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高级英语(二)试卷A
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Part One
Section A Word Explanation (10%)
1. Something that is _______ is deliberately deceitful, dishonest or untrue.
A. spontaneous B. frenzied C. fraudulent D. stultifying
2. If something ____________ your skin, it cuts it badly and deeply
A. lacerate B. demolish C. scud D. shrink
3. People and animals that are _________ are hostile and unfriendly.
A. inimical B. derelict C. facetious D. aberrant
4. Something that is __________ is so bad or unpleasant that it makes you feel disgust or dismay.
A. appealing B. appalling C. apparent D. appearing
5. If you _________, you travel or move slowly and not in any particular direction.
A. invoke B. meander C. prescribe D. infuse
6. A person who acts without thinking about what they are doing is often called an ____________.
A. automation B. automaton C. automat D. autonomy
7. A __________ is a group of trees that are close together, often because they have been planted in this way.
A. gruff B. grudge C. grovel D. grove
8. If you ________ to something, you mention it in a very indirect way.
A. illustrate B. concoct C. allude D. invoke
9. If a place is ______ by a particular route or method of transport, you are able to reach it by this route or method.
A. accessible B. assessable C. accessable D. acessable
10. If someone has _______ motives or reasons for doing something, they do not
show their motives openly but hide them.
A. hideous B. desultory C. compulsive D. ulterior
Section B
Vocabulary &Structure (10%)
There are 10 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose One answer that best completes the sentence.
11. It ________me to think of all the money we’ve wasted.
A. embattles B. rejoice C. infuriates D. recede
12. If you _____ something, such as food or drink, you reduce its quality or make it weaker, for example by adding water to it.
A. adulterate B. moor C. vaccinate D. sue
13. This terrific movie keeps _________me all the time.
A. fracturing B. modulating C. undermining D. reeling
14. After she said these words , there was a ________pause in their talk.
A. obscene B. unfathomable C. aesthetic D. momentary
15. He is a (an ) _______boy, always insisting on his own rights and opinions.
A. languish B. assertive C. almighty D. tyranny
16. He has always been ______________with fear of unemployment.
A. intoxicated B. exuberant C. indifferent D. obsessed
17. Mr. Wilson is a man totally ________of all humor.
A. indicative B. devoid C. grueling D. enigmatical
18. You will, in fact, find nothing of the sort in Europe ---- _________perhaps in the more putrid parts of England.
A B. therefore C D. save
19. There is no _______motive in work other than the product being made and the processes of its creation.
A B C D. superior
20. To the west of Gulfport ,the town of Pass Christian was virtually __________.
A C D. whipped up
Part Two Reading Comprehension (20%)
Directions: There are 3 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
When I applied under Early Decision to the University of Pennsylvania four years ago, I was motivated by two powerful emotions: ambition and fear. The ambition was to fulfill my lifelong expectation of attending an Ivy League school; the fear was that without the advantage offered by Early Decision, I wouldn’t make the cut. A Penn admissions officer told me that the previous year they had accepted 45 percent of Early Decision applicants and just 29 percent of total applicants. The implication was clear: applying under Early Decision dramatically improves your chances of acceptance. At Brown University, my other favorite, applying early did not confer any advantage. While Brown was my No. 1 choice, Penn was a close second, and I desperately wanted to make sure I got into one of the two.
I applied just before the Nov. 1 deadline, and six weeks later I got my acceptance package. I was thrilled and relieved. While my friends spent winter vacation finishing as many as 18 applications each, I relaxed. On a school trip to France over spring break, I drank wine while everyone else struggled with international calling cards to phone home and find out where they’d been accepted. People cried about getting rejected, or began the difficult and agonizing process of choosing between two or more schools. Strangely, none of this made me feel better about having applied early. It made me feel worse. When a lot of people from my class got into Brown, I wondered if I, too, could have.
Penn sent a discombobulating array of material to incoming freshmen over the summer. As the pile of mail mounted, so did my concerns that I had made the wrong choice. I had been to Penn only one day, in October of my senior year. I realize now I did not know nearly enough about myself or the school. Picking classes was far more arcane than I had expected (or than it would have been at a smaller school). And when I got to the campus, I found that fraternities and sororities were a more noticeable and obnoxious presence than the 30 percent student membership had suggested to me.
