1、Unit 112 I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way wedo. It takes a couple of special qualities. One is a tolerance for solitude. Because we are so busy and on such a tight budget, we don't entertain much. During the growing season there is no time for socializin

2、g anyway. Jim and Emily are involved in school activities, but they too spend most of their time at home.13 The other requirement is energy - a lot of it. The way to make self-sufficiencywork on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices. Inste

3、ad, you do the work yourself. The only machinery we own (not counting the lawn mower) is a little three-horsepowerrotary cultivator and a 16-inch chain saw.14 How much longer we'll have enough energy to stay on here is anybody's guess- perhaps for quite a while, perhaps not. When the time co

4、mes, we'll leave witha feeling of sorrow but also with a sense of pride at what we've been able to accomplish. We should make a fair profit on the sale of the place, too. We've invested about $35,000 of our own money in it, and we could just about double that if we sold today. But this i

5、s not a good time to sell. Once economic conditions improve, however, demand for farms like ours should be strong again.15 We didn't move here primarily to earn money though. We came because we wanted to improve the quality of our lives. When I watch Emily collecting eggs in the evening, fishing

6、 with Jim on the river or enjoying an old-fashioned picnic in the orchard with the entire family, I know we've found just what we were looking for.課后翻譯： 十年之前，南希做了許許多多美國人夢寐以求的事。她辭去了經理職位，在鄰近地區開了一家家用器材商店。像南希那樣的人作出這種決定主要是出于改善 生活質量的愿望。然而，經營小本生意絕非易事。 在失去穩定的收入后，南希不得不削減日常開 支。有時候她甚至沒有錢支付她所需要的種種保險的費用。有一次她

7、連電話費也 付不起，只得向她的父母親借錢。幸運的是，通過自己的努力， 她已經度過了最困難的時期。她決心繼續追求她 所向往的更加美好的生活。A decade ago, Nancy did what so many Americans dream about.She quit an executive position and opened / set up a household equipment store in her neighborhood. People like Nancy made the decision primarily because of/owing to/due to

8、 their desire to improve the quality of their lives.But, to run a small business is by no means an easy job. Without hersteady income, Nancy had to cut back on her daily expenses. Sometimes she did not even have the money to pay the premiums for the various kinds of insurance she needed. Once she co

9、uld not even pick up the phone bill and had to ask her parents to loan her some money.Fortunately, through her own hard work, she has now got throughthe most difficult time. She is determined to continue pursuing her vision of a better life.Unit 24 Yet this stop was only part of a much larger missio

10、n for me. Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad, a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South. Between 1820 and 1860, as many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Rail

11、road to freedom.5 In October 2000, President Clinton authorized $16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights struggle in the U. S. The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati. And it's about time. For the heroes of the Undergro

12、und Railroad remain too little remembered, their exploits still largely unsung. I was intent on telling their stories.課后翻譯 痛苦的奴隸生活堅定了亨森為自由而戰的決心。他獲得自由后不久就成了一個幫 助逃跑奴隸的組織中一員。他幾次偷偷地從加拿大回到美國幫助其他奴隸通過地 下鐵路獲得自由。有一次在逃跑時，亨森和幾個逃跑的奴隸被捕捉奴隸的人包圍。 他將逃跑的奴隸喬裝打扮一番，成功地躲避了追捕。另外，他后來在加拿大的得 累斯頓為逃跑的奴隸建造了一個居住小區，并建立了教堂和學校，逃跑的

13、奴隸們 在這里能夠學到有用的謀生之道。他堅信奴隸制終將被廢除，所有奴隸終將獲得 解放，種族歧視消失的那天一定會到來。Henson's painful life as a slave strengthened his determination to struggle for freedom. Shortly after he achieved freedom he became a member of an organization that assisted fugitive slaves. He secretly returned to the United States from

