大學英語第二冊unit4

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Unit4
Six minutes to six, said the digital clock over the information desk in Grand Central Station.
John Blandford, a tall young army officer, focused his eyesight on the clock to note the exact time.
In six minutes he would see the woman who had filled a special place in his life for the past thirteen months, a woman he had never seen, yet whose written words had been with him and had given him strength without fail.
Soon after he volunteered for military service, he had received a book from this woman.
A letter, which wished him courage and safety, came with the book.
He discovered that many of his friends, also in the army, had received the identical book from the woman, Hollis Meynell.
And while they all got strength from it, and appreciated her support of their cause, John Blandford was the only person to write Ms. Meynell back.
On the day of his departure, to a destination overseas where he would fight in the war, he received her reply.
Aboard the cargo ship that was taking him into enemy territory, he stood on the deck and read her letter to him again and again.
For thirteen months, she had faithfully written to him.
When his letters did not arrive, she wrote anyway, without decrease.
During the difficult days of war, her letters nourished him and gave him courage.
As long as he received letters from her, he felt as though he could survive.
After a short time, he believed he loved her, and she loved him. It was as if fate had brought them together.
But when he asked her for a photo, she declined his request.
She explained her objectio: "If your feelings for me have any reality, any honest basis, what I look like won't matter.
Suppose I'm beautiful. I'd always be bothered by the feeling that you loved me for my beauty, and that kind of love would disgust me.
Suppose I'm plain. Then I'd always fear you were writing to me only because you were lonely and had no one else.
Either way, I would forbid myself from loving you.
When you come to New York and you see me, then you can make your decision.
Remember, both of us are free to stop or to go on after that— that's what we choose ..."
One minute to six ... Blandford's heart leaped.
A young woman was coming toward him, and he felt a connection with her right away.
Her figure was long and thin, her spectacular golden hair lay back in curls from her small ears.
Her eyes were blue flowers; her lips had a gentle firmness.
In her fancy green suit she was like springtime come alive.
He started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she wasn't wearing a rose, and as he moved, a small, warm smile formed on her lips.
"Going my way, soldier?" she asked.
Uncontrollably, he made one step closer to her. Then he saw Hollis Meynell.
She was standing almost directly behind the girl, a woman well past forty, and a fossil to his young eyes, her hair sporting patches of gray.
She was more than fat; her thick legs shook as they moved.
But she wore a red rose on her brown coat.

The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away and soon vanished into the fog.
Blandford felt as though his heart was being compressed into a small cement ball, so strong was his desire to follow the girl, yet so deep was his longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned and brought warmth to his own; and there she stood.
Her pale, fat face was gentle and intelligent; he could see that now.
Her gray eyes had a warm, kindly look.
Blandford resisted the urge to follow the younger woman, though it was not easy to do so.
His fingers held the book she had sent to him before he went off to the war, which was to identify him to Hollis Meynell.
This would not be love. However, it would be something precious, something perhaps even less common than love—a friendship for which he had been, and would always be, thankful.
He held the book out toward the woman.
"I'm John Blandford, and you—you are Ms. Meynell.
I'm so glad you could meet me.
May I take you to dinner?"
The woman smiled.
"I don't know what this is all about, son," she answered. "That young lady in the green suit—the one who just went by—begged me to wear this rose on my coat.
And she said that if you asked me to go out with you, I should tell you that she's waiting for you in that big restaurant near the highway.
She said it was some kind of a test."

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When you go to the doctor, you like to come away with a prescription. It makes you feel betterto know you will get some medicine. But the doctor knows that medicine is not always needed. Sometimes all a sick person needs is some reassurance that all will be well. In such cases the doctor may prescribe a placebo. <p>

2 A placebo is a sugar pill, a harmless shot, or an empty capsule. Even though they have no medicine in them, these things seem to make people well. The patient thinks it is medicine and begins to get better. How does this happen? <p>

3 The study of the placebo opens up new knowledge about the way the human body can heal itself. It is as if there was a doctor in each of us. The "doctor" will heal the body for us if we let it. <p>

