中国科学院大学英语A期中考试详细修改版.docx

1、中国科学院大学英语A期中考试详细修改版Passage1（共4句） 1. Among his first efforts in this area was “Tommy Tuckers Tooth” (1922), a short combining live action and animation made on assignment for a local dentist.他在这个领域的第一个成就是“汤米塔克的牙”（1922），一部结合了生动动作和动画，描述给当地医生任务的短剧。2. A 1945 Look magazine article, titled “Walt Disney: Te

2、acher of Tomorrow,” described Disney as “revolutionizing an educational system” and cited how the Donald Duck short “The New Spirit,” made for the United States Treasury Department, affected 37 percent of Americans regarding their willingness to pay taxes1945年，瞭望杂志一篇标题为“沃特 迪斯尼：老师的明天”的文章，把迪斯尼描述为“改革一个

3、教育体系”，并且引用美国财政部是如何用唐老鸭短剧“新的精神”来影响37%的美国人交税的意愿。3. This film contributed to Disneys being presented with an award of merit, for his contribution to public safety, by the Automobile Club of Southern California.因为迪斯尼对于公共安全的贡献，南加利福尼亚汽车俱乐部给予迪斯尼功绩的奖赏。4. Im not an educator. My primary purpose is to entertai

4、n though if people want to read education into my work, thats fine with me.尽管他的一些作品中体现一些教育意义，但他很快指出“我不是教育家，我的主要目的是娱乐，但如果人们想要从我的工作中受到教育，我也乐于接受”。Passage 2（共3句）1. Diffusion is the process by which molecules or ions scatter or spread from regions where they are in higher concentrations towards regions w

5、here they are in lower concentrations.扩散是分子或离子从高浓度区域分散或散布至低浓度区域的过程。2. Such motion is haphazard, but it accounts for the mixing of molecules that commonly occurs when different kinds of substances are put together.这种运动是无规则的,但它解释了将不同种类的物质放在一起时，通常会发生分子的混合的原因。3. Osmosis is a special kind of diffusion. I

6、t occurs whenever water molecules diffuse from a region of higher concentration through a selectively permeable membrane, such as a cell membrane.渗透是一种特殊的扩散。当水分子从高浓度区域通过选择性渗透膜（如细胞膜）扩散时即为渗透。Passage3（共2句）1. One of the problems of watching weather forecasts on TV is that by the time they have reached y

7、our region, you have tuned out and missed the vital information you have been waiting for. But it is not a problem in the United States because they have a weather channel devoted entirely to weather. Set up in 1982, the Weather Channel was given just weeks to survive by its critics, but such is the

8、 interest in the vagaries of the climate that it has thrived.收看天气预报的一个问题就是当他们播到你那个区域时你已经换台而错过了你一直在等的重要信息。但是在美国不存在这样的问题，因为他们有一个专门的天气频道。天气频道建立于1982年，评论家认为它只能存活几周，但是人们对变化莫测的天气如此感兴趣以至于它很盛行。2. Weather is big business in the United States. The country has 750 weather zones, including eight in the New York

9、 metropolitan area alone.在美国天气是一项大事，这个国家有750个气候区，单纽约这样的大都市就包含8个区域。Passage 4（共2句）1. The Julian calendar devised by Julius Caesar and based on the phases of the moon, had trouble pinning down that date.儒略历由凯撒大帝制定，并根据月相而制定，它很难确定复活节的日期。2.Aside from setting the first year of the Lord around Jesus fourth

10、birthday, it does not had not account for a year 0.The concept of a whole number between minus-one and one had not yet made the journey from the Arab world to Western Europe.除了设置耶稣的第四个生日为第一年，儒略历还不包括公元元年。一负一和一之间的整数的概念还没有从阿拉伯世界传到西方欧洲。Passage5（共7句）1. Do you think it is possible to defeat an opponent so

11、 fierce that a glance at her turns one to stone ? This was the fate of anyone who looked upon the Medusa , a dreaded monster whose hair was made of hissing serpents. 你认为有可能击败一个如此凶猛的对手，即看她一眼就会变成石头吗？这是任何一个看Medusa的人的命运，一个可怕的魔鬼，她的头发是嘶嘶叫的蛇所组成的.2. The brave Perseus undertook to fight the Medusa , but he w

12、as compelled to do battle in a most awkward manner .To help Perseus in his venture ,the goddess Minerva had lent him her bright shield ,and the god Mercury had given him winged shoes .勇敢的Perseus承担了与Medusa斗争的责任，但他不得不以一个笨拙的方式去战斗。为了帮助危险中的Perseus，智慧女神给珀尔修斯送来了一面光洁得像镜子一样的铜盾牌，Mercury墨丘利给他了一双飞鞋。3. Cautiousl

13、y he approached the awesome monster .Using the image of the Medusa in his shield as a guide , he succeeded in cutting off her head and fixing it to the center of Minervas shieldPerseus小心翼翼的靠近了令人恐惧的魔鬼。他利用盾牌上Medusa的镜像作为一个参照，成功的把她的头切下来了，并把它嵌在Minerva的盾牌的中心。4. Perseus then flew to the realm of King Atlas

14、 whose chief pride was his garden filled with golden fruit . Thirsty and near collapse , he pleaded with the King for water to quench his thirst and for a place to rest .然后，Perseus飞到了Atlas王国的境内，它的首领以他花园中的金色水果为荣。Perseus口渴并接近虚脱，他恳求国王一些水来止渴和一个休息的地方。 5. But Atlas feared that he would be betrayed into lo

15、sing his golden apples . He uttered just one word ,“Begone!”Perseus ,finding that he could not pacify Atlas , responded by beckoning him to look upon Medusas head .Atlas was changed immediately into stone但是，Atlas害怕帕修斯将会偷窃他的金色苹果（从而背叛他）。于是Atlas只说出了一个字“走开！”Perseus发觉他不能使Atlas屈服，就以引诱他看Medusa的头作为报复。Atlas立

16、刻变成了石头。6. His head and hair became forests , his body increased in bulk and became cliffs , and the gods ruled that the heaven with all its stars should rest upon his shoulders . Can there be a worse calamity than that which befell Atlas ?他的头和头发变成树林；他的身体增大变成峭壁，根据神祗的心愿，天体及其群星落在他肩头，由他来背负。还有更悲惨的灾难能比得上降临在Atlas身上的吗？7. Using the image of the Medusa in his shield as a guide, he succeeded in cutting off her head an