大学英语精读第二册close汇总
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第一单元
英语close汇总
a dinner party the guests and their hosts
were involved in a heated
discussion ,or
rather an argument concerning the question of
whether
women had as much self-control as men
.As they argued, signs appeared
to one of the
guests that a cobra was present in the room. while
his first
impulse was to jump back ,he knew
that this would be a mistake; so he
urged the
other dimmers in a commanding tone to hold still
without
telling then why .shortly ,the cobra
emerged on the veranda; and then
man ran
quickly to the door to slam it shut .it was soon
discovered that
the had crawled across the
foot lf the hostess ,who kept calm ,not
uttering a sound .thus the conclusion of this
crisis laid bare the fact that
women have as
much selfcontrol as men.
comfortably
upon a sofa, harket brayton smiled as he read the
book marvels of science .suddenly something in
a dark comer of the
room attracted his
attention in the shadow ,under the bed,he noticed
two points of light about an inch apart,shinng
with a greenish glow .his
attention was now
directed fully to those shining points. there,
almost
right under the foot-rail of the bed
,he saw the body of a large snake .the
points
of light were its eyes! Brayton rose to his feet
and prepared to
back softly away from the
snake At that moment ,however ,he felt
strangely unwilling to do so .instead of
moving backward as planned ,he
took a step
forward, and then another! the snake made neither
sound
nor motion, but its evil head was still
thrust forth ,its eyes were shining
as if
electrified, sending needles of light through the
shadows.
Frightened ,brayton fell to the floor
,dead .
Two hours later, when the doctor was
pulling the body out ,he
chanced to look under
the bed, “good god” he cried a snake
He
reached under the bed, pulled out the snake and
threw it to the
center of the room , where it
lay without motion, it was a snake made of
cloth and filled with cotton Its eyes were
two buttons .
第二单元
Thomas jefferson was not only a
man of ideas, he was also a man of
action he
believed that, rather than simply learn from
reading ,one
should engage in personal
investigations to gain knowledge from its
source ,he also believed that one could obtain
valuable knowledge not
only from expert people
of higher classes, but also from people of
people of humble origins .jefferson felt that
one must think for himself
rather than simply
seek agreement with others and that it was wrong
to
go out of one’s way to avoid disagreement
or conflict .in spite of his
critics,
Jefferson constantly held to and acced on his own
ans owe much Thomas Jefferson for the legacy
of ideas
and examples he left behind
2.
When Jefferson began to write the
declaration of independence, he was
bearing a
heavy load of personal sorrow and trouble .
Only a few months before, in September, his
baby daughter ,aged one
and a half had died
,then ,in the following marchm his mother had also
died. Now he learned that his wofe was lying
seriously ill at home
It took so many days
for news to come from there that she might be
dying even as he sat at his desk .always in
his mind was the thought that
if only he could
be there he minght be able to save her life.
perhaps,
too, if he had not been obliged to be
away from home so much he might
have saved the
lives of his mother and was thoughts such as
these that may have given his work its passion
and nobility, as great
sorrow often does when
he wrote, for all the world to see the wrongs
that England had done to America ,maybe he
felt them all the more
strongly because his
own happiness was mow in such great danger
chiefly through englands selfish and foolish
actions
第三单元
While waiting to
enter university .the young man saw a teaching job
advertised in a local newspaper and thought
he thought his chances
of getting the job
were slim ,he decided to apply .when he arrived at
the
school for his interview, he sensed in
the headmaster an attitude of
superiority and
disapproval .he interview consisted of a number of
questions regarding the young man’s education
and background .and
then he was asked whether
or not he attached importance to games as
part
of a boy’s schooling .obviously his answer was not
entirely
satisfactory to the headmaster ,in
spite of the fact that he and the
headmaster
had little in common in their views on education
,the young
man was told that he would be hired
.however,at a salary of only twelve
pounds per
week and with the prospect of having to work under
the
headmaster’s wife ,the teaching post had
become quite undesirable.
2. a
gentleman put an advertisement in a newspaper for
a boy to work in
his office. Out of nearly
fifty persons who came to apply ,the man
selected one and dismissed the others .
I should like to know ,said a friend ,the reason
you select that boy,
who brought not a single
letter ,not a single recommendation.
You
are wrong,said the gentleman .the had a great many
.he wied hid
feet at the door and closed the
door behind him, showing that he was
careful.
He gave his seat immediately to that old
man,showing that he
was kind and thoughtful
.he took off his cap when he came in and
answered my questions promptly .showing that
he was polite and
gentlemanly .
All the
others stepped over the book which I had purposely
put on the
floor .he picked it up and placed
it on the table; and he waited for his
turn
instead of pushing and o talked to him .i noticed
his
tidy clothing, his neatly brushed hair and
his clean finger hails .can’t you
see that
these things are excellent recommendations? O
consider them
more significant than letters.
第四单元
As a boy and as an adult ,the authou of
this article felt awed and
bewildered at the
personality of his father’s friend the great
scientist
albert Einstein .what inpressed him
most was einstenin’s modest
manner .though a
profound thinker ,Einstein never displayed vanity,
jealousy ,or personal ambition ,and though his
ideas were singled out as
something special
and he was awarded the nobel prize ,he seemed to
find his own fame a puzzle .it appeared that
the great man was not
capable ofconceit or
pretension; and for this reason. The author always
felt at ease in his presence .
2. At one time Einstein traveled all over the
united states giving lectures.
