Key to quiz 1 BII (2011)

    I. Multiple choices

    1. A 2. A 3. B 4. A 5. D 6. B7. A8. A9. B10. C 11. C 12. A13. D14. C15. D

    16. D17. C18. D19. C20. B 21. D 22.A 23. D 24. C

    II. Cloze

    1-10 ABCDC DCABC

    III. Derivatives

    sufficient exposure arrogance fragmented qualify acquisition certificate identification fertilizing implicitly IV. Phrases translation

    1. fresh out of graduate school 2. reasonably penetrating ideas 3. bring you basic satisfaction 4. presiding over a family 5. have no business in university 6. 但愿你挣很多钱

    7. 这样跟他讲 8. 最初的糟糕经历之一 9. 没有存在的必要

    10. 学生当中有一人

    V. Sentence translation

    1. This is to certify that Wang Hua is now taking the four-year undergraduate program at Southwest University of Finance and Economics. Since his enrollment from September 2009, he has been studying in the School of Foreign Languages for Economics and Trade, majoring in English.

    2. No one could go through university unaided. We acquire knowledge by attending lectures, we add to our experience by reading in library, and we maintain contact with the ideas/minds of our peers through our friend circle.

    3. If you are too much into yourself/If you close your inner thought to the outside world, or if you are too arrogantly proud of yourself, to accept care or advice from others, (then) you can neither enjoy the pleasure of friendship nor bring happiness to others.

    4. How are you to do with your college days/time? To simply pursue a scroll/a piece of paper that read “Bachelor

    of Art”? Or to be out to equip yourself for a useful profession after graduation?

    5. We all could be nervous on important occasions. It is also true of teachers. Chances are that every teacher has had such experience of being stuck for word while teaching in class/in the middle of a class. 66. Are you going to be the head of your family where the members will have the chance to experience a democratic spirit?

    VI. Paraphrase

    1. Will you be head of a family where kids would be brought up in a democratic spirit?

    2. The B. S. certificate would be official proof that the holder had special knowledge of pharmacy, but it would also prove that he had made contact with some profound ideas of the past.

    3. A number of such push-button savages get college degrees. There is nothing we can do about it. But even with their degrees, we can’t say that these people have received a proper college education. It is more accurate to say that they have stayed in college without learning anything.

    4. You have to take responsibility for the work you do. If you’re a pharmacist, you should make sure that aspirin is

    not mixed with poisonous chemicals. As an engineer, you shouldn’t get things out of control. If you become a

    lawyer, you should make sure an innocent person is not sentenced to death because you lack adequate legal knowledge and skill to defend your client.

    5. The existence of the liberal arts college itself says in an implied way: “In our effort to make our faculty a place

    where our students can experience a variety of life they don’t have time to live themselves, we get a lot of help

    from many people and books, present and past.”

    VII. Questions

    1. He didn’t understand why it was important for him to read Shakespeare and wanted the teacher to explain to him. He thought it was a waste of time for a future pharmacist to read works of literature. 2. According to the writer, in a technical school students get training and learn skills for a job, while in a university, students receive not only training but also education that helps develop their mental and moral powers.

    3. He thinks that when a person is neither working nor sleeping he should be trying to improve his mind and enrich his life through learning about art, history, philosophy and literature.

    4. The purpose of a university is not only to train students, but to put them in touch with what the best human minds have thought.

    5. He argues that reading books help add to our human experiences and lead us into a different world. He uses some great figures’ works as examples. He even points out that one who does not read is neither fully developed nor useful to our society.

    6. Virgil is a great Roman poet who is best known for his epic poems. Dante is an Italian poet who admires Virgil so much that in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy Virgil was depicted as his guide his through the religious pilgrim.

    7. Chaucer established English as a literary language, and Dante was one of the first writers to abandon Latin for the language of people. They both contributed to the language use in literature.

    8. Shakespeare is the most famous poet and playwright in the English-speaking countries. He is said to have written 39 plays and more than 154 sonnets.

    Book II Quiz 2 Key:

    I. Translate the following phrases into English.

    1 urgent business

    2 flakes of snow drift down

    3 biting cold

    4 wrap one’s hand

    5 blood-soaked bandage

    6 the clear outline of a wolf

    7 faint crying

    8 moon-flooded cabin

    9 fog one’s mind with pleasure

    10 urgent business

    II. Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.

