2023工大英语期末复习题库 翻译 十五选十 阅读

Even if you're not a hard-core Greenie, there are small acts you can take every day to save both the earth and your _____. Going DIY with cleaning products is a good way to start. You can use _____ at home that won’t cost you any extra money and that work just as well as the store-bought stuff. Vinegar cuts grease on stove tops and oven doors, and can even whiten your _____ and remove stains from clothes

In the kitchen, going green can save you money and keep you _____ Cooking at home can cut down the cost of eating out and the takeout containers that you bring home. Buying produce and other raw foods cuts down on _____ that ends up in landfills. You can also look for products that use _____ or bio-degradable packaging. You can even use some of the items you _____ in the trash to upcycle. Plastic grocery bags can be used for all kinds of craft projects.

It’s easy to ignore, but a great amount of energy gets wasted around the house. You can _____ large appliances and other devices that aren’t being used. Changing out your light bulbs is another way to save money. CFL light bulbs are more _____ at first,but they use much less energy than incandescent light bulbs, and last at least eight times longer than regular bulbs. _____ Kon natural light is another way to make your light bulbs last longer - so open your blinds and enjoy the sunlight!

A) cost

B) enjoy

C) expensive

D) healthier

E) ignore

F) items

G) laundry

H) packaging

I) projects

J) recyclable

K) relying

L) than

M) toss

N) unplug

0) wallet

When it comes to a life partner, discomfort between you and your partner can bring about unhappiness  _____ To feel at home with a partner, a few things need to be in place:

Trust and security. Secrets are poison to a relationship, because they lead to an invisible _____ inside the relationship, leaving both people someyhat alone in the world. On the other side of secrets will often be distrust, which is a(n) _____ factor going against a good relationship.

Natural chemistry.The _____ between you should be easy and natural, energy exerted should be at the same level, and you should both feel _____.If you put uneven(不均衡的) energy into the relationship, the relationship will _____ failure someday.

Acceptance of weaknesses. You're not perfect, and so is your current or future life-partner _____ of weaknesses is helpful to a relationship. And one of the worst fates would be to spend most of your life _____ by criticisms for your weaknesses and have to _____ them. This isn’t to say people shouldn’t work on self-improvement, but when it comes to a life partnership, the healthy attitude is, “Every person comes with a set of weaknesses, these are my partner’s, and they're part of the package I knowingly chose to spend my life with.” This is the attitude you should hold in order to have the relationship _____.

A) undergo

B) exhausting

C) constantly

D)correspondence

E) endure

F) overwhelmed

G) bloom

H) exchange

I) invasion

J) hardship

K) realization

L) separation

M) enjoyment

N) impressive

0) permanent

_____ friendship, it is possible that we know what it is but can't define it.We know it when we feel it.It’s not a _____ ,but something we can feel.It is _____ because it _____ time and energy on both sides.

Once it is developed, a friendship will not grow _____ just as in the case of flowers which would not _____ without enough sunlight and water.Just as we treat a flower garden, so we are supposed to take care of a friendship so that it can _____.

As life goes on, we keep making friends. However the problem is that anything can _____ a friendship.How is it that some friendships _____ a breakup in a particular form_____ long we want them to last? We cannot deny the fact that lasting friendships consume our investment of time and passion.

A) affect          B)insight           C) mutual         D) survive 

E) venture        F) neglect          G) flourish        H) mystery

I) involves        J) apply to          K) on its own      L) end up with

M) no matter how  N) cannot help but  O) when it comes to

Tony Tang, a resident of Shanghai, wanders among the stalls(摊位) of foreign universities and middle schools at the Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Hall, looking for an ideal _____ for his 13 year-old son to study abroad.

“My son is a student of the _____ Shanghai Foreign Language School.He spends all of his time on his studies and the school puts great _____ on its students. Our family hopes to send him to a school where he does not need to worry so much about his _____ scores," the man said.

Nowadays, _____ of an education system that focuses on academic scores but not pupils overall development, a growing number of Chinese families are making _____ to send their children abroad, even at a young age,for the sake of a broader education.

Many have already seen the benefit. Andy Wang from Guangdong said her 16-year-old daughter was happy _____ high school in Montreal and the family was planning to send her to university in Canada or the US in the future.

