strength大学英语考试

| I don't know

for sure w

hether the bank w

ill grant him the loan he has

applied for.

UNIT

8

1. |

巨额投资

(investment)

使这一地区的经 济得以迅速发展。

| Vast amounts of investment have enabled the economy of the area to

grow

rapidly.

2. |

他们为新建一所医院开展了一场筹款运动。

| T

hey launched a campaign to raise money for a new

hospital.

3. |

成功在于勤奋

(dilige nce)

，诺兰医生就是一个很好的例证。

| Success lies in diligence. Dr. Nolen is a case in point.

4. |

他们都具 有很高的道德标准，决不会受诱惑接受如此贵重的礼品。

|

Men

of

high

moral

standards,

they

are

never

to

be

tempted

into

taking such expensive gifts.

5. |

有迹象表明，不少工厂正面临着十分困 难的局面。

|

There

are

indications

that

numerous

factories

are

faced

w

ith

a very

difficult situation.

6. |

警方找到谁是罪犯的重要线索后，在几小时内就以武装 抢劫罪拘捕了他。

|

T

he

police

arrested

the

criminal

on

a

charge

of

armed

robbery

several hours after they found an important clue to his identity.

7. |

调查显示，对某些人来说，退休往往会造成心理上的病痛。

|

Investigation

has

revealed

that

retirement

tends

to

cause

psychological troubles for some people.

8. |

医疗队并没有一味抱怨当地医院较差的工作条件。

比如，

好几位医生就曾

用自己的钱购置了简 单的医疗器械。

| T

he medical team did more than complain about the relatively poor

working conditions at the local hospital. For instance, several doctors

bought simple medical instruments w

ith their ow

n money.

UNIT

7

1.

在当地政府的领导下，村民们奋起应付由水灾造成的严重粮食危机 。

Under the leadership of the local government, the villagers rose to the

serious food crisis caused by the floods.

2.

这个展览会很受欢迎，

< br>吸引着源源而至的参观者。

*T

he exhibition

is very

popular and is attracting a steady stream of visitors.

3.

妈妈上楼来查

< br>看我们这些孩子时，我转过身假装睡着了

.*When

Mom

came

upstairs

to

check on us kids, I turned over and pretended to be asleep.

4.

对阿姆

斯特德来说，向毒贩展开斗争是个挑战。虽然她感到紧张不安，但她决心勇

敢地面对这些 人。

*Waging

a

battle

against

the

drug

pushers

w

as

a

challenge

to

Armstead.

She

felt

rather

nervous

but

she

decided

to

confront them.

5 .

老太太叫我小心些，不要与那些在街角闲荡的家伙讲话。

*T

he old lady told me to be cautious and not to talk to the guys hanging

out on the street corner.

6

一个卫生组织促使地方政府为建造一所新的医

院筹措三百万美元的资金。

*A

health

organization

prompted

the

local

government to raise a three-million- dollar fund for a new

hospital.

7.

那个曾放火烧教堂的男子打开门 时，迎面遇到十来个持枪的警察。

*Opening

the

door,

the

man

w

ho

had

set

fire

to

the

church

found

himself

confronted

by

a

dozen

policemen

w

ith

guns.8

据报道，燃烧了两个多小

时的 熊熊烈火始于一个废弃的仓库。

*It

is

reported

that

the

fire

w

hich

raged for more than two hours started in an abandoned w

arehouse

UNIT

6

1. |

只要你不断努力，你迟早会解决这个难题的。

|

If

you keep

trying, you

w

ill

be

able

to resolve this

difficult

problem

sooner or later.

2|

我们预料我们的计划会受到抵制

(resistance)

。

| >

We anticipate that we w

ill encounter resistance to our plan / our plan

w

ill meet w

ith resistance.

3. |

吉姆的朋友说，他们那个城 市的噪音污染十分严重，但是他们只好忍着。

|Jim's friends said that the noise pollution in their city w

as terrible, but

they had to live w

ith it.

