Unit 1
Language building-up
Task 1/Specialized vocabulary 1. ËÇÁϾÏúÉÌ£»ËÇÁÏÅú·¢ÉÌ 2. ΪËû×Ô¼ºµÄÊÕÒæ¶ø¹¤×÷ 3. ¼¼ÄÜÓëÀͶ¯Á¦ 4. ÖÆÔìËÜÁÏ 5. ˽È˽»Ò× 6. °ü×°²¢¶¨¼Û 7. ÎÞÐÎÖ®ÊÖ
1. priced 2. labor
3. transactions 4. gain
5. labor; manufactured 6. invisible hand 7. distributor
Task 2/Signpost language
1. Today, in millions of homes across the nation, God will be thanked for many gifts, for the feast on the table and the company of loved ones, for health and good fortune in the year gone by, for peace privilege of having been born, or having become ¡ª American(Line 2, Para.1).
2. And yet, isn't there something wondrous, ¡ª something almost inexplicable in the way your Thanksgiving weekend is made possible by the skill and labor of vast numbers of total strangers? (Line 1, Para. 4)
3. ...Thanksgiving Turkey, there would be one, ¡ª or more likely, a few dozen¡ª waiting. (Line 3, Para.6)
Task 3/Formal English
1. very many 2. buying or selling 3. a large group of 4. more huge 5. understand 6. troubled
Unit 2
Language building Task 1: Part 1:
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11£©stock price 12£©corporate motto 13£©assets 14£©maximize profits 15£©financial system Part 2£º
1)market forces 2£©financial institutions
3£©free enterprise system 4£©deep institutions 5£©invisible hand 6£©stockholder
7£©profit maximization 8£© economic system Task 2£º 1.and£» 2.Another£» 3. also£»
4. Not only£» but£» 5. other Task 3
1. understanding£» 2. agree with£»
3. forces? to be accepted; 4. bad
5. purpose 6. charitable ;
7. given; 8.famous.
Unit 3
Language building Task 1: collocation Part 1:
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5£©platitude 6£©debilitate 7£©reassuring 8£© undermine 9£©ruminate 10£©martial Task 2£º
1.contrasting£» 2.in contrast£» 3. However£» 4. different£»
5. on the other hand 6. in the opposite way 7.however Task 3
1. full of£»
2. becomes alert and energetic 3. keeping thinking about 4. been left in hopelessness 5. likely to suffer from 6. not disturbed
7. saying something that people are quite familiar with 8. officially approved
Unit 4
Language building Task 1: collocation Part 1:
1. green movement 2. protected areas
3. extinction of animals and plants 4. wild fish stocks 5. make clean power 6. save resources 7. ÅàÓýÉúÎï¶àÑùÐÔ 8. ¿ØÖÆÎÛȾ
9. ×èÖ¹¶ÔÉú̬ÌåϵµÄÆÆ»µ 10. À©´óÇå½à²úÒµ 11. ¼¯ÌåÊÀ½ç¹Û 12. Éú̬¾¼Ã
Part 2£º1. Embedding a narrative that moves us on from protecting nature from people to protecting nature for people is an essential part of this reframing. (Para.6)
If such a narrative is to gain practical effect, then looking after nature must urgently be seen as not only an environmental challenge, but also an economic one. (Para.7)
The author manages to bring in a new topic and maintain coherence by repeating keys words such as narrative, nature.
2. So long as we continue to travel in two directions at once, promoting environmental goals on the one hand while on the other directly contradicting that with measures to achieve more economic growth, the longer we will fail to make real progress. (Para.7)
When it comes to economics and ecology there is plenty of good thinking already done. (Para.8) The author manages to bring in a new topic and maintain coherence by repeating key words such as economic, economics.
Task 3 Formal language 1. unchangeable; increasing 2. control
3. effort; charitable 4. pleasant detail 5. complicated 6. change
7. Changing 8. important
Unit 5
Language building Task 1: collocation Part 1:
1. having a mind 2.behave as if you understand
3.what and how we know 4.inside;reflects
Mentalist D behaviorist B
Epistemologist A phenomenologist C Part 2
1. psychological 2.spiritual
3.behaviour 4.phenomenologist
5.perplexity 6.mentally
Task 2£º
?,classified? This class of? The class of?
?a less severe label? The huge class
Task 3
1. what we imagine about computers today 2.we have broken the distinction between ???
3.for the sake of convenience so that it is easier to refer to the first type of response 4. you have the same reason for thinking that M had a mind.
