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篇1：新概念英语第三册第43课:Fully insured

Lesson 43 Fully insured全保险

Listen to the tape then answer the question below.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

Who owned the pie and why?

Insurance companies are normally willing to insure anything. Insuring public or private property is a standard practice in most countries in the world. If, however, you were holding an open air garden party or a fete it would be equally possible to insure yourself in the event of bad weather. Needless to say, the bigger the risk an insurance company takes, the higher the premium you will have to pay. It is not uncommon to hear that a shipping company has made a claim for cost of salvaging a sunken ship. But the claim made by a local authority to recover the cost of salvaging a sunken pie dish must surely be unique.

Admittedly it was an unusual pie dish, for it was eighteen feet long and six feet wide. It had been purchased by a local authority so that an enormous pie could be baked for an annual fair. The pie committee decided that the best way to transport the dish would be by canal, so they insured it for the trip. Shortly after it was launched, the pie committee went to a local inn to celebrate. At the same time, a number of teenagers climbed on to the dish and held a little party of their own. Dancing proved to be more than the dish could bear, for during the party it capsized and sank in seven feet of water.

The pie committee telephoned a local garage owner who arrived in a recovery truck to salvage the pie dish. Shivering in their wet clothes, the teenagers looked on while three men dived repeatedly into the water to locate the dish. They had little difficulty in finding it, but hauling it out of the water proved to be a serious problem. The sides of the dish were so smooth that it was almost impossible to attach hawsers and chains to the rim without damaging it. Eventually chains were fixed to one end of the dish and a powerful winch was put into operation. The dish rose to the surface and was gently drawn towards the canal bank. For one agonizing moment, the dish was perched precariously on the bank of the canal, but it suddenly overbalanced and slid back into the water. The men were now obliged to try once more. This time they fixed heavy metal clamps to both sides of the dish so that they could fasten the chains. The dish now had to be lifted vertically because one edge was resting against the side of the canal. The winch was again put into operation and one of the men started up the truck. Several minutes later, the dish was again put into operation and one of the water. Water streamed in torrents over its sides with such force that it set up a huge wave in the canal. There was danger that the wave would rebound off the other side of the bank and send the dish plunging into the water again. By working at tremendous speed, the men managed to get the dish on to dry land before the wave returned.

参考译文

保险公司一般说来愿意承保一切东西。承办公共财产或私人财产保险是世界上大部分国家的正常业务。如果你要举办一次露天游园会或盛宴，为避免碰上不好的天气而遭受损失也同样可以保险，不用说，保险公司承担风险越大，你付的保险费也就越高。航运公司为打捞沉船而提出索赔，这是常有的事，但某地当局为打捞一只焙制馅饼的盘子提出索赔，倒是件新鲜的事儿。

这个馅饼盘子确实少见，有18英尺长，6英尺宽。某地方当局买下它用来焙制一个巨大的馅饼为一年一度交易会助兴。馅饼委员会确认运输这只盘子的最佳方案是通过运河水运。于是，他们对这只盘子的运输安全投了保。盘子下水后不久，馅饼委员会成员们来到当地一家小酒店庆贺。就在这个时候，许多十几岁的孩子爬盘子举行他们自己的集会。他们跳起了舞，盘子难以承受。舞会进行过程中，盘子倾覆，沉入了7英尺深的水中。

馅饼委员会给当地汽车修理库老板打电话，他闻讯后开着一辆急修车前来打捞盘子。那些孩子们穿着湿衣服哆嗦，看着3个工人轮潜入水中以确定盘子的位置。他们没费多大事儿就找到了盘子。可是把盘子捞出却是一个很大的难题。盘子四边十分光滑，要在盘边拴上绳索或链条而同时又不损坏它是很难办到的。不过，他们终于将链条固定在盘子的一端，一台大功率的绞车开动起来。盘子慢慢浮出水面，被轻轻地拽向运河岸边。在令人忐忑不安的瞬间，盘子晃晃悠悠地上了岸，但它突然失去了平衡，又跌回水中。工人们只得再来一次。这次，他们用沉重的金属夹子把盘子夹住，以便往盘子上安装铁链。这次，盘子必须垂直吊出水面，因为盘子的一边紧靠着运河河岸。绞盘机再次启动，一位工人发动了急修车的引擎。几分钟后，盘子被成功地拽出了水面。波浪从盘子两侧急涌而出，在运河里掀起一股大浪。但是当波浪从河对岸折回来时，就有再次把盘子拖进水里的危险。工人们动作迅速，终于赶在那股大浪返回之前把盘子拽到了岸上。

