Part Ⅲ VocabularyDirections: In this part, there are 20 sentences with four choices below each sentence. Choose the best one from the 4 choices. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. Part Ⅴ TranslationDirections: Read the following passages carefully and then translate them into Chinese. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET 2.1. Why does freshman English remain the only common course of American college students? While within recent memory, requirements such as a foreign language and a course in western civilization made part of a common set of courses for the over-whelming majority of freshman students, only composition has survived to define the nationally agreed on minimum for the meaning of the liberal arts and science.
But not even the defeated defenders of the old requirements claimed that one gained from them any more than the "language" of the discipline involved--a way of "talking", of asking questions and discussing possible answers to them.
为什么大学一年级英语依旧是美国大学生唯一的一门公共课程?虽然近年来绝大多数一年级学生的公共课程都包括一门外语和一门西方文明方面的课程,但现在只剩下了作文课作为全国商定的大学文科及理工科最低限度的公共课程。
即使是那些失败了的为旧课程要求辩护的人们当初也不敢声称从旧课程要求中学到的东西多于该学科有关的“语言”——即“交谈”方式,或者说提问题和讨论这些问题的可能答案的方式。
2. His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against Blacks in the United States, but his definition of racial prejudice as "racially-based negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition", can be interpreted as also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the Chinese in California and the Jews in medieval Europe.
他的命题当被应用于针对美国黑人的歧视时,相对而言尚能适用,但他对种族偏见所下的定义——即“以种族为基础的、针对某个群体的消级的先人之见,而该群体在任何特定的种族竞争地区则被普遍认做一种族”——可被理解成同样也包括了针对加利福尼亚州的中国人以及中世纪的犹太人这样一些种族群体的敌视态度。
3. The Aswan Dam for example stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left--all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.
以阿斯旺大坝为例,它挡住了尼罗河的洪水,但也使埃及失去了洪水冲积的肥沃土壤,换回来的却是一个病态的大水库。现在水库积满泥沙,几乎不能用于发电了。