研究生综合英语答案unit5

第一篇：研究生综合英语答案unit5

UNIT5

I.Comprehension check

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iii.Close

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iv.Translation

1.It is generally accepted that upbringing of the child within the home is closely related to theeducation of the child in school

2.Jennifer is the chief of personnel for the New York Herald Tribune, where she is also responsible for special editorial work in the field of the public relations.3.Jeff met Rose at his sister’s birthday’s party two years ago.They have been

communicating each other by e-mail since then.The more Jeff knows Rose, the more helikes her

4.This new measure is effective not only in providing job opportunities for the

laid-off workers, but in limiting price increases

5.Similarly /likewise, they insufficiently treated /they did not sufficiently treat the political and economic background of the conspiracy.6.Tremendous capital input has met the needs of rapid economic growth on the one

hand, and has caused the inflation on the other.

第二篇：研究生综合英语答案 unit1

UNIT 1

I．Comprehension check

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II． Vocabulary study

1.permanent2.has assembled3.discharging4.meekly

5.apprentice6.partiality7.obscure8.exalted9.intruding

10.cordially11.ambition12.gallantly

Close

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VI.Translation

1.His dream of becoming a football star faded out as time went by.2.A Boeing 747 aircraft didn’t gain enough height to clear the mountain.In a twinkling it crashed the mountain and blew up.No one survived the accident.3.Students facilitate the share of(have easy access to the)resources in the library, so they are supposed to make the best of it.4.Titanic, the most luxurious ship in the world at that time, hit an iceberg when she was under way to the US.Consequently, the ship sank into the Atlantic Ocean and thousands of people died in this shipwreck.5.Every summer, all the tourists pour into this famous beach.They lie packed like sardines on the beach to enjoy the sunbathing.6.They have been to St.Louis once and have a vague general knowledge of its wonder, but the day of their glory is over now.they lapsed into a humble silence, and learned to disappear when the ruthless “cub”-engineer approaches.

第三篇：研究生综合英语选择题

Unit 1 1.My husband, because of his own professional（）, goes to Cambridge every week.A.judgments C.personalities B.criteria D.commitments 2.While looking for the address book, Mr.Hailey（）some of his old love letters in his wife’s drawer.A.came about C.came across B.came up with D.came out with 3.Mrs.Bush, head of the intelligence department, is（）talent and boundless energy.A.capable of C.associated with B.blessed with D.recognized as 4.The audience are deeply impressed by the leading character of the feature film that looks()at social problems.A.squarely C.accurately B.obviously D.Deliberately 5.The Prime Minister has decided to take advantage of his popularity in the opinion polls, and called（）a election for next month.A.snap C.magnetic B.clean-cut D.Convincing 6.The singer is very popular with the general public ,but she is often regarded as being too（）on stage.A.instinctual B.refreshing C.flamboyant D eloquent 7.Mr.Potter was not only quick at turning a phrase, but also ready with（）promises.A.concrete C.glib B.individual D.greasy

8.Malaysia and Indonesia rely on open markets for forest and fishery products.,（）some Asian countries are highly protectionist.A.Deliberately C.Evidently B.Conversely D.Naturally 9.According to legal provisions, the properties will either（）the original owners or else be sold at auction.A.commit to C.proceed to B.take to D.revert to

10.The measures are little more than（）that will fade fast once investors take a hard look at them.A.blind faith C.good impression B.window dressing D.winning image

1.The number of people who consult psychiatrists today is not, as is sometimes felt, a（）of increasing mental illness.A.revelation B.syndrome C.symptom D.Repugnance 2.That snake in not poisonous.It’s a completely（）little garden snake.A.inoffensive B.innocuous C.ingenious D.Incompatible 3.Evidence（）to the trial must be submitted to the police.A.prevalent B.subsequent C.subordinate D.Pertinent