It wasn't long before I knew Penn was not right for me and I looked into transferring. For me, it was about more than just changing schools. I wanted to have the traditional application experience I'd missed out on during my first go-round. The only school on my list that allowed transfers during the second semester of freshman year was Wesleyan, so I waited out the whole year, and then applied to Yale, Brown and Wesleyan. I got into Wesleyan. The irony that I could have gotten in sooner, without getting rejected by the other schools, was not lost on me. But I know I made the right decision.
To high-school seniors who want to avoid making the same mistake I did, my advice is simple: don’t apply under Early Decision unless you are absolutely sure that the school is your first choice. And, just as important, don’t let your parents or college-guidance counselor persuades you to apply under Early Decision. They may have their own agenda, or at least their own perception of who you are and what you want. As I discovered, no one can really know what you want better than yourself, and even you may need time to figure out what that is.
21. The main reasons for the author to apply under Early Decision are _______.
A. pride and ambition
B. dream and fear
C. easiness and effort-saving
D. trouble-saving and release
22. It can be inferred from the text that the main advantage of Early Decision is that ______.
A. you can graduate from the high school earlier
B. you don’t worry about the results
C. you needn’t take the entrance examination
D. you’re more likely to be accepted
23. The description of the author’s feelings in Paragraph 2 shows that _______.
A. he is satisfied with his choice
B. there are many advantages of being accepted earlier
C. less effort is needed under Early Decision
D. he is happy with and doubts about his decision
24. We can draw a conclusion from the text that ________.
A. a full consideration is needed before applying
B. students should avoid the short cut
C. a quick decision will do you no good
D. the author shouldn’t apply under Early Decision
25. From the text we can see that the writer seems _________.
A. regretful
B. optimistic
C. gloomy
D. sensitive
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has so come to be taken for granted as a means of solving differences, that it is not even questioned. There are countries where the white man imposes his rule by brute force; there are countries where the black man protests by setting fire to cities and by looting and pillaging. Important people on both sides, who would in other respects, appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue in favor of violence – as if it were a legitimate solution, like any other. What is really frightening, what really fills you with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have made no actual progress at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the recorded history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence never solves a problem but makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the bloodshed, and the suffering mean nothing. No solution ever comes to light the morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder what hit us.
The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions lie are finding it harder and herder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted by their own kind because they advocate such apparently outrageous things as law enforcement. If half the energy that goes into violent acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at cleaning up the slums and ghettos, at improving living-standards and providing education and employment for all, we would have gone a long way to arriving at a solution. Our strength is sapped by having to mop up the mess that violence leaves in its wake. In a well-directed effort, it would not be impossible to fulfill the ideals of a stable social programme. The benefits that can be derived from constructive solutions are everywhere apparent in the world around us. Genuine and lasting solutions are always possible, providing we work within the framework of the law.
Before we can even begin to contemplate peaceful co-existence between the races, we must appreciate each other’s problems. And to do this, we must learn about them: it is a simple exercise in communication, in exchanging information. “Talk, talk, talk,” the advocates of violence say, “all you ever do is talk, and we are none the wiser” It’s rather like the story of the famous barrister who painstakingly explained his case to the judge. After listening to a lengthy argument the judge complained that after all this talk, he was none the wiser. “Possible, my lord,” the barrister replied, “none the wiser, but surely far better informed.” Knowledge is the necessary prerequisite to wisdom: the knowledge that violence creates the evils it pretends to solve.
26. What is the best title for this passage?
A. Advocating Violence.
B. Violence Can Do Nothing to Diminish Race Prejudice.
C. Important People on Both Sides See Violence As a Legitimate Solution.
D. The Instincts of Human Race Are Thirsty for Violence.
27. Recorded history has taught us___________.
A. violence never solves anything.
B. nothing.
C. the bloodshed means nothing.
D. everything.
28. It can be inferred that truly reasonable men___________.
A. can’t get a hearing.
B. are looked down upon.
C. are persecuted.
D. Have difficulty in advocating law enforcement.
29. “He was none the wiser” means__________.
