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1、大学体验英语3课文原文大学英语是我们日常学习的延续，下面我们来看一下其中一些原习一些 吧。Unit1:Passage A:Care for Our Mother Earth(Dr. McKinley of Awareness Magazine interviews a group of experts on environmental issues.) Dr. McKinley: What do you think is the biggest threat to the environment today? Aman Motwane: The biggest threat to our en

2、vironment today is the way we, as human beings, see our environment. How we see our environment shapes our whole world. Most of us see everything as independent from one another. But the reality is that everything is part of one interconnected, interrelated whole. For example, a tree may appear isol

3、ated, but in fact it affects and is affected by everything in its environment - sunshine, rain, wind, birds, minerals, other plants and trees, you, me. The tree shapes the wind that blows around it; it is also shaped by that wind. Look at the relationship between the tree and its environment and you

4、 will see the future of the tree. Most of us are blind to this interconnectedness of everything. This is why we dont see the consequences of our actions. It is time for each of us to open our eyes and see the world as it really is - one complete whole where every cause has an effect. Dr. McKinley: H

5、ello Dr. Semkiw. In your research, what environmental issues do you find most pressing? Walter Semkiw: Two environmental issues that we find most pressing are deforesting and global warming. Mankind has now cut down half of the trees that existed 10, 000 years ago. The loss of trees upsets the ecosy

6、stem as trees are necessary to build topsoil, maintain rainfall in dry climates, purify underground water and to convert carbon dioxide to oxygen. Trees bring water up from the ground, allowing water to evaporate into the atmosphere. The evaporated water then returns as rain, which is vital to areas

7、 that are naturally dry. Areas downwind of deforested lands lose this source of rainfall and transform into deserts. Global warming results from the burning of fossil fuels, such as petroleum products, resulting in the release of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide and other greenh

8、ouse gasses then resulting in the trap heat, resulting in warming of our atmosphere. Dr. McKinley: Mr. Nacson, thanks for participating all the way from Australia! What do you suggest the readers of Awareness Magazine can do to help the environmental problem? Leon Nacson: The simplest way to help th

9、e environment is not to impact on it. Tread as lightly as you can, taking as little as possible, and putting back as much as you can. Dr. McKinley: What is your specific area of concern regarding the current and future stateTheyre building up their learning curve in the U. S., and then picking up ni

10、che markets,/z said Ming-Jer Chen, a professor at the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and the author of a new book, Inside Chinese Business.BROADWAY HEADQUARTERS The company, whose Chief Executive Zhang Ruimin is famous in China for being filmed smashing sub-st

11、andard products with a hammer, last week bought a historical bank building on Broadway in Manhattan for $14 million.“Buying a New York building for $14 million is not whats going to make us, said Jemal. Its about offering the customers the products the competition doesnt have. In the third quarter o

12、f 2002, for example, the company plans to launch stainless steel Internet-linked appliances with Flash Gordon stylings, such as a home clothes washing machine that can be started via the Internet, he said.To grow its brand in the U. S. , the company has taken out ad space on a case-by-case basis on

13、trolley cars at JFK International Airport in New York and on billboards in Miami and Chicago, but has not yet contracted with any of the big advertising firms. And Haier America is not only battling rival appliance makers in the U. S. - it is also manufacturing for some of them. Haier America does a

14、bout 20 to 25 percent of its manufacturing on a contract basis for other companies, including big U. S. competitors, who sell its products under their own brand names.Using its own strategies, Haier is gradually building its brand name in the American market.Haier focuses on U. S. college students f

15、or the purpose of keeping them as future customers.Haier wont succeed only by the purchase of that buildingHaier finds a suitable position in the U. S. market through explorationa refrigerator with an American brand may be a product of Haier5 sUnit4:Passage A:Not Now, Dr. MiracleSeverino Antinori is

16、 a rich Italian doctor with a string of private fertility clinics to his name. He likes watching football and claims the Catholic faith. Yet the Vatican is no fan of his science. In his clinics, Antinori already offers every IVF treatment under the sun, but still there are couples he cannot help. So

17、 now the man Italians call Dr Miracle is offering to clone his patients to create the babies they so desperately want.And of course its created quite a stir, with other scientists rounding on Antinori as religious leaders line up to attack his cloning plan as an insult to human dignity. Yet its an a