4.University teaching may be（）if the government increases the number of students without providing additional funding.A.jeopardized B.patched C.improvised D.Generalized 5.The child’s parents were（）into accepting the demand of the kidnappers’.A.pleaded B.intoxicated C.intimidated D.Besieged 6.The detectives（）on the terrorists’ conversations by using secrete microphones.A.overheard B.eavesdropped C.reflected D.Mused 7.The two sides are so（）to each other that there is no way to work out a compromise.A.inimical B.reconcilable C.magnetic D.Conducive 8.They tried to keep it quiet but eventually everyone learned about the()meeting.A.clandestine B.intangible C.sedate D.Squalid 9.Although Jack had moved away before the baseball season ended, the most valuable player award was（）his.A.dubiously B.duly C.excessively D.Transiently 10.Many citizens appealed to the city government for enacting（）laws to protect the consumers.A.lavish B.equivocal C.stringent D.Flabby

Unit 2 1.Probably the physics of the mid-nineteenth century was not as spectacular as that of the()and following periods, but its theoretical advances were nevertheless very impressive.A.posterior C.preceding B.overwhelming D.potential 2.We will encourage every school to()its character, ethos and areas of special interest within a more flexible National Curriculum framework.A.facilitate C.acquaint B.enhance D.Install 3.()her dreams, Lynne traveled the world, leaving her 2-year-old son Stephen in the care of babysitters.A.In spite of C.In place of B.In case of D.In pursuit of 4.His deep(), subtle approach, sharp analytical capacities and broad clinical knowledge made him a brilliant clinician.A.intuition C.hypothesis B.revelation D.Thrill 5.Western medicine,()science and practiced by people with internationally accepted medical degrees, is only one of many systems of healing.A.rooted in C.trapped in B.originated from D.indulged in 6.The computer acts as a substitute for human friends, perhaps, but the human-computer()may also bring about the end of existing human-human relationships.A.apathy C.concept B.intensity D.Infatuation

7.She had something to tell him, something so important that even this unexpected opportunity for()of their desire must take second place.A.appetite C.intimacy B.consummation D.potentiality 8.Such an approach forces managers to communicate with one another and helps()rigid departmental boundaries.A.break down C.set off B.stand for D.pass over 9.He knew that he had one more duty to perform before he allowed himself to succumb to his()for rest.A.orientation C.craving B.disgust D.objection 10.To be honest, I felt rather embarrassed by Jane’s（）and flirting during her interview A.spontaneousness C.coyness B.anticipation D.Sensation

1.It is（）upon all users of this equipment to familiarize themselves with the safety procedure A.necessary B.indispensable C.incumbent D.Requisite 2.The kidnappers specified that the（）money should be left at the bus station by 12 o’clock the next day, otherwise they would kill the boy.A.ransom B.prize C.conscience D.Revenue 3.According to the economic forecast, some people are hopeful of a drop in the inflation figures, but others are less（）.A.fastidious B.sanguine C.lenient D.Prudent

4.Her rise to fame was quite（）— in less than two years she was a household name.A.phenomenal B.bleak C.blank D.Vacant 5.I looked for her through the window, but the curtains were drawn and I could only see her in（）.A.feature B.profile C.silhouette D.Reverse 6.I tried to persuade her to take the job but she was quite（）that she did not want it.A.desperate B.paranoid C.absolute D.Adamant 7.We are not compatible — he likes nearly all the things that（）me.A.repulse B.surpass C.banish D.Repatriate 8.In his will, the millionaire（）nearly all his fortunes to the housemaid who took care of him in his last days.A.inherited B.bequeathed C.owed D.Remitted 9.When the only witness finally came to tell the（）from all responsibility for the accident.A.pardoned B.derived C.exonerated D.Charged 10.The negotiation had reached an（）, with both sides refusing to compromise.A.eclipse B.impasse C.ultimatum D.Abyss

Unit3 1.Hard training will（）you richly when it comes to the actual competition.A.bring C.serve B.pay D.make 2.At the news conference, the foreign minister（）a confident smile and answered all the questions raised by the journalists.A.wore C.settled B.expressed D.Cultivated 3.After years of research, scholars have finally（）this anonymous play Christopher Marlowe.A.taken...for C.ascribed...to B.obliged...with D.reconciled...to 4.Most parents have occasional（）about whether they’re doing the best thing for their children.A.burdens C.necessities B.qualms D.Securities 5.It（）me to thank you for all you have done for the association in the last few years.A.falls to C.falls on B.falls into D.falls in with 6.I never heard anyone in my village mention my uncle Tony — I think he was a bit of a（）.A.white elephant C.guinea pig B.dark horse D.black sheep 7.The（）that she suggested for discussion were based on the most recent medical research.A.contributions C.expostulations B.occupations D.amendments 8.Rosa used to be quiet and introverted, but now she is（）being sociable.A.looking forward to C.making a point of B.going back on D.standing up to

