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1、新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）Unit 8Part IExercises I. Reading for information 。A. Reading to find main ideas 1.A 2. D B. Reading to find major details 3.C 4. AC. Reading to find relevant facts 5.C 6.B II. Translation Translate the following sentences into Chinese. 1 Katia Eliad, a Paris-based artist, was stuck i
2、n a rut. She felt blocked in her creativity, out of touch with herself and for some inexplicable reason unable to use green or blue in her abstract paintings.巴黎艺术家凯蒂亚艾利亚德陷入停滞。她的创造力受阻，不能发挥自己的才智，不知何因无法在抽象画中用绿色和蓝色。 2 This year will be filled with his music, but it will also be a time to re-examine the
3、contradictions and conflicting interpretations of his brief 35-year life.今年会充满莫扎特的音乐，但今年也会重新审视莫扎特短短 35年的一生带来的矛盾和冲突的看法。 3 That notion was first given scientific support in a 1993 article in Nature, which found that college students who listened to the first movement of Mozarts Sonata in D Major for T
4、wo Pianos performed better on a spatial reasoning test that involved mentally unfolding a piece of paper.自然杂志 1993年的一篇文章首次给这个说法提供了科学依据，该文章指出，在一项要求在大脑里想像如何展开一页纸的空间推理测试中，听了莫扎特“D大调双钢琴奏鸣曲” 第一乐章的大学生取得了更好效果。 4 In the decade since, these studies have sparked an academic storm, with many of Rauschers peers
5、either refining or debunking her findings.在随后的十年里，这些研究引起了学术界的轩然大波，罗切尔的许多同行对她的发现要么进行补充完善，要么进行反驳。 5 Today, shes even revising her own initial conclusions in the light of subsequent research by others, working on a book tentatively titled Music and the Mind Beyond the Mozart Effect.目前，罗切尔甚至正在根据其他人后来做的研
6、究修改她最初的结论，她在写一本书，书名暂定为音乐以及莫扎特效应之外的心灵。III. Summary Complete the following statements with words and expressions from the box. Use their proper forms. 1. This year will celebrate the 250th anniversary of a music genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who has been cast in many roles ever since his childhood.
7、2. Yet peoples fever about Mozart is beyond music. Over the past decade, Mozart has been placed in a very controversial role: a healer of mind and body. 3. It is claimed that Mozarts music can help treat ailments ranging from acne to Alzheimers disease. Such claims, however, lack substantial support
8、. 4. A 1993 article in Nature first gave scientific support to the notion perhaps by far the most disputed that Mozart can enhance your brain power. 5. The study and its main author Frances Rauscher sparked a storm in the academic community. Nevertheless, Rauschers work attracted widespread media at
9、tention and made possible a pop-psychology trend known as the “Mozart effect.” 6. But people dont understand why music can have powerful influence on the brain. Scientific studies only show that many different areas of the brain are activated when one listens to music. Some of these areas overlap wi
10、th those used in spatial reasoning. 7. Then why should Mozarts music become the focal point of the debate, rather than that of other classical composers? The answer, according to neurologist John Hughes, lies in the way Mozart repeated his melodies.新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）Unit 7Part IExercises I. Reading fo
11、r information 。A. Reading to find main ideas 1.C 2. C B. Reading to find major details 3.A 4. DC. Reading to find relevant facts 5.D 6.B II. Translation Translate the following sentences into Chinese. 1 There are equally empathetic, if more sober, nods when Grace Chang Lucarelli, 32, speaking in a s
12、oft Texan drawl, recalls “people making fun of me” because she was one of the few Asian Americans in her town.32岁的格雷丝张卢卡莱丽拖着长腔、用柔和的得克萨斯口音回忆说：由于她是镇上为数不多的亚裔美国人之一，因此“受到人们的嘲笑 ”，对此同伴们也是同情地、但更为严肃地点了点头。 2 And it was there that their kids, now 20 to 40 years old, grew up, straddling two worlds the tradition
13、al domain their recently arrived parents sought to maintain at home and the fast-changing Western culture of the society outside the front door. 正是在那儿 (与外界隔绝的郊区 )他们的孩子长大成人，如今年龄在20至 40岁之间，他们生活在两种社会之间：一个是不久前移民至此的父母在家中极力维持的传统文化，另一个是大门外社会里飞速变化的充满着西方文化的社会。 3 In doing so, they have updated the old immigra
14、nt story and forged a new Asian-American identity, not wholly recognizable in any of their parents native lands but, in its hybrid nature, vibrantly American.如此，他们更新了古老的移民故事，塑造了全新的亚裔美国人身份，这种身份在他们父母的祖国没有获得完全的认可，但就其混合性而言，洋溢着美国式的活力。 4 If you were to draw a diagram of acculturation with the mores of imm
15、igrant parents on one side and societys on the other, the classic model might show a steady drift over time, depicting a slow-burn Americanization, taking as long as two or three generations.如果你绘制一个表示文化适应的图表，一边是父辈移民的风俗习惯，另一边是生活其中的社会的风俗习惯，标准的图表也许会显示一个稳定的趋势：需要两三代人才能慢慢实现美国化。 5 But at Villanova Universi
16、ty in Philadelphia, Ahmed found friends from all different backgrounds who welcomed diversity and helped her, she says, become “a good balance of East meets West.”但是在费城的维拉诺瓦大学，阿莫德找到了来自不同背景的朋友，他们赞同多样性，帮助她用阿莫德的话说成为“融合东西方文化的人 ”。 6 “I chose to embrace both holidays instead of segregating myself to one,” she says.她说：“我选择同时接受两种节日，而不是只接受一种，从而把自己孤立起来。”III. Summary Complete the following statements with words and expressions from the box. Us
