1、笔译三级综合能力形容词练习试卷 5及答案与解析 0 Go Ahead Cook with It 别怕 就用它来烹饪 Its grapefruit season. From now through March, the golden orbs are ripe for the picking. And theyre not just for breakfast any more. Hanging around on trees all about California: grapefruit heavy with juice, tartly sweet, beguilingly perfumed
2、 Round and yellow as happy faces or suns, they seem to ripe just as the general populace sinks into its annual round of post-holiday dietary self-chastisement. Coincidence? Perhaps. But we say run with it. Look beyond the obvious salvo of half a grapefruit for breakfast attacked with a jagged spoon
3、and youll find a marvelous fruit for peeling and eating out of hanD Theres nothing like it for inducing simultaneous feelings of gastronomic piety and delight at recapturing a long-lost pleasure. Its sensual: the aroma of essential oils as they spurt daintily from the pores of the thick skin, the ri
4、pping sound of the tenacious segments being pulled apart, the juice dripping down. And its delicious. But dont stop there. Cook with grapefruit. Use its juice to flavor sauces. Section and scatter it. Bake with it. Candy its peel. Grapefruit is milder and sweeter than lemon, but it can be used in ma
5、ny of the same ways squeezed on grilled fish, made into a brightly flavored curD And if youre looking for gorgeous color, red grapefruit offers extra plate appeal. The notion that red grapefruit is sweeter than white or yellow grapefruit is, however, a myth, according to citrus specialists. (The sto
6、ry grew out of a marketing campaign by Texas growers. ) Red grapefruits get their color from lycopene, which has health benefits (its an antioxidant)but does not affect flavor. Sweetness is determined, rather, by the length of time the fruit has been hanging on a tree. A grapefruit picked in Decembe
7、r isnt as sweet as one picked in February, so if you have a tree, just pick fruit as needed If not, ask at your farmers market about the different varieties available, all of which have their fans. California reds include the medium-pink Rio Reds from the Caochella Valley and the Star Ruby from Cent
8、ral Valley (and Texas). Yellow Marsh is a familiar yellow variety and the Duncan, while not usually labeled as such in supermarkets, is a reliable white. For those who dont like the tartness of a true grapefruit, Oro Blanco the half-grapefruit, half-acidless pummelo is sweeter and can be used in sal
9、ads. Our salad of jicama strips, thinly sliced snow peas, fresh pea sprouts (available in Asian markets)and red grapefruit sections has an appealing crunch. Its delicately harmonious flavors are pulled together with a faintly sweet dressing of grapefruit juice, tarragon and mint. The strikingly pink
10、 sauce of our baked halibut dish contrasts with the white flesh of the fish for an artful plate and its easy to make. Before baking, marinate the halibut in grapefruit juice with garlic and thyme. Sauce it with a reduction of grapefruit juice combined with blood orange juice, which deepens the color
11、 and softens the flavor. Then whisk in bits of cold butter for silkiness. A rich crust is a perfect foil for the tangy grapefruit curd filling in our pretty tartlets. Both grapefruit juice and lemon juice are used in the curd to focus the flavor; grapefruits zest enlivens the crust. Garnish them wit
12、h whipped cream and candied grapefruit peel. For cooking, select heavy fruit, which indicates juiciness. (If youre making a batch of candied peel, however, lighter fruit will indicate more peel.) Before juicing, roll a grapefruit under your hand on the countertop to help extract the most juice. Avoi
13、d lumpy fruit, which may be over-ripe. And finally, for those whose resolute January superegos care about such things, heres a reassuring thought: Grapefruit is low in calories (40 to 60 each), high in vitamins C and A, and an excellent source of fiber. It contains no fat, sodium or cholesterol. So
14、peel away. 1 The writer thinks that the grapefruit seems to ripe just at the fight time. Why? （ A） The grapefruit becomes ripe just after a holiday in a year so that people can consume more food （ B） The grapefruit matures in autumn to provide people with a kind of rich food （ C） The grapefruit can
15、provide people with a kind of favorite fruit when they have been on diet for a few days after the Christmas holiday during which they ate too many rich foods. （ D） The grapefruit matures as self-chastisement for people. 2 Which of the following is NOT the way to cook with the fruit? （ A） Fry it with
16、 meat. （ B） Section and scatter it. （ C） Bake with it. （ D） Candy its peel. 3 The sweetness of the grapefruit is determined by_. （ A） lycopene （ B） the length of time the fruit is exposed to the sun （ C） the length of time the fruit is hanging on a tree （ D） the specific nutrient the fruit takes fro
17、m the soil 4 What is the meaning of “superegos“ in the last but two paragraph? （ A） absolute selfishness of ones character （ B） personal likings （ C） personal attentions （ D） personal regrets 5 The reasons the grapefruit is good to health include that_. （ A） it is an excellent appetizer （ B） it is s
