第一单元
一、1. The tranquil atmosphere of the inn allows guests to feel totally at home.
2. Technological advances might ultimately lead to even more job losses.
3. In the aftermath of the shootings, there were calls for tighter controls on gun ownership.
4. Her kindness and generosity cancel out her occasional flashes of temper.
5. He was beginning to wonder if he would survive the ordeal
6. Foreign food aid has led to a drastic reduction in the numbers of people dying of starvation.
7. Perhaps her most important legacy was her program of educational reform.
8. There were food shortages and other deprivations during the Civil War.
9. The new economic policies could prove suicidal for the party.
10. The building will be completed around six months earlier than anticipated.
11. The experience was enough to keep him preoccupied for some time.
12. The road to happiness is paved with adversities.
13. She aspires to nothing no less than the chairmanship of the company.
14. He might be influenced by nostalgia for the surroundings of his happy youth.
15. In retrospect, I wish that I had thought about alternative courses of action.
二、1. Watching your baby being born is a mind-blowing experience(极其令人兴奋的经历).
2. There is built-in storage space(内置储藏空间) in all bedrooms.
3. This handout focuses on self-protection measures(自我保护措施) under difficult climatic conditions.
4. I’m sure we could offer you some short-term employment (短期的工作).
5. So, how is it that we all, or at least many of us, have such a distorted and negative self- perception(歪曲的、否定的自我观念)?
6. Helen Hunt stars as a character undergoing life-changing events(改变了生活的事件) in Then She Found Me.
7. She has written a book that is beautiful because of the honesty and the raw emotion that is portrayed in all-encompassing details(无所不包的细节).
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8. Having a decent job contributes to a good self-image(一个好的自我形象).
三、What then is a good mind? It is the whole mental ……
1、searches  2、connections  3、inventive  4、discerning  5、anticipates  6、future       
7、individual  8、identifies  9、fallacy  10、self-discipline
四、翻译
1、I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung 。。。。。。。the silent tarn—a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued. (Edgar Allan Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher”)
译文： 我如此沉湎于自己的想象，以至于我实实在在地认为那宅院及其周围悬浮着一种它们所特有的空气。那种空气并非生发于天地自然，而是生发于那些枯树残枝、灰墙暗壁，生发于那一汪死气沉沉的湖水。那是一种神秘而致命的雾霭，阴晦，凝滞，朦胧，沉浊如铅。
2、She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a 。。。。。。。。l of the night passing swiftly on toward further darkness but moving also toward a new sun.
译文：（ 她的）容貌那么清秀，就像半夜里醒来时在黑暗中隐约可见的小小的钟面，报告时刻的钟面。它皎洁而安静，深知时间在飞驰，深信黑暗虽然越来越深沉，却也越来越接近新生的太阳。
1. I’ve been spared a lot, one of the blessed of the earth, at least one of its lucky, that privileged handful of the dramatically prospering, the sort whose secrets are asked, like the hundred-year-old man.
1. 我一直活得无忧无虑，深得上帝垂爱，至少算个幸运儿，少数人才享有的尊荣富贵，我垂手得之。就像百岁人瑞总有人讨教，我的秘诀也总有人探询。
2. And so Franklin Roosevelt found that he had, in effect, to recruit an entirely new and temporary government to be piled on top of the old one, the new government to get the tanks and airplanes built, the uniforms made, the men and women assembled and trained and shipped abroad, and the battles fought and won.
2. 富兰克林· 罗斯福因此意识到他必须招募新班人马，组建临时机构来补强不能胜任的旧政府。新成立的政府机构专门负责建造坦克飞机，定制军服，招募培训战士。这些战士将被派往前线，去赢得一场场的战争。
Unit2
一.段落选词填空
Under what conditions do commercial、、、、、、(wards5.athletes6.sponsor7.spectators
8.maintain9.availability10.stadiums11.anticipated12.publicity)
二.汉译英
1.超越国家或文化界限（transcend national or cultural boundaries）
2.一些实际优惠（some tangible benefits）  3.被无休止的争论(have been debated endlessly)
4.以指出别人的错误为乐(delights in pointing out other people`s mistakes)
5.对于失败者的同情(sympathy with losers)
6.因为几乎说不清的原因(for reasons that can be barely articulated)
7.为在线服务开启新的时代(define a new era for online services)
8.对他来说是重要的(matter to him)
三.选词填空
1.From the corner of my eye, I (glimpsed)  2.Ulike Colin, who remains……(fever)
3.An additional 28 persons ……(reckless)  4.I felt that the other kids ……(despised)
5.The woods beside our house…… (aura)  6.None can provide a(n) ……(definitive)
7.Some believe that increasing … (bolster)  8.The results of the survey were ……(staggering)
9.They became the first English … (trophy) 10.Scientists have to break ……(constituent)