New words and expressions 生词和短语

insure (title)

v.投保

fete (1.4)

n.游园会

premium (1.6)

n.保险费

recover (1.8)

v.使……得到补偿、弥补

admittedly

adv. 公认地

purchase

v. 买

annual

adj. 一年一度的

teenager

n. （13至19岁的）青少年

capsize

v. （船）翻

shiver

v. 打颤，发抖

dive

v. （头向下）跳水

haul

v. 拖曳

hawser

n. 粗缆绳

rim

n. （圆形物品的）外沿，边

winch

n. 绞车

agonizing

adj. 精神紧张的，提心吊胆的

perch

v. 处于（高处）

precariously

adv. 危险地，不稳固地

overbalance

v. 失去平衡

clamp

n. 夹钳，夹板

vertically

adv. 垂直地

torrent

n. 激流，洪流

rebound

v. 弹回

Notes on the text课文注释

1 in the event of,作“倘若”、“万一”、“如果发生”讲。

2 the bigger the risk an insurance company takes, the higher the premium you will have to pay保险公司承担的风险越大，你付的保险费就越高。这里又是一个“the+形容词比较级，the+形容词比较级”的例子.汉语可译成“越...越...”

3 make a claim for... 作“要求得到……”讲。

4 put into operation，使…运转。

5 for one agonizing moment，在令人忐忑不安的瞬间。

6 set up，激起。

Lesson 43 课后练习和答案Exercises and Answer

篇2：新概念英语第四册第43课:Are there strangers in space?

Lesson 43 Are there strangers in space?宇宙中有外星人吗？

First listen and then answer the following question.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

What does the 'uniquely rational way' for us to communicate with other intelligent beings in space depend on?

We must conclude from the work of those who have studied the origin of life, that given a planet only approximately like our own, life is almost certain to start. Of all the planets in our solar system, we ware now pretty certain the Earth is the only one on which life can survive. Mars is too dry and poor in oxygen, Venus far too hot, and so is Mercury, and the outer planets have temperatures near absolute zero and hydrogen-dominated atmospheres. But other suns, start as the astronomers call them, are bound to have planets like our own, and as is the number of stars in the universe is so vast, this possibility becomes virtual certainty. There are one hundred thousand million starts in our own Milky Way alone, and then there are exist is now estimated at about 300 million million.

根据研究生命起源的人们所作的工作，我们必然会得出这样的结论：如果设想有一颗行星和我们地球的情况基本相似，那几乎肯定会产生生命。我们目前可以肯定的是，在我们太阳系的所有行星中，地球是生命能存在的唯一行星。火星太干燥又缺氧，金星太热，水星也一样。除此之外，太阳系的其他行星的温度都接近绝对零度，并围绕着以氢气为主的大气层。但是，其他的太阳，既天文学家所说的恒星，肯定会有像我们地球一样的行星。因为宇宙中恒星的数目极其庞大，所以存在着产生生命星球的这种可能性是肯定无疑的。仅我们的银河系就有1000亿颗星，况且在宇宙中还有30亿个天河，即银河系。因此，我们所知道的现有恒星数目估计约有30亿X1000亿颗。

Although perhaps only 1 per cent of the life that has started somewhere will develop into highly complex and intelligent patterns, so vast is the number of planets, that intelligent life is bound to be a natural part of the universe.

虽然在已经产生生命的某个地方，可能只有1%会发展成高度复杂有智力的生命形态，但是行星的数目是那么庞大，有智力的生命必然是宇宙的自然组成道听部分。

If then we are so certain that other intelligent life exists in the universe, why have we had no visitors from outer space yet? First of all, they may have come to this planet of ours thousands or millions of years ago, and found our then prevailing primitive state completely uninteresting to their own advanced knowledge. Professor Ronald Bracewell, a leading American radio astronomer, argued in Nature that such a superior civilization, on a visit to our own solar system, may have left an automatic messenger behind to await the possible awakening of an advanced civilization. Such a messenger, receiving our radio and television signals, might well re-transmit them back to its home-planet, although what impression any other civilization would thus get from us is best left unsaid.