A. he was not at all wise in listening.
B. He was not at all wiser than nothing before.
C. He gains nothing after listening.
D. He makes no sense of the argument.
30. According the author the best way to solve race prejudice is__________.
A. law enforcement.
B. knowledge.
C. nonviolence.
D. Mopping up the violent mess.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry-William Shakespeare-but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights.
The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC’s actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. It’s all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his share of noise - making.
The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus-and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side –don’t usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight -seeing along with their play going. It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall.
The townsfolk don’t see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor traditionally. Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.
Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy. (The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 per cent occupied all year long and this year they’ll do better.) The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low.
It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who are Stratford’s most attractive clientele. They come entirely for the plays, not the sights. They all seem to look alike (though they come from all over) –lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m.
31. From the first two paragraphs, we learn that__________.
A. the townsfolk deny the RSC’s contribution to the town’s revenue
B. the actors of the RSC imitate Shakespeare on and off stage
C. the two branches of the RSC are not on good terms
D. the townsfolk earn little from tourism
32. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that__________.
A. the sightseers cannot visit the Castle and the Palace separately
B. the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers
C. the sightseers do more shopping than the playgoers
D. the playgoers go to no other places in town than the theater
33. By saying “Stratford cries poor traditionally” (Line 2-3, Paragraph 4), the author implies that__________.
A. Stratford cannot afford the expansion projects
B. Stratford has long been in financial difficulties
C. the town is not really short of money
D. the townsfolk used to be poorly paid
34. According to the townsfolk, the RSC deserves no subsidy because__________.
A. ticket prices can be raised to cover the spending
B. the company is financially ill-managed
C. the behavior of the actors is not socially acceptable
D. the theatre attendance is on the rise
35. From the text we can conclude that the author__________.
A. is supportive of both sides
B. favors the townsfolk’s view
C. takes a detached attitude
D. is sympathetic to the RSC.
Passage Four
Questions 35 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one out of every five Americans at work was employed, i. e., worked for somebody else. Today only one out of five is not employed but working for himself. And when fifty years ago “being employed” meant working as a factory labourer or as a farmhand, the employee of today is increasingly a middle-class person with a substantial formal education, holding a professional or management job requiring intellectual and technical skills. Indeed, two things have characterized American society during these last fifty years: middle-class and upper- class employees have been the fastest- growing groups in our working population- growing so fast that the industrial worker, that oldest child of the Industrial Revolution, has been losing in numerical importance despite the ex- pans/on of industrial production.
Yet you will fine little if anything written on what it is to be an employee. You can find a great deal of very dubious advice on how to get a job or how to get a promotion. You can also find a good deal of work in a chosen field, whether it be the mechanist’s trade or bookkeeping (簿记). Every one of these trades requires different skills, sets different standards, and requires a different preparation. Yet they all have employeeship in common. And increasingly, especially in the large business or in government, employeeship is more important to success than the special professional knowledge or skill. Certainly more people fail because they do not know the requirements of being an employee than because they do not adequately possess the skills of their trade; the higher you climb the ladder, the more you get into administrative or executive work, the greater the emphasis on ability to work within the organization rather than on technical abilities or professional knowledge
36. It is implied that fifty years ago__________.
A. eighty percent of American working people were employed in factories
B. twenty percent of American intellectuals were employees
C. the percentage of intellectuals in the total work force was almost the same as that
of industrial workers
D. the percentage of intellectuals working as employees was not so large as that of industrial workers
37. According to the passage, with the development of modern industry,___________.
A. factory labourers will overtake intellectual employees in number
B. there are as many middle -class employees as factory labourers
C. employers have attached great importance to factory labourers
D. the proportion of factory labourers in the total employee population has decreased
38. The word “dubious” (L. 2, Para. 2) most probably means__________.
A. valuable B. useful C. doubtful D. helpful
39. According to the writer, professional knowledge or skill is__________.
A. less important than awareness of being a good employee
B. as important as the ability to deal with public relations
C. more important than employer-employee relations
D. as important as the ability to co-operate with others in the organization
40. From the passage it can be seen that employeeship helps one__________.
A. to be more successful in his career B. to be more specialized in his field
C. to solve technical problems D. to develop his professional skill
Part Three Paraphrase (20%)
Directions: Explain the following sentences in your own words.
