00600高级英语200810试题及答案
高级英语试题
⾼级英语试题⾼级英语00600全国2008年1⽉⾼等教育⾃学考试I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (12 points, 0.5 point for each)As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lesson in living.”She said that I must always be 1 of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some 2 , unable to go to school, were more 3 and even more intelligent than 4 professors. She encouraged me to5 carefully to what country people6 mother wit. When salesmen are doing well, there is7 upon them to begin doing better, for 8 they may start doing worse.When they are doing 9 , they are doing terribly. When a salesman lands a large order or 10in an important new account, 11 elation is brief, for there is danger he might lose that large order or important new account to a salesman 12 a competing company the next time around. The American dream promised older people that if they 13 hard enough all their lives, things would 14 well for them. Today’s elderly were brought up to 15 in pride, self-reliance and independence. Many 16 tough, determined individuals 17 manage to survive against adversity. But even the tough ones reach a 18 where help should be available to them.Another solitary man was fishing further along the canal, 19 Arthur knew that they would leave each other 20 peace, would not even call 21 greetings. No one bothered 22 : you were a hunter, a dreamer, your own 23 , away from it all for a few hours on any day that theII. In this section, there are fifteen sentences taken from the textbooks with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. ( 15 points, 1 point for each )25. They lived, in bitter disillusionment, to see the establishment they had overthrown replaced by a ______ one, just as hard-faced and stuffy.26. Among members of my own party, closed meetings were held to discuss ______ of stopping me.27. No doubt s omebody would have ______ if she hadn’t been there; she was part of the performance, after all.28. All I cared ______ was that she had made tea cookies for me and read to me from her favorite book.29. He sat with his ______ still pressed over his stomach, hiding his watch, but all through the cell you could hear its blunt tick tock tick.30. Give me a restless ______ or two in bed and I can solve, to my own satisfaction, all the doubts of humanity.31. I am not able, and I do not want, completely to ______ the world-view that I acquired in childhood.32. We’re angry about the same things you are ______ policy—a little angrier because our lives were the things used to test those policies.33. I frequently feel I’m being taken advantage of merely ______ I’m asked to do the work I’m paid to do.34. Through the wide doors of the sheds she ______ a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes.35. Persons who do remain at home while ______ ill health have serious difficulties in getting social, medical and psychiatric services brought directly to them.36. What women didn’t seem to realize ______ that there were things you knew but shouldn’t say.37. They execute extraordinarily well, and their proposition to customers is guaranteed low ______ or hassle-free service, or both.38. Standing in front of the flower-stand woman she knew she ______ not have to explain that she wanted to leave them.39. For some reason he smiled at what he saw, and turned ______ some yards along the towpath.III. Each of the following sentences is given two choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. ( 15 points, 1 point for each )40. Mutual coo peration was ______ from the generals’ point of view, because it wasn’t helping them to win the war.A. understandableB. undesirable41. He was much more restless than last night, and, despite sleeping drugs, much more ______.A. awakeB. wakeful42. The marketplace ______ the requirements of advertisers.A. cares forB. caters to43. At first I found the ______ of being unemployed very difficult to cope with.A. stigmaB. ugliness44. Using the right hand to shake hands is a(an) ______.B. convention45. Let’s try and discuss this like two ______ human beings.A. rationalB. fashionable46. Colleges and universities can no longer take ______ the learning that should be occurring on their campuses.A. for grantedB. for pride47. I won’t pay top prices for goods of ______ quality.A. highB. inferior48. I took what he said ______, but afterwards it became clear that he really meant something else.A. literallyB. freely49. John was standing in the doorway in his ______ blue suit.A. brokenB. shabby50. About fifteen minutes later, I managed to secretly ______ the distressed woman from danger.A. rescueB. reserve51. Finally they realized that they must reduce their country’s ______ on imported grain.A. developmentB. dependency52. Susan looked ______, her whole body weak with exhaustion.A. pitifulB. hopeful53. Do you think that marriage between gay couples should be ______ in our country some day?A. realizedB. legalized54. If you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for continuity of the ______ arts, for history—then you have no business being in college.A. beautifulB. fineRead the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding four items IV, V, VI and VII.Waiting as a Way of Life（1）Waiting is a kind of suspended animation, a feeling that one can’t do anything because one is waiting for something to happen. Waiting casts one’s life into a little hell of time. It is a way of being controlled, of being rendered immobile and helpless. One can read a book or sing (odd looks from the others) or chat with strangers if the wait is long enough to begin forming a bond of shared experience, as at a snowed-in airport. But people tend to do their waiting impassively. When the sound system went dead during the campaign debate in 1976, Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter stood in mute suspension for 27 minutes, looking lost.（2）To enforce a wait, of course, is to exert power. To wait is to be powerless. Consider one minor, almost subliminal form. The telephone rings. One picks up the receiver and hears a secretary say,“Please hold for Mr. Green.”One sits for perhaps five seconds, the blood pressure just beginning to cook up toward the red line, when Green comes on the line with a hearty “How are ya?”and business proceeds and the moment passes, Mr. Green having established that he is (subtly) in control, that his time is more precious than his callee’s.（3）Waiting is a form of imprisonment. One is doing time—but why? One is being punished not for an offense of one’s own but often for the inefficiencies of those who impose the wait. Hence the peculiar rage that waits cause, the sense of injustice. Aside from boredom and physical discomfort, the subtler misery of waiting is the knowledge that one’s most precious resource, time, a fraction of one’s life, is being stolen away, irrecoverably lost.（4）Americans have enough miseries of waiting, of course—waits sometimes connected with affluence and leisure.The lines to get a passport in Manhattan last week stretched around the block in Rockefeller Center. Travelers waited four and five hours just to get into bureaucracy’s front door. A Washington Post editorial writer reported a few days ago that the passengers on her 747, diverted to Hartford, Connecticut, on the return flight from Rome asa result of bad weather in New York City, were forced to sit on a runway for seven hours because no customsinspectors were on hand to process them.（5）The great American waits are often democratic enough, like traffic jams. Some of the great waits have been collective, tribal —waiting for the release of the American hostages in Iran, for example. But waiting often makes class distinctions. One of the more depressing things about being poor in America is the endless waiting in welfare or unemployment lines. The waiting rooms of the poor are often in bad conditions, but in fact almost all waiting rooms are spiritless and blank-eyed places where it always feels like 3 in the morning.（6）One of the inestimable advantages of wealth is the immunity that it can purchase from serious waiting. The rich do not wait in long lines to buy groceries or airplane tickets. The help sees to it. The limousine takes the privileged right out onto the tarmac, their shoes barely grazing the ground.