英语专业专升本试题及答案

《高级英语(一)》作业

I. Explain the italicized words in English

1.The very act …was for me a far greater adventure than any trip or any reportorial assignment I’d previously taken.

2.Others were using little red telephones that hung on the facades of grocery stores and tobacco shops.

3.and experiencing a twinge of embarrassment at the prospect of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima in my socks.

4.where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered on to die in slow agony

5.jolting me out of my sad reverie

6.They would also like to demolish the atomic museum.

7.My research for the underlying causes of the world to examine and study many of these images of destruction.

8.I traveled by snowmobiles a few miles further north to a rendezvous point

9.Moreover, scientists established several years ago that…the temperature of the earth is steadily rising.

10.particular, local and regional problems occurring simultaneously all over the world

11.they have completely transformed our cumulative ability to exploit the earth for sustenance

12.it arises out of the relationship between the superpowers and is based on an obsolete understanding of what war is all about.

13.The Germans…seemed to be dri ving forward with great rapidity and violence.

14.he reverted to this theme

15.I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land

16.I see that small group of villainous men，who plan，organize

17.We will never parley.

18.he is woefully mistaken

19.This is for real.

20.Now we are getting somewhere.

21.As if they were oblivious of the crowds about them

22.The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.

23.Seldom has a city gained such world renown.

24.I thought that Hiroshima still felt the impact of the atomic cataclysm

25.your children will encounter prejudice on the part of those who do not

26.scientists monitor the air several times every day to chart the course of that inexorable change.

27.with horizon defined by little hummocks…where separate sheets collide

28.But one doesn’t have to travel around the world to witness humankind’s assault on the earth.

29.This increase in heat seriously threatens the global climate equilibrium

30.Our challenge is to recognize that the startling images of environmental destruction…awaken us.

31.There only remained the task of composing it.

32.Hitler was counting on enlisting capitalist and Right Wing sympathies

33.He devoted the whole day to it

34.I see the Russian soldiers guarding the fields … tilled from time immemorial

35.I feel sure it is a decision in which the Great Dominions will in due course concur.

36.without distinction of race, creed, or party

37.and saved the world from this catastrophe

38.It’s no go.

39.I’ll spell it out.

40.On a hunch I went over to the garage and took a quiet look-see at your car.

41.Well now, there’s no call for being hasty。

42.Assuming the hotel man was bought off

43.I figure you people are pretty well fixed.

II. Paraphrase

1.he will price the item high, and yield little in the bargaining

2.as you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear

3. Serious looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them.

4. the prospects of a good catch looked bleak

5. I will unsay no word that I have spoken about it.

6. Pretty neat set-up you folks got.

7. The Duchess of Croydon ---three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance behind her ---did not

yield easily.

8.they narrow down their choice and begin the really serious business of beating the price down

9.The few Americans and Germans seemed just as inhibited as I was.

10.I was about to make my little bow of assent, when the meaning of these last words sank in, jolting me out of my sad reverie.

11.Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef

12.My life is much simplified thereby.

13.Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain.

14.The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone

III. Translate the following into Chinese

1.The seller, on the other hand, makes a point of protesting that the price he is charging is depriving him of all profit, and that he is sacrificing this because of his personal regard for the customer.

2.“Each day that I escape death, each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares, I make a new little paper bird, and add it to the others. This way I look at them and congratulate myself on the good fortune that illness has brought me. Because, thanks to it, I have the opportunity to improve my character.”

3.Certainly the miracle chip will affect American life in ways both benign and productive. The computer revolution is stimulating intellects, liberating limbs and propelling mankind to a higher order of existence.

4.The pole is attached at the one end to an upright post around which it can revolve, and at the other to a blind-folded camel, which walks constantly in a circle, providing the motive power to turn the stone wheel.

5.Just as the Industrial Revolution took over an immense range of tasks form men’s muscles and enormously expanded productivity, so the microcomputer is rapidly assuming huge burdens of drudgery from the human brain and thereby expanding the mind’s capacities in ways that man has only begun to grasp.

6.The strategic nature of the threat now posed by human civilization to the global environment and the strategic nature of the threat to human civilization now posed by changes in the global environment present us with a similar set of challenges and false hopes. Some argue that a new ultimate technology, whether nuclear power or genetic engineering, will solve the problem. Others hold that only a drastic reduction of our reliance on technology can improve the conditions of life --- a simplistic notion at best. But the real solution will be found in reinventing and finally healing the relationship between civilization and the earth. This can only be accomplished by undertaking a careful reassessment of all the factors that led to the relatively recent dramatic change in the relationship. The transformation of the way we relate to the earth will of course involve new technologies, but the key changes will involve new ways of thinking about the relationship itself.

IV. Translate the following into English

1.一条蜿蜒的小路隐没在树荫深处。

2.黄昏临近时，天渐渐地暗下来了。

3.我可以占用你几分钟时间吗？

4.虽然成功的机会很少,我们仍然要竭尽全力去干。

5.尽管这些神奇的集成线路片有数不清的性能，但还需要由人为它们编制程序。

6.为了实现四个现代化，我们认为有必要学习外国的先进科学技术。

7.他喜欢这些聚会，喜欢与年轻人交往并就各种问题交换意见。

8.在山的那边是一望无际的大草原。

9.礼堂里一个人都没有，会议一定是延期了。

10.我记不得他是怎么说的,但我肯定他讲话的大意是那样的。

11.如不另行通知，我们的会在明天上午十点开。

12.这个装置能够在一、两秒之内把信息发到另一个半球去。

13.四川话和湖北话很相似，有难以区别。

14.他们别无选择，只好依靠他的努力了。

15.他们的困难就是我们的困难，正如我们把他们的胜利看作是我们自己的胜利一样。

V. Answer the following questions

1.Could a blind man know which part of the bazaar he was in?

2.What do you think was the aim of the visit in Lesson 2?

3.Why did the writer go to the Aral Sea? What did he see there?

4.What was Churchill’s reaction to the news of Hitler’s invasion of Russia? Why?

5.Why is the cloth-market “muted”?

6.Even in this short description one may find some of the problems of Japan, or at least, of Hiroshima. Can you say what they are?

7.Why would the thinning of the polar ice cap be disastrous to the world?

8.Why did Churchill side with the Soviet Union since he had always been an avowed enemy of communism?

9.What scene do you find most picturesque in the bazaar?

10.Why didn’t the writer ask the patients of the atomic ward the questions he had prepared in advance?

11.What causes global warming? Why is it considered a strategic threat?

12.What, according to Ch urchill, was Hitler’s motive in invading Russia? Do you agree with him?