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1．第4题Cloze (10%)Complete each of the words with initial letters given in the brackets by referring to the missing parts of the following passage with corresponding numbers.We must keep in 1. m that things do not have “real” names, 2. a many peopl e believe that they do. A garbage man is not “really” a “garbage man,” more than he is a “sanitation engineer.” And a pig is not called a “pig” 3. b it is so dirty, 4. n a shrimp a “shrimp” because it is so small. There are things, and then there are the names of things, and it is considered a fundamental error in all branches of semantics to 5 a that a name and a thing are one and the same. It is true, of course, that a name is usually so firmly associated with the thing it denotes that it is extremely difficult to 6. s one from the other.It would appear that human beings almost naturally come to identify7. nwith things, 8. w is one of our more fascinating illusions. But there is some 9. s to this illusion. For if you change the names of things, you change how people will regard them, and that is as good as changing the nature of the thing 10. i .Cloze (10%)答案:2Paraphrase in English the parts underlined in the following (20%): One of the major pleasures in life is appetite, and one of our major duties should be to preserve it. Appetite is the 1keenness of living; it is one of the senses that tells you that you are still 2curious to exist, that you 3still have an edge on your longings4multitudinous flavors and juices.By appetite, of course, I don’t mean just the 5lust for food, but any condition of unsatisfied desire, any 6burning in the blood that proves you want more than you’ve got, and that you haven’t yet used up your life. Wilde said he felt sorry for those who 7never got their heart’s desire, but sorrier still for those who did. I got mine once only, and it nearly killed me, and I’ve always preferred 8wanting to having since.Besides, the whole 9toffee-ness of toffees was 10imperceptibly diminished by the gross act of having eaten it.Paraphrase in English the parts underlined in the following (20%):1.2.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.答案:Paraphrase in English the parts underlined in the following (20%):1. Appetite is the keenness of living: strong desire to live on2. you are still curious to exist: eager3. you still have an edge on your longings: are still driven by strong desires4. taste its multitudinous flavours and juices: numerous5. I don't mean the lust for food: overwhelming desire6. any burning in the blood: any strong desire that you have7. who never got their heart's desire: were never satisfied8. I've always preferred wanting to having: being in the state of wanting something to having something9. the whole toffeeness of toffees: appeal for a child to eat toffees10.imperceptibly diminished: unaccountably3．第2题Rewrite the followingFor each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as close in meaning as possible to the original sentence by using the given words as the beginning.1.This sort of process—giving pretty names to essentially ugly realities—is whathas given euphemizing such a bad name.For this sort of process—giving pretty names to essentially ugly realities—,euphemizing has been ___________________2.Teacher who prefers us to use the term “culturally different children” instead of“slum children” is euphemizing, all right, but is doing it to encourage us to see aspects of a situation that might otherwise not be attended to.To encourage us to see aspects of a situation that might otherwise not be attended to is what the teacher really means by ________3.The point I am making is that there is nothing in the process of euphemizing itselfthat is contemptible.By “contemptible”, I don’t mean __________________4.There must be some authentic tendency or drift in the culture to lend support to thechange, or the name will remain incongruous and may even appear ridiculous.The name will remain incongruous and may even appear ridiculouswithout_________5.To ask where the “shithouse” is, is no more to the point than to ask where the“restroom” is.It is not clearer to ask where ______________________答案:Rewrite the following1.For this sort of process—giving pretty names to essentially ugly realities--, euphemizing has been given such a bad name.2.What the teacher really means by preferring us to use the term “culturallydifferent children” instead of “slum children” is to encourage us to see aspects of a situation that might otherwise not be attended to.3.By “contemptible”, I don’t mean anything in the process of euphemizing itself.4.Without some authentic cultural support to the change, the name will remainincongruous and may even appear ridiculous.5.It is not clearer to ask where the “shithouse” is than to ask where the “restroom” is.4．第3题Translate the following parts into English (20%)1)这个半开化的国王有个正处在豆蔻年华的女儿，其绝伦的美貌和他那异想天开的古怪念头一样令人难以形容，其狂野与蛮横与他如出一辙。