[D]God’s presence in nature.
59. Which of the following statement is TRUE?
[A]Wilderness seemed a paradise to early Americans.
[B]Early and modern Americans have different views over land.
[C]Beautiful landscape is the greatest attraction to early and modern Americans.
[D]The notion of wilderness protected is accepted by all Americans.
60. The early generations had special preference for farms because
[A]they provided a hospitable shelter for living.
[B]they satisfied people’s need to return to nature.
[C]they supplied a Biblical meaning to people’s existence.
[D]they aroused people’s imagination for a better living.
Vocabulary
*1. exhilarating adj.使人愉快的
*2. oblivious adj.健忘的
*3. hack v.开辟
*4. hike v.远足
*5. skinhead n.理平头的人
*6. biblical adj.圣经的
*7. tundra n.冻土地带
Part B
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segmentssintosChinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)
Back when greed was good, in the 1980s, a lot of rapacious capitalists got together and decided it was okay to do some bad things, like selling junk bonds to each other and doing insider trading, which is to say that Wall Street’s Decade of Greed was a carnival of immorality that is a stain of our national conscience or something.
Nice story. But we’re not so sure we buy it any more. 62) While not yet the stuff of a Michael Douglas movie, what increasingly passes for standard operating procedure in the Internet world does not smell right. Many dot-coms rely on woolly accounting methods to inflate revenues.