高级英语新视角学习辅导--配套练习题 1

Test One (Based on Lessons 1-4, Book I)

(120 minutes)

I. Choose the right words to complete the following sentences: (Make changes where it is necessary) (30%)

1. The gardener sells rich to flower growers at $ 3 per kilo. (earth, soil)

2. Y ou have to be down to and learn and practice the basic skills first before becoming an excellent player. (earth, soil)

3. The street is familiar me, but I can‘t recall its name. (to, with)

4. Is she familiar this work? (to, with)

5. It was not at all that Chinese players took away 150 gold medals. (puzzled, surprising)

6. Having his crime, the offender was dealt with leniently. (admit, confess)

7. The detectives advanced in the enemy-occupied area. (careful, cautious)

8. Better not to do it; we must consider the . (outcome, result, consequence)

9. The financial of the firm were very good last year. (outcome, consequence, result)

10. The rewritten sentence is , so it is more difficult to understand than the original. (simplistic, intricate, complicate, complex)

11. The heat and ______ of the summer sun discomfort us all. (brightness, glare)

12. The ______ of the stall-holders crying their wares confused, rather than amazed, the passers-by. (noise, sound, voice, din)

13. The pungent and ______ smells of the spice-market are refreshing, indeed. (strange, exotic)

14. Walking ______, camels are in a sense dear friends of the Arabs. (endless, constant).

15. The horizon is ______ by little hummocks, …where separate sheets collide. (describe, define, determine)

16. Several years ago, scientists ______ that Relativity applies to the universe. (set up, justify, establish)

17. The report has ______ to finance. (relationship, relation)

18. In those years, more often than not, serious troubles ______ when he thought things should go smoothly. (crop up, come up, come along)

19. What surprised the foreigners was the amount of work done ______. (with a style, at hand, by hand, in hand, hand down)

20. The policeman noticed a few furtive and rough–looking guys ______ the department store. (bring together, stick to, hang about)

II. Paraphrase: (10%)

1. As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear.

2. After 3 days in Japan, the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.

3. He moved his finger back in time to the ice of two decades ago.

4. This ongoing revolution has also suddenly accelerated exponentially.

5. She washed us in a river of make-believe.

III. Put the following into Chinese. (20%)

1. Quickly the trickle becomes a flood of glistening linseed oil as the beam sink earthwards, taut and protesting, its creaks blending with the squeaking and rumbling of the grinding-wheels and

the occasional grunts and sighs of the camels.

2. Respectively, the two different schools of thought in this city of oysters would like to preserve

traces of the bomb and get rid of everything, even the monument that was erected at the point of impact.

3. Our relationship to the earth having changed so utterly, we have to see it and understand its

implications. Our challenge is to recognize that the startling images of environmental destruction occurring all over the world have much more in common than their ability to shock and awaken us.

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.

IV. Give a synonym to each of the following words: (20%)

1. purchasers

2. pungent

3. profusion

4. sumptuous

5. bales

6. assignment

7. oblivious

8. incessant

9. agony 10. cataclysm 11. inexorable 12. rendezvous 13. assault

14. simultaneously 15. equilibrium 16. tacky 17. dimwits 18. kinky 19. limousine

20. furtive

V. Put the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. (20%)

1. 徒弟们仔细地观察师傅，然后照着干。(follow)

2. 州长喜欢这些聚会，喜欢与年轻人交往并就各种问题交换意见。(rub)

3. 要预言这场战争的结局，为时过早。(premature)

4. 这笔捐款的来源很难查到。(trace)

5. 体育场上人影子都没有, 运动会一定是延期了。(put)

Key to Test One (Book I)

I. (30%)

1. soil

2. earth

3. to

4. with

5. surprising

6. confessed

7. cautiously

8. consequences

9. results 10. complicated 11. glare 12. din 13. exotic 14. constantly 15. defined 16. established 17. relations 18. cropped up 19. by hand 20. hang about

II. (10%)

1. When one comes near the market, a combination of various sounds begins to strike his or her ear.

2. Staying in Japan for 3 days, one gets quite used to bowing to people as a ritual to show gratitude.

3. Following the ice layers of the core sample, his finger came to the place of the ic e layer formed 20 years ago.

4. This current revolution has also suddenly developed at a doubled or tripled speed.

5. She imposed on us much falsity.

III. (20%)

1. 随着横梁逐渐向地面下降，一滴滴的亚蔴籽油很快汇成闪闪发亮的油流。大梁的吱嘎声和磨轮的轧轧声，以及骆驼偶尔发生的呼噜声、叹息声融合成一片。

2. 在这座牡蛎闻名的城市里有两派截然不同的意见, 一派主张保存原子弹爆炸后留下的痕迹, 而另一派却主张彻底清除一切痕迹, 甚至要拆掉树立在爆炸中心的纪念碑, 他们还要求拆掉原子劫难博物馆.‖

3. 既然人类同地球的关系已经发生了天翻地覆的变化, 我们就必须认识到这种改变, 并了解其全部的内涵。我们面临的挑战是必须认清这样一个事实：全世界范围内，环境被破坏的种种令人惊骇的现象比比皆是，人们已司空见惯、熟视无睹、麻木不仁。

