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The tourist trade is booming. With all this
coming and going, you'd expect
greater
understanding to develop between the nations of
the world. Not a bit of it!
Superb systems of
communication by air, sea and land make it
possible for us to visit
each other's
countries at a moderate cost. What was once the
'grand tour', reserved
for only the very rich,
is now within everybody's grasp? The package tour
and
chartered flights are not to be sneered
at. Modern travelers enjoy a level of comfort
which the lords and ladies on grand tours in
the old days couldn't have dreamed of.
But
what's the sense of this mass exchange of
populations if the nations of the world
remain
basically ignorant of each other?
Many tourist
organizations are directly responsible for this
state of affairs.
They deliberately set out to
protect their clients from too much contact with
the
local population. The modern tourist leads
a cosseted, sheltered life. He lives at
international hotels, where he eats his
international food and sips his
international
drink while he gazes at the natives from a
distance. Conducted tours
to places of
interest are carefully censored. The tourist is
allowed to see only
what the organizers want
him to see and no more. A strict schedule makes it
impossible
for the tourist to wander off on
his own; and anyway, language is always a barrier,
so he is only too happy to be protected in
this way. At its very worst, this leads
to a
new and hideous kind of colonization. The summer
quarters of the inhabitants
of the cite
universitaire: are temporarily reestablished on
the island of Corfu.
Blackpool is recreated at
Torremolinos where the traveler goes not to eat
paella,
but fish and chips.
The sad thing
about this situation is that it leads to the
persistence of national
stereotypes. We don't
see the people of other nations as they really
are, but as
we have been brought up to believe
they are. You can test this for yourself. Take
five nationalities, say, French, German,
English, American and Italian. Now in your
mind, match them with these five adjectives:
musical, amorous, cold, pedantic,
native. Far
from providing us with any insight into the
national characteristics
of the peoples just
mentioned, these adjectives actually act as
barriers. So when
you set out on your travels,
the only characteristics you notice are those
which
confirm your preconceptions. You come
away with the highly unoriginal and inaccurate
impression that, say, 'Anglo-Saxons are
hypocrites' of that 'Latin peoples shout
a
lot'. You only have to make a few foreign friends
to understand how absurd and
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harmful national stereotypes are. But
how can you make foreign friends when the
tourist trade does its best to prevent you?
Carried to an extreme, stereotypes can be
positively dangerous. Wild
generalizations
stir up racial hatred and blind us to the basic
fact—how trite it
sounds! – That all people
are human. We are all similar to each other and at
the
same time all unique.
1. The best
title for this passage is ______
[A] tourism
contributes nothing to increasing understanding
between nations.
[B] Tourism is tiresome.
[C] Conducted tour is dull.
[D] tourism
really does something to one's country.
2.
What is the author's attitude toward tourism?
[A] apprehensive.
[B] negative.
[C]
critical.
[D] appreciative.
3. Which word
in the following is the best to summarize Latin
people shout a
lot?
[A] silent.
[B]
noisy.
[C] lively.
[D] active.
4. The
purpose of the author's criticism is to point out
______
[A] conducted tour is disappointing.
[B] the way of touring should be changed.
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[C] when traveling, you notice
characteristics which confirm preconception.
[D] national stereotypes should be changed.
5. What is ‘grand tour’ now?
[A] moderate
cost.
[B] local sight-seeing is investigated
by the tourist organization.
[C] people enjoy
the first-rate comforts.
[D] everybody can
enjoy the ‘grand tour’.
Vocabulary
1.
superb 卓越的，杰出的，第一流的
2. moderate 中庸的，中等的，适度的
3. grand tour
大旅行，指旧时英国富家子弟教育中，到欧洲大陆观光的旅行，为学业
必经阶段。
4.
package tour 由旅行社代办而费用与路线、日程固定的假日旅游。也可用package
holiday。
5. chartered flight 包机航班
6.
set out to do sth. = begin a job with a particular
aim 开始做某事，决心
打算做„„
7. cosset 宠爱，溺爱，纵容
8. conducted tour = guided tour
有人指导引到下的参观，有导游的旅游
9. censor 检查
10. wander
off 离开原处正道，离群，漫步，漫游
11. quarters 住处，营
12.
paella 西班牙什锦饭
13. chip 炸马铃薯条(土豆条)
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14. amorous 多情的，色情的
15. pedantic
学究式的，卖弄学问的
16. generalization 归纳，概括
17.
stir up 惹起，煽动，挑起
18. trite 陈腐的，老一套的
难句译注
1. What was once the 'grand tour', reserved
for only the very rich, is now within
everybody's grasp.
