Quiz for Unit 1 and 3

I Dictation

1) sprightly 2) landscape 3) mortified 4) exhilarating 5）grandeur

6) deceased 7) scramble up 8) irrevocable 9) craggy 10) pagoda 11) punctual

12) punctuality 13) casual laborer 14) flexibility 15) justified 16) unwarranted

17) inferior 18) observance 19)forthwith 20) applicant

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1) graze peacefully beside moss-covered dry stone walls.

2) In tiny Dove Cottage, patches of blackened wall still the

smokiness of the candles the Wordsworth made in the tiny kitchen.

3) It has been lovingly recreated by the National Trust to that era, servants going about their daily chores.

4) Those idyllic lakeside settings with their vistas make the lakes

and their stunning rural beauty a place to visit time after time.

5) Visitors knock at the front door as a cuckoo clock chimes deep within, and then a deep window seat or beside the fire to peruse Dorothy’s journal entries for that week.

6) So visitors today can tiptoe around the evocative rooms, and hold up copies of

her books to match them to the objects which inspired the author’s illustrations such as The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck.

7) one corner of northwest England, the Lake District is quite

unique.

8) So from Grasmere visitors can walk briskly uphill from Dove Cottage, pausing at its final resting place at St. Oswald’s in the village.

9) for work.

10) Should he be patient because different cultures have their own concepts of time? action?

11) 12) A little more time, money or struggle will get them there. Americans, 13) Should we ____________, from this difference in cultural outlook that it's justified for some employees to be tardy in today's office life?

14) On the surface, it might seem that a manager may have to be more ____________ about punctuality with some cultural groups than others.

15) Some companies may choose to ____________ the opening and closing time of their offices to enable employees to avoid the rush hour.

III Translation

1) 这些树的系谱可以追溯到数千年前。

2) 这些蛋糕的味道唤起了我对童年的回忆。

3) 我想当然地以为你会跟我们一起来，于是就给你买了票。

4) 由于经理的不断劝导，工作人员很快就改掉了迟到的坏习惯。

5) 这个孩子因为私自拿了母亲包里的钱而觉得十分内疚。

1) And this landscape is also wonderfully compact, so you can stride over grassy

slopes with spectacular views of idyllic lakes far below, set against imposing peaks.

2) Given the unique charm of the Lakes, small wonder then that some of the country’s best writers lived and loved here.

3) But then good, wholesome food is as much a part of the Lakes as the fresh air which gives walkers such an appetite.

4) But how does this insight, so studiously compiled by academics, relate to the need for punctuality in the office?

5) Instead of rushing, they prefer to maintain a steady pace. Quietly watching the seasons change or children grow is certainly not considered a waste of time. Keys

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1）Awe-inspiring 2）attest to 3）complete with 4）ever-changing

8）en route to 5）perch on 6）beautifully-illustrated 7）Tucked away

9)habitually 10) disciplinary 11)approach 12) in particular

13) extrapolate 14) tolerant 15) stagger

III Translation

1) These trees have pedigrees stretching back thousands of years.

2) The taste of the cakes was evocative of my childhood.

3) I took it for granted that you would come with us, so I bought you a ticket.

4) Thanks to the manager's repeated counseling, the staff soon broke the bad habit of coming late to work.

5) The child felt (very) guilty for/about/of taking money from his mother’s handbag

without permission.

6) 景色布局巧妙紧凑，你可以漫步于绿色山坡，欣赏远处的湖景。那湖景在宏伟的山峰衬托下，犹如田园一般美丽迷人。

7) 从湖畔风景独特的魅力来看，那些优秀的作家选择在那里居住并对其情有独钟也就不足为奇了。

8) 但是美味的、营养丰富的食物就像清新的空气一样是湖区的重要组成部分，能使徒步旅行者胃口大开。

9) 但是学究们深思熟虑出的这一见解又是如何与上班守时这一问题联系起来的呢？

10) 他们喜欢按部就班，不愿来去匆匆。静观季节的变化、儿女的成长也不认为是在虚度光阴。

Quiz for Unit 4 and Unit 6

I Dictation

entice assess feasible inquisitive thrill trail shuffle hover detour primal ecstasy smother lavish cuisine ubiquitous infamous fastidiously contrive elusive piquant

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1. Although I loved the idea of a hummingbird spending the winter in my sun room, I hesitated to ____________ his freedom.