4．她用无穷无尽的谎言、虚伪观念和许多我们根本不必掌握的知识灌输、熏陶我们俩。她认真念书给我们听时，要求我们和她一样一本正经，而当我们像傻瓜一样听得似懂非懂，她却把我们撂在一边，不理不睬。

IV. (20%)

1. buyers

2. sharp/strong

3. abundance/plenty

4. rich and costly

5. big packages

6. duty/task/job

7. unaware

8. continual/endless

9. torture/great pain 10. disaster 11. unalterable 12. meeting 13. attack/destruction 14. meanwhile/at the same time

15. balance 16. shabby/inelegant 17. fools/simpletons 18. tightly curled 19. luxurious car 20. stealthy

V. (20%)

1. The apprentices watched their master carefully and then followed suit.

2. The governor loves such gatherings, where/at which he rubs shoulders with young people and exchange opinions with them on various subjects.

3. It is/would be premature to forecast the outcome of the war.

4. It is very difficult to trace this sum of donation to its source.

5. The sports meet must have been put off, for there is not a soul on the sports ground.

Test Two (Based on Lessons 5-8, Book I)

(150 minutes)

I. Paraphrase: (10%)

1. My life is much simplified thereby.

2. ―It‘s no go, old girl.‖……―That‘s more like it.‖

3. The computer might appear dehumanizing, but the opposite is in fact true.

4. Bits are bits.

5. Where he saw internal memos, someone else saw Beethoven.

6. Say you shoot a video that you think is particularly artsy.

7. Interactivity may widen the gap between the haves and the have-nots, the rich and wired vs. the poor and unplugged.

8. In no area of American life is personal service so precious as in medical care.

9. The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.

10. The German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, are delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.

II. Give a synonym to each of the following words: (20%)

1. Hun

2. theme

3. jockeys

4. cartoon mutant

5. couch-potatoes

6. groovy no-brainer

7. click on 8. rundown 9. feats 10. pointedly 11. formatting 12. read-out 13. high-tail 14. inert 15. terrier 16. hearth and home 17. spectacle 18. techno-chaos 19. in hordes 20. fancy Jaguar

III. Choose the right word to complete each of the following sentences. (Make changes where necessary.) (10%)

automaker, computer, calculate, discreet, discrete, capability,

vacuum tube, silicon chip, appliance, application

1. Students of different levels should be taught .

2. A program is a sequence of instructions prepared for the computer to .

3. use computers to view a prospective new car from any angle.

4. Many office devices very soon.

5. In many industries, design the products the companies sell.

6. The miracle chips can program practically all the household .

7. , transistors, simple integrated circuits and today‘s are the 4 generations of computer evolution.

8. The of computers are increasing at a fantastic rate.

9. The thief tried to sell the stolen bike .

10. The most exciting of the miracle chips are yet to come.

IV. Reading Comprehension. (30%)

(1)

The orangutan (猩猩) is one of the four remaining kinds of manlike apes left in the world today. Orangutans are found only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. They are growing fewer. There is a danger that they may die out. Until the time between the wars, few orangutans were kept in

zoos. Little was known about them. As people came to know their gentle and interesting ways, they became more popular. Every zoo wanted to have some of them, but the number of orangutans in the world was small. After the last war, the natives of Borneo and Sumatra found that they could make a lot of money by catching and selling young orangutans. Fully grown and half-grown orangutans were much too strong to be taken. Unfortunately the only known way of catching the young was to shoot the parents first. This meant that two orangutans were lost to wild life for every one captured. It also meant that fewer orangutans were born. Once captured the young were so badly looked after that at least half of them died. They were usually sold to someone w ho knew little about looking after them.

1. The passage is mainly concerned with _______.

A. the low birth rate of orangutans C. the behavior of orangutans

B. the difficulty in bringing up young D. the threat faced by orangutans

orangutans

2. Orangutans are growing fewer because________.

A. they live only on the islands of Borneo C. nobody knows how to take care of

and Sumatra them

B. zoos are interested in buying them D. they no long bear young ones

3. There were originally________.

A. few orangutans C. orangutans all over the world

B. a large number of orangutans D. four kinds of orangutans in Borneo

and Sumatra

4. Orang-utans are gentle and interesting ________.

A. and also stupid C. but are not easily caught

B. and small in size D. but hard to look after

5. It can be inferred from the passage that __________.

A. young orangutans are more easily to C. zoos are not interested in keeping

be found adult orangutans

B. adult orangutans are more difficult to D. young orangutans are better fit for

catch the life in zoos

(2)

Man's first real invention, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel. All transportation and every machine in the world depend on it. The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most remarkable of all inventions, because there are no wheels in nature ---- no living thing was ever created with wheels. How, then, did man come to invent the wheel? Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the dead body of a heavy animal through the forest on logs more easily than they could carry it. However, the logs themselves weighed a lot. It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker to imagine two thin slices of log connected at their centers by a strong stick. This would roll along just as the logs did and yet be much lighter and easier to handle. Thus the wheel and axle came into being, and with them the first carts.

