现代大学英语精读2文本完整版(课文A 单词)

1、 现代大学英语精读2 lesson one pre-class work read the text a third time. learn the new words and expressions listed below. glossary accomplishmentn. the act of finishing sth. completely and successfully; achievement acquirev. to gain; to get for oneself by ones own work arrogantlyadv. behaving in a proud an

2、d self-important way aspirinn. 阿司匹林（解热镇痛药） assumev. to take as a fact; to suppose availableadj. able to be used or easily found bachelorn. s degree: the first university degree beanpolen. (infml) a very tall and thin person bulln. a male cow certifyv. to state that sth. is true or correct, esp. afte

3、r some kind of test civilizedadj. educated and refined; having an advanced culture clientn. a person who pays for help or advice from a person or organization continuityn. the state of being continuous cyaniden. 氰化物 democraticadj. based on the idea that everyone should have equal rights and should b

4、e involved in making important decisions 民主的 disastern. a sudden event such as a flood, storm, or accident which causes great damage or suffering. here: a complete failure drugstoren. (ame) a shop which sells medicine (and a variety of other things) enrollv. to officially arrange to join a school or

5、 university expertisen. skill in a particular field exposev. to enable sb. to see or experience new things or learn about new beliefs, ideas, etc. facultyn. (ame) all the teachers of a university or college fragmentn. a small piece of sth. generatev. to produce grindv. to crush into small pieces or

6、powder by pressing between hard surfaces hipn. the fleshy part of either side of the human body above the legs humanityn. the qualities of being human implicitlyadv. in an implied way 含蓄地 inevitableadj. certain to happen and impossible to avoid literaladj. in the basic meaning of a word maintainv. t

7、o continue to have as before neanderthaln. an early type of human being who lived in europe during the stone age neverthelessadv. in spite of that; yet peculiaradj. belonging only to a particular person; special; odd penetratingadj. showing the ability to understand things clearly and deeply pestn.

8、(infml) an annoying person pharmacyn. a shop where medicines are prepared and sold. here: the study of preparing drugs or medicines philosophyn. the study of the nature and meaning of existence, reality, etc. 哲学 pilln. a small solid piece of medicine that you swallow whole presidev. to lead; to be i

9、n charge professionaladj. relating to the work that a person does for an occupation, esp. work that requires special training pursuitn. the act of trying to achieve sth. in a determined way push-buttonadj. using computers or electronic equipment rather than traditional methods qualifiedadj. having s

10、uitable knowledge or experience for a particular job rearv. to care for a person or an animal until they are fully grown resourcesn. possessions in the form of wealth, property, skills, etc. that you have 资源 savagen. an uncivilized human being scrolln. here: a certificate of an academic degree semes

11、tern. one of the two periods into which the year is divided in american high schools and universities (=term in bre) sensitiveadj. able to understand or appreciate art, music or literature shudderv. to shake uncontrollably for a moment specializev. to limit all or most of ones study to particular su

12、bjects 专修 speciesn. (infml) a type; a sort specimenn. here: a person who is unusual in some way and has a quality of a particular kind spiritualadj. related to your spirit rather than to your body or mind storev. to keep sufficev. to be enough proper names aristotle 亚里士多德 bach 巴赫 chaucer 乔叟 dante 但丁

13、 einstein 爱因斯坦 hamlet 哈姆雷特 homer 荷马 la rochefoucauld 拉罗什富科 shakespeare 莎士比亚 virgil 维吉尔 text a another school year what for? john ciardi read the text once for the main idea. do not refer to the notes, dictionaries or the glossary yet. let me tell you one of the earliest disasters in my career as a t

14、eacher. it was january of 1940 and i was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the university of kansas city. part of the student body was a beanpole with hair on top who came into my class, sat down, folded his arms, and looked at me as if to say all right, teach me something.