2. An adult male bird measures only 2.24 inches _____ total length, half of which is taken by the bill and tail and weigh 0.056 oz.

3. Squeak certainly seemed content that first day, and he’d already ____________________.

4. Offering Squeak a balanced diet now became my main ___________concern.

5. By mid-November, he hovered in front of my spray bottle, fanning his tail _______________ getting his shower.

6. Once when I walked into his room wearing a floral-print dress, he tried to __________ how to get nectar form the “flowers.”

7. Still, it is hard to __________ something you’ve treasured— even when you know it’s the right thing to do.

8. At about 10:30, I finally got up the nerve to _____________.

9. The London restaurateur Fu Tong, for example, quotes _________ an authority than Confucius (the ancient sage known in Chinese as Kung-Fu-Tzu) with regard to the primal importance of food.

10. They may be chopped up and given parts with labels, such as "Cooking", "Health", "Character" ___________, but none is in reality separate from the other.

11. Kenneth Lo, however, expresses a point of view that is profoundly different and typically Chinese, ___________ thousands of years of tradition.

12. Restaurants bedecked with dragons and delicate landscapes—serving such exotic as Dim Sin Gai (sweet and sour chicken), and Shao Shing soup, Chiao-Tzu and Kuo-Tioh (northern style), and Ging Ai Kwar (steamed aubergines) — have __________ everywhere from Hong Kong to Honolulu to Hoboken to Huddersfield.

13. The standard of the restaurants improved steadily in the United States, but Lo considers that the _____________ factor in spreading this kind of food

throughout the Western world was population pressure in the British colony of Hong Kong, especially after 1950, which sent families out all over the world to seek their fortunes in the opening of restaurants.

14. He detects an increased interest in sensuality in the Western world: "Colour, texture, movement, food, drink, and rock music—all these have become much more __________ of the average person's life than they have ever been.

15. In a Chinese meal that has not been altered to _________ Western ideas of eating, everything is presented as a kind of buffet, the guest eating a little of this, a little of that.

III Translation

1. The thrill of seeing my first hummingbird in my garden had never left me — the sight of this unbelievable tiny creature with dazzling plumage flitting boldly from flower to flower.

2. It didn’t take long before Squeak became as inquisitive about me as I was about him.

3. Tears welled up in my eyes. For an instant, I was sorry for releasing him — yet I also knew it was for the best.

4. Many people in the West are gourmets and others are gluttons, but scattered among them also is a large number of people who are apparently pretty indifferent to what goes into their stomachs, and do not regard food as having any ultimate moral effect on them.

5. The smooth harmonies and piquant contrasts in Chinese food are more than just the products of recipes and personal enterprise. They are an expression of basic

assumptions about life itself.

6. 加强我们关系的最好办法不是赠送礼物，而是坦诚地交换意见。

7. 粉丝们对名人的私生活很好奇。

8. 虽然这家公司鼓吹他们的产品要比其他公司的好，但实际上他们的质量不如人家。

9. 新建筑物犹如雨后春笋般地出现在这座城市里。

10. 她对食物比较挑剔，因此我从来不邀请她吃饭。

Keys:

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1.deprive him of 2. in 3. captured my heart 4. concern 5. in anticipation of

6. figure out 7. let go of 8. make my move 9. no less 10. and the like

11. deriving from 12. sprung up 13. crucial 14. part and parcel 15. conform to III Translation

1. 我从未忘记第一次在我的花园里看到一只蜂鸟时的那种心跳的感觉——

一只披着眩目的羽毛、小得令人难以置信的生灵正勇敢地在花丛中飞来飞去。

2. 没过多久，吱吱便开始对我产生了好奇，就像我对它好奇一样。

3. 泪水盈满了我的眼睛。好大一会儿，我还在为放飞它而伤心难过——然而，

我也知道，这是最好的结局。

4. 在西方，许多人是美食家，而一些则是贪吃者。但是在他们中间还有为数

不少的人似乎对进入他们胃里的东西并不在意，也不认为食物会最终对他们的品性产生影响。

5. 中国饮食中的这种水乳交融和令人垂涎的相互映衬并不只是烹调食谱和

个人生意的产物。他们是对生活基本学说的一种诠释。

6. The best way to strengthen our bond is not to give gifts but to exchange our opinions frankly.

7. Fans are inquisitive about celebrities’ private life.

8. Although this company boasts that its products are superior to those of other companies, they are actually inferior in quality.