18、mbition Antinori has expressed many times before. Whats new is that finally it seems to be building a head of steam. Like-minded scientists from the US have joined Antinori in his cloning adventure. At a conference in Rome last week they claimed hundreds of couples have already volunteered for the e

19、xperiments. Antinori shot to fame seven years ago helping grandmothers give birth using donor eggs. Later he pioneered the use of mice to nurture the sperm of men with poor fertility. He is clearly no ordinary scientist but a showman who thrives on controversy and pushing reproductive biology to the

20、 limits. And that of course is one reason why hes seen as being so dangerous. However, his idea of using cloning to combat infertility is not as mad as it sounds. Many people have a hard job seeing the point of reproductive cloning. But for some couples, cloning represents the only hope of having a

21、child carrying their genes, and scientists like Antinori are probably right to say that much of our opposition to cloning as a fertility treatment is irrational. In future we may want to change our minds and allow it in special circumstances. But only when the science is ready. And thats the real pr

22、oblem. Five years on from Dolly, the science of cloning is still stuck in the dark ages. The failure rate is a shocking 97 per cent and deformed babies all too common. Even when cloning works, nobody understands why. So forget the complex moral arguments. To begin cloning people now, before even the

23、 most basic questions have been answered, is simply a waste of time and energy. This is not to say that Antinori will fail, only that if he succeeds it is likely to be at an unacceptably high price. Hundreds of eggs and embryos will be wasted and lots of women will go through difficult pregnancies r

24、esulting i n mi scarri agps or aborti ons. A few years from now techniques will have improved and the wasteful loss wont be as excessive. But right now there seems to be little anyone can do to keep the cloners at bay. And its not just Antinori and his team who are eager to go. A religious group cal

25、led the Raelians believes cloning is the key to achieving immortality, and it, too, claims tohave the necessary egg donors and volunteers willing to be implanted with cloned embryos. So what about tougher laws? Implanting cloned human embryos is already illegal in many countries but it will never be

26、 prohibited everywhere. In any case, the prohibition of cloning is more likely to drive it underground than stamp it out. Secrecy is already a problem. Antinori and his team are refusing to name the country they 11 be using as their base. Like it or not, the research is going ahead. Sooner or later

27、we are going to have to decide whether regulation is safer than prohibition. Antinori wou1d go for regulation, of course. lie believes it is only a matter of time before we lose our hang-ups about reproductive cloning and accept it as just another IVF technique. Once the first baby is born and it cr

28、ies, he said last week, the world will embrace it. But the world will never embrace the first cloned baby if it is unhealthy or deformed or the sole survivor of hundreds of pregnancies. In jumping the gun, Dr Miracle and his colleagues are taking one hell of a risk. If their instincts are wrong, the

29、 backlash against cloning - and indeed science as a whole - could be catastrophic, the research on cloning humans should not be conducted so recklessly Vatican is against Antinoris cloning plan Criticizing cloning science is not advanced enough he tries to challenge the biological limits to combat i

30、nfertilityUnit4:Passage B:I Have His Genes But Not His GeniusIts Christmas Eve 2040, and Im the only bartender still working that afternoon, and the house is practically empty. I see this guy down at the end of the bar, sitting by himself. I bring him a fresh drink, and wish him greetings of the sea

31、son. He looks at me, sort of funny, and says: Do you know who I am? I admit I dont. Here, maybe this will help,“ he says, and he pulls a little picture out of his wallet. An old portrait, really old, like centuries old. Its a young man in profile: sharp nose, weak chin, definite resemblance to my fr

32、iend here. At the bottom, theres a caption: W A. Mozart. zz Now its my turn to look at him funny. Then it hits me like a brick. You re that clone guy, I say. The guy in the papers back in the 20s In the flesh. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I have his brain, his heart, his DNA. Hes my father and my mother

33、 and my brother. Hes my identical twin, except I was born 247 years later. /z So he starts talking. It takes him a long time to explain, and I didnt get it all, but I got a lot. In 2001, Congress passed a ban on cloning humans, but of course mad scientists went ahead with secret cloning. And then, t

