間休息，而不是很多。To the laborer, on the other hand, leisure means freedom from compulsion, so that it is natural for him to imagine that the fewer hours he has

30、to spend laboring, and the more hours he is free to play, the better. 對(duì)勞動(dòng)者而言恰恰相反，休閑意味著擺脫了羈絆，他總盼著少干多玩，工作時(shí)間越短越好，這種想法也在情理之中。 B. Translate the following sentences into English.(1)People appealed to the government to put in a good word for the real hero after the truth came out.(2)On the coming of the Ne

31、w Year, it occurred to Sam that he should put aside his work for a while and call his parents.(3)In a time of change, young people often put self-interest in the first place and tune out social commitment.(4)The government has realized that serious social problems may arise from wealth polarization,

32、 and measures have been taken to shorten the distance.(5)As the cost of being famous, stars are particularly vulnerable to criticism, because people always have higher expectations of them.(6)After the terrorist attack was successfully suppressed, the horror-stricken hostages were shepherded across

33、a secret passage to the safety zone. (7)Finally, the author chose to retort the rumor not because of any personal offense, but rather in response to injuries inflicted on others. (8)The criminal explains to his lawyer that his will is so naturally fragile that his physical needs often overpower his

34、feeling, which leads to the theft of his acquaintance. (9) When her grandma, the only person who loved her in the world, passed away, her heart was filled with nothing else but deep sorrow and regret.Unit 2 In the Beginning: God and Science2. Vocabulary(1) profane (2) ignited (3) concocted (4) rever

35、berations (5) subversive (6) enigmatic (7) convergence (8) provisional (9) defy10) transparent3. Paraphrase(1) Its hard and even intolerable to imagine the infinitive universe, like the endless time, but this idea can at least make people feel calm and peaceful.(2) However, in recent decades, the St

36、eady State model of universe has been substituted in scientific field by a more difficult idea that the universe is full of forceful actions.(3) The Big Bang theory makes some astronomers very uneasy, but at the same time, creates a little excitement in religious field for it seems to confirm their

37、belief in creation.(4) Science educed the Big Bang theory from the hard work of assumption and testification and even unexpected but pleasant incidents, which share little interest with ideology.(5) Many theologians also agree that the similar point of religion and science on the issue of creation i

38、s accidental without deep significance.(6) Some scientists refuse to consider the issue of creation with the attitude of dealing with the fact.(7)Yet, actually everyone, including scientists and common religious persons, is possessed by the confusing issues of creation and even what happened before

39、it.(8) People who are engaged in the hitech field need something from spirit and ethics to conduct their work. (9) The Big Bang theory of course is not the perfect final theory of creation that human can develop, but what it shows to us is a vast unknown area that requires effort and appropriate res

40、pect from both religion and science.4. Cloze(1) concerned (2) deeply (3) movements (4) longing (5) endeavor (6) present (7) religious (8) suffice (9) varying (10) experience (11) primitive(12) evokes (13) stage (14) poorly (15) creates (16) depend (17) handed(18) disposed (19) degree (20) basis5. Tr

41、anslationA. Translate the following paragraphs into Chinese.(1) 硅芯片時(shí)代的不可知論可被除了造物之外的許多疑惑所動(dòng)搖。幾乎具有同樣神秘色彩的問題是，在幾十億年前，是什么條件產(chǎn)生了第一個(gè)能夠復(fù)制自身的分子。這一步使得遍布地球的所有生命形式的開展成為可能。為什么恰在那時(shí)發(fā)生呢？對(duì)于科學(xué)和神學(xué)在大爆炸宇宙學(xué)上外表的趨同，宗教界表現(xiàn)出來的熱情是可以理解的。自啟蒙運(yùn)動(dòng)以來，?圣經(jīng)?所述的創(chuàng)世故事或者其它“事件，如人之墮落和耶穌基督的奇跡，屢屢遭遇科學(xué)的貶抑；它們僅僅被當(dāng)作神話、迷信而已?，F(xiàn)在信徒們不由得要相信科學(xué)已經(jīng)費(fèi)力地證實(shí)了至少一個(gè)圣經(jīng)

42、“神話：創(chuàng)世說。(2) 美國國家航空和航天局宣布科學(xué)家已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)來自火星的隕石中有生命的跡象。到目前為止，公眾的反響相當(dāng)積極。不過隨著人們進(jìn)一步領(lǐng)會(huì)其深層含義，這種積極的反響可能會(huì)改變。來自國家宇航局的這一消息是近500年來對(duì)人類最大的冒犯。這個(gè)新發(fā)現(xiàn)說明生命很可能是相當(dāng)普通的一種現(xiàn)象，只要有點(diǎn)時(shí)機(jī)在任何地方都可能發(fā)生。地球并不特殊。異類的生命形式也不特別。它們不是人們通常合情合理想象的長著尖尖耳朵或其它可愛特點(diǎn)的人形生命，它們很可能更像簡單的細(xì)菌。地球上的生命之所以特別是因?yàn)槲覀冎涣私膺@一種生命形式。那么就這一點(diǎn)來說，現(xiàn)在行將破碎的那類教條根本就是建立在無知的根底上的。生物學(xué)的根基非常脆弱，它

43、只有一個(gè)數(shù)據(jù)點(diǎn)，即地球上的生命。B. Translate the following sentences into English.(1) Since my grandma knows nothing about electrical appliance, she always stays clear of any of them with fear.(2) Although they have been sieged for almost a week, the soldiers swear never to yield the ground to the enemy.(3) To his

