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Unit6
Task 5 【【【【答案答案答案答案】】】】
A. 1) b a d c 2) c b d a 3) a d b c 4) b a c d B. certain
changes were to be made in the office and some workers would probably be moved to other
positions, see if there were any chance for her, she was moved to a higher position, find a job fro
herself, became the person advertising jobs for others C. frowned, was amazed, was more alarmed
and seriously worried
【【【【原文原文原文原文】】】】
Cecilia was reading the details of a job that was being advertised.
are invited for the post of Personal Assistant to the
Manager of this large London export firm. Candidates should be
experienced in all branches of office work and should be qualified in
shorthand and typewriting. The successful candidate must be prepared to
work alone and will be expected to travel.
will be asked to join the company's insurance scheme and will be
permitted to use a company car. Three weeks' annual paid holiday will be
allowed. Salary will be calculated according to experience.

be returned within three weeks. An interview will be held in London and
candidates will be called for interview before the end of this month.
Travel expenses for candidates coming from outside London can be
claimed at the time of interview. Jason arrived home and looked
over Cecilia's shoulder.
changes are going to be made in the office and that some of us are going
to be moved. And since we might be put anywhere, I thought I'd find out
what jobs were being publicized. The following evening when


Jason came home he found Cecilia sitting at the table which was covered
with papers advertising many different jobs. Over her shoulder he read:

experienced and prepared to work late hours. A good salary will be paid
monthly into a bank for the right candidate. The successful applicant will
be appointed for two years in the first case. Application forms, which
should be sent in before July 31st, may be obtained from the address
below. Jason frowned and turned to the next advertisement, which
read:
for several departments. Applicants should be trained and qualified.
Inexperienced typists may be appointed but must be prepared to be
trained. Application forms, obtainable from the address below, should be
filled in by each applicant in her own handwriting and returned before
July 31st. All applicants will be interviewed... Amazed, Jason
glanced from paper to paper, becoming more alarmed as he read:

will be expected to pass a medical examination…salary will be paid
weekly…ladders and other equipment will be provided…applications
should be received before July 31st... Seriously worded now, Jason
sat down.
Cecilia turned to him.
she said.


one who writes out the details for all the jobs that are going to be
advertised. It's fun.
Unit7
Task2
【【【答案答案答案答案】】】】 A. 1) Because he was always trying new things and new ways of
doing things just like a young painter. 2) It didn’t look like her. 3) It was the only picture she
knew that showed her as she really was. 4) People from the poorer parts of Paris, who were thin,
hungry, tired, and sick. B. 1) F 2) T 3) F 4) T C. 1881, 1973, Malaga, Spain, ninety-one
years D. fifteen, nineteen, twenty-three, colors, darker, change, soft-colored, strange, shape,
human face and figure, strange
【【【【原文原文原文原文】】】】 Pablo Picasso was born in 1881. So probably you are wondering
why we call him youngest painter in the worldWhen he died in
1973, he was ninety-one years old. But even at that age, he was still
painting like a young painter. For that reason, we have called him the

ways of doing things. They welcome new ideas. They are restless and are
never satisfied. They seek perfection. Older people often fear change.
They know what they can do best, riley prefer to repeat their successes,
rather than risk failure. They have found their own place in life and don't
like to leave it. We know what to expect from them. When he was over
ninety, this great Spanish painter still lived his life like a young man. He
was still looking for new ideas and for new ways to use his artistic
materials. Picasso's figures sometimes face two ways at once, with the
eyes and nose in strange places. Sometimes they are out of shape or
broken. Even the colors are not natural. The title of the picture tells us it
is a person, but it may look more like a machine. At such times Picasso


was trying to paint what he saw with his mind as well as with his eyes.
He put in the side of the face as well as the front. He painted the naked
body and the clothes on it at the same time. He painted in his own way.
He never thought about other people's opinions. Most painters discover a
style of painting that suits them and keep to it, especially if people like
their pictures. As the artist grows older his pictures may change, but not
very much. But Picasso was like a man who had not yet found his own
style. He was still looking for a way to express his own restless spirit. The
first thing one noticed about him was the look in his large, wide-open
eyes. Gertrude Stein, a famous American writer who knew him when he
was young, mentioned this hungry look, and one can still see it in pictures
of him today. Picasso painted a picture of her in 1906, and the story is an
interesting one. According to Gertrude Stein, she visited the painter's
studio eighty or ninety times while he painted her picture. While Picasso
painted they talked about everything in the world that interested them.
Then one day Picasso wiped out the painted head though he had worked
on it for so long. I look at you I can't see you any more!he
remarked. Picasso went away for the summer. When he returned, he went
at once to the picture left in the comer of his studio. Quickly he finished
the face from memory. He could see the woman's face more clearly in his
mind than he could see it when she sat in the studio in front of him. When
people complained to him that the painting of Miss Stein didn't look like


