篇一：Unit 2 The company man课文翻译综合教程三
Unit 2
The Company Man
Ellen Goodman1
1 He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning. 2 The obituary didn’t say that, of course. It said that he died of a coronary thrombosis — I think that was it — but everyone among his friends and acquaintances knew it instantly. He was a perfect Type A2, a workaholic, a classic, they said to each other and shook their heads — and thought for five or ten minutes about the way they lived.
3 This man who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning — on his day off — was fifty-one years old and a vice-president. He was, however, one of six vice-presidents, and one of three who might conceivably — if the president died or retired soon enough — have moved to the top spot. Phil knew that.
4 He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his own company had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He worked like the Important People3. He had no outside “extracurricular interests,” unless, of course, you think about a monthly golf game that way. To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk. He was, of course, overweight, by 20 or 25 pounds. He thought it was okay, though, because he didn’t smoke.
5 On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit, because it was the weekend.
6 He had a lot of people working for him, maybe sixty, and most of them liked him most of the time. Three of them will be seriously considered for his job. The obituary didn’t mention that.
7 But it did list his “survivors” quite accurately. He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight years old, a good woman of no particular marketable skills, who worked in an office before marrying and mothering. She had, according to her daughter, given up trying to compete with his work years ago, when the children were small. A company friend said, “I know how much you will miss him.” And she answered, “I already have.” 8 “Missing him all these years,” she must have given up part of herself which had cared too much for the man. She would be “well taken care of.”
