英语专业综合英语Unit部分练习答案.doc

Unit 3 Translation 2. Translating Passage Translate the following into Chinese. Every afternoon a file of old women passes down the road outside my house, each carrying a load of firewood. All of them are mummified with age and sun, and all of them are tiny. One day a poor old creature who could not have been more than four feet tall crept past me under a vast load of wood. I stopped her and put a five-sou piece into her hand. She answered with a shrill wail, which was partly gratitude but mainly surprise. I suppose from her point of view, by taking any notice of her, I seemed almost to be violating a law of nature. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say, as a beast of burden. When a family is traveling it is quite usual to see a father and a grown-up son riding ahead on donkeys and an old woman following on foot, carrying the baggage. 参考译文 Listening Exercises 1. Listen to the talk once for the main ideas. Task: Which of the following best states the speaker’s purpose? To bring forward a controversial judicial issue, the death penalty, for the nation’s attention. To show that the majority of Americans are opposing death penalty. To display that most Americans are supporting the death penalty. To point out that the present debate about the death penalty is triggered by the execution of the convicted murderer McVeigh. Key: [ C ] 2. Listen to the talk again for details. Task 1: Determine whether the following statements are true or false. McVeigh is to be the first person executed by the federal government since 1953. [F] The Attorney General postponed the execution because thousands of pages of evidence that had been found were given to the FBI. [F] After an investigation ordered by Mister Ashcroft. McVeigh was still guilty. [T] According to Mr. Scheidegger, McVeigh’s case justifies a need for a federal death penalty. [T] Ajamu Baraka directs an anti-death penalty program in an attempt to prompt an international opposition to the McVei