山东师范大学成人高等教育英语专业（专升本、高起本）综合英语（二）书面作业一、单词连线题Match the words in Column A with the appropriate meanings inColumn B. （每小题1分，共10分）1. compute A. calculate2. robust B. energy-consuming3. energy-sapping C. respond to4. mischievous D. deserving praise5. meritorious E. simple and pleasant journey6. citations F. drop drastically7. counter G. full of tricks8. idyllic cruise H. meaningless9. plummet I. quotations10. pointless J. Vigorous1-----5 AJBGD 6----10 ICEFH二、根据课文内容判断正误Read the following sentences and decide whether itis True or False according to your comprehension of the texts. （每小题2分，共10分）1----5 TTTFT1. The purpose of the article The Trial that Rocked the World is intended to draw the world's attention to the Evolution Theory and persuade people not to be stubbornly hostile to science.2. John Scopes lost the case in the court, but he won in a real sense.3. New dictionaries are needed because English has changed more in the past twogenerations than at any other time in its history.4. Computers will not bring any changes to school education.5. Britain is sorry that she has lost her dominance on the high seas.三、用英语解释句子Paraphrase.（每小题5分，共30分）1. Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.1. Mark Twain began working hard to became well known locally as a newspaper reporter and humorist.2. In no area of American life is personal service so precious as in medical care.2. Personal service in medical care is regarded as the most important part of the American life3. has developed the kinds of ships which would certainly expand the Soviet reach well beyond its perimeters3. These ships would certainly make it possible for she Soviet Union to exert its influence on countries far away from its territory.4. And when they go, so does a huge slice of the few traditional industries worth keeping4. When these smaller shipping companies go bankrupt, a big part of the few old industries that have been doing well and earning huge profits will close down.5. We may have some sport for you yet.5. You may experience some adventure during the voyage6. I’d venture there was more to it than that.6. I would think the Roosevelt-Churchill conference might have decided on more things than that.四、英语修辞方法辨析Point out the figures of speech used in the followingsentences（每小题2分，共10分）1----5 CBACA1. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.A. punB. alliterationC. personification2. he commented with a crushing s ense of despair on man’s final release from earthly strugglesA. simileB. euphemismC. alliteration3. a world which will lament them a day and forget them foreverA. antithesisB. alliterationC. euphemism4. His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world.A. punB. metaphorC. hyperbole5. Dudley Field Malene called my conviction a “victorious defeat”.A. oxymoronB. metaphorC. ridicule五、汉译英Translate the following sentences into English（每小题4分，共20分）1. 这种仪器便于携带，因此对勘探人员很方便。
1. This instrument is portable，therefore convenient for the prospectors.2. 我看你的电视机需要修理一下，显像管似乎有点毛病。
2. I'm afraid your TV set needs repairing：It seems there 1s something wrong with thetube．3. 直到半夜医生才做完手术。
3. Not until midnight did the surgeon finish the operation.4. 教师让学生多用英英词典，而不要总用英汉词典。
4. The teacher urges the students to use English-English dictionaries in preference to English-Chinese dictionaries.5. 沙特阿拉伯已知石油储量在世界上是遥遥领先的。
5. Saudi Arabia’s proved reserves of on are by far the greatest in the world六、写作Write an essay with at least 120 words according to the following topic.（共20分）There are more problems in big cities today. What are the problems? Should governments encourage people to live in the regional towns?Every year, tens of thousands people crowd into the big cities to seek a decent living, a better job, a faster and more exciting life style. Take Beijing as an example, according the least research, the population in Beijing is more than twenty millions, and of 40% of them is not local. With the rapid growth of urban population, these big cities have many problems on their own.The first problem is with more and more people flooding into the cities, the cities infrastructure such as public transportation, hospitals and school, can hardly meet the people’s need.The second problem is the nature environment of cities. The air pollution, fresh water shortage and noise pollution are worse than ever. In order to have more space to build skyscrapers and infrastructure, trees are cutting down and lakes are land filling.There are also other problems, the crime rate. As competition intensifies, some of the people can not find ajob, thus they do some illegal things to make a living. Such as, robbing, stealing, even murdering.All these problems make cities not as attractive as before. Some of them even move to the countryside. If we don’t fix these problems, the cities will break down sooner or later.The governments should encourage people to live in the regional towns .。