    11. B 12. B 13. A14. A 15. A

    16. D 17. C 18. D 19. C 20. D

    21. D 22. D 23. A 24. D 25. C

    26. A 27. B 28. D 29.C 30. B III. Fill in the blanks with the right form of words given in brackets..

    31. alert 32. dimness 33. mischief 34. restlessly 35. drifting

    36. warmth 37. acceptance 38. demand 39. unchained 40. thickened

    IV. Paraphrase the following sentences from the text. Use your own words and put them into simpler English. 41. She (My grandma), being very angry, would drive Maheegun out of the house with a broom. He then would stay out of the way, move his head around the corner, and wait until her anger had stopped. 42. Although my grandpa had told me several times to chain Maheegun at night time, I got so happy playing with him that I forgot to do so one night.

    43. It was dangerous to continue walking in the heavy snow, so the only choice is to stay where I was for the night and hope that the storm might be over the next morning.

    44. Everything had been covered by the heavy snow.

    45 As I had lost a lot of blood, and it was extremely cold, I was feeling very sick and weak. V. Put the following Chinese sentences into English and English sentences into Chinese. 46. Almost detained by the sudden downpour with no taxis available, the boy decided to walk in the rain. He showed up at the girl’s an hour later with his body soaked wet and a bouquet of red roses.

    47. Will you take this lady in front of you as your wife for life? Will you love her, stay loyal to her, for better or

    worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness or health, until death do you apart? 48. To reform test-oriented education is to reform classroom teaching first, and a student-centered teaching

    approach should gradually take the place of a teacher-centered one. 49. She had just prepared to leave the village for a nearby town to get a job when the admission letter from

    Beijing University came. The whole family were thrilled, but then she felt hesitant because of the expensive

    tuition she had to pay. Luckily, relatives and friends reached out their hands to her. 50. 整个一片白色的世界都在那声充满野性的嗥叫下兴奋起来。又过了一会儿，从远处传来了一声狼叫，

    这更温柔的叫声是另一匹狼的回应？Maheegun晃动着，喉咙里发出充满着快乐的隆隆声。他快速地从石

    头上跑下来，径直朝着冰面那边去了。

    Key Book II, Quiz 3 (Class 1)

    I.

    1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. C

    6. B7. A 8. D 9. C 10. A

    11. D 12. D 13. C 14. D15. B

    16. D 17. B 18. C 19. B 20. B

    21. C 22. A 23. A 24. A 25. C

    26. D 27. B 28. A 29. C 30. C

II. commitment, dismissal, prosecutor, priority, feasibility, observatory, certainty, Reality, evidenced, statistical

    conviction, justification, deterrent, prioritize, severity,

     III Translate the following Chinese/English phrases into English/ Chinese. (10 points) 41. 对….采取强硬态度 get tough with

    42. 等同于 amount to

    43. 恰好相反 the other way around

    44. 阐明我的观点 illustrate my point

    45. 把…与….相比较 measure…against…

    46. 杯水车薪 a drop in the bucket

    47. be soft on 对…心慈手软

    48. elite group 精英队伍

    49. the select few 精选的少数

    50. not worth the cost 不值得如此花费

IV. 翻译

    1. Everybody thought the jury would convict him of murder and sentence him to life imprisonment, but it’s the

    other way around. He was announced innocent and released.

    2. Measured against what you have achieved, this price amounts to nothing. 3. Prison officials must make room for the new prisoners sent in almost daily. 4. This idea is too bold to be taken into consideration. You’d better dismiss it.

    5. Given the high expense of prison construction, the public won’t be willing to pay, and the efficient operation of the prison system remains a long-term issue.

V. Paraphrase.

    1. In Saudi Arabia or other countries, the number of crime is little, so it is workable to punish criminals harshly

    and not cause public complaint.

    2. Although researches into the relationship between crime and punishment have been carried on for ten years, we can’t produce enough proof to show that severe punishment can reduce crime.

    3. The increasing number of crimes has made it more difficult to get criminals into prison while the decreasing number of high-school graduates has made it easier to be admitted into the college of a person’s choice.