14、 Canada several times to help others to travel the Underground Railroad to freedom. Once some slave catchers closed in on the escaping slaves and Henson when they were on the run. He disguised them and successfully avoided capture. In addition, later he built a small settlement in Dresden in Canada

15、for escaped slaves, setting up a chapel and a school where they could learn useful ways of making a living. He held to the conviction that slavery would be abolished, all the slaves would be liberated, and the day was bound to come when racial discrimination no longer existed.Unit 34 It has been rep

16、laced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm. Many suburban families have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open.5 It is not uncommon, in the mo

17、st pleasant of homes, to see pasted on the windows small notices announcing that the premises are under surveillance by this security force or that guard company.6 The lock is the new symbol of America. Indeed, a recent public-service advertisement by a large insurance company featured not charts sh

18、owing how much at risk we are, but a picture of a child's bicycle with the now-usual padlock attached to it.7 The ad pointed out that, yes, it is the insurance companies that pay for stolen goods, but who is going to pay for what the new atmosphere of distrust and fear is doing to our way of lif

19、e? Who is going to make the psychic payment for the transformation of America from the Land of the Free to the Land of the Lock?8 For that is what has happened. We have become so used to defending ourselves against the new atmosphere of American life, so used to putting up barriers, that we have not

20、 had time to think about what it may mean.課后翻譯：在美國每隔 15 秒鐘就有人舉報一起入室行竊案。統計數據顯示去年竊賊光顧了兩 百多萬戶人家。人們實際上幾乎無法將蓄意行竊的盜賊拒之門外，所能做的只是 設法阻攔他片刻，從而使其暴露在巡警或附近溜達的人們面前。常識告訴我們， 光照時犯罪行為的障礙物。家門口必須安裝一盞燈，并在晚間開著。不管你是否 相信，有些人，尤其是最晚進家的孩子，晚上進屋后不把門鎖上。空心門，即便 是鎖上了，也易遭賊侵入。因此最好選擇實心門或鐵門，因為竊賊很難將它們撬 開。如果你有意購買報警裝置，別忘了索要報警器的標志，并把它們張貼在窗

21、戶 和門上。最后，提醒一句，外出旅游時，一定要請一位信得過的鄰居，在你回來 前幫你收好每日的報紙和郵件。這是因為放在門階上或郵箱里成堆的報紙郵件如 同廣告一樣使大家都知道你家里沒人。A burglary is reported every 15 seconds in the United States. Statistics show burglars entered more than 2 million homes last year.Actually it is almost impossible to keep a determined burglar out. All you can

22、 do is discourage him for a few minutes, thus exposing him to police patrols or those wandering around. Common sense tells us that lighting is a barrier to criminal activity. A light should be fixed in the doorway and switched on at night. Believe it or not, some people, particularly children who ha

23、ppen to be the last to come in, leave their doors on the latch at night. Doors of hollow core, even when locked, are vulnerable to break-ins. Thus doors of solid core or steel are much preferred as they make it difficult for the burglar to pry open. If you decide to buy an alarm device, be sure to a

24、sk for its signs and put them up on both windows and doors. Finally, a word of warningwhen you travel, makesure that you have a trusted neighbor collect and keep all the deliveries of newspapers and mail until you return. This is because a collection of newspapers and mail on the front doorstep or i

25、n your mailbox is an advertisement that no one is home.Unit 44 It was actually Bart Cameron's error and you'll have to understand about Bart Cameron. He's the sheriff at Twin Gulch, Idaho, and I'm his deputy. Bart Cameron is an impatient man and he gets most impatient when he has to

26、work up his income tax. You see, besides being sheriff, he also owns and runs the general store, he's got some shares in a sheep ranch, he's got a kind of pension for being a disabled veteran (bad knee) and a few other things like that. Naturally, it makes his tax figures complicated.5 It wo

27、uldn't be so bad if he'd let a taxman work on the forms with him, but he insists on doing it himself and it makes him a bitter man. By April 14, he isn't approachable.6 So it's too bad the flying saucer landed on April 14, 1956.7 I saw it land. My chair was backed up against the wall