（7）People wait when they have no choice or when they believe that the wait is justified by the reward—a concert ticket, say. Waiting has its social orderings, its rules and assumptions. Otherwise peaceful citizens explode when someone cuts into a line that has been waiting a long time. It is unjust; suffering is not being fairly distributed.Oddly, behavioral scientists have found that the strongest protests tend to come from the immediate victims, the people directly behind the line jumpers. People farther down the line complain less or not at all, even though they have been equally penalized by losing a place.（8）Waiting can have a delicious quality (“I can’t wait to see her.”“I can’t wait for the party”), and sometimes the waiting is better than the event awaited. At the other extreme, it can shade into terror: when one waits for a child who is late coming home or—most horribly—has vanished. When anyone has disappeared, in fact, or is missing in action, the ordinary stress of waiting is overlaid with an unbearable anguish of speculation: Alive or dead?（9）Waiting can seem an interval of nonbeing, the blank space between events and the outcomes of desires. It makes time maddeningly elastic: it has a way of seeming to compact eternity into a few hours. Yet its brackets ultimately expand to the largest dimensions. One waits for California to drop into the sea or for the Messiah. All life is a waiting, and perhaps in that sense one should not be too eager for the wait to end. The region that lies on the other side of waiting is eternity.IV. In this section, there are ten incomplete statements, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 155. In the first paragraph, the writer introduces ______.A. how people wait in different situationsB. the great anger of people caused by waitingC. how miserable people feel while waitingD. negative aspects of waiting and some way of coping56. Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter stood in mute suspension when the sound system went dead because they ______.A. wanted to have a restB. didn’t like each otherC. chose to wait that wayD. didn’t know what to say57. The example given in Paragraph 2 shows that ______.A. one can receive an unexpected phone callB. sometimes one is forced to waitC. Mr. Green is too slow to come to the phoneD. a caller is always superior to a callee58. From the passage we get to know that waiting makes people angry because ______.A. they don’t have so much timeB. their time is wasted by strangersC. it is ridiculous for them to waitD. they feel being punished unfairly59. Which of the following statements is true?A. Waits are considered terrible by Americans.B. Waiting is sometimes considered pleasant.C. People wait for different reasons in America.D. Travelers in America are free from waiting.60. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.A. Americans were greatly concerned about the American hostages in IranB. waiting for the American hostages in Iran to be released was greatC. the American hostages in Iran were admired by people at homeD. all Americans were waiting for the American hostages to be released61. We can learn from the passage that ______.A. being poor in America means waiting for various thingsB. in order to get what they want Americans have to waitC. rich people are free from waiting in long lines to buy thingsD. endless waiting depresses Americans more than anything else62. According to the passage, people waiting in a line ______.A. fail to protest against line jumpersB. all hate the line jumpers very muchC. consider line jumping an immoral behaviorD. respond differently to the line jumpers63. It is implied that ______.A. worrying about the result is worse than waitingB. waiting for a missing person is the worst thingC. man y people can’t bear the stress of waitingD. some people would rather wait than know the result64. The author’s tone of the last paragraph is ______.A. sincereB. ironicC. pessimisticD. optimisticV. There is one underlined part in each of the following sentences, followed by four choices marked A, B, C andD. Choose the one that is closest in meaning to the underlined part and write the corresponding letter onyour Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)65. One is doing time—but why?A. passing time carelesslyB. spending time in prisonC. calculating time accuratelyD. enjoying the time lonely66. But waiting often makes class distinctions.A. differencesB. similaritiesC. connectionsD. conflicts67. The limousine takes the privileged right out into the tarmac, their shoes barely grazing the ground.A. touchingB. pollutingC. feelingD. walking68. Otherwise peaceful citizens explode when someone cuts into a line that has been waiting a long time.A. become excitedB. turn into a mobC. get very angryD. protest immediately69.…the ordinary stress of waiting is overlaid with an unbearable anguish of speculation: Alive or dead?A. beliefB. expectationC. doubtD. guessVI. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)70. One is being punished not for an offense of one’s own but often for the inefficiencies of those who impose the wait.71. Aside from boredom and physical discomfort, the subt ler misery of waiting is the knowledge that one’s precious resource, time, a fraction of one’s life, is being stolen away, irrecoverably lost.72. Americans have enough miseries of waiting, of course—waits sometimes connected with affluence and leisure.73. One of the more depressing things about being poor in America is the endless waiting in welfare or unemployment lines.74. The rich do not wait in long lines to buy groceries or airplane tickets. The help sees to it.VII. Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words.Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 points)75. What is the author’s purpose in writing the article?VIII. Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (18 points, 2 points each for 76-80, 8 points for 81)76.我们的城市将继续变得更加拥挤喧嚣，景⾊将变得更加混乱，空⽓和⽔变得更脏。
高级英语00600练习题
高级英语00600练习题### 高级英语练习题：00600#### 阅读理解文章一：The Impact of Technology on EducationIn the 21st century, technology has become an integral part of our daily lives, and its influence on education is profound. The article explores how digital tools and platforms have transformed the way students learn and teachers teach.Questions:1. What are the key benefits of integrating technology into the classroom?2. How has the use of technology affected the role of the teacher?3. Discuss the potential drawbacks of relying too heavily on technology in education.#### 词汇练习文章二：The Vocabulary of Environmental Conservation Environmental conservation is a critical issue that requiresa common understanding of key terms. This article provides a glossary of essential vocabulary related to environmental protection and sustainable practices.Exercises:1. Match the following terms with their definitions:- Biodiversity- Carbon footprint- Ecosystem- Renewable energy2. Use at least three of the terms in a sentence to show your understanding.#### 语法练习文章三：Mastering English TensesUnderstanding English tenses is crucial for effective communication. This section focuses on the correct usage of various tenses, including the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect tenses.Exercises:1. Rewrite the following sentences using the correct tense: - She has already finished her homework.- I had studied for the exam before the teacher announced it.- By next year, he will have completed his degree.2. Create a dialogue between two friends discussing theirplans for the weekend using the future perfect tense.#### 写作练习文章四：The Art of Persuasive WritingPersuasive writing is an art that requires a clear understanding of the audience and a compelling argument. This article outlines the key elements of persuasive writing and provides tips for crafting an effective piece.Exercise:Write a short persuasive essay (200-250 words) on the importance of learning a second language. Include an introduction, body paragraphs with supporting arguments, and a conclusion.#### 听力理解文章五：Globalization and Cultural IdentityThe process of globalization has led to a blending ofcultures worldwide. This audio clip discusses the impact of globalization on cultural identity and the challenges it presents.Questions:1. What are some of the positive aspects of globalization mentioned in the clip?2. How does globalization affect the preservation of cultural identity?3. What measures can be taken to balance globalization with cultural preservation?#### 口语练习文章六：Public Speaking SkillsEffective public speaking is a valuable skill in both professional and personal settings. This section providestips on how to improve public speaking skills, including voice modulation, body language, and audience engagement.Exercise:Prepare a short speech (2-3 minutes) on a topic of your choice. Focus on using clear language, maintaining eye contact, and varying your tone and pace.通过以上练习，学习者可以全面提升英语能力，包括阅读、词汇、语法、写作、听力和口语。