9. New houses are springing up all over the city.

10. She is so fastidious about her food that I never invite her for dinner.

Quiz for Unit 14 and 9

1. Dictation

1) competitive

5) connote

9) miniature

13) spawn 2) motivate 6) affluent 10) rectangle 14) summon

3) intellectually 4) subliminal 7) rummage 8) colossal 11) unsettling 12) foreboding 15) whimsical 16) pitfall 19) dispense 20) tally 17) equivalent 18) nuance

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16) They __________ ordinary things — like soap or hair spray or baby powder or muffin mix — into objects of desire.

17) The package must scream or whine or purr or whisper its message of good taste or cheapness or strength or luxury __________ enough to grab our interest.

18) True, Americans drink an awful lot of coffee in ratty bathrobes, but why __________?

19) But when manufacturers put it into easy-pour containers with a built-in spout

and a cap that __________ as a measuring cup, the stuff flew off the shelves.

20) The package gave the product what business folks call “__________”.

21) Blue, with its link to water, sky and royalty, can be either bold or soothing, depending on its tone, and is rarely used for food __________ seafood.

22) Peanut butter __________ in blue or an expensive watch in a yellow box is not unheard of.

23) If, as the industry says, “the package is the product”, why not __________?

24) The British, you see, have always taken a quiet — sometimes practically __________ — pleasure in perplexing foreigners, as anyone who has ever tried to follow a cricket match will know.

25) Added to this is the __________ British habit of never saying quite what they mean.

26) The telling feature of all this is that wherever meanings differ between the two countries, the American expression is nearly always, in at least some degree, __________.

27) I very much doubt that — the British don’t want us dead after all, merely __________ — but it is certainly true that there are enough differences in vocabulary to make comprehension a constant challenge.

28) Then, to make sure that our confusion was complete, they __________ doing odd and unexpected things with their vowels and consonants, lopping whole syllables off words like library and necessary.

29) In consequence, even the most attractive and experienced foreign listener will often find himself at least __________ behind in almost any conversation.

30) Even the most __________ encounters suddenly become charged with the possibility of confusion.

III Translation

1) 遭受水灾地区的人民急切需要食品、 衣服和药品。

2) 她的手艺非常好，做的蛋糕真是艺术品。

3) 这种工作要求要很有耐心。

4) 让我们免去礼节，直接进入讨论吧。

5) 她似乎不怎么喜欢干这些事。

6) Like so many things in this place, the doughnut tower is mostly metaphor, not so much a work of art as the idea of one.

7) The challenge of packaging is to create an identity to which the buyer aspires, not to reflect the buyer’s true identity.

8) An elegant Italian couple are fully dressed in flowing white and sitting cheek-to-cheek in a romantic terra-cotta setting.

9) One of the most startling surprises for many Americans when they first arrive in Britain is the discovery that their mother tongue, which has been serving them faithfully all these years, is suddenly not up to dealing with the intricacies of the English language as practiced in the British Isles.

10) Now you might think that as native speakers of the same language we would have a certain advantage in interpreting English English, but no.

Keys

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1) transform 2) loud and clear 3) rub it in

4) doubles

5) added value 6) other than 9) unwitting 12) muddled

15) innocuous 7) decked out 10) peculiar 8) turn things around 11) self-explanatory 13) took to 14) half a beat

III Translation

1) People in the flooded area are hungry for food, clothes and medicines.

2) Her skills are so excellent that the cakes she makes are simply works of art.

3) This sort of work calls for a lot of patience.

4) Let’s dispense with the formalities and go directly into the discussion.

5) She seems to take little pleasure in doing such things.

