《综合英语四》模拟试卷二

《综合英语四》模拟试卷二

考试形式：闭卷考试时间：120分钟

I.Multiple Choice (20%)

Directions: Each problem below consists of a sentence in which one word or phrase is omitted. Four words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), (D), are given beneath the sentence. You are to choose the ONE word or phrase that will best complete the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the problem and mark your answer.

1 Heat often ____ pain.

A. gleams

B. blinks

C. alleviates

D. quivers

2 In California alone there are about half a million ____ laborers from Mexico to

pick grapes in every fall.

A. transient

B. transferable

C. unworthy

D. unacceptable

3 The market ____ of the last few weeks have shaken the world.

A. situations

B. magnanimities

C. consanguinities

D. convulsions

4 The _____ Earth, as one might say, beat like the heart of Man

A. variable

B. antiquated

C. hierarchical

D. laud

5 I gave my assent ____ the plan.

A. for

B. to

C. with

D. on

6 The air is ____ by a smell of smoking.

A. pervaded

B. exhorted

C. glued

D. inversed

7 Bill failed to ____ the scene as it was described, even though it was not a hard

job,.

A. uprear

B. scuffle

C. gape

D. visualize

8 The dean insisted that this violence be just a family matter beyond the

school's____.

A. institution

B. constitution C jurisdiction. D. jurisprudence

9 Don't be so ____ ; I'm not telling you what I've promised not to say.

A. inquisitive

B. ineligible

C. explicable

D. unwieldy

10 They want to sit apart and ____ or something, and the plot is concerned at their

lack of public spirit.

A. disclaim

B. brood

C. confess

D. illumine

11 All of them claim ____ dignity as individuals.

A. unintelligible

B. unavailable

C. unalienable

D. unobservable

12 The principal did not understand why they put up ____ resistance to his

proposal.

A. lumpy

B. lucid

C. lubricate

D. stout

13 Don’t you recognize this is a ____ punishment?

A. pretended

B. inestimable

C. sufferable

D. tyranny

14 In our own day, gross ____ upon the liberty of private life were a common

phenomenon.

A. appropriations

B. dissolutions

C. desolations

D. usurpations

15 Tess felt ____ to object her father’s decision.

A. jerked

B. stranded

C. contained

D. constrained

16 In private, I gave them my ____ opinion.

A. candid

B. open

C. kindred

D. undistinguished

17 Before the other consultants could muster a ____ response, Townsend glanced

at his watch and said that he had to get back to the conference room for the evening presentation.

A. coherent

B. doctorate

C. deductible

D. rumple

18 Subconsciously perhaps, she rallied by convincing herself that with gentle and

persistent prodding of her students' minds she could extract from them substance for good essays and ____ for her belief in their capacity to think.

A. anthropology

B. crotch

C. sustenance

D. finale

19 The municipal government ____ to improve the quality of life in the inner city.

A. petitioned

B. dissolved

C. endeavored

D. conjured

20 There is not the least ____ of truth in his account of what happened.

A. palpitate

B. sinister look

C. avalanche

D. element

II. Proofreading and error Correction (10%)

Directions: In this part, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Copy the mistakes and put the corrections on the answer sheet. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank on the answer sheet. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧)

in the right place and write the missing word in the blank on the answer sheet. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank on the answer sheet.

1______ 2______ 3______

4______ 5______ 6______ 7______

8______ 9______ 10_____ The picturesque village of Alkmaar, at the northwest coast of Holland facing the North Sea, is a popular tourist attraction, but there is a quarter in the eastern section that tourists seldom visit. Jeff Stevens vacationed there several times with a stewardess from KLM who had taught him the language. He remembered the area well, a place which the residents minded their own business and were not unduly curious about visitors. It was a perfect place to hide out.

Jeff's first impulse had been to rush Tracy to a hospital, but that was more dangerous. It was also risky for her to remain in Amsterdam a minute long. He had wrapped her in blankets and carried her out to the car, there she had remained unconscious during the drive to Alkmaar. Her pulse was erratic and her breathing shallow.

In Alkmaar, Jeff checked for a small inn. The innkeeper watched curiously as Jeff carried Tracy upstairs to her room.

"We're honeymooners," Jeff explained. "My wife became ill -- a slight respiratory disturbance. She needed rest."

"Would you like a doctor?"

Jeff was not certain the answer himself. "I'll let you know."

The first thing he had to do was try to bring down Tracy's fever. Jeff lowered her onto the large double bed in the room and began to strip off with her clothes, sodden with perspiration. He held her up in a sitting position and lifted her dress over her head. Shoes next, then pantyhose. Her body was hot to the touch. Jeff wet a towel with cool water and gently bathed her from head to foot. He covered her with a blanket and sat at the bedside listening to her uneven breathing.

III. Paraphrase (10%)

Directions: Paraphrase the following sentences or the underlined parts of the sentences and write your restatements next to the number of the problem on your answer sheet.

