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Unit 3
英译汉
那座寺庙立于山侧，后靠半圈美丽的山群，与其相称之下，寺庙似乎显得庄严宏伟。他们向我展示一路沿山而上的建筑群是怎样精美的艺术，直到到达最后的建筑——树木环绕的白色大理石建筑之珍宝。这位中国设计师试图让其作品成为自然的装饰，利用了自然的偶得天成来完成装饰主题。他们向我指出那些树是如何种植以便与大理石门廊形成相称，在各处充当背景以提供怡人的阴凉。他们让我谈谈那些无比协调的屋顶，层层叠起、目不暇接，如鲜花般优雅。他们向我展示黄色瓷砖的不同色调，如此一来，感官不因一大片相同色彩而感到不适，而是取悦于色调的细微变化。 汉译英
Unit 4 Conversation 1
M: Good morning, Professor Harkens. I hope I am not disturbing you. W: Not at all, Tom. Come right in. I'm always in my office in the morning.
M: I thought I’d get an early start on my research paper and would like to discuss my topic with you if you have a moment.
W: Of course. I recommend that all my students should discuss their topics with me before they begin their research. What do you want to work on?
M: I was especially interested in your lecture on dinosaurs and the apparent mystery surrounding their extinction. I’d like to explore that question, but I’m not too sure how to go about it.
W: Well, according to the most widely held theory, the dinosaurs died out because of the sudden cooling of the earth’s temperature. Your textbook summarizes the conclusion of several paleontologists on this point.
M: Didn't you also mention a second theory in your lecture? That dinosaurs may simply have been replaced by mammals gradually and might not die out as a direct response to the cool weather?
W: Yes. Van Vellen and Sloan are proponents of this theory. And I've put some of their articles on reserve in the library.
M: Van Vellen and Sloan? I’d better write that down.
W: Let me know how your work progresses, Tom. If you should run into any
problems, be sure to stop by again.
( 236 words )
Questions 9 to11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. Who are the two speakers? (C)
10. What is the main focus of Tom's research? (B) 11. Who most likely are Van Vellen and Sloan? (C) Conversation 2
W: Hew! This rowing is hard work. Let’s have the boat toward the old lighthouse now.
M: Good idea. We can rest there for a while and eat our lunch. Then we can climb to the top platform where the light is before we visit the museum at the base of the lighthouse tower.
W: Whenever I came out here, I thought about the family who used to live on the little
island and take care of the light every night. What a lonely life that must have been!
M: Yeah, to help ships find their way along shoreline, at night, they had to constantly make sure that the windows up around the light were clean and free of ice and snow.
W: Dirty soot must have been a problem. Didn’t they burn candles up there?
M: This one used to have a kerosene lamp. But they changed over to electricity around 1920, I think.
W: In New Port, Rode Island, people talked about a woman who was a lighthouse keeper for over 50 years. Ida Louise was her name. She saved a lot of people from dying in ship wrecks.
M: Was her lighthouse out on an island like this one?
W: On one even smaller and further from land. In stormy weathers, it was pretty dangerous for small boats.
M: I understand the United States Coast Guard takes care of the most modem lighthouses.
W: Yeah, but the light is automatic nowadays. The lighthouse is still a friendly sight at night though.
M: Here we are. This lighthouse is the friendliest sight I’ve seen today. I’m exhausted. (269 words)
Questions 12 To 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. What are the people doing? (C)
13. What was a major problem for every lighthouse keeper? (B) 14. Why was Ida Louise famous? (B)
15. How does the man feel at the end of the conversation? ( B ) Section B Passage 1
More and more electronic devices and services in our daily life mean we have too many passwords and numbers to remember. Passwords help us protect our wealth and privacy; however, they also bring us a lot of troubles. Every day I need to remember much useless information. Every morning I turn on my cellphone – it needs a password. I get to work and I have to have access to my computer with a password. Like many people in Britain, I have two bank accounts. One needs a five-digit number and a password; the other needs a six-digit number and a memorable place name. I have an online savings account that needs a different password from the password for my bank account.
Even if you never use a computer, you can be hit by the password overload. Look in your wallet. You probably carry four or five credit cards. In these days of chip and pin, these are virtually useless if you do not have the magic four-digit numbers. The banks tell you not to have the same number for all your cards. Give me a break. Am I going to carry five different random four-digit numbers in my head? After all, I'm not Good Will Hunting.
I’ve tried systems to help me remember -- such as using the names of favorite films or members of my extended family; but none seems to work. So what is the solution? ( 238 words )
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. What do passwords bring to us? (D)
17. Which of the following does NOT need a password? (D) 18. What has the speaker tried to do to remember his passwords? (C) Passage 2
Internet is threatening our privacy. In the past, if a shop manager wanted to know you better, he had to rely on a good memory for detail. They came out from behind the counter to give you personalized service, browsed the shelves with you and made recommendations. In this digital marketplace, the ―shop manager‖ may actually be a machine. It searches in its memory of information about you, analyzes it and creates a clear portrait of what you are likely to buy and do in the future. Not all companies approach personalization in the same way. For some websites, the approach is direct: they ask you to take a survey about what you like, and then make offers that match your interests. Another way is through IP addresses, the electronic place from which you browse the Web.
Amazon.com and many other sites also compare individual's browsing and buying habits to those of thousands and millions of other consumers in their databases. Using a technique called collaborative filtering, they can find out your likely interests. This is based on what they know about what like-minded people buy or do.
But this new use of Internet begins to trouble some computer users. They worry that advertisers can track their private information without their knowledge, and that files about them might be put to ill use somehow, or shared with wrong people. Sometimes they just don’t like being watched. (236 words) Questions 19 To 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. Which of the following do traditional shop managers NOT do to know their customers? (D)
20. In the digital market, which of the following does the ―shop manager‖ NOT do? (D)
21. How does Amazon. com know about its customers? (D) 22. Which of the following troubles some computer users? (D)