高级英语(上)试卷D试题含答案

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英语专业____级《高级英语（上）》试卷（D）

I. Matching (10%)

Directions: Match the phrases in Column A with the appropriate Chinese explanations in Column B. Write down the letters with corresponding numbers on your ANSWER SHEET.

Column A Column B

1 attribute to A 实行，实现，使生效

2 fall into B 一事无成，无进展

3 put … into effect C 恰当的例子

4 meddle in D 插手，干涉

5 pass for E 归因于

6 a case in point F 落入，陷入，分为

7 get nowhere G 误认为

8 in proper perspective H 强加于

9 let down I 用恰当的观点

10 impose on J 放下，降低，使失望

II. Paraphrase (20%)

Directions: Explain in English the meaning of the underlined words or expressions in each of the following sentences and then write your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

11. Unfortunately, acceptance, the imprecise response packing the least educational punch, gets the most equitable sex distribution in classrooms.

12. Classroom chivalry is not only misplaced; it is detrimental.

13. In a railroad accident a menagerie-tiger, whose cage had broken open, is said to have emerged, but presently crept back again.

14. A practical joker saw a discharged veteran carrying home his dinner.

15. The tiger is said to have emerged, but presently crept back again, as if too much bewildered by his new responsibilities.

16. The relationship is a formal and formalized one for which conventionalities suffice.

17. The construction of our vehicle presupposes a design. 18. This confident attitude, so essential to development of future speaking skill, is very fragile and can be stifled quite early.

19. The lion’s share of the damage is man’s doing.

20. I can guess that you are living on a devastated Earth.

21. Government is supposed to be the way we human beings handle our collective affairs, but we just can’t seem to get the hang of it.

22. As a model of lucid scrutiny of a life’s experience, Maugham’s The Summing-Up is unsurpassed.

23. I have never had to put wet towels round an aching brain in order to excavate the meanings from a poem of Tennyson.

24. Religious groups and those who elevate the status of poverty as they equate money with evil exhort us to live simply.

25. Some, on the other hand, determine to break out of their fettered status and relentlessly strive for their share of the gold.

26. Many fine business ideas go down the drain in this way.

27. They develop skills, become knowledgeable, develop expertise, and work very hard.

28. Jukes had been somewhat taken aback by the startling viciousness of the first squall.

29. Such is the prestige, the privilege, and the burden of command.

30. It unveiled the black figures

of men caught on the bridge, heads forward, as if petrified in the act of butting.

III. Reading Comprehension (30%)

Directions: In this section there are four passages followed by a total of 15 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then write your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

Passage One

You may not have thought of it just this way, but the letter you write is part of you, and expression of your personality. Therefore to write letters that are mere patterns of form is to present a colorless personality.

Letters, by their very nature, are too individual to be standardized. A letter may be absolutely perfect according to the standards of good taste and good form; but unless it also expresses something of the writer’s personality, it is not a good letter.

In other words, don't be satisfied to write letters that are just correct and nothing more. Try to write letters that are correct for you... letters that are warm and alive with reflections of your own personality.

And if this sounds like a platitude (陈词滥调), stop for a moment and think back over your recent correspondence. What was the most interesting letter you received? Was it a letter anyone could have written? Or was it a letter that instantly “came alive”as you read it—that brought the personality of the sender right into the room with you.