2级期中口试题学生复习2013级

2013级2级班期中口试复习时间：教学周第9周, 每位学生约3分钟。

1. 朗读课文(教师自选课文段落)；30% 45秒判分标准：吐字清晰：5分；语音正确：10分；语速适中、停顿等：5分；语言自然、流利：10分。

2. 课文翻译（教师抽选2句，英译中）；20% 40秒判分标准：反应快速：5分；语言准确：10分；译文流畅自然等：5分。

1) We budget it, save it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; we also charge for it.我们安排时间、节约时间、浪费时间、挤抢时间、消磨时间、缩减时间、对时间的使用作出解释；我们还要因付出时间而收取费用。

2) Once the sands have run out of a person’s hourglass, they cannot be replaced. We want every minute to count..一旦人生的光阴逝去，就不能复返了。

我们应当让每一分钟都过得有意义。

3) You also find drivers will be abrupt and people will push past you..你还会发现汽车司机开车很鲁莽, 人们推搡着在你身边过去。

4) Normally, Americans do not assess their visitors in such a relaxed surroundings over extended small talk; much less do they take them out for dinner.一般来说，美国人是不会在如此轻松的环境里通过长时间的闲聊来评估他们的客人，更不用说带他们出去吃饭, ······5) we communicate rapidly through faxes, phone calls or emails rather than through personal contacts, which though pleasant, take longer — especially given our traffic-filled streets. 我们通过发传真、打电话或发电子邮件与他人迅速地进行交流, 而不是通过直接接触。

虽然面对面接触令人愉快，但却要化更多的时间, 尤其是在马路上交通拥挤时。

6) To us the impersonality of electronic communication has little or no relation to the significance of the matter at hand. In some countries no major business is conducted without eye contact, requiring face-to-face conversation. 就我们而言，电子交流的缺乏人情味与我们手头上事情的重要性之间很少有或完全没有关系。

在有些国家里，没有当面接触就做不成大生意, 需要面对面的交谈。

7) However, people are meeting increasingly on television screens, conducting teleconferences to settle problems not only in this country but also—by satellite—internationally. 然而现在人们越来越多的是在电视屏幕上见面，开电信会议不仅能解决本国的问题，而且还能通过卫星解决国与国之间的问题。

8) Unless a certain amount of time is allowed to elapse, it seems in their eyes as if the task being considered were insignificant, not worthy of proper respect. 如果不是花一定的时间来处理某件事的话，则这件事就好像是无足轻重，不值得给予适当的重视。

9) In the U.S., however, it’s taken as a sign of skillfulness or being competent to solve a problem, or fulfill a job successfully, with speed. (L52) 但在美国，能迅速而又成功地解决问题或完成工作则被视为是有水平、有能力的标志。

10) Because your views may clash with the different beliefs, norms, values, and traditions that exist in different countries, you may have difficulty adjusting to a new culture and to those parts of the culture not familiar to you. (L6)因为你的观点可能会与存在于不同国家的不同信念、价值观念和传统发生冲突，在适应一种新的文化及该文化中你不熟悉的那些部分时，你也许会遇到困难。

11) After you deal with your hostile feelings, recognition of the temporary nature of culture shock begins. (Para.6)在你对付过了自己的敌对情绪后，你就会开始认识到文化冲击的短暂性。

12) You begin to see that even though the distinctions of the culture are different from your own, it has elements that you can learn to appreciate. (L47)你开始明白，虽然这种新的文化的特点和你自己的文化的特点有所不同，其中也必定有着值得你学习和欣赏的东西。

13) During our two years together we had experienced the usual ups and downs of a couple learning to know, understand, and respect each other. (L1)在一起相处的两年中，我们经历了一对情侣在学着相互了解、理解、和尊重时常常出现的磕磕碰碰。

14) Gail sometimes wondered why I and other blacks were so involved with the racial issue, and I was surprised that she seemed to forget the subtler forms of racial hatred in American society.盖尔有时不明白为何我和其他黑人如此热衷于种族问题，她好像忘记了美国社会中种族仇恨更加微妙的表现形式，这一点令我感到惊讶。

15) Gail and I had no illusions about what the future held for us as a married, mixed couple in America. (L10)作为一对居住在美国、异族通婚的夫妻，我和盖尔对未来不抱丝毫幻想。

16) We wanted to avoid the mistake made by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons, and only finding out ten, twenty, or thirty years later that they were incompatible, that they hardly took the time to know each other, that they overlooked serious personality conflicts in the expectation that marriage was an automatic way to make everything work out right. (L13)许多夫妻因为错误的理由结了婚，结果在10年、20年或30年后才发觉他们原来是合不来的。

他们在婚前几乎没有花时间去了解彼此，他们忽视了严重的性格差异，指望婚姻会自然而然地解决各种问题。

我们希望避免重蹈覆辙。

17) That point was emphasized by the fact that Gail’s parents, after thirty-five years of marriage, were going through a bitter and painful divorce, which had destroyed Gail and for a time had a negative effect on our budding relationship.下列事实强调了这样一点：已经结婚35年的盖尔父母正经历着一场充满怨恨、令人痛苦的婚变，这件事给了盖尔以毁灭性的打击、并一度给我们正处于萌芽状态的关系带来了负面的影响。

18) To start with I must admit that at first I harbored reservations about a mixed marriage, prejudices you might even call them. (L29)首先我必须承认，刚开始时我对异族通婚是有保留的，也许你甚至可以把这称为偏见。

19) My biggest worry is that you may be marrying Mark for the same wrong reasons that I married your father. (L.34)我最大的担心是你也许跟我当初嫁给你爸爸一样，是因为错误的原因而嫁给马克的。

20) Yo u may be right. But I still think that waiting won’t hurt. (L.45)你也许是对的。