大学英语BOOK2(15选10).doc

U1postponingperform competent definitelysolveddesignedfortunateapproach facing practicallyquality equippedrest purpose endThe real challenge to us teachers is combining the best of both worlds into one. Creativity and basic skills need to be considered in terms of being means to an (1), rather than simply as ends in themselves. Some Chinese students may not (2) well in hypothetical (假设的) settings, but when it comes to (3) real life challenges and issues, they are more than (4) in resolving most of them, (5) as they are with their strong skills. The U.S. system may be (6) to aim more at producing top of the cream students, but that (7) may do damage to the big bulk of the (8) of the student body. The Chinese education system is (9) not perfect, but it does produce a (10) workforce. And I truly believe that solid basic knowledge / skill focus is the single biggest force driving the rise of China as a country.U2consume securityinnocent equallydestinationtraditionalphysicallyindicatessignificance plainmostlyfollows annual How does spending connect to happiness? One explanation lies in conspicuous consumption (炫耀式消费). The idea is that the rich dont accumulate wealth simply in order to (1) it. Rather they accumulate wealth in order to display it, and their happiness is (2) by their neighbors envy. As a result, the country finds itself in the grips of a luxury fever families with (3) incomes of $50,000 try to emulate (仿效) the consumption of those with $70,000, who in turn try to emulate those with $140,000, and so on. Its just (4) common sense. Its (5) impossible for a piece of paper like money to make you happy. Instead, what makes people happy is the feeling of (6) or power money brings. A recent survey (7) that those from the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans and the Maasai of East Africa are almost (8) satisfied. The Maasai are a (9) herding people who have no electricity or running water and live in huts made of mud. It (10) that economic development and personal income cannot account for the happiness that they are so often linked to.U4informationdeliverplaceaccesscarriesenablescustomersprovides urbandelightssmallremotecompanionreachsoftwareI live in a small coastal town of 398 people located halfway between San Francisco and the Oregon border. The nearest traffic light is nine miles north in the town of Mendocino; its closest (1) to the south is over 90 miles away. The nearest four-lane highway is 58 miles east. Federal Express (联邦快递) doesnt (2) here on Saturdays. But there is Internet (3) here. It enables me to work at home, writing computer books and articles for computer magazines. It enables local students and historians to conduct research. It (4) local businesses inns, music stores, driving schools to reach new (5). It enables local people to enjoy the benefits of email and the (6) of websites and chat rooms. In fact, because small towns have few people, few stores, and few libraries and schools, you could argue that the Internet (7) more benefits to small towns than it does to big cities. But Internet service providers are not interested in (8) markets. What they are interested in is making money. As a result, people in many small towns and (9) areas are unable to keep up with the development of (10) technology. U5ratetouched crash thoughttriedsharpaccident forget instructionsconvincedengineer build finally provided only howThe Brooklyn Bridge that spans the river between Manhattan and Brooklyn is simply an engineering miracle. In 1883, a creative (1), John Roebling, was inspired by an idea for this spectacular bridge project. However, bridge building experts told him to (2) it. It just was not possible. Roebling, nevertheless, (3) his son, Washington, an up-and-coming engineer, that the bridge could be built. The two of them conceived the concept of how it could be accomplished and (4) to overcome the obstacles. Somehow they convinced bankers to finance the project. They hired their crew and began to (5) their dream bridge. The project was only a few months under way when a tragic on-site (6) killed John Roebling and severely injured his son. Washington was severely brain-damaged, unable to talk or walk. Everyone (7) the project would have to be stopped, since the Roeblings were the (8) ones who understood how the bridge could be built. Though Washinton Roebilng was unable to move or talk, his mind was as (9) as ever. One day as he lay in his hospital bed, an idea flashed in his mind as to how to develop a communication code. All he could move was one finger, so he (10) the arm of his wife with that finger. He tapped out the code to communicate to her what she was to tell the engineers who continued building the bridge. For 13 years, Washington tapped out his (11) with one finger until the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge was (12) completed.U6inspired observationspainstakingessentiallyunlesssteered force brought wonderfullyuntilrecognized secretstutorpotentiallychairwomen typical scientistsThe words first black woman have been used to describe Shirley Ann Jackson for so long that her name seems incomplete without them. She was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. from MIT, the first black woman in the country to earn a physics doctorate, and she was both the first African American and the first woman to (1) the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the race for space was in full (2), a young Jackson came to see the world around her as full of (3) . For years, she collected bees and kept them under her familys back porch, making (4) records of their behaviors as she adjusted variables like heat, light, and diet. It was like reading a great mystery novel, she recalls. Her parents encouraged her to pursue her passions, and her siblings, two sisters and a brother, all (5) her natural talents for leadership. But it was the assistant principal at Washington D.C.s Roosevelt High School who (6) her toward MIT. Today, even at such lofty posts as heading the NRC, Jackson says she is (7) doing the same thing she did way back with the bees: studying interactions in the environment around her, making keen (8), and taking constructive action based on what she learned. Jackson strongly believes that (9) must be true friends to one another and assist and encourage one another in their efforts. From her youngest days, she took time to (10) fellow women and minority students in their studies. Thats because, says Jackson, being a trailblazer (开路先锋) is only a good thing if one does not allow high weeds to grow back because no one was (11) to follow. Jackson wont be satisfied to go down in history as the first black woman of anything (12) the familiar phrase is followed by two more words: of many.U7massive examine similar early observationcorruptedstrongerprobablyfeatures sprungsource associationdeclared test accidentPeople have long speculated that their languages came from a single source. As (1) as 1767, physician James Parsons collected numbers from many European languages as well as those of Iran and India, and found them to be quite (2). He concluded that they must have all come from one (3). But Sir William Jones, Chief Justice of India, took this (4) a step further. As an educated man, he was trained in the classical languages, so that when he went to India and began to (5) Sanskrit, he saw right away how similar it was to Greek and Latin, not only in vocabulary, but even in grammatical (6). In a speech delivered before Bengal Asiatic Society in 1786, he (7) that the Sanskrit language bears to both Latin and Greek a (8) resemblance both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar than could possibly have been produced by (9). Indeed, the resemblance is so strong, he said, that no scholar could examine them all three without believing them to have (10