9 His “dearly beloved” eldest of the “dearly beloved” children is a hard-working executive in a manufacturing firm down South. In the day and a half before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like. They were embarrassed.
10His second child is a girl, who is twenty-four and newly married. She lives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had nothing to say to each other.
11The youngest is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate who has spent the last couple of years, like a lot of his friends, doing enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food4. He was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. He was his father’s favorite. Over the last two years, Phil stayed up nights worrying about the boy.
12The boy once said, “My father and I only board here5.”
13 At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed and would be hard to replace. The widow didn’t look him in the eye. She was afraid he would read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out the finances — the stock options6 and all that.
14Phil was overweight and nervous and worked too hard. If he wasn’t at the office he was worried about it. Phil was a Type A, a heart-attack natural. You could have picked him out in a minute from a lineup.
15So when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, no one was really surprised.
16By 5:00 p.m. the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun, discreetly of course, with care and taste, to make inquiries about his replacement. One of three men. He asked around: “Who’s been working the hardest?”
工作狂
最终，他于星期天凌晨3点工作致死。
当然，讣告上没有这样写。讣告上写的是死于冠状动脉血栓证，但他的好友和熟识的人都心知肚明。他们互相握着手，摇头叹息地说他是一个追求完美的A型血人，一个典型的工作狂，然后用几分钟时间来反思自己的生活方式。
这个男人最终在星期天凌晨三点整工作致死。星期天的早上，这天刚好是这个51岁的副总裁的休息日。 他是公司六位副总裁之一，也是副总裁中三位最让人信任的人之一，如果总裁已经逝世或者退休的话，他已经成为了最高职位。菲尔清楚这一点。