4. |

汤姆起初认为，凭他的知识、技术和经验，

一定能够找到一份称心如意 的

工作。

At first Tom thought that w

ith his knowledge, skill and experience he

was bound to find a satisfactory job.

5. |

冷静耐心地处理这个微妙

(delicate)

问题是明智的。

|

It

would

be

w

ise

to

handle

this

delicate

problem

w

ith

calmness

and

patience.

6. |

迪克以为，如果他拆不开那台机器，那么很可能厂里别的工人也拆不开。

Dick thought that if he w

asn't able to take the machine apart, chances

were that no other worker in the plant could, either.

7. |

你是否认为公共汽车司机应对乘客的安全负完全的责任？

Do

you

think

bus

drivers

should

take

full

responsibility

for

the

passengers' safety?

8. |

你不必再去多想那些判断上的失误了。重要的是尽量避 免再犯。

|

You

needn't

dwell

on

your

mistakes

in

judgment

any

more.

What's

important is to try your best to avoid repeating them.

UNIT

5

1.

|

如果富有的国家多花些钱搞绿色工业，

而不是去建立军事机器 和制造核

武器，当今许多广泛存在的污染问题将会逐渐消失。

|

If the rich countries spent more money on green industries, instead of

on building up military machines and nuclear weapons, many of today's

w

idespread pollution problems would gradually disappear.

2. |

烧煤的时候，不仅消耗房子里面的氧气，而且还散发出 有毒的气体。

|

The

burning

of

coal

not

only

consumes

the

oxygen in the house

but

also gives out poisonous gases.

3. |

显然，找到替代能源对我们经济的稳定发展是至关重要的。

|

Apparently,

finding

alternative

energy

sources

is

essential

to

the

steady development of our economy.

4. |

太阳能电池（

solar cell

）能吸收阳光并把它变成电。

|

Solar cells can absorb sunlight and convert it into electricity.

5. |

如果地球上的温度继续年复一年地上升，

极地的冰帽将会开始融化，

沿海

城市中一半的建筑物 很可能会消失在劈啪飞溅的海浪下面。

|

If the temperature on the Earth continues to go up from year to year,

the polar ice caps

w

ill begin to melt and, in all likelihood, half of the

buildings in coastal cities w

ill disappear beneath splashing sea waves.

6. |

因为这些生物很小并且常常躲在叶子茂密的植物下面，

肉眼并不都可以看

见。

|

Because

these

creatures

are

small

and

tend

to

hide

beneath

leafy

plants, they are not alw

ays visible to the naked eye.

7. |

由于受到原子辐射，他最终在工作时倒下了。

|

As a result of exposure to atomic radiation, he finally collapsed at

work.

8. |

有明显的证据表明工作上的重压与身体的某些毛病有联系。

|

There is distinct evidence of the connection between heavy pressure

of work and some disorders of the body.

课文

UNIT

9

Well,then,suppose

my

auto

repairman

devised

questions

for

an

intelligence

suppose

a

carpenter

did,or

a

farmer,or,indeed,almost

anyone

but

an

every

one

of

those tests,I’d prove myself a moron.

And I’d be a moron, a world

where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but

had to do something intricate or hard,

working

w

ith my hands,I

would

do intelligence,then,is not worth is determined

by

the

society

I

live

numerical

evaluation

is

determined

by

a

small subsection of that society

w

hich has managed to foist itself on

the rest of us as an arbiter of such matters.

UNIT

8

School

children

used

to

know

the

story

of

how

Abraham

Lincoln

walked five miles to return a penny he’d overcharged a ’s

the

kind

of

story

we

think

of

as

in the

case

of

Lincoln,the

story is true…unlike the story of George Washington and the cherry

ington’s

first biographer invented

the

tale

of

little

George

saying

to

his

father,” I

cannot

tell

a lie.

I

Did it

w

ith

my

ax.

w

hat

is