34、here was this software billionaire who was nuts about Mozart, and was especially nuts about Mozarts Requiem. He set up a secret institute in Switzerland and hired some top biologists andtold them theyd get $1 million each for every baby they cloned from Mozart，s DNA. In 2003, the institute managed t

35、o bring four babies to term. Two died shortly after birth. Two survived. But then this software billionaire died, and his company collapsed, and so did his cloning institute. One baby Mozart was put up for adoption anonymously. No one knows what happened to that one. The other baby was adopted by on

36、e of the scientists, who was a big Mozart fan herself. And thats me, he says. His mother, of course, didnt tell him or anyone else who he was, but she told the boy how special he was, how he was a genius, what a great composer he could be, trying to push her little Mozart toward music. But the 2010s

37、 werent the 1760s. The boy may have had talent, but he also had his own priorities, and they didnt include violin sonatas. He liked rock music and he liked it loud, and then as he got older he liked beer and girls. The harder his mother pushed him to be a great composer, the less he wanted to be one

38、. After a while his mother gave up. By the time he was 20, he had a decent job working in a frame shop. And thats when the roof fell in. Some reporter got wind of the institute and the cloning experiment and tracked him down. But no one could prove he was a clone of Mozart without digging up the ori

39、ginal, so the media treated him as a joke. It just crushed him. He tried running away. He joined a Buddhist monastery in Japan. One day, while he was there, he heard the Requiem. Not for the first time, but this time it was different. My God, it was beautiful!/z he says. I felt a realization explode

40、 inside my head. I just felt it somehow: It rang inside of me. Id finish it, or die trying. /z He knew that if he could finish the Requiem, hed be famous for real, a genius instead of a fool. He immersed himself in Mozart5 s music. Nights, weekends, all the time, he drove himself, working on the Req

41、uiem. And? What happened?” I turned 37 four months ago. Ive been working on the Requiem for 15 years. Mozart died when he was 35. I should have finished the Requiem two years ago. /z And you havent He looks at me for a while and shakes his head, “You dont understand. I have his genes but not his gen

42、ius. And with that he drops a tip on the bar and is gone. I never saw him again. If the Requiem was ever finished, I never heard about it.Unit5:Passage A:Tongue-tiedSeveral weeks ago I was riding in a cab when the drivers eyes caught mine in the rear view mirror and he said, “Excuse me, Miss? Can yo

43、u help me? As any hard-bitten city dweller knows, the correct answer to a question like Can you help me? should always be some version of It depends.I chirped, Sure ”Thank you, he said. He passed a slip of yellow paper into the back seat. I stared at thepaper, wondering. Was this a joke? A threat? H

44、and-printed on the paper in tiny block letters was this: proverb peculiar idiomatic “Please, he said. What is the meaning of these words?” I stared at the words in the distressed way you might stare at party guests whose faces you5 ve seen somewhere before but whose names have escaped your mind. Pro

45、verb? Peculiar? Idiomatic? How on earth should I know? Its one thing to use a word, its another to explain it. I resorted to shifting the topic. ，zWhere did you get these words?” The driver explained that he was Pakistani. He listened to the radio as he drove and often jotted down unfamiliar, fascin

46、ating words whose meanings and spellings he then sought from his passengers. Peculiar,“ he said. What does this mean?”I could manage that one. Strange, I said. Odd Often with a hint of something suspicious. /z Thank you, Miss. And idiomatic?” I cleared my throat. Um, its a, well, um. It involves a p

47、eculiar use of the language. /z I thought my use of peculiar was kind of clever. He looked confused, a reminder that clevers not clever if it doesnt communicate. Uh, lets see. Idiomatic5 is related to the word idiom. An idioms something thats used in, say, a particular part of the country or by a pa

48、rticular group of people. People who aren，t part of that group arent likely to use it and might not understand it. Watching his puzzled look, I did what a person often does when at a loss for the right words: I went on talking, as if a thousand vague words would add up to one accurate definition. Ca

49、n you give me an example?” I racked my brains. Gapers block,“ I said. A peculiarly Chicago phrase. But did it really qualify as idiomatic? 1 had no idea because the longer I thought about idioms the less sure I was what they were. And proverb?” I should have told the poor man right then that I might be misleading him down the proverbial path, whatever that really means, but instead I said, I think a proverb is kind of like an aphorism. But no