6. The wheel is important because ________.

A. it was man's first real invention C. every machine depends on it

B. all transportation depends on it D. both B and C

7. The wheel is called ______.

A. simple

B. complicated

C. strange

D. unusual

8. It was remarkable of man to invent the wheel because_______.

A. it led to many other inventions C. there were no wheels in nature

B. man had no use for it then D. it was very complicated

9. This selection says that the first wheel may have been a _______.

A. round piece of stone C. piece of metal

B. heavy log D. slice of log

10. The idea for it may have come from ________.

A. chasing an animal C. watching running animals

B. watching a rolling stone D. rolling the dead body of an animal on logs

(3)

Technology is fast making man obsolete. Shanghai, in addition to its 13 million citizens, is now home to a wide variety of robots. In 1999, Shanghai Jiao Tong University unveiled a robot which can plant and water hundreds of thousands of seeds in a day. This was followed by a series of robots which can examine, clean and repaint the Xupu Bridge. To do the job, these robots have to work 100 meters up in the air. The Research Institute of Jiao Tong University is a principle research base for the robotic industry in Shanghai. Its agricultural robot was developed to promote efficiency and accuracy in seed sowing, and selecting and picking fruit. "Robots are more efficient than men and more flexible than other types of machine," said Lu Tiansheng, head of the institute. "They can work far longer hours, with perfect accuracy and safety." Unlike men, robots never fall ill, get drunk, or show up late for work. They can easily be adapted to perform new tasks. They are capable of performing the most delicate of tasks. Shanghai's robots are nothing like the machines of science fiction, however. "Robots come in a wide variety of shapes," said Lu. "They have various appearances, dictated by the function they perform. Many do look just like regular industrial machinery, but we have one that looks like a dog, and even a set of robots designed to play instruments that look rather like a conventional orchestra." Several of China‘s cities are developing robots, but Shanghai probably leads them all in the variety of robots invented. The city is especially proficient in developing industrial robots capable of performing quite precise operations. This group of machines carries out large scale and often dangerous work. For instance, robots can be used to construct buildings. The 10, 000 ton roof of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, for example, was constructed on the ground and then lifted into place by industrial construction robots. In fact, from the heights of the TV tower to the depths of the ocean, robots are to be found. Around 6,000 meters under the ocean‘s surface, man-made machines salvage sunken vessels and explore new territory. But robotics isn‘t all about brute strength and extreme environments. Shanghai has also embraced the technology of the tiny—nanotechnology—to create miniature robots almost too small to be seen. Nanotechnology has been one of the institute‘s key projects since the mid-1990s, and it is a field that is the focus of world-wide scientific endeavor. Although Shanghai lags behind the West by some years, nanotechnology has been used to construct robots that can travel inside the human body. In medical trials, these have been used to investigate, and in some cases repair, organs and blood vessels. These machines can deliver medicines with great accuracy, and can help to make surgery much less invasive. Even quite delicate operations can be performed. ―Robots for medical treatment have been trialed in some Western countries, and they are expected to be widely used to help doctors in the near future,‖said Lu. ―It‘s important that we know clearly what problems scientists around the world are trying to solve, and the various techniques that they are using to do so,‖ he said. One of the institute‘s latest successes is a mini-helicopter robot. This was a great success at a scientific exhibition held recently in Beijing, where the two-cubic-centimeter

craft surprised viewers by achieving flight with an engine just one millimeter long. This machine entertained people because of its novelty, but robots are now being constructed with that specific purpose in mind. One robot, costing more than 400, 000 yuan (US $ 50, 000), took the form of a lively monkey, and was used to welcome visitors to the Kunming International Horticultural Exhibition. A robotic ―World Cup‖takes place at the institute from time to time. This demonstrates the latest achievements in the development of robotic intelligence. Six 10-centimeter tall robots are divided into two teams and compete with each other on a four-square-meter area in a football game. ―The game shows how intelligent robots distinguish different colors and features, and how they are ale to work in harmony,‖ said Lu. When asked to forecast what lay in the future, Lu said that he expected the robots of the twenty-first century to be able to act as ―guide dogs‖ for the blind, to be able to assist other disabled people, and to be able to perform surgery. Lu said that the institute was co-operating with scientists in Japan, which is one of the world‘s most advanced countries in the field, to develop intelligent robots to offer musical education, and a range of other entertainment. In 1998, Japan exported US$4.7 billion worth of robots. The world robotics market is a lucrative one, growing 25 per cent every year. Lu believes that if China is to keep pace with this, a strong commitment of money to the industry is vital. Lu says that by making more use of robots in everyday life, the general public will better appreciate the advantages they can offer. So if you wonder where the maintenance teams are next time you are crossing the Xupu Bridge, have a look up high ---- and see the future.

Please decide whether the following statements are T(True) or F(False)?

11. The Research Institute of Jiaotong University is Shanghai‘s principle robot production unit. ( )

12. The Research Institute of Jiao Tong University is concerned with developing many different kinds of robot. ( )

13. Shanghai now has 13 million robots in addition to its human inhabitants. ( )

14. The big advantage that robots have over human workers is that they are much more efficient.

( )

15. According to this article, robots look just like those we see in science fiction films. ( )

16. The writer says that Shanghai is the only city doing significant work on robots in China. ( )

17. Shanghai is especially proficient in developing precise instruments. ( )

18. Robots are mainly used for incredibly precise operations. ( )

19. In the field of nanotechnology, China lags behind Japan by some years. ( )

20. Lu Tiansheng forecasts that, in the future, we can expect a strong commitment of money to the industry. ( )

V. Put the following into Chinese. (20%)

1. Simply put, the ultimate promise is a huge amount of information available to anyone at the touch of a button, everything from airline schedule to esoteric scientific journals to video versions of off-off-off Broadway. …… Consumers would be like information ?cowboys‘rounding up data from computer-based archives and info services. …To prevent getting trampled by a stampede of data, viewers will rely on programmed electronic selectors to rope in the subjects in the info corral.

