Translation

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

他们的新房子离学校很远。(far)

不在房间的时候别让灯开着。(when)

我忘了提醒他面试的时间。(remind)

各式阳伞给夏日街头平添了活跃的气氛。(add to)

无论风多大、雨多急，警察一直坚守在岗位上。(no matter …)

医生挨家挨户上门巡访，省去了许多老年人去医院的麻烦。(save)

The play had already been on for quite some time when we _______ at the New Theatre.

A.have arrived                                                        B.arrived

C.had arrived                                                   D.arrive

I entered high school having read hundreds of books.But I was not a good reader.Merely bookish,I lacked a point of view when I read.Rather,I read in order to get a point of view.I searched books for good expressions and sayings,pieces of information,ideas,themes—anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated.When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a “complicated(复杂的) idea” until he had read at least two thousand books,I heard the words without recognizing either its irony(嘲讽) or its very complicated truth.I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read.Strict with myself,I included only once a title I might have read several times.(How,after all,could one read a book more than once?)And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length.(Could anything shorter be a book?)

There was yet another high school list I made.One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college.The article had a list of the “hundred most important books of Western Civilization.”“More than anything else in my life,”the professor told the reporter with finality,“these books have made me all that I am.”That was the kind of words I couldn’t ignore(忽视).I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles.Most books,of course,I hardly understood.While reading Plato’s The Republic,for example,I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about.However,with the special patience and superstition(迷信) of a schoolboy,I looked at every word of the text.And by me time I reached the last word,pleased,I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic,and seriously crossed Plato off my list.

On heating the teacher’s suggestion of reading,the writer thought ______.

A.one must read as many books as possible

B.a student should not have a complicated idea

C.it was impossible for one to read two thousand books

D.students ought to make a list of the books they had read

While at high school,the writer ______.

A.had plans for reading

B.learned to educate himself

C.only read books over 100 pages

D.read only one book several times

The underlined phrase “with finality” probably means ______.

A.firmly                                                                 B.clearly

C.proudly                                                               D.pleasantly

The writer’s purpose in mentioning The Republic is to ______.

A.explain why it was included in the list

B.describe why he seriously crossed it off the list

C.show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand

D.prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word

The writer provides two book lists to ______.

A.show how he developed his point of view

B.tell his reading experience at high school

C.introduce the two persons’ reading methods

D.explain that he read many books at high school

—Thank you for joining in our conversation tonight.

—_______.

A.It’s my duty                                                        B.It’s all right

C.It’s my pleasure                                            D.It’s nice to say so

—What does the sign over there read？

—“No person ___ smoke or carry a lighted cigarette,cigar or pipe in this area.”

A.will                                                             B.may

C.shall                                                            D.must

It is reported that two schools,____ are being built in my hometown,will open next year.

A.they both                                                     B.which both

C.both of them                                                 D.both of which

—Did you see a man in black pass by just now?

—No,sir.I ___ a newspaper.

A.read                                                             B.was reading

C.would read                                                   D.am reading

It was so dark in the cinema that I could hardly ___ my friend.

A.turn out                                                       B.bring out

C.call out                                                               D.pick out

______the sales of computers up by 20%every year ,our company is becoming larger .

A  As     B  For   C  With   D  Through

When former American President Bill Clinton travelled to South Korea to visit President Kim Young Sam,he repeatedly referred to the Korean president’s wife as Mrs.Kim.By mistake, President Clinton’s advisers thought that Koreans have the same naming customs as the Japanese. Clinton had not been told that,in Korea,wives keep their family names.President Kim Young Sam’s wife was named Sohn Myong Suk.Therefore,she should be addressed(称谓) as Mrs.Sohn.

President Clinton arrived in Korea directly after leaving Japan and had not changed his culture gears.His failure to follow Korean customs gave the impression that Korea was not as important to him as Japan.

In addition to Koreans,some Asian husbands and wives do not share the same family names.This practice often puzzles(使困惑) English-speaking teachers when talking with a pupil’s parents.They become puzzled about the student’s correct last name.Placing the family name first is common among a number of Asian cultures.

Mexican naming customs are different as well.When a woman marries,she keeps her family name and adds her husband’s name after the word de(of).This affects(影响) how they fill in forms in the United States.When requested to fill in a middle name,they generally write the father’s family name.But Mexicans are addressed by the family name of the mother.This often causes puzzlement.

Here are a few ways to deal with such difficult situations:don’t always think that a married woman uses her husband’s last name.Remember that in many Asian cultures,the order of first and last names is reversed(颠倒).Ask which name a person would prefer to use.If the name is difficult to pronounce,admit it,and ask the person to help you say it correctly.

The story of Bill Clinton is used to ______.

A.improve US-Korean relations

B.introduce the topic of the text

C.describe his visit to Korea

D.tell us how to address a person

The word “gears” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.

A.action plans                                                  B.naming customs

C.travel maps                                                   D.thinking patterns

When a woman marries in Korea,she ______.

A.continues to use her family name

B.uses her husband’s given name

C.shares her husband’s family name

D.adds her husband’s given name to hers

To address a married woman properly,you’d better ______.

A.use her middle name

B.use her husband’s first name

C.ask her which name she likes

D.change the order of her names