英语专业综合英语Unit 3部分练习答案.doc

Unit 3Translation2. Translating PassageTranslate the following into Chinese.Every afternoon a file of old women passes down the road outside my house, each carrying a load of firewood. All of them are mummified with age and sun, and all of them are tiny. One day a poor old creature who could not have been more than four feet tall crept past me under a vast load of wood. I stopped her and put a five-sou piece into her hand. She answered with a shrill wail, which was partly gratitude but mainly surprise. I suppose from her point of view, by taking any notice of her, I seemed almost to be violating a law of nature. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say, as a beast of burden. When a family is traveling it is quite usual to see a father and a grown-up son riding ahead on donkeys and an old woman following on foot, carrying the baggage. 参考译文每天下午都有一批年迈的妇女在我家门前的马路上鱼贯走过，每个人都背着一捆柴火。因为上了年纪再加之常年日晒，她们骨瘦如柴，而且全都长得很矮小。有一天，一个可怜的老太婆蹒跚着从我身旁走过，她身高不满四英尺，背着一大捆柴火。我叫住她，在她手里塞了一枚五苏的硬币。对此，她发出一声尖叫算作回应，部分是出于感激，但主要是因为惊讶。我以为，在她的眼光里，我对她的关注几乎差不多是在触犯一条自然的法则。她心甘情愿地接受一个老妈子的地位，也就是说当一个负重的牲口。经常可以看到一家人外出旅行，父亲和长大成人的儿子骑着毛驴走在前面，而一个老妇人却步行跟在后面，肩上扛着行李。 Listening Exercises1. Listen to the talk once for the main ideas.Task: Which of the following best states the speakers purpose?A. To bring forward a controversial judicial issue, the death penalty, for the nations attention. B. To show that the majority of Americans are opposing death penalty. C. To display that most Americans are supporting the death penalty. D. To point out that the present debate about the death penalty is triggered by the execution of the convicted murderer McVeigh. Key: C 2. Listen to the talk again for details.Task 1: Determine whether the following statements are true or false. 1). McVeigh is to be the first person executed by the federal government since 1953. F2). The Attorney General postponed the execution because thousands of pages of evidence that had been found were given to the FBI. F3). After an investigation ordered by Mister Ashcroft. McVeigh was still guilty. T4). According to Mr. Scheidegger, McVeighs case justifies a need for a federal death penalty. T5). Ajamu Baraka directs an anti-death penalty program in an attempt to prompt an international opposition to the McVeigh execution. T6). Opponents have always argued that the death penalty was unfair because it is more often ordered when the case involves the poor or racial minorities. TTask 2: Give brief answers to the following questions.Listening ExercisesQuestionsBrief answers1. How many states permit the death penalty?2. How many convicts were executed last year?3. How many people were killed by the bomb explosion in Oklahoma City?4. How many Americans support McVeighs execution?5. How many Americans support the death penalty five years ago? Any how many now?6. How many more convicts are to be executed this year?1. 382. 853. 168 people, incl. 19 children4. 75%5. 77%, 63%6. 19Script of Listening(1)Arguments are increasing in the United States both for and against sentencing convicted criminals to die. The renewed death penalty debate is caused by the planned execution of convicted murderer Timothy McVeigh. He is to be the first person executed by the federal government since 1963.(2)Thirty-eight states permit a convicted criminal to be sentenced to death. Last year 85 people were executed in the United States.(3)McVeigh placed a powerful bomb near a federal government building in Oklahoma City in 1995. The explosion killed 168 people, including 19 children.(4)McVeigh has admitted he is guilty of murdering the most people in American history. His execution, by chemical injection, was set for next week. However, on Friday, Attorney General John Ashcroft postponed the execution until June 11. The Justice Department announced Thursday that thousands of pages of evidence had been found. The FBI should have given defense lawyers these documents before McVeighs trial. Mister Ashcroft ordered an investigation, but said McVeigh was still guilty.(5)Recent public opinion studies show more than 75% of Americans support McVeighs execution. These include many Armenians who usually oppose death sentences.(6)Kent Scheidegger is with the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in California. It is a victims rights organization that supports the death penalty. Mister Scheidegger says McVeigh is a perfect example of why there is a need for a federal death penalty. He says anything less than the death of McVeigh would show a complete lack of justice.(7)Groups opposed to the death penalty say the approval of the execution of McVeigh does not show an increase in general public support for the death penalty. Opinion studies show that support for the death penalty has decreased. Studies show 77% of Americans supported it five years ago. Now about 63% do.(8)Ajamu Baraka directs an anti-death penalty program for Amnesty International in the United States. He says the death of McVeigh will do little to change the debate. However, he expects a strong international reaction to the McVeigh execution that could help death penalty opponents.(9)Opponents of the death penalty have always argued that it was unfair. They say poor people who cannot pay for good legal help receive the death penalty more often than others. And they say courts order the death penalty more often when the accused is member of a racial minority group.(10)Former President Bill Clinton called for a government study of the issue before he left office. The results of the study are expected to be released soon. Nineteen more federal prisoners are sentenced to be executed.Lead-in QuestionsText IISHOOTING AN ELEPHANT George OrwellText II: Questions for Discussion1). Did the author initially intend to kill the elephant?No, he did not. 2). What confirmed his conviction that he ought not to shoot the elephant?The elephant was calm and was peacefully eating, and looked no more dangerous than a cow.3). What prompted the author to change his mind?It was a white mans vanity that changed his mind. He thought he must not look frightened in front of the natives. 4). Where did the author tell his reasons for shooting the elephant?In the second paragraph, the writer tells the reader his reasons for shooting the elephant: For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the natives and so in every crisis he has got to do what the natives expect of himA sahib has got to act like a sahib: he has got to appear resolute, to know hi