新人教版七第二单元Reading的译文 包君满意
拉里.贝尔蒙特在一家生产机器人的公司里工作。最近，该公司要对一个家用机器人进行试验。这项试验将由拉里的夫人克莱尔来尝试。 克莱尔并不想把机器人留在家里，特别是在她丈夫离家三周的这个期间。但是克莱尔被拉里说服了。他说，机器人不会伤害她。这样会是个意外的收获。然而她初次见到机器人的时候就感到有点儿吃惊。机器人名叫托尼，看上去更像一个人，而不像台机器。他虽然面部表情毫无变化，但是个子高大、相貌英俊，头发平整，声音低沉浑厚。 第二天早晨，托尼戴着围裙，给她端来了早餐，然后问她是否需要帮忙穿衣打扮。她感到有点儿不好意思，很快就打发他走了。机器人如此通人性，这使她觉得心烦和害怕。 有一天，克莱尔说起，她觉得她自己并不聪明。托尼则说，克莱尔一定是很不高兴，才会说出这样的话来。克莱尔觉得，机器人会向她表示同情，这有点荒唐可笑。但是她开始信任托尼了。她告诉托尼她太胖了，这让她很不高兴。还有对于像拉里这样很想提高社会地位的人来说，她的家也不够高雅。她跟格拉迪丝.克拉芬不一样，格拉迪丝是远近闻名的有钱有势的女人。 托尼为让克莱尔高兴，答应帮助她，使她变得漂亮，使她的家变得高雅大方。于是克莱尔从图书馆借来一堆书给托尼阅读，或者说给他浏览一下。她惊奇地看着他的手指翻动着书页，忍不住突然伸出手来摸他的手指。他的手指甲和他那柔软温暖的皮肤使她感到大为惊异。她在想，这是多么可笑啊，他只不过是台机器呀英语必修七课文及翻译！ 托尼给克莱尔换了个发型，又改变了化妆风格。因为不允许托尼陪克莱尔去商店，所以托尼就给她写了一份购物清单。克莱尔进城去买了窗帘、坐垫、地毯和床上用品。然后她去了一家珠宝店买项链。柜台售货员对她很粗鲁，她就打电话给托尼，让售货员同托尼讲话。售货员马上就改变了态度。克莱尔对托尼表示感谢，并说他是个“可爱的人”。她刚一转过身去，就看到格拉迪丝.克拉芬站在那儿。克莱尔想，格拉迪丝认为她有风流韵事了。毕竟格拉迪丝知道她的丈夫是拉里，而不是托尼。 克莱尔回到家里，坐在扶手椅上气得直哭。格拉迪丝的一举一动都是克莱尔想模仿的。托尼告诉克莱尔说，你可以同格拉迪丝一样，还建议克莱尔邀请克拉迪斯和她的朋友到家里来玩，时间就定在托尼离去和拉里回家之前的那个晚上。托尼想在此之前将房子改装得焕然一新。 托尼有条不紊地搞着装修。克莱尔有一次想来帮忙，但是太笨手笨脚了，竟从椅子上掉了下来。尽管托尼当时在隔壁房间里，他还是及时赶过来把她接住了。他把她紧紧地搂在怀里，她感觉到了他身上有股暖气。她尖叫了起来，把他推开，跑回她的房里，那天她就再也没有出来过。 聚会的那天晚上来到了。时钟敲响八点，客人马上就要到来了。克莱尔叫托尼到另一间房里去。就在那一瞬间，托尼弯曲胳膊搂着她，弯下腰去把脸贴近她的脸。她大叫一声“托尼”，然后听到托尼一本正经地说，明天他不想离开她，而且他并不满足于仅仅使她开心。就在这时，前门的门铃响了。托尼放开了她，消失得无影无踪了。也就在这时候，克莱尔才意识到托尼早就把前边窗户的窗帘拉开了。她的客人把这一切看得一清二楚。 克莱尔和她的房子、美食给女士们留下了深刻的印象。就在他们离开之前，克莱尔听到格拉迪丝跟另外一个女人小声地说，她从来没有见过像托尼这样英俊的男人。受到那些女士的妒忌，这该是多么甜美的胜利！克莱尔也许并没有她们那样漂亮，但是他们中没有任何一个人拥有这样英俊的情人。 这时候，她记起来了——托尼只不过是一台机器。她高声嚷道：“让我独自呆一会儿！”就跑上床，哭了一个通宵。第二天早晨开来一辆汽车，把托尼接走了。 公司对托尼和克莱尔相处三个星期的实验报告非常满意。托尼保护了一个人免受伤害，他使克莱尔没有因为她的失败感而伤害自己。那天晚上，他拉开了窗帘，让其他女人看到了他和克莱尔在一起，他明白这么做对克莱尔的婚姻并不造成危害。但是，尽管托尼很聪明，他还得作一番改建——总不能让女人和机器相爱吧。
选修7 Unit 5 Travelling abroad- Reading
7单元5选修出国读书
KEEP IT UP,XIE LEI
坚持下去，谢磊
CHINESE STUDENGT FITTING WELL
中国学生拟合
Six months ago Xie Lei said goodbye to her family and friends in China and boarded a plane for London. It was the first time she had ever left her motherland. “After getting my visa I was very excited because I had dreamed of this day for so long. But I was also very nervous as I didn’t know what to expect,” Xie Lei told me when I saw her waiting in a queue at the student cafeteria between lectures.
