新视野大学英语4期中复习资料.pdf

2010-2011 学年第二学期英语期中考试复习资料 ○古○月○整○理○编○辑 1 2010-2011学年第二学期英语期中考试复习资料 考试时间：4 月 23 日（第九周周六） 考试题型：Part I Listening Comprehension (每小题1分，共30分) SectionA Short Conversations (10分) Section B Passages (10分) Section C Compound Dictation (10分) Part II Reading Comprehension(共30分) SectionA Skimming and Scanning (10分) Section B Reading in Depth (20分) Part III Vocabulary Structure (每小题1分，共20分) Part IV Cloze (每小题1分，共10分) Part V Translation (每小题2分，共10分，半句翻译) ? ○完○形○填○空○部○分 Unit 1 Section B One summer day my father sent me to buy some wire and fencing to put around our barn to pen up the bull. At 16, I liked nothing better than getting behind the wheel of our truck and driving into town on the old mill road.Water from the mills wheel sprayed in the sunshine making a rainbow over the canal and I often stopped there on my way to bathe and cool off for a spell—natural air conditioning. The sun was so hot, I did not need a towel as I was dry by the time I climbed the clay banks and crossed the road ditch to the truck. Just before town, the road shot along the sea where I would collect seashells or gather seaweed beneath the giant crane unloading the ships. This trip was different, though. My father had told me Id have to ask for credit at the store. 夏日的一天，父亲让我去买些铁丝网和栅栏，用来围畜棚，把牛圈起来。那时我 16岁，最喜欢开上货车，沿着老磨坊路到 城里去。研磨机轮子上的水花在阳光下喷洒，在河道上空形成一道彩虹。我常在半路上把车停下来，在河里洗个澡，凉快一 会，享受一下天然空调。太阳火辣辣的，不用毛巾擦，等我爬上岸边的土坡，穿过路边的壕沟，到达货车时，身上已经都干 了。快进城时，有一段沿着海滩的路，我会在那儿拣贝壳，拣海藻，头顶就是正从轮船上卸货的巨大的起重机。但是，这次 却有所不同。父亲告诉我，我得向店里要求赊账。 It was 1976, and the ugly shadow of racism was still a fact of life. Id seen my friends ask for credit and then stand, head down, while a storeowner enquired into whether they were good for it. Many store clerks watched black youths with the assumption that they were thieves every time they even went into a grocery. 那是 1976年，种族主义的丑陋阴影仍然是生活的现实。我曾目睹我的朋友要求赊账，然后就低着头站在那里，等着店主查 询他“配不配赊账”。许多店员只要一看见年轻的黑人走进商店，就盯着他们，疑心他们是小偷。 My family was honest. We paid our debts. But just before harvest, all the money flowed o