    4. First, the police force is unable to find most criminals. Second, it is difficult to prosecute those they have found, try them and finally get a court to declare them guilty, and it costs a lot of money to do so, too. 5. This would add up to a total of only 15,000 crimes. This means that only that number of crimes would be prevented if those prisoners were locked up in prison for an additional year. But each year 41 millions crimes occur. Compared with 41 million, 15,000 is a very small number.

VI.

    1. They both have high standards of admissions. You need to be excellent enough to be accepted in elite colleges;

    similarly, you need to be the most serious offenders to be accepted in prisons.

    2. They both are powerless to deal with too large number of children or criminals.

    3. Longer prison sentences are not worth the cost. It’s too expensive and the public won’t be willing to pay.

    4. Some possible ways out: arouse the awareness of the public to maintain a higher ethical standards; narrow the

    gap between poor and rich; less exposure of violence on media…

    5. In the name of self-protection, Americans are actually locking themselves in to the outer world. More distrust

    came.

    Key Book II, Quiz 3 (Class 2)

    I.

    1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. C

    6. B7. A 8. D 9. C 10. A

    11. D 12. D 13. C 14. D15. B

    16. D 17. B 18. C 19. B 20. B

    21. C 22. A 23. A 24. A 25. C

    26. D 27. B 28. A 29. C 30. C

    II. conviction justification deterrent prioritize severity imprisoned commitment observation disapproval illustration

III Translate the following Chinese/English phrases into English/ Chinese. (10 points)

    1. 对….采取强硬态度 get tough with

    2. 等同于 amount to

    3. 恰好相反 the other way around

    4. 阐明我的观点 illustrate my point

    5. 把…与….相比较 measure…against…

    6. 杯水车薪 a drop in the bucket

    7. be soft on 对…心慈手软

    8. elite group 精英队伍

    9. the select few 精选的少数

    10. not worth the cost 不值得如此花费

IV. 翻译

1. He dismissed the thought as too unrealistic to bring any profit.

    2. Everybody thought the jury would convict him of murder and sentence him to life imprisonment, but it’s the

    other way around. He was announced innocent and released.

    3. Measured against my kindness to him, what he did amounted to an insult to my face. 4. He can tell the weather conditions in any given year.

    5. New convicts are sent to prison daily, and how to make room for them has become a big issue for the government.

V. Paraphrase.

    1. In Saudi Arabia or other countries, the number of crime is little, so it is workable to punish criminals harshly and not cause public complaint.

    2. Although researches into the relationship between crime and punishment have been carried on for ten years, we can’t produce enough proof to show that severe punishment can reduce crime.

    3. The increasing number of crimes has made it more difficult to get criminals into prison while the decreasing number of high-school graduates has made it easier to be admitted into the college of a person’s choice.

    4. First, the police force is unable to find most criminals. Second, it is difficult to prosecute those they have found, try them and finally get a court to declare them guilty, and it costs a lot of money to do so, too. 5. This would add up to a total of only 15,000 crimes. This means that only that number of crimes would be prevented if those prisoners were locked up in prison for an additional year. But each year 41 millions crimes occur. Compared with 41 million, 15,000 is a very small number.

VI.

    6. They both have high standards of admissions. You need to be excellent enough to be accepted in elite colleges;

    similarly, you need to be the most serious offenders to be accepted in prisons.

    7. They both are powerless to deal with too large number of children or criminals.

    8. Longer prison sentence is not worth the cost. It’s too expensive and the public won’t be willing to pay.

    9. He put forwards his observation: getting tough with the criminals is not the solution to crime problem. 10. People are getting less and less secure about the outside world as well as about themselves.

    Key Book II, Quiz 4

    I.

    1. B 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. C

    6. C 7. D 8. A 9. C 10. A

    11. B 12. C 13. D 14. D 15. C

    16. D 17. D 18. A 19. D 20. C

    II.

    21-30 CBABD DCBCA

    III.

    31. Archoo! Woops, I just sneezed. Am I getting a cold? I’ve got to take in a few tablets and nip it in the bud.

    32. I still remember on my first day here in SWUFE, quite a few new comers flushed in their face with excitement; but our enthusiasm ebbed away as learning pressure came.

    33. Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change. The number of participants of this year has exceeded 1 billion.

    34. I believe that diligence can make up for want of ability, therefore I will do all that I can in every course I am taking./I believe that diligence could make up for the want of ability, so I will try my best in every course I am taking.