1、Unit 7Unit 7Task 1【答案】1) Because he wrote an astonishing number of books.2) Mankind would have to create a world state.3) No.4) Cities were destroyed by bombs dropped from aeroplanes.5) Any two of the following: The War in the Air, The First Men in the Moon, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.6
2、) Events forecast in Wells books might come true.【原文】H. G. Wells was born in 1866. His energy must have been enormous, for he wrote an astonishing number of books. Many of the later ones were concerned with his idea that mankind would have to create a world state, if it was not to end up by destroyi
3、ng itself. There were novels like Kipps, Love and Mr. Lewisham and The History of Mr. Polly. The best of these are now recognized as classics. But in addition, this incredible man somehow found the time and inspiration to write the stories forecasting future events that entitle him to be known as th
4、e father of science fiction. When The War in the Air appeared in 1908, how many people could have foreseen that within thirty years great cities were going to be destroyed by bombs dropped from aeroplanes? The First Men in the Moon was published in 1901. How many of those who read it realized that m
5、en really were going to walk on the moon within their lifetime? And what about The Time Machine and The Invisible Man? Are we going to wake up one morning and find that here too Wells was forecasting events which were going to come true?Task 2【答案】A.1) b 2) c 3) c 4) aB.1) tall; narrow; tousled 2) su
6、rveyed; half-closed 3) taking a long stride 4) capable; flexible; still life 5) faded; frayed 6) tilted his head; smiled; walked forward; with a flourish【原文】If you came into his studio in the evening as the sun was setting you could see him. You would notice how the soft light coming through the lon
7、g windows fell on his left profile as he stood in front of his easel. He was tall; his shoulders were narrow; his head was large with an abundance of dark, tousled hair. He surveyed the canvas in front of him and half-closed his eyes. His cheek bones were high and prominent, and accentuated the line
8、 of the jaw. This in turn set off his long neck. He stepped back, taking a long stride, and remained with one foot in front of the other. He wore sandals without socks and you could see that a big toe had developed a blister where a leather strap cut across it. He had short, strong, capable fingers
9、and he used his broad, flexible thumb to smooth some of the paint on the still life he was busy finishing. The jeans he wore were faded and frayed; paint rags hung from each pocket. His shirt was a checked one of many colors, mainly purple, blue and yellow. It contrasted peculiarly with the ephemera
10、l colors on the canvas. He tilted his head to one side, smiled, walked forward and brought his brush slowly towards the bottom of the canvas, and with a flourish signed his name.Task 3【答案】A. 1) F 2) T 3) F 4) F 5) F 6) T 7) F 8) TB.1) dramatic sunsets and sunrises 2) 1930s; 1840s; impressionistic 3)
11、 reds; oranges; 1820【原文】Joseph Turner (17751851) is one of the two greatest English landscape painters of his age. He is especially noted for his imaginative water colours and oil paintings, which often show dramatic sunsets and sunrises, done in a brilliant kaleidoscope of colours. His painting Bur
12、ning of the Houses of Parliament appears in colour in the Painting article. During the 1830s and 1840s, the method he used became more and more impressionistic. His work influenced the impressionist movement in France led by Claude Monet in the 1870s. Turner is also known for his landscape drawings,
13、 especially the book of drawings called Liber Studiorum, which he produced between 1807 and 1819. Turner was influenced at first by Rembrandt and later by Claude. He began to use bright colours in his paintings, especially the reds and oranges for which he is known, after about 1820. Some of his mos
14、t famous paintings are Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, Bay of Baiae, and View of Orvieto. Turner was born in London, the son of a barber. He was something of a boy genius, and exhibited at the Royal Academy at the age of 15. He traveled widely, first in England and Scotland,
15、and after 1800 in France, Italy, and Germany. Turner drew and painted wherever he went, working incessantly and producing hundreds of paintings and thousands of drawings, many of which he left to the nation. During his lifetime Turner was said to be a miser, and towards the end of his life, he becam
16、e slovenly, solitary, and secretive. Many people did not like his work until John Ruskin championed him in 1843, but Turner died wealthy and was buried in St. Pauls Cathedral, London. He left his money to a charity for poor English artists.Task 4【答案】1) A natural curiosity./A good interviewer is one
