英语期末考试汇编.doc

第一单元 7、But today fewer of us do our living in that one place;more of us just use it for sleeping.Now we call our towns“bedroom suburbs,”and many of us,without small children as icebreakers,would have trouble naming all the people on our street.然而，如今的情况是居住和工作都在同一个地方的人极少，对更多的人来说家成了一个仅仅用来睡觉的地方。我们的居住地被叫做“近郊居住区”，由于没有了孩子像过去那样起到沟通邻里关系的作用，许多人感到要叫出跟我们同住一条街的所有人的名字是件极不容易的事。 8、It’s not that we are more isolated today.It’s that many of us have transferred a chunk of our friendships,a major portion of our everyday social lives,from home to office.As more of our neighbors work away from home,the workplace becomes our neighborhood.这不是说我们今天被分得更开了，而是好多人已经部分的友谊和大部分的日常社交生活从家里转移到了办文室。随着越来越多的人走出家门去工作，工作的地方就变成了我们的街区。 11、Not all the neighborhoods are empty,nor is every workplace a friendly playground.Most of us have had mixed experiences in these environments.Yet as one woman told me recently,she knows more about the people she passes on the way to her desk than on her way around the block.Our new sense of community hasn’t just moved from house to office building.The labels that we wear connect us with members from distant companies,cities,and states.We assume that we have something“in common”with other teachers,nurses,city planners.不是所有的住宅区都是空的，也不是所有的工作单位都是友好的。多数人在这些环境里都曾有过复杂的经历。然而，最近一位女性朋友告诉我她对工作单位里的人的了解程度要胜于对同一街区人的了解程度。我们不仅把社区的概念从住宅区搬进了办公楼，上班时身上所佩戴的标志也把我们和异国他乡的人们和公司员工联系在一起。我们假设自己和其他的教师、护士、城市规划者有着某些共同点。 12、It’s not unlike the experience of our immigrant grandparents.Many who came to this country still identified themselves as members of the Italian community,the Irish communtiy,the Polish community.They sought out and assumes connection with people from the old country,Many of us have updated that experience.We have replaced ethnic identity with professional identity,the way we replaced neighborhood with the workplace.This whole realignment of community is surely most obvious among the mobile professions.People who move from city to city seem to put roots into their professions.In an age