【正文】 love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man.15. not so much…as和not so much as …結(jié)構(gòu)，not so much…as=not so much as …，其中as有進(jìn)可換用but rather，可譯為：與其說是……毋須說是……。而not so much as=without(not)even，可譯為甚至……還沒有。The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it.16. Nothing is more…than和Nothing is so …as結(jié)構(gòu)，Nothing is more…than和Nothing is so …as都具有最高級比較的意思，Nothing I可換用no，nobody，nowhere，little，few，hardly，scarcely等等，可譯為沒有……比……更為，像……再沒有了，最……等。Nothing is more precious than time.17. cannot…too…結(jié)構(gòu),cannot…too…意為It is impossible to overdo…或者，即無論怎樣……也不算過分。not可換用hardly，scarcely等，too可換用enough，sufficient等。You cannot be too careful.36. Is this what you intended to acplish with your careers? Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?[參考譯文]上星期參議員羅博特多爾質(zhì)問時代華納公司的高級管理人員們：難道這就是你們希望能夠成就的事業(yè)?你們已經(jīng)出賣了自己的靈魂，但是難道你們還非要腐化我們的國家，威脅我們的孩子們嗎?37. The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column39。, lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be...[參考譯文]對任何一個民主社會的考驗，他在《華爾街雜志》的一個專欄文章中寫到，不在于它能夠多有效地控制各種意見的表達(dá)，而在于這個社會是否能給予思考和表達(dá)的盡可能廣泛的自由，不管有時候這種結(jié)果是多么的富有爭議或令人不快…38. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month39。s stockholders39。 meeting, Levin asserted that music is not the cause of society39。s ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to municate with students.[參考譯文]在上個月的股東大會上關(guān)于搖滾歌詞的討論中，萊文宣稱說：音樂不是社會問題的原因，他甚至還以他的兒子為例。他的兒子是紐約州布朗克斯的一個教師，并用說唱音樂與學(xué)生們進(jìn)行溝通。39. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as steering the economy to a soft landing of a touch on the brakes ， makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.[參考譯文]有很多用于描述貨幣政策的詞匯，例如輕踩剎車以操縱經(jīng)濟(jì)軟著陸，使貨幣政策聽起來像是一門精確的科學(xué)。沒有什么比這更遠(yuǎn)離實際情況的了。40. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America39。s, have little productive slack.[參考譯文]經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家們對英國和美國的有利的通貨膨脹數(shù)據(jù)尤其感到驚訝，因為傳統(tǒng)的計量方法顯示兩國的經(jīng)濟(jì)，特別是美國的經(jīng)濟(jì)，幾乎沒有生產(chǎn)蕭條的時候。參考答案 Answer:1. whether （it is） heated or not2. did he charge me too much3. pared with mine4. half as much （money）5. to attribute their children39。s success to6. the match has been called off7. but I39。ll make an exception in your case8. We39。ll have to put off （going on） vacation9. I didn39。t mean to give you a lot of trouble10. I don39。t really want to go to the party11. It is not until they lose it12. with dirty clothes13. With many friends absent14. What impressed me the most15. less powerful than the ones we have madePassage 8D A C C A D B D B B C A A C B C A D B D 參考答案：c d c a b