大学新视野英语期末复习题(5)

If you can‘t _____ your absence from the class, you will be punished.

A) prove B) justify C) testify D) explain

(Key: 1-5 D A B D C 6-10 D B C A B)

III．WB （Word Building: 构词法应用10题）

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word forms of the words given in the brackets.

1. To raise the yield of crops, _____ farming is very important. (intense)

2. When people came to get the boy out of the water, he was already_____. (drowning)

3. The bus broke down on my way to school; as a result, I missed Mr. Johnson‘s history class, but it was a _____absence. (justify)

4. The tyrant‘s _____ enraged all the people in his country and finally a rebellion broke out. (cruel)

5. She owes her success to _____ hard work. (sustain)

6. If no one has any _____, I will declare the meeting closed. (object)

7. The police reported that three men and a woman were involved in the bank _____ last week. (rob)

8. Experts have _____ the possibility of a second earthquake in the area.(count)

9. Those events are just a /an____ memory now.(distinct)

10. Our students are being _____ by his extreme right wing ideas! (contamination)

Key

intensive

drowned

justifiable

cruelty

sustained

objections

robbery

discounted

indistinct

contaminated

4．ECT （英译汉两句）

Directions: Translate the English sentences into Chinese.

1．答案：他们形成自己的风格，为了迅速走红，其经纪人极力吹捧他们这种风格，他们青云直上的过程让人雾里看花。

1．They develop a style that agents market aggressively to hasten popularity, and their ride on the express elevator to the top is a blur.

2．答案：公众对于艺术家们籍以成名的艺术风格以外的任何风格形式完全不屑一顾。

2．The public simply discounts styles other than those for which the artist has become famous.

5．GW（Guided Writing: 命题作文一篇）

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on What Does Fame Bring? according to the Chinese outline, and you must use at least 120 words.

1. 许多人不择手段追求成名的原因是……；

2. 有人认为名声给人带来更多麻烦；

3. 我的看法。

英文范文：

What Does Fame Bring?

Generally speaking, ―Fame‖ is an attractive thing people chase after, because it always brings wealth, admiration from others and high social status. However, there are also other people who hold a negative view toward fame and I am one of the latter.

In my opinion, fame is not only a burden, but also a trap. Usually people gain fame because they possess a single talent or skill: singing, painting, or writing, etc. These people develop a style that make them distinctive and gain popularity. In order to keep this popularity, they have to continue performing in the same way, since this is what the public want. However, as time goes on, the singer may become bored singing the same songs in the same way, or the painter becomes bored painting similar scenes or portraits, but the demand of the public doesn‘t allow them to make changes; if the artist attempts to change his or her style of writing or dancing or singing, the public may abandon him or her. As a result, the artist can‘t make his or her decision but has to live a life they don‘t want. Thus chasing fame is just like an animal chasing its own tail and when he captures it, he does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it.

In one word, fame is more like a trap than a blessing and I don‘t want it myself.

Unit Two (Book Four)

形成性练习

I. RF

4-RF-02

Key: 1-5 TTFTF 6-10 TTFTF

Letters: Obsolete Technology

Readers‘ complaints that our young people are helpless when thrown back on obsolete technology, such as the dial telephone and simple addition, have aroused a protest.

You may remember reading here about the fifth-grade pupil who wanted to call home from school but didn‘t know how to use the dial phone, and the ice cream parlor that had to close because the computerized cash register broke down.

These stories suggested that young people are almost wholly dependent on state of the art technology, and also that we older people are becoming obsolete or outdated along with the machines of our era.

Perhaps it is the latter that hurts.

John A. Junot wants to know whether, if my car broke down, I would know how to ride a horse.

I might be willing to try. But the problem is --- where could I ride one?

Junot suggests that I would either get the car repaired or replace it. That is what today‘s young engineers do when their computers break down, he points out.

In that respect I am as dependent on modern technology as the young, I have allowed myself to become wholly dependent on my computer, and when it breaks down I am like a man cast adrift at sea in a small boat.

―Cultures do not lose arts and skills,‖ Junot argues. ―They abandon them. Calculating by slide rule is in exactly the same class as archery, blacksmithing, sailing, hand-weaving and drawing. To the extent that those things are done, they are done by hobbyists, historians and cultural anthropologists and are preserved mainly by librarians.‖

Junot points out that certain ancient skills, such as archery and sailing, are themselves improved by modern technology. ―Robin Hood probably couldn‘t shoot one of today‘s graphite (石墨)/epoxy (环氧的) compound bows.‖

He says: ―And so to that fifth-grader who didn‘t know how to dial-type phone, you imply that the boy was somehow culturally deprived, and that it would come in handy‘ if he learned.‖

―I fail to see how. Rotary-dial phones are going the way of high-button shoes; they are uncommon now and doomed to …… 此处隐藏：5468字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……