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ues Close Test Reading Translation 1.I must get my brother to pick me at the restaurant. 2.The dinner party will be held in of the new ers. 3.The sign X an unknown number. for place of by up 4. The letters were sent to him a big parcel. with along all over 5.He knew he did something wrong. As he waited, his fears . 6.I will give her the letter she es back. soon as the time 7.At first he found what he wanted to. it hard to do hard to do C. hard to do do it 8. He mentioned the film, the title is memorable for all of us. it which 9.Not his phone number, they couldn39。s that? I39。m planning to go to New York. , but I39。t been getting much sleep either. 39。 they rely on depositors(儲戶) not to demand payment all at the same time. If depositors should e to fear that a bank is not safe, that it cannot pay off all its depositors, then that fear might cause all the depositors to appear on the same day. If they did, the bank could not pay all accounts. However, if they did not all appear at once, then there would always be enough money to pay those who wanted their money when they wanted it. Mrs. Elsie Vaught has told us of a terrifying bank run that she experienced. One day in December of 1925 several banks failed to open in a city where Mrs. Vaught lived. The other banks expected a run the next day, and so the officers of the bank in which Mrs. Vaught worked as a teller had enough money on hand to pay off their depositors. The officers simply told the tellers to pay on demand. The next morning a crowd gathered in the bank and on the sidewalk outside. The length of the line made many think that the bank could not possibly pay off everyone. People began to push and then to fight for places near the tellers39。1 B 句子的意思是,我必須讓我哥哥來飯店接我。Stand by,袖手旁觀。Heighten,加劇,加強。All the time, 一直,總是。一般接電話的時候沒有人會象選項B里那樣毫不留情。A、B兩句雖然也都談到芝加哥,不過與問句內(nèi)容不相干。 16 A 現(xiàn)在完成時一般表示從過去某時開始一直到現(xiàn)在發(fā)生的情況。 19 B 問:“周末你打算干什么?”選項A:“周末天氣會晴朗?!? 21 B 這里,用 titles 指代書(books),是一種借代用法。 29 A 從句子結(jié)構(gòu)來看,空格里需要一個能夠與 of 構(gòu)成固定搭配的詞語,且意思上能夠與前文形成轉(zhuǎn)折或讓步含義,只有 In spite of (盡管,不管) 符合語境。 39 D 參見短文第二段最后兩句話。36 B 短文第一段介紹了有關(guān)銀行用戶同時提取存款的問題,實際上就是 bank run 的具體含義。 27 D 本句中用了一般現(xiàn)在時,說明所談?wù)摰氖虑閼?yīng)該是現(xiàn)在的事情?!边x項B:“對不起,我不應(yīng)該那么發(fā)火的?!边x項C:“我還沒想好。C句:是的,離我家鄉(xiāng)很遠。B句:芝加哥離這兒很遠。這句話的意思是,就象預(yù)料的那樣,就這個問題的反應(yīng)是很不相同的。Till 和 until 的意思一樣,只是until 比till 更正式,而且如果由其引導(dǎo)的短語或從句置于句首時,多用 until.。All over, 遍布;結(jié)束,完了。Stand for, 代表。 、語言和食品,從而把美國變成了一個多種族多民族的國家。 for example, it is possible to fly from London to New York in three and a half hours on a jet plane. Also, we watch the Olympic Games and other international events on television at home through satellites. And all over the world, puters control many banking systems and industries. Computers also make munications between people easier and faster. Other changes make the world smaller