大学英语精读3课后问题答案解析

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Unit 1

1. How did the author feel about the incident at the time it occurred?What does

he think of it now?

the author felt that it was a rather unpleasant experience at the time it happened,but now he thinks he can make a good story from the incident 2. Why did he go to Richmond?

he went there to look for a temporary job to make enough money to go travelling 3. What did the author think got him into trouble with the law?

the author thought it must be his obvious aimlessness of wandering in the streets that got him into trouble with the law

4. What did he see when walking out of the local library?

He saw a man walking across the road with the obvious intention of talking to him

5. What did the man say to him? Did he take the man’s works seriously at first?

The man said that he was a policeman and was going to arrest him. But the author didn’t take the man’s words seriously but thought it was some kind of joke at first

6. When and how did the author come to see the man was being serious?

At the time when another policeman appeared in uniform, the author came to see the man was serious

7. What grounds did the policemen have for suspecting that the young man was

wandering with intent to steal milk bottles?

First ,the policemen saw the young man wandering aimlessly in the streets sometimes just stopping and looking around him. Then, it turned out there had been a lot of petty thieves in the area who stole milk bottles from doorsteps. On these grounds ,the policemen suspected that the young man was wandering with intent to steal milk bottles

8. What does the author mean by his “big mistake”?

By his “big mistake ”, the author means he shouldn’t have had long hair and appeared so cool and unconcerned about the incident ,and shouldn’t take himself as part of the sixties’ “youth counterculture”,because all these confirmed the policemen’s suspicion that he was a disrespectable fellow

9. How did he behave when he was questioned at the police station?W hat did the

police decide to do with him?

When he was questioned ,he continued to try to look worldly and au fait with the situation. As a result , the police charged him officially and told him to report to Richmond Magistrates’ Court the follow Monday 10. What did his father do when he learned about the incident?

As soon as his father learned about the incident ,he hired a good solicitor 11. What were the things his release from the charge depended on?

The things his release from the charge depended on were his “right” accent, respectable middle-class parents, reliable witnesses, such as, his English teacher as his character witness, and a very good solicitor in particular. 12. What did the policeman probably mean by saying” You could have been a bit more

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helpful when we arrested you”?

By saying these words, the policeman probably meant that he should have looked very angry and said something like,”Look here,do you know who you’re talking to? Iam a highly successful student with a brilliant academic record. How dare you arrest me!”then, they world perhaps have apologized to him and let him go.

Unit 2

1. what did the author’s children teach him he other night?

作者的孩子们在某个晚上教给了他什么

The author’s children taught him about paradigm shifts, and limitations of linear thinking and how to refocus parameters one night 2. what were the author and his children doing that night?

当天晚上作者和他的孩子们在做什么？

They were playing their own oral version of the Sesame Street game, “What Doesn’t Belong?”

3. what was the question the father put to his children?

父亲给孩子提的问题是什么？ The question is “What doesn’t belong, an orange ,a tomato or a strawberry?” 4. what was the oldest child’s answer to the question?

最大的孩子的答案是什么？ The oldest child answered that it was tomato became the other two were fruits. 5. What did the author think of his answer?

作者认为他的答案如何？

The author thought the answer was right

6. What answers did his 4-year-old and 6-year-old give?

四岁和六岁的孩子又给出了什么样的答案

The author’s 4-year-old child said that the right answer was strawberry because the other two were round and a strawberry was not. And his 6-year-old child said that answer should be orange because the other two were red 7. What did the 9-year-old and the middle one add to the answers?

作者九岁和六岁的孩子又补充了什么样的答案？

The 9-year-old added that it could also be the orange because the other two grew on vines and the middle child said that it could be strawberry because it was the only one they put on ice cream

8. Why does the author think Copernicus, Reuben Mattus and Edward Jenner belong

in the same group?

作者为什么认为哥白尼、鲁宾马修斯和爱德华詹纳都属于同一种人？

The author thinks that these three famous people belong in the same group because they were doing what every scientist who’s ever made an important discovery throughout history has done, according to Thomas Kuhn, in his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolution :They were shifting old paradigms 9. What did the author’s children do to deserve membership in the same group

as Copemicus and Edward Jenner?

作者的孩子们做了什么使得他们能够成为和哥白尼和爱德华詹纳同一种的人？

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The children were refocusing the parameters. They were redefining the problems. They were reframing the questions. And these are exactly the same that Copemicus and Edward Jenner have done

10. What if the Sesame Street game had been a workbook exercise in school?

假如《芝麻街》的游戏是学校练习本上的习题，情况又会如何？

If Sesame Street game had been a workbook exercise in school, every kid who framed the question differently than “Which is not a fruit?” would have been wrong, that is to say every kid who didn’t circle tomato would have been marked wrong.

11. Why does the author wish to remind us that there are real limits to the value

of information?

作者为什么希望提醒我们信息的价值是有限的？

Because unless we shift our paradigms and refocus our parameters, the super information highway will lead us nowhere. From the examples of those great scientists and inventors, the author tells us that we are not now, nor have we recently been suffering from a lack of information so that what we need as we begin to downshift onto the information highway is not more information but new ways of looking at it. 12. What , according to the author, should we bear in mind when begin to downshift

onto the information highway?

作者认为当我们驶入信息高速公路时，我们应该牢记的是什么？

According to the author, we should bear in mind that what we need as we begin to downshift onto the information highway is not more information but new ways of looking at it

Uint 3

1） according to the author, what is the goal most Americans are taught to achieve

in life?

