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1、完形填空BooklllUnit 1In the fall of our final year, our moodchanged. The relaxed atmosphere of the preceding summersemester, the Impromptu ball games, the boating on the Charles River, thelate-ni ghtparties had disappeared, and weall started to get our heads dow n, study ing late, andatte ndance atclass

2、es rose steeply aga in. We all sen sed we were ing to the end of our stay here, that we would n ever get a cha nee like this aga in, and we became determ ined not to waste it. Most importa nt of course were the final exams in April and May in the followi ng year. No one wan ted the humiliationof fin

3、ishing last in class, so the peer group pressureto work hard was strong. Libraries which were once empty after five oclock in the after noon were sta nding room only un til the early hours of the morning, and guys wore the bags under their eyes and theirpale ,sleepy faces with pride, likemedals prov

4、ing theirdilige neeUnit 2 social anthropologists childre nSocial anthropologists社会人类学家 ask questions about how childhood,and the role of childre n儿童扮演的角色 ,is see n with in themun itiesthey study 在他们所研究的族群里，rather than how it fits into Western ideas 如何符合西方的观念about childhood. By doing this they seek t

5、oavoid imposing强加给 outside ideas onto people with very differentun dersta ndings of the world or of making valuejudgme nts 作价值观方面的判断 on other people s ways of raising their children养育孩子.While Westerners might take exception to eight- year-old girls working or to 12-year-oldgirlsmarrying, within thei

6、r own munitiessuchactivities are seen as a normal and positive part 积极的常态 of childhood In deed,see n through the eyes of non-Wester ners,many“ normal “ Western childcare practices西方育儿方式are seen asextremely bizarre 极其怪异 and possibly harmful to children. Placing childre n in rooms of their own, refusi

7、 ng to feed them on dema nd想吃东西的时候不给他们吃，or lett ing them cry rather tha n immediatelytending to them 不赶快去安抚他们 ,are viewed verynegativelyin manysocieties 在很 多社会里都是不对的 and lead some to think that Westerners don t know how to look after childre n properly.Unit 3 third plane on which musicThe third plan

8、e on which music exists is the sheerly musical plane.Besides the pleasurable sound of music and the expressive feeling that it gives off, music does exist in terms of thenotes themselves andof theirman ipulati on . Most liste ners are not sufficie ntly con sciousof this third pla ne.It is very impor

9、tant for all of us to bee more alive to music on itssheerly musical pla ne. After all, used. The intelligentlistenerawareness of the musical material the melodies, the rhythms, thean actual musical material is being must be prepared to in crease his and what happens to it. He must hear harmonies the

10、 tone colors in a moreconscious fashion. But above all he must, in order to follow the lineof the posers thought, know someth ing of theprin ciples of musicalform. Listening to all of these elements is listening on the sheerly musical pla ne.Unit 4 Golde n memories(13)I can still vaguely recall the

11、men who built the walls, and raised the roof, eve n though it was many families ago. The master from the manor house over the way needed a lodge for his grounds manto live, and found a clearing in the huge orchard which ran up and down the hills. He sent workmen to haul the golden stone from the loc

12、al quarry and they spent three mon ths con struct ing two cottages in the park.I only see my neighbour side-on. I ve never seen him from the front,but I do know that strangely, although we re identical, we re theexact opposite of each other, with my front door facing east and my neighbour s facing w

13、est, my bedroom in the back over his kitchen, my kitchen under his bedroom in the front. I think I m the lucky onebecause each morning, my stone gleams in the sun light.The groun dsma n ten ded the orchards and the garde ns around themanorhouse so the trees in autu mn were alwaysbowed dow n with app

14、les andpears, and as the days grew shorter the land around wasteeming withhelpers picking the fruit and rounding up the windfallsto take to themanor house, or to market in town down the way.Unit 5 Dinner atThe appo in tme nt meant Josh would nt get home un til after Christmas.He was not, however, un

15、 happy. He was meeti ng Jo Rogers, theSeniorsenator for Connecticut, and one of the best-knownfaces in the US.Sen ator Rogers was a Democrat Capitol Hill in side out but who had credibility with her voters pro-aborti on,an ti-corrupti on,anti-capital punishment, as fine ain her third term of office,

16、 who knewn evertheless man aged to keep her as a Washington outsider . She was pro-lowcarb onemissi ons andprogressive liberal as you couldfind this side of the Atlantic. Talk show hosts called her HonestSen ator Jo, and a couple of years ago, Time magaz ine had her in the running for Woman of the Y

17、ear. It was election time in the following year, and the word was she was going to run for the Democratic nomin ati on . Rogers had met Josh in DC, thought him highlypete nt , andhad invited him to dinner.Unit 6 festivals (1113)So the problem is not Western culture, or what we gen erally associate w

18、ith it. The problem is those who arebli ndedby everyth ing Wester n.Wehave to find out why more and more Chinese, especially the youngsters, feel at one with Western festivals as much as they do with the Chinese on es. But tha nkfullyour festivals have lost none of their charm. Andcon serve ourhere

19、is where the alarm bells sounded by scholars and students e in.I can understand the zeal of these people. They want toculture, and that defi nitelydoes n t make them what we gen erally referto as “ conservatives ” . They have a point. But they, or for that matter an ybody else, cannot save any socie

20、ty from the in flue nee of a world gett ing smaller by the day.So in stead of trying to shut our eyes and ears to Wester n festivals, we should accept thegood ness they offer and practice what they sta ndfor. And let s not forget that Jesus was not born in the West but the East (the Middle East, to

21、be precise ), and he preached love for mankind and help for the poor.Unit 7 heroes PicciotoPicciotto was the highest ranking firefighter to survive the attack.The chief of the department, the firstdeputy and the chief of rescueoperations had all been killed. Altogether the death toll included 343 fi

22、refighters and more tha n 3,000.Picciotto tells the story in his book Last Man Down. He uses a dramatic firstperson style which gives the reader an idea of the nightmare andthe chaotic confusion of one of the darkest days in the history of the Un ited States, the tragedy now known to the world simply as 9/11, but a day of utmost humanity and heroism too. Published in 2002, the book became an immediate best-seller, which the aut