既然我们如此坚信宇宙中存在着其他有智力的生命，那么我们为什么还未见到外层空间来访的客人呢？首先，他们可能在几千年前或几百年前已来过我们地球，并且发现我们地球汉时普遍存在着的原始状态同他们的先进的知识相比是索然无味的。美国一位重要的射电天文学家罗纳德.布雷斯韦尔教授在《自然》杂志上提出了这样的观点：假如有如此高级文明生命访问了我们的太阳系，很可能会在离开太阳系时留下自动化信号装置，等待先进文明的觉醒。这种自动化信息装置，在接收到我们的无线电和电视信号后，完全有可能把这些信号发回到原来的行星。至于其他文明行星对我们地球会有什么印象，还是不说为好。

But here we come up against the most difficult of all obstacles to contact with people on other planets -- the astronomical distances which separate us. As a reasonable guess, they might, on an average, be 100 light years away. (A light year is the distance which light travels at 186,000 miles per second in one year, namely 6 million million miles.) Radio waves also travel at the speed of light, and assuming such an automatic messenger picked up our first broadcasts of the 1920's, the message to its home planet is barely halfway there. Similarly, our own present primitive chemical rockets, though good enough to orbit men, have no chance of transporting us to the nearest other star, four light years away, let alone distances of tens or hundreds of light years.

然而，在和外星人联系中我们遇到的最大困难是分隔我们的天文距离。据合理推算，外星人离我们平均距离也有100光年之远（1光年是光以每秒186，000 英里的速度在一年内走的距离即6万亿英里）。无线电波也是以光速传播的。假定外星人的这种自动化信息装置接收了我们二十世纪二十年代的第一次广播信号，那么这个信号在发回到原来的行星途中刚刚走了一半路程。同样，我们目前使用的原始化学火箭，虽然把人送入轨道，但尚不能把我们送到离我们最近、相距4光年的其他星球上去，更不用说几十光年或几百光年远的地方了。

Fortunately, there is a 'uniquely rational way' for us to communicate with other intelligent beings, as Walter Sullivan has put it in his excellent book, We Are not Alone. This depends on the precise radio frequency of the 21-cm wavelength, or 1420 megacycles per second. It is the natural frequency of emission of the hydrogen atoms in space and was discovered by us in 1951; it must be known to any kind of radio astronomer in the universe.

幸运的是，有一种我们可以和其他智力生命通迅联系的“唯一合理的方法”，正如活尔特.沙利方在其杰作《我们并不孤独》中阐述的。这种通迅联系要靠21厘料波段，即每秒1420兆周的精确无线电频率。这个频率是空间氢原子释放的自然频率，是在1951年被人类发现的。这个频率是宇宙中任何射电天文学家都应该熟悉的。

Once the existence of this wave-length had been discovered, it was not long before its use as the uniquely recognizable broadcasting frequency for interstellar communication was suggested. Without something of this kind, searching for intelligences on other planets would be like trying to meet a friend in London without a pre-arranged rendezvous and absurdly wandering the streets in the hope of a chance encounter.

一旦这种波长的实际存在被发现，提出把它作为星际间唯一可辨认的广播频率就为期不远了。没有这手段，要想寻觅其他星球上的智力生命，就如同去伦敦见一位朋友，事先未约定地点，而荒.唐地在街上游逛，以期待碰巧遇上一样。

New words and expressions 生词和短语

Mercury

n. 水星

hydrogen

n. 氢气

prevailing

adj. 普遍的

radio astronomer

射电天方学家

uniquely

adv. 唯一地

rational

adj. 合理的

radio frequency

无线电频率

n. 厘米

megacycle

n. 兆周

emission

n. 散发

intersteller

adj.星际的

rendezvous

n. 约会地点

encounter

n.相遇

Notes on the text课文注释

1 that given a pianet ...certain to start,这是一个宾语从句，作动词conclude的宾语，其中guven a planet... our own，过去分词短语作条件状语，given 与 if 的意思相近，这个过去分词短语可译成“如果一个行星与我们所在的行星大致相同的话”。

2 is best left unsaid,最好不去说（它）。

3 come up against ，遇到。

Lesson 43 课后练习和答案Exercises and Answer

篇3：新概念英语第二册第43课:Over the South Pole

Lesson 43 Over the South Pole飞越南极

First listen and then answer the question.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

How was the plane able to clear the mountains?

In 1929, three years after his flight over the North Pole, the American explorer, R.E. Byrd, successfully flew over the South Pole for the first time. Though, at first, Byrd and his men were able to take a great many photographs of the mountains that lay below, they soon ran into serious trouble. At one point, it seemed certain that their plane would crash. It could only get over the mountains if it rose to 10,000 feet. Byrd at once ordered his men to throw out two heavy food sacks. The plane was then able to rise and it cleared the mountains by 400 feet. Byrd now knew that he would be able to reach the South Pole which was 300 miles away, for there were no more mountains in sight. The aircraft was able to fly over the endless white plains without difficulty.