他一周工作六天，其中五天工作到夜里八九点，他的公司里除了高级官员，其他人都已经开始四天工作制。 他工作起来像一个重要人物。 当然，就像你想象中那样，他每月打一次高尔夫球，他没有其他的爱好。对菲尔而言，高尔夫是工作。他总是在他的桌前吃着吃鸡蛋沙拉三明治，他难免有点发福，超重了20-25磅。他想这没什么关系，因为他从不抽烟。
星期六，菲尔换下西服，穿着运动衫去上班，因为这是周末。
他有大约60个人为他效力，大部分人在大部分时候觉得他很不错。其中三位紧盯着他的职位。讣告上没有提及这些。
但是讣告详细地介绍了他的遗孀。他的妻子，海伦，一个48岁的好女人，没有什么特别的市场能力，在结婚生子之前在一家公司上班。 她说，在女儿的记忆里，她很多年前，当孩子们还很小的时候，就放弃了和他工作的抗争。一个工作伙伴说，“我知道你将对他有多思念”，她回答到，“我一直都很想他。”
“想了他这么多年了，”她如此在乎的这个男人，必须放弃她，以后她将会被“好好的照顾”。
他的“最爱的”孩子们中“最爱的”长子是南方某制造公司努力工作的经理。在葬礼前的一天半里，他走访邻居询问邻居们询问邻居对他的印象。他们很尴尬。
他的第二个孩子是一个女孩，24岁了，刚刚结婚。她和妈妈住的很近，很亲密，但是无论什么时候，当她和爸爸独处的时候，哪怕是在一辆车中，他们互相没有什么言语。
最小的是一个男孩，20岁，高中毕业生，像很多他的朋友一样，做一些零工，吃喝玩乐。他是唯一一个能够抓住父亲的人，尝试把父亲留到家里。 他是他父亲最喜欢的儿子，在生命的最后两年里，菲尔整夜担心这个孩子。
他曾说过，“父亲和我只是在这里寄宿”
在葬礼上，60岁的总裁安慰48岁的遗孀说，这位51岁的死者对公司的贡献巨大，没有人可以替代他的位置。这位遗孀不敢直视他眼睛。她害怕他可以读出她的苦痛，毕竟，她需要他帮忙清理丈夫的财政—股票什么的。
菲尔超重、焦虑、工作强度太大。如果他不在公司，就会担心公司的工作。菲尔是一个A型血，先天易发心脏病。在人群中，你可以一眼就把他认出来。
所以当他最终因工作死于星期天凌晨三点整，没人感到意外。
葬礼过后的下午5点，公司总裁已经开始谨慎地，带着小心和鉴赏，审视着三位可以代替他职位的人。他问到“谁工作最努力？”
篇二：大学英语综合教程2课文翻译
unit 1
1 最近一个周末，有位女士在大西洋城玩老虎机，赢了满满一桶二十五美分的硬币。她暂时离开赌博机，与丈夫前往旅馆餐厅吃晚饭。
2 不过，她想先去客房把硬币藏起来。“我去一会儿就回来，然后我们再去吃饭。”她对她的丈夫说道，之后，便提着满满一桶硬币朝电梯走去。
3 她正要走进电梯时，看到电梯里已经有两位男乘客。两位都是黑人，其中一位个头很高，体型令人望而生畏。这位女士一下子愣住了。她的第一反应是：“这两个男人会打劫我。”她转而又想：“不要戴着‘有色眼镜’看人；他们看上去完全像是绅士。”然而，种族偏见的力量是强大的，恐惧使她浑身发凉。她定在那里，眼睛紧盯着眼前两位男子。
4 她开始焦虑，心神不定，又感到不好意思。她希望他们没有看出她的心思，但是，天啊，他们肯定已经知道她在琢磨什么了！
5 要不要进去和他们同乘一部电梯？她迟疑不决的态度已经太过明显了。她涨得满脸通红。老站着不动也无济于事，于是她横下心来，抬起一只脚往前挪，接着另一只脚也跟了进来，站在电梯内。她不敢抬眼，僵直地转过身，脸朝外，这时，电梯门合上了。时间一秒一秒地过去。她越来越害怕！电梯纹丝不动。她陷入了恐惧的深渊。“我的天啊，”她暗忖，“我被困在这里，要遭人劫财！”她的心往下沉，每个毛孔都在冒汗水。
6 这时，她听到其中一个人说：“趴下（与“按下楼层”同音）。”她的本能反应就是照着他们的话做。于是她张开双臂，趴在了电梯地板上，满桶的硬币飞向空中，洒了出去。硬币如雨点般落在了她的身上。她在心里默祷：“把钱拿去吧，饶我一命。”又过了几秒钟，她听到其中一位男子彬彬有礼地说：“夫人，您只要告诉我您要去几楼，我们来按按钮。”说这话的人有点费力才把话说完，尽力忍住没有放声大笑。
7 这位女士抬起头望着这两位男乘客。他们弯下腰，把她搀扶起来。她满腹疑惑，挣扎着站了起来。“我叫我这个朋友按楼层，”那位普通个头的男子说，“意思是叫他按我们要去的楼层的按钮。夫人，我并非要您趴在地上。”他说话时态度和蔼，紧咬着嘴唇。
8 很显然，他在极力忍住不笑出来。该女士心想：“我的天啊，真是丢人现眼，出大洋相了！”她羞愧难当，默不做声。她想要道一声歉，却不知如何开口。把两位绝对体面正派的绅士看作劫匪，如何请求他们的谅解？她不知该怎么说。他们三人拾起散落的硬币，重新放进了桶里。
