《英语精读（四》练习题一
一、
I. Vocabulary and Structure: Put the most appropriate word in the blanks
1.However____were Marvin Gaye’s beginnings as a member of his father’s church choir, he became a famous
and esteemed performer.
A. powerful
B. popular
C. inspiring
D. modest
2.People who are ____ such great talents are usually_______.
A.conferred with, few and far between
B. blessed with, few and far
C. endowed with, few and far between
D. gifted, rare and far between
3. You make a living by what you get, ____ you make a life by what you give.
A. and
B. also
C. but
D. for
4. Getting into street fights is no minor matter for professional boxers, who are required by law to restrict their ____ impulses to the ring.
A. humorous
B. obligatory
C. aggressive
D. legitimate
5. He will be ____to turn ____ her for help. They are not even on speaking terms.
A. the last; to
B. the last person; to
C. a last person; on
D. the last person; on
6. The product must be priced_____ it competes effectively with rival products in the same market.
A. as such
B. in such a way
C. so that
D. so
7. Many soldiers were ____be eating boiled boots. It was clear that they did not ____ the snow-covered mountain.
A. so hungry that they; feel up to climb
B. as hungry as to; feel up to climbing
C. so hungry as to; feel up to climbing
D. hungry enough to; feel like to climb
8. By the time Europe began to use money China _____ with paper currency for hundreds of years.
A. was already trading
B. had already been trading
C. already traded
D. had already traded
9. It wasn’t until he turned the corner that he realized that he ____tailed.
A. was
B. being
C. would be
D. was being
10. ______been any answer to your letter yet?
A. Have there
B. Has it
C. Has there
D. Have they
II. Give synonyms and antonyms of the following words
Synonyms:
1. to spring
2. lest
3. utterly
4. to symbolize
5. to sink one’s head
6. elusive
7. intriguing
8. evident
9. ultimate 10. to revise
Antonyms:
1. coherent
2. mental
3. disinterested
4. hideous
5. settled
6. to be faulted
7. exhilarating
8. unquestioned
9. validity 10. premise
III. Put the appropriate word or its derivative in the blanks
1. sexual sexy sexist
1) To look _______ does not make you a good actor.
2) She specializes in the study of human _______behavior.
3) It’s interesting how fashions change. There was a time when bound feet were considered very _______ for women in China.
4) Many men still have this ______ attitude toward women. They believe that women’s proper domain is in the kitchen.
5) Sex is not a dirty word. Problems in our________ relationships should be discussed openly.
2. literal literary literate
6) ________criticism is important for the development of literature.
7) You shouldn’t take her ________when she said that she wished she were dead.
8) It’s really a great achievement how the ratio of ______people has increased in recent years.
9) ―Long time no see‖ sounds like a _______translation of the Chinese expression ―好久不见”.
10) The writer’s son, however, was uninterested in a _______career.
IV．Translation
1、我知道，不管发生什么，我都可以指望我兄弟会支持我。
2、你能强迫一个学生来上课，但是你不能强迫他思考。
3、我们公司在这么短的时间里就发展成为跨国公司，这是个奇迹。
4、看来病人在这个城市里没有别的亲戚。
5、尚不知飞机撞毁的原因。
V. Reading comprehension
It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction that one nature wrote and the same reads. We read the verses of one of the great English poets, of Chaucer, of Marvell, of Dryden, with the most modern joy—with a pleasure, I mean, which is in great part caused by the abstraction of all time from their verses. There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had well-nigh thought and said. But for the evidence thence to the philosophical doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should suppose some pre-established harmony, some foresight of souls that were to be, and some preparation of stores for their future wants, like the fact observed in insects, who lay up food before death for the young grub they shall never see.
I would not be hurried by any love of system, by any exaggeration of instincts, to underrate the Book. We all know, that as the human body can be nourished on any food, though it were boiled grass and the broth of shoes, so the human mind can be fed by any knowledge. And great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page. I would only say that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with diverse references. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that as
the seer's （有异常洞察力的人）hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance (意外的), the least part of his volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakespeare, only that least part—only the authentic utterances of the seer—ail the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's.
Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by laborious reading. Colleges, in-like manner, have their indispensable duty—to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us when they-aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
1.By "one nature wrote and the same reads" (Para. 1), the author means that__________.
A.the author is rereading his own book
B.nature writing is read by the same people
C.author and reader live in the same era
D.author and reader are in accord
2.The author uses the image of insects (Para. 1) to parallel his discussion of_________.
A.past writers storing knowledge for future readers
B.authors working in grubby surroundings
C.soulless parents toiling blindly for unknowing children
D.food chain
3.A good title for the second paragraph might be________.
A.Creative Writing
B.Creative Reading
C.Visions of the Past
D.Rating Books
4.The proverb the author cites (Para. 2) is used to support his theory that __________.
A.one must apply knowledge to extract knowledge
B.the rich need more education than the poor
C.all the wealth in the world will not make a man a genius
D.the wealth of the present is found in the past
5.The author calls for an educational system that________.
A.includes works of the masters
B.teaches students to write brilliantly
C.inspires creativity in scholars
D.not only includes works of the masters but also teaches students to write brilliantly
二、
I. Vocabulary and grammar: Put the most appropriate word in the blanks:
1.We have a long way to go______we can invent truly intelligent machines.
a. before
b. if
c. that
d. when
2.Just then a great sense of pride________ him.
a. fell on
b. swept over
c. overcame
d. overpowered
3.Many people are not aware of _______ new technologies are already being used in the home.
a. how very much
b. how many
c. how much
d. how many more
4.As general manager his job is to _____ profits and minimize costs. But he has failed______.
a. increased; on both accounts
b. make; on both respects
c. maximize; on both counts
d. maximize more; in both areas
5.I know she didn’t pass the qualifying exam, but really she’s _______but stupid.
a. any
b. nothing
c. something
d. anything
6._______ we develop a new kind of car, air pollution will become even more dangerous.
a. if
b. In case
c. Although
d. Unless
7.In the work of the police, much depends on________a sixth sense for trouble.
a. officers to have
b. officer’s having
c. officers have
d. officers having
8. A person who drinks alcohol in spite of the fact that it results in loss of health, job, or good relationships with
family, friends, and colleagues is said_______from alcoholism.
a. to suffer
b. to be suffering
c. suffering
d. to have suffered
9.The idea that the alcoholic is a person of bad character and poor morals is no longer_______.
a. widely being held
b. widely-held
c. widely held
d. to be widely held
10.He was ______to take over the duties and responsibilities of his father from an early age.
a. damped
b. deduced
c. diminished
d. destined
II．Complete the following sentences with the right form of the verbs in the brackets
1.All you can do for me right now __________(is, are) to leave me alone.
2.Half of the apartments in the building ______________(is, are) overheated.
3.In the first days of the firm, half of the equipments _________(was, were)rented.