英语专业自考专升本—— 00600高级英语课后答案
高级英语课后答案上册Lesson One What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society?A1. 1) The author uses the two quotations to introduce the discussion and express his ideas aboutrock music and young culture heroes. 2) Yes, they are.2. The author uses the three examples to show that the young people worship the rock superstarsvery much, but the adults find these rock superstars are sick. These examples are used to show that young people and adults have totally different attitudes towards rock music.3. Irving Horowitz believes that rock music can express its time. He sees it as a debating forumwhere American society struggles to define and redefine its feelings and beliefs.4. When he appeared on the Ed. Sullivan Sunday night variety show in front of millions, a kind of“debate” took place. Most of the old people frowned while most of the young viewers applauded.5. Bob Dylan touched a nerve of disaffection. The Beatles urged peace and piety. The RollingStones demanded revolution.6. Apart from politics, the rock music dealt with a range of feelings and emotions.7. The rock superstars got applause, praise and money.8. No, he hasn’t. It is impossible for the author to give a complete answer in a short article. Heends his article with questions because he wants to leave the question to the readers and let them think.B1.他描述道：“贾格尔抓起半加仑水，沿着前台跑，边跑边把水洒向前几排酷热难耐的歌迷身上……”2. 你对这种赞美和英雄崇拜是怎样看的？3. 或者是由于他把你狂热的幻想表演出来了，你就不知不觉地被这个不可思议的小丑吸引？4. 一些社会学家认为，你对这些问题的回答，可以说明你在想什么，社会在想什么。
00600高级英语课后答案
00600高级英语课后答案1、We often go to the zoo _______ Saturday mornings. [单选题] *A. atB. inC. on(正确答案)D. of2、Can you give her some ______ ? [单选题] *A. advice(正确答案)B. suggestionC. advicesD. suggest3、3．Shanghai is my hometown. It’s ________ China. [单选题] * A．nearB．far away fromC．to the east ofD．in the east of(正确答案)4、The twins _______ us something about their country. [单选题] *A. told(正确答案)B. saidC. talkedD. spoke5、--What’s your _______, Jim Green?--Jim. [单选题] *A. full nameB. first name(正确答案)C. last nameD. family name6、22．______ is convenient to travel between Pudong and Puxi now. [单选题] * A．It(正确答案)B．ThisC．ThatD．What7、The office building will be _______ a library. [单选题] *A. turned onB. turned upC. turned into(正确答案)D. turned off8、July hardly joins in any class activities,_____? [单选题] *A. does she(正确答案)B. doesn't sheC. didn't sheD. is she9、I think ______ time with my friends is fun for me.（）[单选题] *A. spendB. spendC. spending(正确答案)D. spent10、Let us put the matter to the vote,（）? [单选题] *A. will youB. can weC. may ID. shall we(正确答案)11、Before you quit your job, （）how your family will feel about your decision. [单选题] *A. consider(正确答案)B. consideringC. to considerD. considered12、Which do you enjoy to spend your weekend, fishing or shopping? [单选题] *China'shigh-speed railways _________ from 9,000 to 25,000 kilometers in the past fewyears.A. are growing(正确答案)B. have grownC. will growD. had grown13、They went out in spite of rain. [单选题] *A. 因为B. 但是C. 尽管(正确答案)D. 如果14、If you want to be successful one day, you have to seize every _______ to realize your dream.A. changeB. chance(正确答案)C. chairD. check15、It’s very hot. Please _______ your coat. [单选题] *A. look afterB. take off(正确答案)C. take onD. put on16、I always get ______ grades than he does, so maybe I should help him more.（）[单选题] *A. bestB. better(正确答案)C. goodD. well17、It was difficult to guess what her_____to the news would be. [单选题] *A.impressionC.reaction(正确答案)D.opinion18、—What were you doing when the rainstorm came?—I ______ in the library with Jane. （）[单选题] *A. readB. am readingC. will readD. was reading(正确答案)19、You can _______ Bus 116 to get there. [单选题] *A. byB. take(正确答案)C. onD. in20、48．—________ is your new skirt, Lingling?—Black. [单选题] *A．HowB．What colour(正确答案)C．Which21、Mom, I need you ______ me a pencil box.（）[单选题] *A. buyB. buyingC. to buy(正确答案)D. to buying22、He always did well at school _____ having to do part-time jobs every now and then. [单选题] *A despite ofB. in spite of(正确答案)C. regardless ofD in case of23、What’s the price and what sort of _______ do you offer? [单选题] *A. advantageB. accountC. displayD. discount(正确答案)24、26．There’s some fruit in the kitchen. We ________ buy any. [单选题] *A．need toB．needn’t toC．don’t needD．don’t need to(正确答案)25、The students in that university are not fewer than（）in our university. [单选题] *A. the oneB. thatC. themD. those(正确答案)26、I am worried about my brother. I am not sure _____ he has arrived at the school or not. [单选题] *A. whether(正确答案)B. whatC. whenD. how27、—______some nice crayons. I think they are ______.（）[单选题] *A. Here is; Betty’sB. Here are; BettyC. Here is; BettyD. Here are; Betty’s(正确答案)28、What’s your _______ for the coming new year? [单选题] *A. playB. plantC. plan(正确答案)D. plans29、One thousand dollars a month is not a fortune but at least can help cover my living（）. [单选题] *A. billsB. expenses(正确答案)C. pricesD. charges30、The black coal there shows a sharp（）white snow. [单选题] *A. contract withB. content withC. contact toD. contrast to(正确答案)。
2010年10月高等教育自学考试高级英语 试题 答案
全国2010年10月高等教育自学考试高级英语试题课程代码：00600全部题目用英文作答(翻译题除外)，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (25 points, 1 point for each)Today’s heroes—some of them, anyway—tell us they enjoy their 1 . “And I 2 to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never 3 of us billion-dollar babies.” The 4“culture hero” who 5 that is Alice Cooper.If I said that being black is a greater 6 than being a woman, probably no one would 7me. Why? Because “we all know” there is 8 against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still 9 nearly all men—and, I am afraid, most women—as 10 .There is, however, another 11 possessed by the best work, which is even more important as a 12 of happiness than is the exercise of 13 . This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no 14 in most, something is built up which remains as a 15 whenthe work is completed.My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the 16 year at Whittier College, was 17 . It was to me less of a 18 ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University, to Yale Law School, and back to Watts. I had 19 then, as now, to make Watts my 20 .Well, it’s a good life and a good 21 , all said and 22 , if you don’t23 , and if you know that the big wide world hasn’t 24 from you yet, no, not by a long way, though it won’t be long now. The float bobbed more violently thanII. Each of the following sentences is given four choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (15 points, 1 point for each)26. The citizens are grateful to the government for the ______ environment.A. wholesomeB. wholesaleC. noisomeD. tiresome27. The farmers’ ______ from the contest aroused heated debates.A. omissionB. exclusionC. inclusionD. emission28. He owed his victory to endurance and ______.A. instanceB. existenceC. subsistenceD. perseverance29. He killed his enemy and received a ______ wound himself.A. moralB. fatefulC. mortalD. factual30. To remove the paint, he had to apply a knife to ______ the table.A. scrapeB. rubC. dabD. peel31. The local government decided to ______ money for the building of a new post office.A. distributeB. divideC. contributeD. allot32. She was ______ of her notorious family scandal.A. shamefulB. shamelessC. ashamedD. shamed33. Since then, the contrast between his two careers has become even more ______.A. symbolizedB. distinguishedC. predominatedD. pronounced34. I recall how ______ it was years ago when people littered everywhere in our city.A. annoyingB. scaringC. frighteningD. humiliating35. I don’t complain about the smoking ______ because I hate watching people smoking in hospitals.A. programsB. restrictionsC. argumentsD. advertisements36. His muscles are firmest and his ______ colds and infections is highest.A. ignorance ofB. independence ofC. resistance toD. attribution to37. Regardless of ______ poll results, a number of objections have been published in newspapers.A. practicalB. sensibleC. favorableD. outstanding38. At British universities, it is ______ to cease work and spend a half-hour or so sipping tea and eating cookies with themembers of one’s department.A. satisfactoryB. extraordinaryC. contemporaryD. customary39. The concentration of populations in cities has given ______ to many problems of housing, education, and medicalservices.A. riseB. reasonC. resultD. response40. This discovery is highly ______ in the circle of science.A. measuredB. appreciatedC. calculatedD. experimentedRead the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding three items III, IV, V.A Wrong Man in Workers’ Paradise(1) The man had never believed in mere utility.