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1、Unit 11106 / 350Task 2:3Unit 226Unit 350Unit 480Unit 5103Unit 6126Unit 7145Unit 8160Unit 9186Unit 10206Unit 11233Unit 12256Unit 13278Unit 14299Unit 15324Task 1:【答案】EventKenny G was born.UnitlYear1956He toured Europe with his High School1971band.1982He made his first solo album.He won released his mo

2、st successful1993album.He won the Best Artist Award.1994He broke the world record for playing1997a single note.B.1)F2)F3)T【原文】Saxophonist Kenny G is now the worlds most successful jazz musician. He was born in 1956 asKenny Gorelick in Seattle, USA, and he learned to play the saxophone at an early ag

3、e. When he wasjust 15 years old, he toured Europe with his High School band. After studying at Washington University he started his career as a musician. In 1982 he signed for Arista Records and made his first soloalbumKemzy G.Success came slowly at first, but during the 1990s Kenny became well-know

4、n on the international scene. He released Breathless, his most successful album so far in 1993, and in 1994 won theBest Artist Award at 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 saxophoneplayer一US President Bil

5、l Clinton一at the “Gala for the President” concert in Washington, and tobreak the world record for playing a single note (45 minutes and 47 seconds!) at the J & R MusicWorld Store in New York in 1997.During the last 20 years, Kenny G has played with superstars like Aretha Franklin, MichaelBolton and

6、Whitney Houston, and he has sold more than 36 million albums worldwide. and hehasnl sung a note!Task 2:【答案】l)c2)d3)c【原文】Senn: Everybody always has this misconception that female policemen dont do the same thing as men do, you know. Fve worked.Interviewer: Thafs not true?Senn: That is not true! Fve w

7、orked my share of graveyard shifts, and, you know, splitshifts, and double-back and no days off, and.Interviewer: Uh-huh.Senn: .as much as the next guy. Theres no distinction used if theres a male or female officer on duty. Two men on duty一ril refer to as two men, cause in my field theres no differe

8、nce 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 same type of call. If theres a bar disturbance downtown, then we go too. Theres been many times where being the only officer on duty-thafs it! Its just me and whoever els

9、e is on duty in the county. They can e back me up if I need assistance. And it does get a little hairy. You go in there, and you have 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

10、 you know. But still, theres enough.Interviewer: Thats where the uniform is important, I should imagine.Senn: Sometimes, you know. If somebody is going to.or has a bad day, and they areout to get a cop, you know, it doesnt matter if youre, you know, boy, girl, infant or anything! When youve got that

11、 cop uniform on, theyll still take it out on you.Interviewer: Yeah.Senn: But I think theres one advantage to being a female police officer. 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 Pll t

12、ell you one thing Fve learnedEd rather deal with ten drunk menthat one drunk woman any day of the week!Interviewer: Well, why is that?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:

13、Emotionally upset.Senn: Yeah. I saw a lady one time just get mad at the guy she was with because he wouldnt buy her another drink一 take off her high heel and lay his head wide open. Yuch! Oh, they can be so vicious, you know.Task 3:【答案】l)d2)b3)b4)b【原文】You are watching a film in which two men are hav

14、ing a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window-and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead !Of course he isnt really d

15、ead. With any luck he isnt even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast-moving trains, who crash cars of even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called “stunt men”. That is to say, they perfbnn “tricks”.There are two sides to the

16、ir 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 on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress. Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and whe

17、n 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 degiee of skill and training. Often a stimt mans success depends on carefill timing. For example, when he is blown up” in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the

18、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 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-a

19、nd he was killed.In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only”. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are “stunt gills too!Task 4:【答案】1) He started writing poetry when he was about 14 or 15.2) He has publish

20、ed four books.3) His first book came out when he was about 26. It wasnt easy. He got a lot of his work rejected at first.4) The British, or at least the English, are embarrassed by it. Theyre embarrassed by people who reveal personal feelings, emotions, thoughts and wishes.【原文】When Thomas Edison was

21、 born in the small town of Milan, Ohio, in 1847, America was just beginning its great industrial development. In his lifetime of eighty-four years, Edison shared in the excitement of Americas growth into a modem nation. The time in which he lived was an age of invention, filled with human and scient

22、ific 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 his mother taught him at home, where his great curiosity and desire to experiment often got him into trouble. Wlien he was six, he set fire to his father bam “to se

23、e what would happen. The bam burned down.When he was ten, Edison built his own chemistry laboratory. He sold sandwiches and newspapers 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 som

24、etimes shook the house.Edisons work as a sales boy with the railroad introduced him to the telegraph and, with a friend, he built his 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 pany. It was there that he became inte

25、rested in the uses of electricity.Task 5:【答案】1815, 1914, 35millionI.A. villages, seaportB. danger, long ocean voyageC. a new land, a new languageD. finding a place to liveII.a better life, opportunity, freedom III.A. England, Germany, Russia, HungaryB. Roman Catholic, JewishC. customs, languages IV.