4.The long list of courses and requirements often_________(frighten, frightens) freshmen.
5.What you need for camping__________(is, are) a tent, a sleeping bag, some food and eating utensils.
6.To an actor, the audience ____________(is, are) his sovereign.
7.By the time she began to sing a Chinese folk song, the audience ____________(was all, were all) humming
and clapping.
8.In old China, an important means of transportation in the city ___________(was, were) a two-wheeled cart
known as a rickshaw.
9.Neither of my parents_________(knows, know) what the Internet is all about.
10.What you will need ___________(is, are) eating utensils, a flashlight and a pocket knife.
III．Paraphrase the following sentences
1.His spectacles caught the light so that you could see nothing human behind them. There was
no possibility of communication.
2.More restricted is the notion that history is the recorded past, that is, the past of human
life which has left some sort of record such as folk tales, artifacts, or written document.
3.Some days I couldn’t look at her at all. My hands would shake and my voice used to crack
when I spoke and I’d feel sick in my stomach.
4.Mary, with her shrewd woman’s mind, thought of as many things as there are in life as a woman
would in the first joy and anxiety of her mating.
5.Rainsford had fought his way through the bush for two hours,“I must keep my nerve. I must
keep my nerve,”he said through tight teeth.
IV. Reading comprehension:
The most curious fact about the detective story is that it makes its greatest appeal precisely to those classes of people who are most immune to other forms of daydream literature. The typical detective story addict is a doctor or clergyman or scientist or artist, i.e., a fairly successful professional man with intellectual interests and well-read in his own field, who could never stand The Saturday Evening Post or True Confessions or movie magazines or comics.
It is sometimes said that detective stories are read by respectable law-abiding citizens in order to gratify in fantasy the violent or murderous wishes they dare not, or are ashamed to, translate into action. This may be true for readers of thrillers (which I rarely enjoy), but it is quite false for the reader of detective stories. On the contrary, the magical satisfaction the latter provide (which makes them escape literature, not works of art) is the illusion of being dissociated from the murderer.
The magic formula is an innocence which is discovered to contain guilt; then a suspicion of being the guilty one; and finally a real innocence from which the guilty other has been expelled, a cure effected, not by me or my neighbors, but by the miraculous intervention of a genius from outside who removes guilt by giving knowledge of guilt, (The detective story subscribes, in fact, to the Socratic daydream: "Sin is ignorance.") If one thinks of a work of art which deals with murder, Crime and Punishment for example, its effect on the reader is to compel an identification with the murderer which he would prefer not to recognize. The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is a compelled sharing in the suffering of another. Kafka's The Trial is another instructive example of the difference between a work of art and detective story. In the latter it is certain that a crime has been committed and, temporarily, uncertain to whom guilt should be attached; as soon as this is known, the innocence of everyone else is certain. (Should it turn out that after all no crime has been committed, then all would be innocent.) In The Trial, on the other hand, it is the guilt that is certain and the crime that is uncertain; the aim of the hero's investigation is not to prove his innocence (which would be impossible for he knows he is guilty), but to discover what, if anything, he has done to make himself guilty. K, the hero, is, in fact, a portrait of the kind of person who reads detective stories for escape.
The fantasy, then, which the detective story addict indulges in is the fantasy of being restored to the Garden of Eden, to a state of innocence, where he may know love as love and not as the law. The driving force behind this daydream is the feeling of guilt, the cause of which is unknown to the dreamer. The fantasy of escape is the same, whether one explains the guilt in Christian, Freudian, or any other terms. One's way of trying to face the reality, on the other hand, will, of course, depend very much on one's creed.
1. The opening paragraph of the passage suggests that the author would consider True Confessions and movie
magazines as_______.
A. sources of factual data about society
B. worthwhile contemporary periodicals
C. standard forms of escapist literature
D. less addictive than detective fiction
2. The author of the passage asserts that readers of detective fiction can most accurately be described
as___________.
A. believers in the creed of art for art's sake
B. dreamers unable to face the monotony of everyday reality
C. persons seeking momentary release from a vague sense of guilt
D. idealists drawn to the comforts of organized religion
3. The word "translate" in the second paragraph means_________.
A. move
B. explain
C. convey
D. convert
4. Which of the following best describes what the author is doing in citing the example of Kafka's The Trial
(Para. 4)?
A. Dramatizing the plot of a typical detective story.
B. Analyzing its distinctive qualities as a work of art.
C. Refuting a common opinion about readers of detective fiction.
D. Demonstrating the genius of the outside investigator.
5 . The author's attitude toward detective fiction can best be described as one of_______.
A. strong distaste
B. open skepticism
C. aloof indifference
D. genuine appreciation
V. Translation
1. 天突然好起来了。我们大家都高兴得跳了起来。
2．每年年底以前还清全部所欠款时我的习惯。
3．20年以前，“中国造‖还是劣质产品的标记，但是现在我们的出口品在质量上可以和世界最好的相比了。4．去年我们的出口达到了5，000亿美元，增长了15个百分点。
5．一种货币的贬值通常对出口有利，而对进口不利。
三、
I. Grammar: choose the best words to complete the following sentences
1. The house was very quiet, _____ as it was on the side of a mountain.
A. isolated
B. isolating
C. being isolated
D. having been isolated
2. Careful surveys have indicated that as many as 50 percent of patients do not
take drugs ____ indicated.
A. like
B. which
C. as
D. so
3. Was your sweater expensive?‖―____ that it is handsome, the price seems
reasonable.‖
A. In view of
B. Since
C. Considering
D. Because
4. Shops are open from Monday _____ Friday.
A. until
B. and
C. through
D. or
5. These people once had fame and fortune, now _____ is left to them is utter
poverty.
A. all what
B. all which
C. that all
D. all that
6. There is hardly an environment on earth _____ some species of animal or
other has not adapted successfully.
A. to which
B. so that
C. wherever
D. as to
7. This kind of glasses manufactured by experienced craftsmen ____
comfortably.
A. is worn
B. wears
C. wearing
D. are worn
8. _____ that millions of galaxies exist in the vast space outside the Milky
Way.
A. It is estimated
B. An estimate
C. That is estimated
D. That the estimate
9. The man was put in the soft-padded cell lest he _____ himself.
A. injure
B. had injured
C. injured
D. would injure
10. _____ my return, I learnt that he had been at the museum and would not
be back for hours.
A. At
B. With
C. On
D. During
II.Read the following paragraph taken from one of our texts and fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the words given below
Productive transport gain discriminate logic
against shield judge reversible propel
Just because globalization is largely spontaneous 1_________ by better communications and 2____________--does not mean that it is inevitable and 3___________. Government can, in subtle and not so subtle ways, 4___________ local industries and workers 5___________ imports or 6_____________ against foreign investors. If only a few countries do, their actions will not matter much. Global capital and trade will go where they are most welcome and 7_________. Indeed, it is precisely this 8 __________that has persuaded so many countries to accept globalization. If they don’t, someone else will. 9__________by their behavior, most governments believe they have more to10 _________ than to lose.,
III. Paraphrase the following sentences
1.He nodded toward the corner to where the giant stood, his thick arms crossed on his hogshead of a chest.