(2) Having had no useful work, he indulged in mad whims. He made little pieces of sculpture—men, women and castle, quaint earthen things dotted over with sea-shells. He painted. Thus he wasted his time on all that was useless, needless. People laughed at him. At times he vowed to shake off his whims, but they lingered in his mind.(3) Some boys seldom ply their books and yet pass their tests. A similar thing happened to this man. He spent his earth life in useless work and yet after his death the gates of Heaven opened wide for him.(4) But mistakes are unavoidable even in Heaven. So it came to pass that the aerial messenger who took charge of the man made a mistake and found him a place in Workers’ Paradise.(5) In this Paradise you find everything except leisure.(6) H ere men say: “God! We haven’t a moment to spare.” Women whisper: “Let’s move on, time’s a-flying.” All exclaim: “Time is precious.” “We have our hands full, we make use of every single minute,” they sigh complainingly, and yet those words make them happy and exalted.(7) But this newcomer, who had passed all his life on Earth without doing a scrap of useful work, did not fit in with the scheme of things in Workers’ Paradise. He lounged in the streets absently and jostled the hurrying men. He lay down in green meadows, or close to the fast flowing streams, and was taken to task by busy farmers. He was always in the way of others. (8) A hustling girl went every day to a silent torrent (silent, since in the Workers’ Paradise even a torrent would not waste its energy singing) to fill her pitcher.(9) The girl’s movement on the road was like the rapid movement of a skilled hand on the strings of a guitar. Her hair was carelessly done; inquisitive wisps stooped often over her forehead to peer at the dark wonder of her eye.(10) The idler was standing by the stream. As a princess sees a lonely beggar and is filled with pity, so the busy girl of Heaven saw this one and was filled with pity.(11 ) “A—ha !” she cried with concern. “You have no work in hand, have you?”(12) The man sighed, “Work! I have not a moment to spare for work.”(13) The girl did not understand his words, and said: “I shall spare some work for you to do, if you like.”(14) The man replied: “Girl of the silent torrent, all this time I have been wait ing to take some work from your hands.”(15) “What kind of work would you like?”(16) “Will you give me one of your pitchers, one that you can spare?”(17) She asked: “A pitcher? You want to draw water from the torrent?”(18) “No, I shall draw pictures on your pitcher.”(19) The girl was annoyed.(20) “Pictures, indeed! I have no time to waste on such as you. I am going.” And she walked away.(21) But how could a busy person get the better of one who had nothing to do? Every day they met, and every day he said to her: “Girl of the silent torrent, give me one of your clay pitchers. I shall draw pictures on it.”(22) She yielded at last. She gave him one of her pitchers. The man started painting. He drew line after line; he put color after color.(23) When he had completed his work, the girl held up the pitcher and stared at its sides, her eyes puzzled. Brows drawn, she asked: “What do they mean, all those lines and colors? What is their purpose?”(24) The man laughed.(25) “Nothing. A picture may have no meaning and may serve no purpose.”(26) The girl went away with her pitcher. At home, away from prying eyes, she held it in the light, turned it round and round and scanned the painting from all angles. At night she moved out of bed, lighted a lamp and scanned it again in silence. For the first time in her life she had seen something that had no meaning and no purpose at all.(27) When she set out for the torrent the next day, her hurrying feet were a little less hurried than before. For a new sense seemed to have wakened in her, a sense that seemed to have no meaning and no purpose at all.(28) She saw the painter standing by the torrent and asked in confusion: “What do you want of me?”(29) “Only some more work from your hands.”(30) “What kind of work would you like?”(31) “Let me make a colored ribbon for your hair,” he answered.(32) “And what for?”(33) “Nothing.”(34) Ribbons were made, bright with colors. The busy girl of Workers’ Paradise had now to spend a lot of time every day tying the colored ribbon around her hair. The minutes slipped by, unutilized. Much work was left unfinished.(35) In Workers’ Paradise work had of late begun to suffer. Many persons who had been active before were now idle, wasting their precious time on useless things such as painting and sculpture. The elders became anxious. A meeting was called. All agreed that such a state of affairs had so far been unknown in the history of Workers’ Paradise.(36) The aerial messenger hurried in, bowing before the elders and made a confession.(37) “I brought a wrong man into this Paradise,” he said. “It is all due to him.”(38) The man was summoned. As he came the elders saw his fantastic dress, his quaint brushes, his paints, and they knew at once that he was not the right sort for Workers’ Pa radise.(39) Stiffly the President said: “This is no place for the like of you. You must leave.”(40) The man sighed in relief and gathered up his brush and paint. But as he was about to go, the girl of the silent torrent came up tripping and cried: “Wait a moment. I shall go with you.”(41) The elders gasped in surprise. Never before had a thing like this happened in Workers’ Paradise—a thing that had no meaning and no purpose at all.III. In this section, there are ten incomplete statements or questions, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D.Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (20 points, 2 points for each).41. What do you think is the main point of the story?A. The love of a painter for a pretty girl.B. The opposition between beauty and utility.C. The change of heart in a girl who used to believe in mere utility.D. The ideal society where no time is wasted and no idler is tolerated.42. What is the author’s attitude in this story?A. He is indifferent to the artist.B. He is in sympathy with the artist.C. He is absolutely objective in telling the story.D. He makes fun of those who believe in Paradise.43. In the sentence “...but they lingered in his mind” in Paragraph 2, “they” refers to ______.A. his whimsB. his vowsC. the things he madeD. the people he met44. What is the proper meaning of the phrase “a scrap of” in Paragraph 7?A. a lot ofB. a load ofC. a bit ofD. a pile of45. In Paragraph 8, with the sentence “...in the Workers’ Par adise even a torrent would not waste its energy singing”, the author intends to ______.A. state a factB. laugh at the manC. praise the Workers’ ParadiseD. scoff at the Workers’ Paradise46. What is the meaning of the phrase “get the better of” in Par agraph 21 ?A. pickB. make use ofC. defeatD. make fun of47. What is the meaning of the word “quaint” in Paragraph 38?A. disgustingB. strangeC. uglyD. disturbing48. Based on the author’s description of the girl, we know that ______.A. she was curiousB. she was not very attractiveC. she was much busier than the othersD. she was the princess of the Workers’ Paradise49. When the elders asked the man to leave the Workers’ Paradise, the man was ______.A. disappointedB. worriedC. pleasedD. surprised50. From the end of the story we can infer that ______.A. the girl won against the eldersB. the elders won against the girlC. the elders won against the manD. the man won against the eldersIV. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)51. Having had no useful work, he indulged in mad whims.52. So it came to pass that the aerial messenger who took charge of the man made a mistake and found him a place inWor kers’ Paradise.53. Here men say: “God! We haven’t a moment to spare.” Women whisper: “Let’s move on, time’s a-flying.”54. The girl’s movement on the road was like the rapid movement of a skilled hand on the strings of a guitar.55. As a princess sees a lonely beggar and is filled with pity, so the busy girl of Heaven saw this one and was filled with pity. V. Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 points)56. Do you think art is something that has no meaning and no purpose at all? Why or why not?VI. Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (20 points, 2 points each for 57-60, 4 points for 61, 8 points for 62)57．心情好时，我可以谱写出恢弘的交响乐，绘制出壮丽的画卷。