28、 in the sheriff's office, and I was looking at the stars through the windows and wondering if I ought to knock off and hit the sack or keep on listening to Cameron curse real steady as he went over his columns of figures for the hundred twenty-seventh time.8 It looked like a shooting star at fir

29、st, but then the track of light broadened into two things that looked like rocket exhausts and the thing came down without a sound.9 Two men got out.10 I couldn't say anything or do anything. I couldn't choke or point; I couldn't even bug my eyes. I just sat there.11 Cameron? He never lo

30、oked up.課后翻譯：外星人是一個讓專家和外行都很感興趣的話題，各式各樣的國家和組織的 研究者們正在采用不同的模式尋找他們。有的密切觀察稀有放射性元素水平特別 高的星球，他們認為那些元素產生于人類尚未理解的外星人技術。有的試圖從宇 宙“噪音”中分離出無線電信號。而有的則宣稱已經看到了外星人，并能詳細描 繪他們的摸樣。研究者們將它們收集到的復雜數據匯編成一系列的報告和書籍。 雖然確定的答案仍未找到，但并未有任何跡象顯示探索者們的希望因為挫折而泯 滅，他們堅信他們的堅信他們的艱辛努力是完全值得的。The extraterrestrial has been a topic of interest

31、 to experts and laymen / nonprofessionals alike. Researchers of various nationalities and organizations are adopting different modes of investigation in search of extraterrestrials. Some make a close observation of stars with extremely high levels of rare, radioactive elements. They believe those el

32、ements have resulted from extrater-restrial technology that is still beyond human wits to understand. Some try to isolate radio signals from the "noise" of the universe. And some claim that they have caught sight of extraterrestrials and can even describe their appearance in detail. Resear

33、chers work up the complicated data they collect into a series of reports and books. Although no definite answer has yet been found, the explorers' hope shows no sign of fading out on account of their frustrations and they hold to the belief that their hard efforts will prove worthwhile.Unit 521

34、Always the college professor , my dad had carefully avoided anything he considered too sentimental, so I knew how moved he was to write me that, after having helped educate many young people, he now felt that his best results included his own son.22 The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a &q

35、uot;simple, old-fashioned principal" had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes that he had retired in self-doubt. "I heard more of what I had done wrong than what I did right," he said, adding that my letter had brought him welcome reassurance that his career had been appre

36、ciated.23 A glance at Grandma's familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair, watching her "settin' down" someletter to relatives. Character by character , Grandma would slowly accomplish one word, then the next, so that a fini

37、shed page would consume hours. I wept over the page representing my Grandma's recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness to me - whom she used to diaper!課后翻譯：Amid the atmosphere of Thanksgiving, rather than joining his friends in celebration of the holiday, George was immersed i

38、n the diary left to him by his father, who died at sea after he completed twosuccessive trips around the world. The diary brought back every moment George had spent with his father and many of the specific things his father did on his behalf. George's father used to impress on him the need to un

39、dergo all kinds of hardship in quest of excellence.He also taught him that nothing in the world could be taken for granted. Even today, George still remembers how his father would quote Aesop's famous saying "Gratitude is the sign of noble souls" and tell him to accord the greatest imp

40、ortance to it.Unit 6Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them. He was past sixty and had along, white beard curlingdown over his chest. Despitelooking the part, Behrman was a failure in art. For forty years he had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet

41、 begun it. He earned a little by serving as a model to those young artists who could not pay the price of a professional. He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece.For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who mocked terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himse

42、lf as guard dag to the two young artists in the studio above.She found Behrman smelling strongly of gin in his dimly lighted studio below. In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece. She told him of Johnsy &

43、#39; s fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, when her slight hold upon the world grew weaker.Old Behrman, with hisred eyes, plainly streaming, shouted his contempt for such foolish imaginings.“ What! ” he cried.“ Are there people in the world foolish enoug