2. Ford Motor Co. now offers buyers of its Mark Vs an option called ?miles to empty‘.…… Public

education, dreary and capricious, may be invested with the inspiriting quality of an Oxford tutorial-from preschool on. …… As the alarm clock burrs, the bedro om curtains swing silently apart, the V enetian blinds snap up and the thermostat boosts the heat to a cozy 70°. The percolator starts burbling; the TV set blinks on ……

3. The house detective‘s piggy eyes surveyed her sardonically from his gross jowled face. His gaze moved on to sweep the spacious, well-appointed room, encompassing the Duke who faced them uncertainly. Ogilvie lowered the level of his incongruous falsetto voice. ―Y our high-an‘-mightiness, this city‘s burnin‘ mad. When they find who done that last night, killed that kid an‘its mother, then high-tailed it, they‘ll throw the book, and never mind who it hits, or whether they got fancy titles neither.‖

4. Behind all this glare, behind all this storm, I see the small group of villains plan, organize and launch this cataract of horrors upon mankind. …… If Hitler imagines that his attack on Soviet Russia will cause the slightest divergence of aims or slackening of effort in the great democracies who are resolved upon his doom, he is woefully mistaken. …… The Russian soldiers stand on the threshold of their native land, guarding the fields their fathers have tilled from time immemorial.

VI. Put the following into English, using the words given in the brackets: (10%)

1.―素质教育‖是目前国内各种教育管理及人材培训部门中最流行的口头禅。（executive suites）

2.各种光盘竭力迎合部分文化消费者的低级趣味以便赚钱。（cater）

3.未来的勘探人员甚至清洁工也离不开微型技术。（indispensable）

4.一听口音就知道这几个高级顾问是戴彩色隐形眼镜并染了头发的“假洋鬼子”。（betray）

5.百分之九十九的在场者被持枪抢劫的恐怖场面吓得惊慌失措。（overwhelm, all but）

Key to Test Two (Book I)

I. (10%)

1. As a result, it is much easier for me to decide on my attitude towards events / my attitude is made much easier.

2. ―I t‘s no use saying that, my wife.‖… ―Y our words are more acceptable.‖

3. Computers seem (to be) human-quality-depriving, but in fact they offer more individual quality.

4. Bits are single digits in a binary number system.

5. Edison imagined that his phonograph could record informal communication in a company but other people thought it could be used to record music.

6. For example, film a video that you think has special artistic pretensions.

7. Interactivity may widen the gap between the rich people/country that have access to the network and the poor ones that cannot afford to use the information highway.

8. Personal service in medical care is the most valuable in American life.

9. He spoke suddenly and very angrily, throwing away all his pretended politeness.

10.The German aggressors, still suffering from many defeats while fighting British air-force, are delighted to find Soviet Russians easier to defeat and destroy.

II. (20%)

1. German soldiers

2. principal idea/subject

3. drivers/horse riders

4. man or animal in a comic strip

5. passive TV viewers

6. modern mental-work saver

7. push the button for…8. summary 9. achievements 10. sharply/directly

11. arrangement/system/layout 12. readable list (on the screen) 13. ran away quickly

14. inactive 15. a small hunting dog 16. home and comforts 17. (painful) sight

18. technological confusion/disorder 19. in large numbers 20. an expensive and luxurious car III. (10%)

1. discretely

2. calculate

3. Automakers

4. will be computerized

5. computers

6. appliances

7. V accum tubes; silicon chips

8. capabilities

9. discreetly 10. applications IV. (30%)

1-5. DBACB; 6-10. DACDD; 11-15. FTFTF; 16-20. FFFFF

V. (20%)

1．简言之，最终的承诺是：只需一按按钮，大量的信息就唾手可得，不论是飞机航班时刻表、深奥的专业科技杂志，还是百老汇戏剧中心最新、最先锋派的戏剧节目。……用户会像“牛仔”一样从以电脑为基础的文档和信息服务器中“圈集”数据信息。为了避免信息量涌入过大而用户茫然不知所措，收视者可依靠已设定好的电子选择器得以脱身进入信息栏和信息库，“套取”他们所需的内容。

2. 福特汽车公司近日向购买其公司制造的大陆牌V型轿车的顾客提供了一种称为“警示用油里程计”的产品。……从学前教育起，美国枯燥乏味、变幻无常的公共教育也会达到像牛津大学导师制度那样令人振奋的质量。同时，医疗服务将会更加精确完善。……闹钟一鸣，卧室的窗帘就轻轻地向两边滑开，百叶窗自动卷起，恒温器将室温升到令人舒适的华氏70度。厨房里的咖啡壶开始汩汩作响，电视频幕一闪而启动，开始播放节目。

