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Unit 1 Read and complete 5 1. obligation 2. applauded 3. fulfilled 4. mirror 5. flexibility 6. Devalue 7. striving 8. entailed 9. supposedly 10. Consequently? Read and translate 8 随着职务的提升，他担负的责任也更大了。 With his promotion,he has taken on greater responsibilities. 2.他感到他没有必要再一次对约翰承担这样的责任了。 He felt he did not have to make such a commitment to John any more. 3.闲暇时玛丽喜欢外出购物，与她相反，露西却喜欢呆在家里看书。 Mary likes to go shopping in her spare time, as opposed to Lucy,who prefers to stay at home reading. 4.说好听一点,可以说他有抱负，用最糟糕的话来说，他是一个没有良心或没有资格的权力追求者。 At best he’s ambitious,and at worst a power-seeker without conscience or qualifications. 5.我们已经尽全力想说服他，但是却毫无进展。 We have striven to the full to convince him ,but we have made no headway. Ex.9 看起来似乎父亲惟一值得人们提及的时候是因为他们做家务太少而受到指责的时候（我怀疑这一说法的可靠性，因为“家务”的定义中很少包括打扫屋顶的雨水沟、给汽车换机油或其它一些典型地由男人们做的事），或者是在他们去世的时候。 It seems that the only time fathers merit attention is when they are criticized for not heloing enough with the housework (a claim that I find dubious anyway,because the definition of “housework” rarely includes cleaning the gutters, changing the oil in the car or other jobs typically done by men) or when they die. 这种“无需父亲”综合症的一个例外是家庭全职父亲所受到的媒体的赞扬。 One exception to the”unnecessary father “syndrome is the glowing media attention that at home dads have received 同样，家庭惟一的工资收入者在想辞去不太满意的工作时，其灵活程度也要小一些，因为这种工作变换会使他们失去收入。 By the same token , sole wage earners have less flexibility when it comes to leaving unsatisfying careers because of the income such a job change entails 目前，研究者们普遍认为家庭中没有父亲会对小孩 —— 因此对整个社会 —— 带来严重的问题 Today, there is widespread agreement among reswarchers that the absence of fathers from households causes serious probelms for children and ,consequently ,for society at large 作为一个社会，我们需要认识到对于孩子来说，父亲是与母亲同等重要的，不仅仅在经济支持上，而且在感情依靠、教育和纪律训导方面都是如此。 As a society ,we need to realize that fathers are just as important to children as