18、weet and juicy （ C） it contains no fat, sodium and cholesterol （ D） it contains no calories and fat 5 Whales 鲸 Whales are aquatic mammals belonging to order CetaceA A few species live in fresh water, but most species live in the seA They have a streamlined shape and a powerful tail to drive them for
19、warD With its two large horizontal fins or flukes, the tail produces the driving force by beating strongly up and down. Flippers at the front are used for steering and balance. The hind limbs of whales have completely disappeared, apart from a few small bones inside the body. Body hair has also disa
20、ppeared, giving whales a smoother outline and less resistance to water.Instead of hair, whales are insulated by a thick layer of fat, or blubber, under the skin. The blubber may be as much as 61 cm thick on some parts of the body. Besides protecting the animal against the cold, the blubber is an imp
21、ortant food reserve. Most of the best-known whales large creatures.For example, the blue whale reaches a length of more than 30 m.However, many whales, such as dolphins and porpoises, are small.Some are only 1.5 to 1.8 m long. Whales live entirely in water.Sometimes, whales are stranded on the shore
22、.Although they are air-breathing animals, they soon die because their great weight keeps them from expanding (opening out) the chest cavity.They can breathe easily when afloat, because the water supports most of their weight. The bottle-nosed whale has been known to stay under water for about two ho
23、urs.The sperm whale can dive down to depths of 500 fathoms.Such long and deep dives are unusual.Most dives last between 10 and 30 minutes.Whales have special mechanisms that help them to stay under water.When they breathe, they renew about nine-tenths of the air in their lungs.When human beings brea
24、the in, only about one-fourth of the air is renewed.Whales therefore have a fairly large supply of fresh air to start with.They also have an additional oxygen supply in the muscles, where air is loosely held in combination with a pigment called myohaemoglobin.Another thing that helps whales hold the
25、ir breath for long periods of time is their low sensitivity to carbon dioxide in the blood.(It is the carbon dioxide building up in human blood that affects the brain and makes the human being take another breath.) When a whale surfaces to renew its air supply, it needs only to push the top of its s
26、nout out of the water.This is because the nostril or blowhole is at the top of the heaD The expelled air is forced out strongly to form the spout or blow. Living whales are divided into two groups tooth whales and whalebone whales.Tooth whales, which include most species, generally have many conical
27、 teeth and eat mainly squids and fishes.The killer whale feeds on seals.One African river dolphin feeds mostly on plants.Other tooth whales include the narwhal and the sperm whale. Whalebone whales have no teeth.Their mouths contain huge comblike fringes of baleen or whalebone.This horny substance i
28、s usually black.All whalebone whales feed by straining small animals from the water.The mouth is filled with water and the water is then forced out through the fringes by the tongue.The animals caught in the baleen are swept into the stomach by the tongue. All whalebone whales are large animals, whi
29、ch are usually found in cold seas.They include the blue whales, the right whales, and the rorquals. The future of many of the larger kinds of whales is uncertain. Whalers have killed so many blue, bowhead, humpback, and right whales that those species are threatened with extinction. Overhunting has
30、also greatly reduced the number of fin and sei whales.Also, if the human population does not stop increasing, people may have to compete with whales for food in the seA Some nations have begun fishing for krill.Krill is the chief food of whales in Antarctic waters. 6 It is apparent from the first pa
31、ragraph that whales can swim easily in the sea partly because they have_. （ A） good bodily resistance to water （ B） only a few small bones inside the body （ C） neither hind limbs nor body hair （ D） a thick layer of fat under the skin 7 If they run onto the shore and are unable to get away from it wh
32、ales will soon die because_. （ A） they cant find anything to eat on the shore （ B） their great weight prevents them from breathing in （ C） they are left exposed to a lot of poisonous air （ D） their sensitivity to carbon dioxide in the blood increases to a fatal point 8 One of the reasons why whales
33、can make long and deep dives is that_. （ A） they are able to renew their air supply under water （ B） they dont need any extra oxygen supply in the muscles （ C） they renew only about one-fourth of the air in their lungs at a time （ D） they are little affected by carbon dioxide in the blood 9 Which of