六个月前，谢蕾告别了她在中国的家人和朋友，登上了飞往伦敦的飞机。这是她第一次离开自己的祖国。”我的签证，我非常激动，因为我有梦想这一天这么很久以后。但是我也很紧张，因为我不知道会发生什么，”谢蕾告诉我，当我看到她在队列中等待，在讲座的学生食堂。
Xie Lei, who is 21 years old, has come to our university to study for a business qualification. She is halfway through the preparation year, which most foreign students complete before applying for a degree course. Xie Lei highly recommends it. “The preparation course is most beneficial,” she said. “Studying here is quite different from studying in China, so you need some preparation first.”
谢磊，谁是21岁，已经到了我们的大学攻读工商管理资格证书。她是在一年前完成，多数的外国学生申请学位课程。谢磊高度推荐它。”制备过程是最有利的，“她说。”在这里学习与在中国学习完全不同，你首先需要做一些准备。”
“It’s not just study that’s difficult. You have to get used to a whole new way of life, which can take up all your concentration in the beginning,” explained Xie Lei, who had lived all her life in the same city in China. She told me that she had had to learn almost everything again. “Sometimes I felt like a child,” she said. “I had to learn how to use the phone, how to pay bus fare, and how to ask a shopkeeper for things I didn’t know the English for. When I got lost and had to ask a passer-by for directions, I didn’t always understand. They don’t talk like they do on our listening tapes,” she said, laughing.
“这不仅仅是在学习困难。你得适应一种全新的生活方式，它可以把你所有的浓度在开始，”谢蕾解释，他一生生活在同一个城市在中国。她告诉我，她不得不几乎所有的学习了。”有时我觉得自己像个孩子，”她说。“我不得不学习如何使用电话，如何支付车费，如何向零售商的东西我不知道英语。当我迷路了，不得不向过路人问路，我不明白。他们都不说话，就像他们在听磁带，”她说，笑。
Xie Lei lives with a host family who give her lots of good advice. Although some foreign students live in student accommodation or apartments, some choose to board with English families. Living with host families, in which there may be other college students, gives her the chance to learn more about the new culture. “When I hear an idiom that I don’t understand, I can ask my host family for help,” explains Xie Lei. “Also, when I miss my family, it’s a great comfort to have a substitute family to be with.”
谢磊与寄宿家庭，他们给了她许多建议的生活。虽然一些外国学生住在学生宿舍或公寓里，有的选择板的英国家庭。寄宿家庭的生活，这有可能是其他的大学生，给她机会更多地了解这个新的文化。”当我听到一个成语，我不懂，我可以问我的寄宿家庭的帮助，”解释谢磊。”另外，我想念我的家人，有一个替代家庭在一起是个巨大的安慰。”
Xie Lei’s preparation course is helping her to get used to the academic requirements of a Western university. “I remember the first essay I did for my tutor,” she told me. “I found an article on the Internet that seemed to have exactly the information I needed. So I made a summary of the article, revised my draft and handed the essay in. I thought I would get a really good mark but I got an E. I was numb with shock! So I went to my tutor to ask the reason for his revision. First of all, he told me, I couldn’t write what other people had said without acknowledging them. Besides, as far as he was concerned, what other people thought was not the most important thing. He wanted to know what I thought, which confused me because I thought that the author of the article knew far more than I did. My tutor explained that I should read lots of different texts that contain different opinions and analyse what I read. Then, in my essay, I should give my own opinion and explain it by referring to other authors. Finally he even encouraged me to contradict the authors I’d read! At first I lacked confidence, but now I’m beginning to get the idea and my marks have improved. More importantly, I am now a more autonomous learner.”
谢磊准备课程帮助她适应了西方大学的学术要求。”我记得我的导师的第一篇文章，”她告诉我。”我在网上找到一篇文章，似乎正是我所需要的信息。所以我做了一个总结性的文章，修改我的汇票交给篇。我想我会得到一个很好的标记但我有了一个我非常吃惊！所以我去了我的导师问他修订的原因。首先，他告诉我，我写不出什么其他的人说他们不承认。此外，在他看来，别人的想法并不是最重要的。他想知道我在想什么，把我弄糊涂了因为我认为这篇文章的作者知道的比我多得多。我的导师说我应该读过很多不同的意见和分析我读什么。然后，在我的论文，我应该给自己的观点和解释参照其他作者。最后，他甚至鼓励我和我读过的作者！起初，我缺乏自信，但是现在我开始知道我的成绩提高了。更重要的是，我现在更加自主的学习者。”
Xie Lei told me that she feels much more at home in England now, and what had seemed very strange before now appears quite normal. “I’ve just got one more thing to achieve. I have been so occupied with work that I haven’t had time for social activities. I think it’s important to have a balance between study and a social life, so I’m going to join a few clubs. Hope- fully I’ll make some new friends.”
谢蕾告诉我她在英国感到自在多了，什么似乎是很奇怪的事，现在看起来很正常。”我还有件事情要实现。我一直忙于工作，我没有时间去参加社会活动。我认为在学习与社会生活之间的平衡是很重要的，所以我打算参加一些俱乐部。希望全我交了一些新朋友。”
We will follow Xie Lei’s progress in later editions of this newspaper but for now, we wish Xie Lei all the best in her new enterprise. She deserves to succeed.
我们将遵循谢磊在以后的版本中这报纸的进步但现在，我们祝愿谢磊一切尽在她的新企业。她应该成功