2.But they were outshouted and ignored and finally shunned by the other villagers.
3.It was by an oversight that his work was accepted.
4.Behind the merger boom lies the growing corporate conviction that many markets have become truly global.
5.But ours was a natural or, rather, a divine calendar, because it was framed by acts of God: earthquake and
droughts and floods and locusts and pestilences.
IV．Translate the following sentences
1.这所大学已经发展到了研究生多于本科生的阶段。
2.在爆炸中有24名观光者死亡，更多的人被送进了医院。
3.我真为小林惋惜，她本来是能够获得冠军的。
4.No one in Washington today recalls what happened during the years alcohol was forbidden to the people by a
Congress that thought it had a divine mission to stamp out Demon Rum —— launching, in the process, the greatest crime wave in the country’s history.
5.So far, so normal, and this could have been an outdoor summer-stock Shakespeare production anywhere in
America, except in one aspect: a police car was now parked conspicuously in view, its roof light slowly rotating.
V．Reading comprehension
"In every known human society the male's needs for achievement can be recognized... In a great number of human societies men's sureness of their sex role is tied up with their right, or ability, to practice some activity that women are not allowed to practice. Their maleness in fact has to be underwritten by preventing women from entering some field or performing some feat." This is the conclusion of the anthropologist Margaret Mead about the way in which the roles of men and women in society should be distinguished.
If talk and print are considered, it would seem that the formal emancipation of women is far from complete. There is a flow of publications about the continuing domestic bondage of women and about the complicated system of defences which men have thrown up around their hitherto accepted advantages, taking sometimes the obvious form of exclusion from types of occupation and sociable groupings, and sometimes the more subtle form of automatic doubt of the seriousness of women's pretensions to the level of intellect and resolution that men, it is supposed, bring to the business of running the world.
There are a good many objective pieces of evidence for the erosion of men's status. In the first place, there is the widespread postwar phenomenon of the woman Prime Minister, in India, Sri Lanka and Israel.
Secondly, there is the very large increase in the number of women who work, especially married women and mothers of children. More diffusely there are the increasingly numerous convergences between male and female behavior: the approximation to identical styles in dress and coiffure, the sharing of domestic tasks, and the admission of women to all sorts of hitherto exclusively male leisure-time activities.
Everyone carries round with him a fairly definite idea of the primitive or natural conditions of human life. It is acquired more by the study of humorous cartoons than of archaeology, but that does not matter since it is not significant as theory but only as an expression of inwardly felt expectations of people's sense of what is fundamentally proper in the differentiation between the roles of the two sexes. In this rudimentary natural society men go out to hunt and fish and to fight off the tribe next door while women keep the fire going. Amorous initiative is firmly reserved to the man, who sets about courtship with a club.
1. The phrase "men's sureness of their sex role" in the first paragraph suggests that they________________.
A. are confident in their ability to charm women.
B. take the initiative in courtship.
C. have a clear idea of what is considered "manly".
D. tend to be more immoral than women are.
2. The third paragraph does NOT claim that men____________
A. prevent women from taking up certain professions.
B. secretly admire women's intellect and resolution.
C. doubt whether women really mean to succeed in business.
D. forbid women to join certain clubs and societies.
3. The third paragraph______________
A. generally agrees with the first paragraph
B. has no connection with the first paragraph
C. repeats the argument of the second paragraph
D. contradicts the last paragraph
4. At the end of the last paragraph the author uses humorous exaggeration in order to_______________
A. show that men are stronger than women
B. carry further the ideas of the earliest paragraphs
C. support the first sentence of the same paragraph
D. disown the ideas he is expressing
5. The usual idea of the cave man in the last paragraph_____________
A. is based on the study of archaeology
B. illustrates how people expect men to behave
C. is dismissed by the author as an irrelevant joke
D. proves that the man, not woman, should be the wooer
《英语精读（四》练习题二
一、
I．Grammar: Choose the best words to complete the following sentences
1. The lawn mowed, the bushes trimmed, and ________, Bill went guiltlessly to the movies.
a. the dishes washed and put away
b. the dishes were washed and put away
c. he washed the dishes putting them away
d. he washed and put away the dishes
2. The health department inspector recommended that all outdoor food stores at the gate of the school _________.
a. close down
b. closed
c. be closed down
d. would be closed down
3. As far as the effect on the environment _______ tourism is often a bad thing.
a. concerns
b. concerning
c. is concerned with
d. is concerned
4. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and I would gladly live it again if the chance ________offered to me. (Bertrand Russell)
a. is
b. were
c. would be
d. should be
5. Galileo’s opponents found an excuse to have him _______from the University of Pisa.
a. be dismissed
b. dismissing
c. been dismissed
d. dismissed
6. A ________talk is too long for school kids.
a. two-hour
b. two-hours
c. two hour’s
d. two hours
7. Let’s go over the monthly sales figures once again, _________?
a. do we
b. shall we
c. won’t we
d. can we
8. Bob said proudly that he had achieved all his goals, not in spite of his handicap, but _______it.
a. owing to
b. due to
c. on account of
d. because of
9. ________ to develop his talent, Adam could become an excellent artist.
a. Allowed
b. Allowing
c. Being allowed
d. Having been allowed
10. The manager insists that she _______ given a detailed receipt for these goods.
a. would be
b. will be
c. must be
d. be
I I. Match the words with similar meanings
( )1. avert a. represent
( )2. complimentary b. barrier
( )3. rotten c. weakness
( )4. vain d. puzzling
( )5. symbolize e. avoid
( )6. oversight f. denounce
( )7. retort g. praising
( )8. impediment h. celebrity
( )9. deficiency i. counter
( )10.stretch j. extend
( )11. sprinkle k. convincingly
( )12. criticize l. decayed
( )13. persuasively m. spray
( )14. personality n. terrible mistake
( )15. elusive o. conceited
III. Paraphrase the following sentences
1.Moreover, they also re-create parts of the past. Like detectives, they piece together evidence to fill in the gaps
in the available records.
2.She was generally very nice and polite, but, so far as romance went, I think I was definitely at the bottom of
the reserves as far as she was concerned.
3.Suppose anybody saw us like this in the field of our spring sowing, what would they take us for but a pair of
useless, soft, empty-headed people that would be sure to die of hunger.
4.But now he had got a grip on himself, had stopped, and was taking stock of himself and the situation.
5.The park at night must have seemed luxurious and secluded—a giant evening garden party. The park was to
be strolled through, enjoyed as an aesthetic experience, like a walk inside a paining.
