中国石油大学(华东)高起专英语答案

一、汉译英

1、虽然我们周围都是空气，但我们看不见它

Although there is air all around us, we can't see it.

2、关键问题是如何把计划付诸实施

The key question is how to put the plan into practice

3、孩子们高兴得跳了起来

The children jumped for joy

4、你听见有人在敲门吗？

Do you hear someone knocking at the door？

二、完形填空

A

It was two o' clock in the morning and it was dark. Mr. Thompson woke up his wife. "Irene," he called softly, "the baby' s crying."

Mrs. Thompson sat up in bed and listened. "That' s not the baby, Jim," she said. "It’ s a cat!"

"It can' t be a cat," her husband said. "I' II go and look."

Mr.Thompson got up and went to the window. "You' re right, Irene," he said. "There is a cat in the garden. Listen to it!"

"You must stop it, Jim," Mrs.Thompson said. "That cat will wake up our baby."

"What can I do?" Mr.Thompson asked.

"Throw a shoe at it,” his wife said.

"I can' t do that,” Mr Thompson said.

"Why not?" his wife asked. "Can you see it?"

"I can see it very well" said Mr.Thompson. "But I can' t throw a shoe at it. It’ s sitting on my green-house."

B

In Mount Berry, Georgia, people find a group of schools built specially for mountain children. The schools, as well as the mountain itself, are named after Martha Berry herself, a daughter of a Georgian mountaineer. Martha Berry was born in 1866. Luckier than most Georgian mountain children, she received an education.

But she never forgot other children of the mountains whose parents couldn't afford to send them to school. In 1902 Martha Berry started a school for these children It was housed in a single small log cabin and was attended by only five pupils. Now, eighty years later, there are a score of Berry schools in the area, with a total of over one thousand students and waiting list of about five thousand.

Martha Berry in her later years received many medals and honors for what she had done for the poor mountain children of Georgia, and in 1931 she was named one of the twelve most important women in the United States. She never stopped working for the mountain children till her death in 1942.

三、阅读

A

William and his wife Lucy liked watching TV very much. One day after they got up.

they turned on their TV set. But they could not see the pictures on TV clearly; while

they could only hear the sound. They thought that there must be something wrong with

their TV set. So they called a worker to come to repair it.

The worker came a few minutes later. But to his surprise, he found that there was

nothing wrong with the TV set and he could see the pictures very clearly. It took them a

long time to find out what the matter was with the TV set. At last, they got it: William

and Lucy mistook each other's glasses.

1、William and Lucy liked watching TV. T

2、When William and Lucy found that the pictures were unclear, they thought that something was wrong with their TV set. T

3、They asked a worker to sell their TV set. F

4、The worker felt surprised because he could see the pictures well. T

5、The worker wore glasses. F

B

Mr. Jackson worked in a hospital. A lot of patients went to see him and he was very busy and had little time to rest in the daytime. One night, when he looked over the last patient, it was five to one. He was too tired to say a word and lay down at once. As soon as he fell asleep, a farmer began to knock at the door and got him up.

“My wife is ill,” shouted the farmer. “Please go and look her over. ” Mr. Jackson had to go with the farmer. It was the coldest night of the year and the road was covered with snow and ice. The farmer lived far away from the town and they went through a forest, cross two rivers and a mountain. It took them three hours to get to the short, small house. And they both tired, cold and hungry.

The woman stayed in bed. She looked fine. Mr. Jackson looked her over carefully and found there was nothing serious with her. He became angry. He called the farmer out and said, “Your wife