6) 像这里的许多东西一样，这摞炸面圈主要是一种象征，与其说它是一件艺术品，不如说它体现了一种理念。

7) 包装的挑战就是要创造一个购买者渴望拥有的形象，而不是去反映购买者的真实身份。

8) 在赤褐色的背景下，一对身着飘逸白衣、形象优雅的意大利情侣浪漫地相拥而坐。

9) 对于第一次到英国的许多美国人而言，最让他们惊讶的事情之一就是多年来他们运用自如的母语在应对大不列颠岛屿上使用的纷繁复杂的英语时，突然显得力不从心。

10) 现在你可能会认为作为讲同一种语言的人在解释英式英语方面我们会有优势，那你就错了。

Quiz for Unit 10 and Unit 12

I Dictation

Afflict veil forestall a quiver peddler eaves suspension tumultuously imploringly import unities transplant immune transfuse ironically fatal clinical kidney ethical uproar cannibalism

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16. Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was __________ with heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.

17. He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram and had hastened to _____ any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

18. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and __________ to name.

19. Now her bosom rose and fell ___________.

20. The ________stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes.

21. Her pulses beat fast, and the __________ blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.

22. A clear and __________ perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.

23. Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, _____________ admission.

24. She arose at length and opened the door to her sister’s _________.

25. The ___________ system therefore ___________ a massive attack on the invader, ___________ enzymes known as complement, which attack the foreign body, eventually killing the patient as well.

26. With xenotransplants, however, rejection is even more severe; a normal pig's heart,

for example, ___________ human blood can be destroyed in 15 minutes.

27. __________, other primates resemble humans too closely;the same viruses that __________ monkeys and apes may infect humans, and a primate organ transplant could pass on fatal diseases;

28. Pigs' organs, though, are close in function and size to those of humans, yet distant enough not to carry viruses _____________ to humans.

29. Last year the Cambridge scientists successfully transplanted transgenic pigs' hearts into monkeys; some of the monkeys were still alive after 60 days, __________ the previous best results of scientists in the United States who only achieved a maximum __________ rate of 30 hours.

30. But it is expected that animal rights campaigners will not accept the _________ and killing of large numbers of animals for human medical use.

III Translation

11. Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.

12. She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.

13. What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!

14. She arose at length and opened the door to her sister’s importunities. There was a

feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory.

15. And, as Les Ward, Director of the Scottish group Advocates for Animals, has pointed out, what will happen to the rest of the pig after the organs have been removed. Will the meat be used for human consumption? "If so -- and bearing in mind that the pig contained human genes --is this not a form of cannibalism?"

16. 许多国家在刚获得独立的时候，都遇到过经济问题的困扰。

17. 敌军入侵使得成千上万的老百姓只好弃家而逃。

18. 新闻界经常批评她，但她早已对此满不在乎了。

19. 由于父母通常把他们的染色体(chromosomes)遗传给后代，所以有些疾病具有遗传性。

20. 医生要我在工作时戴上保护镜,以防止异物进入眼睛。

Keys:

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1. afflicted 2. forestall3. elusive4. tumultuously.5. vacant6. coursing

7. exalted8. imploring for9.importunities10. Immune; launches; activating

11.transfused with12. Ironically; infect13. fatal14. beating; survival 15. rearing III Translation

1. 人们知道麦拉德夫人患有心脏病，因此采取了极为谨慎、尽可能委婉的方式

向她透露了她丈夫的死讯。

2. 她没有像许多女人听到同样的消息那样，无法接受而呆若木鸡。她立刻在姐姐的怀中哭了起来，哭得一发不可收拾。从强烈的悲痛中平静下来后，她走回自己的房间去了，不愿让任何人跟着。

3. 爱情这一人类不解的奥秘比起她此刻拥有的自信又算得了什么！她忽然意

识到这种自信正是她生命最强大的动力。

4. 在姐姐的一再恳求下她终于站了起来打开了门。她眼中有一股胜利的狂

热，不知不觉中姿态就像一位胜利女神。她搂着姐姐的腰，一起走下楼梯。

5. 而且如苏格兰动物捍卫组织的主管人里斯 沃德指出的，当猪的器官被取

出后，这只猪其他的部分将如何处理呢？它的肉会用于人类消费吗？“如果是那样——记住这只猪体内有人类基因——这是否是一种同类相食呢？”

6. Many developing countries, after independence, were afflicted with economic problems to begin with.

7. Thousands of people were forced to abandon their homes to the invading enemy troops.

8.The press had criticized her so often that in the end she had become immune to what was said.

9. As parents can pass on their chromosomes to their offspring, some diseases are hereditary.

10.The doctor required me to wear goggles at work to prevent foreign objects from getting into my eyes.