1. Behind the inevitable thick-lensed spectacles glared beady porcine eyes whose sole purpose, it seems, was to seek out ne'er-do-wells and inflict on them stinging lashes of shame and guilt.

2.The teaching of writing, of good writing, is the teaching of thinking -- not thinking presented in a general, abstracted, grandiose way, but thinking applied to the individual mind.

3 Jukes was as ready a man as any half-dozen young mates that may be caught by casting a net upon the waters.

4 The men on board did not count, and the ship could not last.

5 We have already decided that Aristotle is wrong, and now we must face the consequences of disagreeing with him.

IV. Translation (10%)

Directions: Translate the following into Chinese and write your translation next to the number of the problem on your answer sheet.

1 The Ritz Hotel, on the Plaza de la Lealtad in Madrid, is considered the best hotel

in Spain, and for more than a century it has housed and fed monarchs from a dozen European countries. Presidents, dictators, and billionaires have slept there. Tracy had heard so much about the Ritz that the reality was a disappointment. The lobby was faded and seedy-looking.

2 The assistant manager escorted her to the suite she had requested, 411-412, in

the south wing of the hotel on Calle Felipe V.

"I trust this will be satisfactory, Miss Whitney."

3 Tracy walked over to the window and looked out. Directly below, across the

street, was the Prado Museum. "This will do nicely, thank you."

The suite was filled with the blaring sounds of the heavy traffic from the streets below, but it had what she wanted: a bird's-eye view of the Prado.

4 Tracy ordered a light dinner in her room and retired early. When she got into the

bed, she decided that trying to sleep in it had to be a modern form of medieval torture.

5 At midnight a detective stationed in the lobby was relieved by a colleague. "She

hasn't left her room. I think she's settled in for the night."

V. Translation (30%)

Directions: Translate the following into English by using the words given and write your English sentences next to the number of the problem on your answer sheet.

1. 富裕和声望使他自命不凡，别人便再也不喜欢他了。

2. 人们一定的行为举止是由他们的社会价值观念造成的。

3. 我原先据理反对的那个计划，结果非常成功。

4. 这幢楼房很坚固，即使有地震也不要紧。

5. 他很坦率地承认了自己的错误，这对于提高他的声望很起作用。

6. 1997年，金梅英从单位下岗，成为失业人员，在先后尝试着做过保险业推销员，开过家电维修店等都不理想后，金梅英参加了政府为失业人员举办的创业培训班。

7. 培训班结束后，针对自己的优势，金梅英决定开家文具店。

8. 从了解市场需求、进货售货到当老板都由她一人包办。

9. 为了使自己的货物更贴近消费者，她一边干一边学，想方设法了解中小学生对各类文具的需求，对款式、价格的接受度，了解周边地区居民的消费水平，有针对性的进货，使文具店的经营情况越来越好。

10. 在获取利润的同时，她不忘回报社会，逢年过节，主动向所在社区的孤老及困难户捐助钱物。并免费赠送文具给小区内生活困难的学生，她说：知恩图报是做人的基本素质。

VI. Cloze (20%)

Directions: In this section, you will be given a reading passage in which twenty words are omitted on a numbered space. Read the passage carefully and then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the problem and WRITE DOWN THE EXACT CORRECT WORD that is not only suitable for that sentence but also coherent for the whole passage.

On Paulus Potter Straat in Coster, Tracy and Jeff were approaching the Nederlands Diamond-Cutting Factory. Jeff wore a beard and mustache, and had altered the shape

____(1)____ his cheeks and nose with foam sponges. He was dressed in ____(2)____ sport outfit and carried a rucksack. Tracy wore a black wig, ____(3)____ maternity dress and padding, heavy makeup, and dark sunglasses. She carried ____(4)____ large briefcase and a round package wrapped in brown paper. The ____(5)____ of them entered the reception room and joined a busload of ____(6)____ listening to a guide. "...and now, if you will follow me,

____(7)____ and gentlemen, you will see our diamond cutters at work and ____(8)____ an opportunity to purchase some of our fine diamonds."

With the ____(9)____ leading the way, the crowd entered the doors that led inside

____(10)____ factory. Tracy moved along with them, while Jeff lingered behind. When

____(11)____ others had gone, Jeff turned and hurried down a flight of ____(12)____ that led to a basement. He opened his rucksack and took ____(13)____ a pair of oil-stained coveralls and a small box of tools. ____(14)____ donned the coveralls, walked over to the fuse box, and looked ____(15)____ his watch.

Upstairs, Tracy stayed with the group as it moved ____(16)____ room to room while the guide showed them the various processes ____(17)____ went into making polished gems out of raw diamonds. From time ____(18)____ time Tracy glanced at her watch. The tour was five minutes ____(19)____ schedule. She wished the guide would move faster.

At last, as ____(20)____ tour ended, they reached the display room.

The guide walked over to the roped-off pedestal.