4 But it is not yet known just how the placebo works to heal the body. Some people say it works because the human mind fools itself. These people say that if the mind is fooled into thinking it got medicine, then it will act as if it did, and the body will feel better. <p>

5 Other people say this is not so. They say that the placebo makes the wish to get better become reality. The placebo will not work if the patient knows it is a placebo. This shows that the body is not fooled by it. It seems that if patients think they have been given medicine, they will have hope. They feel that they are getting some help. This gives them a stronger will to get better, and that is what helps to heal them. <p>

6 Placebos do not always work. The success of this treatment seems to rest a lot with the relationship between the patient and the doctor. If the patient has a lot of trust in the doctor and if the doctor really wants to help the patient, then the placebo is more likely to work. So in a way, the doctor is the most powerful placebo of all.<p>

7 An example of the doctor's role in making the placebo work can be seen in this study. Some patients with bleeding ulcers were put in two groups. The first group were told by a doctor that they had been given a new drug which, it was hoped, would give them some relief. The second group were told by a nurse that they had been given a new drug but that not much was known about how it would work. As a result, 70 percent of the people in the first group got much better. Only 25 percent of the people in the second group got better. And both groups had in fact been given the same thing a placebo. <p>

8 The placebo has been found to work with a lot of different cases. It helps such things as seasickness, coughs, colds, and even pain after an operation. And there was an experiment done to see if a placebo could help old people stay healthy and live longer. <p>

9 The test was done in Romania with 150 people over the age of 60. They were put in three groups with 50 people in each group. The first group were given nothing at all. The second group were given a placebo. The third group were given a real drug and told that it would help with the problems of old age. (In fact, it was not a drug for old age at all.) The three groups were studied for many years. The first group showed no changes from the way old people in that village had always been. The second group (with the placebo) had much better health and a lower death rate. The third group (with the real drug) showed much the same results as the group that took the placebo. <p>

10 A placebo can also have bad effects. If patients expect a bad reaction to medicine, then they will also show a bad reaction to the placebo. This would seem to show that a lot of how you react to medicine is in your mind rather than in your body. Some doctors still think that if the placebo can have bad effects it should never be used. They think there is still not enough known about it. <p>

11 And yet, the use of the placebo has been well known for hundreds of years in other countries. Tribal doctors in some African countries have known for a long time that patients will get better if they think they are going to. Many of the "treatments" they use do not seem able to make a sick person better, and yet such treatments work. <p>

12 The strange power of the placebo does seem to suggest that the human mind is stronger than we think it is. There are people who say you can heal your body by using your mind. And the interesting thing is that even people who swear this is not possible have been healed by a placebo.

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UNIT 4
The Virtual World

Part I Pre-Reading Task

Listen
to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions:

1. Is the hero a student or an employee
2. What was he doing when the
boss came in
3. How did he act in front of his boss
4. Can you guess
what the texts in this unit are going to be about

The following words in
the recording may be new to you:

surf
vt. （在網上）漫遊

log onto

進入（計算機系統）

unpredictable
a. 不可預測的

Part II
Text A

Maia Szalavitz, formerly a television procer, now spends her time as a
writer. In this essay she explores digital reality and its consequences. Along
the way, she compares the digital world to the "real" world, acknowledging the
attractions of the electronic dimension.

