Tony gave Claire a new haircut and changed the makeup she wore. 托尼给克莱尔换了个发型，又改变了化妆风格。 As he was not allowed to accompany her to the shops, he wrote out a list of items for her.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。Claire went into the city and bought curtains, cushions, a carpet and bedding. 克莱尔进城去买了窗帘、坐垫、地毯和床上用品。 Then she went into a jewellery shop to buy a necklace. 然后她去了一家珠宝店买项链。 When the clerk at the counter was rude to her, she rang Tony up and told the clerk to speak to him. 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。The clerk immediately changed his attitude. 售货员马上就改变了态度。 Claire thanked Tony, telling him that he was a \克莱尔对托尼表示感谢，并说他是个―可爱的人‖。As she turned around, there stood Gladys Claffern. 她刚一转过身去，就看到格拉迪丝·克拉芬站在那儿。 How awful to be discovered by her, Claire thought. 克莱尔想，被格拉迪丝发现了，这多么难为情啊！By the amused and surprised look on her face, Claire knew that Gladys thought she was having an affair. 从格拉迪丝脸上的那种有趣而又惊奇的神色来看，克莱尔知道，格拉迪丝认为她有风流韵事了。 After all, she knew Claire's husband's name was Larry, not Tony.毕竟格拉迪丝知道她的丈夫是拉里，而不是托尼。
When Claire got home, she wept with anger in her armchair. 克莱尔回到家里，坐在扶手椅上气得直哭。 Gladys was everything Claire wanted to be. 格拉迪丝的一举一动都是克莱尔想模仿的。 \ou can be like her,\to the house the night before he was to leave and Larry was to return. 托尼告诉克莱尔说，你可以同格拉迪丝一样，还建议克莱尔邀请格拉迪丝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。By that time, Tony expected the house to be completely transformed.托尼想在此之前将房子改装得焕然一新。
Tony worked steadily on the improvements. 托尼有条不紊地搞着装修。 Claire tried to help once but was too clumsy. 克莱尔有一次想来帮忙。She fell off a ladder and even though Tony was in the next room, he managed to catch her in time. 但是她太笨手笨脚了，竟从梯子上掉了下来。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。He held her firmly in his arms and she felt the warmth of his body. 他把她紧紧地搂在怀里，她感觉到了他身上有股暖气。She screamed, pushed him away and ran to her room for the rest of the day.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。
The night of the party arrived. 聚会的那天晚上来到了。 The clock struck eight. 时钟敲响
八点。 The guests would be arriving soon and Claire told Tony to go into another room. 客人马上就要到来了。克莱尔叫托尼到另一间房里去。At that moment, Tony folded his arms around her, bending his face close to hers. 就在那一瞬间，托尼弯曲胳膊搂着她，弯下身去把脸贴近她的脸。 She cried out \day and that he felt more than just the desire to please her. 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。Then the front door bell rang. 就在这时，前门的门铃响了。Tony freed her and disappeared from sight. 托尼放开了她，消失得无影无踪了。 It was then that Claire realized that Tony had opened the curtains of the front window. 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。 Her guests had seen everything !她的客人把这一切看得一清二楚。
The women were impressed by Claire, the house and the delicious cuisine. 克莱尔和她的房子、美食给女士们留下了深刻的印象。 Just before they left, Claire heard Gladys whispering to another woman that she had never seen anyone so handsome as Tony. 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，她从来没见过像托尼这样英俊的男人。What a sweet victory to be envied by those women! 受到那些女士的妒忌，这该是多么甜美的胜利！She might not be as beautiful as them, but none of them had such a handsome lover.克莱尔也许并没有她们那样漂亮，但是她们中没有任何一个人拥有这样英俊的情人。
