many courses are you going to take this semester 这个学期你准备要选几门课程
must finish registration today, since it’s the last day for completing your schedule and paying your bill.
你今天必须完成注册，因为今天是办完所有手续以及付费的最后一天。
3. You have no assignments for the weekend, but don’t forget your composition for next week.
这个周末你们没有作业，但别往了下礼拜有篇作文。
4. The results of the final examinations will be released next Tuesday, two days before we are off for summer vacation.
期末考试的结果将于下礼拜二公布，即暑假放假前两天。
5. I had a tough time with English Grammar-I got a C plus in the final examination. 我学习英语语法很吃力—期末考试这门课我考了C+。
6. It’s a famous university, but it doesn’t offer courses I’m interested in. 这是一所著名的大学，但没有什么课程我感兴趣的。
7. I think I’ll apply to Yale University first and see if they have any scholarships.
我想我先申请耶鲁大学吧，看看他们是否提供奖学金。 8. Extracurricular activities are important, because young people learn lessons about life outside the classroom.
课外活动非常重要，因为年轻人在课外学习有关生活的知识。
9. A recent survey found that 57% of 3,479 students feel that our education system is too examination-oriented.
最近一项调查显示，3479名学生中，有57%的学生认为我们的教育体制过于应试化。 10. As the examinations are coming closer, senior students feel increasing pressure from teachers and parents.
随着考试的临近，高年级学生感受到了来自老师和父母的越来越大的压力。
Unit 2
• 1. Living on one’s own can help one to become self-reliant. • 靠自己生活可以使人变的自立。
• 2. What I don’t like about my job is that I get home very late every night.
• 我的工作令我不满意的就是每晚很迟才能回到家。
• 3. I like my job as tourist guide very much because I like to deal with people.
• 我非常喜欢导游这份工作，因为我乐于与人打交道。 • 4. According to a survey, the average amount spent on books and magazines is 50 yuan.
• 根据一项调查，人们在书刊杂志上的花费平均为50元。
• 5. People looking for a job usually have to write around before they
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can get an interview.
• 求职者通常得到处寄信以获得面试机会。
• 6. Mrs. Jones lives on her own and has to look after her two children alone.
• 琼斯女士依靠自己生活并且得独立照看两个孩子。
• 7. The country has seen a sharp drop in the birth rate in the last few years.
• 在过去的几年中，这个国家新生儿出生率大幅下降。
• 8. Juvenile delinquency is on the increase, with over 15% of serious crimes being committed by children under the age of 17.
• 青少年行为不端的情况正在增加，17岁以下的少年儿童犯下了超过15%的重大罪行。
• 9. Parents should look after their children, but they should not be overindulging.
• 家长应照顾好自己的孩子，但不应溺爱。
• 10. I always put my money in a bank. I never make investments. • 我总是将钱存入银行。我从不进行投资。
Unit 4 • 1. Humans are responsible for nearly every loss of species in the past few thousand years.
• 人类对过去几千年中每个物种的灭亡几乎都负有责任。 • 2. Humans have destroyed forests, spoiled agriculture and polluted the air, water and soil.
• 人类破坏了森林和农业，污染了空气、水和土壤。 • 3. Our own survival depends on the survival of other species. • 我们的生存依赖于其它物种的生存。 • 4. Low-lying Pacific Islands are suffering coastal erosion and crop failures. • 地势低洼的太平洋岛屿正面临着海岸侵蚀和作物歉收的困境。 • 5. If pollution continues to increase at the present rate, aerosols in the atmosphere will cause the onset of an ice age in about fifty years’ time.
• 如果污染按目前的速度持续增加，大气中的悬浮物会导致未来五十年内一个冰河时代的开始。
6. The reduction in woods areas has already led to increased flooding, water-shortages in the dry seasons and the loss of farmland.
森林的减少已经导致洪水增加，干旱季节缺水以及农田的减少。
7. As much as 70% of the woods in Asia will be gone in 20 years unless actions are taken now to save them.
除非现在人们采取措施拯救树木，否则亚洲70%的森林在未来20年后会消失。 8. As a developing country, China is confronted with the dual task of developing the economy and protecting the environment.
作为一个发展中国家，中国正面临着发展经济和保护环境的双重任务。
9. The US decision to withdraw from the international accord on climate change
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has caused international alarm.