全国2010年10月自学考试高级英语试题
全国2010年10月自学考试高级英语试题(总分：100.00，做题时间：150分钟)一、课程代码：00600 (总题数：1，分数：25.00)Today’s heroes—some of them, anyway—tell us they enjoy their 1 . “And I 2 to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never 3 of us billion-dollar babies.” The 4 “culture hero” who 5 that is Alice Cooper. If I said that being black is a greater 6 than being a woman, probably no one would 7 me. Why? Because “we all know” there is 8 against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still 9 nearly all men—and, I am afraid, most women—as10 . There is, however, another 11 possessed by the best work, which is even more important asa 12 of happiness than is the exercise of 13 . This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no 14 in most, something is built up which remains as a 15 when the work is completed. My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the 16 year at Whittier College, was 17 . It was to me less of a 18 ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University, to Yale Law School, and back to Watts. I had 19 then, as now, to make Watts my 20 . Well, it’s a good life and a good 21 , all said and 22 , if you don’t 23 , and if you know that the big w ide world hasn’t 24 from you yet, no, not by a long way, though it won’t be long now. The float bobbed more violently than before and, witha 25 on his face, he began to wind in the reel. （分数：25.00）A. √B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.P.Q.R.S.T.U. √V.W.X.解析：[解析] 此处需填一个名词。
2008年10月全国高级英语试题及答案
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全部题目用英文作答（英译汉题目除外）I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (12 points, 0.5 point for each)Women have an average life 1 of seven years longer than men and tend to marry men older than themselves; so two-thirds (six million) of all older women are widows. 2 widowed they do not have the same social prerogatives as older men to 3 and marry those who are younger. 4 , they are likely to end up alone—an ironic 5 of events when one remembers that most of them were raised from childhood to consider 6 the only acceptable state.The sheriff follows the county attorney 7 the other room. Then Mrs. Hale rises, hands 8 _ together, 9 intensely at Mrs. Peters, whose eyes make a slow turn, finally 10 Mrs. Hale’s. A moment Mrs. Hale holds her, then her own eyes 11 the way to where the box is concealed. 12 Mrs. Peters throws back quilt pieces and tries to put the box in the bag she is wearing.A company that delivers value 13 customer intimacy builds 14 with customers like those between good neighbors. Customer-intimate companies don’t deliver what the market wants15 what a specific customer wants. The customer-intimate company 16 a business of knowing the people it sells to and the products and services they need. It continually 17 its products and services and does so at 18 prices.Childhood’s 19 never asks to be proved (all conclusions are absolute). I didn’t question1why Mrs. Flowers had 20 me out for attention, nor did it 21 me that Momma might have asked her to give me a little talking to. All I 22 was that she had made tea cookies for me and read to me from her 23 book. It was 24 to prove that sheII. In this section, there are fifteen sentences taken from the textbooks with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (15 points, 1 point for each)25. The campaign for more physical beauty seems to be both a tremendous success and a ______failure.26. When salesmen are doing well, there is pressure upon them to begin doing better, ______ they may start doing worse.27. In its entertainment, television ______ far too much to the lowest instincts of man, particularly the lust for violence.28. Modernity-snobs naturally tend to throw away their old ______ and buy new ones at a greater rate than those who are not modernity-snobs.29. But far worse is the nightmare of travel in and around Los Angeles, where public transport does not exist and people are literally choking ______ in their exhaust fumes.30. She felt her blood ______ her temples and there was pressure in her chest below thehollow.231. We don’t advertise openings and we don’t solicit applications. We keep a low ______, and we do things differently.32. She had hard work to see that the two young children who had been left to her ______ went to school regularly and got their meals regularly.33. On the edge of a small cape that marked the side of the bay away from the promontory was a loose ______ of rocks.34. She hurried on the almond Sundays and ______ the match for the kettle in quite a dashing way.35. For all but the last six, I have done the work—all the tedious details that ______ between victory and defeat on election day—while men reaped the rewards, which is almost invariably the lot of women in politics.36. The child strikes his head in the bath and falls unconscious. The man sits down and watches him ______.37. Her tongue was cut and she was screaming in wild ______ shrieks.38. I believe that TV’s appeal to the short attention span is not only inefficient communication but decivilizing ______.39. Indeed from the first draw any mark of pleasure was taboo: one couldn’t mock the ______ man by any sign of relief.III. Each of the following sentences is given two choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on your Answer3Sheet. (15 points, 1 point for each)40. A fist fight followed, with much shouting and ______, until the ragged man succeeded in driving up to the door.A. disputingB. squabbling41. Susie will examine our secondary school programs to insure that all students are prepared to be responsible, productive and technologically ______ citizens of the 21st century.A. literaryB. literate42. Meanwhile I’m just going to be hanging around ______ my thumbs, so if you’ve got anything an idle detective can do, just say the word.A. twiddlingB. twisting43. These tasks were repetitive, lengthy, and lacking in any ______ interest.A. intrinsicB. instinctive44. Louisa said she could not go on living with a man who had married her under false ______.A. pretencesB. preferences45. Deep at night, they could still hear gun-fire ______ in the distance.A. rumblingB. rambling46. Her husband did not like her new interests and her ______ added further strain to an already failing marriage.A. persistenceB. obstinacy47. Political leaders have reached a ______ agreement to hold a preparatory conference next month.A. hesitantB. tentative48. Initially this was ______ at as farfetched conjecture, but gradually it has received grudging respect and empirical support.A. scoldedB. scoffed449. Gaining ______ to the club was no easy matter.A. permissionB. admittance50. Even though thousands of people die violently each year in Sri Lanka, the death of an important figure causes national ______.A. anguishB. melancholy51. The rapid fire of questions was deliberate, she knew, designed to scare her into ______ out the truth.A. blurtingB. blunting52. Small debts could rapidly mount up and begin to exert ______ pressure on the relationship between husband and wife.A. intolerantB. intolerable53. This part of the story is perhaps the most exciting, since the company not only kept its head above water, but produced a series of plays which ______ its reputation.A. increasedB. enhanced54. He looked across the sea: a faint ______ of pale light was rising in the midnight-blue sky.A. glimmerB. glamourRead the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding four items IV, V, VI and VII.How America Lives(1) Americans still follow many of the old ways. In a time of rapid changes it is essential that we remember how much of the old we cling to. Young people still get married. Of course, many do get divorced, but they remarry at astonishing rates. They have children, but fewer than before. They belong to churches, even though they attend somewhat less frequently, and they want their children to have religious instruction. They are willing to pay taxes for education, and they generously support institutions like hospitals, museums and libraries. In fact, when you compare the America of today with that of 1950, the similarities are far5greater than the differences.(2) Americans seem to be growing conservative. The 1980 election, especially for the Senate and House of Representatives, signaled a decided turn to the right insofar as political and social attitudes were concerned. It is as if our country spent the 1960s and 1970s jealously breaking out of old restraints and now wishes to put the brakes on. We should expect to see a reaffirmation of traditional family values, sharp restraints on pornography, a return to religion and a rejection of certain kinds of social legislation.