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英语(编辑不含阅读理解)

词汇题:1.except now and again (nebulous) milky substance—a phenomenon of maladjustment.

2. I finally took a (deferred) pass, as they called it, and waited a year and tried again.

3. Most of his professors were (lenient) and helped him along.

4. But others contend that while the word’s major economies are certainly more (aligned) than they used to be, we’re far from the point where they all move (in unison).

5. Though not (discounting) the importance of the linkages, he says the downturn was (triggered) by a set of problems that beset much of the world.

6. But the effects of Earth’s atmosphere took hold, and one morning everyone woke up with

a peculiar kind of amnesia, selective amnesia!

7. She doesn’t realize her caring attempts to help him may (humiliate) him.

8. If you are a woman, I suggest that for the next week practice (restraining) from giving any unsolicited any (unsolicited) advice or criticism.

9. Some people maintain that we are so dependent on automobiles because it is modern times or because of our (affluence).

10. Obviously, the intent was to (cripple) him as quickly as possible and to keep him as dependent as possible.

11. even if the cost of owning a car becomes (exorbitant) from gasoline taxes.

12. It gives him the look of a bonsai, roots and branches (pruned) to the purpose that the thing should suggest a great tree but the dwarfed facsimile thereof.

13. I wash the wounds with (disinfectant) and redress the stumps.

14. Furthermore, we did not want to join the legions who conquered their guilt en route to new depths of (narcissistic) rottenness.

15. One reason is that a tremendous surge of young people (overpowered) the adults in the sixties.

16. At any rate, in a century of Einstein’s relativity, of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, of the (enigmatic) black holes, science is not the cool Palladian temple of rationality that it was in the Enlightenment. 17. The universe was (shrouded) in a dense fog of radiation, which only cleared after 1 million years, leaving the transparent spangled space we see in the night sky now.

18. The fashioning of our own portable traditions and the delight of discovering another culture together enable us to (recast) our image of Christmas.

19. On one trip, for example, the whole family (conspired in) satisfying my mania for knitting wool.

20. Each of us can imagine (hypothetical) families created by the introduction of a cloned child—a copy of one partner in a homosexual relationship or of a single parent, for example.

21. After public protest,(championed) by publications such as the Ladies’Home Journal, a federal act was passed in 1906. 22. Take a look at the (anguished) Crucifixion statue by Enzo Plazzotta and the pillared arcading that dates from about 1300.

23. Another American connection is in the chapel at Emmanuel College, where a stained glass window (depicts) an ex-student named John Harvard.

完型一Imagine that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. One day long ago the Martians, looking through their telescopes, discovered the Venusians. just glimpsing the Venusians awakened feelings they had never known. They fell in love and quickly invented space travel and flew to Venus.

The Venusians welcomed the Martians with open arms. They had intuitively known that this day would come. Their hearts opened wide to a love they had never felt before.

The love between the Venusians and Martians was magical. They delighted in being together, doing things together, and sharing together.

Though from different worlds, they revealed in

their differences. They spent months learning

about each other, exploring and appreciating

their different needs, preferences, and behavior

patterns. For years they lived together in love

and harmony.

Then they decided to fly to Earth. In

the beginning everything was wonderful and

beautiful. But the effects of Earth's atmosphere

took hold, and one morning everyone woke up

with a peculiar kind of amnesia?- selective

amnesia! Both the Martians and Venusians

forgot that they were from different planets

and were supposed to be different. In one

morning everything they had learned about

their differences was erased from their memory.

And since that day men and women have been

in conflict.

完形二

I spy on my patients. Ought not a doctor to obs

erve his patients by any means and from any st

ance, that he might the more fully assemble the

evidence? So I stand in the doorways of hospit

al rooms and gaze. Oh, it is not all that furtive

an act. Those in bed need only look up in order

to discover me. But they never do.

From the doorway of Room 542, the man in th

e bed seems deeply tanned. Blue eyes and clos

e-cropped white hair give him the appearance

of vigor and good health. But I know that his s

kin in not brown from the sun. It is rusted, rath

er, in the last stage of containing the vile repos

e within. And the blue eyes are frosted, looking

inward like the windows of a snowbound cotta

ge. This man is blind. This man is also legless-

the right leg missing from midthigh down, the l

eft from just below the knee. It gives him the l

ook of ornamental tree, roots and branches pru

ned to the purpose that the thing should sugges

t a great tree but the dwarfed facsimile thereof.

