试题库在线考试题库-历年真题模拟试题及答案-考博英语在线试题测试中心-希赛网

西南大学

In this part you are required to write an essay in no less than 300 words on the following topic: A humorous incident in my life. Pay attention to choose words and phrases for your essay that convey a sense of humor.

Translate the following passage into English朋友来访，站在我的书橱前流连忘返，见他一副痴迷的样子，我故作豪爽地说：“喜欢看什么说就先拿去吧。”嘴上虽然这么说，其实心里还是很不情愿的，书像是自己的孩子，是生命的另一部分，生生被别人抱去，总是有点舍不得，朋友没有看出我的小算盘，只顾听了我的话，在书橱里挑三拣四地翻出几本书来，竟都是我喜欢的，时不时要拿出来读读的那种。但是泼出来的水是收不回来了，何况因为几本书，也显得太小家子气。

Translate the following passage into Chinese One advantage of most paid work and of some unpaid word is that it gives chances of success and opportunities for ambition. In most work success is measured by income and while our capitalistic society continues, this is inevitable. It is only where the best work is concerned that this measure ceases to be the natural to apply. The desire that men feel to increase their income is quite as much a desire for success as for extra comforts that a higher income can provide. However dull work may be, it becomes bearable if it is a means of building up a reputation, whether in the world at large or only in one's own circle. In this respect those women whose lives are occupied with housework are much less fortunate than men, or than women who work outside the home. The domesticated wife does not receive wages, has no means of bettering herself, and is valued by her husband not for her housework but for other qualities.Of course, this does not apply to those women who are sufficiently well-to-do to make beautiful houses and beautiful gardens and become the envy of their neighbors; but such women are comparatively few, and for the great majority housework cannot bring as much as satisfaction as work of other kinds brings to men and to professional women.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey: but I like to do it myself can enjoy society in a room, but out of doors, nature is company for me. I am then never less alone than when alone. I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country. I like solitude, when I give myself up to it, for the sake of solitude; nor do I ask for "a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper sweet." "Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours’ march to dinner and I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull commonplaces, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.Others have different opinions. "Let me have a companion of myself: says the novelist Lawrence Sterne, "were it but to remark how the shadows lengthen as the sun declines" It is beautifully said: but in my opinion, this continual comparing of notes interferes with the involuntary impression of things upon the mind and dilutes the experience. If you have to explain what you feel, it is making a tool of a pleasure. You cannot read the book of nature without being perpetually put to the trouble of translating it for the benefit of others.There is one subject on which it is pleasant to talk on a journey. I grant, and that is. What one shall have for supper when we get to our inn at night. Every mile of the road heightens the flavor of the meal we expect at the end of it. How fine is it to enter some old town, walled and turreted, just at approach of nightfall, or to come to some straggling village, with the lights steaming through the surrounding gloom; and then after inquiring for the best entertainment that the place affords, "to take one's ease at one’s inn !""These eventful moments in our lives history are too precious, too foil of solid, heart-felt happiness to be frittered and dribbled away in solitude.1.The author of the passage would agree with which of the following statements about traveling alone?2.The statement in lines 2-3( I am... alone )is an example of （）.3.Steme mentions "the shadows (line 11) as an example of a （）. 4.In the last paragraph of this passage, the author does which of the following?5.The physical description of the “town"(line 18) and ’’village” (line 19) primarily convey a sense of （）.

In the future the little privacy we now have will be gone. Some people call this loss of privacy ’’Orwellian"，harking back to 1984. George Orwell’s classic work on privacy and autonomy. In that book, Orwell imagined a future in which a totalitarian state used spies, video surveillance, and control over the media to maintain its power. But the age of monolithic state control is over. The future we're rushing toward isn't one in which our every move is watched and recorded by an all-known government. It is instead a future of a hundred electronic monitors who constantly watch and interrupt our daily lives, and where threats to privacy find their roots in the free market, advanced technology, and the unbridled exchange of electronic information.The problem with the word "privacy"’ is that it falls short of conveying the really big picture. Privacy isn't just about hiding things. It’s about self-possession, autonomy, and integrity. As we move into the computerized world of the 21 century, privacy will be one of our most important civil rights. But this right of privacy isn't the right of people to close their doors and pull down their window shades-perhaps because they want to engage in some sort of illicit or illegal activity. It’s the right of people to control which details about their lives stay inside their own houses and which leak to the outside.Today's war on privacy is intimately related to the recent dramatic advances in technology. Many people today say that in order to enjoy the benefits of modem society, we must necessarily relinquish some degree of privacy. If we want the convenience of paying for a meal by credit card, then we must accept the routine collection of our purchases in a large database over which we have no control.This trade-off is both unnecessary and wrong. It reminds me of another crisis our society faced back in the fifties and sixties-the environmental crisis. Then, advocates of big business said that poisoned rivers and lakes were the necessary costs of economic development, jobs, and an improved standard of living. Poison was progress: anybody who argued otherwise simply didn’t understand the facts.Today we know better. Today we know that sustainable economic development depends on preserving the environment. Similarly, in order to reap the benefits of technology. It is more important than ever for us to use technology to protect personal freedom.1.The passage indicates that privacy is （）.2.In line 18, the underlined ”degree” most nearly means （）. 3.Lines 18-20("If we....control”) primarily serve to （）. 4.The statements in lines 24-25(’’poison" facts”) is intended to represent the point of view of （）. 5.The passage concludes by suggesting that if technology is to have a positive effect on people’s lives, then （）. 6.The author supports the idea that privacy can be protected（）.

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