(3) Patterns of courtship and marriage have changed radically. Where sex was concerned, I was raised in an atmosphere of suspicion, repression and Puritanism, and although husky young kids can survive almost anything, many in my generation suffered grievously. Without reservation, I applaud the freer patterns of today, although I believe that it’s been difficult for some families to handle the changes.(4) American women are changing the rules. Thirty years ago I could not have imagined a group of women employees suing a major corporation for millions of dollars of salary which, they alleged, had been denied them because they had been discriminated against. Nor could I imagine women in universities going up to the men who ran the athletic programs and demanding a just share of the physical education budget. At work, at play, at all levels of living women are suggesting new rules.(5) America is worried about its schools. If I had a child today, I would send her or him to a private school for the sake of safety, for the discipline that would be enforced and for the rigorous academic requirements. But I would doubt that the child would get any better education than l did in my good public school. The problem is that good public schools are becoming pitifully rare, and I would not want to take the chance that the one I sent my children to was inadequate.(6) Some Americans must live on welfare. Since it seems obvious that our nation can produce all its needs with only a part of the available work force, some kind of social welfare6assistance must be doled out to those who cannot find jobs. When I think of a typical welfare recipient I think of a young neighbor woman whose husband was killed in a tragic accident, leaving her with three young children. In the bad old days she might have known destitution, but with family assistance she was able to hold her children together and produced three fine, tax-paying citizens. America is essentially a compassionate society.(7) America cannot find housing for its young families. I consider this the most serious danger confronting family life in America, and I am appalled that the condition has been allowed to develop. For more than a decade, travelers like me have been aware that in countries like Sweden, Denmark, Russia and India young people have found it almost impossible to acquire homes. In Sweden the customary wait was 11 years of marriage, and we used to ask, “what went wrong?”It seemed to us that a major responsibility of any nation would be to provide homes for its young people starting their families. Well, this dreadful social sickness has now overtaken the United States, and for the same reasons. The builders in our society find it profitable to erect three-bathroom homes that sell for $220,000 with a mortgage at 19 percent but find it impossible to erect small homes for young marrieds. For a major nation to show itself impotent to house its young people is admitting a failure that must be corrected.(8) Our prospects are still good. We have a physical setting of remarkable integrity, the world’s best agriculture, a splendid wealth of minerals, great rivers for irrigation and an unsurpassed system of roads for transportation. We also have a magnificent mixture of people from all the continents with varied traditions and strengths. But most of all, we have a unique and balanced system of government.(9) I think of America as having the oldest form of government on earth, because since we started our present democracy in 1789, every other nation has suffered either parliamentary change or revolutionary change. It is our system that has survived and should survive, giving the maximum number of people a maximum chance for happiness.7IV. In this section, there are ten incomplete statements, followed by four choices marked A, B,C and D. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.(10 points, 1 point for each)55. Which of the following is NOT a major aspect of the American life discussed by the writer?A. Family value and housing.B. Social welfare and education.C. Agriculture and transportation.D. Marriage and women’s social status.56. The author welcomes the freer patterns of today’s courtship and marriage ______.A. since nobody can survive almost anythingB. because many young kids of his time suffered bitterlyC. although all the families find it difficult to deal with the changesD. whether or not these changes have indicated a decided turn to the right57. American public schools today are ______.A. no better than those decades agoB. no worse than those in the pastC. less desirable than they used to beD. more desirable than private schools58. Builders seem not willing to put up small homes for young married couples because ______.A. there is no market demand for small housesB. America is a nation impotent to house its young peopleC. most young people would dream of having larger homesD. it is not very lucrative for builders to put up small houses59. The America of today is similar with that of 1950, a case in point is ______.A. young people have more children than their parents didB. young people do many things in the same ways as their parents did8C. American people are reluctant to donate money to public servicesD. many young people are cautious about getting re-married after a divorce60. Which of the following is a serious problem that exists in American society?A. American women are changing the rules.B. America cannot provide homes for its young people.C. American public schools are as good as private schools.D. None of the jobless can enjoy more welfare than before.61. As the writer expects to see a reaffirmation of traditional family values, sharp restraints on pornography, a return to religion and a rejection of certain kinds of social legislation, he is somewhat ______.A. radicalB. cynicalC. conservativeD. open-minded62. Obviously, the writer is ______ the major changes that have taken place and that are occurring in American life.A. in favor ofB. enraged byC. critical ofD. worried about63. The American system of government has survived and should survive, because ______.A. it is truly democraticB. it is the oldest on earthC. it has experienced numerous changesD. it offers its people chances of happiness64. This essay is ______.A. narrativeB. expositoryC. descriptiveD. argumentativeV. There is one underlined part in each of the following sentences, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is closest in meaning to the underlined part and9write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)65. In a time of rapid changes it is essential that we remember how much of the old we cling to.A. adhere toB. put up withC. take pride inD. agree upon66. It is as if our country spent the 1960s and 1970s jealously breaking out of old restraints and now wishes to put the brakes on.A. stop itB. embrace itC. renounce itD. accelerate it67. Thirty years ago I could not have imagined a group of women employees suing a major corporation for millions of dollars of salary...A. applying toB. competing withC. making a legal claim againstD. demanding compensation from68. In the bad old days she might have known destitution, but with family assistance she was able to hold her children together...A. scarcityB. prosperityC. prostitutionD. impoverishment69. I consider this the most-serious danger confronting family life in America, and I am appalled that the condition has been allowed to develop.A. satisfiedB. shockedC. remindedD. convincedVl. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)70. They belong to churches, even though they attend somewhat less frequently, and they want their children to have religious instruction.71. The 1980 election, especially for the Senate and House of Representatives, signaled a10decided turn to the right insofar as political and social attitudes were concerned.72. Nor could I imagine women in universities going up to the men who ran the athletic programs and demanding a just share of the physical education budget.73. The problem is that good public schools are becoming pitifully rare, and I would not want to take the chance that the one I sent my children to was inadequate.74. For a major nation to show itself impotent to house its young people is admitting a failure that must be corrected.VII. Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 points)75. What do you think are the merits that we could learn from Americans?VIII.Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (18 points, 2 points each for 76-80, 8 points for 81)76. 就政策而言，我们和你们一样对相同的事情感到愤怒——我们更为愤怒，因为我们的生命成了用来检验政策的东西。