“At first, my daughter was _____ to go,”she said“She thought it would be too hard for her. As the only child of our family,she had never lived on her own.But we _____ to our decision and told her that studying abroad would be good for her future.She felt _____ to obey our instructions for her future. Now she is so happy that she followed our arrangement.”

A) academic

B) attending

C) destination

D) distinguished

E) grip

F) hesitate

G) interpretation

H) linger

I) mysterious

M) reluctant

J) obligated

N) stuck

K) preparations

O) tired

L) pressure

How long have _____ industrialists been dreaming about flying cars? So long that they’re not called flying cars anymore. Now they’re “roadable aircraft”. And while the _____ for success of such roadable aircrafts are still in doubt, that doesn’t mean the _____ of th flying vehicle is dead. We might just need to come at the problem from a different directior One such new _____ is the PALV(personal air land vehicle[车辆]) forned in Europe that changes from a road going three wheel motorcycle into a gyrocopter(旋翼机)that appears to fly as well as it drives -which is to say very well in both regards. Where the flying cars have suffered from a lack of lateral stability(横向稳定性)in flight and mechanical _____ on the ground, the PAL-V flies as well as any gyrocopter you’re likely to see and,thanks _____ its wonderful suspension(悬浮) system,drives like one of the best three-wheel motorcycles in the streets.

The Dutch company behind the project has completed first testing of the PALVOn prototype(样品) and _____ that it could travel through the air over a distance of up to275 nautical miles(海里) at a _____ of 95 knots(节). The company recently announced it will begin production of the PAL-V with a limited _____ is of 45 vehicles priced at around $400,000 apiece.

So while the flying car might not have a place in immediate _____ perhaps a flying. three-wheeled gyrocopter will. 

A) vehicle        B) approach      C) confirmed        D) aviation 

E) future         F)attach          G) chances         H) transportation 

I) concept        J) feature         K) to              L)complexity

M) number       N) speed         O) flight 

As _____ by the dictionary, to innovate is to do something _____ , and creation is about making or bringing into existence something newBelieve it or not, anybody can be a(n) _____ for such an ability. You are among them; you will realize it when you have awakened your own potential.

What do you expect of your college education? You will most probably ask for an emphasis to be placed on the training of innovation and creativity in _____ education, because you don't want to be trained to be the passive recipients of knowledge, but to be _____ into active users of the knowledge you have learned.This _____ DIY,a(n) _____ experience that involves putting your hands on something new. Most of the time, it requires teamwork. When you _____ a new project you need to _____ for a brainstorm(集思广益).There you tend to look at the problem from different angles and come up with different approaches. That’s the way we innovate or create something new.

No doubt China is becoming a manufacturing power in the world. Are you ready to get involved to _____ something new in the near future?

A) formal

B) transformed

C) component

D) tendency

E) defined

F) manufacture

G) specialize

H) candidate

I) tinker with

J) interact with

K) calls for

L) work on

M) in a new way

N) experimental

0) get together

Americans generate about 254 million tons of trash and recycle and compost(制成肥料) about 87 million tons of this material, which adds up to a 34.3 percent national recycling rate. Recycling and composting prevented the release of approximately 186 million metric tons of carbon dioxide(COz) in 2013,comparable to taking over 39 million cars off the road for a year.

In recent years, however, recycling companies are struggling with higher processing costs, due in part to newer, larger recycling bins that don’t require user sorting(分类) and thus become increasingly contaminated with garbage. When the District of Columbia replaced residents’ 32-gallon bins with ones that were 50 percent larger last year, the extensive amount of non-recyclable material put into the bins drove up the city’s processing cost for recyclables and cut profits from selling recyclables by more than 50 percent.

“Our biggest concern and our biggest challenge today is municipal solid waste and contamination in our inbound stream,”saidJames DelvinCEO of ReCommunity Recycling, which operates 31 facilities in 14 states.“It’s an economic issue if you think about we go through all this effort to process this material, and roughly 15 to 20 percent of what we process ends up going back to the landfill(垃圾填埋场).It’s incredibly inefficient to do that.” In a 2014 survey by the National Waste and Recycling Association, nearly one in ten Americans admitted to throwing their waste in recycling bins when trash cans were full; one in five said they will place an item in a recycling container even if they are not completely sure it is recyclable.