3．这个私人侦探满是横肉的脸上一双小小的猪眼睛讥讽地打量了她一番。然后他扫视了一圈这个宽敞、豪华的房间，目光落在不知所措地面对着他们二人的公爵身上。……他降低了与他的身材不相称的假嗓子。“尊贵的阁下。全城都轰动了。他们要查明夜里的事情是谁干的，是谁撞死了那对母女，并且撞后逃之夭夭。不管是谁，也不管他们有多高的头衔，都得绳之以法。

4. 我看到在硝烟迷漫、腥风血雨的背后，一小撮恶徒在密谋、布置并制造了一场威胁全人类的恐怖大灾难……如果希特勒幻想通过人侵苏维埃俄国使那些决心消灭他的伟大的民主国家稍稍转移目标或松懈斗志，那他就大错特错了,并将懊悔不及。……苏联士兵巍然守卫在祖国的边防线, 保卫自古以来祖祖辈辈一直辛勤劳作的土地。

VI. (10%)

1. Right now, ―quality and competence education‖is the buzzword in various domestic educational executive suites/administrations as well as talents-tailoring departments.

2. V arious CD makers are trying hard to cater to the low taste of some cultural consumers for the sake of making money.

3. Microtechnology is indispensable for/to the future prospectors, even sanitation workers.

4. The accent of these ―senior experts‖has betrayed that they are only Chinese cheaters with blond-dyed hair and wearing color contact-lenses.

5. All but 1% of the people present were overwhelmed by the terrifying spectacle of armed robbery.

Test Three (Based on Lessons 9-12, Book I)

(120 minutes)

I. Paraphrase: (20%)

1. Her face seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter.

2. She existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence.

3. Her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in school work negligible.

4. The old Webster‘s labels ―don’t‖―colloquial‖ and doesn‘t include ―hang on to‖, in this sense, at all.

5. Lexicography, like God, is no respecter of persons.

6. One shop announced: DARWIN IS RIGHT —INSIDE.

7. He is here because ignorance and bigotry are rampant.

8. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied -- a cosmos.

9. Now the gloves came off with biting satire.

10. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.

II. Give the antonyms of the following words. (10%)

1. sorely

2. dreary

3. optimist

4. rebuff

5. colossal

6. sluggish

7. tedious

8. defendant

9. deterioration 10. meticulously

III. Give synonyms of the following word. (20%)

1. lumber

2. halt

3. mistreatment

4. correspondent

5. robust

6. despair

7. squarely

8. sweltering

9. legality 10. exhort

11. yokel 12. elevation 13. extraneous 14. proliferation 15. eradication

16. chink 17. lean-to 18. tax relief 19. sullenly 20. obscenities

IV. Point out the figures of speech used in the following sentences: (10%)

1. It‘s new, neat and nice. ( )

2. …between the much-touted Second International and the much-clouted Third International…( )

3. His purse is not my concern. ( )

4. The case erupted round my head. ( )

5. The trial rocked the world. ( )

6. He mopped his bald dome in silence. ( )

7. Mine is a victorious defeat. ( )

8. He threw a reassuring arm round my shoulder. ( )

9. His pen would prove mightier than his pickax. ( )

10. Bitterness fed on the man. ( )

V. Put the following into Chinese. (30%)

1. ―She‘s not contagious. And it would be company for V anessa.‖ My father said. ―Oh dear, I‘ll bet anything, she has nits in her hair,‖ my mother said in distress. ―For Pete‘s sake,‖ my father said crossly, ―do you suppose Matron would let her stay in the hospital for all the time like that?‖……As an Indian, Piquette was a dead loss.

2. They doubted that ―Lincoln could have modeled his Gettysburg Address‖ on it ---- a concept of how things get written that throws very little light on Lincoln but a great deal on Life. ……The definition raised the Post‘s blood pressure. To some (of whom I‘m one) the omission of the label ―colloquial‖ will seem meritorious, to others a loss.

3. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn‘s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer‘s endless summer of freedom and adventure.……Indeed, ―What a robust people, a nation of thinkers, we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges.‖He suggested that an ingredient was missing in the American ambition.

VI. Put the following into English, using the words given in the brackets. (10%)

1. 这些移民的后裔仍感处于主流文化的边缘，无论在白人社会还是华人社会都格格不入。

(marginalize)

2. 这法规将于9月1日停止生效。(cease, valid)

3. 电报转达了党中央、国务院对“非典”流行区人民的深切关怀。(convey)

4. 种族隔离虽违法，种族歧视在美国却仍以各种形式存在着。(exist)

5. 这民间故事充分体现了该民族大无畏的精神和勤劳的品质。(find expression in)

Key to Test Three (Book I)

I. (20%)

1. Piquette always had deadly serious facial expressions.

2. I only knew her (Piquette) as a person who would discomfort and embarrass other people.

3. She (Piquette) was absent from classes mostly and not interested in schoolwork.

4. The old Webster‘s dictionary describes ―don’t” as ―oral, spoken,‖ and its definition of ―hang on to‖ doesn‘t include this meaning ---- i.e. keep, retain.

5. Lexicography is a science, and its judgment, like God‘s judgment, cannot be swayed by anybody, no matter what high social position he may occupy.