44、h to die becauseleafs drop off from a vine? I have never heard of such a thing. Why do you allow such silly ideas to come into that head of hers? God! This is not a place in which one so good as Miss Johnsy should lie sick. Some day I will paint a masterpiece, and we shall all go away. Yes.”課后翻譯：我們到

45、處都能看到“搶眼”的青年藝術家。他們要么一年四季穿著破舊的 牛仔褲；要么大冬天也打赤腳；要么飲酒過度；要么就是抱著創作一部杰作的 幻想，實際上并不做任何創作的事。其實，他們中的很多人只不過是為了看上 去像名藝術家，或為了同其他藝術家“保持一致”才這么做的。他們忘了，只 有通過不懈的努力才能獲得成功。Here and there we see young artists who stand out from other people. They may be in worn out jeans all the year round, or walk barefoot / in bare feet

46、 even in winter, or drink to excess, or cling to thefancy of creating a masterpiece without actually doing any creative work. In fact, many of them act like this just to look the part, or to be "in tune with" other artists. They have forgotten that only through persistent effort can one ac

47、hieve success.Unit 712 Porter came to Portland when he was 13 after his father, a salesman, wastransferred here. He attended a school for the disabled and then Lincoln High School, where he was placed in a class for slow kids. 13 But he wasn't slow.forwas14 His mind was trapped in a body that di

48、dn't work. Speaking was difficult and took time. People were impatient and didn't listen. He felt different -different - from the kids who rushed about in the halls and planned dances he would never attend.15 What could his future be? Porter wanted to do something and his mother was certain

49、that he could rise above his limitations. With her encouragement, he applied for a job with the Fuller Brush Co. only to be turned down. He couldn't carry a product briefcase or walk a route, they said.16 Porter knew he wanted to be a salesman. He began reading help wanted ads in the newspaper .

50、 When he saw one for Watkins, a company that sold household products door-to-door, his mother set up a meeting with a representative. Theman said no, but Porter wouldn't listen. He just wanted a chance. The man gave in and offered Porter a section of the city that no salesman wanted.17 It took P

51、orter four false starts before he found the courage to ring the first doorbell. The man who answered told him to go away, a pattern repeated throughout the day.18 That night Porter read through company literature and discovered the products were guaranteed. He would sell that pledge. He just needed

52、people to listen.19 If a customer turned him down, Porter kept coming back until they heard him. And he sold.20 For several years he was Watkins' top retail salesman. Now he is the only one of the company's 44,000 salespeople who sells door-to-door. 21 The bus stopsin the Transit Mall, and P

53、orter gets off.課后翻譯：湯姆生來跛足，有一條腿不管用。他很小的時候起就懂事，除非他努力擺脫 自身的局限，他是無力謀生的；而除非他能獨立謀生，他就不可能得到他人的 尊敬。這是他要贏得做人的尊嚴必須付出的代價。湯姆申請過許多工作，都遭到拒絕，最后他找到一份為必勝客送比薩餅的工 作。后來他又到一個沒有人想去的推銷區做一家運動服裝公司的銷售代表。現 在，他在他的家鄉擁有一家頗為盈利的零售商店，還雇用了好幾個人為他工作， 這些人都不拿薪水，只拿傭金。Tom was born a cripple, with one of his lower limbs useless. Early in

54、his childhood, he learned that unless he so exerted himself as to rise above his limitations, he could not earn a living, and unless he succeeded in making a living on his own, he could not win/gain the respect of others. That was the price he had to pay for his dignity as a human being.Tom applied

55、for numerous jobs, only to be turned down, before he finally got one as a delivery boy for a Pizza Hut. He then worked as asales representative for a sports wear company in a territory no one else would want. Today he owns a fairly profitable retail shop in his hometown, and hires several people to work for him on straight commission.Unit 89 Cloning brings us face-to-face with what it means to be