参考译文

美国探险家 R.E. 伯德在飞越北极3年之后，于1929年第一次飞越了南极。虽然开始时伯德和他的助手们拍下了飞机下面连绵群山的大量照片，但他们很快就陷入了困境。在有个地方，飞机似乎肯定要坠毁了。只有在飞至10,000英尺的高度时，它才能飞过这些山头。伯德马上命令他的助手们把两个沉重的食物袋扔掉，于是飞机可以上升了，它在离山头400英尺的高度飞越了过去。伯德这时知道他能够顺利飞抵300英里以外的南极了，因为前面再没有山了。飞机可以毫无困难地飞过这片茫茫无际的白色原野！

New words and Expressions生词和短语

pole

n.（地球的）极

flight

n. 飞行

explorer

n. 探险家

lie

v. 处于

serious

adj. 严重的

point

n. 地点

seem

v. 似乎

crash

v. 坠毁

sack

n. 袋子

clear

v. 越过

aircraft

n. 飞机

endless

adj. 无尽的

plain

n.平原

Lesson 43 自学导读First things first

课文详注 Further notes on the text

1．In 1929, three years after his flight over the North Pole, the American explorer, R. E. Byrd, successfully flew over the South Pole for the first time. 美国探险家 R·E·伯德在飞越北极3年之后，于1929年第1次飞越了南极。

（1）这句话包含两个同位语。three years after…为 1929的同位语，作插入性的补充说明；R．E．Byrd 作 the American explorer 的同位语。

（2）for the first time 表示“第一次”，time在这里表示“次”、“回”，还可以说 this time, last time, next time, another time, each time, for the last time等：

I remind you for the last time that if you don't hurry, you'll miss the train.

我最后一次提醒你，如果不快点，你会误了火车的。

Give him these photos next time you see him.

下次你见到他时把这些相片给他。

2．Though, at first, Byrd and his men were able to take a great many photographs of the mountains that lay below, they soon ran into serious trouble. 虽然开始时伯德和他的助手们拍下了飞机下面连绵群山的大量照片，但他们很快就陷入了困境。

（1）连词though引导的是让步状语从句，其含义为“虽然……”、“尽管……”。这个从句中的时间状语at first被单独用逗号隔开了，它如果按正常的词序应放在从句的末尾，但有可能会引起误解。

（2）at first与主句中的 soon形成时间上的照应，表示先后次序。

（3）take a photograph of 表示“拍……的照片”：

He took a photograph of his house before he left home.

他离家前给他家的房子拍了一张照片。

（4）that lay below为 the mountains的定语从句，that为从句的主语。

（5）run into trouble的含义与 get into trouble相似，表示“陷入困境”：

Each time he ran into trouble, he asked his parents for help.

每当他陷入困境时，他都向他父母求助。

3．At one point, it seemed certain that their plane would crash. 在有个地方，飞机似乎肯定要坠毁了。

（1）at one point在此处可以解释为“在有个地方”，但它通常的含义为“在某一时刻”，point指时间上的某一点：

At one point, he made up his mind to become a painter.

他曾一度下决心要当个画家。

（2）it为“先行主语”，真正的主语为that引导的从句。it作先行主语时经常与seem，appear，look等连用：

It now looks certain that the meeting is going to be put off.

现在似乎可以肯定会议将被推迟。

4．rise to，飞机“上升至……”。

5．… it cleared the mountains by 400 feet. ……它在离山头400英尺的高度飞越了过去。

clear在这里表示“（不接触地）越过”：

He cleared 2. 10 metres.

他跳过了2.10米。

by表示“以……之差”：

I missed the train by ten minutes.

我晚了10分钟，没赶上火车。

He is younger than me by two years.

他比我小两岁。

6．…for there were no more mountains in sight. ……因为前面再没有山了。

for表示“因为”。 in sight表示“在看得见的范围内”、“在可看见之处”：

No man was in sight.

一个人也看不见。

7．white plains, 白色原野。

因为南极到处覆盖着雪，因此是白色的。

语法 Grammar in use

can，could与 be able to

在第19课的语法中，我们学习了情态助动词 can／could用于表示请求别人允许或答复时的情况：

Can／Could I borrow your unbrella (please)?