26、A. Americanized, disappeared.B. havent disappeared, customs, identitiesV.A. were cheated, prejudice, mistreatedB. hardest, least-paid, dirtiest, most overcrowdedD. rejected, old-fashioned, ashamed overe【原文】Thousands of people came to American cities before Blacks and Puerto Ricans did. Betweenl815 a

27、nd 1914, more than 35 million Europeans crossed the ocean to find new homes in the UnitedStates.Most of these immigrants were ordinary people. Few were famous when they arrived. Fewbecame famous afterward. Most had lived in small villages. Few had ever been far outside them.Most of them faced the sa

28、me kinds of problems getting to America: the hardship of going from theirvillages to a seaport, the unpleasantness一 even danger一of the long ocean voyage, the strangeness ofa new land, and of a new language, the problemoffinding a place to live, of finding work in a new,strange country.Every immigran

29、t had his own reasons for ing to America. But nearly all shared one reason:They hoped for a better life. They considered 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

30、 others.They came with many different religions: Roman Catholic, Jewish, Quaker, Greek Orthodox.They brought many different customs and many languages.Some people have called the United States a ,melting pot”. After immigrants were here awhile一in the melting potthey became Americanized. Differences

31、were “melted down1. They graduallydisappeared.Some people say no. America isnt a melting pot. Its more like a salad bowl. Important differences between groups of people havent disappeared. Many groups have kept their own ways, theircustoms, their identities, and this has given America great strength

32、.Melting pot? Salad bowl? Perhaps theres some troth to both ideas.In any case, life in America was hard for most immigrants-especially at first. Often they werecheated. Often they met with prejudice. They were often laughed at, even mistreated, by people whothemselves had been immigrants.Most of the

33、m soon found that the streets of America werent paved with gold. They usually gotthe hardest jobs, and those that paid the least, the dirtiest places to live in, the most overcrowdedtenements.They came to be citizens of a new country; but often they felt like people without a country. They had given

34、 up their own, but they didnt understand their new one. They didnt really feel a partof it. And the people of the new one didnt always wele them.They came for the sake of their children, but in America their children often rejected them. Tothe children, their parents seemed old-fashioned. They didn*

35、t learn the new language quickly. Somedidnt learn it at all. Their parents1 customs made children ashamed.Gradually, however, problems were overe. For most immigrants, life in America was better.lt certainly was better for their children and for their grandchildren.Task 6:【答案】A.The Life Story of Tho

36、mas EdisonOhio, 1847, industrial development, 1931, a modern nationI.A. curiosity, desireB . 1857, station masters sonC. 1863II.A. New York City, electricity, report the pricesB. New Jersey, invented, producedC. organized industrial researchD. 1877E. 1879III.A, LOOPB. motion-picture machineC. photog

37、raphyD.streetcars, electric trainsIV.B. turn off all powerC. the progress of manB.1)F2)F3)T4)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 huma

38、n 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 his mother taught him at home, where his great curiosity and desire to experiment often got him into trouble. When he was ten, Edison built his own chem

39、istry laboratory. He sold sandwiches and newspapers on the local 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.Edisons work as a salesboy with the railroad introduce

40、d him to the telegraph and with a friend, he built his own telegraph set.He taught himself the Morse telegraphic code and hoped for the chanceto bee a professional telegraph operator. A stroke of luck and Edisons quick thinking soon provided the opportunity.One day, as young Edison stood waiting for

41、 a train to arrive, he saw the station masters sotwander into the track of an approaching train. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The thankful station master offered to teach Edison railway telegraphy. Afterwards, in 1863, he becametan expert telegraph operator and left home to work

42、in various cities.Six years later, in 1869, Edison arrived in New York City, poor and in debt. He went to work with a telegraph pany. It was there that he became interested in the uses of electricity. At that timeelectricity was still in the experimental stages, and Edison hoped to invent new ways t

43、o use it for thebenefit of people. As he once said: My philosophy of life is work. I 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 shorttime we are in this world.11The same year, when he was only 22 years old, Edison in

44、vented an improved ticker-tape machine which could better report the prices on the New York Market. The ticker-tape machine wassuccessful, and Edison decided to leave his job and concentrate wholly on inventing. When the president of the telegraph pany asked how much they owed him for his invention,

45、 Edison was ready toaccept only $3,000. Cautiously he said: Suppose you make me an offer.nnHow would $40,000 strike you?n the president inquired. Edison almost fainted, but he finallyreplied that the price was fair.With this money, and now calling himself an electrical engineer, Edison formed his ow

