“华约”自主招生入学考试模拟试卷一

1J．B。从上文看出，葬礼仪式一般简洁而匆忙，所以这里选brevity“简短，简洁”。
Section Reading
In the following article,some sentences or paragraphs have been removed. For questions 16 to 20, choose the most suitable one from the list A - F tofit into each of the numbered gaps. There is ONE which does notfit in any of the gaps.
9.A. producedB.decoratedC.coloredD.outlined
10. A. accentsB.tonesC.intonationsD.feelings
11- A. concealed away B. concealed againstC.concealed fromD. concealed over
10．B。in hushed tone表示“整个氛围是宁静缄默，低调的”。
11，C。这里考词组搭配。as if it were something furtive，to be concealed from the world意为“似乎这是见不得人的事，需小心掩饰，不为他人知晓”。
12．A。primitive culture指“未受现代下业文明影响的原始文化与下文scientific culture形成对比。
Advance notice is often referred to in America as "lead time," an expression which is significant in a culture where schedules are important. While it is learned informally, most of us are familiar with how it works in our own culture, even though we cannot state the rules technically.16At the most they are known by experience to those who lived abroad for some time. Yet think how important it is to know how much time is required to prepare people, or for them to prepare themselves, for things to come. Sometimes lead time would seem to be very extended. At other times, in the Middle East, any period longer than a week may be too long.
Whether through fear of the emotional depths, or because of a drying up of the sluicesof religious intensity, the American avoids7death or even coming to terms with it; hefinds it morbid and recoils from it, surrounding it with word8(Americans never diethey "pass away") and various taboos of speech and practice. A "funeral parlor" is9totook like a bank; everything in a funeral ceremony is done in hushed10, as if it weresomething furtive, to be11the world; there is so much emphasis on being dignified thatthe ceremony often loses its quality of dignity. In some of the12cultures, there isdifficulty in understanding the causes of death; it seems puzzling and even13. Living ina scientific culture. Americans have a ready enough explanation of how it comes, yet the)show little capacity to come to terms with the fact of death itself and with the grief that14it. "We jubilate over birth and dance at weddings," writes Margaret Mead, "butmore and more hustle the dead off the scene without ceremony, without an opportunity foryoung and old to realize that death is as much a fact of life as is birth." And, one may add,even in its hurry and15, the last stage of an Americans life the last occasion of hisrelation to his society is as standardized as the rest.
3．C。face something或be faced with something表示“面对”，其他几个选项属搭配不当。
4．D。这句话讲美国人不愿意面对死亡，与下面一段提到的忌讳说死亡，在丧礼上低调匆忙相呼应。
5．D。这里需要confront的名词形式confrontation。
6．B。ritual celebration这里是有钱人给葬礼安排的仪式。
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“华约”自主招生入学考试模拟试卷一
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掌握高考自主招生考试中的解题技巧
教学内容
Section Cloze
Choose the most suitable answer to fit into the missing parts.
Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking1of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature from Hawthorneand Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway -- one finds a tragic depth that2thesurfacethinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination. the great writers3problems which the culture in action is4to face the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back-and-forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking5of death in Greek times, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Age. the6celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life.
5.A. confrontB. frontC. affrontD. confrontation
6.A. mannerB. ritualC. normalD. polite
7.A. dwelling withB. dwelling toC. dwelling in D.dwelling on
8.A. avoidanceB. hideC. escapeD. concealing
17After what seemed to him a suitable period he let it be known that he would like to call on the minister who was his counterpart. For various reasons, the suggested time was not suitable; all sorts of cues came back to the effect that the time was not yet ripe to visit the minister. Our friend, however, persisted and forced an appointment, which was reluctantly granted. Arriving a little before the hour (the American respect pattern), hewaited. The hour came and passed; five minutes - ten minutes- fifteen minutes. At this point he suggested to the secretary that perhaps the minister did not know he was waiting in the outer office.18Twenty minutes twenty-five minutes thirty minutes forty-five minutes (the insult period)!