(2).She had a sound feeling that idiom was the backbone of a language and she was all for the racy phrases.她感到习语是语言的支柱，因此特别主张用生动地短语，她的想法是完全正确的。 (3).“But we have a lot of small,very disruptive day-in-and-day-out problemson the factory floor,”one industialist said.一位实业家说：“在工厂办公楼里，我们面临许多很小但破坏性很大的问题，它们日复一日，无休止的发生。”
(4).Thunderstorms in spring and summer ofen come with intensity great enough to cause flash-flooding.春夏两季，雷雨交加，猛烈异常，往往会导致暴雨成灾。
(5).In the course of decay of the vegetable and animal matter in the soil,various acids and gases are formed which help to decompose the rock particles and other compounds needed for the plant fooods.动植物在泥土里腐烂的过程中， 形成各种酸和气体。这些酸和气体有助于分解岩石粒和其他化合物，以供植物作养料。
(6).Considerable attention has been focused on the dilemma presented by the patient with chest pain who ,on angiographic study,has normal coronary arteries and no other objective evidence of heart disease.有一种胸痛的病人，其冠状动脉造影检查正常，又无心脏病的其它客观特征，其诊断上的困难引起了人们的极大重视。
(7).This development is in part a result of experimental studies indicating that favorable alterations in the determinants of myocardial oxygen consumption may reduce ischemic injury and that reduction after load may be associated with improved cardiac performance.从某种程度上讲，这方面的进展是实验研究的结果。实验结果表明，有效改善心肌耗氧量的决定因素可减轻局部损害，并且负荷的减轻也能改善心肌功能。
(8).Could any spectacle for instance,be more grimly whimsical than that of gunners using science to shatter men”s bodies while,close at hand,surgeons use it to restore them?例如，炮兵用科学毁坏人体，而就在附近，外科医生用科学抢救被炮兵毁坏的人体，还有什么情况比这更怪诞可怕的吗？
(9).They vainly tried to find out the stranger”s name.他们想尽力查出陌生者的信息，却徒劳无功。
(10)The infinitesimal amount of nuclear fuel required makes it possible to build power reactors in that mountainous area.动力反应堆所需核燃料极少，因此可以把它建在那个山区。
(11).it all begain in the mid-1850s,when Lowe”s experienment with balloons led him to believe in the existence of an upper stream of air that moved in an easterly direction,no matter what direction the lower currents flowed.这一切始于19世纪50年代中期，当时罗成的实验使他相信上升气流的存在，不管下层气流向什么方向流动，这种上升气流总是向东流动。
(12).More puzzling is the remarkble increase in occurrence of this disease which has happened since World WarⅡ in a number of western countries where standards of hygiene were continuously improving.第二次世界大战以来，西方国家的卫生条件不断改善，但在这些国家中此病的发生率也明显增加，这一点颇令人费解。 UNIT 6
1）水不是有效的遮挡物Water is not an effective shield 2）被火焰吞没engulfed in flames 3）主权国家的权力the rights of sovereign nations
4）在市场上胜过他的竞争者outpaced its rivals in the market 5）没有必要唠叨这点There’s no need to belabor the point
6）她恳求几位有名的学者She invoked several eminent scholars 7）从两个被包围的村庄from two embattled villages
8）根据证人证词所述According to the witness’s testimony
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9）虽然我们尽了最大努力In spite of our best endeavors
10）经过了许多经验和磨难后After many trials and tribulations
On this way ,we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances--1）remain 2) childish 3) reaffirm 4) precious 5) equal 6) measure7) greatness 8) journey 9) leisure 10) fame 11) obscure 12) prosperity
I have missed the two worst tihings that could happen to American,death of a spouse and----- 1)sacrifice 2) sense3) profuse4) native 5) enduring6)snapshots 7) customary8) traveling 9) where 10) affection11)stayer 12) superficial13) replenishing 14) trapped 15) possession
1 )Constant injury problems had made it tough for him to hold down a regular first team place. 2)It’s very suspicious that she was in the house when the crime happened. 3)The prospect of becoming a father filled him with alarm. 4)Would you sacrifice a football game to^go out with a girl? 5)The date of the accident remains engraved in my mind. 6)What is the reason for the game’s enduring appeal? 7)When you first meet her, she gives a(n) superficial impression of warmth and friendliness. 8)Computerization has enabled the automatic replenishment stock. 9)She travels to all kinds of exotic locations all over the world. 10)Private companies should not be allowed to skim off profitable sectors of the postal service. 11)The study showed a deep fear among the elderly of being abandoned to the care of strangers. 12)Our original plan was overtaken by events and we had to make a new one. 13)The whole affair was hushed up by the government. 14)Their marriage could not withstand years’ separation during the war. 15)She was reproached by colleagues for leaking the story to the press.