9.Mary broke off her engagement to John when she found him often（）the pretty girls in his office.A.putting up with C.making fun of B.seeing through D.philandering with 10.Instead of ending up in jail or（）, she was remarkably successful and became one of the wealthiest people in Britain today.A.in the raw C.in the extreme B.in the gutter D.in the flesh

1.As one of the youngest branch manager in the IT company, Mr.Yang is certainly on the（）of a brilliant career.A.track B.margin C.course D.Threshold 2.In（）times, human beings did not travel for pleasure, but to find a more favorable climate.A.prime B.primary C.primitive D.Preliminary 3.While it’s true that techniques of active listening can（）the value of lecture, few students possess such skills at the beginning of their college careers.A.enhance B.enlarge C.access D.Exaggerate 4.In the library, I found Dabbie was frowning, apparently（）a Word.A.tumbled to B.collided with C.coincided with D.stumped on 5.Fierce storms have been（）rescue efforts and there’s now little chance of finding more survivors.A.hampering B.bewildering C.tangling D.Blundering

6.They didn’t even give him any sick-pay when he was off ill, which is a fairly（）way to treat an employee.A.vulnerable B.makeshift C.shoddy D.Backhanded 7.It must be realized that large price increase can only（）demands for even larger wage increase.A.call off B.trigger off C.make off D.carry off 8.When the old lady was back from shopping, she was shocked to find that her house had been（）.A.pawned B.leased C.ransacked D.Mortgaged 9.Since this was my first job interview, I asked（）about the Salary.A.discouragingly B.diffidently C.differentially D.Diffusely 10.The lost car of the Lees was found（）in the woods off the Highway.A.vanished B.abandoned C.scattered D.Disregarded

Unit 6 1.Dissatisfaction with the Labour government now seems to have（）every section of society.A.Heralded

B.permeated C.Conceived

D.Scrutinized 2.We know these chemicals are dangerous, but their benefits far（）any risk to the environment.A.overtake

B.manipulate C.Stock

D.Outweigh 3.All previous attempts to（）the fighting have failed so why should these proposals be any more successful? A.compromise

B.halt C.Withstand

D.Sustain 4.The president and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a（）for continued economic reform.A.Mandate

B.assertion C.discourse

D.determinism 5.She is not satisfied with her job because it provides no（）for her energies and talents.A.conception

B.outreach C.Outlet

D.Essentialism 6.The audience are deeply impressed by the leading character of the feature film that looks()

at social problems.A.shifting

B.offering C.Plying

D.Crushing 7.My second and more（）reason for going to Dearborn was to see the Henry Ford Museum.A.compelling

B.weary C.Perplexing

D.Worthy 8.Scotland’s（）on Wales in the second half of the match earned them a 4-1 victory.A.imposition

B.onslaught C.push

D.Edge 9.By the time I left his house he had become pretty hostile;I felt I（）better than that.A.pursued

B.fostered C.Entitled

D.Deserved 10.Today almost every household has radios, TVs and a whole（）of gadgets by electricity.A.Endeavor

B.host C.Supply

D.Faculty

1.Taking more than the recommended dose of tablets is quite()

.A.hilarious B.perilous C.surreptitious D.hideous 2.Even the best medical treatment can not cure all the ills that（）men and women.A.beseech B.B.bestow C.bewitch D.Beset 3.The field of medicine has always attracted its share of quacks — that is ,（）women and men with little or no medical knowledge.A.disreputable B.disguised C.distinguished D.Dissoluble 4.The reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans is that there is a sharp difference in appearance between them and their white()

.A.consultants B.counterparts C.culprits D.conservatives 5.All the questions（）around what she had been doing on the night of the robbery.A.resolved B.revoked C.revolved D.revived 6.We tried to drive our horse into the river, but he simply could not mother rats()