（请问）我可以借用一下你的雨伞吗？（could 比can更客气、委婉）

can有时可以用于表示可能性：

When can you have lunch with me?

你什么时候可以和我一起共进午餐?

I can have lunch with you tomorrow if you like.

如果你愿意，我明天可以与你共进午餐。

在表示天生的或学到的能力时，can／could可用于现在时和过去时：

Billy is only 9 months old and he can already stand up. 比利只有9个月，而他已经能站起来了。

在现在时和一般过去时中，can／could与 be able to通常可以互换，be able to往往用于表示学到的技能：

I tried again and found I could swim／was able to swim. 我再次努力，就发现自己会游泳了。

在谈到说话时正在发生的事时，一般不用 be able to：

Look! I can stand on my head.

看！我能倒立。

在表示成功地完成某一具体动作时，通常不用could，而用be able to；如果表示某一动作没有取得成功，则可用 couldn't：

It's a pity he couldn't visit Mary.

很遗憾他没能去看望玛丽。

Oh, didn't you know? He was able to visit her after all.

噢，你不知道吗？他最终还是能去看她了。

在问及过去某一具体活动时可用 could，但回答是肯定的时候则不能：

Could he borrow a car?

他能借到车了吗？

Yes, he was able to borrow a car after all.

是的，他最终还是能借到车了。

No, he couldn't.

不，他没能借到。

词汇学习Word study

1．lie vi.

（1）躺，（平）卧：

While I sat by the fire, my dog lay beside me.

当我坐在火炉旁时，我的狗躺在我旁边。

Don't lie on the floor! It's too cold.

别躺在地板上！太冷了。

（2）位于：

The mountains lie below us now.

现在群山在我们的下方。

Our village lies between a river and a road.

我们的村子位于一条河流和一条公路之间。

The town lies to the east of London.

这镇子位于伦敦东面。

2．含有介词at的词组

at与许多词可以构成固定词组，其中表示时间的有：at first（开始时，最初），at once（马上，立刻），at present（目前，现在），at last（最后，终于）， at times（有时）；表示地点的有：at home（在家），at school（在学校）；表示程度的有： at least（至少）， at any rate（不管怎样）。其他词组有 at heart（内心里，实际上），at a loss（困惑不解，不知怎么办）等。

At first they were able to take photographs.

开始时他们还能照相。

Byrd at once ordered his men to throw out food sacks.

伯德马上命令他的助手们把食物袋扔掉。

At last the plane was able to rise.

最后飞机终于可以上升了。

At times I think this house will be knocked down by a passing plane.

有时我觉得这房子将会被一架飞过的飞机撞倒。

At any rate, I'm determined to stay here at present.

不管怎样，目前我决定留在这儿。

At least, I'm not mad yet.

至少我还没疯。

If Billy isn't at school, he must be at home.

如果比利不在学校，他肯定在家。

People have more money now, yet the temptation to steal is greater than ever before Why? I'm at a loss.

人们现在比以前有钱，但偷窃的诱惑力却比以往任何时候都更大。为什么呢？我感到很困惑。

Though he tried to make conversation with the lady, he wasn't interested in her at heart.

虽然他试图与那位妇女聊天，他实际上对她并不感兴趣。

Lesson 43 课后练习和答案Exercises and Answer

篇4：新概念英语第三册第22课:By heart

Lesson 22 By heart熟记台词

Listen to the tape then answer the question below.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

Which actor read the letter in the end, the aristocrat or the gaoler?

Some plays are so successful that they run for years on end, In many ways, this is unfortunate for the poor actors who are required to go on repeating the same lines night after night. One would expect them to know their parts by heart and never have cause to falter. Yet this is not always the case.

A famous actor in a highly successful play was once cast in the role of an aristocrat who had been imprisoned in the Bastille for twenty years. In the last act, a gaoler would always come on to the stage with a letter which he would hand to the prisoner. Even though the noble was expected to read the letter at each performance, he always insisted that it should be written out in full.

One night, the gaoler decided to play a joke on his colleague to find out if, after so many performances, he had managed to learn the contents of the letter by heart. The curtain went up on the final act of the play and revealed the aristocrat sitting alone behind bars in his dark cell. Just then, the gaoler appeared with the precious letter in his bands. He entered the cell and presented the letter to the aristocrat. But the copy he gave him had not been written out in full as usual. It was simply a blank sheet of paper. The gaoler looked on eagerly, anxious to see if his fellow actor had at last learnt his lines. The noble stared at the blank sheet of paper for a few seconds. Then, squinting his eyes, he said: 'The light is dim. Read the letter to me'. And he promptly handed the sheet of paper to the gaoler. Finding that he could not remember a word of the letter either, the gaoler replied: 'The light is indeed dim, sire, I must get my glasses.' With this, he hurried off the stage. Much to the aristocrat's amusement, the gaoler returned a few moments later with a pair of glasses and the usual copy of the letter with he proceeded to read to the prisoner.