IV. Translate the following sentences
1.从广义上说，货币指一般可以接受用来交换其他商品或服务的任何一种物品。
2.优秀的企业不相信完美，只相信不断的改进，不断地变化。
3.1998年夏天，成千上万的抗洪战士日夜奋战在大堤上，发誓不惜一切代价保卫这个城市。
4.你来自何方并不重要，重要的是从你的起点出发你能走多远。
5.他认为艰难困苦几乎比别的任何东西能更快地让一个少年成为一个男子汉。
6.他的父母知道除了让他呈现真实的自我之外他们不必多做些什么。
V．Reading comprehension
I remember meeting him one evening with his pushcart. I had managed to sell all my papers and was coming home in the snow. It was that strange hour in downtown New York when the workers were pouring homeward in the twilight. I marched among thousands of tired men and women whom the factory whistles had unyoked. They flowed in rivers through the clothing factory districts, then down along the avenues to the East Side.
I met my father near Cooper Union. I recognized him, a hunched, frozen figure in an old overcoat standing by a banana cart. He looked so lonely, the tears came to my eyes. Then he saw me, and his face lit with his sad, beautiful smile -Charlie Chaplin's smile.
"Arch, it's Mikey," he said. "So you have sold your papers! Come and eat a banana."
He offered me one. I refused it. I felt it crucial that my father sell his bananas, not give them away. He thought I was shy, and coaxed and joked with me, and made me eat the banana. It smelled of wet straw and snow.
"You haven't sold many bananas today, pop," I said anxiously.
He shrugged his shoulders.
"What can I do? No one seems to want them."
It was true. The work crowds pushed home morosely over the pavements. The rusty sky darkened over New York building, the tall street lamps were lit, innumerable trucks, street cars and elevated trains clattered by. Nobody and nothing in the great city stopped for my father's bananas.
"I ought to yell," said my father dolefully. "I ought to make a big noise like other peddlers, but it makes my throat sore. Anyway, I'm ashamed of yelling, it makes me feel like a fool. "
I had eaten one of his bananas. My sick conscience told me that I ought to pay for it somehow. I must remain here and help my father.
I'll yell for you, pop," I volunteered.
"Arch, no," he said, "go home; you have worked enough today. Just tell momma I'll be late."
But I yelled and yelled. My father, standing by, spoke occasional words of praise, and said I was a wonderful yeller. Nobody else paid attention. The workers drifted past us wearily, endlessly; a defeated army wrapped in dreams of home. Elevated trains crashed; the Cooper Union clock burned above us; the sky grew black, the wind poured, the slush burned through our shoes. There were thousands of strange, silent figures pouring over the sidewalks in snow. None of them stopped to buy bananas. I yelled and yelled, nobody listened.
My father tried to stop me at last. "Nu," he said smiling to console me, "that was wonderful yelling. Mikey. But it's plain we are unlucky today! Let's go home."
I was frantic, and almost in tears. I insisted on keeping up my desperate yells. But at last my father persuaded me to leave with him.
1. "Unyoked" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to
A. sent out
B. released
C. dispatched
D. removed
2. Which of the following in the first paragraph does NOT indicated crowds of people?
A. Thousands of
B. Flowed
C. Pouring
D. Unyoked
3. Which of the following is intended to be a pair of contrast in the passage?
A. Huge crowds and lonely individuals.
B. Weather conditions and street lamps.
C. Clattering trains and peddlers' yells.
D. Moving crowds and street traffic.
4. Which of the following words is NOT suitable to describe the character of the son?
A. Compassionate
B. Responsible
C. Shy
D. Determined
5. What is the theme of the story?
A. The misery of the factory workers.
B. How to survive in a harsh environment.
C. Generation gap between the father and the son.
D. Love between the father and the son.
二、
I. Grammar: choose the best word to complete the following sentences
1. Chocolate comes form coca beans, _________ the seeds of the cacao tree.
a. that is
b. that are
c. which is
d. which are
2. I am sure she’d rather you _________her the bad news and ________ your sorrow with her.
a. will tell, share
b. tell, share
c. has told, shared
d. had told, shared
3. It is sad to lose, but the greatest sadness is to travel through life__________.
a. and without knowing either success or defeat
b. with knowing neither success nor defeat
c. and knowing neither success nor defeat
d. without knowing either success or defeat
4. To use e-mail, you usually need an account so that you can gain access to the host system________ the information is channeled.
a. through which
b. through that
c. by which
d. by that
5. __________ to show no emotion, the police officer stared straight ahead during the inspection.
a. Training
b. To be trained
c. Being trained
d. Trained
6. It turned out that the project required $ 2 billion more than _________.
a. has been invested
b. it has been put in it
c. have been invested c. it have been put in it
7. _________a TV program is a success or not much depends on its M.C. (Master of Ceremonies)
a. Whether or not
b. Whether
c. If
d. That
8. That magnificent _________church is the tourist attraction in the town.
a. ten-century-old
b. ten-centuries-old
c. ten-century’s old
d. ten-centuries’-old
9. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and ________ is the greatest happiness. (Sydney Simith)
a. loved
b. being loved
c. to be loved
d. having been loved
10. I _________ be late for that important meeting than leave this injured old woman here.
a. had better
b. would rather
c. may as well
d. should just
II. Paraphrase the following sentences
1.He possessed a brain, and since no one understood it when he used it, it was resented.
2.In Orlando, you develop a throat of iron, and you just put back your head and put it down, in case the police
should arrive.
3.The irony was that by the end of Moses era the park was dangerous.
4.Her short-lived love was gone. Henceforth she was only her husband’s helper to till the earth.
5.Both the Bureau of Narcotics and the Mafia want strong laws against the sale and use of drugs because if
drugs are sold at cost there would be no money in it for anyone.
III. Vocabulary: choose best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets
There’s a sense of romance about a train that simply doesn’t exist with a modern jet plane. Several railroad companies are taking 1__________(account of , advantage of, a fancy to, a hand in) of the nostalgia for train travel. They are 2__________(giving, offering, promising, supplying) unique tours for travelers who aren’t in a 3___________(fix, hurry, jam, bad way ) and who enjoy the romance of the past.
If you are looking for 4__________(danger, fun, joy, trouble ) and adventure, you might want to try the ―Mystery Express‖, 5__________(it, that, what, which)runs from New York to Montreal, Canada. This trip 6___________(interest, interested, interesting, interests) people who have always wanted to play a 7___________(character, function, hero, role) in an Agatha Christie play or Sherlock Holmes detective novel. A 8__________(characteristic, representative, standard, typical) journey on the Mystery Express offers the 9__________(chance moment, opportunity, time) to solve a challenging murder mystery right there 10____________(at, by, on , with) the train. In the middle of the night, for instance, there 11__________(might, must, would, should) be a gunshot; soon the 12_____________(customers, passengers, tourists, travelers) learn that there has been a ―murder‖ on board. For the rest of the trip, everyone on board participates 13___________(at,
in, on, through) solving this mystery by exchanging information and opinions about the crime. By the time the train has pulled in Montreal, the traveling ―detectives‖14____________(have figured, had figured, will figure, will have figured) it out and caught the ―criminal‖. Of course, no real crime takes place. The ―murder‖ and several other passengers are 15__________(actually, factually, practically, truly) actors. The trip is a safe, entertaining, and very creative weekend game.