美国退出关于气候变化这一国际协议的决定引起了各国的担忧。
10. The weather around the world is changing from mild weather to weather that is growing warmer every year.
全世界的气候正在从温和变为越来越暖。
11. In fact, desertification is about land degradation: the loss of the land’s biological productivity, caused by human-induced factors and climate change.（无音频）
事实上，沙漠化是个土地恶化的问题：即由于人为因素和气候变化，土地丧失了生物上的生产力。
12. The risks of desertification are substantial and clear. It contributes to food insecurity, famine and poverty, and can give rise to social, economic and political tensions that can cause conflicts, further poverty and land degradation.（无音频）
沙漠化的危险是巨大的，也是明白无误的。它会引起食物不安全、饥荒和贫困，还可以引起社会、经济、政治上的紧张局势，从而引起冲突，加剧贫困和土地恶化。
Unit 8 • 1. Let’s play man-to-man defense, and I’ll mark this guy.
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咱们采取人盯人战术，我盯这个人。 2. I scored a point from a jump-shot. 我跳投得了一分。 3. Their guards were in front of me every time I tried to shoot.
• • 每次我想投球的时候他们的防守都挡在我面前。 • 4. Let’s get a few people together for a half-court bullfight.
• • 咱们组织几个人打场半场球赛吧。 • 5. This bowling alley has got 36 lanes and there are always some free. You needn’t book..
• • 这个保龄球场有36条球道，一直都有空余的。你不需要预定。 • 6. Do you want to wait in line, or find another alley • 你想在这排队等等，还是另外找一个球道 • 7. That’s the second time I’ve struck out this round. • 这是我这一轮里第二次不中出局了。 • 8. You should hold your arm and wrist straight. If you don’t have a solid wrist, you will never be able to control the ball.
• 你应该保持胳膊和手腕笔直。如果手腕不稳固，你就没法控制球。 • 9. I’ll take you to my favorite pool, an indoor and heated one, very clean.
• • 我带你去我很喜欢的游泳池，它在室内，有加热系统，而且环境很清洁干净。 • 10. I get water in my ears when swimming the back-stroke and I haven’t learnt
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how to control my breathing.
• • 游仰泳的时候我的耳朵会进水，而且我还没掌握怎么调节呼吸。
11. Thank you, Mr President, for your gracious words of welcome.（无音频）
感谢校长（总统）先生热情的欢迎词。
12. This is comprised of individuals who travel to participate in golf, skiing, and tennis in particular, although other sports such as fishing and scuba diving are popular in the US. （无音频）
这尤指那些旅行去参加高尔夫、滑雪和网球的个人。当然，钓鱼和戴水肺潜水在美国也受欢迎。
Unit 10
• 1. For many people, Christmas is a deeply religious occasion celebrating the birth of Christ.
• 对于很多人来说，圣诞节是纪念耶稣诞辰的，是具有浓厚宗教色彩的节日。
• 2. For many people Christmas is simply a time to be with one’s family, to feast, and to be merry.
• 对很多人来说，圣诞节就是和家人在一起快乐地享受盛宴。
• 3. On Christmas Eve, some people light candles in the window. The candles symbolize a welcome to cold and weary travelers.
• 在圣诞夜，有些人在窗户里点上蜡烛，这蜡烛代表着对那些寒冷疲惫的行人的欢迎。 • 4. In many ways, the children born in the 1980s are blessed. For most of their lives, the economy has been booming. They will also probably be the best-educated generation in history.
• 在很多方面，20世纪80年代的孩子们是幸运的。在他们一生中的大部分时光里，经济都在迅猛增长。而且，他们可能会是历史上受教育程度最好的一代。
• 5. Those born in the 1980s are accustomed to a world of information and a social life based on e-mail just a mouse-click away.
• 20世纪80年代出生的人们已经习惯了这个世界充斥的大量信息和以电邮为基础的社交生活，他们只需轻轻点击鼠标即可。
6. Those born in the 1980s are likely to have friends from many different ethnic and racial backgrounds.
出生在20世纪80年代的人可能和来自不同种族和民族背景的人做朋友。
7. Halloween is very much affected by the toy industry, and what’s hot in the movies, and even current events.
万圣节很大程度上受玩具业、热门电影、甚至是时事新闻的影响。
8. Today American parents usually give their children Easter rabbit toys and children enjoy eating candy rabbits and listening to stories about the Easter rabbit, who brings Easter eggs, for good children only.
当今，美国的父母亲通常送给孩子们复活节兔子的玩具，孩子们很喜欢边吃糖果边听复活节兔子只给好孩子带来复活节彩蛋的故事，
9. Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May. Mother often receives
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greeting cards and gifts from her husband and children.
母亲节是五月的第二个星期天，母亲会收到来自丈夫和孩子的贺卡和礼物。
10. Father’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June. Father receives greeting cards and gifts from his family and enjoys a day of leisure.
父亲节是六月的第三个星期天，父亲会收到来自家人的贺卡和礼物，并且过一天清闲的日子
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