TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2010)&-GRADE EIGHT--在线考试系统

1、【简答题】
Recently newspapers have reported that officials in a little-known mountainous area near Guiyang, Guizhou Province wanted to turn the area into a “central business district” for Guiyang and invited a foreign design company to give it a n entirely new look. The design company came up with a blueprint for unconventional, super-futuristic buildings. Tis triggered off different responses. Some appreciated the bold innovation of the design, but others held that it failed to reflect regional characteristics or local cultural heritage. What is your view on this? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.
In the first part of your writing you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. [10分]

解析：
The important role of a city’s local conditions in the urban design
Recently there is a hot debate on a report that a foreign design company invited by a little-known mountainous area in Guiyang provided a design without paying too much attention to the city’s unique characteristics. Some people appreciate the bold innovation of the design but others do not like it. In my opinion, any urban design should take the city’s original cultural heritage into account. The designers should suit their design to local conditions and try to take advantage of the local resources.
First, a city’s regional characteristics or local cultural heritage are its symbol, its identity. In a mountainous area, too many unconventional, super-futuristic buildings will not be compatible with the city’s landscapes. Without these landscapes, it is just another so called modern city composed of concrete and steel. Take Beijing for example. In the past few years, Beijing has been removing a large number of such alleys traditionally called hutong, in order to make it become a real international city. But without these hutongs can this city still be called Beijing, an ancient capital? The disappearance of hutongs means the disappearance of a period of history, a cordial lifestyle, and even the disappearance of Beijing itself. Then Beijing will lose its uniqueness.
Second, it can help a city save a lot of money by suiting the design to local conditions and try to take advantage of the local resources. This is especially important to small cities, like this one in a mountainous area near Guiyang. We all know Guiyang is a developing city, not very rich. Unconventional, super-futuristic buildings mean large need of money input. Then more burdens may be added to this city, which will run counter to the city’s original purpose of developing itself. Instead, if connections between a city’s culture and the various urban sectors, including housing, infrastructure and governance, are well made, the maximum economic benefits will be achieved.
Besides, the modernization should be a gradual process. More haste, less speed. Nonetheless, it should not be overlooked that the shortcomings of futuristic-style constructing outweigh its advantages brought.
In conclusion, any urban design should take the city’s original cultural heritage into account. The designers should suit their design to local conditions and try to take advantage of the local resources. A scientific city design should be dependent on the city’s regional characteristics, on a case-by-case basis.

2、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
be后插入 as;

3、【简答题】
Translate the underlined part of the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
朋友关系的存续是以相互尊重为前提的, 容不得半点强求､干涉和控制｡朋友之间, 情趣相投､脾气对味则合､则交; 反之, 则离､则绝｡朋友之间再熟悉, 再亲密, 也不能随便过头,不恭不敬｡不然,默契和平衡将被打破, 友好关系将不复存在｡每个人都希望拥有自己的私密空间,朋友之间过于随便,就容易侵入这片禁区,从而引起冲突,造成隔阂｡待友不敬,或许只是一件小事,却可能已埋下了破坏性的种子｡维持朋友亲密关系的最好办法是往来有节,互不干涉｡ [10分]

解析：
Friends tend to become more intimated if they have the same interests and temper, they can get along well and keep contacting; otherwise they will separate and end the relationship. Friends who are more familiar and closer can not be too casual and show no respect. Otherwise the harmony and balance will be broken, and the friendship will also be nonexistent any more. Everyone hopes to have his own private space, and if too casual among friends, it is easy to invade this piece of restricted areas, which will lead to the conflict, resulting in alienation. It may be a small matter to be rude to friends; however, it is likely to plant the devastating seeds. The best way to keep the close relationship between friends is to keep contacts with restraint, and do not bother each other.

4、【简答题】
[0.5分]

解析：
tones of voice

5、【简答题】
[0.5分]

解析：
huskiness

6、【简答题】
Translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
I thought that it was a Sunday morning in May; that it was Easter Sunday, and as yet very early in the morning. I was standing at the door of my own cottage. Right before me lay the very scene which could really be commanded from that situation, but exalted, as was usual, and solemnized by the power of dreams. There were the same mountains, and the same lovely valley at their feet; but the mountains were raised to more than Alpine height, and there was interspace far larger between them of meadows and forest lawns; the hedges were rich with white roses; and no living creature was to be seen except that in the green churchyard there were cattle tranquilly reposing upon the graves, and particularly round about the grave of a child whom I had once tenderly loved, just as I had really seen them, a little before sunrise in the same summer, when that child died. [10分]

解析：
我想那是五月的一个周日的早晨;那天是复活节,一个大清早上｡我站在自家小屋的门口｡就在我的面前展现出了那么一番景色,从我那个位置其实能够尽收眼底,可是梦里的感觉往往如此,由于梦幻的力量,这番景象显得超凡出尘,一派肃穆气象｡群山形状相同,其山脚下都有着同样可爱的山谷;不过群山挺然参天,高于阿尔卑斯峰,诸山相距空旷,丰草如茵,林地开阔,错落其间; 树篱上的白玫瑰娟娟弥望;远近看不见任何生物,唯有苍翠的教堂庭院里,牛群静静地卧躺在那片郁郁葱葱的墓地歇息,好几头围绕着一个小孩的坟墓｡我曾对她一腔柔情,那年夏天是在旭日东升的前一刻,那孩子死去了,我如同当年那样望着牛群｡

7、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
their改为its;

8、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
There改为It;

9、【简答题】
[0.5分]

解析：
universal signal;

10、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
Whereas改为But

11、【简答题】
[0.5分]

解析：
thought or uncertainty

12、【简答题】
[0.5分]

解析：
indifference

13、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
further 改为much

14、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
come改为bring;

15、【简答题】
[0.5分]

解析：
honesty

16、【简答题】
[0.5分]

解析：
distance;

17、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
similar改为different;

18、【简答题】
[0.5分]

解析：
situation;

19、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
will改为would;

20、【简答题】
[0.5分]

解析：
mood;

21、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
as important去掉as;

22、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
the part去掉the

23、【简答题】
[0.5分]

解析：
unconsciously same posture