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新视野大学英语第三版第二册第二单元答案包括翻译

Unit 2 Text A

Reading Comprehension

1. because English or history majors are considered less competitive when the

job market is shrinking, and they have to study something that can help them

more easily locate their future jobs.

2. because as the tuition is climbing higher and higher, many students have

run away from studying the humanities and toward “hard” skills that they think

will lead to employment.

3. since more students are now taking job-oriented courses, libraries, where

students of liberal arts used to study, are getting less popular than before; in

contrast, labs are getting more eye-catching because students of science and

engineering do experiments and research there.

4. because this inner drive that can be either constructive or destructive is so

mysterious and powerful that it has attracted many people to speculate on it. From

ancient times, these men and women developed artistic “languages” in the form

of story, music, myth, painting, architecture, sculpture, landscape and traditions,

which from the very foundation of civilization.

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5. Studying the humanities improves your ability to read and write, makes you

familiar with the language of emotion and the creative process, and, more

importantly, provides you with a wide scope of possibilities that are open to you.

6. Because in modern life, an ideal capacity for establishing one’s career is to

have both technical knowledge and inner insight, not just one without the other.

7. “Well-rounded human beings” are those who have insight and

understand the passions, hopes and dreams common to all humanity.

8. Since many people who once studied the humanities became famous in

their career, the author implies that if students spend more time studying the

humanities, they could surely become successful in the future as well.

Language focus

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1. promotes 2. accelerate 3. mystery 4. insight 5. boost 6.

analysis

7. calculate 8. barriers 9. destruction 10. prospect

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Promising Bearing Housing Objective

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