.A.trudge B.surge C.budge D.Dredge 7.The experiments（）that in overpopulated communities,do not behave normally.A.defied B.verified C.purified D.intensified 8.The aim of the president’s speech was to convince still reluctant countries of the great necessity of imposing sanctions against the countries that（）terrorists.A.kidnapped B.harassed C.heckled D.harbored

9.In other words, we discovered a（）of effects from the power failure, each becoming the cause of the next.A.succession B.recession C.procession D.Secession 10.In establishing or（）a causal relation, it is usually necessary to show the process by which the alleged cause produces the effect.A.reframing B.redeeming C.refuting D.redressing

Unit 7 1.We looked out across a river valley to the broad snow-white ridge of Mount Ararat, its peak()

against the blue sky.A.galvanizing B.exhilarating

C.incandescent D.Unreachable 2.Would you care for some tea, or even a light meal, to（）yourself before setting off for a new adventure? A.color B.forego C.boost D.Fortify 3.The company she was working for was failing so she decided to（）and set up her own business with a friend.A.deal out B.bail out C.hold out D.fall out 4.Fisher was given a（）in the marketing section before a decision was made about his future.A.tryout B.momentum C.conviction D.Permissiveness 5.This is one of the few jobs you can do in this place and（）being completely drunk.A.contribute to B.get away with C.make for D.try on 6.The lieutenant general has got such an enormous（）— I’ve never known anyone so full of themselves!A.humility B.illusion C.altruism D.Ego 7.Before becoming a（）director, Jason had worked as a film critic for a magazine for a number of years.A.full blown B.lovelorn C.grown up D.Rootless

8.According to a survey of 250 high schools, the（）rate among students is currently one in five.A.alteration B.dropout C.impulse D.denial 9.Please don’t be so depressed;I’m sure things will start to（）for the motor trade in the coming year.A.look up B.dredge up C.take hold D.sell out 10.After a heated debate, the Parliament voted to impose a two-year（）on nuclear weapons testing.A.curfew B.strain C.settlement D.moratorium

1.Even in those schools, which have tried to enforce no smoking by（）punishment, there’s as much smoking as in other schools.A.cordial B.contingent C.convertible D.corporal 2.People who have such an addiction are（）;i.e., they have a very powerful psychological need that they feel they must Satisfy.A.compulsory B.compulsive C.comprehensive D.consistent 3.Those living in countries with long dark winters are apt to be less talkative and less sociable than inhabitants of countries where the climate is more()

.A.excessive B.equivalent C.equable D.exquisite 4.Jill was seriously injured and for days he（）between life and death.A.hovered B.hewed C.hobbled D.huddled

5.Professor Smith has already retired, but his teachings still（）strong influence on his students.A.execute B.forsake C.exert D.forge 6.This is but a（）of the total amount of information which the teenager has stored.A.friction B.fraction C.faction D.fracture 7.The country has been faced with a（）problem of unemployment since the newly-elected President came into power.A.sagging B.jogging C.logging D.nagging 8.The English language is capable of expressing many subtle（）of meanings.A.shallows B.sermons C.shades D.shadows 9.It’s established that everyone has over a thousand dreams a year, however few of these()

productions are remembered during waking hours.A.tacit B.stringent C.nocturnal D.mawkish 10.The belief that you should own your house is deeply（）in British society.A.ingrained B.inflicted C.afflicted D.enraged

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第四篇：研究生英语unit 3

Unit 3

I am a journalist, not a historian, and while this book is an effort to describe a moment in the past, it is less a work of history than of personal reminiscence and reflection.Essentially, it is an account of my own observations and experiences in wartime Washington, supplemented by material drawn from interviews and other sources.I have tried to create out of it all a portrait of the pain and struggle of a city and a government suddenly called upon to fight, and to lead other nations in fighting, the greatest war in history, but pathetically and sometimes hilariously unprepared to do so.我是新闻工作者，不是历史学家，所以本书描写的虽然是过往岁月中的一刻，却称不上是一部史学著作，而仅是个人的追思。书中所写的主要是战争期间我本人在华盛顿的观察和经历，辅以采访等材料。我试图刻画一个城市和一个政府的痛苦与挣扎，这个城市和政府突然被要求参加战争，还要在战争中领导别的国家，参与的又是有史以来最伟大的战争，实在是有些措手不及，因此表现得很糟糕，有时甚至很可笑。