17、who likes meeting people and wants to find out about them.2) A curious kind of affinity with people, and an ability to get on will with people.3) Because television depends a lot on the director getting the right shot.4) By research./By knowing more about the guest than theyve forgotten about themse
18、lves.5) All./Every ounce of research.6) Because Mitchum rarely said anything.7) Because very often the interviewees spin off into areas that the interviewer has never thought about and sometimes its worth pursing.8) A traffic cop.9) Talent, ambition and energy.【原文】Interviewer: With all your experien
19、ce of interviewing, Michael, how can you tell if somebody is going to make a good interviewer? Michael: Oh, I say, what a question! Ive never been asked that before. I think that the prerequisite obviously is curiosity. I think thats a natural one, not an assumed one. I think the people who have don
20、e my job, and the graveyard of the BBC is littered with them, their tombstones are there, you know; who failed, have been because basically theyve not been journalists. My training was in journalism. Ive been 26 years a journalist and, to be a journalist argues that you like meeting people to start
21、with, and also you want to find out about them. So thats the prerequisite. After that, I think theres something else comes into it, into play, and I think again, most successful journalists have it: Its a curious kind of affinity with people; its an ability to get on with people; its a kind of body
22、warmth, if you like. If you knew the secret of it and could bottle it and sell it, youd make a fortune.Interviewer: When youve done an interview yourself, how do you feel whether its been a good interview or not a good interview? Michael: I can never really tell on air. I have to watch it back, beca
23、use television depends so much on your director getting the right shot, the right reaction you cant-its amazing. Sometimes I think Oh, thats a boring interview and just because of the way my director shot it, and shot reaction hes composed a picture thats made it far more interesting than it actuall
24、y was.Interviewer: How do you bring out the best in people, because you always seem to manage to, not only relax them, but somehow get right into the depths of them. Michael: By research. By knowing, when you go into a television studio, more about the guest in front of you than theyve forgotten abo
25、ut themselves. And, I mean thats pure research. I mean, you probably use, in a 20 minute interview; I probably use, oh, a 20th of the research material that Ive absorbed, but thats what youve got to do. I mean I once interviewed Robert Mitchum for 75 minutes and the longest reply I got from him was
26、Yes. And thats the only time Ive used every ounce of research and every question that Ive ever thought of, and a few that I hadnt thought of as well. But that really is the answer its research. When people say to you, you know, Oh you go out and wing it, I mean thats nonsense. If anybody ever tries
27、to tell you that as an interviewer just starting, that you wing it, theres no such thing. Its all preparation its knowing exactly what youre going to do at any given point and knowing what you want from the person.Interviewer: And does that include sticking to written questions or do you deviate? Mi
28、chael: No, I mean what you do is you have an aide memoire. I have. My list of questions arent questions as such theyre areas that I block out, and indeed, I cant remember, I cant recall, apart from the foresaid Mr. Mitchum experience, when Ive ever stuck to that at all. Because, quite often youll fi
29、nd that they spin off into areas that youve not really thought about and perhaps its worth pursuing sometimes. The job is very much like, actually, a traffic cop youre like youre on point duty and youre, you know when youre directing the flow of traffic, well, youre directing the flow of conversatio
30、n, thats basically what youre doing, when youre doing a talk show, in my view.Interviewer: Have you got a last word of encouragement for any young people setting out on what theyd like to be a career as an interviewer? Michael: I envy them, I mean, I really do. I mean Id go back and do it all again.
31、 I think its the most perfect job for any young person whos got talent and ambition and energy. And the nice thing about it is that the proportion of talent is indeed only 5 percent. The other 95 percent is energy and no examinations to pass. Id love to do it over again.Task 5【答案】A.Wangari MaathaiAw
32、ard:Nobel Peace Prize (the twelfth woman/ the first African woman since 1901 to win the prize)Comments from the Nobel Committee: Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment.Major reason for receiving the award:Green belt movementPersonal information:Nationality: KenyanAge:64Education:Studied in the United States and Kenya Believed to have been the first woman in East and central Africa to earn a doctorate degreeCareer:Was a professor of
