第一单元
1. I’ve been spared a lot, one of the blessed of the earth, at least one of its lucky, that privileged handful of the dramatically prospering, the sort whose secrets are asked, like the hundred-year-old man.
2. And so Franklin Roosevelt found that he had, in effect, to recruit an entirely new and temporary government to be piled on top of the old one, the new government to get the tanks and airplanes built, the uniforms made, the men and women assembled and trained and shipped abroad, and the battles fought and won.
第二单元
1. Such is human nature in the West that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higherpay for the privilege of becoming white collar workers.
2. Cosmopolitan Shanghai was born to the world in 1842 when the British man-of-war Nemesis, slipping unnoticed into the mouth of the Yangtze River, reduced the Wusong Fort and took the city without a fight.
3. A study of the letter leaves us in no doubt as to the motives behind it.
4. The happiness—the superior advantages of the young women round about her, gave Rebecca inexpressible pangs of envy.
5. Poor Joe’s panic lasted for two or three days; during which he did not visit the house.
第三单元
I am a journalist, not a historian, and while this book is an effort to describe a moment in the past, it is less a work of history than of personal reminiscence and reflection. Essentially, it is an account of my own observations and experiences in wartime Washington, supplemented by material drawn from interviews and other sources. I have tried to create out of it all a portrait of the pain and struggle of a city and a government suddenly called upon to fight, and to lead other nations in fighting, the greatest war in history, but pathetically and sometimes hilariously unprepared to do so.
This is bound to be somewhere close to the last reporting from that period based on firsthand sources. One after another, with unsettling rapidity, those in positions of power and responsibility during World War II are passing from the scene. Several who agreed to recall and describe their experiences in the war years died before I could get to them.
I have not dealt here in any detail with the grand strategy of the war in Europe and the Pacific. Instead, I have tried to report mainly on what I saw and heard and learned in Washington during years now fading into a misty past, the wartime experience of a country two-thirds of whose people are now too young to remember any of it. The result is a sort of Our Town at war, the story of a city
astonished and often confused to find itself at the center of a worldwide conflict without ever hearing a shot fired. A strange city, set up in the first place to be the center of government and, like government itself at that time, a city moving slowly and doing little.
第四单元
1. In the course of the same year, a serious epidemic broke out.
2. A receptor is shaped in such a way that it can receive only a certain messenger.
3. The structure of the steel and the resulting properties will depend on how hot the steel gets and how quickly or slowly it is cooled.
4. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
第五单元
1. They vainly tried to find out the stranger’s name.
2. The infinitesimal amount of nuclear fuel required makes it possible to build power reactors in that mountainous area.
3. It all began in the mid-1850s, when Lowe’s experiments with balloons led him to believe in the existence of an upper stream of air that moved in an easterly
direction, no matter what direction the lower currents flowed.
4. More puzzling is the remarkable increase in occurrence of this disease which has happened since World War II in a number of western countries where standards of hygiene were continuously improving.
第六单元
英国首相办公室周六发表声明说，首相戈登·布朗在接受眼睛检查时发现右眼视网膜上有两处裂缝。据悉，反对派可能以此为由要求布朗在大选前提前下台。但布朗办公室说，这次视网膜破裂不影响布朗视力，目前也没有动手术的打算。布朗年轻时参加体育活动受伤，左眼失明，但通过手术保住了右眼视力。
第七单元
1. S Korea sets emissions-cut target (China Daily)
2. Firms vie for bigger share of car market (China Daily)
3. Spanish PM: Somali pirates free fishermen (CNN)
4. China receives 94m overseas tourists in Jan-Sept, down 3.45% (China Daily)
5. US, Russian leaders say nations closer to deal to cut nuclear arms (CNN)
6. South African runner Caster Semenya will be allowed to keep the gold medal
she won in the women’s 800-meters at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany, in August, the country’s sports ministry announced Thursday. (CNN)
7. After complaining of feeling badly for days, Nicole Richie was hospitalized for pneumonia atCedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and was well”, her rep said Wednesday.
第十单元
1. Start ahead. （飘柔）
2. Every time a good time. ( 麦当劳）
3. Everyone’s invited. ( 三星数码）
4. The world’s local bank. ( 汇丰银行）
5. Time is what you make of it.（斯沃奇手表）
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