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《高级英语阅读（一）》期末考核题 （请把答案打印在第二页答案卷上） I 翻译以下句子： （出自教材 《高级英语阅读一》第48页，第4课 Text A） All stress, positive or negative, stimulates a basic biological reaction called fight or flight. This is a hormonally stimulated state of arousal that prepares you to face whatever challenge is at hand, be it your daughters wedding, a job interview, an argument with your spouse, or the assault of a would-be mugger. II Read Lesson 9 ， Text A “Shooting an Elephant”(教材第 125-127页) ，answer the following questions Shooting an Elephant By George Orwell One day something happened which in a roundabout way was enlightening. It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism—the real motives for which despotic governments act. Early one morning the sub-inspector at a police station on the other end of town rang me up on the phone and said that an elephant was ravaging the bazaar, Would I please come and do something about it? I did not know what I could do, but I wanted to see what was happening and I got on a pony and started out. I took my rifle, an old .44 Winchester and much too small to kill an elephant, but I thought the noise might be useful in terrorem. Various Burmans stopped me on the way and told me about the elephants doings, it was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one which had gone must. It had been chained up, as tame elephants always are when their attack of must is due, but on the previous night it had broken its chain and escaped. Its mahout, the only person who could manage it when it was in that state, had set out in pursuit, but had taken the wrong direction and was now twelve hours journey away, and in the morning the elephant had suddenly reappeared in the town. The Burmese population had no weapons and were quite helpless against it. It had already destroyed somebodys bamboo hut, killed a cow and raided some fruit-stalls and devoured the stock; also it had