译：Prevention and protection work are very important before the plague spreads out. 4．历史上众多的科学家都成为不朽的传奇人物。
译：Numerous scientists in history become immortalized legends. 5．一家房地产公司在这座小城市里创立了他们的分公司。
译：A real estate company set up their branch (company) in the small city.
X. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1．Films are undoubtedly the most influential art form of the 20th century. 译：电影无疑是二十世纪最具影响力的艺术形式。
2．It has given fame and fortune to many names and faces for almost a century. 译：近一个世纪以来，它将名声和财富赋予了无数名字和脸孔。
3．After rumors spread out that California was such a great place to shoot movies, directors from all over America began to bring their projects out west into Hollywood.
译：当有关加州是最佳电影拍摄地的传言传开之后，美国各地的导演纷纷把他们的项目带到了大西部的好莱坞来拍摄。 4．Honorees receive a star based on their lifetime as actors and that star is placed into the ground on the walkway, which forever immortalizes them as key contributors to the success of the film industry. 译：每一位接受这一荣誉的人基于一生的演艺生涯而得到一颗星星，这颗星星就被镶嵌在人行道的地面上，永远铭记他们为电影工业的成功所做出的重大贡献，使他们名垂千古。 5．Aside from being the powerhouse in movie making and television programming, Hollywood is also home to many venues and theaters that host award shows like the Academy Awards. 译：除了作为电影、电视工业的\发电站\之外，好莱坞还拥有很多举办各种颁奖典礼的会场和剧院，比如美国电影艺术金像奖的颁奖典礼就在这里举行。 XI. Reading comprehension.
In this exercise, there is a passage followed by some multiple-choice questions. Read the questions first, and then the passage. Don't worry about any new words as long as you understand the meaning well enough to answer the questions. Then answer the questions by making the best choice for each one.
Cecil B. DeMille was a very famous and successful motion picture businessman among Hollywood's movie pioneers. He was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts in 1881. Both his parents were writers of plays. His father died when he was twelve years old. His mother kept the family together by establishing a theater company. Cecil joined the company as an actor. He continued working in his mother's theater company as an actor and a manager until 1913. That year, he joined Jesse L. Lasky and Samuel Goldfish to form the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company.
The three men started making motion pictures immediately. They loved working in the movie business. They were deeply interested in its creative and financial possibilities. DeMille, Lasky and Goldfish began working on a movie version of the popular American western play, \DeMille urged that the movie be made in the real American West. He chose Flagstaff, Arizona. DeMille and the company traveled to Flagstaff by train. When they arrived, DeMille thought the area looked too modern. They got back on the train and keep going until they reached the end of the line. They were in a quiet little town in southern California. The town was called Hollywood. DeMille decided this was the perfect place to film the movie.
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1913 and was an immediate success. DeMille is considered the man who helped Hollywood become the center of the motion picture business. He quickly became a creative force in the new movie industry.
1.What did DeMille's mother do to support the family after his father's death? An.: B. She set up a theater company together with other family members. 2. When was the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company formed? An.: C. In 1913.
3. Why did DeMille and the company finally choose Hollywood as the perfect place to film the movie?
An.: D. Because Hollywood didn't look so modern as Flagstaff and was fit for filming a western.
4. Which of the following is true about the movie \
An.: A. The movie was an immediate success as a full-length western. 5. Which of the following is NOT true about Cecil B. DeMille?
An.: C. He used to think that Hollywood is not an ideal place to film western movies.
Part Three: Write and Produce Exercises I. The chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of different employment status. Write a report describing the information shown below.
答案：The bar chart indicates the amount of leisure time per week that males and females of various employment statuses enjoyed over a one year period of time from 1998 to 1999. The employment statuses referred to here are grouped into five categories which are: employed full-time, part-time, unemployed, retired and housewives.
As is indicated in the chart, under the backgrounds of being employed full-time, unemployed and retired, males had more leisure time to enjoy than females did. But with the other two statuses, namely, being employed part-time and being pure housewives, males had nothing to compare with females.
Firstly, unemployed and retired males and females enjoyed the greatest amount of leisure time. The average weekly leisure time enjoyed by males and females were 85 hours and 70 hours respectively. Among those who were retired, men had 84 hours while women had 69 hours. Generally speaking, males and females under these two statuses of employment showed very slight difference in terms of the amount of leisure time being enjoyed.
Secondly, for those who worked full-time, males also had more leisure time than females
and the chart showed that males had 45 hours while women 37 hours.
Thirdly, what is really interesting is that while it is totally understandable that the Housewives category had nothing to do with men, it was really hard to believe that the category of being employed part-time only involved females and no males. Whatsoever, the figure we see is 40 hours for part-time employed females and 50 hours for housewives.
In general, apart from two very special groups, males had more leisure time to enjoy than females.
II. The map and four pie charts indicated the land used in the United States from four different regions: central, south, southwest and southeast. Write a report describing the information shown below.
答案: The map and the four pie charts indicated the land use in the USA from four different regions: central, south, southeast, and southwest. Please write a report for a university lecture. The map and the four pie charts indicated current situation of land use in four different regions in the United States, which are respectively central, south, southeast and southwest.
Despite the fact that crop is dominant in land use in all four regions, the distribution for four regions are somehow different.
Land use in southeast and southwest is very much the same in that crop dominates for over a half in the region, and other accounts for the least part, with the rest of the pie equally distributed between animal and forest.
In the south region, crop takes up about half of the land, followed by animal, forest and other in a decreasing order. And for central, crop, though taking the lead, occupies only about 40 percent, leaving the rest part shared equally by animal, forest and other.
In general, with crop far at the top on the list of percentage of land use in the US, animal, forest and other share the rest of the land according to different situations in different regions.
Part Four: Pick up your grammar Exercises I. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. 1. If he had worked harder, he ____________the exams An.: C. would have got through 2. I wish I____________ longer this morning, but I had to get up and come to class An.: A. could have slept 3. ____________right now, she would get there on Sunday An.: C. Were she to leave
4. It is vital that enough money____________ to fund the subject An.: A. be collected
5. That tree looked as if it____________ for a long time An.: B. hadn't been watered
6. The young driver looked over the engine carefully lest it____________ on the way An.: B. should go wrong
7. It's already 5 o'clock now. Don't you think it's about time____________? An.: C. we went home
8. I'd rather you____________ make any comment on the issue for the time being. An.: D. didn't
9. We didn't know his telephone number, otherwise we____________ him. An.: A. would have telephoned
10. ____________,we will set off as we planned An.: B. Be it good or bad
11. It is politely requested by the hotel management that radios _______after 11 o'clock at night. An.: C. not be played
12. ____________for my illness, I would have lent him a helping hand An.: D. Had it not been
13. He told me how he had given me shelter and food without which I ____________of hunger An.: A. would have died
14. If only the committee_________ he regulations and put them into effect as soon as possible. An.: B. would approve
15. The juvenile offender was released from custody on condition that he____ a job immediately and______ out of trouble for six months. An.: D. find ... stay
II. Spot the incorrect parts of the following sentences and correct them. 1. An.: 2. An.: 3. An.: 4. An.: 5. An.: 6. An.: 7. An.: 8. An.: 9. An.: 10.
An.: 11. An.: 12. An.: 13. An.: 14. An.: 15. An.: