大三下高级英语2期末复习资料unit1-8

I．Explain the following sentences in your own words, bringing out any implied meanings.

（20*2’=40’）

II．Translate the following sentences into Chinese. （10*2’=20’）

III．Point out what figure of speech is used in each of the following sentences.（5*2’=10’）IV．Find explanations of the italicized words in each sentence from the list that followed (A to J) and put the right letter in the bracket before each sentence（10*1’=10’）

V．Read the following two passages and choose the best answer to each question. Put the answers in the following two forms.（10*2’=20’）

Lesson one Pub Talk and the King’s English

1.And it is an activity only of humans.

And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings.

2.Conversation is not for making a point.

Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view.In a conversation we should not try to establish the force of an idea or argument.

3.In fact,the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.

In fact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his point of view.

4.Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.

People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other’s lives.

5….it could still go ignorantly on.

The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong.

6.They are cattle in the fields,but we sit down to beef(boeuf).

These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields;but when we sit down at the table to eat,we call their meat beef.

7.The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.

The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers.

8….English had come royally into its own.

The English language received proper recognition and was used by the king once more.

9.The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. The phrase,the King’s English,has always been used disparagingly and jokingly by the lower classes.The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people.

10.The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.

There still exists in the working people,as in the early Saxon peasants,a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class.

11.There is always a great danger,as Carlyle put it,that”words will harden into things for us.”There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent.

1….their marriage may be on the rocks…

On the rocks:(colloquial) in or into a condition of ruin or catastrophe.

2….they got out of bed on the wrong side…

Get out of bed on the wrong side:to be cross or in a bad temper for the day.

3.The conversation was on wings.

On wings (on the wing): flying or while flying;in motion or while moving or traveling.

4….the Norman lords of course turned up their noses at it.

Turn up one’s nose at:sneer at,scorn.

5…we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.

In another’s shoes: in another’s position.

6….English had come royally into its own.

Come into its own:to receive what properly belongs to one,especially acclaim or recognition.

7….we sit up at the vividness of the phrase…

Sit up at:(colloquial) to become suddenly alert.

1.However intricate the ways in which animals communicate with each other,they do not indulge in anything that deserves the name of conversation.

动物之间的信息交流，不论其方式何等复杂，也称不上谈话。

2.Argument may often be a part of it,but the purpose of the argument is not to convince.There is no winning in conversation.

闲聊中常有争论，不过其目的并不是为了说服对方。闲聊之中不存在输赢胜负。

3.Perhaps it is because of my upbringing in English pubs that I think bar conversation has a charm of its own.

或许是由于我年轻时常常光顾英国小酒馆的缘故，我觉得酒馆里的闲聊别有一番韵味。

4.I do not remember what made one of our companions say it—she clearly had not come into the bar to say it,it was not something that was pressing on her mind—but her remark fell quite