Then she remembered -Tony was just a machine. 这时候，她记起来了——托尼只不过是一台机器。 She shouted \她高声嚷着：―让我独自呆一会儿！‖ 就跑上床。She cried all night. 哭了一个通宵。The next morning a car drove up and took Tony away.第二天早晨开来一辆汽车，把托尼接走了。
The company was very pleased with Tony's report on his three weeks with Claire.公司对托尼同克莱尔相处三个星期的实验报告非常满意。Tony had protected a human being from harm.托尼保护了一个人免受伤害，He had prevented Claire from harming herself through her own sense of failure.他使克莱尔没有因为她的失败感而伤害自己。He had opened the curtains that night so that the other women would see him and Claire, knowing that there was no risk to Claire's marriage.那天晚上，他拉开窗帘，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。But even though Tony had been so clever, he would have to be rebuilt -you cannot have women failing in love with machines.但是，尽管托尼很聪明，他还得做一番改建——总不能让女人和机器相爱吧。
4.选修七Unit2 A BIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC ASIMOV艾萨克·阿西莫夫传
Isaac Asimov was an American scientist and writer who wrote around 480 books that included mystery stories, science and history books, and even books about the Holy Bible and Shakespeare. 艾萨克·阿西莫夫是美国的科学家兼作家。他写过大约480本书，包括怪诞小说、科学和历史方面的书，甚至还写过有关《圣经》和莎士比亚的书。 But he is best known for his science fiction stories. 但是，他最有名的作品是他的科幻小说。Asimov had both an extraordinary imagination that gave him the ability to explore future worlds and an amazing mind with which he searched for explanations of everything, in the present and the past.阿西莫夫不仅有着超凡的想象力，使他能对未来世界进行探索，而且还有着惊人的智力，使他能对现在的和过去的各种事物作出解释。
Asimov's life began in Russia, where he was born on 2 January, 1920. 阿西莫夫的一生从俄罗斯开始，他生于1920年1月2日； It ended in New York on 6 April, 1992, when he died as a result of an HIV infection that he had got from a blood transfusion nine years earlier.阿西莫夫的一生在纽约结束，他死于1992年4月6日。他是因为九年前的一次输血中感染了艾滋病毒病毒而去世的。
When Asimov was three, he moved with his parents and his one-year-old sister to New York City. 阿西莫夫三岁的时候，就随同父母和年仅一岁的妹妹迁到纽约。There his parents bought a candy store which they ran for the next 40 or so years. 在那儿，他的父母买下了一家糖果店，后来一直经营了大约40年。 At the age of nine, when his mother was pregnant with her third child, Asimov started working part-time in the store. 阿西莫夫九岁的时候，母亲怀了第三个孩子，他就开始在糖果店里兼职工作了。 He helped out through his school and university years until 1942, a year after he had gained a master's degree in chemistry. 他读中学和大学的那段时期都在糖果店里工作，一直到1942年，也就是他获得化学硕士学位一年以后他才停止糖果店的工作。 In 1942 he joined the staff of the Philadelphia Navy Yard as a junior chemist and worked there for three years. 1942年，他在费城海军造船厂里担任初级化学师，干了三年。 In 1948 he got his PhD in chemistry. 1948年他获得了化学博士学位。 The next year he became a biochemistry teacher at Boston University School of Medicine. 第二年他在波士顿大学的医学院任生化教员。 In 1958 he gave up teaching to become a full-time writer. 1958年他放弃了教学工作成为专职作家。
It was when Asimov was eleven years old that his talent for writing became obvious. 早在阿西莫夫11岁的时候，他的写作才华就已经显露出来了。 He had told a friend two chapters of a story he had written. The friend thought he was retelling a story from a book. 他把他写的小说中的两个章节念给一个朋友听，这个朋友还以为他是在复述某本书上的故事呢。 This really surprised Asimov and from that moment, he started to take himself seriously as a writer. 这使阿西莫夫很惊讶。从那以后，他就开始认真地从事写作了。 Asimov began having stories published in science fiction magazines in 1939. 1939年，阿西莫夫开始在科幻杂志上发表故事，1950年他出版了自己他的第一部小说。 In 1950 he published his first novel and in 1953 his first science book. 1953年出版了他的第一部科学书籍。