A VIRTUAL LIFE
Maia
Szalavitz

After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock.
My boyfriend's Liverpool accent suddenly becomes impossible to interpret after
his easily understood words on screen; a secretary's clipped tone seems more
rejecting than I'd imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid — hours
become minutes, or seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my
week, are now just two ordinary days.
For the last three years, since I
stopped working as a television procer, I have done much of my work as a
telecommuter. I submit articles and edit them via email and communicate with
colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England, so much of
our relationship is also computer-assisted.
If I desired, I could stay
inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my
money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks
alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I
watched most of the endless snowstorm of'96 on TV.
But after a while, life
itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though I've become one with my
machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another link in the Net.
Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to feel an aversion to outside
forms of socializing. We have become the Net critics' worst nightmare.
What
first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about
hair, and clothes and face, has become a form of escape, a lack of discipline.
And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming
back out of the cave can be quite difficult.
I find myself shyer, more
cautious, more anxious. Or, conversely, when suddenly confronted with real live
humans, I get overexcited, speak too much, interrupt. I constantly worry if I am
dressed appropriately, that perhaps I've actually forgotten to put on a skirt
and walked outside in the T-shirt and underwear I sleep and live in.
At
times, I turn on the television and just leave it to talk away in the
background, something that I'd never done previously. The voices of the programs
are comforting, but then I'm jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in
by soap operas, or needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather.
"Dateline," "Frontline," "Nightline," CNN, New York 1, every possible angle of
every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me.
Work moves into the background. I decide to check my email.
On line, I find
myself attacking everyone in sight. I am bad-tempered, and easily angered. I
find everyone on my mailing list insensitive, believing that they've forgotten
that there are people actually reading their wounding remarks. I don't realize
that I'm projecting until after I've been embarrassed by someone who politely
points out that I've attacked her for agreeing with me.
When I'm in this
state, I fight my boyfriend as well, misinterpreting his intentions because of
the lack of emotional cues given by our typed dialogue. The fight takes hours,
because the system keeps crashing. I say a line, then he does, then crash! And
yet we keep on, doggedly.
I'd never realized how important daily routine is:
dressing for work, sleeping normal hours. I'd never thought I relied so much on
co-workers for company. I began to understand why long-term unemployment can be
so damaging, why life without an externally supported daily plan can lead to
higher rates of drug abuse, crime, suicide.
To restore balance to my life, I
force myself back into the real world. I call people, arrange to meet with the
few remaining friends who haven't fled New York City. I try to at least get to
the gym, so as to set apart the weekend from the rest of my week. I arrange
interviews for stories, doctor's appointments — anything to get me out of the
house and connected with others.
But sometimes being face to face is too
much. I see a friend and her ringing laughter is intolerable — the noise of
conversation in the restaurant, unbearable. I make my excuses and flee. I
re-enter my apartment and run to the computer as though it were a place of
safety.
I click on the modem, the once-annoying sound of the connection now
as pleasant as my favorite tune. I enter my password. The real world disappears.

(820 words)

New Words and Expressions

virtual
a.
虛擬的；實質上的

accent
n. 口音

interpret
v. 理解；解釋；（作）口譯

clipped
a. with a short clear pronunciation 發音快而清脆的

tone

n. 語氣，口氣，腔調

fluid
a. not stable, likely to change 不穩定的，可變的

n. 液體

stretch
v. (cause to) become longer, wider, etc. without
breaking 拉長，伸展

telecommuter
n. one who works from home,
communicating with the workplace using a computer terminal 遠程工作者

submit

vt. give (sth.) to sb. so that it may be formally considered 提交，呈遞

edit
vt. revise or correct 編輯

email
n. 電子郵件
vt.
給…發電子郵件；用電子郵件發

communicate
vi. 通信，交往

Internet
n. 互聯網，網際網路

relationship
n. 關系

at times
sometimes 有時

endless

a. having or seeming to have no end 無休止的

take in
收進，吸收

data
n. （datum 的復數形式）數據，資料

spit
vt. 吐出

on line

connected to or controlled by a computer (network) 聯機地，在線

symptom

n. 徵兆；症狀

aversion
n. a strong feeling of dislike 厭惡，反感

socialize
vi. mix socially with others 社交，交際

critic
n. a
person who judges or criticizes 評論家；對…持批評態度的人

nightmare
n. a
terrifying dream 噩夢

crawl
vi. 爬，爬行

interaction
n.
交往；相互作用

cyber-interaction
n. 通過網路交往

conversely
ad. 相反地

appropriately
ad. 適當地，得體地

appropriate a.