9 电梯在她要去的楼层停下了，两位男士坚持要陪她到她的客房，因为她的脚步似乎有点摇晃，他们担心她在过道里会有闪失。他们将她送到门口，然后道了晚安。她迅速进入客房，耳边传来他们走回电梯时发出的哈哈大笑。她掸了掸灰，定了定神，便来到楼下与丈夫一起用餐。
10 第二天早晨，鲜花送到了她的客房——是12朵玫瑰，每一朵玫瑰都附上了一张崭新的百元美钞。
11 卡片上写着：“谢谢您带给我们多年来最畅快的欢笑。”
12 落款是：
艾迪?墨菲
迈克尔?乔丹
Unit 2
心怀怨恨
1 有一个小男孩梦想着驾船环游世界，他把自己的梦想告诉给父母、老师、同学，告诉他的牧师和朋友们。然而他们不但不接受和鼓励他去实现自己的梦想，反而取笑他、嘲弄他，轻视他的憧憬。
2 “你永远不可能驾船环游世界。”他的父亲嘲笑道。“等你长大后，我会在我工作的工厂给你找份工作，你将跟我过一样的日子。”
3 “但我不想跟你一样，我想航行在辽阔的海洋上，见识见识陌生的国家。”小男孩抗议道。他父亲只是笑了笑，摇了摇头，对儿子和儿子的梦想没有什么信心。
4 在学校里，同学们也拿他开玩笑，以至于他再也不愿和他们交流想法和愿望，而是把这些想法和愿望埋藏在心底，等待着有一天能把它们变成现实。
5 在他年少时期，好像全世界都不支持他的想法。十五年后他长大成人了，他夜以继日地干着两份工作，终于攒够了购买一艘船所需的首付金。
6 他看到了报纸上的一则广告并写了回信，在当地港口见了那个船主。这个年轻人当场买下了那艘船，并立刻付了首付金，签订了买卖合同。他太高兴了，把这个消息告诉给了所有他认识的人。他们很惊讶，这样说毫不夸张，但他们还是祝他一切顺利，然而绝不承认自己是错的。但他并不在乎这些，因为现在他拥有了自己的船。
7 第二天，他来到港口，打算让船下水，这时他看见一些官员模样的人正围着他新买的船。这些人是联邦特工，准备扣押这条船。卖船的那个人是个骗子和毒贩，这条船在联邦缉毒行动中也将被没收。
8 年轻人失去了他一生的积蓄。他非常震惊！联邦特工说他们第二天上午要过来没收这条船。他们离开时对这个年轻人的损失没有表现出一点同情。当年轻人要离开时，港务长给他一张1200美元的泊船费用账单，费用是先前的船主所欠下的。
9 忍无可忍。年轻人把港务长骂了一通离开了。过了一会他带了一罐黑色的喷漆回来，把船的标志SERENITY（宁静）用漆盖上。然后给这条船写上了新名字ILL FEELINGS（怨恨）。他登上船开始航行出海。即使他对这条船只能拥有一晚，他也要去航行。
10 港务长挥舞着手臂，高喊着暴风雨即将来临，要年轻人停下来。但是这个年轻人又一次咒骂他，继续向大海的方向驶去。
11 果然，航行十英里后，风暴袭击了小船，船被抛来抛去。年轻人狂乱地驾船返回岸边。在离港口还有一英里时，他用无线电向港务长发出信号，让他为他泊船做准备。港务长告诉他不行，他不会让他把船停泊在他的港口。
12 “是因为我说过的话吗？”年轻人绝望地说。
13 “不，我从不心怀怨恨。”港务长说。“这一点毫无疑问——我从不让‘怨恨’停留！”
Unit 3
洗手间使用规则
1 我们四个都上大二了，我们没打算住在宿舍，从来没想过。我们自以为自己既聪明又成熟，因此合计着租个房住。每个人都有自己单独的卧室，大家合用一个洗手间。四个小伙子，一个洗手间。听起来很合理，对不？
2 但还是先看看爱德华吧。爱德华一用完洗手间就没人想用了，因为总有东西会被用完、用光、用尽。没卫生纸了？没肥皂了？说来也奇怪，爱德华好像总是最后一个用完这些东西的人。因此对我们其他人而言，洗手间的作用就大打折扣了，然而我们并未因此得到补偿。东西都让爱德华用了，我们感到忿忿不平。
3 查理呢？哎，他刮胡子时也有一个毛病。一看到查理走进洗手间我们就沮丧，因为他一用完洗手间，镜子上、池子里、地板上到处都是剃须膏。整个洗手间剃须膏随处可见。如果不好好打扫，就会不堪入目，变得很脏。我们其他人只好在查理用完洗手间后彻底收拾一番，但干这些什么补偿也得不到。可环境都是查理污染的，我们心里有气
4 安德鲁还不错，既节俭又干净。但也有麻烦。他一走进洗手间就不愿出来。我们其他人
要用洗手间只能在外面干等，不停地呼喊、催促、哀求，但无济于事。安德鲁长时间占用洗手间，影响了我们其他人的使用，然而我们得不到任何补偿。安德鲁太霸道，我们感到没有公理可言。
5 那第四个人呢？那就是我。我没有什么不良恶习，对洗手间很爱护，对每个人也很公平。反正，你不得不这样认为，因为我不会告诉你他们三个中任何一个人目前的住址。
6 那一年我们四个郁郁寡欢、满腹牢骚。我们在“洗手间使用规则”上存在分歧，却没有找到解决的办法。
