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I. Translate the following sentences into Chinese: 1. In the uncertain days after 9/11, one of the few things asserted with absolute certainty was that our culture would be indelibly altered. 译文: 在9/11事件之后的那些不安定的日子里，那些为数不多的几件能确定的事情之一就是我们的文化将会因留有这场灾难的痕迹而被改变。 2. Irony thrives. Gratuitous film and television violence rules. And instead of a kinder, gentler, more high-minded society, we are given Anna Nicole Smith lolling about her bedroom, Playboy bunnies doing Fear Factor stunts, and celebrities boxing. 2. 译文: （到处）充满了嘲讽。那些荒唐的电影和电视暴力盛行。我们的社会不但没有变得更善良，更温柔，更高尚，反而我们让安娜·尼可·史密斯在她的卧室里懒散放纵；让花花公子的兔子们做让人恐怖吃惊的动作，让那些娱乐界的名流们打拳击（以吸引人的注意力）。 3. After all, that day rocked many of the preconceptions that have informed the countrys identity since its inception: from a sense of Manifest Destiny and historical immunity, conferred by the blessings of Americas geography (bounded on either side by oceans and far from the bloody battlefields of the Old World), to an often Pollyanna faith in progress and technology. 3. 译文: 毕竟，那一天撼动了自从建国以来就深深植根于国民心中的关于这个国家形象的观念和偏见；这种观念来源于美国人的“显然天命”论和他们历史上的免疫力（从未被侵犯过），这是因为美国独特的地理位置（东西两条海岸和远离旧大陆的血腥战场）使他们觉得在（社会）进步和技术上盲目乐观。 4. How will this state of affairs affect artists work in the long term? The horrors of World War I gave birth to the fragmentations and elisions of modernism. Political adversity and turmoil in Eastern Europe and Latin America led to the blossoming of magical realism. And the cold war and nuclear fears promoted black humor, noirish? drama and sci-fi nightmares. 4. 译文: 这种状况将最终怎样影响艺术家们的创作呢？第一次世界大战的恶果使现代主义破碎并消失；东欧和拉丁美洲的政治灾难和骚乱导致了那种不可思议的现实主义的繁荣。而冷战和（人们对）核的恐惧担心使黑色幽默、黑色戏剧和科幻噩梦得以发展。 5. Sept. 11 changed the context in which we live, and so it percolates beneath artists choices and audiences expectations in myriad, unseen ways. 译文: 9/11事件改变了我们生存的环境，因此它以种种不被人觉察的方式过滤着艺术家们的选择和观众的期望。 II. In the following sentences, do not try to learn the italicized words. Concentrate on developing your ability to grasp the meaning of unfamiliar words with the help of c