IV. Translate the following sentences
1.美国常常被称为美元万能的国土。
2.以家里的远亲身份引见的那个留宿客人（houseguest）其实是联邦调查局的便衣。
3.在整个漫长的回家旅途中，受伤的女孩子受到朋友和不少陌生人的照顾。
4.我爷爷说30年以前他第一次踏上那个海滨小镇就爱上了它。
5.重庆位于嘉陵江和长江汇合处。
V. Reading comprehension
Considered the most influential architect of his time, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was born in the small rural community of Richland Center, Wisconsin. He entered the University of Wisconsin at the age of 15 as a special student, studying engineering because the school had no course in architecture. At the age of 20 he then went to work as a draughtsman in Chicago in order to learn the traditional, classical language of architecture. After marrying into a wealthy business family at the age of 21, Wright set up house in an exclusive neighborhood in Chicago, and after a few years of working for a number of architectural firms, set up his own architectural office.
For twenty years he brought up a family of six children upstairs, and ran a thriving architectural practice of twelve or so draughtsman downstairs. Here, in an idyllic American suburb, with giant oaks, sprawling lawns, and no fences, Wright built some sixty rambling homes by the year 1900. He became the leader of a style known as the ―Prairie‖ school - houses with low-pitched roofs and extended lines that blended into the landscape and typified his style of ―organic architecture‖.
By the age of forty-one, in 1908, Wright had achieved extraordinary social and professional success. He gave countless lectures at major universities, and started his Taliesin Fellowship – a visionary social workshop in itself. In 1938 he appeared on the cover of Time magazine, and later, on a two cent stamp. The most spectacular buildings of his mature period were based on forms borrowed from nature, and the intentions were clearly romantic, poetic, and intensely personal. Examples of these buildings are Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel (1915-22: demolished 1968), and New York City’s Guggenheim Museum (comple ted 1959). He continued working until his death in 1959, at the age of 92, although in his later years, he spent as much time giving interviews and being a celebrity, as he did in designing buildings. Wright can be considered an essentially idiosyncratic architect whose influence was immense but whose pupils were few.
1. With which of the following subjects is the passage mainly concerned?
A. the development of modern architecture in America
B. the contributions of the ―Prairie‖ School to modern architecture
C. the life and achievements of a famous architect
D. the influence of the style of ―organic architecture‖in America
2. Frank Lloyd Wright first worked as a draughtsman because
A. for twenty years he lived above his shop and employed draughtsman
B. to learn the language of architecture
C. that is what he studied at the University of Wisconsin
D. that is the work of new employees in architectural firms
3. According to the passage, an idyllic American suburb is
A. based on forms borrowed from nature
B. blended into the landscape
C. giant oaks, sprawling lawns, and no fences
D. houses with low-pitched reefs and extended lines
4. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. the Taliesin Fellowship was a grant of money
B. many of Wright’s architectural ideas have not been taken up by others
C. Wright used his wife’s money to set up his own architectural office in an exclusive neighborhood in Chicago
D. Some of Wright’s most notable buildings have been demolished because they were not popular
5. All of the following about Frank Lloyd Wright are true EXCEPT
A. he became the leader of a style known as ―organic architecture‖
B. he died at the age of 92
C. he commenced university studies at the age of 15
D. some of his most spectacular buildings were not in America
大学英语专业精读1 期末考试卷 I. Word formation （40%） A. Give the corresponding nouns for the following verbs.给出下列动词的相应名词形式。（10%） 1. discover 2.depend 3.amaze 4.add 5.display 6.renew 7.suppose 8.treat 9.addict 10.accelerate B. Give the corresponding nouns for the following adjectives. （10%） 1.weak 2. angry 3. free 4. quick 5. clear 6. long 7.wide 8. sad 9.happy 10. moderate C. Give the corresponding verbs for the following nouns. （10%） 1. gardening 2. failure 3. fertilizer 4. enduring 5. mixture 6.liberation 7.alternative 8.result 9.satisfaction 10.requirement D. Give the corresponding synonyms for the following words and expressions. （10%） 1.barely 2. chilly 3. now and then 4. many 5. clever 6. turn up 7. keen 8. club 9.handsome 10.sensible II. Translate the Chinese into English. （30%） 1. We’ll stick by you___________________________________________（无论发生什么事）. 2. Keep in touch with your cultural roots, ___________________(无论你在世界何地). 3.We’ll bring the hostage home,___________________________（无论有多困难）. 4. I feel that you young people should understand____________________（生活中总是充满着机遇和挑战）. 5. When she learned____________________（她已经被那所大学录取）, she almost jumped for joy. 6.You must admit_________________________（所有这一切都表明我们的努力没有白费）. 7.He was running a great risk when he insisted_________________________________（地球是绕着太阳转的）. 8. The visitors were greatly impressed by________________________（这个村子过去30年所取得的成就）. 9. First-year college students are generally not clear about______________________________（他们应该从大学获取什么）. 10._____________________________（农民最想得到的东西）is just one thing. It is land. III. Translate the following sentences into English. （30%） 1. 我们现在缺少人手，你来得正好。 2. 已经有好几个同学在考虑竞选学生会主席。 3. 她警告我不要和那种追求个人名利的人交往。 4.多年来我们学校培养了很多学生，大多数都在各个部门重要岗位任职。 5. 她原以为哲学是非常枯燥的东西，可后来方发现它非常有意思。 6.他父亲刚过五十，可头发已经灰白了。不过，除此以外，他没事。 7.这里的老师和学生都认为学英语没有什么捷径。 8.我知道放弃这个机会十分愚蠢，但我别无选择。 9.有一天，那座新楼突然倒塌，楼里很多人都被埋了。 10.一种长久的友好关系要求双方都十分真诚。
