郑州大学西亚斯学院2011-2012学年第二学期 试卷
（供 2009/2011 级 外语学院 商务英语本科/专升本 yfj 专业使用）
考试科目：高级英语（二） 试卷类型： A 备注：（ ）
Part I (10 points, 1 point for each)
在职研究生英语考试Word explanation. Explain the italicized words.
1. However intricate the ways in which animals communicate with each other, they do not indulge in anything that derves the name of conversation.
2. This much we pledge—and more.
3. New York was never a good convention city, but it is making something of a comeback as a tourist attraction.
4. Nature’s pleasures are much qualified in New York.
5. Youth was faced with the challenge of bringing our mores up to date.
6. Meanwhile, the true intellectuals were far from flattered.
基本英语单词7. The scene was so hideous that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre joke.
8. Red brick, even in a steel town, ages with some dignity.
transboundary9. The conversation had swung from Australian convicts of the 19th century to the English peasants of the 12th century.
画画的英文10. The cars wouldn’t start, and the electrical systems had been killed by water.
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服装导购员Part II (20 points, 2 points for each)
Paraphra. Write the answers down on the answer sheet.
1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-
lot.
2. The charm of conversation is that it does not really start from anywhere, and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.
3. So let us remember on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.
4. The country itlf is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills.
5. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror.
6. No aspect of life in the Twenties has been more commented upon and nsationally romanticized than the so-called Revolt of the Younger Generation.
7. They had outgrown town and families and had developed a sudden bewildering world-weariness which neither they nor their relatives could understand.
8. No longer so looked up to or copied, New York even prides itlf on being a holdout fro
m prevailing American trends.
9. A testing of onelf, a fear of giving in to the most banal and marketable of one’s talents, still draws many of the young to New York.
10. There is always a danger that “the bell curvewords will harden into things for us”.
Part III (20 points, 2 points for each)
Translation. Translate the following ntences into Chine and English respectively. Write your translations down on the answer sheet.
1. The larger children sprawled on the floor, with the smaller ones in a layer on top of them, and the adults bent over them. The floor tilted. The box containing the litter of kittens slid off a shelf and vanished in the wind.
2. They ri out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink ba
mb什么意思ck into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone. And even the graves themlves soon fade back into the soil.
3. We obrve today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.
4. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.
5. The condescending view from the fiftieth floor of the city’s crowds below cuts the people off from humanity. So does an attitude which es the public only in terms of large, malleable numbers.
6. 多样化使纽约这个城市多姿多彩，变幻无穷。漫步纽约，你会不断体验不同的风情和风味。你可以去许多各具特色的地方吃饭和购物。
7. 青年人的叛逆行为是随着第一次世界大战开始的。1915年到1916年间的僵持局面，德国
对美国傲慢无礼的态度以及美国政府迟迟不愿宣战的做法，都使美国所有理想主义的公民觉得无法忍受。
8. 他的神情完全出乎我的意料，不含敌意，也不带轻蔑，更不是愠怒，甚至谈不上好奇。那是一种腼腆的黑人的目光，是一种表示深厚敬意的目光。
9. 这里正是工业化美国的心脏，是其最赚钱、最典型的活动中心，世上最富有、最伟大国家的骄傲与自豪——可这里的景象却如此丑陋可怕，让人无法忍受。
10. 人类自有文化就有文化交流。人类文化从整体来说，是各国、各民族文化汇聚、交流的产物。现代国际间的文化交流，更是以空前的规模、内容、形式和手段，在直接或间接地进行着。
Part IV (10 points, 1 point for each)
Identify the rhetorical devices ud in the following ntences. Wnever say dierite the answers down on the answer sheet.
1. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.
2. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.
