高级英语测试第一册第一学期试题

高级英语第一册第一学期试题

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1.They narrow down their choice and begin the really serious business of beating the prices down.

2.After three days in Japan, the spinal column becomes flexible.

3.Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef.

4.She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm o f one hand, that ―no‖ is a word the world has never learned to

say to her.

5. Hitler was counting on enlisting capitalist and Right Wing sympathies in this country and the U.S.A.

Part two: Replaced the italicized words with specific words that appear in the texts. (10%)

1.We took a general view of the countryside from the top of a hill.

2.The dentist could discover no sign of decay in her teeth.

3.The two judges agreed with each other on the ruling.

4.The army launched a major attack against the rebel town.

5.He was quite unaware of the danger.

6.They have pulled down the slum district.

7.The buyers of the house will pay the deposit next week.

8.He took a long and steady look at the beautiful picture.

9.He threw the coin with a jerk into the air.

10.As you approach the copper-sm ith’ market, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to strike on your ear.

Part Three: Identify the figures of speech employed in the following. (10%) (simile; metaphor; overstatement; understatement; alliteration; repetition; parallel structure; periodic sentence; anticlimax; transferred epithet)

1-5: understatement, simile, metaphor, anti-climax, alliteration

6-10: transferred epithet, overstatement, parallelism/parallel structure, repetition, periodic sentence

1.The prospects of a good catch looked bleak.

2.My skin is like an uncooked barley pancake.

3.She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand.

4.Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known

throughout the world for its----oysters.

5.I felt sick, and ever since then they have been testing and treating me.

6.Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef.

7.…where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second; …

8.We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang.

9.We have but one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose.

10.The past，with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies，flashed away.

Part Four: Translation. (40%)

I. Translate from English to Chinese. (20%)

1. The one I am thinking of particularly is entered by a Gothic-arched gateway of aged brick and stone. You pass from the heat and glare of a big, open square into a cool, dark cavern which extends as far as the eye can see, losing itself in the 高级英语第一册第一学期试题

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2. Each day that I escape death, each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares, I make a new little paper bird, and add it to the others. This way I look at them and congratulate myself on the good fortune that illness has brought me. Because, thanks to it, I have the opportunity to improve my character.

3. The strategic nature of the threat now posed by human civilization to the global environment and the strategic nature of the threat to human civilization now posed by changes in the global environment present us with a similar set of challenges and false hopes.

4. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn’t necessarily need to know . Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.

5. I have only one purpose, the destruction of Hitler, and my life is much simplified thereby. If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.

II. Translate from Chinese to English (20%)

1. 他们决定买那座带有汽车房的房子。

2. 为实现四个现代化, 我们认为有必要学习外国的先进科学技术。

3. 他陷入沉思之中, 没有理会同伴们在谈些什么。

4. 这件事长期以来一直使我放心不下。

5. 这件衬衣与裙子的颜色和样式都不相配。

6. 他们的生活方式可以追溯到一千多年前他们祖先所开创的古老传统。

7. 我不记得他是怎么说的, 但我肯定他讲话的大意是那样的。

8. 他企图尽一切办法掩盖事实的真相。

9. 客人们对受到的热情接待感到过意不去。

10. 我知道你是南方人, 一听你的口音就知道了。

Part Five: Read each passage and answer all the questions that follow the passage on your answer sheet. (30%) Passage 1

Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of which is partly to designate things or processes which have no names in ordinary English, and partly to secure greater exactness in nomenclature.

Such special dialects, or jargons, are necessary in technical discussion of any kind. Being universally understood by the devotees of the particular science or art, they have the precision of a mathematical formula. Besides, they save time, for it is much more economical to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very properly included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather on the outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders.

Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts and other vocations, such as farming and fishing, that have occupied great numbers of men from remote tines, the technical vocabulary is very old. It consists largely of native words, or of borrowed words that have worked themselves into the very fiber of our language. Hence, though highly technical in many particulars, these vocabularies are more familiar in sound, and more generally understood, than most other technicalities. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity, and philosophy have also, in their older strata, become pretty familiar to cultivated persons, and have contributed much to the popular vocabulary. Yet, every vocation still possesses a large body of technical terms that remain essentially foreign, even to educated speech. And the proportion has been much increased in the last fifty years, particularly in the various departments of natural and political science and in the mechanic arts. Here new terms are coined with the greatest freedom, and abandoned with indifference when they have served their turn. Most of the new coinages are confined to special discussions and seldom get into general literature or conversation. Yet, no profession is nowadays, as all professions once were, a closed guild. The lawyer, the physician, the man of science, and the cleric associates freely with his fellow creatures, and does not meet them in a merely professional way.

Furthermore, what is called popular science makes everybody acquainted with modern views and recent discoveries. Any important

experiment, though made in a remote or provincial laboratory, is at once reported in the newspapers, and everybody is soon talking about

it—as in the

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taking up new technical terms and making them commonplace.