参考译文

有些剧目十分成功，以致连续上演好几年。这样一来，可怜的演员们可倒霉了。因为他们需要一夜连着一夜地重复同样的台词。人们以为，这些演员一定会把台词背得烂熟，绝不会临场结巴的，但情况却并不总是这样。

有一位名演员曾在一出极为成功的剧目中扮演一个贵族角色，这个贵族已在巴士底狱被关押了。在最后一幕中，狱卒手持一封信上场，然后将信交给狱中那位贵族。尽管那个贵族每场戏都得念一遍那封信。但他还是坚持要求将信的全文写在信纸上。

一天晚上，狱卒决定与他的同事开一个玩笑，看看他反复演出这么多场之后，是否已将信的内容记熟了。大幕拉开，最后一幕戏开演，贵族独自一人坐在铁窗后阴暗的牢房里。这时狱卒上场，手里拿着那封珍贵的信。狱卒走进牢房，将信交给贵族。但这回狱卒给贵族的信没有像往常那样把全文写全，而是一张白纸。狱卒热切地观察着，急于想了解他的同事是否记熟了台词。贵族盯着纸看了几秒钟，然后，眼珠一转，说道：“光线太暗，请给我读一下这封信。”说完，他一下子把信递给狱卒。狱卒发现自己连一个字也记不住，于是便说：“陛下，这儿光线的确太暗了，我得去眼镜拿来。”他一边说着，一边匆匆下台。贵族感到非常好笑的是：一会儿工夫，狱卒重新登台，拿来一副眼镜以及平时使用的那封信，然后为那囚犯念了起来。

New words and expressions 生词和短语

run (ran, run)

v. （戏剧，电影等）连演，连映

lines

n. （剧本中的）台词

part

n. 剧中的角色，台词

falter

v. 支吾，结巴说

cast (cast, cast)

v. 连派……扮演角色

role

n. 角色

aristocrat

n. 贵族

imprison

v. 关押

Bastille

n. 巴士底狱

gaoler

n. 监狱长，看守

colleague

n. 同事

curtain

n. （舞台上的）幕布

reveal

v. 使显露

cell

n. 单人监房，监号

blank

adj.空白的

squint

v.眯着(眼)看，瞄

dim

adj.昏暗

sire

n.(古用法)陛下

proceed

v.继续进行

Notes on the text课文注释

1 on end，连续不断的。

2 in many ways，在许多方面。

3 go on repeating，继续重复。go on加上现在分词是“继续干”的意思。

4 Yet this is not always the case.然而情况并非总是如此。

5 in the role of...，充当...角色。

6 Bastille，巴士底狱。

曾是法国巴黎的监狱。1369年始建时是一个要塞，1789年被巴黎市民攻克并捣毁。

7 insisted that it should be written out in full, insist后面所接的宾语从句，常用虚拟语气“should+动词原形”，而should又经常可以省略。

8 play a joke on...，拿……开玩笑。

9 sire是古代仆人对国王的一种尊称，现在仅用于故事和剧本。

10 Much to the aristocrat's amusement，使贵族感到非常可笑的是...。

much为副词，此处修饰其后的介词短语to the aristocrat's amusement。 much to+sb.'s sth.是一个常见的状语短语，有“给某人带来很大的…”的意思。

Lesson 22 课后练习和答案Exercises and Answer

篇5：新概念英语第三册第29课:Funny or not?

Lesson 29 funny or not?是否可笑?

Listen to the tape then answer the question below.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

What is the basis of 'sick' humour?

Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on were we have been brought up. The sense of humour is mysteriously bound up with national characteristics. A Frenchman, for instance, might find it hard to laugh at a Russian joke. In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.

Most funny stories are based on comic situations. In spite of national differences, certain funny situations have a universal appeal. No matter where you live, you would find it difficult not to laugh at, say, Charlie Chaplin's early films. However, a new type of humour, which stems largely from the U.S., has recently come into fashion. It is called 'sick humour'. Comedians base their jokes on tragic situation like violent death or serious accidents. Many people find this sort of joke distasteful The following example of 'sick humour' will enable you to judge for yourself.

