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《高级英语阅读二》期末试题
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I
Read Lesson 8
，
Text
A
“
The
Girl
in
the
Fifth
Row
”，
translate
the following two sentences into
Chinese. (
阅读教材《高级英语阅读教程
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》第八课课文
A
，翻译以下句子
)
On my first day
as an
assistant
professor of education at the
University
of Southern California, I
entered the classroom with a great deal of
anxiety.
My
large
class
responded
to
my
awkward
smile
and
brief
greeting
with silence. For a
few moments I fussed with my notes. Then I started
my lecture, stammering; no one seemed
to be listening.
II Read
lesson 3 ,Text A
“
To the
Victor Belongs the
Language
”
, answer
the following Questions
(
阅读教材第三课课文
A
，回答问题
)
：
To
the Victor Belongs the Language
By
Rita Mae Brown
Language
is
the
road
map
of
a
culture.
It
tells
you
where
its
people
come
from and where they are
going. A study of the English language reveals
a dramatic history and astonishing
versatility. It is the language of
survivors, of conquerors, of laughter.
A word is more like a pendulum than a
fixed entity. It can sweep by your
ear
and through its very sound suggest hidden
meanings; preconscious
associations.
Listen
to
these
words:
Besides
their
literal
meanings,
they
carry
associations
that
are
cultural
as
well as personal.
One word can
illustrate this idea of meaning in flux:
word enters English in
the
14th century
from Latin via
French. (At least
that's
when it was first written; it may have been spoken
earlier.)
means
a
turning
around;
that
was
how
it
was
used.
Most
often
was
applied
to
astronomy
to
describe
a
planet
revolving
in
space. The word carried no political
meaning.
does about 60
percent of our word pool), and it means a renewal
of war.
In
the
I4th
century
was
used
to
indicate
a
resistance
to
lawful
authority.
This
can
yield
amusing
results.
Whichever
side
won
called
the
losers
rebels
—
they, the winners,
being the repositories of virtue and
more
gunpowder.
This
meaning
lingers
today.
The
Confederate
fighters
are
called rebels. Since the North won that
war, it can be dismissed as a
rebellion
and
not
called
a
revolution.
Whoever
wins
the
war
redefines
the
language.
did
not
acquire
a
political
meaning
in
English
until
at
least
the 16th
century. Its meaning
—
a
circular movement
—
was
still tied to
its
origin
but
had
spilled
over
into
politics.
It
could
now
mean
a
turnaround in power. This
is more complicated than you might think.
The 16th century, vibrant, cruel,
progressive, held as a
persistent
popular image the wheel of
fortune
—
an image familiar to
anyone who has
played with a tarot
deck. Human beings dangle on a giant wheel. Some
are
on the bottom turning upward, some
are on the top, and some are hurtling
toward
the
ground.
It's
as
good
an
image
as
any
for
the
sudden
twists
and
turns of Fate, Life or
the Human Condition. This idea was so dominant at
the time that the word
card
or a complicated
explanation
of the
wheel of fortune,
that one word
captured the concept.
It's a concept we would do well to remember.
Politically,
was
still
the
more
potent
word.
Cromwell's
seizure
of
state
power
in
the
mid-I
7th
century
came
to
be
called
the
Great
Rebellion because Charles
Ⅱ
followed Cromwell in the
restoration of
monarchy. Cromwell
didn't call his own actions rebellious. In I689
when
William and Mary took over the
throne of England, the event was tagged
the Glorious Revolution.
inferior in intensity to
By
1796
a
shift
occurred
and
had
come
to
mean
the
subversion
or
overthrow
of
tyrants.
Rebellion,
specifically,
was
a
subversion
of
the
laws. Revolution was
personal. So we had the American Revolution, which
dumped George III out of the Colonies,
and the French Revolution, which
gave
us the murder of Louis XVI and the spectacle of a
nation devouring
itself.
If
you're
a
Marxist
you
can
recast
that
to
mean
one
class
destroying another. At any rate, the
French Revolution was a bloodbath
and
concerned
and
holy
significance
as
far
as
Jacobins
were
concerned.
By
that
time
—
not just
the
overthrow of a tyrant but action based on belief
in a new principle.
Revolution became a
political idea, not just a political act.
The Russian Revolution, the Chinese
Revolution, the Cuban
Revolution
—
by
now
is
the
powerful
word,
not
In
the
late
1960's
and
early
1970's
young
Americans
used
the
word
indiscriminately. True, they
wanted political power, they were opposed
to tyrants and believed in a new
political principle (or an old one,
depending
on
your
outlook)
called
participatory
democracy.
However,
that
period
of
unrest,
with
its
attendant
creativity,
did
not
produce
a
revolution.
The
word
quickly
became
corrupted
until
by
the
80's
Whither
goest thou, Revolution?
1.
What is the implied meaning of the last sentence
of paragraph 1
“
It
is the language of survivors ,of
conquerors ,of laughter
”
2, Can you give some other examples in
English or in Chinese to show
that language is constantly changing?
III Read lesson 1 Text B ,
Do
True or False Question
s
（阅读教材第
1
课课文
B
，判断对错）
:
I Became Her Target
My
favorite
teacher's
name
was
Bean.
Her
real
name
was
Dorothy.
She taught
American history to eighth graders in
the junior high
section of Creston, the
high school that served the north end of Grand
Rapids,
Mich.
It
was
the
fall
of
1944.
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
was
president;
American troops
were battling their way across France; Joe
DiMaggio was
still
in
the
service;
the
Montgomery
bus
boycott
was
more
than
a
decade
away,
and
I
was
a
12-year-old
black
newcomer
in
a
school
that
was
otherwise
all
white. My mother, who had been a widow in New
York, had married my
stepfather,
a
Grand
Rapids
physician,
the
year
before,
and
he
had
bought
the
best
house
he
could
afford
for
his
new
family.
The
problem
for
our
new
neighbors
was
that
their
neighborhood
had
previously
been
pristine(in
their terms) and
they were ignorant about black people. The
prevailing
wisdom
in
the
neighborhood
was
that
we
were
spoiling
it
and
that
we
ought
to
go
back
where
we
belonged
(or,
alternatively,
ought
not
to
intrude
where
we
were
not
wanted).
There
was
a
lot
of
angry
talk
among
the
adults,
but
nothing much came of it.
But some
of
the
kids, those first few
weeks, were quite
nasty. They
threw stones at
me, chased
me home when I was on foot
and spat on my
bike
seat
when
I
was
in
class.
For
a
time,
I
was
a
pretty
lonely,
friendless
and
sometimes
frightened
kid.
I
was
just
transplanted
from
Harlem,
and
here in Grand Rapids, the dominant culture was
speaking to me
insistently.