1. The author’s main purpose in the passage is to ____.

A. describe a phenomenon.

B. argue a belief.

C. propose a solution.

D. stimulate action.

2. When the author refers to profession as no longer being ―closed guilds‖, he means that ____.

A. it is much easier to become a professional today than it was in the past.

B. there is more social intercourse between professional and others.

C. popular science has told their secrets to the world.

D. anyone can now understand anything in a profession.

3. If the author of the passage wishes to study a new field, he would probably______.

A. call in a dictionary expert.

B. become easily discouraged.

C. look to the histories of the words in the new field.

D. pay careful attention to the new field’s technical vocabulary.

4. The writer of this article was probably a(n)_____.

A.linguist.

B. attorney.

C. scientist.

D. politician.

5. It seems that the passage implies _____.

A.the English language is always becoming larger and larger.

B.The words of the English language are always changing.

C.One can never be sure of what a word means without consulting an expert.

D.Technical terms in most non—scientific fields have little chance of becoming part of the main body of the

language in these scientific days.

Passage 2

There is confused notion in the minds of many persons, that the gathering of the property of the poor into the hands of the rich does no ultimate harm, since in whoever hands it may be, it must be spent at last, and thus, they think, return to the poor again. This fallacy has been again and again exposed; but granting the plea true, the same apology may, of course, be made for blackmail, or any other form of robbery. It might be (though practically it never is) as advantageous for the nation that the robber should have the spending of the money he extorts, as that the person robbed should have spent it. But this is no excuse for the theft. If I were to put a turnpike on the road where it passes my own gate, and endeavor to extract a shilling from every passenger, the public would soon do away with my own gate, without listening to any pleas on my part that it was as advantageous to them, in the end, that I should spend their shillings, as that they themselves should. But if, instead of outfacing them with a turnpike, I can only persuade them to come in and buy stones, or old iron, or any other useless thing, out of my ground, I may rob them to the same extent and, moreover, be thanked as a public benefactor and promoter of commercial prosperity. And this main question for the poor of England—for the poor of all countries—is wholly omitted in every treatise on the subject of wealth. Even the laborers themselves regard the operation of capital regarded only in its effect on their immediate

interests, never in the far more terrific power of –its appointment of the kind and the object of labor. It matters little, ultimately, how much a laborer is paid for making anything, but it matters fearfully what the thing is which he is compelled to make. If his labor is so ordered as to produce food, fresh air, and fresh water, no matter that his wages are low; the food and the fresh air and water will be at last there, and he will at last get them. But if he is paid to destroy food and fresh air, or to produce iron bars instead of them, the food and air will finally not be there, and he will not get them, to his great and final inconven conclusively, in political as in household economy, the great question is, not so much what money you have in your pocket, as what you will buy it and do with it.

6. We may infer that the author probably lived in the____.

A.1960’s in the United States.

B.early days of British industrialization.

C.18th—century France.

D.Golden Age of Greece.

7. It can be inferred that the author probably favors____.

A.capitalism.

B. totalitarianism.

C. socialism.

D. anarchism.

8. According to the passage, the individual should be particularly concerned with____.

A.how much wealth he can accumulate.

B.the acquisition of land property rather than money.

C.charging the customer a fair price.

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D.the quality of goods which he put chases with his funds.

9. The passage implies that____.

A.―A stitch in time saves nine.‖

B. ―It is better late than never.‖

C. ―He who steals my purse steals trash.‖

D. ―All’s well that ends well.‖

10. It can be inferred that in regard to the accumulation of wealth the author____.

A.equates the rich with the thief.

B.indicates that there are few honest businessmen.

C.condones some dishonesty in business dealings.

D.believes destruction of property is good because it creates consumer demand

Passage 3

In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart. They do not talk of her a great deal, to be sure; life goes on and we live in the present. But when they do mention her name it is with a gentle glow in the face or the voice, a confidential glance which says: ― Yes, you, too, remember?‖ They still see her as a slight figure always in motion; dancing or skating, or walking swiftly with intense direction, like a bird flying home.

When there is a heavy snowfall, the older people look out of their windows and remember how Lucy used to come darting throughout just such storms, her muff against her cheek, not shrinking, but giving her body to the wing as if she were catching step with it. And in the heat of summer she came just as swiftly down the long shaded sidewalks and across the open squares blistering in the sun. In the breathless glare of August noons, when the horses hung their heads and the workmen ― took it slow,‖ she never took it slow. Gold, she used to say, made her feel more alive; heat must have had the same effect.

