Question

【題目】 Laurence Kim Peek was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on November 11, 1951. He was not like other children when he was young. A medical scan (掃描) showed that the two halves of his brain were not connected in the usual way. He developed an amazing memory. He started to read when he was two. He remembered everything he had read.

To read more quickly, he read the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye. By reading the two pages at the same time, (61)看完一本書花他不到一小時的時間。By the age of 30, he had memorized around 12,000 books.

However, he did not develop so well in other areas. (62) He could not walk before four years old , and he had problems putting on his clothes and shoes. His social skills were poor, and he was extremely sensitive (敏感的) about new people. In 1984, Peek and his father met Hollywood movie writer Barry Morrow. Morrow was fascinated by Peek and began to write a new play about Peek’s experiences. The movie Rain Man won an Oscar for Best Picture in 1988. (63) This changed Peek’s life. (64) He got used to being the center of attention. He became more self-confident. He appeared on TV and traveled around the country with his father to develop awareness(意識) of his condition.

Peek was not only an amazing man but also a real Rain Man. Sadly, Peek died of a heart attack in 2009.

任務(wù)一：將61 處翻譯成英文。

【1】_______________________________________________

任務(wù)二：將62 處改為復(fù)合句。

【2】_______________________________________________

任務(wù)三：寫出 63 處 “this” 指代的內(nèi)容。

【3】_______________________________________________

任務(wù)四：將64 處翻譯成中文。

【4】_______________________________________________

任務(wù)五：(65) 找出該文段的中心句。

【5】_______________________________________________

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】It took him less than an hour to read a book. /It took him less than an hour to finish reading a book. /He spent less than an hour reading a book.

【2】He could not walk before he was four (years old).

【3】The movie Rain Man won an Oscar for Best Picture( in 1988).

【4】他習(xí)慣了成為關(guān)注的焦點/中心。

【5】Peek was not only an amazing man but also a real Rain Man.

【解析】

Laurence Kim Peek生來就是一個不尋常的人，他的大腦不是以尋常的方式連接在一起的。他的記憶力驚人，過目不忘。后來他遇到了一個好萊塢的編劇，這個編劇對他留下了深刻的印象，根據(jù)他的故事，創(chuàng)作了《雨人》，而這部電影也改變了Peek的生活。

【1】take和spend都可以表示“花費”，他們用于不同的句型，take的句型是：It takes sb.+一段時間+to do sth.花費某人一段時間做某事；spend的句型是(sb) spend+一段時間+doing sth. 根據(jù)文意可知，短文使用的是一般過去時態(tài)，故翻譯句子時應(yīng)用過去時。答案為：It took him less than an hour to read a book. /It took him less than an hour to finish reading a book. /He spent less than an hour reading a book

【2】before可以作連詞或者介詞，原文中before是介詞，后面跟名詞構(gòu)成短語。題目要求改為復(fù)合句，故可用before引導(dǎo)時間狀語從句，從句中主語為he；使用一般過去時，was four (years old)，主句不變。

【3】This是一個代詞，指代上文內(nèi)容，找到上句話即可知答案，The movie Rain Man won an Oscar for Best Picture in 1988. 意為“《雨人》這部電影在1988年獲得奧斯卡最佳影片獎。”

【4】got used to doing…習(xí)慣于某事；the center中心；of…的；attention關(guān)注，注意。故這句話意為：他習(xí)慣了成為關(guān)注的焦點/中心。

【5】這篇短文講述了Laurence Kim Peek不平凡的一生，短文最后一段是對整篇文章內(nèi)容的概括，這一段的第一句話Peek was not only an amazing man but also a real Rain Man.“Peek不僅是一個了不起的人，而且是一個真正的雨人”，作為文章的中心句比較合適。