her, Picasso would reply,
But thirty years later, Gertrude Stein said that Picasso's painting of her
was the only picture she knew that showed her as she really was Picasso
was born in Malaga, Spain, a pleasant, quiet town. His father was a
painter and art teacher who gave his son his first lessons in drawing.
Young Pablo did badly at school. He was lazy and didn't listen to what the
teachers were saying. He had confidence in himself from the beginning.
But it was soon clear that the boy was an artist and deserved the best
training he could get. Not even his earliest drawings look like the work of
a child. One can say that Picasso was born to be a painter. He won a prize
for his painting when he was only fifteen. He studied art in several cities
in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all he wanted to know. When
he was nineteen he visited Paris. Paris was then the center of the world
for artists. Most painters went there sooner or later to study, to see
pictures, and to make friends with other painters. Everything that was
new and exciting in the world of painting happened there. When he was
twenty-three, Picasso returned there to live, and lived in France for the
rest of his life. He was already a fine painter. He painted scenes of town
life—people in the streets and in restaurants, at horse races and bull fights.
They were painted in bright colors and were lovely to look at. But life
was not easy for him. For several years he painted people from the poorer
parts of the city. He painted men and women who were thin, hungry, tired,


and sick. His colors got darker. Most of these pictures were painted in
blue, and showed very clearly what the artist saw and felt. The paintings
of this
wait long for success. As he began to sell his pictures and become
recognized as a painter, his pictures took on a warmer look. At the same
time he began to paint with more and more freedom. He began to see
people and places as simple forms or shapes. He no longer tried to make
his pictures true to life. The results at first seemed strange and not real.
The pictures were difficult to understand. His style of painting was
known as Cubism, from the shape of the cube. Many people did not like
this new and sometimes frightening style. But what great paintings give
us is a view of life through one man's eyes, and every man's view is
different. Some of Picasso's paintings are rich, soft-colored, and beautiful.
Others are strange with sharp, black outlines. But such paintings allow us
to imagine things for ourselves. They can make our own view of the
world sharper. For they force us to say to ourselves, him
paint like that? What does he see?Birds, places, and familiar objects
play a part in Picasso's painting. But, when one thinks of him, one usually
thinks of the way he painted the human face and figure. It is both
beautiful and strange. Gertrude Stein wrote, head, the face, the
human body--these are all that exist for Picasso. The souls of people do
not interest him. The reality of life is in the head, the face, and the body.
Unit 8


Task 2
【答案】
News Item 1
A.1) F 2) F 3) T 4) T 5) F 6) F
News Item 2
B.
WHO: more than one hundred thousand mothers across the United States
WHAT: gathered to push for tougher gun control laws
WHERE: Washington
WHEN: Sunday
C.
1) b) 2) a) 3) c) 4) b)
D.
1) Gun control, Now
2) shed, river of votes, raging, out of, stricter gun control
【原文】
News Item 1
British police say thousands of gun owners have surrendered their small calibre weapons as part of
legislation banning some types of handgun. The deadline to hand in the weapons which has just passed is the final
stage in the clampdown on gun ownership following the massacre of 16 school children and a teacher at Dunblane
in Scotland in 1996. The police estimate that 40,000 weapons have been surrendered, meaning that the vast
majority of legally held guns have been given up. But as Inspector Paul Brightwell, a policeman from southern
England, points out, many owners are still angry about the bans. Although Britain now has some of the strictest
firearms laws in the world, correspondents say the government may still look to introduce further restrictions.

News Item 2
More than one hundred thousand mothers across the United
States gathered here in Washington Sunday to push for tougher gun
control laws. Organizers of the so-called Million Mom March are
hoping to harness growing outrage at the number of children killed
by handguns here in the United States.
do we want? Gun control! When do we want? Now!
What do we want? Gun control! When do we want? Now! What do
we want? Gun control! When do we want? Now! What do we want?
Gun control!...
The protesters—mothers, victims of gun violence and
families—came from across the United States to hear heartbreaking
stories of children who had been gunned down. One mother
described the pain she felt after her young son received a crippling
gunshot wound to the chest. In an emotional appeal, she urged the
crowd to vote for members of Congress who support gun control.
we have shed tears for our children. Let's make our
tears the river of votes. Let's make our tears become a raging river of
votes, and we need to get our legislators out of office if they do not
want stricter gun control.
Organizers of the Washington rally and others held in cities
across the United States say at least 12 children a day are killed by
guns. They want Congress to enact laws that will require registration
of handguns and some type of licensing system. US gun control laws
vary from state to state. Ant nationwide registration is strongly
opposed by the National Rifle Association, a wealthy and powerful
nationwide group of firearms owners who reject any type of gun


control.