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1 翻译补充练习答案翻译补充练习答案 Part I 1 They spoke with understandable pride of the new policy 2 The police justified the act by claiming that the situation had been explosive 3 Neither did the secretary see Newton take wine or beer in anything but moderation 4 New machines or techniques are not merely a product but a source of fresh creative idea 5 This is due largely to the fact that many writers think not before but as they write 6 Care of patients with head injuries falls well short of recommendations published two years ago 7 Anything from cosmic rays to radiation to diet may activate a dormant oncogene 潜伏的致癌基因 but how remains unknown 2 8 These are problems that are easy to state and understand but whose solution has defied the efforts of good researchers over a number of years 9 Cases of food borne illness have received much media attention and brought home the importance of careful food handling in kitchens 10 There is extraordinary exposure in the United States to the risks of injury and death from motor vehicle accidents 11 Williams counts himself among the 20 percent of adults whose susceptibility to anger is high enough to threaten their health 12 A willingness to cooperate with other members of the group and to support without qualification the interests of the group is still a widely respected virtue 13 A notion has taken hold in the US to the effect that the only people who should be encouraged to bring children into the world are those who can afford them 3 14 No one will deny that what we have been able to do in the past five years is especially striking in view of the crisis which we inherited from the previous government 15 This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one s fellow competitor creates constant anxiety and stress the very causes of unhappiness and illness 16 Teaching makes great demands on nervous energy and one should be able to take in his stride countless small irritations any adult dealing with children has to endure 17 Experts say adults need at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night to function properly When you get less sleep than that on consecutive nights you begin to accrue sleep debt Part II 课堂练习课堂练习 5 句句 1 Three decades ago women s movements around the globe were rigorously questioning the exclusion of women their interests and visions of the good life from policy debates including those of science 4 2 Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self evident Propaganda on the other hand teaches us to accept as self evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgment or to feel doubt 3 Adults think they can transfer the skills they learned as children through video games where they can control the outcome to gambling machines where they cannot 4 There is more agreement in science and academia regarding the risks confronting society than there is on those which are avoidable and those that are not 5 In the affairs of life or of business it is not intellect that tells so much as character not brains so much as heart not genius so much as self control patience and discipline regulated by judgment Part III Passage 1 The historian of the future looking back on the past half century will be struck by the tyranny of academic and pseudo science ideas over common sense In area after area of American life education crime child rearing sexual relations educated 5 and well meaning people have tried to impose their truths upon the real world Take education for instance There is nothing mysterious about educating children The human race has been doing it for thousands of years and 1 we Americans have been doing it for some three centuries never to everyone s satisfaction to be sure but without education itself being regarded as an enormous problem In the past several decades however we have turned our education system over to experts educationalists as distinct from mere teachers 2 The miserable result has been the neglect of the traditional basics of education not only literacy and numeracy but also discipline good manners proper speech in favor of a more creative curriculum Most Americans today would dearly love to re create the old fashioned schools of yesteryear Or take crime 3 Ours may well be the first society in human history in which the average citizen lives in constant fear of being assaulted Now there is nothing new about crime and criminals they have always been with us 4 But criminal activity in America today has assumed the dimension of an insoluble problem one we have no alternative but to live with How did it happen 6 Our sociologists and criminologists and jurists have created a criminal justice system that was supposed to reduce criminality but has instead caused it to proliferate Ironically so called less developed nations which have far fewer criminologists than we do tend to have much lower crime rates Crime like education is a problem because we have permitted sophisticated theories to prevail over common sense Or take child rearing What can possibly be mysterious about it We have all been children and know what it s like The human race has been raising children for a long time now with neither consistent improvement nor consistent deterioration in the quality of the adults who eventually emerge 5 Only in a world in which psychologists are conceded expertise about child rearing does the topic become a source of anxiety and controversy Children need love and discipline and there is no expert who can provide the precise mixture appropriate to a particular child in a particular family We all know without ever having read a book the difference between caring and uncaring parents between sensible and silly parents Such common sense discriminations are sufficient for purposes of child rearing Passage 2 7 1 The true test of a nation is not the size of its production or the number of its automobiles The truest test must only be the kind of persons it produces Every educational system has two responsibilities 2 First it must help to prepare for a career 3 This requires training and a degree of specialization which will enable its citizens to perform the tasks required by various occupations A musician must understand music a carpenter must be skilled in carpentry a teacher must be able to teach and to motivate students a mailman must know how to deliver mail a good educational system will train persons and encourage them in the pursuit of excellence in whatever trade they choose to follow There is another responsibility of our educational system in