15、two weeks later we started hamlet. three weeks later he came into my office with his hands on his hips. look, he said, i came here to be a pharmacist. why do i have to read this stuff? and not having a book of his own to point to, he pointed to mine which was lying on the desk. new as i was to the f

16、aculty, i could have told this specimen a number of things. i could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read bachelor of science. it would not read: qualified pill-grinding tec

17、hnician. it would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history. that is to say, he had not entered a technical training school but a university and in universities students enroll for

18、both training and education. i could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasnt going to be around long enough for it to matter. nevertheless, i was young and i had a high sense of duty and i tried to put it this way: for the rest of your life, i said, your days are going to average

19、out to about twenty-four hours. they will be a little shorter when you are in love, and a little longer when you are out of love, but the average will tend to hold. for eight of these hours, more or less, you will be asleep. then for about eight hours of each working day you will, i hope, be usefull

20、y employed. assume you have gone through pharmacy school or engineering, or law school, or whatever during those eight hours you will be using your professional skills. you will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesnt jump the fence, or that your client doesnt go to

21、 the electric chair as a result of your incompetence. these are all useful pursuits. they involve skills every man must respect, and they can all bring you basic satisfactions. along with everything else, they will probably be what puts food on your table, supports your wife, and rears your children

22、. they will be your income, and may it always suffice. but having finished the days work, what do you do with those other eight hours? lets say you go home to your family. what sort of family are you raising? will the children ever be exposed to a reasonably penetrating idea at home? will you be pre

23、siding over a family that maintains some contact with the great democratic intellect? will there be a book in the house? will there be a painting a reasonably sensitive man can look at without shuddering? will the kids ever get to hear bach? that is about what i said, but this particular pest was no

24、t interested. look, he said, you professors raise your kids your way; ill take care of my own. me, im out to make money. i hope you make a lot of it, i told him, because youre going to be badly stuck for something to do when youre not signing checks. fourteen years later i am still teaching, and i a

25、m here to tell you that the business of the college is not only to train you, but to put you in touch with what the best human minds have thought. if you have no time for shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for the continuity of the fine arts, for that lesson of mans development we call his

26、tory then you have no business being in college. you are on your way to being that new species of mechanized savage, the push-button neanderthal. our colleges inevitably graduate a number of such life forms, but it cannot be said that they went to college; rather the college went through them withou

27、t making contact. no one gets to be a human being unaided. there is not time enough in a single lifetime to invent for oneself everything one needs to know in order to be a civilized human. assume, for example, that you want to be a physicist. you pass the great stone halls of, say, m. i. t., and th

28、ere cut into the stone are the names of the scientists. the chances are that few, if any, of you will leave your names to be cut into those stones. yet any of you who managed to stay awake through part of a high school course in physics, knows more about physics than did many of those great scholars

29、 of the past. you know more because they left you what they knew, because you can start from what the past learned for you. and as this is true of the techniques of mankind, so it is true of mankinds spiritual resources. most of these resources, both technical and spiritual, are stored in books. boo

30、ks are mans peculiar accomplishment. when you have read a book, you have added to your human experience. read homer and your mind includes a piece of homers mind. through books you can acquire at least fragments of the mind and experience of virgil, dante, shakespeare the list is endless. for a grea

31、t book is necessarily a gift; it offers you a life you have not the time to live yourself, and it takes you into a world you have not the time to travel in literal time. a civilized mind is, in essence, one that contains many such lives and many such worlds. if you are too much in a hurry, or too ar

32、rogantly proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of aristotle, or chaucer, or einstein, you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy. i think it was la rochefoucauld who said that most people would never fall in love if th

33、ey hadnt read about it. he might have said that no one would ever manage to become human if they hadnt read about it.i speak, im sure, for the faculty of the liberal arts college and for the faculties of the specialized schools as well, when i say that a university has no real existence and no real

34、purpose except as it succeeds in putting you in touch, both as specialists and as humans, with those human minds your human mind needs to include. the faculty, by its very existence, says implicitly: we have been aided by many people, and by many books, in our attempt to make ourselves some sort of

35、storehouse of human experience. we are here to make available to you, as best we can, that expertise. lesson two pre-class work read the text a third time. learn the new words and expressions listed below. glossary alertadj. watchful and ready to meet danger birchn. 桦树 boughn. a main branch of a tre

36、e cabinn. a small roughly built house chasev. to drive away; to cause to leave creekn. a long narrow stream crouchv. to lower the body close to the ground by bending the knees and back cubn. a young meat-eating wild animal like bear, lion, tiger, wolf, etc. detainv. to keep sb. from leaving during a

37、 certain time dimv. to become less bright docn. (infml ame) a doctor driftv. to be driven along by wind flaken. a very small flat thin piece that breaks away easily from sth. else; snow : 雪花 grasshoppern. 蚱蜢 howln. a long loud cry, esp. made by wolves as in pain, anger, etc. leapv. to jump high into

38、 the air lickv. to move the tongue across the surface of sth. in order to eat it or clean it mantlen. a loose outer sleeveless garment. here it is used figuratively. meadown. a field with wild grass and flowers mischievousadj. eager to have fun by playing harmless tricks muzzlen. the nose and mouth