第一单元 课程开始之际，就如何使学习英语的任务更容易提出一些建议似乎正当其实。 学习英语的几种策略 学习英语决非易事。它需要刻苦和长期努力。 虽然不经过持续的刻苦努力便不能期望精通英语，然而还是有各种有用的学习策略可以用来使这一任务变得容易一些。以下便是其中的几种： 1．不要以完全相同的方式对待所有的生词。你可曾因为简直无法记住所学的所有生词而抱怨自己的记忆力太差？其实，责任并不在你的记忆力。如果你一下子把太多的生词塞进头脑，必定有一些生词会被挤出来。你需要做的是根据生词日常使用的频率以不同的方式对待它们。积极词汇需要经常练习，有用的词汇必须牢记，而在日常情况下不常出现的词只需见到时认识即可。你会发现把注意力集中于积极有用的词上是扩大词汇量最有效的途径。 2．密切注意地道的表达方式。你可曾纳闷过，为什么我们说“我对英语感兴趣”是“I’m interested in English”，而说“我精于法语”则是“I’m good at French”?你可曾问过自己，为什么以英语为母语的人说“获悉消息或密秘”是“learnthenewsorsecret”,而“获悉某人的成功或到来”却是“learn of someone’s success or arrival”?这些都是惯用法的例子。在学习英语时，你不仅必须注意词义，还必须注意以英语为母语的人在日常生活中如何使用它。 3．每天听英语。经常听英语不仅会提高你的听力，而且有助你培养说的技能。除了专为课程准备的语言磁带外，你还可以听英语广播，看英语电视和英语电影。第一次听录好音的英语对话或语段，你也许不能听懂很多。先试着听懂大意，然后在反复地听。 你会发现每次重复都会听懂更多的xx。 4．抓住机会说。的确，在学校里必须用英语进行交流的场合并不多，但你还是可以找到练习讲英语的机会。例如，跟你的同班同学进行交谈可能就是得到一些练习的一种轻松愉快的方式。还可以找校园里以英语为母语的人跟他们
大学英语精读课改革模式 关键词：教学模式；二语习得；阅读技巧；交际能力 长期以来，外语一直把精读课作为基础教学阶段的一门主课。笔者认为，有必要尝试一下改变精读课的传统做法。下面透过目前精读课存在的主要问题，提出几点改进建议。 一、主要问题 目前，基础教学阶段的精读课，名为精读，实为融听、说、读、写、译为一体的语言综合入门课。这在语言素材信手拈来的今天，对于入学时已掌握1600个单词、已具有基本语法知识，而听、说、读、写、译却又发展极不平衡的学生来说，这种传统精读课的教学模式已不再完全适用。其弊端在于：(1)语言素材不足。精读课基本是围绕有限的几篇文章进行解释和训练，不利于语言的自然习得，无法增强学生的语感。(2)忽视对阅读技能的训练。精读课注重对课文中语言现象的分析、讲解和操练，而对一系列阅读技能却没有必要的指导和训练。(3)无法兼顾学生入学时听、说、读、写、译的能力发展不平衡的状况。学生入学时的阅读能力远比其他能力强，但为了照顾其他能力的培养，只能选用语言较简单、内容较肤浅的素材。教材不能满足学生提高阅读水平的需求，限制了学生阅读能力的发展，抑制了学生的求知欲，影响了他们的知识面扩展。(4)忽略书面语和口语的差异。精读课十分重视围绕课文所进行的口语表达的准确性。为表达准确，学生往往要使用课文的语言，其结果是将书面语与口头语混为一体，忽视了语言的得体性。(5)忽略学生能力的发展。在精读课上，教师精讲，学生操炼。教学常常以掌握课文为目的，不重视对学生学习方法的指导，不重视学生独立思考、综合、分析能力的培养和发展。 二、建议 1．课程设置 目前新生入学时已掌握1600个单词并掌握了一定的语法知识，鉴于学生 的听、说、读、写、译能力发展不平衡，建议开设阅读、听力、口语、语法、写作等课程。这些课程分别将各门课程的技能训练作为教学的主要内容，并兼顾其他课程的技能训练，以促进和保证学生听、说、读、写、译五项技能的全面发展。 2．关于阅读课 阅读课旨在提高学生对书面语言的处理和表达能力。为此，一方面要不断扩大学生的词汇量和巩固语法知识；另一方面则要指导学生运用自己已有的阅读母语的技能，进行阅读技能的训练。因此，阅读课应注意以下原则：(1)提供数量为精读教材三倍的语言素材，以创造语言习得的条件。(2)教材的题材和体裁力
When dad told us about the delivery work it sounded easy, just a piece of cake. The trouble was, we didn’t take care to inquire just how much material was involved. Before long trucks seemed to be pulling up outside our house all day long, leaving stacks of advertising. It seemed we should have no chance of meeting the deadline. The we had this marvelous idea. Hiring local kids to help would enable us to get the job done on time. True, it would cut into our profits, but there was no alternative. things seemed to be going well, but then we had trouble over a pay claim. Our workers demanded five dollars an hour, but fortunately for us they were ready to settle for less. As for us, when we finally settled our accounts we ended up earning less than the minimum wage for our efforts. I guess we should have know better than to believe that big bucks come easy. While it is often said that love makes the world go round, scientists take a less romantic view. To their minds, energy is the fundamental force at work. All animal life is dependent on obtaining sufficient energy from food. Deer, like other wild animals, do this through eating as much food as possible in the summer, when food resources are abundant. Any excess of energy over their current needs is deposited in the body in the form of fat. Then, when food becomes scarce in the winter, they can live off the fat. In addition, nature helps them to survive the winter by slowing down their metabolism, assisting them to pull through the cold weather. However, when the winter is particularly harsh, deer may have to draw on the fat they have built up more heavily. Under such conditions, only deer in good condition are able to survive to give birth to a new generation. In his essay George Orwell starts off by citing Bernard Shaw’s remark that people are more superstitious today than they were in the Middle Ages. They promptly accept the opinions of experts without asking any questions themselves. Obviously Shaw exaggerates just in order to prove his point that we should not always fall back on the theories of well-known authorities. Rather, we should aim at finding out some things for ourselves. By way of illustration, Orwell outlines arguments against the Flat Earth and the Oval Earth theories, thus throwing light on the fact that much of our knowledge actually rests on authority rather than on reasoning or on experiment. Finally, Orwell draws his conclusion that ours is a credulous age partly because we have such an exceptionally heavy burden of knowledge. The last time Lyz saw her husband was as he waved goodbye to her from the steps of their house. He was due to fly off on business later that day. Unluckily for him his flight was cancelled and he found himself having to take United Flight 93 the following day. It was from on board that ill-fated flight that he telephoned with the news that hijackers had threatened to blow up the aircraft. Cursing his bad luck, he nonetheless realized that his fate was in his own hands. Hoping that the terrorists were bluffing when they claimed to have a bomb, he and some other passengers decided to act. Without hanging up, he set off with the others to attack the hijackers. From the telephone came the sound of screams. Then silence.