Apple expects to have a fix this month for a vulnerability in the iPhone that could allow an attacker to gain control of the device remotely via SMS, according to CNET NEWS.com. An attacker could exploit a weakness in the way iPhones handle SMS messages to do things like use GPS to track the phone’s location, turn on the microphone for eavesdropping, or take control of the device and add it to a botnet, Charlie Miller, co-author of The Mac Hacker’s Handbook and principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, said in a presentation at the SyScan conference in Singapore. The presentation was covered by IDG News Service.
Miller said that under an agreement with Apple, he was barred from providing too much detail on the vulnerability. He plans to give a more detailed presentation on the hole at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas at the end of the month.
Despite the SMS hole, the iPhone is more secure than OS X on computers, Miller said. That is because the iPhone doesn’t support Adobe Flash and Java, only runs software digitally signed by Apple, includes hardware protection for data stored in memory, and runs applications in a sandbox, he said.
Apple representatives did not immediately respond to an email request for comment. 摘译：据美国CNET科技资讯网报道，苹果公司预计将于本月修复iPhone中存在的一个安 全漏洞，这一漏洞使黑客能够通过发送短信遥控手机。独立安全评估公司的首席安 全分析师查理.米勒声称，黑客能够利用iPhone处理短信服务中存在的漏洞，采用 全球定位系统来跟踪iPhone的位置，打开手机麦克风窃听用户通话，或者控制手机， 把手机变成“僅尸网络”
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中的一员。米勒指出，尽管存在这一短信服务漏洞’不过 相对于电脑上的OSX系统，iPhone还是比较安全的。
A 36-ycar-old Swiss amateur parachutist made a successfiil 650-metre drop using a replica of a parachute designed more than 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. “I came dowih.. smack in the middle of the tarmac at Payeme military airport,** said Olivier Vietti-Teppa. “A perfect jump.” Vietti-Teppa is the first person to have made it safely to the ground with the Leonardo model. In 2000, Britain’s Adrian Nicholas tried it but had to pull the ripcord on a modem backup parachute to complete his descent safely.
Vietti-Teppa jumped from a hovering helicopter and the Leonardo parachute opened at 600 meters, he reported. The parachute he used was made using modem fabric along lines designed by the Renaissance genius. The specifications were found in a text dating from 1485. The parachute consists of four equilateral triangles, seven meters on each side, made of parachute fabric, Vietti-Teppa explained. The base of the pyramid is a square of mosquito net, which enables the parachute to open. A wooden frame originally conceived by da Vinci was not used on the model in action on Saturday. One drawback: it is impossible to maneuver or steer the Leonardo parachute. “You come down at the whim of the wind,” said Vietti-Teppa, who carried out advance tests using a scale dummy model launched from a remote-controlled model helicopter. 摘译：瑞士一名36岁的跳籴爱好者成功地从650米的高空降落，而他用的降落伞可是500 多年前莱昂纳多.达.芬奇设计的降落伞的复制品。维耶提一特帕是第一个用达.芬 奇设计的这款降落伞安全降落到地面的人。他解释说，降落伞是由4个边长为7米 的等边三角形构成，由降落伞绸制作而成。
Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain disclosed Saturday that an eye examination showed two tears in his right retina—a revelation that could embolden critics who want him to step down before a national election. Downing Street moved quickly to quash speculation over Brown’s health, issuing the statement only one day after a regular examination at a London eye hospital. Brown’s office said his eyesight remained unchanged and that no operations were planned to address the situation.“Were there to be any change, he would of course make a further statementj” Brown’s office said in a statement.
Brown, who lost the use of his left eye in a sporting accident when he was a teenager and had surgery to save the sight in the other one, has been dogged by questions about his eyesight in recent months.
During a visit to the United States for the Group of 20 summit, he was forced to deny that he was slowly going blind.
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams had questioned Brown over reports that he was using larger and larger text sizes as his remaining vision declined.
“I had all sorts of operations,” Brown said during the September interview. “I then had one operation on the other eye and that was very successful, so my sight is not at all deteriorating,” he said.
The same month he told the BBC that “it would be a terrible, terrible indictment of our political system if you thought that because someone had this medical issue they couldn’t do their job.” The September comments came as former Home Secretary Charles Clarke told the London Evening Standard newspaper that he hoped rumors Brown would quit—perhaps on health grounds—would come true.
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Brown must call a general election by June 2010. Recent polls overwhelmingly suggest that the opposition Conservative Party will win after 13 years out of power.
British prime ministers rarely disclose details about their health unless they need to take time off work~as in 2004, when Brown’s predecessor Tony Blair had a surgical procedure to correct an irregular heartbeat.
Som Prasad, a consultant ophthalmologist at Arrowe Park Hospital in northwest England, said retinal tears affect 3% of people over 40 in Britain, and only occasionally cause serious problems. 摘译：英国首相办公室周六发表声明说，首相戈登?布朗在接受眼睛检查时发现右眼视网膜上有两处裂缝。据悉，反对派可能以此为由要求布朗在大选前提前下台。但布朗办公室说，这次视网膜破裂不影响布朗视力，目前也没有动手术的打算。布朗年轻时 参加体育活动受伤，左眼失明，但通过手术保住了右眼视力。
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