181．我現(xiàn)在很忙，無法幫忙打掃房間。
I am busy at the moment，so the room.

182．距離最近的一條道路在小溪的另一邊。
The nearest road was the stream.

183． 在進行中；在發(fā)展中．

184．Moreover，the Internet has made it possible for friends and family to keep in touch easily （即使他們在世界的兩端）.

185．The Millennial Trains Project is a non-profit organization that enables young people to get involved in creative projects.The organization leads crowdfunded train journeys.（1）.The organization has already completed two journeys，through the northern and central United States.Twenty-four people are now getting ready to be a part of the third.To earn a place on the train，each person has to raise ＄5，000.（2）At each stop，they get off the train to explore a different town or city.The idea is to visit small businesses，community centers，schools—or wherever their projects take them.
（3） He knows that universities are becoming more and more expensive each year，and that many people think higher education is no longer affordable.Over the next 10 days he is going to visit seven universities.He wants to see what they are doing to meet these challenges.
   Catherine Tsavalas is planning to explore how bookstores and libraries improve local communities.（4）She also wants to know if they are using social media to connect with people.
   Hurricanes，tornadoes，wildfires，floods—research suggests these are going to happen more and more.Jenny Gottstein thinks she can address these challenges.At each stop，she is planning to interview local leaders，emergency workers，and computer game designers.（5）She believes people are more likely to remember something important when the information is fun and game-like.
   These 24 people are strangers now，but not for long.The next week is going to be a life-changing learning experience for many.

A.She then plans to create a game to help people prepare for disasters.
B.Trevor Eagle wants to make a difference to the education system.
C.Besides money，they also need to have an idea for a project.
D.Community leaders will travel by train across American South.
E.These journeys provide the young with the chance to help different communities.
F.Tyson Foods had supported the project for a 10-day journey across the US.
G.She wants to find out what they are doing to encourage more people to read.

186．grasp

187．他對工作和病人的奉獻是令人欽佩的，這確實激勵了我將來要成為一個像他這樣的人。

188．commit oneself to；be well known for；stand up；put it；make great contributions to

（1）He was a devoted teacher and the education of the children.
（2）Xu Zhimo his poem A Second Farewell to Cambridge.
（3）As Charles Chaplin once ，"There is nothing permanent in this wicked world，not even our troubles."
（4）Is this building going to to the strongest gales？
（5）The prize will be awarded to those who have the world's peace.

189．Copernicus，founder of modern astronomy，was born in 1473 to a well-to-do merchant family in Torun，Poland.He was sent off to attend university in Italy，studying mathematics and optics，and canon law.Returning from his studies abroad，Copernicus was appointed to an administrative position in the cathedral of Frauenburg.There he spent a sheltered and academic life for the rest of his days.
   （1）He made his observations from a tower situated on the protective wall around the cathedral.His observations were made with the "bare eyeball，" so to speak，as a hundred years were to pass before the invention of the telescope.In 1530，Copernicus completed his famous work De Revolutionibus，which later played a major role in changing the philosophical view of humankind's place in the universe. （2）
   Copernicus died in 1543 and was never to know what a stir his work would cause.In his book，he asserted that the Earth rotated on its axis once daily and traveled around the Sun once yearly.（3）People then regarded the Earth as stationary，situated at the center of the universe，with the Sun and all the planets revolving around it.Copernicus' theory challenged the long-held belief that God created the Heavens and the Earth，and could overturn the core values of the Catholic world.（4）Other ministers quickly followed suit，saying of Copernicus， "This fool wants to turn the whole art of astronomy upside down."
   Ironically，Copernicus had dedicated his work to Pope Paul Ⅲ. （5）The Church ultimately banned De Revolutionibus，and the book remained on the list of forbidden reading material for nearly three centuries thereafter.

A.Copernicus died on May 24，1543 in what is now Frombork，Poland.
B.The book，however，wasn't published until two months before his death.
C.If this act was an attempt to seek the Catholic Church's approval，it was of no use.
D.Copernicus returned to Poland，where he became a church administrator and doctor.
E.This went against the philosophical and religious beliefs held during medieval times.
F.Religious leader Martin Luther voiced his opposition to the sun-centered system model.
G.In his spare time，Copernicus studied the stars and the planets，applying his math knowledge to the mysteries of the night sky.

190．We've all had the experience of wanting to get a project done but putting it off to a later date.So why do we delay things？Are we built to operate this way at some times？
   These questions are central to my research on goal pursuit（追求）.It all starts with a simple choice between working now on a given project and doing anything else.The decision to work on something is driven by how much we value accomplishing the project in that moment — what psychologists call its subjective value.And delay，in psychological terms，is what happens when the value of doing something else outweighs the value of working now.
   This way of thinking suggests a simple trick to defeat delay.For example，instead of cleaning my house，I might try to focus on why grading papers is personally important to me.It's simple advice，but sticking to this strategy（策略）can be quite difficult.
   People are not entirely wise in the way they value things.For example，a dollar bill is worth exactly the same today as it is a week from now，but its subjective value — roughly how good it would feel to own a dollar — depends on other factors besides its face value，such as when we receive it.The tendency for people to devalue money and other goods based on time is called delay discounting.For example，receiving ﹩100 three months from now is worth the same to people as receiving ﹩83 right now.People would rather lose ﹩17 than wait a few months to get a larger reward.
   Getting something done is a delayed reward，so its value in the present is reduced：the further away the deadline is，the less attractive it seems to work on the project right now.The tendency to delay things closely follows economic models of delay discounting.One way to manage it is to make the finish line seem closer.For example，vividly imagining a future reward reduces delay discounting.

（1）Which of the following best explains "outweighs" in Paragraph 2？
A．Is equal to.
B．Is greater than.
C．Is involved in.
D．Is central to.
（2）What should we do to overcome delay in the author's opinion？
A．Avoid setting a deadline too strictly.
B．Consider doing nothing temporarily.
C．Increase the subjective value of working now.
D．Realize great fun of working immediately.
（3）Which proverb can best summarize the theory of delay discounting？
A．Time and tide wait for no man.
B．A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
C．One of these days is none of these days.
D．Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
（4）What is suggested to deal with delay discounting？
A．Asking for nothing in return.
B．Lowering our high expectations.
C．Searching for instant satisfaction.
D．Making future rewards more inviting.