6. One shop sign reads DARWIN IS RIGHT —INSIDE, a pun meaning Darwin the shop owner is directly inside and Darwin, the naturalist, is completely correct.

7. John Scopes is brought here to trial because prejudice (obstinate narrow-mindedness) and lack of knowledge prevail.

8. As a pilot, Mark Twain could meet people of all sorts.

9. Now Mark Twain became mercilessly bitter and satirical.

10. Much as Mark Twain had made the world laugh with his humorous stories, he was himself consumed by bitterness.

II. (10%)

1. slightly

2. cheerful

3. pessimist

4. accept

5. small/tiny

6. energetic/alert

7. interesting 8. plaintiff 9. improvement/amelioration 10. carelessly/rashly

III. (20%)

1. timber

2. stop

3. ill-treatment

4. reporter/journalist

5. healthy

6. desperation

7. fairly/honestly

8. very hot/sharp/scorching

9. lawfulness

10. urge 11. rustic/bumpkin 12. height/altitude 13. extrinsic/irrelevant

14. multiplication 15. extermination 16. fissure/loophole 17. slope-roofed shed

18. tax reduction/exemption 19. glumly/sulkily/surly 20. vulgarities

IV. (10%)

1. alliteration

2. assonance and antithesis

3. metonymy

4. synecdoche

5. hyperbole

6. ridicule

7. oxymoron

8. transferred epithet

9. metonymy

10. personification

V. (30%)

1．“她不会传染别人的。瓦妮莎还会多一个玩伴。‖我的父亲说。.……“天哪！我打赌她的头上肯定有虱子。”我母亲十分苦恼地说，……“看在上帝的份上，”我父亲生气地说，“你认为护士长会让她满头虱子呆在医院里这么长时间吗？”……想通过皮格特这样的印地安人来了解印第安人的情况看来是不可能了。

2．他们认为“林肯在发表葛底斯堡演说时不可能会参考它”。这种观念不能清楚地说明林肯是怎样写作的，但却解释了《生活》杂志上的那些文章是怎样写出来的。……毫无疑问, 这个定义令《邮报》血压升高。……对于有些人（包括我在内）来说，省掉“口语用法”这种语体说明标志的做法是直得赞赏的，对另一些人来说也可能是一大损失。

3. 大多数美国人都把马克·吐温看作一位伟大的作家，他创作了童年永恒的哈克·费恩田园诗般的漫游，以及漫长夏日里自由自在生活的汤姆·索亚历险探奇的故事……的确, “如果我们能偶尔躺下来放松一下，以保持棱角锋利，我们将会成为一个多么生气勃勃而又善于思考的民族啊！”马克·吐温认为, 美国式的理想中缺失一种成分。

VI. (10%)

1. The second generation of the immigrants still feel marginalized by the mainstream culture, belonging neither to the white society nor the Chinese American community.

2. This decree will cease to be valid from September 1st.

3. The cable message conveyed the deepest concern of the Party Central Committee and the State Council for people in the SARS-afflicted areas.

4. Racial discrimination still exists in various forms in the U.S. though racial segregation is against the law.

5. The nation‘s dauntless revolutionary spirit and diligence find full expression in the folktale.

Test Four (Based on Lessons 13-16, Book I)

(150 minutes)

I. Paraphrase: (20%)

1. Britain‘s merchant navy seldom grabs the headlines these days.

2. …route in which Britain has a big stake

3. The estuaries of the world became jammed with the steadily increasing numbers of moth-ball tankers.

4. Gray peace pervaded the wilderness-ringed Argentia Bay.

5. This conference is the changing of the guard.

6. We will be pulling those pins tonight.

7. The Colonel is not too offensively an Empire-builder.

8. Dismissive as Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those living on a less practical plane.

9. We will more than compensate——with spirit!

10. There‘s more to this than a filthy purse string.

II. Give synonyms of the following words:(20%)

1. elbow out

2. be bent on

3. cash in on

4. throw the towel

5. carve one‘s way

6. pipings

7. dress parade

8. surface escort

9. shellacking 10. appointed barges 11. opinionated 12. creed 13. latitude 14. confessional 15. score off

16. Y ea, Nay, Abstain 17. to second it 18. bear the brunt19. crippling taxes 20. infernal

III. Point out the figure used in the sentences:(10%)

1. His is fond of distilled refreshment. ( )

2. Where‘s Rhode Island? ( )

3. How can anyone see you if you insist on standing in Mr. Dickinson’s shadow.

( )

4. Hitler‘s bitten off a big bite this time. ( )

5. They exchanged smiling words. ( )

6. Y ou‘re dry as a bone in your service! ( )

7. I want my fill of beauty before I go. ( )

8. the loneliest, most forbidding spots on earth ( )

9. creaking, slap and hiss of the nature ( )

10. The young moon’s habit is suitable for a virgin. ( )

IV. Reading Comprehension:(30%)

(1)

The science of meteorology (气象学) is concerned with the study of the structure, state, and behavior of the atmosphere. The subject may be approached from several directions, but the scene cannot be fully appreciated from any one point. Different views must be integrated to give a perspective to the whole picture.

