1. A word that is more or less right, a loose phrase,an ambiguous expression,a vague adjectives ,will not satisfy a writer who aims at clean English.差不多的词，不准确的词语，模棱两可的表达，含糊不清的修饰，都无法使一位追求纯正英语的作家满意。他会一直思考，直至找到那个能准确表达他意思的词。
A writer who pay great attention to expressing the exact English will never be satisfied with a word which can not express an idea accurately.
2. Choosing words is part of the process of the realization, of defining our thoughts and feelings for ourselves , as well as for those who hear or read our words.选词是认识过程的一个步骤，也是详细描述我们的思想感情并表达出来使自己以及听众和读者深刻理解的一个环节。
For the reader can easily understand what kind of feelings and thoughts we want to convey, we need to be careful to choose the words we used in article.
3.It is hard work choosing the right words, but we shall be rewarded by the satisfaction that finding them brings.寻找恰如其分的词的确是件不容易的事。一旦找到了那个词，我们就会感到很欣慰：辛劳得到了回报。
Finding the most suitable word is in no sense easy. But there is nothing like the delight and excitement we shall experience when we pick up such a word.
4. The exact use of language gives us mastery over the material we are dealing with.
准确的用语有助于我们深入了解我们描述的事物。
If we can use language accurately we are in a position to totally understand the subject matter.
第二单元
1. The result is that the Mediterranean, which nurtured so many civilisations, is gravely ill -- the first of the seas to fall victim to the abilities and attitudes that evolved around it.结果导致孕育众多文明的地中海环境极其恶劣—第一个由于其周围人们对其利用能力的增强和对其环境污染的忽视态度而受害的海洋。
The result is, the sea, the cradle of many civilizations, is seriously polluted. It is the first of the seas that has been made to suffer from a situation resulting from development mixed with an irresponsible mentality.
2. What is more, most cities just drop it in straight oil the beach; rare indeed are the places like Cannes and Tel Aviv which pipe it even half a mile offshore.更有甚者，多数城市直接将污水倾到海岸上。实际上，很少有像戛纳和特拉维夫那样的城市用管道把污水抽到离海岸0.5英里的地方。
Further, while the places such as Cannes and Tel Aviv dispose of their wastes through a pipe stretching out half a mile from the shore, most cities do not bother to do that but simply dump their sewage directly into the sea along the coastline.
3. An even greater danger lurks in the seductive seafood dishes that add so much interest to holiday menus.更大的危险潜伏在为假日菜单增色不少的诱人海鲜中。
There is an even bigger hazard hidden in the seafood dishes that are forever so appealing to those holiday makers.
4. Factories cluster round the coastline, and even the most modern rarely has proper waste-treatment plant.群集于海岸的工厂中，即使是最为先进的工厂也几乎没有严格意义上的废物处理系统。
Factories are set up around the coastline, few of which, including the most sophisticated, have been equipped with a satisfactory system for dealing with their effluents.
第四单元
1. beauty and myth are perennial masks of poverty.美景和神话是贫穷的永久面具。
The beautiful clothes worn by the poor and the myth story about the affluent society always cover the severe fact of the poor..
2. This new segregation of poverty is compounded by a well-meaning ignorance.
这种对贫穷的新的隔离混合着一种善意的无知。
The middle class was misled by the beauty and myths mask of the poverty, and their unawareness made more complex this separation between the rich and the poor
第五单元
1.The peer group has become television-oriented, arid much of the time children spend together is occupied by television viewing.孩子和同龄人在一起的活动越来越以电视为中心，很多时候他们聚在一起只是看电视。
Children have become television addicts, devoting much of the time when they are together to watching TV.
2.Television is not merely one of a number of important influences upon today's child..
电视不仅仅是影响当今儿童的重要因素之一。
Television is not merely one among many important factors that may influence a child today.
3.Through the changes it has made in family life, television emerges as the important influence in children's lives today通过对家庭带来的改变，电视已经成为影响当今儿童生活至关重要的因素。
Television has brought about great changes in family life, playing the dominant role in shaping the lives of children today.
