《英语报刊选读》期末考试试卷附答案
一、将下列所给的英语名词翻译成中文。（15小题*2=30）
1．The Hou of Lords
2．Social Security
3．Capitol Hill
4．Speaker火场逃生的原则
择偶观5．Fund —raising party
球球老老鼠6．Senior citizen
7．Westinghou Science Talent Search
8．Asia —Pacific summit
9．Sovereignty
10．British Foreign Secretary
11．Christian
12．economic recession
13．royal family
14．the Commonwealth
15．spokesman
二、报刊阅读题。
Campaign strategists have agreed to focus to focus on the Senate, where leaders hope to complete work on the budget package by May 1. “We felt that if the Senate defeated the proposal, it would not even come up in the Hou,”says John Rot her, legislative director for the 18—million —member American Association of Retired persons.
Targeted mainly are Republicans, who control the Senate, with particular emphasis on the 21 who fa
ce re—election next year. The next election looms large in the lobbyists’strategy. “We shall not forget if Congree haves in an unfriendly fashion to the nior citizens of the United States,”warns Jacob Clay man, president of the NCSC, which reprents 4.5 million persons. “We shall remember—and 1986 is just around the corner.”Eric Shulman, legislative director for the NCSC, explains: “Tho up for
reelection will have their ears clost to the ground—and we are making as much of a rumble as we can. We e this issue being won or lost not in Washington but out in the countryside.”Adds Arthur Flemming, former U. S. commissioner on aging and now a lobbyist for the elderly:”“It’s the grass roots that convey the message most effectively.”
I ．单项选择题。（4小题*5=20）
1．……where leaders hope to complete …——which leader？
A ．Hou leaders B．floor leaders C ．Congressional D．Senate leader
2．…it would not even come up in the Hou …
A ．the Hou of Commons
B ．the Hou of Reprentative
C ．the Hou of Lords
D ．the Senate
3．Targeted mainly are Republicans who control the Senate …
地球运动A ．so said becau the Democrats hold more ats in the Senate
B ．so said becau the Republicans hold more ats in the Senate
C ．so said becau the Republicans hold less ats in the Senate
D ．so said becau the Republicans Party holds more congressional at
4．“It’s the grass roots that convey the message most effectively.”
A ．ordinary citizens or voters B．basic structure
C ．politicians D．Congressmen
II ．读文章回答问题（5小题*10=50）
Blacks’history in America (1660—1860)
American Blacks are without doubt all of African origin. The first group of 20 Blacks sold to English ttlers of Virginia in 1619 were brought in by a Dutch ship. From that time to the mid—19th century, some 14 million blacks were transported from West Africa to Virginia and other southern colonies of the New World. Almost all of them were sold into slavery and subjected to white rule. Not only would they work for their masters as slaves for life but also their descendants would be slaves the moment they were born.过年作文200字
Of cour no person would have voluntarily chon to be sold away from his native country. He was either sold by his own rulers or captured by white slave traders as portrayed in Alex Haley’s novel Roots. Some of the details in Haley’s story were similar to tho in other books. The kidnapping of slaves and their mirable life under the supervision of slave owners and overers existed and the conditions on the voyage from Africa to America were horrible. The slaves’bodies were bound together and their limbs either tied or chained with shackles like Kurta, an important character in Roots. The air in the holds was filthy with the smell of sweat, vomit and body waste. When they caug
ht infections dias, many slaves died on the voyage. Some even died of flogging or starvation. It was said that only about half slaves could survive the voyage. Though some survived, the fate of tho survivors was no better than being sold at auction like animals. After 1700, a large number of Africans arrived in America. In the first half of the century, they made up 20 percent of the colonial population. Many of them were in the southern colonies. They worked either on plantations or in hous. Then in 1793, the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney resulted in a new demand for more slaves as it provided an inexpensive method of parating cotton eds from fibers. With the increa in cotton acreage, slavery persisted in the South and became the foundation of its economy.Slavery was anyhow a moral evil. It was inhuman and was also a institution restricting the development of industry. Many people, mostly people in the North desired an immediate end to the evil institution so that they would be able to develop industry. Some assumed that the only way to solve the problem was to ship all Blacks back to Africa. With the aid of such leading figures as James Monroe (president), John Marshall (Supreme Court justice), Henry Clay and Daniel Webster (nators), they established the American Colonization Society in the 1820’s. This organization was finally successful in getting some land in West Africa for tho willing to go back home, thus forming the new nation: the Republic of Liberia, the place of freedom. They named its capital Monrovia after the U. S. president at the time. However, the rettlement policy did little to solve the dilemma. No m
ore than 15,000 Blacks returned to Africa between 1821 an d1860; most of the others preferred to stay in the places they had been born. Tho rejecting the policy of being nt home claimed American citizenship on the ground that they were Americans by birth so that they were entitled to the rights t forth in the Declaration of independence.
II. Answer the following questions:
1．How did the first group of Blacks arrive in America?
曹操的2．Describe the voyage to America for the slaves on the ship.
3．Where did many of the slaves ttle? why ?
4．What solution did President Monroe propo to solve the problem of slavery? 5．What does the Republic of Liberia mean?
英语报刊选读参考答案
一、1．英国贵族院
2．社会保障计划
3．美国国会山，喻美国国会
4．议长
5．筹款[宴]会
6．老年人
7．西屋发掘少年科技英才赛
8．亚太首脑会议峰会
9．主权
10．英国外交大臣
11．基督徒
12．经济衰退
13．王室
14．英联邦
和平的英语15．发言人
二、I ．1．D 2．B 3．B 4．A
II ．1．They arrived in America by a Dutch ship.
2．Their bodies were hound together and their limbs either tied or chained. The air in the holds was filthy. Many of them died of dias on the voyage, and some even died of flogging or starvation.
姓氏的拼音3．Most of them ttled in the southern colonies becau
in 1793, the intention of the cotton resulted in a new demand for move slaves.
4．He propod to ship all blacks back to Africa.
5．It means the place of freedom.