He traveled by
car and soon became quite friendly with the
driver.
The driver listened carefully to
einstein’s lecture, which the great
scientist
gave again and again one day he told Einstein that
he knew the
lecture so well that he was sure
he could give it himself. Einstein smiled
and
said why don’t you gave the lecture for me next
time the driver
agreed
That evening
the two of them went along to the lecture hall
nobody
there had seen Einstein before . as the
driver took his place on the stage
everybody
clapped .then he began the lecture .sure enough
.he did not
make a single mistake .it was a
great success .and when it was over,
people
clapped and clapped .then he started to leave
.shaking hands
woth everybody ,while Einstein
followed quietly a few steps behind.
Just
before they got to the door ,a man stopped them
and asked the
driver a very difficult question
.the driver listened carefully .of course he
did not understand a thing ,but he nodded his
head as if he did . when
the man stopped
talking, the driver said that he thought the
question
was very interesting but really quite
simple. In fact , in order to show
how simple
it was ,he would ask his driver to answer it!
第五单元
It is a apparent that
the temperature of
the earth is rising .if this
trend is allowed to continue ,many coastal cities
will disapper beneath the ocean waves ,much
farmland woll be lost to
the sea, and the
resulting pressure on food supply may cause
widespread starvation and lead to the collapse
of the whole social
structure
What’s
to be done ? there’s no alternative but to get at
the villain of
all this ,carbon dioxide
.carbon dioxide is not very poisonous ,.and in
small quantities it does us no harm .plants
absorb it and convert it into
their own tissue
,which serve as the basic food supply for all of
animal
life .including human beings ,in the
process they liberate oxygen, which,
again
,is essential to all animal life .however, carbon
dioxide lets in visible
sunlight during the
day, but blocks infrared radiation at nighr ,when
its
concentration in the atmosphere rises,
the temperature on earth goes
up ,too
But carbon dioxide is not rising by itself .if we
stop cutting down the
forests and consume less
coal and gas. Or use fuel that does not produce
carbon dioxide ,such as nuclear and solar
energy, in all likelihood we can
restore its
concentration to previous levels and save mankind
from
disaster .
2
As the concentration of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere increases
steadily, earth’s average
temperature will go up slightly .winters will grow
a bit milder on the average and summers a bit
hotter that may not seem
frightening, milder
winters don’t seem bad ,and as for hotter
summers ,we can just run our air –conditioning
a bit more .
But consider this : if winters
in general grow milder ,less snow will fall
during the cold season .if summers in general
grow hotter ,more snow
will melt during the
cold season. That means that, little by little
,the
snow line will move away from the equator
toward the poles. The
glaciers will retreat
,the mountaintops will grow more bare, and the
polar ice
caps will begin to melt
That might be
annoying to skiers and to other devotees of winter
sports but would it neccssarily bother the
rest of us? After all. If the
snow line moves
north .it might be possible to grow more food in
Canada .scandinavia .and russia .
Still
if the cold weather moves poleward. Then so do the
storm belts
the desert regions that now exist
in subtropical areas will greatly expand,
and
fertile land gained in the north will be list in
the south .more may be
lost than gained .
It is the melting of the ice caps, though, that is
the worst change, it is
this which
demonstrates the villainy of carbon dioxide .
Something like 90 percent of the ice in the world
is to be found in the
huge Antarctica ice cap,
and another 8 percent is in the Greenland ice
cap. In both places the ice is piled miles
high, if these ice caps begin to
melt. The
water that forms won’t stay in place. It will drip
down into the
up more space and causing sea
level to rise. Low-lying
coastal areas
worldwide would be flooded and the rising oceans
would
surge farther inland during storms,
adding to the problem of coastal
flooding.
第六单元
1. dr. nolen believes that
the most important time in a surgical career is
the point at which the surgeon begins to feel
confident in his ability to
make sound
decisions in each individual case. Many young
doctors dwell
on the possibility that they may
have made a mistake, especially in
emergency
situations. At such times , they sweat over
patients,
wondering if they are competent
enough for the job they are attempting
to do.
And they feel that bound to make a fatal error a
at one time or
another. When a surgeon learns
to relax and approach these situations
with
confidence in his ability to handle them
successfully, according to
. he has taken the
first step to maturity.
2. a man went to see
his doctor because he was suffering from pains in
his stomach. After the doctor had examined him
carefully. He said to
him , well, there’s
nothing really wrong with you, I’m glad to say
Your
only trouble is that you worry too much.
You know I had a man with the
same trouble as
you in here a few days ago, and I gave him the
same
advice, as I’m going to give you. He was
worried because he couldn’t pay
his tailor’s
bills. I told him not to worry his head off about
the bills any
more. He followed my advice, and
when he came to see me again two
days ago, he
told me that he now felt quite all right again.
Yes, I know all about that, answered patient
sadly. You see, I’m that
man’s tailor .
B篇
The patient was lying in bed after a minor
operation. His friend asked
him how he was
getting along.
Pretty well, as the answer
.after my first operation. They had to cut me
open again. It seems the surgeon had left a
sponge in me and they had
to get that out ,
But you got over it all rigt
Oh yes,
only I had another operation yesterday. They found
a scalpel
which had been sewed up in me by
mistake .
But the patient suddenly got nervous
again, for just then the surgeon
hurried
through the ward saying :
Has anyone seen my
hat around here?i left it somewhere yesterday.