7 现在该轮到谈论你和地球上的其他人了。诚然，我们所有的人不必共用一个洗手间，但我们确实共享一个地球。
8 正如洗手间是我们四个大学生的公共资源一样，对于全人类来说，地球上的自然资源是共同财富。
9 来瞧瞧地球所受到的待遇吧。
10 我们看到诸如爱德华之类的人或公司过度使用石油、淡水和矿产资源，却不对我们其他人做出任何补偿。
11 我们看到像查理一样的人或公司将有毒废物、化学物质、碳排放到空气中，污染了土地、水和空气，造成世界生存危机，迫使其他人去清除污染，但他们却并未对我们其他人做出任何补偿。
12 我们看到像安德鲁一样的人或公司垄断了诸如土地之类的资源——大都市的一个土地投机商，占着一英亩地不用，期待地产涨价，把我们其他人赶走，把开发引向农村。市中心一英亩得到合理的开发，就可以避免郊区十多英亩地被过早草率地开发。
13 那些占有者、垄断者和污染者正将他们的成本强加到我们其他人身上，强加到整个经济上。我们被迫降低效率或忍受艰辛，这样那些占有者、垄断者和污染者能够受益。我们对此气愤不已。
14 这个问题可以解决吗？当然可以。很简单。为了尊重我们在地球资源方面的共同利益，那些占有过多、垄断成性或污染地球的人应该赔偿那些受其害的人
15 在加拿大安大略绿党和世界上许多其他绿党的经济计划中你会发现这种观念以及许多类似的观念。
16 如果你曾经有过类似我大学时代的危机的话，你肯定知道制定一个好的洗手间使用规则或制定一项好的地球资源使用规则是何等重要。
Unit 4
法国商务礼仪
1 与法国人开展商务活动时，你要遵守一些非常重要的社交礼节。法国的商务交往和关系从本质上讲不如美国的随便。作为到访者，你要按照法国特有的沟通和行为方式行事。在你去法国与法国人做生意之前，学习一点法国商务礼仪是很重要的，不管这些礼仪是大是小。本文是个小小的指南，帮助你更多地了解法国人做生意的方式，并融入到他们的文化当中。 法国商务文化
2 在法国文化中，所有的商务关系都是非常正式的。商务人士较保守，不愿当众讨论私人话题、历史或者政治。作为来访者，在与他们交流的整个过程中，尊重他们的观点并避免谈论这些话题是你的分内事。你要讲究策略，不要对政治和历史人物指指点点。还有一件重要的事情要注意，在开展商务活动时，你要遵循严格的等级制度。因此，你在和自己遇到的每个人打招呼和交流时，要恰当得体并对他们致以应有的尊重。
商务沟通
3 法国人是特别注重“正式”的。为了使人眼前一亮，遵守“正式”这一原则很重要。 ? 问候商务人士时要握手，并在握手时保持目光接触。
? 在会晤法国商务人士之前，学习一点基本的法语。
? 在与商务人士谈话时，使用“您”这个字眼。称呼别人时用先生和女士/小姐加他们的姓。不要直呼对方的名字，除非对方要求你这么做。
? 打印名片时，你可以一面用法语，另一面用英语。名片上的信息包括你的姓名、职务、学历，还有你曾就读的大学。
? 虽然多数法国商务人士会讲英语，但是了解他们的语言意味着你有意与他们发展健康、长期的关系。你的沟通方式决定了你和他们的合作能走多远。
? 不要给这些商务人士打不必要的电话。另外，除非十分紧急，否则不要打电话到他们的住处。
? 没有必要就不要做手势。例如，在美国表示“准备好了”或者“完美”的手势在法国会让人觉得粗鲁。总之，彻底避免手势。
4 法国人是在信任和尊重的基础上发展商务关系的。为了让他们能对你产生信任和尊重，你必须保证你的行为举止足够得体。
商务会议与讨论
5 在法国的商务文化中商务会议形式与美国稍有不同。下面列出的是在法国举行商务会议时应注意的事项。
? 至少提前两个星期安排会议，这一点很重要。
? 法国人不是特别在意守时（你可以最多迟到10至15分钟），但是如果要迟到了，你需要打个电话告知他们。
? 在会议中，可能会发生辩论，此时你也要参与其中，因为在商界里，法国人崇尚富有逻辑和智慧的见地。但是，这些争论都在掌控之内，不会变成争吵。
? 他们可能会提问题并且进一步盘问你以得出与生意相关的信息。所以开会前的充分准备是必须的。
? 在谈话时，不要夸大你的诉求。他们可能不会欣赏这种做法。你要做的是直接、诚恳且明确地表述。
? 陈述要详尽周密，但不要试图公开推销你的主张或者对他们施压要他们买账。要做到言谈微中。
? 说话时要语气柔和，自始至终保持温和的目光接触。
? 大多数会议通常以讨论结束，没有形成最终的决定。他们做决定要花时间，而你要自始至终保持耐心。
? 你可以自由发表观点，坚守自己的立场，但是要记住，最后的决定要公司的高管来做。 ? 有些情况下商务会议安排晚餐是司空见惯的，但午餐会议也是可以安排的。
商务会议着装