One may consider the condition of the atmosphere at a given moment and attempt to predict changes from that condition over a few hours to a few days ahead. This approach is covered by the branch of the science called synoptic meteorology (天气学). Synoptic is the scientific basis of the

technique of weather forecasting by means of the preparation and analysis of weather maps and aerological diagrams. The practical importance of the numerous applications of weather forecasting cannot be overestimated. In serving the needs of shipping, aviation, agriculture, industry, and many other interests and fields of human activity with accurate weather warnings and professional forecast advice, great benefits are reaped in terms of the saving of human life and property and in economic advantages of various kinds. One important purpose of the science of meteorology is constantly to strive, through advanced study and research, to increase our knowledge of the atmosphere with the aim of improving the accuracy of weather forecasts.

The tools needed to advance our knowledge in this way are the disciplines of mathematics and physics applied to solve meteorological problems. The use of these tools forms that branch of the science called dynamic meteorology.

01. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A) The Limitations of Meteorological Forecasting.

B) New Advances in Synoptic Meteorology.

C) Approaches to Science of Meteorology.

D) The Basics of Dynamic Meteorology.

02. The predictions of synoptic meteorologists are directly based on the .

A) application of the physical sciences

B) preparation and study of weather maps

C) anticipated needs of industry

D) observations of commercial airline pilots

03. Which of the following is not referred to by the author as a field whose needs are served by weather forecasting?

A) Transportation. B) Manufacturing. C) Farming. D) Sports.

04. Which of the following statements best describes the organization of the third paragraph of the passage?

A) A procedure is explained and its importance is emphasized.

B) Two contrasting views of a problem are presented.

C) Recent scientific advancements are outlined in order of importance.

D) A problem is examined and possible solutions are given.

05. In the last sentence of Paragraph 3, the phrase ?these tools‘ refers to ______.

A) weather forecasts B) meteorological problems

C) disciplines of mathematics and physics D) economic advantages

(2)

The importance and focus of the interview in the work of the print and broadcast journalist is reflected in several books that have been written on the topic. Most of these books, as well as several chapters, mainly in, but not limited to, journalism and broadcasting handbooks and reporting texts, stress the ―how-to‖ aspects of journalistic interviewing rather than the conceptual aspects of the interview, its context, and implications. Much of the ―how to‖ material is based on personal experiences and general impressions. As we know, in journalism as in other fields, much

can be learned from the systematic study of professional practice. Such study brings together evidence from which broad generalized principles can be developed.

There is, as has been suggested, a growing body of research literature in journalism and broadcasting, but very little significant attention has been devoted to the study of the interview itself. On the other hand, many general texts as well as numerous research articles on interviewing in fields other than journalism have been written. Many of these books and articles present the theoretical and empirical aspects of the interview as well as the training of the interviewers. Unhappily, this plentiful general

literature about interviewing pays little attention to the journalistic interview. The fact that the general literature on interviewing does not deal with the journalistic interview seems to be surprising for two reasons. First, it seems likely that most people in modern Western societies are more familiar, at least in a positive manner, with journalistic interviewing than with any other form of interviewing. Most of us are probably somewhat familiar with the clinical interview, such as that conducted by physicians and psychologists. In these situations the professional person or interviewer is interested in getting information necessary for the diagnosis (诊断) and treatment of the person seeking help. Another familiar situation is the job interview. However, very few of us have actually been interviewed personally by the mass media, particularly by television. And yet, we have a vivid acquaintance with the journalistic interview by virtue of our roles as readers, listeners, and viewers. Even so, true understanding of the journalistic interview, especially television interviews, requires thoughtful analyses and even study, as this book indicates.

06. The main idea of the first paragraph is that .

A) generalized principles for journalistic B) importance should be attached to

interviews are the chief concern for the systematic study of journalistic

writers on journalism interviewing

C) concepts and contextual implications D) personal experiences and general

are of secondary importance to impressions should be excluded from

journalistic interviewing journalistic interviews

07. Much research has been done on interviews in general .

A) so the training of journalistic interviewers has likewise been strengthened

B) though the study of the interviewing techniques hasn‘t received much attention

C) but journalistic interviewing as a specific field has unfortunately been neglected

D) and there has also been a dramatic growth in the study of journalistic interviewing

08. Westerners are familiar with the journalistic interview, .

A) but most of them wish to stay away from it

B) and many of them hope to be interviewed some day

C) and many of them would like to acquire a true understanding of it

D) but most of them may not have been interviewed in person

09. Who is the interviewed in a clinical interview?

A) The patient. B) The physician. C) The journalist. D) The psychologist.

10. The passage is most likely a part of _____.

A) a news article B) a journalistic interview C) a research report D) a preface

(3)

On the night of September 2, 1666, a fire broke out i n a baker‘s shop near Fish Street Hill in London. Before the flames were finally extinguished, nearly the entire city had been reduced to ashes. Over thirteen thousand homes, fifty churches, and numerous public buildings and hospitals were lost in the blaze. For all practical purposes, London was destroyed.

The Great Fire was not seen as a total tragedy, however. The deplorable conditions of the city had been attacked by physicians and humanitarians for years before the fire; thus, with the opportunity clearly presented to create a shining new city, artists and craftsmen from all over England hurried to submit their designs for the rebuilding of London.

