现代大学英语精读第三册 08b
Text A We're Only Human Nobody is acknowledged to have free will or responsibility any more. Everyone is the product of causation. There are no longer individuals, just victims in groups. You know the final excuse that really gets my full quivering a
现代大学英语精读第三册 09b
A DILL PICKLE by Katherine Mansfield AND then, after six years, she saw him again. He was seated at one of those little bamboo tables decorated with a Japanese vase of paper daffodils. There was a tall plate of fruit in front of him, and very careful
现代大学英语精读第三册 10b
Diogenes and Alexander Lying on the bare earth, shoeless, bearded, half-naked, he looked like a beggar or a lunatic.He was one, but not the other. He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn, scratched,done his business like a dog at the roadside, wa
现代大学英语精读第三册 11b
Lesson eleven Silent spring There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of prosperous farms, where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green f
现代大学英语精读第三册 12a
ambitious associate band together benefit branch out built-in by far catalyst clear-cut clout coerce confinement conflict counter-force crumble dedication destructive discomfort downtrodden emphasize eternity evolve expertise frivolous genes get (sth
现代大学英语精读第三册 12b
Text A The Needs That Drive Us All All living creatures are driven by the basic need to stay alive and reproduce so that the species will continue. As creatures have evolved from simple to complex, they have developed additional basic needs ... Human
现代大学英语精读第三册 13a
Glossary affluent a. 丰富的, 富裕的n. 支流, 富人 axe n. 斧, 斧头vt. 削减(人员、经费、计划、机构等) banal a. 平凡的, 陈腐的 battered 弄垮的 beam n. 光线 ray or stream of light behead vt. 斩首, 砍头 boast 吹牛
现代大学英语精读第三册 13b
Text A In My Day At the age of eighty my mother had her last bad fall, and after that her mind wandered free through time. Some days she went to weddings and funerals that had taken place half a century earlier. On others she presided over family din
现代大学英语精读第三册 14a
Glossary aide n. 助手, 副官 amiably ad. 和蔼可亲地, 亲切地 append vt. 附加, 增补, 盖章 aristocratic a. 贵族的, 主张贵族统绐的, 有贵族气派的 arms n. 武器, 军事行动 【机】 武器, 军械, 枪械 bacon n. 熏猪肉
现代大学英语精读第三册 14b
Text A Mercy at Appomattox I'm not a Civil War buff. I've never heard the old battlefields like Gettysburg and Chickamauga calling to me to walk over them and re-enact what happened there. The story is just too sad. But one Civil War site did keep be
现代大学英语精读第三册 15a
Glossary access n. 接近 使用 ambassadorship n. 大使的职位 assertion n. 断言, 主张 【法】 宣称, 断言, 维护 available a. 可利用的, 可获得的, 有效的 【医】 有效的, 可得的 【经】 有效的, 可采用的 bigote