A man who had broken his right leg was taken to hospital a few weeks before Christmas. From the moment he arrived there, he kept on pestering his doctor to tell him when he would be able to go home. He dreaded having to spend Christmas in hospital. Though the doctors did his best, the patient's recovery was slow. On Christmas Day, the man still had his right leg in plaster. He spent a miserable day in bed thinking of all the fun he was missing. The following day, however, the doctor consoled him by telling him that his chances of being able to leave hospital in time for New Year celebrations were good. The good. The man took heart and, sure enough, on New Years' Eve he was able to hobble along to a party. To compensate for his unpleasant experiences in hospital, the man drank a little more than was good for him. In the process, he enjoyed himself thoroughly and kept telling everybody how much he hated hospitals. He was still mumbling something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg.

参考译文

我们觉得一则笑话是否好笑，很大程度取决于我们是在哪儿长大的。幽默感与民族有着神秘莫测的联系。譬如，法国人听完一则俄国笑话可能很难发笑。同样的道理，一则可以令英国人笑出泪来的笑话，俄国人听了可能觉得没有什么可笑之处。

大部分令人发笑的故事都是根据喜剧情节编写的。尽管民族不同，有些滑稽的情节却能产生普遍的效果。比如说，不管你生活在哪里，你看查理.卓别林的早期电影很难不发笑。然而，近来一种新式幽默流行了起来，这种幽默主要来自美国。它被叫作“病态幽默”。喜剧演员根据悲剧情节诸如暴死，重大事故等来编造笑话。许多人认为这种笑话是低级庸俗的。下面是个“病态幽默”的实例，你可据此自己作出判断。

圣诞节前几周，某人摔断了右腿被送进医院。从他进医院那一刻时，他就缠住医生，让医生告诉他什么时候能回家。他十分害怕在医院过圣诞。尽管医生竭力医治，但病人恢复缓慢。圣诞节那天，他的右腿还上着石膏，他在床上郁郁不乐地躺了一天，想着他错过的种.种欢乐。然而，第二天，医生安慰他说，出院欢度新年的可能性还是很大的，那人听后振作了精神。果然，除夕时他可以一瘸一拐地去参加晚会了。为了补偿住院这一段不愉快的经历，那人喝得稍许多了一点。在晚会上他尽情娱乐，一再告诉大家他是多么讨厌医院。晚会结束时，他嘴里还在嘟哝着医院的事，突然踩到一块冰上滑倒了，摔断了左腿。

New words and expressions 生词和短语

largely

adv. 在很大程度上

comic

adj. 喜剧的，可笑的

universal

adj. 普通的

comedian

n. 滑稽演员，喜剧演员

distasteful

adj. 讨厌的

pester

v. 一再要求，纠缠

dread

v. 惧怕

recovery

n. 康复

plaster

n. 熟石膏

console

v. 安慰，慰问

hobble

v. 瘸着腿走

compensate

v. 补偿

mumble

v. 喃喃而语

Notes on the text课文注释

1 whether we find a joke funny or not，这是一个名词性的从句，在句子中作主语。

2 be bound up with,与...联系在一起。

3 you would find it difficult not to laugh at, say, Charlie Chaplin's early films.比如说，你看T查理·卓别林的早期电影很难不发笑。

句中的say是插入语，可译作“比如说”。查理·卓别林是电影史上最有名的演员之一。他在诸如《淘金记》(1924)这类电影中扮演的流浪汉“小人物”在各种不利的条件下仍获得了成功。

4 stem from，起源于。

5 come into fashion，开始流行。时兴起来。

6 judge for yourself,你自己来判断。

7 take heart，振作精神。

8 the man drank a little more than was good for him.这个人稍微多喝了一点酒。

此句than后面省略了主语what, be good for sb.是“对某人有益”的意思。

Lesson 29 课后练习和答案Exercises and Answer

篇6：新概念英语第三册第5课:The facts

Lesson 5 The facts 确切数字

Listen to the tape then answer the question below.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

What was the consequence of the editor's insistence on facts and statistics?

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace'. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.

The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.

