日期：2007-09-17 Passage Nineteen (Creative Process of Works) The great question that this paper will, but feebly, attempt to answer is , what is the creative process? Though much theory has accumulated, little is really known about the power that lies at the bottom... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 7. falter 动摇不定，踌躇不前 8. flourish 繁荣兴旺 9. allure 诱惑 10. come out 进入社交界，扬名 11. the wide array 一大批，一大半 12. PX=Post Exchange 陆军消费合作社 13. sergeant 中士 14. major 少校 15. slick 聪明的，非常好的，吸引人的 16. hallway 门... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Passage Eighteen (The Military Is In) Things have really changed. Not only is the military standing tall again, it is staging a remarkable comeback in the quantity and quality of the recruits it is attracting. Recruiters, once denounced by antiwar s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 11. underscore 在下面划线，强调 12. point up 加强，强调 13. bluechip 兰筹股票 14. blue-chip 兰筹的 15. outperform 在使用上胜过 16. overprice 将标价过高 17. numerical ratio 数率，数字比率 18. earnings 收益，利润，收入 19. contend 竞争，坚决主张，争论... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Passage Seventeen (A Strong Stock Market) The increase in the margin rate from 50% to 70% was not an attempt to stem any rampant speculation on the part of the public-actually the market seemed technically quite strong, with public participation ess... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Vocabulary 1. bizarre 奇怪的 2. vandalism 破坏，故意破坏文化，艺术的行为 3. cripple 使瘫痪，削弱 4. fence 贼市，脏品买卖处 5. neutralize 使成为无效 6. affluent 富裕的 7. recordkeeping 记录存贮 8. havoc 浩劫，大破坏 9. resort to 求助于，借助于 10. mot... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Passage Sixteen (Crime in Computer) New and bizarre crimes have come into being with the advent of computer technology. Organized crime to has been directly involved; the new technology offers it unlimited opportunities, such as data crimes, theft o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 11. intrigue 使着迷，密谋，用诡计取得 12. stereotype 固定不变的，陈规旧习的 13. attest 证明，证实，表明 14. chauvinist 沙文主义者，男子至上主义这 15. moderation （政治，宗教上）稳健中庸，缓和 16. fulfillment 臻于完善，发挥潜在能力 17. sexism 性别歧视... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Passage Fifteen (The Second Wave of Feminism) The statistics Ive cited and the living examples are all too familiar to you. But what may not be so familiar will be the increasing number of women who are looking actively for advancement of for a new... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 难句译注 1.This sometimes means that there is an allocation of funds available for the purpose of mounting the production, though unfortunately this will usually be found to be on the meager side and much ingenuity will have to be used to stretch it... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Passage Fourteen (Pageants) Pageants are usually conceived on a fairly large scale, often under the auspices of some local or civic authority or at any rate in connection with local groups of some kind. This sometimes means that there is an allocati... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Vocabulary 1. cryptic 隐藏的，保护的 cryptic coloring 保护色，隐藏色 2. predaceous 食肉的，捕食其他动物的。 3. vertebrate 脊椎动物门 4. tint 色泽，色彩 5. zebra 斑马 6. Sargasso 果本马尾藻 7. twig 嫩枝 8. lichen 地衣 9. flake 一片 10. gradation 等级... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Passage Thirteen (Cryptic Coloring) Cryptic coloring is by far the commonest use of color in the struggle for existence. It is employed for the purpose of attack (aggressive resemblance or anticryptic coloring ) as well as of defense (protective res... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 难句译注 1.Yet the difference in tome and language must strike us, so soon as it is philosophy that speaks: that change should remind us that even if the function of religion and that of reason coincide, this function is performed in the two cases b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Passage Twelve (Religion and Rationality) Yet the difference in tome and language must strike us, so soon as it is philosophy that speaks: that change should remind us that even if the function of religion and that of reason coincide, this function... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Vocabulary 1. preposterous 反常的，十分荒谬的，乖戾的 2. leukemia 白血病 3. malignancy 恶性肿瘤 4. legitimate 合法的，合理的 5. paranoia 偏执狂，妄想狂。这里指：无根据的担心。 6. lymphoma 淋巴瘤 7. carcinogen 致癌物 8. minuscule 很小的，很不重要 9. c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Passage Eleven (The Affect of Electricity on Cancer) Can electricity cause cancer? In a society that literally runs on electric power, the very idea seems preposterous. But for more than a decade, a growing band of scientists and journalists has poi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 难句译注 1.True gains more even by the errors of one who with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, then by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. [参考译文] 真理甚至从一个经过恰当研究和... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Passage Ten (The Importance of Independent Thinking) No one can be a great thinker who does not realize that as a thinker it is her first duty to follow her intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-09-17 Vocabulary 1.implement执行，2.履行 3.growth-oriented增长潜力的，4.有发展性的 5.intermediary company中介公司，6.中间公司 7.venture capital风险资本 8.entrepreneur企业家，9.创业者 10.fluctuation波动，11.涨落，12.起伏 13.pragmatically实用地 难句译注 1.Ev... 阅读全文>>