冲刺班讲义(白松 南京）.docVIP

关于这份资料的说明： 2013年7月1日——19日，7个学生组成的小班在每天的正常托福任务之余额外完成以下资料的学习，最后在7.20的考试中2个人考到了110以上，3个人考到105以上，2个人90分以上：（正常任务：每天一套阅读+一套听力+三套口语连做一小时+每天两篇托福预测机经的作文写作；额外任务：以下每组资料翻译后，背诵下来，每天背诵一遍） 英译汉翻译+背诵材料 第一组： 1 The gorilla is something of a paradox in the African scene. 2 The Abominable Snowman who haunts the imagination of climbers in the Himalayas is hardly more elusive. 3 His bones have been mounted in natural history museums everywhere, and he has always exerted a strong fascination upon scientists and romantics alike. 4 He is the stereotyped monster of the horror films and the adventure books, and an obvious (though not perhaps strictly scientific) link with our ancestral past. 5 No really satisfactory photograph has ever been taken of one in a wild state, no zoologist, however intrepid, has been able to keep the animal under close and constant observation in the dark jungles in which he lives. 6 The American naturalist now lies buried among the animals he loved so well. 7 All things remain almost as much a mystery as they were when the French explorer first described the animal to the civilized world a century ago. 8 Home has become much less of a workshop. 9 Boys are seldom trained to follow their fathers occupation, and in many towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and so do girls. 10 acquire a feeling of economic independence 11 more than doubled 12 draw substantial wages 13 Father is seldom the dominant figure that he still was at the beginning of the century. 14 When mother works economic advantages accrue, but children lose something of great value if mothers employment prevents her from being home to greet them when they return from school. When we, human beings, are on our life track moving toward a brighter future, drinking in the passing scenes around, we can’t help but notice that the scenes change from shining green space to distortedly nightmare-like picture in which destruction and pollution have their due place. We, sometimes, stopped for a while, thi