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一、单项选择1. The boys seem to be _ for a fight. (A)A. itching B. longing C. desiring D. wishing2. They were cheap enough, so I _ out $10 and got two. (D)A. sprinkled B. split C. poured D. splashed3. There are so many people that the hall was bursting at the _. (A)A. seams B. links C. seals D. joints4. However, the painting is rare and it will cost you a(n) _ sum of money.(C)A. fantastic B. extreme C. grotesque D. fancy5. Her foolish anger made _ of our plans for peace with the enemy. (B)A. senseless B. nonsense C. meaninglessness D. confusion6. They have not got married, and they live in _. (C)A. error B. crime C. sin D. dirt7. Wed better get started and stop _ about. (A)A. fiddling B. roaming C. grinding D. idling8. Lets go to ask Tom. He is always _ in new ideas.(D)A. rich B. feral C. fervent D. fertile二、释义1. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. All the imperial empires are built up by treating in the colonies like animals instead of like human beings.2 Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. At once, a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited from their dark hole-like booths in all directions.3. Every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury. Every one of these poor Jews regarded the cigarette as something very luxury which they could not possibly afford.4. In a tropical landscape ones eye takes in everything except the human beings. In a tropical region, when one looks at the scenery, one can see everything natural but cannot see a single person.5. How long before they turn their guns in the other directions? How much longer before they turn their guns around and aim at us?6. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind. All the white man, from the onlookers, the officers on their horses to the white N.C. Os marching with the black soldiers, had this thought hidden somewhere in his mind.7. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. If we united together, we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.8. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution which brings hope of progress to all our countries.9. Before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.before the terrible forces of destruction, which science can now release, destroy completely mankind in planned way or by accident.10. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do.11. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills. The country itself is not ugly but quite pleasing to the eyes, although it is covered by smoke grain from the innumerable mills this region.12. They have taken as their model a brick set on end. The model they followed in building their houses was a brick standing upright.13. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. My decision to give Westmoreland the highest award for ugliness is not casually made, but after having done a lot of research and after continuous praying.14. They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical. These houses show such unimaginable ugliness that, when one looks back, they become almost fiendish and ghost-like as if it is the work of the devil.15. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. It is hard to believe that people built such ugly houses just because they did not have enough knowledge concerning architectural aesthetics.16. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly. In certain strata of American society, people seem definitely to love ugly things.17. It is a complex fate to be an American. To be an American is a fate that is complicated and hard to understand.18. They were no more at home in Europe than I was. They were as uneasy and uncomfortable in Europe as I was.19. Europe can be very crippling too. Europe can also cause serious frustration.20. Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people. Every society is controlled and directed by hidden laws, and by many things that people deeply feel, take for granted, but do not openly talk about. 三、翻译1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. 这坟场不过是土丘遍布的一大片荒地，就像一处废弃的建筑工地。2. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lighting speed. 一个木工双腿交叉地坐在一架古老的车床旁，左脚控制着凿子。3. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. 不管是友邦还是敌国，我们要让每一个国家知道，我们会不惜一切代价担当任何重任，克服一切困难；对任何朋友都给予支援，对任何人都敢于站出来反对，以确保自由的存在和胜利。4. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. 因此，我们双方都要从长计议，开始新局面，但应明白，礼让并非示弱，诚信需得到检验。让我们双方不要出于惧怕才想到谈判，但也不要惧怕谈判。5. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.让我们双方在有助团结的问题上努力探究，不要在引发分歧的问题上纠缠不休。6. And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.如果首次合作的成功能够减少我们之间重重的猜疑，那就让对方共同开创新的尝试，不过不是寻求新的力量均衡，而是建立一个新的法制世界；强国秉性公正，弱国安全无忧，和平得以保证。7. In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility; I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.在漫长的世界历史上，只有少数几代人能在自由面临最危险的时刻被赋予捍卫自由的负担。面临重任，我不会退缩；我乐于担当此任。我相信我们中没有人退缩，想与其他人或另一代人换个处境。我们为了这项事业，奉献到精力、信念和虔诚将为我们国家以及所有为之效劳的人点燃一把火炬，火炬的光辉也必能真正照亮整个世界。因此，我亲爱的同胞们，不要问你们的国家能为你做些什么，而要问你们自己能为国家做些什么。8. I had long coveted Polly Espy. Let me emphasize that my desire for this young woman was not emotional in nature. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason.我对保利埃斯皮窥觊已久。请让我声明一下：我对这个女孩子倾慕本质上并非一时冲动。她确实是让人见了就动心的女孩，但我并非感情支配理智的人。我想得到保利是经过大脑慎重考虑的。9. Beautiful she was. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack. She already had the makings.要说漂亮，她有。尽管她的身段没有明星照里的美女那么匀称，但我认为过一段时间自然会长匀称的。她已具有美女的各种潜质。10.（p109p2略）11. Now and then there is a house of bricks. But what brick! When it is new it is the color of a fried egg. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. Was it necessary to adopt that shocking color? No more than it was necessary to set all of the houses on end. Red brick, even in a steel town, ages with some dignity. Let it become downright black, and it is still sightly, especially if its trimmings are of white stone, with soot in the depths and the high spots washed by the rain. But in Westmoreland they prefer that uremic yellow, and so they have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by mortal eye.时不时地也有一栋砖房出现，但那还叫砖吗？刚出窑的砖头颜色和煎蛋一样，一旦被漆成厂房那种铜绿色时，它的颜色就跟变质已久的臭鸡蛋一个样了，有必要采用这种粗目惊心的颜色吗？没有这个必要，就像没有必要把所有房子都建成直立式的一样。红色砖头会随岁月流逝，显出几分尊贵，即便在钢铁重镇也是如此，就算被染得漆黑，红色砖头仍不失美观，尤其是当有白色砖头做装饰时，凹处烟灰淤积，凸处则被雨水洗刷一新。但是在威斯特莫兰县，人们却宁愿用那种尿毒症似的黄色，于是他们造就了这些世界上最令人作呕的城镇和乡村。12. They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical. One cannot imagine mere human beings concocting such dreadful things, and one can scarcely imagine human beings bearing life in them.他们的丑态怪异，让人回想起来，简直像恶魔一样可怕。让人费解的是，单凭人的力量如何能制造出这么可怕的东西？更令人想不到的是，居然还有人类在其中繁衍生息。13. But they chose that clapboarded horror with their eyes open, and having chosen it, they let it mellow into its present shocking depravity.但他们却像睁眼瞎一样选择了那座由墙板搭起来的、面目可憎的楼；并在选定后，由顺其自然地让它破败至今。14. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly.实际上，正如其他不那么笃信