6 与法国商务人士的会晤不是你展现时尚流行意识或是穿搭创意的最好时机。正如前文所提到的，法国人是保守的，在与他们见面时要遵循其特别的着装规定。
? 男士应穿深色、传统的西装，戴领带。即使你应邀出席非正式场合，也一定要穿一件便装西服。他们概念里的“非正式”和我们稍有不同。
? 女士也最好穿西装，保守一些，不过也可以穿浅色连衣裙。
? 佩戴装饰品来搭配你的服装是个好主意。只不过要记住，不要过分装饰。
7 尊重法国的商务礼仪，你才可以与法国人发展健康、持久的业务关系。你认认真真地按照他们的标准和礼节行事，就会大受欣赏并赢得尊重。
Unit 5
1 一个员工能把工作做得太好吗？如果他/她把事情做得太好了，是应该表扬？晋升？处分？还是炒鱿鱼？今天的客座专栏评论员讲述了一个关于福斯特的真实故事，他把工作做得太好了。
2 我是在亚特兰大哈兹斐尔德国际机场认识他的，至少有八年了。当时他身穿黑裤子白衬衫打着黑领带，系着一条挡胸工作裙。他看到我一手提着行李，另一只手端着从帕斯卡餐厅买来的一盘食物, 正努力保持平衡，便说：“我来替你拿那东西，小伙子。”
3 这位老伙计笑着一把抢下我的盘子就走了。他走起路来瘸得很厉害，两条腿很明显长短不一。我跟着他绕过自动扶梯来到一张空桌子前。要不是他带路，我根本找不到这张空桌子。而这时，我才发现他把餐巾纸、吸管和食盐、胡椒粉也给带上了，都是些我自己往往会忘记的小东西。
4 只见他手一挥就擦好了桌子，从托盘上端下我的食物，小心地把它和餐巾纸还有冰茶摆在桌上。他把椅子往后拉的时候，我匆忙从兜里掏出三张一美元的纸币，他笑着说：“上帝保佑你！”我瞥见他的名牌上写着：福斯特。
5 我感到很新奇，想知道这是不是机场新的服务项目。当然，此前我从未享受过这种“服务”。我见到另外一些和我这位新朋友穿着一样的男男女女, 懒散地聚在一起聊天，毫无热情地等待着客人离开餐桌。那个时候，他们中才会有一人从扎堆中出来，清理留在桌上的垃圾，把桌子上上下下擦干净，然后又回到那群工友身边。
6 环顾宽广的餐饮区，我很快发现了福斯特的身影：他开心地笑着，快步移动着，不停地去帮助别人。他从不等待客人的召唤，哪里有需要他就出现在哪里。
7 第二天我返回时经过这个机场，迫不及待地又来到餐饮区。果然，他就在那儿，一位满脸笑容的老伙计。他就像前一天那样（带着餐巾纸、食盐、胡椒粉和吸管）把我领到一张桌子跟前，一边拉出我的座椅，一边说道：“上帝保佑你，小伙子！”
8 那天我把一张事先折好的20美元纸币放到他的手里。这位老人使我大为感佩：他行走不便，却毫不懈怠地去收拾桌子，寻找需要招呼的客人。从那天开始，他就是我心目中的福斯特先生。
9 随着岁月的流逝，我对福斯特先生产生了一种景仰之情。我每个月都见到他几回，而且总要把他介绍给我的同伴。在他转身离去的时候，我总是叫他们看：“瞧瞧这个伙计，再瞧瞧那边跟他一样打扮的那拨人。”两者的对比不言而喻。
10 我从未怀疑福斯特先生是为了小费而作秀。事实上，尽管我给他的小费难得少于20美元，但是他却常常要我等他招待好那些明显需要帮助的人之后才过来招呼我。而且不论他们是否给他小费，他总是微笑着帮他们摆好椅子，说声：“上帝保佑你！”
11 后来他不见了。我找不着这位朋友，就向帕斯卡餐厅的女工打听：“福斯特先生今天上哪儿啦？”
12 “被解雇了。”她们告诉我说：“他们炒了他鱿鱼，羞辱他，赶他回家啦！”
13 我被告知亚特兰大国际机场管理层认为福斯特先生已经成了一个“搅乱人心之人”。他们下令他停止帮助顾客。他们对福斯特先生说：“你就跟其他人站在一起，等客人走了再干活。你只是个收盘子的，就收盘子吧。”
14 几个月之后，他又回到这里试工（依然是那股快活劲）。然而，我不再让他帮我端盘子。不过，小费我还是照付。他收了，因为我一定要他收下。我对他极其着迷，他也知道这个。他对我说“上帝保佑你”的时候眼里常常含着泪水；那股精神已不复存在。
15 我今天去帕斯卡餐厅，还没等我开口说话，一个女员工就发现了我。“我一直在等您来。”她对我说：“福斯特先生已经走了。他是辞职走的。他跟他们说自己老了，而且又有病，不能再干这个工作啦。”然后她抬起头，悄悄说了一句：“他没病。那老头子什么病都没有。”
篇三：Unit 2 The company man练习答案综合教程三
Unit 2 The Company Man
Key to the Exercises
Text comprehension
I. Decide which of the following best states the author's tone of writing.
B
II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.