T-shirt

n. T恤衫

underwear
n. 內衣

but then
yet at the same time
但另一方面，然而

jar
v. 使感到不快，刺激（神經等）

commercial
n. 商業廣告
a.
商業的

suck
v. draw liquid or air into the mouth 吸，吮
suck in
吸引，使捲入；吸收

opera
n. 歌劇（藝術）

soap opera

肥皂劇（以家庭問題為題材的廣播或電視連續劇）

keep up with
learn about or be aware of
(the news, etc.); move at the same rate as 及時了解或跟上

angle
n. a
particular way of considering an issue, etc. 角度，立場

in sight
visible;
likely to come soon 可看到的；臨近

bad-tempered
a. having a bad temper
脾氣壞的，易怒的

insensitive
a. not able to feel, unsympathetic to other
people's feelings 感覺遲鈍的，麻木不仁的

sensitive
a. 敏感的

remark
n.
言辭，話語
v. 說，評說

project
v. imagine that others have (the same
feelings, usu. unpleasant ones) as you 以為別人也有（與自己同樣的情緒）

misinterpret

vt. understand wrongly 錯誤地理解，錯誤地解釋

emotional
a. 感情上的；動感情的

cue
n. 提示，暗示

doggedly
ad. persistently 頑強地，堅持不懈地

routine
n. 例行事務，日常工作，慣例

rely
vi. depend confidently, put
trust in 依靠，依賴

unemployment▲
n. 失業

externally
ad.
從外面，在外部

external
a. 外面的，外部的

abuse
n. wrong or excessive
use; cruel treatment 濫用，虐待

crime
n. （犯）罪

suicide
n. 自殺

restore
vt. bring back to a former condition 恢復

arrange

vt. prepare or plan 安排

flee
v. run away (from) 逃走；逃離

gym

n. 體育館，健身房

set apart
使分離，使分開

interview
n., vt. 接見；面試

appointment
n. 約會

laughter
n. 笑，笑聲

intolerable

a. too bad to be enred 不能忍受的，無法容忍的

apartment
n. 一套公寓房間；公寓

click
v. （使）發咔噠聲；用滑鼠點擊
n. 咔噠聲

modem
n. 數據機

annoying
a. 討厭的，惱人的

annoy
vt. make angry, irritate;
bother 使惱怒，使煩惱

connection
n. 連接

tune
n. 曲子，曲調

password
n. 口令，密碼

Proper Names

Maia Szalavitz

邁亞·塞拉維茨

Liverpool
利物浦（英格蘭西部港口城市）

Dateline
美國National
Broadcasting Company (NBC) 的專題新聞報道節目

Frontline
美國Public Broadcasting
Service (PBS) 的專題新聞報道節目

Nightline
美國American Broadcasting
Company(ABC)的專題新聞報道節目

CNN =Cable News Network
（美國）有線新聞電視網

Language sense Enhancement

1. Read aloud paragraphs 10-13 and
learn them by heart.
2. Read aloud the following poem:

Happily
Addicted to the Web

Doorbell rings, I'm not listening,
From my
mouth, drool is glistening,
I'm happy — although
My parents are not —

Happily addicted to the Web.

All night long, I sit clicking,

Unaware time is ticking,
There's heard on my cheek,
Same clothes for
a week,
Happily addicted to the Web.

Friends come by; they shake me,

Saying, "Yo, man!
Don't you know tonight's senior prom"
With a
shrug, I replied, "No, man;
I just discovered letterman-dot-com!"

I
don't phone, don't send faxes,
Don't go out, don't pay taxes,
Who cares
if someday
They drag me away
I'm happily addicted to the Web!

3.
Read the following quotations. Learn them by heart if you can. You might need to
look up new words in a dictionary.

Man is still the most extraordinary
computer of all.
—— John F, Kennedy

A computer does not substitute
for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing
without a pencil is no particular advantage.
—— Robert S, McNamara

A
computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from

what you had in mind.
—— Joseph Weizenbaum

4. Read the following
humorous story for fun:

An lllinois man left the snow-filled streets of
Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was
planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided
to send his wife a quick email.

Unfortunately, when typing her address,
he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's
wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow
checked her mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream,
and fell to the floor in a dead Faint.

At the sound, her family rushed
into the room and saw this note on the screen:

Dearest Wife,
Just
got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.

P.S. Sure
is hot down here.