（0203）《英语阅读四》复习思考题
Part I Blank Filling (10)
Here is a list of words and expressions from the texts you have learned. Choose an appropriate word in appropriate form for each blank in the sentence below the list. You will not use all the words. Exercise 1
elongate
novelty slip away bully
squirt destruction delirious
struggle with devastate
in communion with
visibility track down
1. I finally the reference in a dictionary of quotations.
2. The of his surroundings soon wore off, i.e. He grew accustomed to them. 3. We must be prepared to the problems in our lives.
4. The boys and girls burst into a big laughter when they saw their figures in the mirror. 5. The children were with joy as they opened the parcels. 6. We from the library to the cinema last night. 7. He appears to be a poet, who is always nature.
8. The parents scolded him because he his younger brother again. 9. War the whole country and made many people homeless. 10. was down to 100 meters in the fog.
Exercise 2 perish the thought
be cut out for sth. cradle
shirk payment meager
presumably mire in plight uniqueness concentrate on offspring 1. He doesn‘t want to be a teacher because he 2. He will resign in view of the complete failure of his policy.
not teaching.
3. I was in a dreadful — I had lost my money and missed the last train home. 4. The Basque language is not related to any other language in the world. This puzzled linguists for years.
5. We must our efforts improving education.
him in her arms.
6. The baby stopped crying while his mother has
7. Our appeal for help met with a response.
8. You are supposed to tidy up the room, so stop and do it! 9. The house can be paid for in ten yearly of $500. 10. She is the of a scientist and a musician.
Exercise 3 intuition
catastrophe gossip
grotesque devote to track down
wreck havoc with contaminate assess
reliability domesticate and her inventions.
depreciation
1. Whenever I go to the village shop, I hear good-natured about my next-door neighbor
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2. SARS our plan to go to Australia.
3. The earthquake was a terrible , which made lots of people homeless. 4. Shares in the company have suffered a sharp because of the war. 5. What is your of this state of affairs?
6. Our local newspaper has one page news about minority groups.
7. The Indian elephant has been for centuries to carry large loads and perform other
heavy work.
8. The river has been seriously by chemicals. 9. They
Exercise 4
cut out for
flash out call for visibility
dress rehearsal struggle with novelty
match up domesticate wonder
depreciation concentrate on
the burglars with the help of the dogs.
10. Nobody told me where to find you. It was sheer .
1. Hard work was no to a person from a poor family like him.
to our hopes. of the stocks.
2. It wasn‘t a bad holiday, but the weather didn‘t 4. The Indian elephant has been heavy work. 5. If you don‘t more 3. He was unable to accept the great loss caused by the for centuries to carry large loads and perform other your work you will be dismissed!
heavy house chores everyday. anything.
. 6. Even though she is only seven years old, she has to 8. Our education cause 10. It‘s no
Exercise 5 plight
shirking
payment malicious more
7. He feels very frustrated because he thinks that he was not more qualified teachers.
9. They made many mistakes in their performance because they hadn‘t attended the you can‘t sleep when you eat so much!
admittedly meager stamp
offspring presumably mire in
uniqueness concentrate on
1. , I didn‘t know what to say at that moment. 2. If you don‘t your work you will be dismissed!
3. You are supposed to tidy up the room, so stop and do it! 4. She is the of a scientist and a musician.
5. I was in a dreadful — I had lost my money and missed the last train home. 6. We are very surprised at her comment on this event. 7. Our appeal for help met with a response.
8. The Basque language is not related to any other language in the world. This has puzzled
linguists for years.
9. The little girl her foot in anger.
10. He will resign in view of the complete failure of his policy.
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Part II Translation (10)
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. Ephraim was a middle son, not brilliant or stupid, not good or bad. He was nothing in particular. 2. To cut a diamond perfectly is an art like a samurai‘s sword thrust, or a master archer‘s centered arrow. 3. While Ephraim learned to do this, he lived at home in Johannesburg suburbs; and his brothers and
sisters married and had families.
4. On the beach of a little island in Florida, a college professor was collecting seashells from among
thousands that lay strewn over the sands.
5. With the exception of Australia‘s Great Barrier Reef and a few remote spots in the South Pacific, there
is no other place in the world that offers collectors such a variety.
6. Shell collecting may never become as popular as stamp or coin collecting, but it is enjoyed by
thousands of people all over the world.
7. Since the advent of deep-sea diving and skin diving, several shells that were once extremely rare have
dropped in value.
8. Kathy started at my nursery school at the age of two years nine months. She was small for her age but
confident, competent and determined.
9. No punishment had been given, but the bullies had been ignored and the victims rewarded. 10. She was a lovely child but unfortunately a scratcher.
11. Unlike the carefully weighed and planned compositions of Dante, Goethe‘s writings have always the
sense of immediacy and enthusiasm.
12. Education in any society is a mirror of that society.
13. It is said that she came up fifteen times before the curtain fell — sometimes upside down, then the
right way up — now laughing in delirious glee, now screaming with rage.
14. On this particular occasion that innocuous firing squad was composed of enthusiastic local college
boys, totally ignorance of the story.
15. No memories of his past life flashed before him. He felt no fear, no panic.
16. There was nothing he could do to save himself, and he knew that he would know nothing of the end
when it came.
17. Three hours later Alkemade regained consciousness, lying on his back in snow in a small pine wood. 18. The two chemicals, produced in different buildings at Michigan Chemical Corporation‘s factory,
should have been kept in separate warehouses, and dispatched from different loading areas.
19. Cattle ate contaminated feed day after day for months before one farmer, with an exceptional
knowledge of chemicals, was able to track down the reason why so many of his animals had sickened and died.
20. Consequently, for at least nine months, heavily contaminated meat and dairy products were widely
sold in Michigan supermarkets.
21. By then the experts had discovered that PBB can wreak havoc with the liver, the central nervous
system, the bones and the immunity system.
22. ?We were mired in a swamp of ignorance,‘ Michigan‘s Director of Public Health later admitted. 23. Universities are devising a new national test for graduates to help employers select recruits.
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