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s seachest.41. The author describes Orr’s Island in a (n) ________ manner. A. emotionally appealing, imaginative B. rational, logically precise C. factually detailed, objective D. vague, uncertain 42. According to the passage, the “best room” _________ A. has its many windows boarded up. B. has had the furniture removed C. is used only on formal and ceremonious occasions. D. is the busiest room in the house. 43. From the description of the kitchen we can infer that the house belongs to people who __________ A. never have guests. B. like modern appliances. C. are probably religious. D. dislike housework 44. The passage implies that _________ A. few people attended the funeral B. fishing is a secure vocation. C. the island is densely populated. D. The house belonged to the deceased. 45. From the description of Zephaniah we can tell that he _________. A. was physically a very big man. B. preferred the lonely life of a sailor. C. always stayed at home. D. was frugal and saved a lot of money.翻譯:英譯漢一、We are all intimately familiar with at least one language, yet few of us ever stop to consider what we know about it. The words of a language can be listed in a dictionary, but not all the sentences. Speakers us a finite set of rules to produce and understand an infinite set of sentences. These rules prise the grammar of a language. They include the sound system and the way in which sounds and meanings are related. This linguistic knowledge is, however, different from linguistic behavior. If you woke up one morning and decided to stop talking, you would still have the knowledge of your is a tool of munication. But if language is defined merely as a system of munication, then language is not unique to humans. A basic property of human language is its creative aspect.漢譯英在美國(guó),學(xué)生通常要花很多時(shí)間在學(xué)校圖書(shū)館里,或完成一門(mén)課的作業(yè),或從事研究以便準(zhǔn)備要寫(xiě)的報(bào)告。s new is the scale and speed of the migrations made possible by the massive volume of shipballast water, continuously moving around the world… Ships load up with ballast water and its inhabitants in coastal waters of one port and dump the ballast in another port that may be thousands of kilometers away. A single load can run to hundreds of gallons. Some larger ships take on as much as 40 million gallons. The creatures that e along tend to be in their larva freefloating stage. When discharged in alien waters they can mature into crabs, jellyfish, slugs, and many other f