大学新视野英语期末复习题(8)

答案： 在这个繁忙喧嚣的世界，一层快速形成的遮蔽物遮住了我们的双眼，是他帮我揭开了它，见到了一个以前从未欣赏到的崭新世界。

2． He had helped me lift the veil that grows so quickly over our eyes in this busy world, to see a whole new realm I‘d failed to appreciate before.

5. Guided Writing

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on Love and Care for the Handicapped according to the Chinese outline, and you must use at least 120 words.

Title: Love and Care for the Handicapped 关爱残疾人

1． 残疾人作为社会的一个特殊群体需要更多的关爱和帮助。

2． 关爱残疾人重在转变观念，3． 即把他们视为独立、平等的个体，同4． 时我们还应该致力于为残疾人创造一个更便利的生活环境。

5． 残疾人也有自己的优势，6． 所以在关爱残疾人的同7． 时我们自己也将受益匪浅。

China has an estimated 83 million disabled people, accounting for about 6.3 percent of the country‘s population. To ensure a better life for this special group of people, it calls for more love and care from the rest of the society.

However, nowadays some people still harbored some kind of prejudice against the handicapped. Therefore, a change in their attitudes is of top priority. Just as the sign language hostess from the China Disabled Art Performing Troupe, Jiang xintian, often ―said‖ with her hands that ―Life is full of ups and downs, and our life is not unlucky but just inconvenient.‖, so the best way to show our love and care is to offer them the respect and dignity bestowed with every individual. Only when we treat them as equals would they enjoy the opportunity to become more independent members of this society and fulfill their dreams confidently. In addition, joined efforts should be devoted to creating a more convenient living environment for the handicapped. Among the many other things we can do for them is the construction and installation of barrier-free facilities, such as special lanes for the blind, low chassis (底架，底盘) barrier-free buses, or wheelchair ramps (坡道) in public places, which will not only greatly ease the lives of the handicapped but also benefit any ordinary individual such as a mother with a baby stroller.

As the saying goes ―When God closes a door, He opens a window.‖, most physically-challenged people have their own strengths. Either the acute sense of hearing of a blind, or the expressive body language of a deaf and dumb may serve as a perfect example. What impressed us most deeply would be the optimism, courage and perseverance showed by those disabled athletes, and it is they who help us to gain new insights into the true meaning of life. Thus, while we are extending a helping hand to the physically-challenged, we are virtually learning even more from them, learning a more positive attitude towards life and learning to be a more complete human being.

Unit Four (Book Four)

I．RF (快速阅读一篇) (题目分类：多项选择题)

4-RF-04

The Jeaning of America and the World

This is the story of a sturdy American symbol which has now spread throughout most of the world. The symbol is not the dollar. It is not even Coca-Cola. It is a simple pair of pants called blue jeans, and what the pants symbolize is what Alexis de Tocqueville called ―a manly and legitimate passion for equality…‖ Blue jeans are favored equally by bureaucrats and cowboys, bankers and deadbeats, fashion designers and beer drinkers. They draw no distinctions and recognize no classes; they are merely American. Yet they are sought after almost everywhere in the world. They have been around for a long time, and it seems likely that they will outlive even the necktie.

This ubiquitous American symbol was the invention of a Bavarian-born Jew. His name was Levi Strauss.

He was born in Bad Ocheim, Germany, in 1829, and during the European political disorder of 1848 decided to take his chances in New York, to which his two brothers already had emigrated. For two years he was a lowly peddler, hauling sundries (杂货) door-to-door to eke out (维持) a hand-to-mouth living. When a married sister in San Francisco offered to pay his way West in 1850, he jumped at the opportunity, taking with him bolts of canvas he hoped to sell for making tents.

It was the wrong kind of canvas for that purpose, but while talking with a miner, he learned that pants – sturdy pants that would stand up to the rigors of the diggings – were almost impossible to find. Opportunity beckoned. On the spot, Strauss measured the man‘s waist and inseam with a piece of string and, for six dollars in gold dust, had the canvas tailored into a pair of stiff but rugged pants. The miner was delighted with the result, word got around about ―those pants of Levi‘s,‖ and Strauss was in business. The company has been in business ever since.

When Strauss ran out of canvas, he wrote his two brothers to send more. He received instead a rough, brown cotton cloth made in Nimes, France –– called serge de Nimes and swiftly shortened to ―denim‖(the word ―jeans‖ derives from Genes, the French word for Gennoa, where a similar cloth was produced). Almost from the first, Strauss had his cloth dyed the distinctive indigo that gave blue jeans their name, but it was not until the 1870s that he added the copper rivets (铆钉) which have long since become a company trademark.

Over the following years the company prospered locally and by the time of his death in 1902, Strauss had become a man of prominence in California. For three decades thereafter the business remained profitable though small. From a company with fifteen salespeople, two plants, and almost no business east of Mississippi in 1946, the organization grew in thirty years to include a sales force of more than twenty-two thousand, with fifty plants and offices in thirty-five countries. Each year, more than 250,000,000 items of Levi‘s clothing are sold – includ …… 此处隐藏：5672字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……