1. T (Refer to Paragraph 1.)
2. T (Refer to Paragraph 3.)
3. F (Refer to Paragraph 4. To Phil, a golf game was work.)
4. F (Refer to Paragraphs 7 and 8. She had been missing (lost) him all these years, and she must have given up part of herself which had cared too much for the man.)
5. F (Refer to Paragraph 15.)
III. Answer the following questions.
1. Refer to Paragraphs 1, 3 and 15. By repeating that Phil worked himself to death at precisely 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, the author highlights the peculiarity of the time which proves the tragic nature of his death.
2. Refer to Paragraph 9. In the day and a half before the funeral, Phil's eldest son went around the neighborhood to ask the neighbors what his father was like, which embarrassed his neighbors. The fact reveals the relationship between Phil and his son and that between Phil and his neighbors. Neither his son nor his neighbors knew much about him. It is perhaps because he had been so dedicated to his work that he could spare no time for the people around him.
3. Refer to Paragraphs 7 to 12. Their relationships can be described as loose and strange. His wife had given up part of herself which cared too much for him, and had been missing him all these years. His eldest son had to ask his neighbors what he was like. His daughter had nothing to say to him when she was alone with him. And his youngest son, his favorite, said that his father and him only boarded there at home.
4. Refer to Paragraph 16. At the end of the essay, or by 5:00 p.m. the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun selecting Phil's replacement, and asked the question: Who's been working the hardest? It is strong evidence that Phil was not the only man who had worked or would work himself to death at a peculiar hour. There is a culture that drives people to work themselves to death.
5. This is a personal question, and answers will vary.
IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences.
1. He had dedicated all his time to his work and had no hobby at all, except that he played a golf game every month which cannot be taken as a hobby anyway.
2. Their daughter said that, when they were still very young, her father had become a company man and her mother had given up any attempt to keep him at home.
Structural analysis of the text
Paragraph 13 is a paragraph that bridges the two parts of Phil's world -- his career and his family. From the attitude of Phil's wife towards his boss, we can find the reason why Phil attached much more significance to his work than his family and also the cause of his tragedy. In this sense, paragraph 13 is the most important paragraph of the whole piece so far as the structure is concerned.
Rhetorical features of the text
1. In the day and a half before the funeral, he (his "dearly beloved" eldest of the "dearly beloved" children) went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like. (Paragraph 9)
2. She (his second child) lives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had nothing to say to each other. (Paragraph 10)
3. He (the youngest) was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. (Paragraph 11)
Vocabulary exercises
I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.
1. died from self-motivated overwork
2. most likely, the presidency of the company; the highest position in the company
3. with no specific skills wanted by employers
4. trying to discover facts about his father; collecting (the neighbors') memories of his father
5. a person who was born vulnerable to heart attacks.
II. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word taken from the box in its appropriate form.
1. survived 2. grabs
3. discreetly 4. deceased, obituary
5. conceivably 6. board
7. classics 8. executives
III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.
1. widowed2. nerves
3. precisionist 4. competitiveness
5. execution6. presided
7. marital8. accompanied
IV. Fill in the blank in each sentence with an appropriate phrasal verb or collocation taken from the text.
1. died of 2. stay up
3. cares for 4. straightened out
5. picked out 6. given up
7. grabbed at 8. considered for
V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.
1. Synonym: exactly
2. Synonym: immediately
3. Antonym: slacker (idler, loafer)
4. Synonym: outlive
5. Synonym: disconcerted (abashed)
6. Synonym: departed
7. Antonym: underweight (slim)
8. Synonym: successor
VI. Explain the underlined phrasal verbs in your own words.
1. disappointed2. wait
3. required 4. read
5. meant6. entered cheerfully
7. intensifies gradually 8. became extinct
Grammar exercises
I.Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form: the present perfect or the present perfect progressive.
1. have been playing/have played
(We can use either the present perfect progressive or the present perfect to talk about activities or events that are repeated again and again until now.)
