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he business to his son.(7) The municipal government has determined to broaden all the roads within the city and is actively planning to build the underground system as well. All this aims at facilitating citizens’ transportation.(8)When investigating a bank robbery resulting in two deaths, the police found a letter which implicated John in the robbery.Unit 5 Escaping to Ireland for Christmas2. Vocabulary(1) contrariness (2) tangle (3) stamina (4) roam (5) subtlety (6) bustling (7) conspire (8) foray (9) tangible (10) savor3. Paraphrase(1) We prefer to travel at Christmas because we tend to avoid the crowds during traveling seasons.(2) Our reason for having such different trips is from the harvest rather than the loss during the course(3) We have long and hard traveling experience, which gives us the creative ideas of making the special plans, the perseverance to go through difficulties, and the optimistic and humorous reaction to people’s lack of understanding.(4) As our plans change the life style or make them to wear heavily, our children are not always obedient and willing to accept them.(5) Our idea of Christmas is changed because of our revolution of the past life style and the pleasure of finding another culture.(6) When we are traveling in another country, we are all foreigners, which makes us more united. And we are fascinated in finding the details of the new environment and are more easily to accept other’s opinion.(7) The whole family acted together to cater for my special love for knitting wool, such as watching the sheep walking through, finding and visiting the discarded wool mill, focusing on the yarn store in every town and renaming colors for sweaters with our visited places for memory.(8) After wearing the rubber rain boots and thick wool socks, we are not afraid of the coldness and humidity any more when we stamped through muddy fields.(9) We can understand the Irish life from a special angle by viewing their local newspaper for the world’s events.4. Cloze(1) crowded (2) vacationers (3) stretch (4) tight (5) beginning (6) seem (7) cash (8) against (9) dreaded (10) possible (11) avoiding (12) popular (13) surprise (14) route (15) according to (16) same (17) difficult (18) ultimately (19) given (20) expect 5. TranslationA. Translate the following paragraph into Chinese.如果我是一名游客的話,我會(huì)將我的出行計(jì)劃定在四,五月或者十,十一月期間。人們通過(guò)這種交流結(jié)下的友誼也不會(huì)太深。研究者推測(cè)說(shuō),實(shí)際情況是上網(wǎng)使網(wǎng)民減少了和家人及朋友共度的時(shí)光,這也許可以解釋他們心理健康狀況的下降原因。兩年的研究表明,上網(wǎng)次數(shù)多的人與較少的人相比,即使是一周僅上網(wǎng)幾小時(shí)也會(huì)經(jīng)常地感覺(jué)到沮喪和孤獨(dú)。(2)根據(jù)卡內(nèi)基網(wǎng)絡(luò)調(diào)查倒是大有前途,但是顯然缺乏傳統(tǒng)的隨機(jī)抽樣調(diào)查的可信度。 the key lies in the education of people.(10) No one could expect that the great writer’s grave was marked by a small wooden board, bearing his name, the letters of which were nearly obliterated by time.Unit 3 Privacy and Property on Net2. Vocabulary(1) confidential (2) facilitate (3) bizarre (4) innovation(5) surveillance (6) Incidentally (7) administered (8) deregulation3. Paraphrase(1) Although privacy and property are firmly established in the history of human development, they vary as the social criteria change.(2) They two are based on experience and can be scientifically true. However, they may be proved wrong in some domains like social aspects.(3) It seems fair for everyone that the law forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, whereas, the truth is that the rich don’t have to sleep under bridges so the law only places restrictions on the poor.(4) Copyright sounds fair to both celebrities and obscurities, but it virtually separate celebrities from the other musicians because only celebrities and major distribution panies have the ability to defend their copyright by legal means. This reveals inequality under the cover of so called equality.(5) Court officials who have made a solemn promise could explore the doubtful cases then specify those really guilty few and report to punish them according to laws.(6) Information technology cannot provide convincing answers to such questions thus ending up being doubted by public, following nuclear power and genetic engineering.(7) Internet based investigations might succeed, but they are usually less reliable than traditional randomly sampled polls.4. Cloze(1)sophisticated (2)protect (3)named (4)employed (5)other (6)private (7)only (8) public (9)possessed (10)periodically (11)forge (12)limit (13)approved (14)privileges (15)accountable (16)confidential (17)access (18)difficult (19)mixture (20)symbols5. TranslationA. Translate the following paragraphs into Chinese.(1)這樣一個(gè)多層機(jī)密系統(tǒng)的最佳構(gòu)思是什么呢?是否會(huì)出現(xiàn)意外的后果?公眾是否能接受?如果不能很好地回答這些問(wèn)題,信息技術(shù)將會(huì)像核能源和基因工程一樣被籠罩在大眾的疑云之中。生物學(xué)的根基非常脆弱,它只有一個(gè)數(shù)據(jù)點(diǎn),即地球上的生命。地球上的生命之所以特別是因?yàn)槲覀冎涣私膺@一種生命形式。異類(lèi)的生命形式也不特別。這個(gè)新發(fā)現(xiàn)說(shuō)明生命很可能是相當(dāng)普通的一種現(xiàn)象,只要有點(diǎn)機(jī)會(huì)在任何地方都可能發(fā)生。不過(guò)隨著人們進(jìn)一步領(lǐng)會(huì)其深層含義,這種積極的反響可能會(huì)改變。(2) 美國(guó)國(guó)家航空和航天局宣布科學(xué)家已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)來(lái)自火星的隕石中有生命的跡象。自啟蒙運(yùn)動(dòng)以來(lái),《圣經(jīng)》所述的創(chuàng)世故事或者其它“事件”,如人之墮落和耶穌基督的奇跡,屢屢遭遇科學(xué)的貶抑;它們僅僅被當(dāng)作神話、迷信而已。這一步使得遍布地球的所有生命形式的發(fā)展成為可能。 B. Translate the following sentences into English.(1)People appealed to the government to put in a good word for the real hero after the truth came out.(2)On the ing of the New Year, it occurred to Sam that he should put aside his work for a while and call his parents.(3)In a time of change, young people often put selfinterest in the first place and tune out social mitment.(4)The government has realized that serious social problems may arise from wealth polarization, and measures have been taken to shorten the distance.(5)As the cost of being famous, stars are particularly vulnerable to criticism, because people always have higher expectations of them.(6)After the terrorist attack was successfully suppressed, the horrorstricken hostages were shepherded across a secret passage to the safety zone. (7)Finally, the author chose to retort the rumor not because of any personal offense, but rather in response to injuries inflicted on others. (8)The criminal explains to his lawyer that his will is so naturally fragile that his phys