新视野大学英语第四册story summary

Unit 1

Gouvernail was in no sense a shy man .He talked freely and intimately in a low ,hesitating voice that was not unpleasant to hear .Mrs.Baroda only vaguely grasped what he was saying .She only drank in the tone of his voice .As she listened to him ,she felt a foolish feeling seize her .Only the fact that she was a respectable and upright woman stopped her from touching him .Her strength of character forced her physically away from him while her internal feelings tried to push her towards him .As soon as she could politely leave him she felt relieved .Sensibly Mrs.Baroda did not share with her husband the feeling she had experienced .She did resolved ,however ,to get away from the plantation as quickly as possible .The next morning she left early and took an early morning train to the city .In summer Gaston spoke of his friend returning but his wife would not yield to the idea .However before the year was over ,much to her husband's surprise ,she suggested that Gouvernail return .At that moment only she herself knew why.

Unit 2

Interestingly, despite the fact that Chaplin came from Britain, he was much more popular in other countries than in his own mother country. The truth is that most English people considered the tramp a little crude. It was generally thought by them that he had too much of an eye for the ladies and that his clothes gave him an appearance more like an Italian waiter than anything else. All in all, the image was not gentlemanlike according to many English people. However, the silent movies helped Chaplin to conceal his true nationality from American audiences. He put off making a talking movie until 1936 when he made up a nonsense language which sounded like no known nationality. He once said he thought of the tramp as an educated man who had fallen on hard times. The truth is, however, that he was probably popular because he was seen as character who revolted against the privileged classes.

Unit 3

Life in a wheelchair is tough. Living on welfare is just like sharing a dinner of raw pet food with the cat. Many welfare clients do not have money to live a decent life. As a result, lying and cheating the welfare system for extra money becomes normal. However, some unusual individuals, who have made a choice to live a life of complete honesty, do tell the truth to caseworkers and declare any extra income they make. Being honest, however, is not without its problems. Caseworkers will greatly increase the frequency of their visits and leave behind a small mountain of paper work for the client to fill out The rules say that not a penny is to be unaccounted for. Not a single gift, no matter how small, is to be unreported. These rules and the natural consequent lying unfortunately -tend to transform caseworkers from being helpers of the poor to being detectives constantly searching for any forms of cheating.

Unit 5

Being a solitary individual is traditionally, in American culture, perceived as being an inspirational experience. Writers of poetry and philosophy are great believers in the creative benefits of it. Such individuals also have a very high opinion of themselves for having sough out their solitude. These creative people, as a general rule, have had to find brief periods of solitude outside their own homes but their loved ones waited patiently for them to return. William Wordsworth would wave good-bye to his sister before setting off to study the flowers, all alone, while she tidied the house and prepared dinner for a couple of hours. Thoreau is seen as admirable because he was living in the woods all by himself. He had no one to talk to at all except for numerous daily visitors to his hut who constantly asked him about his nobility at living without any company to talk to. Unit 7

The book The history and geography of human Genes is based on the combined research of more than 50 years into the genetics oh humans. It appears from this book’s findings that, if we disregard the different external physical features between different races, than we are all very similar under the surface. Taken as a whole the genetic differences between groups are much less than those between the individuals in those groups or “races”. Scientifically there is no evidence that one race is in any way genetically superior to any other. The book has also traced the paths that humans in the past took when migrating around the world. And it appears that Africa is the very origin of mankind. Biologically the visible differences we see between modern populations are largely adaptations over time to the environment, caused by moving to different climates.

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