“People refer to this as 'wishful recycling,’that’s just when in doubt, put this in the bin because there’s an outside chance they might be able to recycle it,”Delvin notes. “So you see Styrofoam(聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料).You see PVC. You see batteries and those types of things ... This mixing of waste with recyclables, he says, makes it very difficult to extract the true recyclable commodities that have value.

Improved education regarding the proper materials to recycle is needed to allow recycling plants to remain economically feasible. The pros and cons of recycling are heavily debatec but there’s never an argument over the environmental benefits of limiting disposabl packaging and utilizing more durable reusable goods, like shopping bags, coffee thermoses and water bottles, to name a few, in daily life

Installing solar panels on the roof of your home is a big project - but it pays off in more ways than one. There's the obvious environmental benefit, but for many homeowners, the joy comes with a dollar sign attached.

An average, 5 kilowatt system will cost about $$15,000 to $$20,000, depending on where you live in the US. So it pays to find out if your state offers rebates(退还款) or other incentives to help lower the cost of going solar. Here is a sure bet: the federal government offers a 30% tax credit.

You can start your research with this federally funded, comprehensive database that lists all sorts of incentives and policies for renewable energy by state or contact the state agency that regulates utilities.

Some states with strong policies to promote solar energy use have created their own websites listing incentives, financing options and tips for hiring a contractor to install the solar panels. Your utility might offer a similar helpful guide.

As with any major home improvement project, finding a good contractor is crucial. A trustworthy installer will secure the necessary permits, properly connect the solar energy system to your home and the local electric grid, and apply for incentives for you. Some states -or local utillities-post a list of certified solar service companies. Many consumers as friends and neighbors for recommendations. Googling works just as well.

Another big decision is how to pay for the equipment and services. You can pay for them outright, of course. A solar energy system lasts about 20 years, so paying for it upfront will b a cheaper option over time than to lease it. As an owner, you get a bonus incentive if you live in a state that allows you to sell excess solar electricity to your utility. The money you earn will show up as a credit on your bill.

Another popular option is to leave the ownership and maintenance of the solar panels to your installer and pay only for the electricity produced from the rooftop system. This arrangement is done through a power purchase agreement, which can last 15 years or mor Your solar company typically sweetens the deal by charging you a lower electric rate than your utility would. Be sure to read the contract to see how your installer sets the electric rates over time. Those rates are likely to change because the average price for solar energy systems has fallen much in the past years.

The Internet is changing the way society communicates, processes information and knowledge. Some of these developments are exciting and challenging, but in one particular sense the Internet creates a fundamental challenge to the way humans interact.

Today, Internet dating has become more or less accepted as a way of forming relationships. There has been some criticism, but it has usually been of the functional and operational(操作上的)kind,regarding membership costs or users providing false pictures or information.There has been little thought or comment on why matchmaking websites by itself might be a bad thing.

Online matchmaking is conditioned on the idea of making rational choices. Internei dating is like shopping at LoveMart. We watch and read the adverts (people's profiles) and we then, make a rational decision to try the product. The more choices we have, we are told, th better for making the choice.

Furthermore, the way dating websites calculate(计算)matches distorts(扭曲) the very core of interpersonal relations. Online seekers of partners and friends rely on computer calculations of a set of hard questions.The questions that many of these websites use are so terrible(“Are you happy with your life? A. Yes, B. No, C. Most of the time") that they cannot reflect real conversations. THIS is not human interaction; it is a fundamental shift. Interpersonal relationships are being shifted into products that can be (supposedly) objectively measured and objectively chosen, even though such relations represent the exact opposite.

In his book, Alain Badiou noted love-this great irrational driver of humanity - has become an object, which people wish to be fully informed about, choose rationally, and not suffer any unexpected disappointments from. It is, as philosopher Slavoj Zizek has noted, like caffeine-free coffee.

Some critics have suggested that online dating is taking society back to a pre-modern version of arranged marriages. I would say it is worse. It has taken over the very essence(实质 of what it means to be human.

Romance in China is often sacrificed to practicality; dating has largely become a commercial transaction. In Beijing parents gather in parks to introduce their children to one another. Singles’clubs set people up according to requirements-height,income, property. And tens of thousands participate in matchmaking events in cities like Shanghai looking for the perfect mate.

