IV. 翻译

第一，英译汉

1.On his way home yesterday, he met an old friend and stopped to talk with him for quite a while.

答：昨天在他回家的路上，他遇到了一位自己的老朋友，并且跟他在路上聊了很长时间。

2.The foreign expert speaks Chinese as if he were a Chinese.

答：这位外国专家操着一口流利的汉语，好像他就是一名中国人一样。

3.Hong Kong is one of the world’s most important financial centers and it is also an important port city.

答：香港是世界上最重要的贸易中心之一，并且也是一座重要的港口城市。

4.The mystery was solved when the police discovered the murder weapon.

答：当警察发现谋杀武器后，这一谜团便很快被搞清楚了。

5.At the beginning of the 20^th century the average age at which people married began to decline.

答：在二十世纪出的时候，人们结婚的平均年龄开始下降。

6.We have to make up our minds at once, or they’ll go without us.

答：我们必须马行做出决定，否则他们会弃我们

III. Reading Comprehension

第一篇

Americans and Arabs are different in their space habits. Arabs prefer close contact. Dr. Hall has explained that the Arabs belong to a touch culture and in conversation they always envelop the other person. They hold his hand, look into his eyes, and bathe him in their breath.

Dr. Hall’s interest in man’s use of space developed in the nineteen fifties when he was Director of the Point Four training program at the Foreign Service Institute. In talking with Americans who had lived overseas, he found that many of them had been highly uncomfortable because of culture differences. Such discomfort is usually referred to as culture shock.

The problem is that, relatively speaking, Americans live in a non-contact culture. Partly, this is a product of our puritan heritage （清教徒文化遗产）. Dr. Hall points out that we spend years teaching our children not to crowd in and lean on us. And in situations where we ourselv

英语2模拟题1

I. Circle the best answer from the four choices labeled A, B, C, and D for each sentence.

1.We are fully prepared _____C_____ more hard work.

A. on        B. in           C. for      D. \

2. Allen ___A____ any good job since he came to New York City two years ago.
A. hasn’t found　　 B. didn’t find    C. doesn’t find　　 D. hadn’t found

3.It was ____B_____ late to save the drowning boy as he had gone down for the third time.

A.      so        B. too          C. such      D. much

4. They have two teams, and _____C___ have a good chance of winning.

A. all        B. either    &

IChoose from the underlined parts the one that is different in pronunciation from the others.

D1.  A. get        B. bet        C. bed       D. bad

C2.  A. art        B. heart      C. cup       D. park

C3.  A. pick       B. keep      C. kiss       D. cat

B4.  A. May       B. bag       C. say       D. cake

A5.  A. drink       B. tree      C. t