《英语专业学业测试(5级)》严格按照《英语专业教学大纲》的要求,设计了具有针对性的专项练习。后来在2005年又根据新版大纲的要求,修订改编了本习题集;但是本习题集依然保持原来的主旨:为全国高等院校英语专业三、四年级学生或者具有相当水平的学员提供一个平台,检测他们自己的英语水平,提高英语的实践能力和应试能力。《英语专业学业测试(5级)》是根据编者在复旦大学外文学院多年来讲授英语专业高年级各类课程的经验和编写相关书籍的经验编写而成,书中题型多样,有听力理解、校对改错、阅读理解、翻译与写作,以及一项有关句型转换的练习。书中附有两套模拟试卷,其测试的水平相当于英语专业五级或者英语专业三、四年级的程度。 英语专业学业测试-5级_何兆熊,方志平_上海外语教育出版社_

The novel cuts back and forth, from the small Pennsylvania college town where Martin and his wife, Lauren, work as professors to England where Elizabeth's illness takes a turn for the worse, alternating between a Cheeversque examination of Martin's daily, domestic life and Elizabeth's confrontation with her illness. Martin becomes more and more distraught by his
sister's situation while Elizabeth does her best to come to terms with what her body and mind are going through:
"You keep trying, is what you do. You listen to the numbers when they're good, and ignore them when they're bad ... You lie to yourself. You tell yourself the truth. You will wake unrested and hoping to discover that it's all been a dream, just a mistake, just a nightmare. The sleep around the dream is as shallow as the bed you are in, and you wake almost disappointed to find that you are still alive and that you haven't arrived at some new, daring, dazzling, endless world. "
Such probing passages, and there are several, distinguish Leebron as a novelist of great power and emotion. He's able to inhabit the consciousness of the sufferer and the person who must helplessly watch. As previously mentioned, there are echoes of Cheever in In the Middle of All This, but also Richard Yates, John Updike-those anatomists of American middle-class life who, like Leebron, sense a sadness lurking behind almost everything.
Little more than halfway through, however, the novel unfortunately stalls somewhat. A series of mysterious disappearances occur - first Richard, then both Richard and Elizabeth- and Martin starts racking up frequent-flyer miles. He arrives in England, he returns home, then he's back in England drunkenly navigating the streets of London in search of a pub. All this transatlantic crisscrossing slows down the narrative and disrupts the pacing.
Leebron also layers on the levels of escalating turmoil a bit too thick at times, as if testing his characters to see how much drama they can endure. Besides the omnipresent health crises, something always seems to be breaking down at Martin and Lauren's newly purchased house. Meanwhile, over at the college, a colleague leaves his wife and one of Martin's students commits suicide. This steady stream of unrest is, of course, reflected in the rather uninspired title "Life in the middle of all this? Life was the middle of all this", which Leebron references not once but twice.
Although the decision to have a major character like Elizabeth remain AWOL for the last
100 pages is questionable, In the Middle of All This nevertheless retains its impact as a poignant work about the fragility of life and the certainty of death - a-terrible cliche, perhaps, but not when in the hands of a writer like Leebron.
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PART ONE PRACTICE EXERCISES
Ⅰ LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Section A Talks
Section B Conversations
Section C News Broadcast
Section D Note-taking & Gap-filling
Ⅱ PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION
Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION
Section A Close Reading
Section B Fast Reading
Ⅳ SENTENCE RECASTING
Ⅴ TRANSLATION
Section A Chinese to English
Section B English to Chinese
Ⅵ WRITING
PART TWO SAMPLE TESTS
SAMPLE TEST 1
SAMPLE TEST 2
APPENDICES
Ⅰ KEY TO PRACTICE EXERCISES AND SAMPLE TESTS
Ⅱ TRANSCRIPTS

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