“Marriage in many ways in China is a way of pulling resources,”says Roseann Lake, a Beijing-based journalist researching a book on “sheng nv”.In one direction, at least,“The idea that a woman, no matter how successful she is professionally,is absolutely nothing until she is married -it still comes down to that.”Yes,China has experienced miraculous growth in the past three decades, but traditions are hard to shake.Confucian ethics stress that marriage must satisfy societal duty over individual desire.

The one child policy has further reinforced these expectations. In China, the young are expected to provide for the old: whom you marry matters for your entire family.

These concerns aren’t evenly shared and they expose something of a generation gap Children of the 1980s and 1990s -who were born in better economic times and fed on pop music and movies - are in less of a hurry to get married than their parents were.

Although China’s changed birth rate means there willbea surplus(过剩) of about 24 million men in China by 2020, the majority of these singles will live in rural areas. In major cities -where the rate of housing costs to income can reach 12:1 -finding a good match is a constant worry for educated, ambitious women.

When Chinese Valentine's Day nears, preparations for dozens of matchmaking events, most aimed at marriage, are picking up. At the Huanleyuan Culture Club, a singlesclub in Beijing -basic requirement: a college degree; annual membership fee: about $560- hundreds will be attending a gala matchmaking event.Ten thousand people are expected at a mass blind date in many cities.They’ll be looking not just for an attractive smile or that spark of chemistry, but also for the promise of money and connections.

Another incident that drew us closer was our first miscommunication, which resulted from Andy teasing(调侃)me and my taking him seriously and so getting offended. When late sharing details of our relationship with another friend, she first pronounced us best friends Her explanation? We talked about everything, and we had fights but were still friends.

January also ended with another first. I had to concentrate on my studies and consequently, my emails became sporadic(零星的).I apologized, but Andy reassured me that he understood and, for the first time, used what became a catch phrase(妙语) in our relationship: “The good things in life are worth the wai... and you are worth the wait.”

The phrase took on even more meaning as we both awaited the day when we could meet face-to-face and be finally sure of what we had.Fears and hopes mixed in our hearts, as we recognized the changes being in each other's physical presence could forever bring to our friendship. What if we found ourselves unable to communicate, once conversation became visual? What if we didn’t like spending time with one another as much as we liked talking with one another? What if we lost the friendship that had sustained us for eight months and was one of the best relationships we had found in our lives?

As we waited, our friendship continued to flourish in spite of the geographical distance separating us. Our mammoth(海量的) messages were replaced with shorter emails sent throughout the day, affording us more insight into our routine world. Scans of photos from our lives were often attached to our email messages. We also began dedicating more evenings to each other.For example, we sat in front of our respective television sets to watch a favorite program or a rented movie and then later shared our opinions through email. Then, about a month before our vacation, Andy faced a deadline at work so his emails became sporadic. He apologized,but I reassured him that I understood and said: “The good things in life are worth the wait ... and you are worth the wait.”

Recently,I received this request: “I am writing an article for one of my classes about distance friendship… People were friends for many years and then they move far away from each other. What changes? What are the chances that the friendship will survive? How do we keep up with all the changes... and then make our friendship last?” The reader elaborated(详细说明)in a second email,explaining that two of her best friends lived far from her and she had recently met with one of them, but their relationship had now sadly changed. She wondered if “there are friendships that last a lifetime and what to do to have a friendship like that.”

Unfortunately, while I can ramble on(漫谈) about short-term friendships, I have not experienced many of long-term friendships. My oldest contact is a young woman whoml became acquainted with about ten years ago and who at one point had been my Little Sister through Big Brothers Big Sisters (a non-profit organization whose goal is to help all children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with volunter mentors).We see each other annually in December. My longest close friendship is with Andy Frederick whom I first met in the fall of 1996. Hence, to answer my reader’s email, I sought the help of friends with more experience with long-term friendships. They came through for me

One friend wrote,“People, in the big picture, are fairly predictable. Long-distance relationships rarely survive past the 'I think of that person once in a while’state.” She confessed, “Of all the friendships I have had since I was old enough to make friends, I only have one person I stay in regular contact with who I met in high school. She lives very far away and we manage to get together at least once a year and talk a few times a year beyond that.” Otherwise, the friends whom she has managed to stay in contact with are those separated from her by the least amount of distance. She concluded that such is the facts of life. “Out of sight does not necessarily mean out of mind .. but physical distance does create more distance in frequency of thought and emotion."