翻译阅读作业答案精品.docx

翻译阅读作业答案 Passage One Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the basis for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory. Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It not only includes "remembering" things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed (嗅出)something suspicious in the grain pile. Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being. The instant access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 "words"—string of alphabetic or numerical characters—ready for instant use. An average U.S. teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information that the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight. The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person's memory is in terms of words and combinations of words. But while language greatly expands the number and the king of things a person can remember, it also requires a huge memory capacity. It may well be this capacity that distinguishes humans, setting them apart from other animals. 57. Which of the following is TRUE about memory? [A] It helps us perceive things happening around us every day. [B] It is based on the decisions we made in the past. [C] It is rooted in our past habits and skills. [D] It connects our past experiences with the present. 58. According to the passage, memory is helpful in one's life in the following aspects EXCEPT that ________. [A] it involves a change in one's behavior [B] it keeps information for later use [C] it warns people not to do things repeatedly [D] it enables one to remember events that happened in the past 59. What is the author's view about computers and human beings in terms of intelligence? [A] Computers have better memory than a child does. [B] Computers are as intelligent as a teenager is. [C] Computers can understand as many as 100,000 words. [D] Human beings are far superior to computers. 60. What is the major characteristic of man's memory capacity according to the author? [A] It can be expanded by language. [C] It may keep all the information in the past. [B] It can remember all the combined words. [D] It may change what has been stored in it. 61. Human beings make themselves different from other animals by _______. [A] having the ability to perceive danger [B] having a far greater memory capacity [C] having the ability to recognize faces and places on sight [D] having the ability to draw on past experiences Passage Two Questions 62 to 66 are based in the following passage. "Family" is of course an elastic word. But when British people say that their society is based on family life, they are thinking of "family" in its narrow, peculiarly European sense of mother, father and children living together alone in their own house as an economic and social unit. Thus, every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent family— hence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life. For both the man and the woman, marriage means leaving one's parents and starting one's own life. The man's first duty will then be to his wife, and the wife's to her husband. He will be entirely responsible for her financial support, and she for the running of the new home. Their children will be their common responsibility and theirs alone. Neither the wife's parents nor the husband's, nor their brothers or sisters, aunts or uncles, have any right to interfere with them—they are their own masters. Readers of novels like Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice will know that in former times marriage among wealthy families was arranged by the girl's parents, that is, it was the parents' duty to find a suitable husband for their daughter, preferably a rich one, and by skillful encouragement to lead him eventually to ask their permission to marry her. Until that time, the girl was protected and maintained in the parents' home, and the financial relief of getting rid of her could be seen in their giving the newly married pair a sum of money called a dowry(嫁妆). It is very different 。