7. At first, the downturn wan confined to industries most sensitive to high interest rates. But _____, the loss of income in these areas had a ripple effect throughout the economy.
A. inexorably B. intensively C. inevitably D. infinitely
8. The puppet theater combines three elements: the puppets; the chanters who sing and _________ for the puppets; and the players of the three-stringed instrument.
A. decline B. reclaim C. declaim D. proclaim 9. This is your daily life; to me it is like a scene from a play, over which one sighs to see the curtain fall-all__, all light, all happiness.
A. enchantments B. engagement C. enlargement D. endurance
10. ―It was really rural when we moved here,‖ says Stanley. ―But these newcomers are __________ the rural atmosphere.‖
A. justifying B. citifying C. ratifying D. simplifying
B. Choose the best word or expression from the list given for each blank. Use each word or expression only once and make proper changes where necessary.
stranded swoop loom up cricket crowd into
smudged stall tug at slipped into stay clear of
1. Sudden gestures would drive sharks away for a moment, but they came back almost at once. If we turned our backs to them, they would __________ at our legs.
2. The male_________ produces his courtship song by rubbing a grooved ridge on the underside of one of his front wings against the sharp edge of the other front wing.
3. Early ballpoint pens did not write well; they tended to skip, and the slow-drying oil-based ink __________ easily.
4. In August, the enemy’s drive against the city, which had been ______ by floods in late June and July, was renewed.
5. In an ionic substance, the positive ion often ______ the electrons on the negative ion.
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6. The risk of a heart attack for patients with a history of heart problems goes up by 35~50 percent during the winter months, so doctors warn heart patients to _______ the cold.
7. Last month, protected CDs with technology designed to discourage customers from making copies on their PCs quietly __________ stores.
8. On January 21, 2001, thousands of people _______ the National Mall to be witness to the inauguration of the 43rd President George W. Bush.
9. In low visibility, the diver never knows what he will find on any dive and may suddenly see a huge ship _______ out of the underwater fog.
10. Inside the airport hundreds of passengers are still _______ by the snowstorm.
III. Cloze
There are ten blanks in the following passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the right word or phrase from the list given below for each of the blanks. Change the form if necessary.
depend on phase permanent just as shadow
illuminated lunar waning closer resembling
The Moon shows progressively different phases as it moves along its orbit around Earth. Half the Moon is always in sunlight, 1 half of Earth has day while the other half has night. Thus, there is no 2 ―dark side of the Moon‖, which is sometimes confused with the Moon’s far side-the side that always faces away from Earth. The phases of the Moon 3 how much of the sunlit half can be seen at any one time. In the 4 called the new moon, the near side is completely in 5 . About a week after a new moon, the Moon is in first quarter, 6 a luminous half-circle; another week later, the full moon shows its fully lighted near side; a week afterward, in its last quarter, the Moon appears as a half-circle again. The entire cycle is repeated each 7 month. The Moon is full when it is farther away from the Sun than Earth; it is new when it is 8 . When it is more than half 9 , it is
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said to be in gibbous phase. The Moon is said to be 10 as it progresses from full to new, and to be waxing as it proceeds from new to full.
IV. Translation
Put the following parts into Chinese.
1. Still, it tugs at our minds. If we unexpectedly encounter the full moon, huge and yellow over the horizon, we are helpless but to stare back at its commanding presence. And the moon has gifts to bestow upon those who watch. 2. But as the moon lifted off the ridge it gathered firmness and authority. Its complexion changed from red, to orange, to gold, to impassive yellow. It seemed to draw light out of the darkening earth, for as it rose, the hills and valleys below grew dimmer. By the time the moon stood clear of the horizon, full chested and round and the color of ivory, the valleys were deep shadows in the landscape. 3. Moonrise is slow and serried with subtleties. To watch it:, we must slip into an older, more patient sense of time. To watch the moon_ move inexorably higher is to find an unusual stillness within ourselves. Our imaginations become aware of the vast distances of space, the immensity of the earth and the huge improbability of our own existence. We feel small but privileged. 4. Moonlight shows us none of life's harder edges. Hillsides seem silken and silvery, the oceans still and blue in its light. In moonlight we become less calculating, more drawn to our feelings. 5. I return often to the rising moon. I am drawn especially when events crowd ease and clarity of vision into a small corner of my life. 6. Lovers and poets find deeper meaning at night. We are all apt to pose deeper questions-about our origins and destinies. We indulge in riddles, rather than in the impersonal geometries that govern the daylit world. We become philosophers and mystics. 7. At moonrise, as we slow our minds to the pace of the heavens, enchantment steals over us. We open the vents of feeling and exercise parts of our minds that reason locks away by day. We hear, across the distances, murmurs of ancient hunters and see anew the visions of poets and lovers of long ago.
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V. Oral Practice and Discussion
1. How does the author describe the moonrise? Is it the same as you see it? 2. Moonrise is a natural phenomenon. The main part of this essay is the description of it full of the author’s emotions and thoughts associated with it. Pick out the author’s most beautiful descriptions with similes, metaphors and personification. 3. One July evening in the mountains, the author’s car mysteriously stalled, and he was stranded and alone, but after watching the moonrise for an hour or two the engine started mysteriously again. Do you think it was the spell of the rising moon? 4. We Chinese often associated the full moon with family reunion, our hometown and our motherland if we are abroad. Can you tell what people do when we Chinese celebrate the festivals associated with the moon such as the Lantern Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival? And why? 5. Find some famous Chinese poems about the moon, and try to translate the following poem into English.
(李白诗一首)
床前明月光， 疑是地上霜。 举头望明月， 低头思故乡。
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Lesson Two
Ethics and Competitiveness
John F. Akers
1 I should like to consider a subject central to international economic competitiveness: ethics. Let me urge at the outset that all of us in management look at both these words — ethics and competitiveness — with a wide angle of vision. When we think of competitiveness we should think not just as Americans, Europeans, or Japanese seeking our own selfish beggar-thy-neighbor advantage, but as managers striving to succeed in an increasingly interdependent world, with the potential for improved living standards for all. And when we think of ethics, we should think not just as managers focusing on a narrow preserve labeled business ethics, but as citizens of a large society.
2 Ethics and competitiveness are inseparable. We compete as a society. No society anywhere will compete very long or successfully with people stabbing each other in the back; with people trying to steal from each other; with everything requiring notarized confirmation because you can't trust the other fellow; with every little squabble ending in litigation; and with government writing reams of regulatory legislation, tying business hand and foot to keep it honest. 3 That is a recipe not only for headaches in running a
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