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1、Unit 1Task 1:【答案】 A.Eve ntYearKenny G was born.1956He toured Europe with his High School band.1971He made his first solo album.1982He won released his most successful album.1993He won the Best Artist Award.1994He broke the world record for playing a singlenote.1997B.1) F2) F3) T【原文】Saxophonist Kenny

2、 G is now the worlds most successful jazz musician. He was born in 1956 as Kenny Gorelick in Seattle, USA, and he learned to play the saxopho ne at an early age. Whe n he was just 15 years old, he toured Europe with his High School band. After study ing atWashington University he started his career

3、as a musician. In 1982 he signed for Arista Records and made his first solo album Kenny G.Success came slowly at first, but during the 1990s Kenny became well-known on the international scene. He released Breathless, his most successful album so far in 1993, and in 1994 won the Best Artist Award at

4、the 21st American Music Awards held in Los Angeles.As well as making records, he also found time to play in front of another famous saxophone player US President Bill Clinton at the Gala for the President concert in Washington, and to break the world record for playing a single note (45 minutes and

5、47 seconds!) at the J & R Music World Store in New York in 1997.During the last 20 years, Kenny G has played with superstars like Aretha Franklin, Michael Bolton and Whitney Houston, and he has sold more than 36 million albums worldwide. and he hasnt sung a note!Task 2:【答案】1) c2) d3) c原文】Senn: Every

6、body always has this misconception that female policemen dont do the same thing as men do, you know. Ive worked.Interviewer: Thats not true?Senn: That is not true! Ive worked my share of graveyard shifts, and, you know, splitshifts, and double-back and no days off, and. Interviewer: Uh-huh.Senn:.as

7、much as the next guy. Theres no distinction used iftheres a male or female officer on duty.Two men on duty Ill referto as two men, cause in my f ield theres no difference between the genders. Were still the same. Okay, if theres two men on duty just because ones a female, she still gets in on the sa

8、me type of call. If theres a bar disturbance downtown, then we go too. Theres been many times where being the only officer on dutythatsit! It s just meand whoever else is on duty in the county. They can come back me up if I need assistance. And it does get a little hairy. You go in there, and you ha

9、ve these great big, huge monster-guys, and theyre just drunker than skunks, and cant see three feet in front of them. And when they see you, they see fifteen people, and you know. But still, theres enough.Interviewer: Thats where the uniform is important, I should imagine.Senn: Someti mes, you kno w

10、. If somebody is going to or has a bad day, and they areout to get a cop,you know, it doesntmatter if youre, you know, boy, girl, infant or anything! When youve got that cop uniform on, theyll still take it out on you.Interviewer:Yeah.Senn: But I think theres one advantage to being a female police o

11、fficer.And that is the factthat most men still have a little respect, and they wont smack you as easy as they would one of the guys.Interviewer: Uh-huh.Senn: But I ll tell you one thing Ive learned Id rather deal with ten drunk men that one drunk woman any day of the week!Interviewer:Well, why is th

12、at?Senn:Because women are so unpredictable. You cannot ever predict what a womansgoing to do.Interviewer: Hmm.Senn: Especially, if shes agitated, you know.Interviewer: Emotionally upset.Senn: Yeah. I saw a lady one time just get mad at the guy she was withbecause he wouldnt buyher another drink take

13、offher high heel and lay his head wide open. Yuch! Oh, they can be so vicious, you know.Task 3:【答案】1) d2) b3) b4) b【原文】You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over t

14、he heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one ofthe men crashes through a windowthirty feet to the ground below. He is dead！and fallsOf course he isnt really dead. With any luck he isnt even hurt. Why?Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fastmoving trains, who crash cars of

15、even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for a living.These men are calledto say, they perform “tricks ” .“stunt men ”. That isThere are two sides to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall

16、on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress. Again, when they hit oneanother with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar!But although their work depends on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degr

17、ee of skill and training. Often a stunt man s success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is blown up in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.Naturally stuntmen are well-paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get

18、seriously injured, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high. His parachute failed to open and he was killed.In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for“menonly ” . Men no longer dress up as women when actr some dan

19、gerous action. For nowadays there areTask 4:【答案】esses have to perform “stunt girls ” too ！1) He started writing poetry when he was about 14 or 15.2) He has published four books.3) His first book came out when he was about 26. It wasn He got a lot of his work rejected at first.t eas y.4) The British,

20、 or at least the English, are embarrassed by it. They re embarrassed by people who reveal personal feelings, emotions, thoughts and wishes.原文】When Thomas Edison was born in the small town of Milan, Ohio, in 1847,America was just beginning its great industrial development. In his lifetime of eighty-f

21、our years, Edison shared in the excitement of Americas growth into a modern nation. The time in which he lived was an age of invention, filled with human and scientific adventures, and Edison became the hero of that age.As a boy, Edison was not a good student. His parents took him out of school and

22、his mother taught him at home, where his great curiosity and desire to experiment often got him into trouble. When he was six, he set fire to his father s barn “to see what would happen. ” The barnburned down.When he was ten, Edison built his own chemistry laboratory. He sold sandwiches and newspape

23、rs on the trains in order to earn money to buy supplies for his laboratory. His parents became accustomed, more or less, to his experiments and the explosions which sometimes shook the house.Edison s work as a sales boy with the railroad introduced him to the telegraph and, with a friend, he built h

24、is own telegraph set.Six years later, in 1869, Edison arrived in New York City, poor and in debt. He went to work with a telegraph company. It was there that he became interested in the uses of electricity.Task 5:答案】1815， 1914 ， 35million I.A. villages ， seaportB. danger ， long ocean voyageC. a new

