上外大学英语综合教程一答案
Unit 5 How to Be True to Yourself
Key to the Exercises
Text comprehension
IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences.
1. Integrity means having one's own norms and rules of judging what is right and what is wrong, which one should not give up for immediate personal advantages.
2. Integrity is rare at present.
3. An explanation was given for how all instruments and material were used and located during an operation.
4. When you are right, you should insist.
5. Unavoidably they will do everything possible to keep their looks and status.
Translation
I. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. 人的一生就像被刚降下的雪覆盖的田野,无论在哪儿走过都会留下自己的足迹。
2. 他们本能地明白:为人正直就意味着具有个人道德和伦理的标准,那就是决不迁就权宜之计,也不为眼前的形势所左右。
3. 那些缺乏真正的根本价值观的人依赖于外因——自己的长相或地位——以获得良好的自我感觉。
4. 为人正直就意味着凡事都因其正确而为之,并非仅仅是为了赶时髦或趋炎附势。
II. Translate the following sentences into English.
1. That psychiatrist, who had talked about his patients in public, was charged with violating professional ethics.
2. Hanging on the walls of the classroom are some famous sayings, which inspire and urge people to exert themselves.
3. All kinds of commodities are available. Nothing is in short supply.
4. We all trust the president of the board of directors, who is a man of absolute integrity.
5. Before we vote for him, we want to know what he stands for.
6. The defendant couldn't account for the fact that the money was found in his house.
7. When I saw that he was right, I had to back down.
8. She has been appointed sales manager, for she is both clever and diligent.
9. One of the biggest challenges faced by the present government is that of creating more jobs.
10. The enemy succumbed soon after our soldiers stormed its stronghold.
Dictation
In order to learn to be one’s true self, / it is necessary to obtain a wide and extensive knowledge / of what has been said and done in the world; / critically to inquire into it; / carefully to consider it; / clearly to analyze it; / and earnestly to carry it out.
It matters not what you learn, / but when you once learn a thing, / you must never give it up /
until you have thoroughly understood it. / It matters not what you try to think of, / but when you once try to think of a thing, / you must never give it up / until you have done it thoroughly and well.
If another man succeeds by one effort, / you will use a hundred efforts. / If another man succeeds by ten efforts, / you will use a thousand. /
Listening
Bosses or workers
B. Listen again and answer the following questions.
1.There are too many bosses and too few workers.
2.So long as there's a good relationship between the managers and the workers the firm will
prosper.
3.She thinks every boss should spend at least three months every year working on the factory
floor, subject to the same rules and discipline as all the other workers.
4.In practice, she'd be of no use because she hasn't got any practical skills.。