大三下高级英语2期末复习资料unit1-8.doc

Explain the following sentences in your own words, bringing out any implied meanings.（20*2’=40’） Translate the following sentences into Chinese. （10*2’=20’） Point out what figure of speech is used in each of the following sentences.（5*2’=10’） Find explanations of the italicized words in each sentence from the list that followed (A to J) and put the right letter in the bracket before each sentence（10*1’=10’） V．Read the following two passages and choose the best answer to each question. Put the answers in the following two forms.（10*2’=20’） Lesson one Pub Talk and the King’s English And it is an activity only of humans. And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings. Conversation is not for making a point. Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view.In a conversation we should not try to establish the force of an idea or argument. In fact,the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose. In fact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his point of view. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives. People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other’s lives. 5….it could still go ignorantly on. The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong. 6.They are cattle in the fields,but we sit down to beef(boeuf). These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields;but when we sit down at the table to eat,we call their meat beef. 7.The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language. The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers. 8….English had come royally into its own. The English language received proper recognition and was used by th