Affirmative vs. Negative
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
I’m wiser than to believe what you call money talks.
He would do anything he was asked to do but return to his old life.
Africa is not kicking out western imperialism in order to invite other new masters. Both sides thought that the peace proposal was one they could accept with dignity. One could not be too careful in a new neighborhood.
Nothing is so beautiful but it betrays some defect on close inspection.
All graduates from the Foreign Languages Institute will not be appointed to do translation work.
8. All the chemical energy of the fuel is not converted into heat.
9. All these various losses, great as they are, do not in any way contradict the law of
conservation of energy.
10. All other sources of heat besides the sun would not raise the temperature of the earth 1/4
degree F.
11. Not all sounds made by animals serve as language, and we have only to turn to that
extraordinary discovery of echolocation in bats to see a case in which the voice plays a strictly utilitarian role.
12. The contemporary phenomenon of motorcar worship is to be explained not least by the sense
of independence and freedom that ownership entails.
13. The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests, critics divert attention from the fault that lies
with ill-informed or incompetent users.
14. I know it is a square peg in a round hole; still, it serves after a fashion.
15. One may as well be asleep to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and
regulate his conduct.
16. Few things are impossible in themselves: and it is often for want of will, rather than of means,
that men fail of success.
17. In one broadcast Anna Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin Roosevelt, said, “ We cannot
be too tired to win peace if our civilization is to go on.”
18. It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the
last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her, as he ought.
The Passive Voice
Put the following sentences into Chinese, paying attention to the conversion of the voice.
1. The oil of the world will have been used up, and man will be using the more convenient
power obtained from the splitting of the atom.
2. There are some radioactive isotopes which are produced artificially by bombardment of nuclei
with neutrons.
3. Care should be taken to decrease the length of time that one is subjected to loud continuous
noise.
4. Much has been said about the complexity of the nuclear power reaction.
5. Goodyear, an American, had been trying for years to find a way in which rubber could be
made hard, non-stick, and yet elastic.
6. We are taught that business letters should be written in a formal style rather than a personal
one.
7. She told me that her master had dismissed her. No reason had been given; no objection had
been made to her conduct. She had been forbidden to appeal to her mistress.
8. The increasing speed of scientific development will be obvious if one considers that TV, space
craft, and nuclear-powered ships, which are taken for granted now, would have seemed fantastic to people whose lives ended as recently as 1920.
9. The rusting of iron is one example of corrosion, which may be described as the destructive
chemical attack on a metal by media with which it comes in contact, such as moisture, air and water.
10. Pure science has been subdivided into physical science, which deals with the facts and
relations of the physical world, and biological science, which investigated the history and makings of life on the planet.
11. It has been noted with concern that the stock of books in the library has been declining
alarmingly. Students are asked to remind themselves of the rules for the borrowing and return of books, and to bear in mind the needs of other student. Penalties for overdue books will in the future be strictly enforced.
12. A current search of the files indicates that the letter id no longer in this bureau’s possession.
It is notes that the letter was received two months ago, and after study, returned to your office. In view of the foregoing, it is regretted that your office has no record of its receipt. If the letter is found, it would be appreciated if this bureau was notified at once.
Nominal Clauses
Put the following sentences into Chinese, paying attention to the subordinate clauses.
1. Whatever form is used by the majority of educated speakers or writers is correct; or as Sweet
puts it, “Whatever is in general use in a language is, for that reason, grammatically, correct. 2. He boasts that a slave is free the moment his feet touch British soil and he sells the children of
the poor at six years of age to work under the lash in the factories for sixteen hours a day.
3. It is flattering to believe that they (idea) are too profound to be expressed so clearly that all
who run may read, and very naturally it does not occur to such writers that the fault is with their own minds which have not the faculty of precise reflection.
4. It is not that the scale in the one case, and the balance in the other, differ in the principle of
their construction or manner of working; but that the latter is a much finer apparatus and of course much more accurate in its measurement than the former.
5. There are several reasons why he no longer appears to be the magician the world press had
made him out to be, an illusion which he failed to discourage because, as he would admit himself, he has a tendency toward megalomania.
6. … but since what used to seem to the great majority of civilized humanity the assurance of
another life beyond the grave has come to seem to more and more people less certain, a feeling for the value of human life has become deeper and more widespread.
7. He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a “step” toward what all Americans
are taught to want when they grow up: money and power.
8. He poured into his writing all the pains of his life and the conviction it had brought to him that
the world could be made a better place to live in if the exploited would rise up.
9. There has long been a superstition among mariners that porpoises will have drowning men by
pushing them to the surface, or protect them from sharks by surrounding them in defensive formation.
10. Furthermore, it is obvious that the strength of a country’s economy is directly bound up with
the efficiency of its agriculture and industry, and that this in turn rests upon the efforts of scientists technologists of all kinds.
11. For example, they do not compensate for gross social inequality, and thus do not tell how able
an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.
12. It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be
treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no consideration at all.
Attributive Clauses
Put the following sentences into Chinese, paying attention to the attributive clauses.
1. Americans have a great range of customs and habits that at first may seem puzzling to a
visitor.
2. They saw the first glimmerings of the “new economic order” for which many Third World
countries have long been clamoring.
3. Late 19th century saw all the universities in the United States adopt the credit system, which
benefited students a great deal.
4. Each day we make choices that affect our lives and sometimes the lives of others.
5. While at a museum, one can frequently rent a small recording machine that will explain the
objects on display as you move through the museum.
6. The fire season takes care of the property that managed to survive the deluge.
7. In countries where people remain in one town or city for most of their lives, the social
customs are quite different.
8. In fact, many Americans who could afford to hire a cook or driver do not employ them.
9. Private schools in the U. S. have a wide range of programs that are offered to meet the needs
of certain students.
10. Now the integrated circuit has reduced by many times the size of the computer of which it
forms a part, thus creating a new generation of portable mini-computer.
11. A few stars are known which are hardly bigger than the earth, but the majority are so large
that hundreds of thousands of earths could be packed inside each and leave room to spare; here and there we come upon a giant star large enough to contain millions of millions of earths.
12. There is nothing more disappointing to a hostess who has gone to a lot of trouble or expense
than to have her guest so interested in talking politics or business with her husband that he fails to notice the flavor of the coffee, the lightness of the cake, or the attractiveness of the house, which may be her chief interest and pride.
相关推荐：
loading