研究生英语期末考试的形式与内容稍有改动：1. 词汇（第1-5单元课文A中的单词，10%）2. 阅读理解（课外，40%）3. 翻译（第1-3单元的课文，20%）4. 写作（阅读一篇与第4、5单元课文A的主题相关的中文文章，用英文写summary，30%）由此带来的不便，请老师们谅解《研究生英语读写译教程》（第二版）练习参考答案及参考译文（注：第二版只有第六单元为全新单元，其余单元只是有些调整各单元练习答案UNIT ONE STAY HUNGRY. STAY FOOLISH.COMPREHENSION1 He dropped out of Reed College because he did not see the value of it. (The answer to the second part of the question is open.)2 Life was tough – he slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, he returned coke bottles and he walked 7 miles to get one good free meal…3 He cited the example to demonstrate that what he had learned in his calligraphy class worked when designing the first Macintosh computer. 4 Jobs’ first story tells that the dots will somehow connect in your future. (What you have learned/experienced might help in your future career.)5 He was publicly out. (The company that he and Woz established dismissed him.) The fact that he still loved what he did made him start over again. 6 He has learned a good lesson from his failure.7 Do the things we love to do.8 Open.9 Open.10 Open. (We should always want more, never be content and when we want to do something that others say is foolish, do it anyway.)VOCABULARY AND STRUCTUREA1 naively 2 curiosity 3 combination 4 let down 5 vision 6 baton 7 creative 8 mirror 9 trap 10 inventionB1 drowned out 2 tuition 3 Commencement 4 deposit 5 typography 6 make way for 7 animation 8 intuition 9 destination 10 divergeC 1 follow: orders, rules, advice, fads, an ideal, one’s instinct2 trust in: honesty, the Lord, power, intuition, sixth sense3 wear out, fade out, put out, make out, get out, break out4 play writer/playwright, speedwriter, blog writer, letter writer, editorial writer5 habitual, textual, accentual, sexual, spiritual, conceptual6 shocking, stunning, eye-catching, astonishing, striking, dazzlingSPEAKING: Open.TRANSLATIONA1热烈的鼓掌 2波涛汹涌的海面 3熟睡 4烟瘾大的人 5油腻而难消化的食物 6烈酒 7悲痛的消息 8沉闷冗长的读物 9〈化〉重水10他在一家法国银行拥有外国人账户。
11那老实的男孩毫无隐讳地说明了他的行为12他突然感到一阵莫明其妙的不安情绪13脚踩两条凳,早晚要坠地（即：脚踏两条船）14骄者必败15 我们遇到一对从巴黎来的夫妇，他们很有趣B 见译文部分WRITING A1. I was asked to do the assignment. So I think there are three reasons for the failure in the experiment.2. Although I worked hard to acquire more knowledge, I couldn’t improve my English.3. Though…..4. therefore---However5. If we compare the number of people who worked in this department between 2001 and 2003, it only increased from five people to twenty but the orders were twice more.6. We have three ways of recruitment. The first is the recruitment agency, which we used two years ago. The expenditure was very high and the people provided were not very suitable. The second is online recruitment. We have never used this method before, so we cannot say this is good or not. However, online recruitment is risky because of the unbelievable resources of the applicants.7. are-is8. including---include9. has a negative impact, have a positive and powerful effect10. There never seems to be anything worth watching on television. Young people tend to listen to the radio more than older age groups while older people find it more enjoyable to chat with people of their age.UNIT TWO TWO TRUTHS TO LIVE BYCOMPREHENSION1. According to Rabbi Alexander Schindler, we should hold fast to many gifts such as beauty, love.2. The author exploits the parable of open and closed hand in the very beginning of the text to control the idea of the whole text. “Life is a paradox”, because it encourages us to grasp its many gifts although it predetermines their final disappearance.3. The author tells the audience his experience in hospital to prove the fact that people are indifferent to the grandeur of each day, and nobody sees the beauty of sunlight or responds to it.4. According to the author, people are reluctant to accept losses and failures because they think that the world is theirs to command especially when they are young.5. Since all of us will perish in the end, we must seek a wider perspective, viewing our lives as through windows that open on eternity, whereby to reconcile on life’s paradoxical demands. Though our lives are finite, our deeds on earth weave a timeless pattern. 6. Life is a process. During the process, we should hold fast to life, but not so fast that we cannot let go; we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go.7. According to the author, we should pursue the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.8. Alexander Schindler encourages the students to exalt above their personal considerations and to perfect the present world. 9. There is strong religious color in the text. Alexander Schindler asks us to hold fast to God’s gifts, to be reverent before each dawning day, to view our lives as through windows that open on eternity, and to add religion to the humblest 。