【结构简析】within sb.'s
grasp.某人理解了解，为某人所能抓到的。
【参考译文】一度只有最富有者专享的“大旅行”现在人人都可获得。
2. The
package tour and chartered flights are not to be
sneered at.
【参考译文】旅行社包办的旅游，包机航班决不会遭人耻笑。
3.
They deliberately set out to protect their clients
from too much contact with
the local
population.
【参考译文】旅行社有意使他们的谷底和当地居民少接触。
4.
The modern tourist heads a cosseted sheltered
life.
【参考译文】现代旅行者过的使爱护有加与世隔绝的生活。
5.
Conducted tours to places of interest are
carefully censored.
【参考译文】有人指导下参观一些静电收到组织者――旅行社仔细的检查核准。
6. A
strict schedule makes it impossible for the
tourist to wander off on his
own; and anyway,
language is always barrier, so he is only too
happy to be protected
in this way.
【结构简析】only too + 形容词分词 = very非常。
【参考译文】严格致
密的计划值得旅行者不可能自己一个人到处闲逛;再说，至少语言
总是个障碍，所以他对这样保护非常高
兴。
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7. At its very worst,
this leads to a new and hideous kind of
colonization.
【结构简析】at one's worst 在情况最坏的时候。
【参考译文】最糟的时候，这种保护会导致形成一种新型而又可怕的殖民现象。
8.
Carried to an extreme, stereotypes can be
positively dangerous.
【结构简析】carried to an
extreme (to an excess )如果做得过分。
【参考译文】如果走向极端，模式化的想法会非常危险。
9. Wild
generalizations stir up racial hatred and blind us
to the basic fact.
【参考译文】野蛮(乱七八糟)的概括归纳会激起种族仇恨，使我们对这基本事实视而
不见。
参考答案：
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. D
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二
Antarctica
has actually become a kind of space station a
unique observation post
for detecting
important changes in the world's environment.
Remote from major
sources of pollution and the
complex geological and ecological systems that
prevail
elsewhere, Antarctica makes possible
scientific measurements that are often sharper
and easier to interpret than those made in
other parts of the world.
Growing numbers of
scientists therefore see Antarctica as a
distant-early-warning sensor, where
potentially dangerous global trends may be
spotted before they show up to the north. One
promising field of investigation is
glaciology. Scholars from the United States,
Switzerland, and France are pursuing
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separate but related projects that reflect their
concern for the health of
the West Antarctic
Ice Sheet a concern they believe the world at
large should share.
The Transantarctic
Mountain, some of them more than 14,000 feet high,
divide
the continent into two very different
regions. The part of the continent to the
of
the mountains is a high plateau covered by an ice
sheet nearly two miles thick.
covered by
an ice sheet, but there the ice rests on rock that
is mostly well below
sea level. If the West
Antarctic Ice Sheet disappeared, the western part
of the
continent would be reduced to a sparse
cluster of island.
While ice and snow are
obviously central to many environmental
experiments,
others focus on the mysterious
little ice or snow even in the depths of
winter. Slashed through the mountains of
southern Victoria Land, these valleys once
held enormous glaciers that descended
9,000
feet from the polar plateau to the Ross Sea. Now
the glaciers are gone, perhaps
a casualty of
the global warming trend during the 10,000 years
since the ice age.
Even the snow that falls in
the dry valleys is blasted out by vicious winds
that
roars down from the polar plateau to the
sea. Left bare are spectacular gorges,
rippled
fields of sand dunes, clusters of boulders
sculptured into fantastic shapes
by 100-mile-
an-hour winds, and an aura of extraterrestrial
desolation.
Despite the unearthly aspect of
the dry valleys, some scientists believe they
may carry a message of hope of the verdant
parts of the earth. Some scientists believe
that in some cases the dry valleys may soak up
pollutants faster than pollutants
enter them.
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1. What is the best title
for this passage?
[A] Antarctica and
environmental Problems.
[B] Antarctica:
Earth's Early-Warning station.
[C] Antarctica:
a Unique Observation Post.
[D] Antarctica: a
Mysterious Place.
2. What would the result be
if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet disappeared?
[A] The western part of the continent would be
disappeared.
[B] The western part of the
continent would be reduced.
[C] The western
part of the continent would become scattered
Islands.
[D] The western part of the continent
would be reduced to a cluster of Islands.
3.
Why are the Dry Valleys left bare?
[A] Vicious
wind blasts the snow away.
[B] It rarely
snows.
[C] Because of the global warming trend
and fierce wind.
[D] Sand dunes.
4. Which
of the following is true?
