2007考研英语强化班授课讲义(八)

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    If you’re out of work, find someone to help you take a hard look inward. Evaluate your skills and experience, and market yourself into positions that are a near-perfect match—even if it means a step down in salary or title. Whether you’re in a job or out of a job, the most important rules remain the same: be smart and relentless about forging lasting partnerships, and have a work ethic of perseverance. Don’t wait for a career map, create your own.

III. English-Chinese Translation

    Archaeology has long been an accepted tool for studying prehistoric cultures.  1) Relatively recently the same techniques have been systematically applied to the study of the more immediate past, which has been called “historical archaeology,” a term that is used in the United States to refer to any archaeological investigation into North American sites that postdate the arrival of Europeans.

    Back in the 1930’s and 1940’s, when building restoration was popular, historical archaeology was primarily a tool of architectural reconstruction. The role of archaeologists was to find the foundations of historic buildings and then take a back seat to architects.

    2) The extreme enthusiasm for reconstruction had largely died down by the 1950’s and 1960’s. Most people entering historical archaeology during this period came out of university anthropology departments where they had studied prehistoric cultures. They were, by training, scientists, not historians, and their work tended to reflect this bias. The questions they framed and the techniques they used were designed to help them understand, as scientists, how people behaved. 3) But because they were embarking on the historical ground for which there was often extensive written documentation and because their knowledge of these periods was usually limited, their contributions to American history remained confined. Their reports, highly technical and sometimes poorly written, went unread.

    More recently, professional archaeologists have taken over.  4) These researchers have sought to demonstrate that their work can be a valuable tool not only of science but also of history, providing fresh insights into the daily lives of ordinary people whose existences might not otherwise be so well documented. This newer emphasis on archaeology as social history has shown great promise, and indeed work done in this area has led to a reinterpretation of the United States past.

    5) In Kingston, New York, for example, evidence has been uncovered that indicates that English goods were being smuggled into that city at a time when the Dutch supposedly controlled trading in the area. And in Sacramento an excavation at the site of a fashionable nineteenth-century hotel revealed that garbage had been stashed in the building’s basement despite sanitation laws to the contrary.  (356 words)

Notes: archaeology考古学； take a back seat 退居次要地位；die down 逐渐减弱；embark on从事，着手，开始工作； take over接收，接办，接任；seek to do sth. 试图做某事；promise n. 有希望，有前途；stash vt. 隐藏；to the contrary （作表语或后置定语）相反的。supposedly 按照推定，想象上，恐怕。 转贴于：博学在线_考研

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IV. Writing

Directions: Your best friend Tom is going to Vancouver on business. Write a letter to your Canadian friend Henry to:

1) introduce your friend to this Canadian friend,
2) state your friend’s interests,
3) contact your friend if possible.

Letter of Introduction

Dear Henry,

    My best friend Tom will be in Vancouver on business the week of April 10. He is director of marketing for a large carton manufacturer. 我认为，如果日程安排允许的话，你们会很高兴见面的。

    I told Tom you are doing research for a textbook on the use of graphics designs in advertising. 汤姆对你研究的项目很感兴趣而且想知道它怎样用于包装盒，which his company makes and prints.

    If you have the time, give him a call at 241-0310, Room 601. 我告诉他你可能那一周抽不出空，所以如果没有你的消息他也会理解的。

Yours sincerely,

 Li Ming

作业：1. 认真复习本单元内容。 2. 从四个搭配的角度分析本单元完形填空练习。  3. 认真翻译“考古学”全文。

赠言：工作虽苦，贫穷更苦。（It may be hard to work, but it must be harder to want.）

选择搭配题参考译文

    经济萧条造成了多麽大的影响啊！雇主们回到了司机的座位自己开车，想改行的人必须 重新学会游戏规则。作为一个经理代理人，我负责高级管理人员的职业安排，其中不少人从事的是技术行业，对于他们在职业上遇到的最艰难的挑战，我通常了如指掌。在我看来，求职者应该遵循以下几条新规则。

    1． 十友规则：所有用人单位的管理人员都至少有10个失业朋友。 他们一般首先招请通讯录中的朋友来填补高级职位的空缺。因此， 建立和维持你的职业关系网十分重要—这就是你需要的提醒。 让自己的名字列入尽可能多的“十友名单”中。

    2． 什麽洞打什麽桩：回顾过去那个人才匮乏的时代，公司为填补空缺的职位，往往雇佣一些几乎没有相关工作经验的职员。他们没有太多选择；只能祈求好运降临，盼望这样的人尽快熟悉并做好这份工作。

    现在，用人单位的人事主管可以从工作经验与空缺职位完全相