This is bound to be somewhere close to the last reporting from that period based on firsthand sources.One after another, with unsettling rapidity, those in positions of power and responsibility during World War II are passing from the scene.Several who agreed to recall and describe their experiences in the war years died before I could get to them.这几乎肯定是以第一手资料写成的、有关那个时期的最后一场报道。二战中位高权重的人物一个接一个很快去世，实在令人不安。有几位原本已经答应回忆并讲述一下他们在二战中的经历，可我还没来得及拜访，他们就离开了人世。

I have not dealt here in any detail with the grand strategy of the war in Europe and the Pacific.Instead, I have tried to report mainly on what I saw and heard and learned in Washington during years now fading into a misty past, the wartime experience of a country two-thirds of whose people are now too young to remember any of it.The result is a sort of Our Town at war, the story of a city astonished and often confused to find itself at the center of a worldwide conflict without ever hearing a shot fired.A strange city, set up in the first place to be the center of government and, like government itself at that time, a city moving slowly and doing little.我在本书中没有对欧洲及太平洋战区中的宏大战略做详尽的描述。相反，我主要报道了那些年我在华盛顿的所见所闻。这些往事已经在人们的记忆中变得越来越模糊，对于那场战争，这个国家中有三分之二的人都太年轻，对它并无记忆。结果，本书描写的就是一个以战争为背景的“我们的小镇”，讲的是一个城市在根本没有听到一声枪响的情况下，就卷入了一场全球性冲突，因而变得很惊愕，常常也很困惑。这是一个不同寻常的城市，设立时主要是想将它建成政府的中心，因此这个城市便和当时的政府一样，行动十分缓慢，所做相当有限。

第五篇：研究生英语课文翻译Unit 12

Thanksgiving Soon they will be together again, all the people who travel between their own lives and each other’s.The package tour of the season will lure them this week to the family table.很快所有那些在我们和他人生活中穿梭的人们都会再次聚集到一起。这个团体旅游季会引诱他们这个星期回到家庭的餐桌上。

By Thursday, feast day, family day, Thanksgiving day, Americans who value individualism like no other people will collect around a million tables in a ritual of belonging.到周四，盛宴之日，家庭的节日，感恩节，比任何人都重视个人主义的美国人会为了一个归属感的仪式聚集在百万张桌子周围。

They will assemble their families the way they assemble dinner: each other bearing a personality as different as cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.For one dinner they will cook for each other, fuss for each other, feed each other and argue with each other.他们会像在一起吃晚餐一样把家人聚在一起，每个人都有不同的的个性，就像他们做的蔓越橘沙司和难过馅饼一样。这顿晚餐他们会互相为对方下厨，为对方忙乱，给对方喂吃的，互相争辩。

They will nod at their common heritage, the craziness and caring of other generations.They will measure their common legacy„„children.他们会对他们共同的传统产生共鸣，对别代人的狂热和关心。他们会估量他们共同的财产-孩子。

All these complex cells, these men and women, old and young, with different dreams and disappointments will give homage again to the group they are a part of and apart from: their family.所有这些复杂的环节，这些有着不同梦想和失望的男女老少会再一次给家庭这个集体敬意，他们既是家庭的一部分，又生活于其外。

Families and individuals.The “we” and the “I”.As good Americans we all travel between these two ideals.家庭和个体，“我们”和“我”。作为一个虔诚的美国人我们都往来于这两个理想之间。We take value trips from the great American notion of individualism to the great American vision of family.We wear our tires driving back and forth, using speed to shorten the distance between these two principles.我们在伟大美国的个人主义意识和伟大美国的家庭观念之间进行价值选择。我们就像一辆往返于这两个原则之间的车，通过速度来减少两者之间的举例。

There has always been some pavement between a person and a family.From the first moment we recognize that we are separate we begin to wrestle with aloneness and togetherness.一个人和他的家庭总是会存在一些举例。从我们发现我们和家庭分开的那一刻起，我们就开始努力克服独居和团聚的冲突。