600高级英语2010年07月
2010年7月高等教育自学考试高级英语试卷(课程代码00600)本试卷共7页，满分100分，考试时间150分钟。
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I .In this section, there are fifteen sentences with a blank in each, followed by a list of wordsor expressions marked from A to T. Choose the one that best completes each of thesentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word orexpression for each blank only. (20 points, 1 point for each)1. "Music _1_ its times," says sociologist Irving Horowitz who sees the rock music arena as a sort of debating forum.2. His paintings 2 _ the spirit of the modern era.3. For many Americans, it is their lifelong dream to buy a 3_ two-storied house with a garden.4. To make Beijing our worthy capital, we must get it 4__ of polluted air, among other things.5. As he entered the newly decorated building, a (an) 5_ smell of paint made him feel quite sick.6. The old man yelled over and over aga in "Stop thief, stop thief!" But nobody didanything. The indifference of the onlookers was really 6 .7. She can skillfully 7 the questions about her private life.8. It was very rude of him to_8_ on my privacy.9. His wife is in very poor health, so he is rather 9_ about telling her the had news.高级英语试卷第1页(共7页)10. IIe is a very busy person and has so many engagements that only his secretary knows of his10 .11. The performance was over, the audience remained motionless, completely under the 11_of themusic.12. The parents have lived in_ 12 ever since the boy went missing.13. The pillow is _13_ with feathers.14. The soldiers were-14_ with the task of putting out the fire in the forests.15. The two daughters' sweet words 15 King Lear into believing that they really loved him more than anything in the world.16. The whole class was _16_ for not being able to keep the classroom clean and tidy.17. I had my breakfast two hours ago, a light lunch will 17_18. After parting with her, he began to _18_ what he had done to his wife.19. Radio announcers must _19_words clearly.20. He laughed and shouted, trying to 20 his sorrow in excitement.II.The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked from A to 0. Choose the one that best completes each of thesentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word for eachblank only. (15 points, 1 point for each)and with or21 the use of hallucinogens. It always has been the strategy of choice for people whofind the world too brutal or too complex to be 22" Most Americans states have "living-will" legislation that protects doctors 23__ prosecution if they do not try to save someone who has said he does not want life-24_.Active euthanasia-killing-remains controversial. How long can the distinction25 killing and letting die hold out?" Prejudice against blacks was invisible to most 26 Americans for many years. When blacks finally started to "mention" it, with sit-ins, 27--, and freedom rides, Americans were _28-. "R'ho, us?" they asked in injured tones." Little children ran among them, swooping and 29-; little boys with big white silk bows under their chins; little girls, little French dolls, dressed 30_ in velvet and lace." Provided work is not _3l_ in amount, even the dullest work is to most people less高级英语试卷第2页(共7页)painful than idleness. There are in work all grades, front mere relief of _32_ up to the profoundest delights, according to the nature of the work and the 33_ of the worker." One boy stood with his back to the camera, leaning stooped against a gate lintel, and on the finger of the hand that held the post there was a ring she recognized. There wouldn't be another _34_ it. She had had it made for Jerry's father. The boy with his back to the camera began to~一多5_ up; he was turning. But the picture was over.Each of the following sentences is given two choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and mark the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (10 points,1 point each)36. Some people watch television so much that they cannot ([A]imagine, [B]conceive) of livingwithout it.37. The raging girl looked at the doctor ([A]terrifyingly, [B]terrified).38. Would I be ([A]invading. [B]intruding) if J joined in your discussion?39. The suspect was accused of ([A]withholding, [B]preventing) soiree important evidence fromthe court.40. All the streets will be ([A]eliminated, [B]illuminated) tomorrow evening for the celebration.41. Nuclear power is ([A]inherently, [B]naturally) both dangerous and powerful.42. They had to ([A]scrub, [B]brush) the floor after the party was over.43. The boys ([A]threw, [B]tossed) a coin to decide who should make the first move.44. At the seminar some scientists discussed heroic new experiments on the ([A]intact, [B]innate)human heart.45. He ([A]grasped, [B]grabbed) the rope with both hands and pulled it with all his strength。
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全国2008年10月高等教育自学考试高级英语试题课程代码：00600请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上。
全部题目用英文作答（英译汉题目除外）I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (12 points, 0.5 point for each)Women have an average life 1 of seven years longer than men and tend to marry men older than themselves; so two-thirds (six million) of all older women are widows. 2 widowed they do not have the same social prerogatives as older men to 3 and marry those who are younger.4 , they are likely to end up alone—an ironic5 of events when one remembers that most of them were raised from childhood to consider6 the only acceptable state.The sheriff follows the county attorney 7 the other room. Then Mrs. Hale rises, hands 8 _ together, 9 intensely at Mrs. Peters, whose eyes make a slow turn, finally 10 Mrs. Hal e’s.A moment Mrs. Hale holds her, then her own eyes 11 the way to where the box is concealed.12 Mrs. Peters throws back quilt pieces and tries to put the box in the bag she is wearing.A company that delivers value 13 customer intimacy builds 14 with customers like those between good neighbors. Customer-intimate companies don’t deliver what the market wants 15 what a specific customer wants. The customer-intimate company 16 a business of knowing the people it sells to and the products and services they need. It continually 17 its products and services and does so at 18 prices.C hildhood’s 19 never asks to be proved (all conclusions are absolute). I didn’t question why Mrs. Flowers had 20 me out for attention, nor did it 21 me that Momma might have asked her to give me a little talking to. All I 22 was that she had made tea cookies for me and read to me from her 23 book. It was 24 to prove that she liked me.II. In this section, there are fifteen sentences taken from the textbooks with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (15 points, 1 point for each)25. The campaign for more physical beauty seems to be both a tremendous success and a______failure.26. When salesmen are doing well, there is pressure upon them to begin doing better, ______ theymay start doing worse.27. In its entertainment, television ______ far too much to the lowest instincts of man, particularlythe lust for violence.28. Modernity-snobs naturally tend to throw away their old ______ and buy new ones at a greaterrate than those who are not modernity-snobs.29. But far worse is the nightmare of travel in and around Los Angeles, where public transportdoes not exist and people are literally choking ______ in their exhaust fumes.30. She felt her blood ______ her temples and there was pressure in her chest below the hollow.31. We don’t advertise openings and we don’t solicit applications. We keep a low ______, and wedo things differently.32. She had hard work to see that the two young children who had been left to her ______ went toschool regularly and got their meals regularly.33. On the edge of a small cape that marked the side of the bay away from the promontory was aloose ______ of rocks.34. She hurried on the almond Sundays and ______ the match for the kettle in quite a dashingway.35. For all but the last six, I have done the work—all the tedious details that ______ betweenvictory and defeat on election day—while men reaped the rewards, which is almost invariably the lot of women in politics.36. The child strikes his head in the bath and falls unconscious. The man sits down