Propped on pillows, he cups his right thigh in

both hands. Now and then, he shakes his head

as though acknowledging the intensity of his s

uffering. In all of this, he makes no sound. Is h

e mute as well as blind?

If he is in pain, why do I not see it in his face?

Why is the mouth not opened for shrieking? T

he eyes not spun skyward? Where are tears? H

e appears to be waiting for something, somethi

ng that a blind man cannot watch for, but for w

hich he is no less alert. He is listening.

The room in which he dwells is empty of all po

ssessions- they get well cards, the small private

caches of food. The day-old flowers, the slipp

ers-all the usual kickshaws of the sickroom. Th

ere is only a bed, a chair, a nightstand, and a tr

ay on wheels that can be swung across his lap f

or meals. It is a wild island upon which he has

been cast. It is Room 542.

汉译英:

1.向朋友借钱时,又一次遭到拒绝,

When he went to borrow money from his

friend and was refused again, he flew into fury.

2.有人认为,要结婚就应结为终生伴侣;

Some people think if people marry, it ought to

be for life; the laws are altogether too lenient

with divorcees.

3.有些对手会先把你拉低到和他们同等的水

Some competitors drag you down to their level

and beat you with experience.

4.在艺术领域,不同的形式和风格可以自由

Different forms and styles in art should

develop freely and different schools in

sciences should contend freely.

5.看到五星红旗在奥运赛场上一次次升起,

Watching the five-star red flag rising again and

again in Olympic games, we can’t help

priding ourselves in being Chinese.

6.爱虚荣的人津津乐道于讲述她们取得何种

Vain Men delight in telling what honors they

have received.

7.政府已经意识到贫富分化可能导致严重的

The government has realized that serious

social problems may arise from wealth

polarization, and measures have been taken to

shorten the distance.

8.作为成名的代价,明星们尤其容易受到批

As the cost of being famous, stars are

particularly vulnerable to criticism, because

people always have higher expectations of

them.

9.随着居民生活质量的提高,人们的衣、食、

The quality of life of the residents has been on

the rise, with considerable improvement in

food, clothing, housing, transport and daily

necessities."

10.尽管财力吃紧,该国政府依然决定扶持那

In spite of the tight budget, the government

will still prop up the declining industries that

are related to the national economy and

people’s livelihood.

段落翻译:

第一篇:

1.启蒙时代之后的某个时候,科学和宗教订

了一个君子协议。科学负责现实的世界:机

器、制造物、药品、枪支和登月火箭等等。

宗教掌管所有那些无法计量的其它事物:道

德、圣礼、诗歌、精神失常、死亡以及政治

和治国之道的某些残留形式。宗教既是非物

质的,也是不重要的。那时候科学和宗教可

说是苹果和橘子。协议这样规定:属于恺撒

的东西归苹果,属于上帝的东西归橘子。就

像玛雅人有两本历书,一本是俗人的,一本

是教士的,西方的科学和宗教持有两种不同

的宇宙观,使用两种不同的语汇。

2.20世纪进入最后三分之一的时候,宗教和

科学之间的互不相容已经有所缓和了。宗教

和科学都清楚地意识到自身的过分之处,甚

至意识到自身作恶的能力。现在它们奇怪

地碰到了一起,达成一种形而上学的默契。

也许这种默契最突出的标志是对于有关宇

宙诞生的某些事实,宗教和科学之间好像意

见一致起来。这不逊于蒙太古和凯普莱特

两家人抛弃世仇,凑到一起给孩子洗澡。

第二篇:

1.关于人工繁殖生命的争论忽略了目前克

隆过程效率低的事实。与自然繁殖相比,由

克隆技术繁殖的胎儿及后代死亡发生率要

高得多棗在罗斯林研究中大概在出生前死

亡率是正常的十倍,出生后是正常的三倍。

事实令那些工作与动物打交道的人们悲伤,

这些失败比例当然不会使他们考虑让人类

也受到如此对待。

2.然而,即使技术得到提高,我们必须问问

自己克隆整体人有什么实用价值。自然出生

的婴儿和克隆婴儿究竟有什么区别,还有我

们为什么要克隆这样的人?

3.克隆的孩子与被克隆的孩子是一对基因

完全相同的双胞胎,这样从生理上讲他们非

常相似,比自然生产的双亲和孩子还要相

像,然而个性的形成受继承的基因和环境因

素两个方面的影响。这两个克隆产物讲发展

完全不同的个性,就像双胞胎具有不同的个

性一样。因为克隆人通常在不同的家庭中成

长,所以克隆人在个性上没有双胞胎那么相

像。

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