Here and now these conflicts are especially acute.We are after all, raised in families...to be individuals.This double message follows us through life.此时此刻这些冲突越发的突出。毕竟我们是被家庭养育长大，但我们最终是成为了一个个体。这个双重信息会伴随我们医生。

We are taught about the freedom of the “I” and the safety of the “we”.The loneliness of the “I” and the intrusiveness of the “we”.The selfishness of the “I” and the burdens of the “we”.我们总是被教育作为个人的自由和来自家庭的安全感，作为个人的孤独，融入家庭可能会被过多干涉，作为个人的自私，和来自家庭的负担。We are taught what Andre Malraux said:”Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”

马尔罗的话教育我们：“离开家庭，一个孤零零生活在这个世界上的人会冻得瑟瑟发抖。” And taught what he said another day:”The denial of the supreme importance of the mind’s development accounts for many revolts against the family.” 但是同样是他说的话又教育我们：“对思想发展的至高重要性的否认，很大程度上解释了对家庭的反对。”

In theory, the world rewards “the supreme importance” of the individual, the ego.We think alone, inside our heads.We write music and literature with an enlarged sense of self.We are graded and paid, hired and fired, on our own merit.理论上这个世界认为个人和自我意识是最为重要的。我们在头脑中独立的思考。我们创作的音乐和文学作品是对自身感官的放大。我们被评定的等级，所受到的报酬，我们被雇用或是解雇都是基于我们自己的功过。

The rank individualism is both exciting and cruel.Here is where the fittest survive.有等级划分的个人主义即使令人兴奋的又是残酷的。在这之下适者生存。

The family, on the other hand, at its best, works very differently.We don’t have to achieve to be accepted by our families.We just have to be.Our membership is not based on credentials but on birth.另一方面，处于最好状态下的家庭运作方式非常不同。我们不用去争取被家庭接受。我们只要存在就一定会被接受。参与到一个家庭中不是凭借我们的证书而是基于出身。

As Malraux put it,”A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family’s love is unreasoning.You were born into it and of its flesh and blood.” 就是马尔罗说的：“朋友因为你的才智而爱你，情妇因为你的魅力而爱你，但是你的家人对你的爱是没有原因的，你在家庭的爱中出生并且有着她的血肉。”

The family is formed not for the survival of the fittest but for the weakest.It is not an economic unit but an emotional one.This is not the place where people ruthlessly compete with each other but where they work for each other.家庭并不是由最适合的人组成，而是由最脆弱的人组成。这不是一个经济集合体而是一个情感集合体。这里没有人们相互之间无情的竞争而只有人们互相为对方服务。Its business is taking care, and when it works, it is not callous but kind.家庭的业务是关怀，当家庭运作时，没有冷漠只会关怀备至。

There are fewer heroes, fewer stars in family life.While the world may glorify the self, the family asks us, at one time or another, to submerge it.While the world may abandon us, the family promises, at one time or another, to protect us.家庭生活中没有那么多英雄和明星。当世界赞美个人的时候，家庭总会让我们淹没了自我。当世界抛弃了我们，家庭总会承诺保护我们。

So we commute daily, weekly, yearly between one world and another.Between a life as a family member that can be nurturing or smothering.Between life as an individual that can free us or flatten us.We vacillate between two separate sets of demands and possibilities.所以我们每天，每周，每年地往返于这两个世界。是在一个养育我们，但同时可能会令人窒息的家庭中生活，还是作为一个可能会自由但却被磨去锐气的个人。我们在这两个完全不同的需求和可能性中踌躇。

The people who will gather around this table Thursday live in both of these worlds, a part of and apart from each other.With any luck the territory they travel from one to another can be a fertile one, rich with care and space.It can be a place where the “I” and the “we” interact.在这周四会聚集在桌子周围的人们同时生活在这两个世界里，他们既是互相的一部分，又独立存在。运气好的话，他们在两个世界间来回的领土可以非常富饶，充满了关心和空间。这里可以是个人和家庭相互作用的空间。

On this day at least, they will bring each other something both special and something to be shared: these separate selves.至少在这一天，他们给对方带去了既特殊又可以被分享的东西——这些被分开的自我。