英语5-6单元复习+背诵课文和习题

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For thirty years now I have been studying my fellowmen. I do not know very much about them. I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of a person are always right. I think they must have small insight or great vanity. For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me.

三十年来，我一直研究我的人类同胞，但至今了解不多。每当有人跟我说他对一个人的第一次印象向来不错的时候，我就耸耸肩。我想这种人不是无知，就是自大。拿我自己来说，我发现，认识一个人的时间越长，我就越感到困惑。

2 These reflections have occurred to me because I read in this morning’s paper that Edward Hyde Burton had died at Kobe. He was a merchant and he had been in business in Japan for many years. I knew him very little, but he interested me because once he gave me a great surprise. Unless I had heard the story from his own lips, I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action. It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type. Here if ever was a man all of a piece. He was a tiny little fellow, not much more than five feet four in height, and very slender, with white hair, a red face much wrinkled, and blue eyes. I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him. He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.

我产生这些想法，是因为我在今天早上的报纸上看到爱德华•海德•伯顿在神户去世的消息。他是个商人，在日本经商多年。我跟他并不熟，但是对他挺有兴趣，因为有一次他让我大吃一惊。要不是听他亲口讲述这个故事，我根本不会相信他能做出这种事来。这件事之所以特别令人惊讶，是因为无论是外表还是风度，他都让人想到一种非常明确的类型。要说真有表里如一的人的话，那就是此公了。他个子很小，身高不过5英尺4英寸，身材纤细，白头发、蓝眼睛，红红的脸上布满皱纹。我估计自己认识他时，他大约有60岁光景。他向来衣着整洁素雅，合乎他的年龄和身份。

3 Though his offices were in Kobe, Burton often came down to Yokohama. I happened on one occasion to be spending a few days there, waiting for a ship, and I was introduced to him at the British Club. We played bridge together. He played a good game and a generous one. He did not talk very much, either then or later when we were having drinks, but what he said was sensible. He had a quiet, dry humor. He seemed to be popular at the club and afterwards, when he had gone, they described him as one of the best. It happened that we were both staying at the Grand Hotel and next day he asked me to dine with him. I met his wife, fat, elderly, and smiling, and his two daughters. It was evidently a united and affectionate family. I think the chief thing that struck me about Burton was his kindliness. There was something very pleasing in his mild blue eyes. His voice was gentle; you could not imagine that he could possibly raise it in anger; his smile was benign. Here was a man who attracted you because you felt in him a real love for his fellows. At the same time he liked his game of cards and his cocktail, he could tell with point a good and spicy story, and in his youth he had been something of an athlete. He was a rich man and he had made every penny himself. I suppose one thing that made you like him was that he was so small and frail; he aroused your instincts of protection. You felt that he could not bear to hurt a fly.

伯顿的办事处设在神户，但他常常到横滨来。有一次，我正好因为等船，要在那里呆几天，在英国俱乐部经人介绍与他相识。我们在一起玩桥牌。他打得不错，牌风也好。无论在玩牌的时候，还是在后来一起喝酒的时候，他的话都不多，但说的话却都合情合理。他挺幽默，但并不咋呼。他在俱乐部里似乎人缘不错，后来，在他走了以后，人家都说他是个顶呱呱的人。事有凑巧，我们俩都住在格兰德大酒店。第二天他请我吃饭。我见到了他的太太――一位肥肥胖胖、满面笑容的半老妇人――和他的两个女儿。这显然是和睦恩爱的一家人。我想，伯顿当时给我印象最深的主要还是他这个人和善。他那双温和的蓝眼睛有种令人愉快的神情。他说话的声音轻柔；你无法想象他会提高嗓门大发雷霆；他的笑容和蔼可亲。这个人吸引你，是因为你从他身上感到他对别人的真正的爱。同时他也喜欢玩牌，喝鸡尾酒，他能绘声绘色地讲个来劲儿的段子什么的，他年轻时多少还是个运动员呢。他是个阔佬，但他的每一个便士都是自己挣来的。我想，人们喜欢他还有一个原因，那就是他非常瘦小、脆弱，容易引起人们的恻隐之心。你觉得他甚至连只蚂蚁都不忍伤害。