一、选择。（25·1） 1）From her___________I guess she’s from the Northeast. 2）It was very clever of her to______________his argument___________himself. 3）I found_________________shoes under the bed but they don’t make a pair. 4）Dr.Bright always_______________as he examines his patients and treats them with extreme care. 5）British companies are trying to avoid the__________their American counterparts have already suffered. 6）Wilfred’s remarks _________me in my opinion that he was an honorable(诚实的)young man. 7）The key__________for the prosecution(原告方)was offered police protection after she received death threats. 8）I thought that was the end of the matter but_________events proved me wrong. 9）Having practiced for so long,the New York baseball team_____________________winning the World Series(美国职业棒球大赛) this year. 10）At the_______________,Bob’s teacher,who was called as a character witness,said he was a quiet boy who had never been in troubie before. 11）We’just had a very______________meeting with the management and we’re now much more hopeful about the pay rise. 12）The book I ‘m reading explains the_______________of plant and animal life on earth. 13）Living in a flat is all right ,but it has its ________________----for example ,you don’t have your own garden. 14）The two witnesses gave contradictory _________________of what had happened that night. 15）________________the fact that there was almost no hope of finding the missing boy,the search party still went on looking. 16）Alice_____________to go back to work after she has had her baby. 17）The report is a bit lengthy ;_______________,it says that more money should be spent on education. 18）Without an official pass , the guides will deny you___________to the courthouse. 19）Amy was trying to persuade her father to let her drive but she was getting________________. 20）Simon has done a _____________job and deserves to be promoted. 21）Sorry the place is so ______________;I haven’t had time to clean up. 22）Mr.white found to his dismay that his son had been spending far too much time chatting with his key pals（网友）_________________. 23）In terms of population,Greater New York City is the largest_______________center in the United States. 24）The article provides a detailed _____________of the root causes of the accident. 25）Many young girls like to __________________for recording their private thoughts and feelings. 26）There are obvious benefits in allowing each student to go at his own_____________. 27）The tired traveler stopped to _____________________and make sure of his directions. 28）The dredger(挖掘机) represents a major _______________advance in keeping the river clear. 29）Bob didn’t turn up at the party;I had an _____________that something must have gone wrong. 30）Roger was quite stubborn and it was almost impossible to ________________him of his mistakes. 31）In history the war between the Union and the eleven southern states(1861---1865) is called American___________war. 32）The office building ___________recently __________________for greater comfort and efficiency.
大学英语 1、要是有更多的钱，我就能在市区买一套公寓了。( with) With more money, I could buy an apartment in downtown. 2、记住一定要复习我们课堂上学过的新单词和词组。(make sure) Make sure that you must review these new words and phrases that you had studied in class. 3、他打量着她的脸，思考着如何告诉她那个消息。( study) Studying her face, he was thinking how to tell her that story. 4、市内交通被暴风雪阻断。( interrupt) The city traffic was interrupted by the snowstorm. 5、你可以帮我递一下那份考卷吗？(do sb. a favor) Can you do me a favor wether you pass that paper to me. 6、虽然老太太一个人住着，但她并不感到孤独。（alone, lonely） Althouth the old lady lives alone, she doesn’t feel lonely. 7、我希望有朝一日能够再见到你。(sometime) I hope I will meet you again sometime. 8、那个正和李教授谈话的人是个著名的艺术家，或类似的身份。( or something) That man who is talking with professor Li is a great artist or something. 9、我们应该充分利用网络资源获取信息。(make use of) We should make good use of the Internet to gain information. 10、他还没有意识到诚信的重要性。(be aware of) He isn’t aware of the importance of honesty. 11、老板进来的时候他假装在看一份重要文件。（pretend） He was pretended to read an important document when the boss came in. 12、警察有责任维护公共秩序和安全。(be responsible for) Police are responsible for the preservation of public order and security. 13、他是唯一穿着正装出席晚会的人，这使他感到很不自在。( out of place) He is the only one that wears formal clothes in the evening party, which makes him out of place. 14、我能有额外的时间来完成这个任务吗？（extra） Can I have extra time to finish the task. 15、这个新方法会帮助你们解决这个难题。（enable） This new method enables you to solve this difficult problem. 16、他不久就要离开了，但我们还没有找到可以替代他的人。(take the place of) He will be leaving soon, but we don’t fi nd a person to take the place of him. 17、那位著名演员在剧中扮演重要角色。（play a …role） The famous actor plays a important role in the play. 18、报纸影响思想潮流。( influence, current) Newspaper influences the current. 19、我以前从未听说过那个名字，他一定是新记者。( hear of ) I haven’t heared of the nam e, he must be a new reporter.
UNIT 1 As we are at the start of the course, this seems a good moment to offer some advice on how to make the task of learning English easier. 课程开始之际，就如何使学习英语的任务更容易提出一些建议似乎正当其时。 Some Strategies for Learning English Learning English is by no means easy. It takes great diligence and prolonged effort. 学习英语绝非易事。它需要刻苦和长期努力。 Nevertheless, while you cannot expect to gain a good command of English without sustained hard work, there are various helpful learning strategies you can employ to make the task easier. Here are some of them. 虽然不经过持续的刻苦努力便不能期望精通英语，然而还是有各种有用的学习策略可以用来使这一任务变得容易一些。以下便是其中的几种。 1. Do not treat all new words in exactly the same way. Have you ever complained about your memory because you find it simply impossible to memorize all the new words you are learning? But, in fact, it is not your memory that is at fault. If you cram your head with too many new words at a time, some of them are bound to be crowded out. What you need to do is to deal with new words in different ways according to how frequently they occur in everyday use. While active words demand constant practice and useful words must be committed to memory, words that do not often occur in everyday situations require just a nodding acquaintance. You will find concentrating on active and useful words the most effective route to enlarging your vocabulary. 1. 不要以完全同样的方式对待所有的生词。你可曾因为简直无法记住所学的所有生词而抱怨自己的记忆力太差？其实，责任并不在你的记忆力。如果你一下子把太多的生词塞进头脑，必定有一些生词会被挤出来。你需要做的是根据生词日常使用的频率以不同的方式对待它们。积极词汇需要经常练习，有用的词汇必须牢记，而在日常情况下不常出现的词只需见到时认识即可。你会发现把注意力集中于积极有用的词上是扩大词汇量最有效的途径。 2. Watch out for idiomatic ways of saying things. Have you ever wondered why we say, "I am interested in English", but "I am good at French"? And have you ever asked yourself why native English speakers say, "learn the news or secret", but "learn of someone's success or arrival"? These are all examples of idiomatic usage. In learning English, you must pay attention not only to the meaning of a word, but also to the way native speakers use it in their daily lives. 2．密切注意地道的表达方式。你可曾纳闷过，为什么我们说“我对英语感兴趣”是“I'm interested in English”，而说“我精于法语”则是“I'm good at French”？你可曾问过自己，为什么以英语为母语的人说“获悉消息或秘密”是“learn the news or secret”，而“获悉某
