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Quiz for Units Nine & Ten

I.Explain the underlined parts in the following sentences. Be sure to supply the expressions of

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1.The new law was aimed squarely at Darwin?s theory of evolution.

2.His four and a half years in the steamboat trade…… and the most lasting part of it.

3.Railroads began drying up the demand for steamboat pilots.

4.Casually he debunked revered artists and art treasures.

5.He insisted that man drop his religious illusions.

6.More than 100 reporters were on hand.

7.The streets sprouted with rickety stands selling hot dogs.

8.The buildings along the main street were festooned with banners.

9.People …… arrived to cheer Bryan against the “infidel outsiders.”

10.When the court adjourned,

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. ( 40% )

1. All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic.

2. …no one, least of all I, anticipated that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trial in

U.S. history.

3. He is here because ignorance and bigotry are rampant.

4. “and when she projects a new surprise, the grave world smiles as usual, and says …Well, that is California all over?.”

5. …the experts came to testify that they can reconcile evolution, with its ancestors in the jungle, with man made by God in His image and put here for His purpose as part of a divine plan.

6. Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie fire.

7. Spectators paid to gaze at it and ponder whether they might be related.

8. The instant riches of a mining strike would not be his in the reporting trade, but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax.

9. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied----- a cosmos.

10. For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed.

II. Point out the figures of speech used in the following sentences. ( 2 points for each, 20% )

1. …when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie fire.

2. The crowd seemed to feel that their champion had not scorched the infidels with the hot breath of his

oratory as he should have.

3. The trial that rocked the world.

4. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder.

5. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.

6. “The Christian believes that man came from above. The Evolutionist believes that he must have

come from below.”

7. He commented with a crushing sense of despair on man’s final release from earthly struggles.

8. I?m reading Lu Xun. ( Lu Xun?s works)

9. The Police were ill-tempered about what was, to them, much ado about nothing.

10. Young people should have more respect for gray hairs.

III. Put the following sentences into English: ( 4 points for each, 20% )

1. 他认为这两个观点是可以一致起来的。(reconcile)

2. 陪审团判定被告犯有抢劫罪. (convict )

3. 他得聪明丝毫不亚于班上的第一名学生。（every bit）

4. 最终，他被我说服了。（succumb）

5. 我没有预料到会卷入这场争端。（anticipate）

IV. Translate the following paragraphs into Chinese: ( 10% )

1.From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between

what people claim to be and what they really are.

2.Darrow walked slowly round the baking court. "Today it is the teachers, "he continued, "and

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