25、land ，a new languageD. finding a place to live II.a better life ，opportunity ， freedom III.A. England, Germany, Russia, HungaryB. Roman Catholic, JewishC. customs ，languages IV.A. Americanized ，disappeared.B. havent disappeared ，customs，identities V.A. were cheated ，prejudice ，mistreatedB. hardest ，

26、 least-paid ，dirtiest ，most overcrowdedD.rejected ，old-fashioned ，ashamedovercome【原文】Thousands of people came to American cities before Blacks and Puerto Ricans did. Between 1815 and 1914, more than 35 million Europeans crossed the ocean to find new homes in the United States.Most of these immigrant

27、s were ordinary people. Few were famous when they arrived. Few became famous afterward. Most had lived in small villages. Few had ever been far outside them. Most of them faced the same kinds of problems getting to America: the hardship of going from their villages to a seaport, the unpleasantnessev

28、en danger of thelong ocean voyage, the strangeness of a new land, and of a new language, the problem of finding a place to live, of finding work in a new, strange country.Every immigrant had his own reasons for coming to America. But nearly all shared one reason: They hoped for a better life. They c

29、onsidered America a special place, a land of opportunity, a land of freedom.Immigrants came from many different countries: England, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Italy, Hungary and many others.They came with many different religions: Roman Catholic, Jewish, Quaker, Greek Orthodox.They brought m

30、any different customs and many languages.Some people have called the United States a melting pot. After immigrants were here awhile in the melting potthey becameAmericanized. Differences were melted down. They gradually disappeared.Some people say no. America isnt a melting pot. Its more like a sala

31、d bowl.Important differences between groups of people havent disappeared. Many groups have kept their own ways, their customs, their identities, and this has given America great strength.Melting pot? Salad bowl? Perhaps theres some troth to both ideas.In any case, life in America was hard for most i

32、mmigrants especially at first. Often they were cheated. Often they met with prejudice. They were often laughed at, even mistreated, by people who themselves had been immigrants.Most of them soon found that the streets of America werent paved with gold.They usually got the hardest jobs, and those tha

33、t paid the least, the dirtiest places to live in, the most overcrowded tenements.They came to be citizens of a new country; but often they felt like people without a country. They had given up their own, but they didnt understand their new one. They didnt really feel a part of it. And the people of

34、the new one didnt always welcome them.They came for the sake of their children, but in America their children often rejected them. To the children, their parents seemed old- fashioned. They didnt learn the new language quickly. Some didnt learn it at all. Their parents customs made children ashamed.

35、Gradually, however, problems were overcome. For most immigrants, life in America was better. It certainly was better for their children and for their grandchildren.Task 6:【答案】 A.The Life Story of Thomas EdisonOhio，1847，industrial development, 1931, a modern nation I.A. curiosity ， desireB. 1857 ，sta

36、tion master s sonC. 1863 II.A. New York City ，electricity ， report the pricesB. New Jersey ，invented ， producedC. organized industrial researchD. 1877E.1879 III.A. 1,000B. motion-picture machineC.D.IV.photographystreetcars ， electric trainsB. turn off all powerC.the progress of man B.1) F2) F3) T4)

37、T5) F原文】When Thomas Edison was born in the small town of Milan, Ohio, in 1847,America was justbeginning its great industrial development. The time in which he lived was an age of invention, filled with human and scientific adventures, and Edison became the hero of that age.As a boy, Edison was not a

38、 good student. His parents took him out of school and his mothertaught him at home, where his great curiosity and desire to experiment often got him into trouble. When he was ten, Edison built his own chemistry laboratory. He sold sandwiches and newspapers on the local trains in order to earn money

39、to buy supplies for his laboratory. His parents became accustomed, more or less, to his experiments and the explosions which sometimes shook the house.Edison s work as a sales boy with the railroad introduced him tothe telegraph and with a friend, he built his own telegraph set. He taught himself th

40、e Morse telegraphic code and hoped for the chance to become a professional telegraph operator. A stroke of luck and Edisons quick thinking soon provided the opportunity.One day, as young Edison stood waiting for a train to arrive, he saw the station masters sot wander into the track of an approachin

41、g train. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The thankful station master offered to teach Edison railway telegraphy. Afterwards,in 1863, he became tan expert telegraph operator and left home to work in various cities.Six years later, in 1869, Edison arrived in New York City, poor and in

42、 debt. He went to work with a telegraph company. It was there that he became interested in the uses of electricity. At that time electricity was still in the experimental stages, and Edison hoped to invent new ways to use it for the benefit of people.As he once said: My philosophy of life is work. I

43、 want to bring out the secrets of, nature and apply them for the happiness of man. I know of no better service to render for the short time we are in this world.The same year, when he was only 22 years old, Edison invented an improved ticker-tape machine which could better report the prices on the N

44、ew York Market. The ticker-tape machine was successful, and Edison decided to leave his job and concentrate wholly on inventing. When the president of the telegraph company asked how much they owed him for his invention, Edison was ready to accept only $3,000. Cautiously he said: Suppose you make me

45、 an offer.How would $40,000 strike you? the president inquired. Edison almost fainted, but he finally replied that the price was fair.With this money, and now calling himself an electrical engineer, Edison formed his own invention factory in Newark, New Jersey. over the next few years he invented an

46、d produced many new items, including the mimeograph machine, wax wrapping paper, and improvements of the telegraph.In 1877 Edison decided he could no longer continue both manufacturing and inventing. He sold his share in the factory and built a new laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was the first laboratory of its kind devoted to organized industrial research. One of the first inventions to come from his new laboratory was an improvement of Alexander Bells telephone. Edison invented a more powerful mouthpiece which removed the need to shout into the telephone. But his gr