46、n Minvention factoryM in Newark,New Jersey. Over the next few years he invented and produced many newitems, 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 soldhis share in

47、 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 e from hisnew laboratory was an improvement of Alexander BelFs telephone. Edison invented a more powerfulmouthpiece whic

48、h removed the need to shout into the telephone. But his great inventions were still toe.On August 12, 1877, Edison began experimenting with an instrument which he had designedand ordered to be built. It was a cylinder, wrapped in tinfoil and turned by a handle. As it revolved, aneedle made a groove

49、in the foil. Turning the handle, Edison began to shout.“Mary had a little lambWhose fleece was white as snow!”He stopped and moved the needle back in the starting position. Then, putting his ear close to theneedle, he turned the handle again. A voice came out of the machine:MMary had a little lamb,W

50、hose fleece was white as snow!”Edison had just invented the phonograph, a pletely new concept: a talking machine.While he was perfecting his phonograph, Edison also worked on another invention. He called itMan Electric Lamp for Giving Light by Incandescence”. Today we call it the light bulb.For year

51、s other inventors had experimented with electric lights, but none of the lights had proven economical to produce. Edison, in studying the problem, spent over a year experimenting. He tested 1,600 materials (even hairs from a friends beard) to see if they would carry electric current and glow. Finall

52、y, on October 21, 1879, he tried passing electricity through a carbonized cotton thread in avacuum glass bulb. In his own words Edison described the experiment: n. before nightfall the carbonwas pleted and inserted in the lamp. The bulb was exhausted of air and sealed, the current turnedon, and the

53、sight we had so long desired to see met our eyes/1 The lamp gave off a feeble, reddishglow, and it continued to bum for 40 hours. Edisons incredible invention proved that electric lightingwould be the future light of the world.Edison was now so famous as an inventor that people thought there was not

54、hing he could not do.They began to call him the wizard，as if he could produce an invention like magic. Few peoplerealized how hard Edison worked, often 20 hours a day, and that most of his inventions were theresults of hundreds of experiments.For 60 years Edison was the worlds leading inventor. He p

55、atented over 1,000 inventions whichchanged our way of living. He was one of the earliest inventors of the motion-picture machine. Hisinvention of the phonograph was joined with photography to produce talking pictures. He also perfected the electric motor which made streetcars and electric trains pos

56、sible.It is no wonder that Edison received many honors during his life for contributions to the progressof mankind. The United States gave him its highest award, a special Congressional Medal of Honor.Yet, in spite of all his fame, Edison remained a modest man. He preferred to continue his work, rat

57、herthan rest on his achievements. His motto was: I find what the world needs; then I go ahead and try toinvent it. He never considered himself a brilliant man and once remarked that genius was ”2 percentinspiration and 98 percent perspiration”.When Edison died in 1931, it was proposed that the Ameri

58、can people mm off all power in theirhomes, streets, and factories for several minutes in honor of this great man. Of course, it was quicklyrealized that such an honor would be impossible. Its impossibility was indeed the real tribute toEdison*s achievements. Electric power had bee so important and v

59、ital a part of Americas life thata plete shut-down for even a few seconds would have created chaos. As none of the great heroesof invention”，Edison rightfully belongs among Americas and the worlds great contributors to theprogress of man.Task 7:【答案】l)c2) a3)d4) c5)c6) aB.1) Thafs because the explosi

60、on robs the fire of oxygen.2) Once the fire is out, the well still needs to be covered, or capped, to stop the flow of oil. This is the most dangerous part of the process. Any new heat or fire could cause the leaking well and the surrounding area to explode.3) InMarch of 1991, Red Adair went to Kuwa

61、it. He and his crews were called in to help put out oil well fires.4) He has spent his 76th birthday in Kuwait working side by side with his crew.5) At his funeral, many family members and friends honored him by wearing red clothes.【原文】Paul Neal Adair was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen fifteen.

62、He was one of five sons of a metal worker. He also had three sisters. While growing up, he became known as Red Adair because his hair was bright red. The color became a trademark for Adair. He wore red clothes and red boots. He drove a red car, and his crew members used red trucks and red equipment.

63、During World War Two, Adair served on a trained army team that removed and destroyed bombs. After the war, he returned to Houston and took a job with Myron Kinley. At the time, Kinley was the leader in putting out fires in oil wells. Red Adair worked with Myron Kinley for fourteen years. But in nine

64、teen fifty-nine, Adair started his own pany.During his thirty-six years in business, Red Adair and his crews battled more than two thousand fires all over the world. Some were on land. Others were on ocean oil-drilling structures. Some fires were in burning oil wells. Others were in natural gas wells.Red Adair was a leader in a specialized and extremely dangerous profession.Putting out oil well fires can be difficult. This is because oil well fires are extinguished, or put out, at the wellhead just above ground. Normally, explosi