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　　87 __________(多虧了一系列的新發明), doctors can treat this disease successfully.

　　88 In my sixties, one change I notice is that ______________(我比以前更容易累了).

　　89 I am going to pursue this course, _____________(無論我要作出什么樣的犧牲).

　　90 I would prefer shopping online to shopping in a department store because ____________(它更方便和省時).

　　91 Many Americans live on credit, and their quality of life _______________(用他們能夠借到多少來衡量的), not how much they can earn.

　　08.6

　　87. Our efforts will pay off if the results of this research______ .(能應用于新技術的開發)

　　88. I can’t boot my computer now. Something ____________(一定出了毛病) with its operation system.

　　89. Leaving one’s job, ____________________,(不管是什么工作), is a difficult change even for those who look forward to retiring.

　　90.________________________,(與我成長的地方相比)，this town is more prosperous and exciting.

　　91.__________________(直到他完成使命)did he realize that he was seriously ill.

　　參考答案：

　　07.12

　　87. Thanks to/ because of a series of new inventions

　　88. I have been more likely to get tired than before/ I get tired more easily than before

　　89. no matter at what expense (cost)/ no matter what I have to sacrifice (pay)/ would have to sacrifice (pay)

　　90. the former/ shopping online is more convenient and efficient (time-saving) (can save more time)

　　91. is measured in terms of how much they can borrow

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　　87. can be applied to the development of the new technology.

　　88. must be wrong

　　89. whatever job it is/ no matter what job it is

　　90. Compared with the place where I grew up

　　91. Not until he had finished the mission

　　2009年新四級考試翻譯練習55題及答案

　　1.I have had great deal of trouble______________________________.(跟得上班上的其他同學)

　　2.___________(我們沒有人料到主席會出現) at the party. We thought he was still in hospital.

　　3. A good many proposals were raised by the delegates,________________(正如預料的那樣).

　　4. Most doctors recognize that medicine is as much__________(是一門科學，也是一門藝術).

　　5. Some women ___________________(本來能夠掙一份很好的工資) in a job instead of staying home, but they decided not to work for the sale of the family.

　　6.Over a third of the population was estimated_________(無法獲得) to the health service.

　　7. Although punctual himself, the professor was quite used______________(習慣了學生遲到) his lecture.

　　8. The price of beer____________(從50美分到4美元不等) per liter during the summer season.

　　9.We’d like __________________(預訂一張餐桌) five for dinner this evening.

　　10. There’s a man at the reception desk who seems very angry and I think he means__(想找麻煩).

　　答案：

　　1. keeping up with the rest of the class.

　　2. none of us expected the chairman to turn up

　　3. as was to be expected

　　4. an art as it is a science

　　5. could have made a good salary.

　　6. to have no access

　　7. to students?? being late for

　　8. ranges/varies from 50 cents to $4

　　9. to reserve a table for

　　10. to make trouble