Throughout his life, Asimov received many awards, both for his science fiction books and his science books. 阿西莫夫一生中多次获过奖，既有科幻小说奖，也有科学书籍奖。Among his most famous works of science fiction, one for which he won an award was the Foundation trilogy (1951-1953), three novels about the death and rebirth of a great empire in a galaxy of the future. 在他那些最富盛名的科幻小说中，有本获奖的书叫做《基地》三部曲（1951-1953），有三个小故事，讲的是未来银河系中一个伟大帝国的灭亡与复兴。 It was loosely based on the fall of the Roman Empire but was about the future. 基本素材取自罗马帝国的衰败，但讲的是有关未来的事情。 These books are famous because Asimov invented a theoretical framework which was designed to show how ideas and thinking may develop in the future. 这些书之所以有名，是因为阿西莫夫创造了一种理论框架，用以阐述各种想法在未来可能会如何发展。He is also well known for his collection of short stories, I, Robot (1950), in which he developed a set of three \他的短篇小说集《我，机器人》（1950)也是享有盛名的。在这本书里他提出机器人的三大―原则‖。 For example, the first law states that a robot must not injure human beings or allow them to be injured. 举例来说，第一条原则就规定机器人不得伤害人类，也不能允许人类受到伤害。 Some of his ideas about robots later influenced other writers and even scientists researching into artificial intelligence. 他那些有关机器人的想法后来影响了其他的作者，甚至影响了那些从事人工智能研究的科学家们。
Asimov was married twice. 阿西莫夫结过两次婚。 He married his first wife in 1942 and had a son and a daughter. 他于1942年同他的第一任妻子结婚，生有一男一女。Their marriage lasted 31 years. 这次婚姻持续了31年。 Soon after his divorce in 1973, Asimov married again but he had no children with his second wife. 1973年离婚后不久，阿西莫夫又结婚了，但是他与
第二任妻子没有生育儿女。
5.选修七Unit 3 OLD TOM THE KILLER WHALE虎鲸老汤姆
I was 16 when I began work in June 1902 at the whaling station. 1902年6月，我开始在捕鲸站里工作，那时我才16岁。 I had heard of the killers that every year helped whalers catch huge whales. 在此之前我曾经听说过虎鲸每年帮助捕鲸人捕捉大鲸鱼。I thought, at the time, that this was just a story but then I witnessed it with my own eyes many times.当时我以为只是一个故事罢了，但是后来我亲眼见过多次。
On the afternoon I arrived at the station, as I was I sorting out my accommodation, I heard a loud noise coming from the bay. 有天下午我来到捕鲸站，正在找住处的时候，听到从海湾那边传来一阵喧闹声。We ran down to the shore in time to see an enormous animal opposite us throwing itself out of the water and then crashing down again. 我们及时赶到岸边，看到对面有一个庞大的动物猛力跃出海面，然后又坠落到水里。 It was black and white and fish-shaped. But I knew it wasn't a fish.它黑白相间，样子像鱼，但我知道它并不是鱼。
\―那是老汤姆，是虎鲸。‖一位叫乔治的捕鲸人高声对我说， \―它是在告诉我们那边有一头鲸，叫我们去捕猎。‖
Another whaler yelled out, \about to be a whale hunt. 另一位捕鲸人大声喊叫，―快走啊……走啊。‖这是宣告猎鲸行动马上就要开始的呼声。
\―克兰西，快上，上船去。‖乔治在我前面边跑边说。 I had already heard that George didn't like being kept waiting, so even though I didn't have the right clothes on, I raced after him. 我以前就听说过，乔治不喜欢等人，所以尽管我还没有穿上合适的衣服，就跟在他后面跑起来。
Without pausing we jumped into the boat with the other whalers and headed out into the bay. 一刻不停地，我们和其他捕鲸人都跳进渔船，朝海湾方向驶去。 I looked down into the water and could see Old Tom swimming by the boat, showing us the way. 我朝水里望去，可以看到老汤姆就在渔船旁边游着，为我们指路。A few minutes later, there was no Tom, so George started beating the water with his oar and there was Tom, circling back to the boat, leading us to the hunt again.几分钟之后，汤姆不见了，于是乔治开始用桨拍打水面。汤姆出现了，转回到船边，