TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2003)&-GRADE EIGHT--在线考试系统

1、【简答题】
Translate the following underlined text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
在得病以前,我受父母宠爱,在家中横行霸道,一旦隔离,拘禁在花园山坡上一幢小房子里,顿感被打入冷宫,十分郁郁不得志起来｡一个春天的傍晚,园中百花怒放,父母在园中设宴,霎时宾客云集,笑语四溢｡我在山坡的小屋里,悄悄掀起窗帘,窥见园中大千世界,一片喧闹｡自己的哥姐,堂表弟兄,也穿插其间,个个喜气洋洋｡一霎时,一阵被人摈弃,为世所遗忘的悲愤兜上心头,禁不住痛哭起来｡ [10分]

解析：
Before I fell ill, my parents doted on me a lot. I could have my way at home. Once I was isolated and confined in a chamber on the hillside of the garden, I suddenly felt I was neglected and became very depressed. One spring evening, my parents held a Banquet in the garden, where all sorts of flowers were in full bloom. In no time, a crowd of their guests collected and laughter was heard all over there. I, without being noticed, lifted the curtain in my small room, only to spy the bustle of a kaleidoscopic world down in the garden, and my elder sisters, brothers and my cousins, each full of the joys of spring, were shuttling among the guests. Quickly enough, I was thrown into a fist of sorrowful anger at being forgotten and discarded by the rest and could not help crying my heart out. 

2、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
height→high

3、【简答题】
An English newspaper is currently running a discussion on whether young people in China today are (not) more self-centered and unsympathetic than were previous generations. And the paper is inviting contributions from university students. You have been asked to write a short article for the newspaper to air your views. 
Your article should be about 300 words in length. In the first part of your article 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 a summary. 
You should supply a title for your article. 
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 composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. [20分]

解析：
Love, and Then Be Loved
In recent years, more and more teachers complain that their students are indifferent to others. Some even worry that the young generation might ruin the future of China. To be sure, many of our young people cannot see eye to eye with this view. However, as a university student, I myself would like to content that we young people today are in general more self-centered and unsympathetic than our previous generations. 
To start with, most, if not all, young people choose to attend exclusively to their own needs. In their eyes, It is all too natural to seek satisfaction from what they do, even if it may mean inconvenience to others. Take my dormitory for example. It is a common scene here that a roommate cheerfully talks to his girlfriend on the phone at midnight when others are struggling for a sound sleep. One may complain now and then, but to no avail. In fact, the others, to the exclusion of me, live their dormitory life much in the same way. When I take a nap at noon, they often play cards. They have no regard for others. Life is a joy to them, yet they often enjoy it to the neglect of others' feelings. In sharp contrast, our caring parents always pay heed to our needs and those of others. Whenever my father comes back home late in the night, he tiptoes In for fear that he might awake me. 
Moreover, our young people tend to be insensitive to others' difficulty. When a classmate falls ill, few people offer to help, but regard it as none of their business. Some students in my class come from poor families. Yet, they are active mobile phone users, who may spend twice as much as what their parents earn from arduous labor. When asked why they behave so, they answer that their parents have the obligation to accommodate their expenses. Personally, I detest their answer, for I know my parents never thought that way when they were young. Being aware of their parents' financial difficulty, they managed to save every penny they could. 
For the above reasons and those not mentioned here, I subscribe to the view that young people in today's China are more self-centered and unsympathetic than were our previous generations. It is high time that we learned from older generations so that a harmonious and splendid future can be anticipated. 

4、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
basic (或 fundamental) 

5、【简答题】
Translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
In his classic novel, "The Pioneers", James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, with his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a bustling metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. "Where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?" she asks. He's astonished she can't see them. "Where! Why everywhere," he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they are as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished. 
Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, "Life for the American is always becoming, never being.” [10分]

解析：
在其经典小说《开拓者》中,詹姆士•菲尼摩尔•库珀让主人公,一个土地开发商,带他的表妹参观正在由他承建的一座城市｡他描述了宽阔的街道,林立的房屋,热闹的都市｡他的表妹环顾四周,大惑不解｡她所看见的只是一片树林｡"你想让我看的那些美景和改造了的地方在哪儿啊?"她问道｡他见表妹看不到那些东西,感到很惊讶｡"哪儿?到处都是啊!"他答道｡虽然那些东西还未建成在大地上,但他已在心中将它们建好了｡对他来说,它们都是实实在在的,宛如已建成竣工一样｡
库珀这里阐明的是一种典型的美国人特性:着眼于未来,即能够从未来的角度看待现在;可以自由地不为过去所羁绊,而在情感上更多地依附于未来的事物｡正如阿尔伯特•爱因斯坦曾经说过的那样:"对美国人来说,生活总是在发展变化中,从来不会静止不变｡"

6、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
a

7、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
safety

8、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
emotional
解析:【详细解答】紧接上题,录音解释了safety needs所包含的内容"...the things we require for physical and emotional security. " 

9、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
went∧→on

10、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
high→higher

11、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
worries

12、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
pension 

13、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
Europe→European 

14、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
work

15、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
more

16、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
variable

17、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
nevertheless→also

18、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
that→those

19、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
human

20、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
Since→Although(或While)

21、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
motivation

22、【简答题】

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ANSWER SHEET TWO
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2003)
- GRADE EIGHT - [1分]

解析：
coexist

23、【简答题】
[1分]

解析：
in→to