44、embarrassment, his new boss turned out to be his primary school classmate, on whom he used to play trick.(4)Everybody should know how to choose when their social responsibility clashes with their personal interest.(5) Tourists from all over the world are really taken by the beauty and intelligence s

45、hown in this palace.(6) This book provides a sharp look at the domestic lives of middleclass African Americans and the residual impacts of slavery and racial discrimination. (7) That morning in the largest rural market in Asian, I saw at least a hundred thousand people jostled with one another to bu

46、y livestock, which is so unforgettable to me.(8) The narration at first continues the light spoken tone of the earlier novel, but as it develops, this tone recedes, only occasionally bursting forth in humorous words.(9) The two groups concurred that even the toughest gun laws would have no effect on

47、 crime rate; the key lies in the education of people.(10) No one could expect that the great writers grave was marked by a small wooden board, bearing his name, the letters of which were nearly obliterated by time.Unit 3 Privacy and Property on Net2. Vocabulary(1) confidential (2) facilitate (3) biz

48、arre (4) innovation(5) surveillance (6) Incidentally (7) administered (8) deregulation3. Paraphrase(1) Although privacy and property are firmly established in the history of human development, they vary as the social criteria change.(2) They two are based on experience and can be scientifically true

49、. However, they may be proved wrong in some domains like social aspects.(3) It seems fair for everyone that the law forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, whereas, the truth is that the rich dont have to sleep under bridges so the law only places restrictions on the poor.(4) Co

50、pyright sounds fair to both celebrities and obscurities, but it virtually separate celebrities from the other musicians because only celebrities and major distribution companies have the ability to defend their copyright by legal means. This reveals inequality under the cover of so called equality.(

51、5) Court officials who have made a solemn promise could explore the doubtful cases then specify those really guilty few and report to punish them according to laws.(6) Information technology cannot provide convincing answers to such questions thus ending up being doubted by public, following nuclear

52、 power and genetic engineering.(7) Internet based investigations might succeed, but they are usually less reliable than traditional randomly sampled polls.4. Cloze(1)sophisticated (2)protect (3)named (4)employed (5)other (6)private (7)only (8) public (9)possessed (10)periodically (11)forge (12)limit

53、 (13)approved (14)privileges (15)accountable (16)confidential (17)access (18)difficult (19)mixture (20)symbols5. TranslationA. Translate the following paragraphs into Chinese.(1)這樣一個(gè)多層機(jī)密系統(tǒng)的最正確構(gòu)思是什么呢？是否會(huì)出現(xiàn)意外的后果？公眾是否能接受？如果不能很好地答復(fù)這些問題，信息技術(shù)將會(huì)像核能源和基因工程一樣被籠罩在群眾的疑云之中?，F(xiàn)在無處不在的 銷售已經(jīng)讓人們變得十分抵觸通過 進(jìn)行的科學(xué)調(diào)查了。網(wǎng)絡(luò)調(diào)查倒是

54、大有前途，但是顯然缺乏傳統(tǒng)的隨機(jī)抽樣調(diào)查的可信度。另一個(gè)問題是，政府以平安為目的進(jìn)行數(shù)據(jù)收集和整合，但是對(duì)其真實(shí)結(jié)果的研究在政府的平安機(jī)構(gòu)內(nèi)部是不可能公正的，因?yàn)橐氆@得科學(xué)的公正性，研究就必須公開進(jìn)行。(2)根據(jù)卡內(nèi)基麥倫大學(xué)的研究，使用因特網(wǎng)可能會(huì)導(dǎo)致心理健康程度下降。兩年的研究說明，上網(wǎng)次數(shù)多的人與較少的人相比，即使是一周僅上網(wǎng)幾小時(shí)也會(huì)經(jīng)常地感覺到沮喪和孤獨(dú)。這不是說已經(jīng)有不良感覺的人在網(wǎng)上花費(fèi)了更多的時(shí)間，而是說使用因特網(wǎng)似乎確實(shí)誘發(fā)了人們的不良感覺。研究者推測說，實(shí)際情況是上網(wǎng)使網(wǎng)民減少了和家人及朋友共度的時(shí)光，這也許可以解釋他們心理健康狀況的下降原因。和面對(duì)面的交談相比，這種見不

55、著面、看不見人的“虛的交流可能會(huì)使人從心理上缺乏滿足感。人們通過這種交流結(jié)下的友誼也不會(huì)太深。還有一種可能是，網(wǎng)民通過因特網(wǎng)所了解到的廣闊世界使他們對(duì)自己的生活不那么滿意了。B. Translate the following sentences into English.(1) The news rendered us extremely excited that our contestant had won the championship in the contest.(2) After every Spring Festival graduates travel around the

56、country in the pursuit of job.(3) How can you tell he has murdered his neighbor in the absence of any specific proof?(4) Under the threat of terrorists attacks government has to sift through heaps of mails every day.(5) The conference committes members are discussing whether the topic should fall un

57、der this sessions theme.(6) When he was aware that his health was deteriorating, the once ambitious entrepreneur relinquished all control over the business to his son.(7) The municipal government has determined to broaden all the roads within the city and is actively planning to build the undergroun

58、d system as well. All this aims at facilitating citizens transportation.(8)When investigating a bank robbery resulting in two deaths, the police found a letter which implicated John in the robbery.Unit 5 Escaping to Ireland for Christmas2. Vocabulary(1) contrariness (2) tangle (3) stamina (4) roam (5) subtlety (6) bustling (7) conspir