参考译文

报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供成立一些关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。去年，一位记者受一家有名的杂志的委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章。稿子寄来后，编辑看第一句话就拒绝予以发表。文章的开头是这样的：“几百级台阶通向环绕总统的高墙。”编辑立即给那位记者发去传真，要求他核实一下台阶的确切数字和围墙的高度。

记者立即出发去核实这些重要的事实，但过了好长时间不见他把数字寄来，在此期间，编辑等得不耐烦了，因为杂志马上要复印。他给记者先后发去两份传真，但对方毫无反应。于是他又发了一份传真，通知那位记者说，若再不迅速答复，将被解雇。但记者还是没有回复。编辑无奈，勉强按原样发稿了。一周之后，编辑终于接到记者的传真。那个可怜的记者不仅被捕了，而且还被送进了监狱。不过，他终于获准发回了一份传真。在传真中他告诉编辑，就在他数通向15英尺高的总统府围墙的1，084级台阶时，被抓了起来。

New words and expressions 生词和短语

editor

n. 编辑

extreme

n. 极端

statistics

n. 统计数字

journalist

n. 新闻记者

president

n. 总统

palace

n. 王宫；宏伟的住宅

publish

v. 出版

fax

n. 传真

impatient

adj. 不耐烦的

fire

v. 解雇

originally

adv. 起初，原先，从前

Notes on the text课文注释

1 go to extremes，走极端。

2 provide ...with…作“向...提供…”解。

3 to write an article on，写一篇有关……的报道。

4 lead to…作“通往…”、‘导致...”解释。

5 go to press，付印。

6 Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well.这是not only ...but...as well 引导的并列句子，如果将not only置于句首，后面主谓语应采取倒装结构。

Lesson 5 课后练习和答案Exercises and Answer

篇7：新概念英语第三册第6课:Smash-and-grab

Lesson 6 Smash-and-grab砸橱窗抢劫

Listen to the tape then answer the question below.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

How did Mr. Taylor try to stop the thieves?

The expensive shops in a famous near Piccadilly were just "opening. At this time of the morning, the arcade was almost empty. Mr. Taylor, the owner of a jewellery shop was admiring a new display. Two of his assistants had been working busily since eight o'clock and had only just finished. Diamond necklaces and rings had been beautifully arranged on a background of black velvet. After gazing at the display for several minutes, Mr. Taylor went back into his shop.

The silence was suddenly broken when a large car, with its headlights on and its horn blaring, roared down the arcade. It came to a stop outside the jeweller's. One man stayed at the wheel while two others with black stocking over their faces jumped out and smashed the window of the shop with iron bars. While this was going on, Mr. Taylor was upstairs. He and his staff began throwing furniture out of the window. Chairs and tables went flying into the arcade. One of the thieves was struck by a heavy statue, but he was too busy helping himself to diamonds to notice any pain. The raid was all over in three minutes, for the men scrambled back into the car and it moved off at a fantastic speed. Just as it was leaving, Mr. Taylor rushed out and ran after it throwing ashtrays and vases, but it was impossible to stop the thieves. They had got away with thousands of pounds worth of diamonds.

参考译文

皮卡迪利大街附近的一条著名拱廊街道上，几家高档商店刚刚开始营业。在早晨的这个时候，拱廊街上几乎空无一人。珠宝店主泰勒先生正在欣赏新布置的橱窗。他手下两名店员从早上8点就开始忙碌，这时刚刚布置完毕。钻石项链、戒指漂亮地陈列在黑色丝绒上面。泰勒先生站在橱窗外凝神欣赏了几分钟就回到了店里。

宁静突然被打破，一辆大轿车亮着前灯，响着喇叭，呼啸着冲进了拱廊街，在珠宝店门口停了下来。一人留在驾驶座上，另外两个用黑色长筒丝袜蒙面的人跳下车来。他们用铁棒把商店橱窗的玻璃砸碎。这开始发生时，泰勒先生正在楼上。他与店员动手向窗外投掷家具，椅子，桌子飞落花流水在拱廊街上。一个窃贼被一尊很重的雕像击中，但由于他忙着抢钻石首饰，竟连疼痛都顾不上了。这场抢劫只持续了3分钟，因为窃贼争先恐后地爬上轿车，以惊人的速度开跑了。就在轿车离开的时候，泰勒先生从店里冲了出来，跟在车后追赶，一边还往车上扔烟灰缸、花瓶。但他已无法抓住那些窃贼了。他们已带着价值数千镑的首饰逃之夭夭了。

New words and expressions 生词和短语

smash-and-grab

n. 砸橱窗抢劫

arcade

n. 有拱廊的街道（两旁常设商店）

Piccadilly

n. 皮卡迪利大街

jewellery

n. 珠宝（总称）

necklace

n. 项链

ring