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踏进美国的领土,作为一个外国人受到友好亲切的接待,手续既简便而且又不必交费,办事干净利落,不能不令人心里感到暖洋洋的。我曾听说,在美国的社会里,黑人将会成为美国发展中的一个隐患,然而我所遇到的几个年轻男女黑人,都性格开朗,对人热情,常常开怀大笑,乐观的天性,很富于感染力,给我很深的印象。人际的隔阂本来就是人们自身造成的,或许歧视和偏见也是人为的阻碍吧!

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参考答案:
As a foreigner setting foot on American soil, I was very pleased to meet with such a friendly and cordial reception. The procedures were simple and easy and with no fee charged; the whole matter was handled neatly and orderly, which made me feel quite at home. Before I came to the U. S. , I had heard gossips that negroes tended to become a hidden trouble in U. S., but the several young negro men and women I met appeared to me to have a bright and cheerful disposition. They were warm-hearted and hospitable and often laughed our loud. Their optimistic nature seemed infectious, having a strong appeal which deeply impressed me. The estrangement among men was actually the work of people themselves; discrimination and prejudice were perhaps also barriers artificially imposed!

解析:这段文章来自一篇描写出国见闻的文字,原文以汉语写成,风格比较随意,类似日记,所以有时句子不免比较长,补充意思比较多,177个字一共才三个句号,可见一斑。这段文字中有两个句式上的难点,都是长句。第一句话非常地长,表达的是一种极尽赞扬的口吻,基本框架是“接待……让人……”,省略号里包含的东西非常多,感觉作者总是说不完一句话。译文处理得比较成功,“令人心里暖洋洋的”被化作两部分,从而组成了两个句子,第二句中的连续几个and并列成分以及句末的which非限定性从句,与原文的口吻非常相似。第一、二个句号之间的句子是第二个难点,这么长一句话读下来,发现讲述的就是一个东西。译文将之处理成了三个句子,第一个句子把核心意思全部包含,然后再用两个句子补充描述几个黑人的“disposition”,结构很清晰,颇有原文娓娓道来的感觉。最后两句译文尤其值得同学们学习。这两句话很多同学都译成被动语态,无法很有效地传达原文的重心所在,而参考译文却用be动词把主语和宾语都突出来了,再利用句末的“themselves”和“artificially imposed”来修饰,行文非常地道。

阅读理解

People often say that the earth is like our mother. She gives life to all the living things on the earth and provides us with air, food, water and other essential things we need for living.

Once she was beautiful and rich, but now she becomes dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer. It is due to what we have done to her. Please have a good look at her: polluted rivers and lakes, growing deserts, the destruction of the forests and wild life, and the depletion (消耗,用尽) of the ozone layer (臭氧层)...

Can she bear to see her children putting the waste here and there? Can she bear to see her children cutting down the trees and destroying the grassland, to see the acid rain destroying everything? Can we bear to see our mother suffering (受苦) so much? Isn’t it time for us to ask ourselves whether this is the way to treat our mother?

Floods, droughts, acid rain..., these are the punishments (惩罚) from nature. Everyone should know that there is only one earth. If we go on treating her like this, it won’t be fit for us to live in any longer. It’s time for us to love her, take good care of her and cure her. We should save the earth so as to save ourselves.

小题1: What does the earth look like now?

A.It has clean rivers, lakes and green forests.

B.It is like a beautiful girl.

C.It is more beautiful and richer.

D.It is dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer.小题2: What is the meaning of the underlined word?

A.Know

B.Stand

C.Imagine

D.Hear小题3: What is the best title of the passage?

A.The earth—our mother.

B.Defenders of the Earth (地球卫士).

C.The earth is very beautiful and healthy.

D.The water on the earth is very clean.

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