Among those who submitted plans was Sir Christopher Wren, one of England‘s leading architects and the Surveyor General of London. The task of rebuilding the city was given to him. Wren realized that the Great Fire would not have been so damaging if the city had been better laid out; broader streets were needed to replace the crooked, narrow alleys overhung with dilapidated (破烂的) wooden houses and shops. He also felt that redesigning the main thoroughfares of London would result in increased and more effective transportation within the city.

Shortly after Wren began working on his first drafts for the rebuilding. King Charles I issued a proclamation prohibiting the construction of any house or shop within the city limits until after the plans were completed. When the plans were unveiled to the citizens of London, however, they were overwhelmingly rejected. The most vocal leaders of the opposition were the landlords, who feared that such a drastic widening of the streets would reduce the amount of land available for development.

Winter was approaching; consequently; it was necessary for the rebuilding to proceed at once. Permission was, therefore, granted for the townspeople and landlords to commence reconstruction of their houses and shops at the sites where they had been before the fire. Had the need for immediate action not been so pressing, some kind of compromise could likely have been reached. This was not to be, however, and the ideas that could have made London one of the world‘s most beautiful cities never came to pass.

11. The probable meaning of ―reduced to ashes‖ (Line 2, Para. 1) is.

A) made unbearably hot B). covered with ashes

C) discolored by the fire and smoke D) destroyed by fire

12. What became of the plans for the rebuilding of London?

A) Nothing--they were never finished.

B) They were adopted in modified form.

C) They were followed and London was rebuilt at once.

D) Nothing—London was rebuilding at once.

13. To whom or what does ―they‖ in the last paragraph refer?

A) The original building sites. B) The townspeople.

C) The burned-down houses and shops. D) The landlords.

14. Which of the following describes the author‘s probable attitude toward Sir Christopher Wren‘s plans?

A) He feels it would have been a B) He feels it was a mistake for

mistake to rebuild London London not to have been rebuilt

according to Wren‘s designs. according to Wren‘s designs.

C) He feels that someone other D) He feels that Wren‘s ideas had much

than Wren should have been more influence than is commonly chosen to plan the rebuilding. acknowledged.

15. Which of the following would be an appropriate title for the passage?

A) The Life and Times of Sir Christopher Wren

B) The Rebuilding of London

C) The Holocaust of Fish Street Hill

D) The London That Might Have Been

V. Put the following into English: (20%)

1. 各级干部毫不例外，都不应滥用职权。(exception)

2. 大楼租约已过期，你必须予以续延。(overdue)

3. 外交官的话里有话，好像在讽刺。(touch)

4. 急诊室的医生护士，每2小时换一次岗。(relieve)

5. 宾主祝酒完毕，乐队开始演奏中国民歌《茉莉花》。(strike up)

6. 世界各国将对恐怖分子及其活动采取更严厉的措施。(sanctions)

7. 美国国会批准了这项条约，使它立即生效。(ratify, force)

8. 只有注意理解词义的细微差别，才能正确运用词汇。(shade)

Key to Test Four (Book I)

I. (20%)

1. Britain‘s merchant fleet is reported very little (in the news) recently.

2. …route where Britain has a big share/interest

3. More and more oil tankers over the world lay idle inside the bays, gulfs and river-mouths.

4. The gray mist and quietness featured the wilderness-ringed Argentia bay.

5. This meeting transfers the world power from London to Washington.

6. We will take those red and blue pins off the chart since these vessels will be no longer on the high sea then.

7. The Colonel is not aggressively disgusting as an imperial officer to the colonies.

8. Haughty/Contemptuous as an extreme puritan, I consider those living an impractical life to be Selenites.

9. We will do better than merely make up for our shortage of manpower ---- with heightened/boosted morale.

10. Y ou‘re only concerned with money, but many things more important than money are involved in this issue.

II. (20%)

1. force/push out

2. be strongly determined

3. take advantage of / make profit from

4. surrender / give up

5. make one‘ way with effort

6. boatswains‘ whistle

7. formally-dressed lines of navymen 8. warship protection on route 9. severe/decisive attack 10. well-equipped motorboats 11. opinionative/stubborn 12. motto/maxim 13. freedom/limitation 14. enclosed place for penance 15. defeat 16. Y es, No, Waive/Refrain 17. to support it 18. suffer the most 19. disabling/extremely high taxes

20. terrible/outrageous

III. (10%)

1. euphemism

2. metonymy

3. innuendo

4. metaphor

5. transferred epithet

6. simile

7. euphemism 8. hyperbole 9. onomatopoeia 10. personification

IV. (30%)

01-05 CBDAC 06-10 BCDAD 11-15 DDCBD

V. (20%)

1. Leaders/Cadres at various levels without exception should not abuse the power in their hands.

2. As the lease of the building is overdue, you must / have got to renew it.

3. There was a touch of irony in the diplomat‘s remark.

4. The doctors and nurses on duty at the emergency room are relieved every two hours.

5. After the toasts by the host and guest, the band struck up a Chinese folk song Jasmine.

6. The nations in the world will apply/take more stringent sanctions against terrorists and terrorisms.

7. The U.S. Congress ratified the treaty, thus bringing it into force at once.

8. Only by paying attention to the shades of meaning of words can you use words the right way.