41. We can batten down and ride it out.
42. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?
43. They got out of bed on the wrong side is simple not a concern.
44. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.
45. Conversation is not for making a point.
46. There is no split of work and play, or work and culture.
47. It would be best if you imagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion.
48. boy and man , I had been through it often before.
49. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lighting speed.
50. The true intellectuals were far from flattered.
Part Four (25%)
Section A: Point out the figures of speech used in the following sentences: (10%)
A. metaphor B. simile C. alliteration D. antithesis E. synecdoche F. hyperbole
G. metonymy H. personification
51. When the war was over, he laid down the sword and took up the pen. ( )
52. United there is little we cannot do, in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do. ( )
53. Safe in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy, Godforsaken villages of Iowa and Kansas, and the malarious tidewater hamlets of Georgia. ( )
54. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as chemist’s scales, and as penetrating as a scalpel. ( )
55. The fact their marriage may be on the rocks or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. ( )
56. The air of morning was so clear that the snow still crowning the Eighteen Peaks burned with whit-gold fire across the miles of sunlit air, under the dark blue of the sky. ( )
57. That did it. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. ( )
58. The match will soon be over and defeat is staring us in the face. ( )
59. I also see the dull, drill, docile, brutish masses of Hun soldiers plodding on. ( )
60. I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling, hollow-eyed hulk. ( )
Section B Translate the following sentences into Chinese (15%)
61. We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
62. The charm of conversation is that it does not really start from anywhere, and no one has any idea it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.
63. Most of all, he hates himself, because he sees his life passing by, without making any sense beyond the momentary intoxication of success.
. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
65. Flaming diatribes poured from their pens denouncing the materialism and what they considered to be the cultural boobery of our society.
Part Five Writing (15%)
Directions: In a year’s time you are going to graduate from university. How do you think your college years have prepared you for your future life? Write an essay of about 300 words on the following topic:
What I have learned from my years at university
In the first part of your essay you should state dearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.
高级英语(二)试卷A答案
Part One
1-5 CAABB
6-10 BDCAD
11-15 CAADB
16-20 DBDCC
Part Two
21-25 BDDAA
26-30 BBDCA
31-35 ABCDD
36-40 DDCAA
Part Three
1. We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.
2. How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack us?
3.It’s not a matter of interest or importance if their marriages are breaking up , or their love affairs have been broken or they are just in a bad temper .
4. Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do .
5. Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our ideas or point of view .
6. Therefore pleasure and work went together; so did the cultural development of the worker go hand in hand with the work he was doing.
7. It would be best if the reader pictures Omelas to himself as his imagination tells him , assuming his imagination will be equal to the task.
8.As a boy later when I was a grown-up man, I had often travelled through the region .
9.Sitting with his leg crossed and with using a very old-fashioned lathe , a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.
10.The true intellectuals who started the revolt against society did not feel pleased or honored by the imitation of their life style by so many people.
Part Four
Section A
51-60 GDEBA ABHCF
Section B :
1. 为维护自由, 使其长存不灭,我们将会不惜付出任何代价,肩负任何重担,迎战一切困难,援助一切朋友,反击一切敌人。
2. 闲谈的引人入胜之处在于它没有事先定好的话题。它时而迂回流淌, 时而奔腾起伏,时而火花四射,时而热情洋溢,话题最终会扯到什么地方去谁也拿不准。
3.但他最为痛恨的是他自己, 因为他眼见自己的有生之年,除了赢利而带来的一时陶醉之外,都在毫无意义的白白流逝。
4.从美国这个大熔炉中产生了 一个新的种族,他们象仇视真理一样地仇视美。
5. 于是他们的笔尖下便喷射出愤怒的火花,猛烈抨击着美国社会中的唯物质主义以及他们所称的文化市侩习气。
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