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. Paraphrase (20%) (2分1題)2. The buryingground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up.3. Immediately from their dark holelike cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited.4. Bar friends, although they met each other frequently did not delve into each other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.5. This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.6. It is not a matter of interest if they are cross or in a bad temper.7. Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view.8. But somehow in the past I never really perceived how shocking and wretched this whole region was.9. This dreadful scene makes all human endeavors to advance and improve their lot appear as a ghastly, saddening joke.10. The country itself is pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread by the innumerable mills in this region.11. The young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families.III. Translation (20%) (2分1題)1. 我撕下一塊面包,他感激地把面包放進(jìn)破衣裳貼身的地方。(wring)7. Tim的婚姻亮起了紅燈。3.一個(gè)自由社會(huì)如若不能幫助眾多的窮人,也就無法保全少數(shù)的富人。(chances)9. 我問起他美國的生活,他馬上警覺起來。Test OneI. Vocabulary (30%)Section 1: From the list of words at the top, select the correct word or phrase for each blank space. Use each word or phrase only once (15%). lashed scudded desolate derelict undoing makings booming contemptuous a catalytic agent sprees swiveled smoldered lucrative macabre adjunct1. Hurricane Camille _________ northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico.2. Gray clouds________ in from the Gulf on the rising wind.3. Most of Morocco is so _________ that no wild animal bigger than a hare can lie on it.4. The buryingground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a _________ building lot.5. The Americans are unwilling to witness or permit the slow ________ of these human rights to which this nation has been mitted.6. Although she was not very smart now, she already had the _________7. The _________ of American industry no longer left any room for the code of the Victorian age.8. Journalism was a mere ________ to mercialism.9. The war acted as ____________ in this breaking down of the Victorian social structure.10. Like most escapist _________, this one lasted until the money ran out.11. Not hostile, not _________ , not sullen, not even inquisitive.12. Back and forth, his head ________, desire waxing, resolution waning.13. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still __________.14. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most _________ and characteristic activity.15. It reduced the whole aspiration of man to a ________and depressing joke.Section 2: From the list of words at the top, select the correct synonym for the underlined words or phrases in each sentence (15%) hit distress fell apart noticeable crazy gap aimlessly toughened call forth ambitious perceptive industriousput an end to moral attitudes criticism 1. Hurricane Camille was certain to pummel Gulfport, Miss., where the Koshaks lived.2. The group heard gunlike reports as other upstairs windows disintegrated.3. But the blues did occasionally afflict all the adults.4. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews.5. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.6. The conversation moved desultorily here and there.7. What al this tells us is of a deep rift in the culture of England after the Norman Conquest.8. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.9. This new generation has been tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.10. Flaming diatribes poured from their pens denouncing the materialism.11. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.12. He was an enterprising fellow.13. He called himself a perspicacious man.14. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.15. Thus in a changing world youth was faced with the challenge of bring our mores up to date.II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%)1. We’re elevated 23 feet.2. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it.3. No one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.4. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe.5. And it is an activity only of humans.6. Boy and man, I had been through the region often before.7. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middleaged8. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it.9. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact.10. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.III. Translate the following sentences (using the expressions given in the brackets. (20%)1. A moment later, the hurricane lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air.2. In a tropical landscape one’s eyes takes in everything except the human beings.3. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.4. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. 5. Here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of rally cats.6. 暴風(fēng)雨使旅客們處于孤立無援的處境。(sit up)10. 一絲智慧的光芒閃現(xiàn)在他的眼中。4.趕時(shí)髦就是最缺乏理智的表現(xiàn)。(on the rocks)8. 法律規(guī)定對受賄該處以什么刑法?(prescribe)9. 他試圖超過他的對手但最終還是失敗了。2. 于是話題又從19世紀(jì)的澳大利亞囚犯轉(zhuǎn)到12世紀(jì)的英國農(nóng)民。6. For people living in this poor area, their life generation after generation has been to wring a little food out of this eroded area.7. Tim’s marriage is