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（专科）英语报刊选读模拟题1 ⅠTranslate the following into Chinese. Write your answer on the answer sheet.(30%) The House of Lords Social Security Capitol Aill Speaker Fund—raising party Senior citizen Westinghouse Science Talent Search Asia—Pacific summit Sovereignty British Foreign Secretary Christian economic recession royal family the Commonwealth spokesman ⅡTranslate the following into English .Write your answer on the answer sheet.(10 points ) 21贵族院，上院 22共和党人 23 大萧条 24 鸽派 25 星球大战 26 利率 27 亚裔美国人 28 内战 29 国民生产总值 30 冷战 Ⅲ.Write out the full name of the following items. Write your answer on the answer sheet .(20 points) 31 UN 32 PLO 33. NATO 34. I.Q. 35.NAFTA Ⅳ. Read the following passage and choose the best answer. Write your answer on the answer sheet（20%） ?Blacks’ history in America (1660—1860) American Blacks are without doubt all of African origin. The first group of 20 Blacks sold to English settlers of Virginia in 1619 were brought in by a Dutch ship. From that time to the mid—19th century, some 14 million blacks were transported from West Africa to Virginia and other southern colonies of the New World. Almost all of them were sold into slavery and subjected to white rule. Not only would they work for their masters as slaves for life but also their descendants would be slaves the moment they were born. Of course no person would have voluntarily chosen to be sold away from his native country. He was either sold by his own rulers or captured by white slave traders as portrayed in Alex Haley’s novel Roots. Some of the details in Haley’s story were similar to those in other books. The kidnapping of slaves and their miserable life under the supervision of slave owners and overseers existed and the conditions on the voyage from Africa to America were horrible. The slaves’ bodies were bound together and their limbs either tied or chained with shackles like Kunta, an important character in Roots. Th