3.我们每个人都有优点,但是另一方面我们每个人也有缺点。
We each have strong points, but on_the_other_hand each of us has weak points.
4.能跟你们一起在这里庆祝中秋节我感到非常荣幸。
It_is_an_honour_to_be here to celebrate the MidAutumn Festival with you.
5.这些图画使我们想起了在校园里一起度过的那些快乐的时光。
These pictures reminded_us_of the happy days which we spent together on the campus.
Ⅳ.完形填空
My most memorable occasion with an old song in a new place was in late April, 1974. While I was then teaching mathematics in an American university, a small grant (拨款) allowed me to teach at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
I had just __1__. One evening I went to a __2__ that had a young piano player. Almost all the songs he played were ones I'd never heard before. He asked for __3__,and people asked for other songs completely __4__ to me.
Then someone pointed to me, "We have an American __5__ - he's new here. Let's hear a request from him." In my great ignorance (无知) of __6__ music, either American or Australian, I was on the spot. But I had begun to learn Australian __7__. The University of New South Wales is on a hillside above a major avenue named Anzac Parade, __8__ the Australia New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), which __9__ for England in World War Ⅰ. Anzac Day is an important Australian holiday honoring the sacrifices made by __10__. The important holiday __11__ on April 25, the day the ANZAC forces landed at Gallipoli, in northern Turkey, in 1915. And I did know a song that seemed __12__ for the holiday.
I asked the __13__ if he could play The White Cliffs of Dover. He said, "I don't __14__ that one." A visible shock went around the restaurant. Then a(n) __15__ man said, "Well, let's sing it for him."
Actually the entire room, __16__ everyone over the age of 40, joined in singing the song, which became popular in England in 1942 and __17__ throughout the Englishspeaking world.
It's an old song, __18__ it expresses a hope for peace as timely today as it was during the Battle of Britain. And people made it very __19__ afterward that they appreciated my knowledge and respect for __20__ tradition. The newcomer, in the new place, had made himself one of the gang.
语篇解读:一首老歌让作者快速融入一个新地方。
1.A.finished B.arrived
C.appeared D.passed
解析:选B 由下文中的"he's new here"可知,作者刚刚"到达(arrived)"。
2.A.mall B.restaurant
C.school D.hotel