39、of an animal such as a dog, a wolf or a horse numbadj. unable to feel anything because of coldness pacen. a single step in running or walking partnern. sb. who does the same activity with you 伙伴 pawn. an animals foot that has nails or claws piercev. to make a hole in or through (sth.) using sth. wit

40、h a sharp point pinen. 松树 pokev. to push or move sth. through a space or opening puppyn. a young dog (puppy-wool here refers to the wool of the wolf cub) realizev. to understand restlessadj. unwilling or unable to stay quiet and still riflen. a type of gun fired from the shoulder rocketn. 火箭 rooster

41、n. (ame) a cock rumblen. a deep continuous rolling sound shackn. a small and not very strong building shiverv. to shake, esp. from cold or fear slashv. to make a long deep cut with sth. sharp like a knife smotherv. to cover thickly snarln. a low angry sound while showing the teeth soakedadj. very we

42、t with some liquid spearv. 用鱼叉刺 spurtv. to come out quickly and suddenly in a thin, powerful stream squatv. to sit with your knees bent under you, your bottom off the ground, and balancing on your feet 蹲；蹲坐 squirreln. a small animal with a long furry tail that climbs trees and eats nuts 松鼠 stirv. to

43、 move slightly thickenv. to become thicker thrillv. to feel very happy and excited tolln. to take a : to have a very bad effect on sb. or sth. trappern. a person who catches wild animals for their fur unchainedadj. without a chain whimperv. to make low crying sounds wigglev. (infml) to move in small

44、 movements from side to side, or up and down wolfn. a wild animal that looks like a large dog and lives and hunts in groups wooln. the soft thick hair of sheep and some goats (here it refers to the hair of the wolf.) text a maheegun my brother eric acland read the text once for the main idea. do not

45、 refer to the notes, dictionaries or the glossary yet. the year i found maheegun, spring was late in coming. that day, i was spearing fish with my grandfather when i heard the faint crying and found the shivering wolf cub. as i bent down, he moved weakly toward me. i picked him up and put him inside

46、 my jacket. little maheegun gained strength after i got the first few drops of warm milk in him. he wiggled and soon he was full and warm. my grandfather finally agreed to let me keep him. that year, which was my 14th, was the happiest of my life. not that we didnt have our troubles. maheegun was th

47、e most mischievous wolf cub ever. he was curious too. like looking into grandmas sewing basket which he upset, scattering thread and buttons all over the floor. at such times, she would chase him out with a broom and maheegun would poke his head around the corner, waiting for things to quiet down. t

48、hat summer maheegun and i became hunting partners. we hunted the grasshoppers that leaped about like little rockets. and in the fall, after the first snow our games took us to the nearest meadows in search of field mice. by then, maheegun was half grown. gone was the puppy-wool coat. in its place wa

49、s a handsome black mantle. the winter months that came soon after were the happiest i could remember. they belonged only to maheegun and myself. often we would make a fire in the bushes. maheegun would lay his head between his front paws, with his eyes on me as i told him stories. it all served to f

50、og my mind with pleasure so that i forgot my grandpas repeated warnings, and one night left maheegun unchained. the following morning in sailed mrs. yesno, wild with anger, who demanded maheegun be shot because he had killed her rooster. the next morning, my grandpa announced that we were going to t

51、ake maheegun to the north shack. by the time we reached the lake where the trappers shack stood, maheegun seemed to have become restless. often he would sit with his nose to the sky, turning his head this way and that as if to check the wind. the warmth of the stove soon brought sleep to me. but som

52、ething caused me to wake up with a start. i sat up, and in the moon-flooded cabin was my grandfather standing beside me. come and see, son, whispered my grandfather. outside the moon was full and the world looked all white with snow. he pointed to a rock that stood high at the edge of the lake. on t

53、he top was the clear outline of a great wolf sitting still, ears pointed, alert, listening. maheegun, whispered my grandfather. slowly the wolf raised his muzzle. oooo-oo-wow-wowoo-oooo! the whole white world thrilled to that wild cry. then after a while, from the distance came a softer call in repl

54、y. maheegun stirred, with the deep rumble of pleasure in his throat. he slipped down the rock and headed out across the ice. hes gone, i said. yes, hes gone to that young she-wolf. my grandfather slowly filled his pipe. he will take her for life, hunt for her, protect her. this is the way the creator planned life. no man can change it. i tried to tell myself it was al