11. The townspeople of Haverford are

A. observant and kindly.

B. unused to weather extremes.

C. introverted and sullen.

D. gossipy and mean-spirited.

12. The narrator’s perspective indicated that Lucy was probably

A. a town misfit.

B. scholarly and snobbish.

C. dead at a young age.

D. most comfortable in the city.

13. Lucy’s response to the weather might be described as

A. ordinary.

B. conspicuous.

C. inconsistent.

D. morose.

Passage 4

Thirty y ears ago I turned on my family’s black-and-white console TV to watch as orchestra conductor nearly as hyperactive as I was performing the magic trick of conjuring images out of melody, of churning emotions out of dissonance. The man gestured grandly with his baton to the horn section, a wavy black forelock dropped over his forehead, and three horn players sounded out a theme. ―What character is that?‖ he asked. ―The wolf!‖ the audience of children responded noisily. Repeating the procedure, the man signaled the oboe, the flute, the clarinet and the drums, to which the kids answered instantly: ― Duck! … Bird! …Cat! …Hunters!‖ ―Wait, I leaf out the most important one, ― the conductor said, and with the violin, the kids shrieked out ―Peter!‖ and I chimed in wit h them. Rocking his arms jauntily as Peter’s theme played on, Leonard Bernstein had won yet another concert. It was my first taste of symphonic music, nearly my first hint that there was a world larger, more sophisticated and splendid than my own. For me, and all the rest of the children from the hinterlands intently watching those Young People’s Concerts, the air became slightly more rarefied with possibility. If I had had any idea at the time what an aura was, I would have recognized the one hovering around Carnegie Hall.

14. We can tell from the passage that as a child the author

A. was quite and placid.

B. was addicted to T.V.

C. lived in a big city.

D. was sensitive and imaginative.

15. In the author’s opinion, Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts were

A. revelatory.

B. enervating.

C. compulsory.

D. daunting.

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Part one: Paraphrase. (10%)

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Part two: Replaced the italicized words with specific words that appear in the texts. (10%)

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Part Three: Identify the figures of speech employed in the following. (10%)

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Part Four: Translation. (40%)

I. From English into Chinese. (20%)

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II. From Chinese into English. (15%)

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Part Five: Read each passage and answer all the questions that follow the passage on your answer sheet. (30%)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

参考答案

Part one (10%)

1. They drop some of items that they don’t really want and begin to bargain seriously for a low price.

2. After three days in Japan one gets quite used to bowing to people as a ritual to show gratitude.

3. Bit by bit trees in the rain forest are felled and the land is cleared and turned into pasture where cattle can be raised quickly and slaughtered and the beef can be used in hamburgers.

4. She thinks that her sister has a firm control of her life. She could always have anything she wanted.

5. Hitler was hoping that if he attacked Russia, he could win in Britain and the U.S. the support of those who were enemies of communism. Part two (10%)

1-5: surveyed, detect, concurred, assault, oblivious 6-10: demolished, purchasers, gazed, flipped, impinge

Part three (10%)

1-5: understatement, simile, metaphor, anti-climax, alliteration

6-10: transferred epithet, overstatement, parallelism/parallel structure, repetition, periodic sentence

Part Four (40%)

I. (20%) 1. 我要说的这个市场，是从歌特式的拱形门洞进入，门洞的砖石由于年深日久而显古旧。你从巨大的露天广场的炎热而耀眼的阳光中一下走进了阴凉而昏暗的洞穴。市场一眼望不到头，消失在远处的阴影里。

2. ―我每多活一天，多收一天罪，也就是距脱离苦海的日子近一天。每过这样一天，我就做一只新的纸鸟，放到那一堆纸鸟中去，我看着这些小鸟，并庆幸疾病给我带来的好运气。因为疾病磨练了我的性格。

3. 当前人类文明对全球环境威胁的战略实质以及全球环境对人类文明威胁的战略实质向我们提出了一系列相同的挑战和不正确的期望。

4. 他对我们灌输一大堆编造的事物以及我们不需要掌握的知识。他严肃地强迫我们听他读书，又正好在我们两人像傻瓜一样，看上去似懂非懂的时刻把我们挥之而去。

5. 我只有一个目标：摧毁希特勒。这样一来，我对各种事物的态度就容易得多。如果希特勒入侵地狱，我至少要在下院替魔鬼说几句好话。

II. (20%)

1. They decided to buy that house with a garage attached.

2. To achieve the four modernizations, we make a point of learning from the advanced science and technology of other countries.

3. He was so deep in thought that he was oblivious of what his friends were talking about.

4. I have had the matter on my mind for a long time.

5. This blouse doesn’t match the color or the style of the skirt.

6. Their way of life could be traced to the ancient traditions handed down to them by their ancestors more than one thousand years ago.

7. I don’ remember his exact words, but I’m sure he did say something to that effect.

8. He tried every means to conceal the fact.

9. The guests were overwhelmed by the warm reception.

10. I know you are from the South. You accent has betrayed you.

Part five (30%)

1-5: ABDAB 6-10: BCDDA 11-15: ACBDA