英语专业课本及练习电子版 The Jeaning of America
经典电视剧台词-阿城棋王
B2U10 The Jeaning of America
Grammar
1. Put the verbs into the simple past or past
perfect.
1) Peter, who _______(wait) for an
hour since ten o'clock, was very
angry with
his sister when she eventually ______(turn up).
2) John and I always ______(differ) in views
when we were at
college.
3) He
______(feel) calm with the knowledge that
everything
_______(settle).
4) After the
will _______(read), there _____(be) angry
exclamations.
5) Before I ____(know) him
for a week, he tried to borrow money
from me.
6) Before I ______ (know) him for a week, he
tried to borrow
money from me.
7) It was
the first time anyone ______(speak) to her in a
friendly
way for a long time.
8) My friend
explained that the house originally ______(build)
as a
monastery but ______(convert) into a
manor when monasteries
______(dissolve) under
Henry VII.
2. Complete the dialogue using the
appropriate forms of the verbs
given.
A: I ____(lose) my job two weeks ago,
and it ____(be) very difficult
to find a new
one.I ____(spend) the last few days job hunting.
Before this, I ____(always spend) my free time
with my girlfriend,
Sandy. She must think that
I ____(have) a new interest.
B: It's difficult
for me, too. I need a job, but like most students,
I
_____(ever have) one. I ______(not, have)
the work experience most
employers want.
A: Last week I ______(find) out that a friend
of mine
________(just,quit) her job in the
physics lab. Why don't you apply
for it?
B: That ______(sound) great! I _____(do) that
right away. I ____(do)
well in my science
course last year. You know, I _____(consider)
being a dishwasher, but this sounds much
better!
A: Well, I think I ______(just, take)
care of your employment
problem! Now I've got
to concentrate on mine.
3. Correct the
mistakes, if any, in the following passage. There
is no
more than one mistakes in each line.
I arrived in England in the middle of July. I
had been told that
England had been shrouded
in fog all the year round, so I was quite
surprising to find that it was merely raining.
I asked other passenger,
an Englishman, about
the fog and he said that there has not been any
since the previous February. If I wanted fog,
he said, I come at quite
the wrong
time. However, he told me that I could have bought
tinned
fog at a shop in Shaftesbury Avenue. He
admitted that he never
bought fog there
himself but assuring me that that they sold good
quality fog and that it is not expensive.
4. Fill in the blanks with the proper forms of
the verbs given.
1) The door won't lock. I'll
have it_____(repair).
2) I intend to have my
daughter _____(educate) overseas.
3) I will
have you ______(drive) in two weeks.
4)
Unfortunately, he had his pocket ______(pick)
yesterday.
5) I won't have you _____(talk)
like that.
6) I won't have my instructions
____(disobey) in this way.
7) Don't worry.
We'll soon have you ____(walk) about again.
8)
Don't forget to have him ____(come).
5. Give a
negative adjective ending with -able related to
teach noun.
1) conception _____________ 2)
perturbation __________
3) number _____
4) repair_______
5)endurance______
6) objection_______
7) control_________
8) imagination_______
9) eradication ______
10) sale______
11) reconciliation _______
12) explanation______
6. Make sentences of
your own after the sentenced given below,
keeping the parts in italics in your
sentences.
1) And it seems likely that
they will outlive even the necktie.
2) The
pants have become a tradition, and along the way
have
acquired a history of their own -- so
much so that the company has
opened a museum
in San Francisco.
Translation
1. Translate
the following sentenced into Chinese.
1) They
draw no distinctions and recognize no classes:
they are
merely American.
2) Upon arrival,
Levi soon found that his two brothers had
exaggerated their tales of an easy life in the
land of the main chance.
3) Levi's jean were
first introduced to the East, apparently, during
the dude ranch craze of the 1930s, when
vacationing Easterners
returned and spread the
word about the wonderful pants with rivets.
4)
The pants have become a tradition, and along the
way have
acquired a history of their own 00 so
much so that the company has
opened a museum
in San Francisco.
2. Translate the following
sentences into English, using the words
and
phrases given in brackets.
1)他分不清法语和西班牙语。更别提说这两种语言了。(draw a
distinction)
2)
20世纪90年代的文物热中，明清两代传下来的瓷器受到了收
藏家的青睐。(craze, seek
after)
3)这位将军不顾大多数顾问的反对，决定碰碰运气，发动了那场
战斗，结果遭到惨败。(take one's chance[s] on)
4)中华民族经受了数千年的沧桑，正在重新焕发青春。(stand up to,
vicissitudes)
5)希望你只讲事实，而不是传播报纸上登的那篇充满偏见的报
道。(confine to
, spread)
6)他一到巴黎便把手里的钱全部兑换成欧元。(convert into)
7)这部莎士比亚剧本搬上中国舞台时为迎合中国观众的口味进
行了改编，结果它更像一部中国
的戏剧，而不是英国的戏剧。
(tailor, so much so that)
8)如果你真想学好英语，就必须有一段时间不再讲母语。(abandon)