4.the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts.电视机下了一个充满魔力的符咒，只要符咒的魔力不消失，人们的言谈举止就一直冷若冰霜，活生生的人也变成了沉默的雕像。
....the television has its magic power over people. As soon as the television is on, people stop talking and doing anything else, becoming lifeless statues before the TV screen.
5.Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people."
打开电视机就中断了孩子向成年转变的过程。
The moment a child sits down to watch television is the moment his growth towards maturity is suspended.
Unit 6 Preparing for College
1. When I knocked at the college gates, I was prepared for a college education in some branches; my mind was hungry enough for answers to some profound questions to have made me work and develop myself, especially on lines which I know now had no ready answers, only more and ever more questions.(para.4)
When I got ready to enter college, I was expecting a college education in some definite fields. I was very eager to know the answers to some questions difficult to understand, and that has made me work and improve myself; especially in areas of study where there were no prompt answers, but there were endless questions.
2. When he read or recited Greek verse the Greeks came to life; romance and language sang songs to me, and I was inspired to be, like him, not a hero nor even a poet, but a Greek scholar, and thus an instrument on which beautiful words might play. (para.6)
_____ When he read or recited Greek poetry, it seemed that what was described in the verse became alive, both the romantic ideas and the poetical lines sounded like beautiful music, and I, just like him, was motivated to be neither a hero in poetry nor a poet who created poetry, but only a student of Greek culture and poetry, in such a way that I would be able to interpret Greek poetry.
3. “Go to , boy. The world is yours. Nothing is done, nothing is known. The greatest poem isn’t written, the best railroad isn’t built yet, the perfect state hasn’t been thought of. Everything remains to be done---right, everything.” (para.12)
_____ “Come on, boy. The world belongs to you --- you are expected to do creative thinking and to act creatively for the world. There is still a lot to be accomplished, and a lot to be found out. No poem written can be called the greatest and no railroad built can be the best. The perfect state has yet to be conceived. Everything has yet to be done.
4. It was conversation I was hearing, the free, passionate, witty exchanges of studied minds as polished as fine tools. They were always courteous, no two ever spoke together; there were no asides; they all talked to the question before the house, and while they were on the job of exposition anyone, regardless of his side, would contribute his quota of facts, or his remembrance of some philosopher’s opinion or some poet’s perfect phrase for the elucidation or the beautification of the theme. (para.14)
_____ What I was hearing was the unrestrianed, earnest, and sparkling interchanges of great intellect as sharp as first-rate tools. They were always polite, speaking one at a time; no one spoke to anyone in secret and no one digressed; thay all spoke when there was an issue everyone was interested in, and while they were explaining something, anyone, no matter whether he was for or against the issue, would tell otheres what he knew about a philosopher’s opinion or a poet’s phrase in order to clarify or to beutify the theme.
Unit 7 Grouping the Gifted: Pro
1. I regard gifted Children as those who possess some quality or innate ability which has been recognized and identified by any number of testing and observation devices … ( Para.1)
In my opinion, gifted children are children who are specialy endowed with natural abilities which rank high on testing scales.
2. I firmly believe that we should group them as nearly as possible according to interest and ability (giftedness) and challenge them with a type of program that will help them to the fullest extent of their abilities and capacities. (Para.3)
I am of the opinion that children should be grouped according to their interest and ability and be subject to a form of training that will develop their abilities and capabilities to the utmost.
3. The teacher, not the manner in which a class is organized, determines students’ attitude toward individual differences. (Para. 8)
It is the teacher, rather than the way that the classes are formed, that influences the students in how they look at differences in ability among themselves.
4. I have confidence that if teachers accept and respect individual worth, that if they challenge and spark interests in young people, the individual student will mature and grow successfully along the lines of his interests and abilities.(Para.9)
I am confident that if teachers are aware of individual differences and motivate young people in different ways, the students will develop through cultivating their own interests and abilities.下载本文