[A] The
[B] The
[C] The
[D] The
Vocabulary
1.
distant-early-warning sensor 远距离早期报警传感器
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2. plateau 高原，高地
3. slash 挥砍
4.
blast 一阵疾风狂风
5. vicious 邪恶的，凶魔般的
6. gorge
峡谷
7. ripple 起伏，使起微波
8. sand dune 沙丘
9. verdant 绿色
10. extraterrestrial
地球之外的
11. aura 气氛
参考答案：
1. A 2.
D 3. C 4. C
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四
At
the close of each business day, most trained
teachers, administrators,
politicians, and
statesmen make objective analyses of all that has
transpired. They
then carefully evaluate
performance in the achievement of certain
specified
objectives. You, as a student, would
be wise to adopt the same practice and reflect
upon your performance in relating to the
achievement of certain personal and
educational objectives.
First, what was
your purpose, your motivational force in seeking
an education?
Did you seek an education in
active performance, or did you seek to be educated
in
passive reception and automatic
acquisition(获取) of information that was fed to
you? Was the profit motive your primary
motivation for obtaining an education? Do
you
want a better education for the sole purpose of
getting a better job? What does
the
educational process really mean to you?
We are
part of a world in which men thrill to the touch
of gold and hearts respond
to the word money
instead of being thrilled by the thought of good.
We five in a
world in which we are taught that
the pursuit of happiness is an equation for the
most rapid acquisition of money, by whatever
means.
If profit and money are your first
priorities, and compassion and commitment
to
people your least concern, you have done little
other than accumulate some facts
and compile
some information for future reference. If making
money is your daydream
and losing money your
nightmare, if poverty is your worst fear and
making money your
most fervent prayer, you
have missed the opportunity for education. You
have failed
yourself and have only received
Nome instruction.
1. This passage suggests
that students should ______.
A. assess their
aims for learning
B. learn more to earn more
C. evaluate their politicians and statesmen
D. keep knowledge to themselves
2. The
educational procedure should be one in which the
student ______.
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A. does what
he is told
B. gets a better education to get a
better job
C. makes principles of education
for self-betterment of their aims
D.
approaches the benefits of being well-off
3.
The author seems to feel that ______.
A.
people's welfare should be the chief concern in
learning
B. profit has nothing to do with
people
C. poverty is good for the soul
D.
knowledge is not the main objective for learning
4. A good title for the selection might be
______.
A. The Benefit of Education
B.
Education Motivation—Progress or Profit
C.
Self-Education
D. Profit and Money
5. The
word in the last paragraph is nearest in meaning
to _______.
A. a very bad dream B. unhappiness
C. sleeplessness D. a hazard to your health
参考答案：
1. A 2. C 3. A 4. B 5. A
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五
Women are
also underrepresented in the administration and
this is because there
are so few women full
professors. In 1985, Regent Beryl Milburn produced
a report
blasting the University of Texas
System adminitration for not encouraging
University was rated among the lowest for the
system. In a 1987 update, Milburn
commended
the progress that was made and called for even
more improvement.
One of the positive results
from her study was a System-wide program to inform
women of available administrative jobs.
College of Communication Associate Dean
Patrica Witherspoon,said it is
important that
woman be flexible when it comesto relocating if
they want to rise
in the ranks.
Although a
woman may face a chilly climate on campus , many
times in order for
her to succeed , she must
rise above the problems around her and concentrate
on her
work.
Until women make up a greater
percentage of the senior positions in the
University and all academia,inequities will
exist.
are important here at the
University.
successful in this they spend
their time in little groups mourning the
sexual discrimination that they think exists
here, they are wasting valuable study
time.
1. According to Spirduso,women need
to ______.
[A] produce a report on sexual
discrimination
[B] call for further
improvement in their working conditions
[C]
spend their energies and time fighting against
sexual discrimination
[D] spend more time and
energy doing scholarly activities
2. From this
passage ,we know that ______.
[A] there are
many women full professors in the University of
Texas
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[B] women play an
important part in adminitrating the University
[C] the weather on the campus is chilly
[D] women make up a small percentage of the
senior positions in the University
3. Which of
the following statements is true?
[A] the
number of women professors in the University in
1987 was greater than
that of 1985
[B] the
number of women professors in the University in
1987 was smaller than
that of 1985
[C] the
number of women professors was the same as that of
1985
[D] more and more women professors
thought that sexual discrimination did exit
in
the University
4. One of the positive results
from Milburn's study was that ______.
[A]
women were told to con centrate on teir work
[B] women were given information about
available administrative jobs
[C] women were
encouraged to take on all the administrative jobs
in the Unversity
[D] women were encouraged to
do more scholarly activities
5. The title for
this passage should be _______.
[A] The
University of Texas
[B] Milburn's Report
[C] Women Professors
[D] Sexual
Discrimination in Academia
参考答案：
1. D
2. D 3. A 4. B 5. D
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