2. has been putting/has put
3. have pulled, haven't touched
4. have been waiting, have waited
5. have picked, have grown/have been growing, have never had
6. has been getting/has got, has been rising/has risen, has come
(We can use either the present perfect progressive or the present perfect to talk about an action which began in the past and is still continuing or has just finished.)
7. has been, has been looking, hasn't found
8. has failed, has got
II. Choose "a" or "b" to end each sentence as you see fit.
1. a
(If we use the present perfect progressive, we usually don't mention the number of times an event or activity was repeated.)
2. b
3. b
4. b
5. a
6. a
7. b
8. a
III. Complete the following dialogue with the proper forms of the verbs given.
A: 've been waiting for, have you been doing
B: 've been shopping, 've bought
A: met, was waiting
B: 's, speaks
A: has he been learning
A: did you say
B: 's been studying, was
B: Have you gone
A: 're saying
B: isn't, 've been walking
IV. Correct the errors, where found, in the following sentences.
1. has been breaking→has broken
2. won→has been winning
3. ?
4. has been joining→has joined
5. 've been knowing→'ve known
(Know is not normally used in the progressive form.)
6. ?
7. has been looking→was looking
8. Did you wait →Have you been waiting
V. Choose the right word or expression to connect the two sentences.
1. Even so
2. yet
(A comma is needed after however.)
3. However
4. Nevertheless
(By contrast is used when we are comparing objects or situations and saying that they are completely different from each other. Nevertheless means "in spite of the fact one has just mentioned.")
5. For example
(For example is a logical connective while such as is a complex preposition, which is usually followed by a noun phrase.)
6. In contrast
(We use in contrast when we are comparing the features of two different objects or situations, but use on the other hand when comparing two different features of the same object or situation.)
7. However
8. Also
VI. Make sentences of your own after the sentences given below, keeping the italicized parts in your sentences.
1. e.g. The man looked the beast in the eye and it turned away without hurting him. If I don't keep my promise, I won't be able to look him in the eye.
2. e.g. I go to the theatre whenever I get the chance.
She told me to come back whenever I want to.
Translation exercises
I. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. 他没有工作以外任何的“业余爱好”可言，当然，除非你觉得每月打一次高尔夫也能算数。
2. “这么多年来一直都在牵挂他”，她一定早已学会不要太过在乎那个人。
3. 就是他，想方设法抓住父亲不放，让父亲疼爱自己，好让这个人待在家里。
4. 葬礼上，60岁的公司总裁对48岁的寡妇说，51岁的死者对于公司来说举足轻重，大家都会怀念他，他是难以取代的。
II. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and phrases given in brackets.
1. My immediate boss is a typical workaholic, for he works for over ten hours each day all the year round.
2. The principal attaches much importance to extracurricular activities and he believes that they will help to cultivate students' tremendous interest in the external world.
3. He always grabs a shower, a sandwich and then a taxi to go to work every Monday morning.
4. Since you are leaving the company, you should straighten out the accounts within the week.
5. He often stays up late at night in order to finish writing his Ph.D. dissertation on time.
6. Nothing can replace the profoundest love lodged in one's heart of hearts.
7. He is considered a natural for the post of the president, for he has been an excellent vice-president for almost ten years.
8. He is just too common to be picked out from the crowd.
III. Translate the following passage into Chinese.
他是一个经典人物，因为他是工作累死的。他们都相信，假如他能多活5年的话，将自然被提拔为第一把手。他一直被誉为同事们的典范。他一周工作6天，一天工作10多个小时。他的兴趣只限于工作。当然，他偶尔锻炼一下，以保持身体健康。他将任何形式的娱乐活动都视作浪费时间。他太忙了，没有时间和孩子们待在一起，结果跟孩子们有点疏远了，至少他的孩子们是这么想的。然而，他对公司来说却十分重要，公司里每个人都爱他，甚至崇拜他，因为在他们眼里，他几乎完美。但是，谁来帮助这孤儿寡母收拾他去世后的残局呢？
Exercises for integrated skills
I. Dictation script
Everyone is under some pressure / in the workplace. / Some external pressures / can
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