答案：
1) In a way 在某种程度上
2) in accordance with 根据
3) vacancy 空缺
4) in good condition 状况良好
5) transparent 透明的
6) rub 摩擦
7) spicy 辛辣的
8) hitherto 迄今为止
9) with (a) bad grace 带着坏风度
10) instinct 本能
11) pawned 典当
12) current 当前
In a way在某一点上
in accordance with符合；依照；和…一致
vacancy空缺; 空职; 空额; 空房，空间; 无兴趣; 无主意; 空虚
in good condition健康状况好，膘情好，状态良好
rub擦; 磨; 搓; 相互摩擦; 摩擦; 抹; 揉; 问题; 困难
spicy加有香料的; 用香料调味的; 刺激的; 粗俗的
hitherto迄今; 直到某时
bad grace勉强，不愿
instinct本能; 天性; 直觉
pawned质押; 典当; pawn的过去分词和过去式

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24 As Godbey points out, the stress we feel arises not from a shortage of time, but from the surfeit of things we try to cram into it. “It’s the kid in the candy store,” he says. “There’s just so many good things to do. The array of choices is stunning. Our free time is increasing, but not as fast as our sense of the necessary.”
正如戈德比所指出的，我们的紧张感并非源于时间短缺，而是因为我们试图在一个个时段中塞入过多的内容。“就像糖果店里的孩子，”他说，“有那么多美好的事情要做。选择之多，令人眼花缭乱。我们的空余时间在增加，但其速度跟不上我们心中日益增多的必须做的事。”
25 A more successful remedy may lie in understanding the problem rather than evading it.
更有效的解决方式或许在于去理解这一问题，而不是回避这一问题。
26 Before the industrial revolution, people lived in small communities with limited communications. Within the confines of their village, they could reasonably expect to know everything that was to be known, see everything that was to be seen, and do everything that was to be done.
工业革命前，人们居住在交通联系不方便的小社区里。在本村范围内，人们自然而然地期望了解该了解的一切，见到该见的一切，做该做的一切。
27 Today, being curious by nature, we are still trying to do the same. But the global village is a world of limitless possibilities, and we can never achieve our aim.
如今，生性好奇的我们仍试图这么做。然而，地球村是一个有着无限可能的世界，我们永远无法实现自己的目标。
28 It is not more time we need: it is fewer desires. We need to switch off the cell-phone and leave the children to play by themselves. We need to buy less, read less and travel less. We need to set boundaries for ourselves, or be doomed to mounting despair.
我们需要的不是更多的时间：是更少的欲望。我们定要关掉手机，让孩子们自己玩耍。我们定要少购物，少阅读，少出游。我们定要在有所为、有所不为方面给自己设定界限，不然则注定会越来越感到绝望。

答案：

1) appliances 电器
2) comparative 比较的
3) multiply 乘
4) distribution 分配
5) prosperity 繁荣
6) decorate 装饰
7) famine 饥荒
8) large quantities of / a large quantity of 大量
9) streamline 流线型
10) fax 传真
11) pointed the way to 指向
12) bewildered 困惑
comparative比较的; 相比的; 比较而言的; 相对的; 比较级的(如better、worse、slower和more difficult); 比较级形式
multiply乘; 乘以; 成倍增加; 迅速增加; 繁殖，增殖
prosperity兴旺; 繁荣; 成功; 昌盛
decorate装饰; 装潢; 粉刷; 油漆; 糊墙纸; 点缀; 装点
famine饥荒
streamline使成流线型; 使效率更高; 使增产节约; 流线; 流线型
pointed尖的; 有尖头的; 尖锐的; 尖刻的; 明确的; 指，指向; 瞄准; 对着; 朝向; point的过去分词和过去式
bewildered困惑不解的; 不知所措的; 晕头转向的; 使迷惑; 使糊涂; bewil