As more people live closer together, and as they use machines to produce leisure, they find that their leisure, and even their working hours, becomes spoilt by a by-product（副产品）of their machines - namely, noise, Noise is nowadays in the news; it has acquired political status, and public opinion is demanding, more and more insistently, that something be done about it.
To control noise is to demand much self-discipline (annoyance arises often from lack of common courtesy(礼貌), a sense of proportion (there is usually a conflict of interest if a noise is to be stopped), the expenditure(花费) of money (and it is far more economical to do this early rather than late), and finally, technical knowledge.
Techhical difficulties often arise from the subjective-objective(主客观的) nature of the problem. You can define the excessive speed of a motorcar in terms of a pointer reading on a speedometer(里程表), But can you define excessive noise in the same way? You find that with any existing simple “noise-meter”, vehicles, which are judged to be equally noisy, may show considerable difference on the meter.
Though the ideal cure for noise is to stop it at its source, this may in many cases be impossible. The next remedy is to absorb it on its way to the ear.
Domestic noises may perhaps be controlled by forethought(深谋远虑) and coullesy, and industrial noises by good planning and technical improvement. But if we are going to allow fast motorcycles(摩托车) and heavy lorries to pass continuously through residential (住宅的) and business districts, the community must decide on the control it needs to exercise, for in the long run it has got to pay for it. And if a nation is to take part in modern air transport, it must enter into intenational agreements on the noise control measures it will impose on its airports - and here the cost of any real control is to be measured in millions of doltars.
1. According to the first paragraph, noise is _______.
A. inseparable from leisure
B. inseparable from by-product
C. inseparable from working hours
D. inseparable from the advance of our life
2．Noise control demands the following factors except _______.
A. sense of proportion
B. money and technology
C. conflict of interest
D. self-discipline
3．The best way to solve the noise problem is to _______.
A. stop using machines
B. make vehicles soundless
C. put something in your ears
D. prevent it from reaching human ears
4．Domestic noises may perhaps be controlled by ______.
A. good planning and technical improvement
B. preventing fast motorcycles and heavy lorries from passing through residential
districts
C. being considerate and polite
D. signing international ag~ements on the noise control measures
5．It is implied that the solution to noise problem may be
A. money-consuming
C. time-consuming
B. not existing
D. better planning
2、 翻译：将下列各句翻成英文。
1、 由于) (now that)他赚了好多钱(make a lot of money)，（所以）他有能力(be able to…)买了新的轿车。 Unit 1
2我要感谢那些在我处境艰难时(fall on hard days)支持(stick by)我的人。 Unit 1
3. 父母不赞成他和他们没见过面的姑娘到国外学习的计划。（approve of his plan to …）Unit 4
4. 装饰房间时你务必(see to it that … )要使地毯和窗帘相配(match)。Unit 5
5、她看着我好像我是从月球上来的人。 (as if) Unit 7
6. 看在玛丽的份上(for Mary’s sake)，我可以把我的汽车借给你。Unit 8