全新大学英语综合教程4课后习题答案U5U8填空.docx

全新大学英语综合教程4课后习题答案U5U8填空Uint5 I think the chief thing that struck me about Burton was his kindliness. There was something very pleasing in his mild blue eyes. His voice was gentle; you could not imagine that he could possibly raise it in anger; his smile was benign. Here was a man fellows. At the same time he liked his game of cards and his cocktail, he could tell with point a good and spicy story, and in his youth he had been something of an athlete. He was a rich man and he had made 3e himself. I suppose one thing that made you like him was that he was so small and frail; he aroused your instincts of protection. You felt that he could not bear to hurt a fly. Unit6 A more successful remedy may lie in understanding the problem rather than evading it. Before the industrial revolution,people lived in small communities with limited communications.Within the confines of their village,they could reasonably expect to know everything that was to be known,see everything that was to be seen,and do everything that was to be done. Today,being curious by nature,we still trying to do the same.But the global village is a world of limitless possibilities,and we can never achieve our aim. It is not more time we need: it is fewer desires.We need to switch off the cell-phone and leave the children to play by themselves.We need to buy less,read less and travel less.We need to set boundaries for ourselves,or be doomed to mounting despair. Unit7 the point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place. We might as well get a feel for the fringes and hollows in which life is lived, for the Amazon basin, which covers half a continent, and for the life that there, like anywhere else is always and necessarily lived in detail: on the tributaries, in the riverside villages, sucking this particular white-fleshed guava in this particular pattern of shade. What is there is interesting. The Napo River itself is wide and brown, opaque, and smeared with floating foam and logs and branches from the jungle. Parrots in flocks dart in and out of the light. Under the water in the river, unseen, are anacondas - which are reputed to take a few village toddlers every year - and water boas, crocodiles, and sweet-meated fish. Unit8 Long before the Boeings brought down the towers, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote "grief returns with the revolving year. ”So it is with New York. The time it took the Earth to circle the sun was time enough to clear the wreckage, but not enough to fade the memory of what happened there. It was time enough to bury the bodies that could be found, but not enough to truly mourn the thousands who perished. It was time enough to plan memorials,but not enough to fill the gaping wound in lower Manhattan. For what is a year but a thin sliver of history, a beat of a hummingbird's wing?