5. (The reason you believe your mother has a mind is based) not on your prejudice 6. as groundless as believing that computers have mind
Unit 6
Task 1: Specialized vocabulary Part 1
1. Êýѧ»¯£¬Êý×Ö´¦Àí 2. ¼ÆËã»ú¸¨ÖúÉè¼Æ 3. ͳ¼Æ 4. »ùÒò×éѧ 5. Ô˳ïѧ 6. ÓÅ»¯×éºÏ 7. ¸ÅÂÊ 8. Êý¾Ý¿â Part 2£º 1. database 2. CAD 3. statistics 4. probability 5. optimization 6. genomics
7. mathematization 8. Operations research Task 2£º
1. Here are a few simple examples of prescriptive mathematics that extended from single numbers to exceedingly complex systems:?(Line 1,para.8,Text A)
2. Admittedly this is rather vague, but it will clarify a bit as I go on and mention a few of the many
examples that Baker gives:?(Line 8, para.10, Text A) Task 3 Formal language 1. exists 2. included 3. explained 4. model 5. get
6. environment
7. knowledgeable person; in which 8. until now
9. fix ideas of (caution) in one¡¯s mind
Unit 7
Task 1: Specialized vocabulary Part 1 1. -h 2.-f 3.-a 4.-j 5.-i 6.-b 7.-d 8.-g 9.-c
10.-e Part 2£º
1. To achieve professional development isimportant as a means to the end of becoming an expert and gaining more flexibility and independence
2. Numerous studies over the last 30 years have suggested that personality is a powerful predictor of a person's life satisfaction
3. An employee's work orientation is shaped in the first instance by their understanding of ¡°what work is about¡±
4. The government is trying to introduce new measures to create a better social safety net and encourage better worker pay
5. Money has been used as the incentive of many intelligence contests in TV program Task 2£º
1. The present perfect tense£¨ÏÖÔÚÍê³Éʱ£© emphasizes that people¡¯s conception about what money can bring them has changed greatly
2. The tense switches from the present to the past to manifest that an example is given
3.The tense switches between the present and the past to produce a comparison of different interpretations of a ¡°calling¡±in different times
Task 3 Formal language
1. pour heart and soul into :spare no efforts,try one's best
what will stimulate\\encourage a worker to try his best in making good products?
2. lure£ºtemptation
grueling£ºworking exhaustedly
People are no longer so tempted by the dream of becoming rich by working exhaustedly 80 hours a week for several years in a humble position
3. lowly job£ºhumble job recrafted£º turned
He might be doing a humble job£¬ but he would turn it into a great mission
4. entails£ºrequires
A career requires more devotion to work
5. contributing to£ºbeing beneficial to connotation£ºimplication
People who regard their work as a calling\\great mission think that what they do helps serve the public and brings benefits to our society£¬ and therefore it's quite proper to say that a mission\\calling implies something similar to religious beliefs
Unit8
Task 1 Specialized vocabulare
1. cultural tradition ÎÄ»¯´«Í³
2. social stability Éç»áÎȶ¨ 3. distinct identity ÏÊÃ÷ÌØÉ« 4. edge effect ±ßԵЧӦ 5. organic evolution Óлú½ç½ø»¯ 6. mutual respect Ï໥×ðÖØ 7.political correctness ÕþÖÎÕýÈ·ÐÔ
1.organic evolution 2. mutual respect 3. Edge effect 4. social stability
5. political correctness 6. cultural tradition 7. distinct identity
Task 2 Signpost language 1. Through; through; through 2. not just; but 3. first 4. second
5. next 6. final
7.not only; but also
Task 3 Formal English
1. develop 2. combined
3. skillful performers 4. obvious
5. friendly 6. getting rid of
7. combine 8. changed
9. imagine 10. a large number of
Unit 9
Task 1 Specialized vocabulary 1 D Ò½ÁÆ 2 J »ùÒò·ÖÐÍ
3 F ÄÚ¿ú¾µ¼ì²é 4 A ÉúÎï¼¼Êõ
5 H Õï¶Ï 6 C ·Ö×ÓµÄ
7 I ÖÎÁÆ·½°¸ 8 E Ò½Éú
9 G Íâ¿ÆÒ½ÉúµÄ£»ÊÖÊõµÄ 10 B ½ºÄÒ
1 diagnosis 2 surgical 3 Biotechnology 4 healthcare 5 protocols 6 molecular
Task 2 Signpost language 1 known as 2 referred to as 3 call
4 describe 5 mean
Task 3 Formal English
1 increases 2 marked 3 arrival/ coming 4 replaced 5 move away 6 filled
Unit 10
Task 1 Specialized vocabulary
1 b 2 k 3 f 4 j
5 g 6 i 7 e 8 c 9 h 10 a 11 d
1 syntactic patterns 2 Language faculty
3 neural system 4 underlying logic
5 evolutionary adaptation 6 formal instruction
7 mental organ 8 natural selection
Task 2 Signpost language
1 for 2 led to 3 because
4 Therefore 5 Therefore
6 because; because 7 So
Task 3 Formal English
1 explanation/interpretation; impacts
2 is present all over; analyze/explain/interpret