大学英语精读第三版第四册答案 Unit1 翻译 1) 我们接到通知，财政部长将于次日接见我们。 We were informed that the Minister of Finance was to give us an audience /receive us the next day. 2) 我觉得很奇怪，他似乎不记得自己的生日。 I thought it odd that he didn't seem to remember his own birthday. 3) 学期论文最迟应在下星期二交来，可是至今大部分学生却几无进展。 Next Tuesday is the deadline for handing in the term papers, but most students have hardly made a dent in the work so far. 4) 看到学生人数不断减少，校长心里很难受。(pain) It pained the headmaster to find the number of students shrinking. 5) 在那个国家一般用现金付账，但支票变得普遍起来了，不久会代替现金作为人们结账的一种方式。 Cash is commonly used in paying bills in that country, but checks are becoming more popular and will, in a short while, replace cash as a way for people to settle their accounts. 6) 该公司声称，这条河流的污染不是它造成的。 The company claims that it is not responsible for the pollution in the river. Unit2 翻译 1) 比尔已是个成熟的小伙子，不再依赖父母替他做主。 Bill is a mature young man who is no longer dependent on his parents for decisions. 2) 这个地区有大量肉类供应，但新鲜果蔬奇缺。 There are abundant supplies of meat in this region, but fresh fruit and vegetables are scarce. 3) 工程师们依靠工人们的智慧发明了一种新的生产方法，使生产率得以提高。Drawing on the wisdom of the workers, the engineers invented a new production method that led to increased productivity. 4) 他花了许多时间准备数学考试，因此当他获知自己只得了个B时感到有点失望。 He spent a lot of time preparing for his math exam. Hence he was somewhat disappointed to learn that he got only a B. 5) 我们有充裕的时间从从容容吃顿午饭。 We have ample time for a leisurely lunch. 6) 地方政府不得不动用储备粮并采取其他紧急措施，以渡过粮食危机。 The local government had to draw on its grain reserves and take other emergency measures so as to pull through the food crisis. Unit3 翻译
大学英语精读第四册课后翻译答案 unit 1 1.我们接到通知，财政部长将于次日接见我们。 We were informed that the Minister of Finance was to meet us the next day. 2.我觉得很奇怪，他似乎不记得自己的生日。 I thought it odd that he didn’t seem to remember his own birthday. 3.学期论文最迟应在下星期二交来，可是大部分学生却至今几无进展。 Next Tuesday is the deadline for handing in the term papers, but most students have hardly made a dent in the work so far. 4.看到学生人数不断减少，校长心里很难受。 It pained the headmaster to find the number of students shrinking. 5.在那个国家一般用现金付账，但支票变得普通起来了，不久会代替现金作为人们结账的一种方式。 Cash is commonly used in paying bills in that country, but checks are becoming more popular and will, in a short while, replace cash as a way for people to settle their accounts. 6.该公司声称，这条河流的污染不是它造成的。 the company claims that it is not responsible for the pollution in river. unit2 1.比尔已是个成熟的小伙子，不再依赖父母替他作主。 Bill is a mature young man who is no longer dependent on his parents for decisions. 2.这个地区有大量肉类供应，但新鲜果蔬奇缺。 There are abundant supplies of meat in this region, but fresh fruit and vegetables are scarce. 3.工程师们依靠工人们的智慧，发明了一种新的生产方法，使生产率得以提高。
Unit1翻译 1) 我们接到通知，财政部长将于次日接见我们。 We were informed that the Minister of Finance was to give us an audience /receive us the next day. 2) 我觉得很奇怪，他似乎不记得自己的生日。 I thought it odd that he didn't seem to remember his own birthday. 3) 学期论文最迟应在下星期二交来，可是至今大部分学生却几无进展。 Next Tuesday is the deadline for handing in the term papers, but most students have hardly made a dent in the work so far. 4) 看到学生人数不断减少，校长心里很难受。(pain) It pained the headmaster to find the number of students shrinking. 5) 在那个国家一般用现金付账，但支票变得普遍起来了，不久会代替现金作为人们结账的一种方式。 Cash is commonly used in paying bills in that country, but checks are becoming more popular and will, in a short while, replace cash as a way for people to settle their accounts. 6) 该公司声称，这条河流的污染不是它造成的。 The company claims that it is not responsible for the pollution in the river. Unit2翻译 1) 比尔已是个成熟的小伙子，不再依赖父母替他做主。 Bill is a mature young man who is no longer dependent on his parents for decisions. 2) 这个地区有大量肉类供应，但新鲜果蔬奇缺。 There are abundant supplies of meat in this region, but fresh fruit and vegetables are scarce. 3) 工程师们依靠工人们的智慧发明了一种新的生产方法，使生产率得以提高。 Drawing on the wisdom of the workers, the engineers invented a new production method that led to increased productivity. 4) 他花了许多时间准备数学考试，因此当他获知自己只得了个B时感到有点失望。 He spent a lot of time preparing for his math exam. Hence he was somewhat disappointed to learn that he got only a B. 5) 我们有充裕的时间从从容容吃顿午饭。
一，连线 1 extremely a. very 2 hazard b. danger 3 pollute c. make dirty or unfit for use 4 originally d. in the beginning 5 feasibility e. possibility of being carried out6survive f. continue to live7 atmosphere g. the whole mass of air round the earth 8 conclusion h. belief or opinion which is the result 9 procceed i. continue after an interruption10 conference j. a meeting for discussion11 billion k. a thousand million12 humorous l. amusing and funny 1 mysterious c. hid2vanish f. arrive as expected 3 mask j. move 4 pull into i. shock5bightly h. go back 6. come through e. cheerfully and happily7 exclaim b. disappear8 retreat g. cry loudly9 stun d arrive at10 make one’s way a. hard to explain or under 二.填空. 1. Industrial cities such as Chicago and Detroit have severely ________the waters of the Great Lakes. 2. They are studying the ______ of building a new shopping center outside town. 3. Medical researchers reached the _________long ago that smoking is a serious __________to health. 4. George Washington, the first President of the United States, is _________the Father of His Country. 5. The fire that broke out in the plant during the night was still seen ________a lot of smoke the next morning. 6. The World Cup was transmitted around the world by ________. 7. The movie we are going to see is said to be ________the life story of an American general. 8. They are nine _________in the solar system. They are : Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. 9. Supporters of gun control have worked for many years to ban the sale of ___________handguns in American. 10. My native town, which was _________rather small, has now been built into one of the biggest cities in the province. 11. Jinmao Building in Pudong, Shanghai an be seen from miles away,_________ into the sky. 12. The speaker said something about the actors first and then __________to talk about the film. 13. We had a long debate ___________whether we should spend so mush money on space technology. 14. A plate dropped from her fingers and _________into pieces on the kitchen floor. 15. The bad weather __________our building program by three weeks. 16. “Why won’t you to go to Tibet with me ?” “_________,l don’t like fl ying, and _______________,l can’t afford it .”