研究生英语阅读教程(提高级-第三版)课文及课后习题答案(4)

7. B (Paragraph 12: At schools around the city, classes continue and students in their final

year are having their graduation ceremonies as the academic calendar comes to its end. They are aware of radiation levels from the blasts at the Fukushima nuclear plant and that so far there is no

risk to health. They are going about their business, getting on with it.)

8. D (Paragraph 13: This is typical, neighbours helping each other, quietly accepting help where it is needed, and not wanting to impose.)

9. A (Paragraph 14: It may be a long time before we see or understand the long-term effects of these events on Japanese culture... And one can hardly begin to imagine how these events will shape the future for the survivors when recovery begins.)

10. C (The whole text.)

B.

Japanese Characters Examples

The Japanese have always lived with the knowledge that natural disaster can

occur at any moment and, for the past couple of decades, with the knowledge that

Humility an earthquake, “the big one”, was due. Small tremors, most of which are harmless,

have provided frequent reminders. In Japan the catastrophe is in the past and the

present and will be in the future.

Kobe, after the initial weeks of horrifying footage, slipped somewhat into the

Being stoical in adversity

background because shiyou ga nai (“nothing can be done”).

At schools around the city, classes continue and students in their final year are

Calmness having their graduation ceremonies as the academic calendar comes to its end.

People are going about their business, getting on with it.

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This is typical, neighbours helping each other, quietly accepting help where it is

Mutual help

needed, and not wanting to impose.

The stories end with ho pe. It is in Murakami?s nature as a writer to be upbeat, but

Optimism

these are plausible glimpses of optimism.

My Japanese teacher used to take out a different set of plates each season,

Celeb ration of life with colours that matched the season?s mood. In the cities, people wait for and

celebrate the cherry blossoms and autumn leaves that spring up from the earth.

. V ocabulary

Ⅱ

A. 1. A 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. C7. D8. A9. C10. B

B. 1. cliché 2. plausible 3. recur 4. to go about 5. immerse himself in

6. surreal

7. glimpse

8. is tempered with

9. at full capacity 10. catastrophe Ⅲ. Cloze

1. unprecedented

2. warned

3. wash off

4. normal

5. but

6. scale

7. safety 8. confirms 9. crisis 10. increase

Ⅳ. Translation

1. 说到世界末日和噩梦又是老生常谈，但是当事情超出我们的经验时，我们总会寻找现有的东西作为参照。

2. 唯恐你会忘记作为人类的渺小，标志性的富士山，一眼即能认出但不知何故每次观看又呈现出不同景象，就是一座死火山。

3. 在随后的几个月里，让我吃惊的是毒气攻击似乎占据了国家媒体报道的主要内容，

而阪神大地震经过了最初几周骇人听闻的电视报道后，已经退居次位了。

4. 我们不能沉浸在恐怖片和世界末日的语言中，在合适的时间，如果想要了解这一新的领域，我们可以考虑看看日本最流行的现代小说家的一本书。

5. 但是，我们不应该总想着成群结队恐慌的人们抢空所有食物、逃离首都，把这些当成是恐怖故事的下一个情节。

Ⅴ. Oral Practice and Discussion

1. Why do the Japanese have different attitudes towards the earthquake and the sarin attack?

It surprised me, over the following months that the gas attack seemed to dominate the national media coverage, whereas Kobe, after the initial weeks of horrifying footage, slipped somewhat into the background. The Japanese attitude of being stoical in adversity because

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shiyou ga nai (“nothing can be done”) perhaps goes some way towards explaining this. However, the sarin attack was a new, unexpected kind of terror but it was also something that could be investigated and dissected, and there were people to blame. There were names and photographs. Even though the emergency services in Kobe were criticized for being underprepared and slow to respond to the earthquake, the event itself was inevitable.

2. How do you understand the title Humbled by Nature, Humble by Culture ?

3. Tell what you know about tsunami in general and the tsunami on March 11, 2011 in particular.

4. Do you think human beings are largely responsible for the natural disasters?

5. What are the necessary measures to cope with natural disasters?

MORE INFORMA TION ABOUT THE TEXT

1. The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku: also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday, March

11, 2011, with the epicenter approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula

of Tohoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 32 km (20 mi). It was

the most powerful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan, and one of the five most powerful

earthquakes in the world overall since modern record-keeping began in 1900. The earthquake

triggered powerful tsunami waves, which reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako

in Tohoku?s Iwate Prefecture, and which in the Sendai area travelled up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. In addition to loss of life and destruction of infrastructure, the tsunami caused a number of nuclear

accidents, primarily the ongoing level 7 meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima ⅠNuclear

Power Plant complex, and the associated evacuation zones affecting hundreds of thousands of residents.

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