汉语音译基础英语写作期末考试及其答案

2021年1月19日发(作者：peel)
Part
I.
Fill
in
the
blanks
below
with
the
right
word
in






brackets, change the form where necessary. (20%)
1. The whole region was struck by an











(economic, economical) disaster.
2. We must pursue this matter

















(farther, further).
3.
The
state
attorney
said
that
the
man
would
be
















(persecuted,
prosecuted).
4. Jill is the girl














(who/whom) I think went up the hill.
5. The Red Cross will accept

















(whomever/whoever) volunteers.
6.
The
trees
stand
nearly
barren;
their
leaves

















(lay/lie)
on
the
ground.

7. It is important that he


















(finds/find) a suitable job.
8.
Chinese
food
is























(indescribable/indescribably)
delicious.
9.
He
is
unhappy
with
an
























(occasional/occasionally)
buzzing sound in the new piano.
10. Walk




















(steady/steadily) along the edge of the wall.
11.
The
young
Mozart
had
a



















(terrible/terribly)
precocious
imagination.
12. The sky turned


















(dark/darkly) in the afternoon.
13. Sixty hours








the amount of work time I contracted for.

(be)
14. Corn bread and milk







a popular breakfast in the rural South. (be)
15. He believe that athletics















school morale.(improve)
16.
He
is
one
of
the
students
who














to
attend
the
speech
contest.
(plan)
17.
Each
of
the
candidates
for
the
position











exceptionally
high
qualifications. (have)
18. That racket is bad enough to make Aunt Ella
’
s eyebrows














. (raise,
rise)
19.
Put
the
determiners
in
the
brackets
in
the
proper
order.
_______________________



years ( the, few, all, last)
20.
Arrange
the
adjectives
in
the
brackets
correctly
_____________________________



diamonds (large, lovely, round, shining)

Part II. Note-Writing (20%)

Write a note of about 50-60 words based on the following situation:


Last night you had to attend a class meeting, but for personal reasons you cannot. Write a short
note of apology to your class monitor, Tom..



Part III. Write a
précis
for the following passage.
(60%)







I don
’
t know why so many people have it in for Microsoft. Jealousy, I guess.
After
all,
it
’
s
not
many
people
who
can
persuade
you
buy
something
that
’
s
not
working properly, and then charge you in advance for something that may or may not
be better.







Many
of
you
probably
know
that
July
31
was
the
final
deadline
for
Microsoft
’
s volume customers to pay for the company
’
s new subscription-based way
of selling software. I won
’
t bore you with the details of the new licensing program,
called
Licensing
6.0.

It
’
ll
be
enough
just
to
say
it
has
forced
companies
and
governments all over the world to rethink their software budgets and whether they can
truly
afford
to
keep
buying
Microsoft
server,
operating-system
and
office-suite
software. Or, more to their terror, whether they can afford not to.






The fact is like this: Software manufacturers rely on selling new versions of
their
programs
to
get
revenue.
But
this
is
unpredictable:
How
can
you
be
sure
everyone is going to Office 97 suite, for example, meaning they not only avoided the
Office2000 upgrade, but also Office XP.







In
software
terms,
they
’
re
like
those
annoying
tribes
that
people
keep
discovering. These tribes seem happy and content wandering around in bits of clothes
made of leaves, and drinking their simple but strong tree-sap wine, carefully ignorant
of the benefits of air-conditioning , cable TV , etc.






So
Microsoft
’
s
come
up
with
a
novel
solution
that
ensures
that
these
slow-mover
—
the
Office
97
users,
not
the
annoying
tribes,
--
buy
upgrades.
This
guarantees the company
’
s revenues to remain nice and steady.





Under these new licensing rules, a volume customer is encouraged to subscribe
to software, rather than purchasing it immediately. On the plus side he
’
ll get all the
fixes, support, and new versions that come out during the subscription period, as well
as
being
able
to
spread
out
his
costs.
On
the
downside
he
won
’
t
actually
own
the
software he
’
s been using, and won
’
t be guaranteed an updated version unless it comes
out
during
the
subscription
period.
This
program,
ironically,
is
called
Software
Assurance, which not only sounds like something from persistent salesmen, but also
seems to be a misused name, due to the lack of assurance it offers.





Unsurprisingly,
here
’
re
some
serious
complaints
going
on,
which
has
forced
Microsoft to extend the deadline twice. Governments, with strict software budgets, are
actively
looking
elsewhere.
Peru
is
contemplating
a
law
requiring
all
public
institutions
to
switch
to
software
that
can
be
adapted
and
rewritten
freely
without
copyright restriction. And Norway last month allowed its contracts with Microsoft to
expire, opening the door for cheaper alternatives.





What
should
you
do?
Personally,
I’
d
prefer
leaf
skirts:
there
’
s
no
compelling
reason to upgrade to Office 2000 or XP.
The added features
you
’
re paying for with
each upgrade are rarely
must-have items; in
most cases they
’
re
either decorative or
actually making using the software harder. In nearly all cases they
’
re rarely used and