34、 the following is true of whalebone whales according to the passage? （ A） They live mainly on plants. （ B） They are more dangerous than tooth whales. （ C） They get small water animals as their food. （ D） They are frequently found in warm seas. 10 We can learn from the passage all of the following ab
35、out whales except that_. （ A） their blubber performs two important functions （ B） they vary greatly in size （ C） overhunting places some of their species in danger of extinction （ D） they struggle hard to compete with humans for food in the sea 10 Junk Hunting 淘旧货 Anyone who thinks exploration alway
36、s involves long journeys should have his head examined.Or, better, he should put on his oldest clothes and go off in search of a junk shop. There are three kinds one full of discarded books, one full of discarded Government equipment, and one full of discarded anything.A junk shop may have four wall
37、s and a roof,or it may be no more than a trestle-table in an open air market;but there is one infallible test:no genuine junk shopkeeper will ever pester you to make up your mind and buy something. And you are no true junk shopper if you march purposefully round the shop as if you knew exactly what
38、you wanteD You must browse, gently chewing the cud of your idle thoughts, and nibbling here and there as a sight or a touch of the goods that lie about you. Yet you must also possess a penetrating glance, darting your eyes about you to spot the treasures that may lurk beneath the rubbish. This is wh
39、at makes junk shopping such a satisfying voyage of exploration. You never know what interesting and unexpected thing you may discover next. For in a true junk shop, not even the proprietor is always quite sure what his dusty stock conceals. There is always the chance that you may pick up a first edi
40、tion, a pair of exotic ear-rings, a piece of early Wedgwood china, or a cine camera and possess it for the price of fifty cigarettes. But this kind of treasure hunt is only a sideline to the true junk shopper. The real attraction lies in finding something that catches your own especial fancy, though
41、 everybody else may pass it by. An ancient tarnished clock, whose brass beneath your hands will shine anew; empty boxes that you can see transformed into the framework of a bookcase; an old bound volume of magazines of three-quarters of a century ago, which will shed strange sidelights on the ways o
42、ur great-grandparents behaved and looked at life. When you begin junk shopping, half the attraction is that you go with absolutely no intention of buying anything. You spend your first couple of Saturday afternoons ambling around among dusty shelves, savouring a page or a chapter as you please, or f
43、ingering the piles of oddments that litter counters or tables. At first, be warned, dont try to buy. You may, indeed you should, ask the price of this and that; but just to give you an idea of what the junk shopkeeper thinks you might be willing to pay him. Later, you will find yourself returning a
44、second and third time to something that has caught your fancy. And when you can hold back no longer, bargaining begins in earnest. This is the other great attraction of the true junk shop. Not only may it hold every conceivable product from every imaginable country; it also transports you to the med
45、iaeval market place or the oriental bazaar, where no price is fixed until buyer and seller have waged a friendly war together, and proved each others mettle. And this is where your old clothes become important: let no one take you for a rich connoisseur, or you will find yourself paying a rich mans
46、prices. And avoid at all costs the suspicion of an American accent, or in spite of the good nature of all good junk shopkeepers, you will be for it. 11 The author equates junk shopping with exploration because both involve_. （ A） traveling long distances （ B） careful preparation （ C） a spirit of adv
47、enture （ D） discovering unheard of places 12 The part “gently chewing the cud of your idle thoughts“ implies that the junk hunter is_. （ A） eating sweets or gum as he wanders around （ B） not thinking of anything （ C） ruminating on this and that （ D） thinking of many things at the same time 13 Accord
48、ing to the passage a true junk hunter hopes to_. （ A） find something invaluable （ B） discover something new （ C） discover something exotic （ D） find a bargain 14 The author suggests that the junk buyers main reason for bargaining is_. （ A） to fix a price （ B） that he hasnt enough money （ C） that its
49、 expected （ D） to ask a price 15 From the passage we understand that speaking with an American accent_. （ A） arouses suspicion in the junk shopkeeper （ B） increases the price of the goods （ C） engenders friendliness in the shopkeeper （ D） increases the chance of bargaining 15 The Disaster of Terrorism 恐怖主义的灾难 by Craig Kielburger New York has an energy of its own, and that late summer evening, I truly understood why. All around me the city was al