译文：在作者看来，大多数美国人受到要获取什么生活目标的教育？

答案：most Americans are taught to manage to achieve money and power when they grow up according to the author.

2) Is teaching the easiest way for the author to earn a living? How does he feel

about teaching?

译文：教书是作者最容易的谋生手段吗？他对教书感觉如何？

答案：No. he feels that teaching is the most difficult of the various ways he

has attempted to earn his living. for him, teaching is a red-eye, sweaty-palm, and sinking-sto mach profession.

3）does the author think he is very knowledgeable? How does he feel he sees his students take notes on what he says in class?

作者认为自己很有学问吗？当他看到学生在他课堂上把他教的内容作笔记时他怎么想？ 答案：No .he does not think that he is very knowledgeable. He is amazed to see

that his students take notes on what he says in class.

4) what does the author think of the pace of the school calendar? What does he do in the summer vacation?

译文：作者认为学校的生活节奏安排怎么样？他在暑假里做什么？

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答案：he likes the pace of the academic calendar. He thinks that the summer vacation offers an opportunity for reflection, research, and writing.

5) what does the author mean when he says ‘teaching is a profession built on change ’?

译文：作者说“教师是一个建立在变化基础上的职业”是什么意思？

答案：he means that when the teaching material is the same he can change his

teaching methods, and what’s more, he can teach different students each year. 6) what does the author mean when he says “as a teacher, I am my own boss ”? 译文：作者说“作为一个老师，我是我自己的老板”是什么意思？

答案：he means he has the freedom to make his own mistakes, to learn his own

lesson. Especially, he wants his freedom to choose the method. No one is to say he can’t.

7) can you say something about Jacqui in your own words? 译文：你是否能用你自己的话说说杰基是怎样的人？

答案：Yes . Jacqui is a woman who works as a cleaner in school, but she has the

ability to make more correct judgement by intuition than most of us can do by analysis. Maybe she is influenced by the author, so she has decided to finish high school and go to college.

8) was the corporation the author and his students set up a success? How do you know?

译文：作者和他的学生建立起的公司成功了吗？你是怎么知道的？

答案：yes. The corporation was great success. We know from the fact that at the

end of the semester they sold the house, paid off their debts and distributed the profits among the class members.

9) what are the most important reasons the author gives for choosing teaching as

his profession?

译文：作者选择教师作为职业的最重要的原因是什么？

答案：the most important reasons for the author to teach are that some of his

favorite students, a teacher is being present at the creation, when the clay begins to breathe.

10 )what does the author mean by saying that as a teacher he has money and power? 译文：作者说作为教师他又金钱和权利是什么意思？

答案：the author means he gets paid to do what he enjoys: reading, talking with people and asking questions, and he has the power to nudge, to fan sparks, to suggest books and to point out a pathway. Unit 4

1. In what ways was Sarah’s e-mail similar to other letters the author received?

In what ways was it differernt?

莎拉的电子邮件和作者收到的其它信件在什么方面相似？在什么方面不同？

Similar to other letters, the e-mail Sarah Morris sent took the author to task for his comments on the Los Angles Dodgers and argued that the author had got everything wrong. However it was different from the others in at least two ways. It contained more details than the usual “You’re an idiot”, such as vital statistics on the team’s performance

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2. What was Sarah’s dream?

莎拉的梦想是什么？

Sarah’s dream is to become a baseball editorialist

3. What in Sarah’s second e-mail caught the author’s attention? Why did he say

it was worth one more response?

莎拉第二封电子邮件中什么内容引起了作者的关注？为什么他说值得再回封信？

The misspelling in the last line of her second e-mail. When spelling the word “dream”, she missed the letter “r”. The author thought Sarah might be truly searching for something, and he needed Sarah to explain. 4. What did the author think of Sarah’s website?

作者如何看待莎拉的网站？

The author found that Sarah’s website was not a fancy one although she covered the Dogers as extensively as any reporter in the country. He wondered whether there was any reader.

5. Did Sarah think her disability would prevent her from finding a job? How do you

know?

莎拉认为她的残疾会妨碍她找工作吗?你是如何知晓的？

Yes , she knew her situation, and the purpose of starting her own website is to find a job

6. What led the author to think Sarah was deliberately deceiving him?

什么使作者认为莎拉故意欺骗他？

When the author asked Sarah to give him a call, Sarah refused to do so and the reason she provided was that she had a speech disability. 7. How did Sarah become a Dodger fan?

莎拉如何成为道奇队的球迷的？

While growing up in Pasadena, Sarah had become a Dodger fan. In her sophomore year at Blair High, she undertook a post as the statistician of a junior varsity baseball team.

8. Why did author drive a long way to visit Sarah? What did he find when he arrived

at her house?

为什么作者长途驱车拜访莎拉？当他到达她家时他有何发现？

The author felt curious about what Sarah had said, and he also wanted to find out the truth. When he arrived at her house ,he found that Sarah’s living condition was poor, the condition for her own website was not her supposed condition, and Sarah really got serious physical handicap. But all those couldn’t stop her pursuing her dream of becoming a baseball editorialist. 9. Why did the author call Sarah Morris the great Sarah Morris?

为什么作者称莎拉莫里斯是伟大的莎拉莫里斯？

Sarah did not lose her hope because of her physical handicap, believing in dedication to work.Without the best equipment and help, she still started her own website and covered a baseball team as extensively as any reporter in the country.

10. How did Sarah Morris change the author?

莎拉莫里斯是如何改变作者的？

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