and watcheshim ______.37. Her tongue was cut and she was screaming in wild ______ shrieks.38. I believe that TV’s appeal to the short attention span is not only inefficient communication butdecivilizing ______.39. Indeed from the first draw any mark of pleasure was taboo: one couldn’t mock the ______man by any sign of relief.III. Each of the following sentences is given two choices of words or expressions. Choosethe right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (15 points, 1 point for each)40. A fist fight followed, with much shouting and ______, until the ragged man succeeded indriving up to the door.A. disputingB. squabbling41. Susie will examine our secondary school programs to insure that all students are prepared tobe responsible, productive and technologically ______ citizens of the 21st century.A. literaryB. literate42. Meanwhile I’m just going to be hanging around ______ my thumbs, so if you’ve got anythingan idle detective can do, just say the word.A. twiddlingB. twisting43. These tasks were repetitive, lengthy, and lacking in any ______ interest.A. intrinsicB. instinctive44. Louisa said she could not go on living with a man who had married her under false ______.A. pretencesB. preferences45. Deep at night, they could still hear gun-fire ______ in the distance.A. rumblingB. rambling46. Her husband did not like her new interests and her ______ added further strain to an alreadyfailing marriage.A. persistenceB. obstinacy47. Political leaders have reached a ______ agreement to hold a preparatory conference nextmonth.A. hesitantB. tentative48. Initially this was ______ at as farfetched conjecture, but gradually it has received grudgingrespect and empirical support.A. scoldedB. scoffed49. Gaining ______ to the club was no easy matter.A. permissionB. admittance50. Even though thousands of people die violently each year in Sri Lanka, the death of animportant figure causes national ______.A. anguishB. melancholy51. The rapid fire of questions was deliberate, she knew, designed to scare her into ______ out thetruth.A. blurtingB. blunting52. Small debts could rapidly mount up and begin to exert ______ pressure on the relationshipbetween husband and wife.A. intolerantB. intolerable53. This part of the story is perhaps the most exciting, since the company not only kept its headabove water, but produced a series of plays which ______ its reputation.A. increasedB. enhanced54. He looked across the sea: a faint ______ of pale light was rising in the midnight-blue sky.A. glimmerB. glamourRead the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding four items IV, V, VI and VII.How America Lives(1) Americans still follow many of the old ways. In a time of rapid changes it is essential that weremember how much of the old we cling to. Young people still get married. Of course, many do get divorced, but they remarry at astonishing rates. They have children, but fewer than before. They belong to churches, even though they attend somewhat less frequently, and they want their children to have religious instruction. They are willing to pay taxes for education, and they generously support institutions like hospitals, museums and libraries. In fact, when you compare the America of today with that of 1950, the similarities are far greater than the differences.(2) Americans seem to be growing conservative. The 1980 election, especially for the Senate andHouse of Representatives, signaled a decided turn to the right insofar as political and social attitudes were concerned. It is as if our country spent the 1960s and 1970s jealously breaking out of old restraints and now wishes to put the brakes on. We should expect to see a reaffirmation of traditional family values, sharp restraints on pornography, a return to religion and a rejection of certain kinds of social legislation.(3) Patterns of courtship and marriage have changed radically. Where sex was concerned, I wasraised in an atmosphere of suspicion, repression and Puritanism, and although husky young kids can survive almost anything, many in my generation suffered grievously. Without reservation, I applaud the freer patterns of today, although I believe that it’s been difficult for some families to handle the changes.(4) American women are changing the rules. Thirty years ago I could not have imagined a groupof women employees suing a major corporation for millions of dollars of salary which, they alleged, had been denied them because they had been discriminated against. Nor could I imagine women in universities going up to the men who ran the athletic programs and demanding a just share of the physical education budget. At work, at play, at all levels of living women are suggesting new rules.(5) America is worried about its schools. If I had a child today, I would send her or him to aprivate school for the sake of safety, for the discipline that would be enforced and for the rigorous academic requirements. But I would doubt that the child would get any better education than l did in my good public school. The problem is that good public schools are becoming pitifully rare, and I would not want to take the chance that the one I sent my children to was inadequate.(6) Some Americans must live on welfare. Since it seems obvious that our nation can produce allits needs with only a part of the available work force, some kind of social welfare assistance must be doled out to those who cannot find jobs. When I think of a typical welfare recipient I think of a young neighbor woman whose husband was killed in a tragic accident, leaving her with three young children. In the bad old days she might have known destitution, but with family assistance she was able to hold her children together and produced three fine, tax-paying citizens. America is essentially a compassionate society.(7) America cannot find housing for its young families. I consider this the most serious dangerconfronting family life in America, and I am appalled that the condition has been allowed to develop. For more than a decade, travelers like me have been aware that in countries like Sweden, Denmark, Russia and India young people have found it almost impossible to acquire homes. In Sweden the customary wait was 11 years of marriage, and we used to ask, “what went wrong?”It seemed to us that a major responsibility of any nation would be to provide homes for its young people starting their families. Well, this dreadful social sickness has now overtaken the United States, and for the same reasons. The builders in our society find it profitable to erect three-bathroom homes that sell for $220,000 with a mortgage at 19 percent but find it impossible to erect small homes for young marrieds. For a major nation to show itself impotent to house its young people is admitting a failure that must be corrected.(8) Our prospects are still good. We have a physical setting of remarkable integrity, the world’sbest agriculture, a splendid wealth of minerals, great rivers for irrigation and an unsurpassed system of roads for transportation. We also have a magnificent mixture of people from all the continents with varied traditions and strengths. But most of all, we have a unique and balanced system of government.(9) I think of America as having the oldest form of government on earth, because since we startedour present democracy in 1789, every other nation has suffered either parliamentary change or revolutionary change. It is our system that has survived and should survive, giving the maximum number of people a maximum chance for happiness.IV. In this section, there are ten incomplete statements, followed by four choices marked A, B,C and D. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on your AnswerSheet. (10 points, 1 point for each)55. Which of the following is NOT a major aspect of the American life discussed by the writer?A. Family value and housing.B. Social welfare and education.C. Agriculture and transportation.D. Marriage and women’s social status.56. The aut hor welcomes the freer patterns of today’s courtship and marriage ______.A. since nobody can survive almost anythingB. because many young kids of his time suffered bitterlyC. although all the families find it difficult to deal with the changesD. whether or not these changes have indicated a decided turn to the right57. American public schools today are ______.A. no better than those decades agoB. no worse than those in the pastC. less desirable than they used to beD. more desirable than private schools58. Builders seem not willing to put up small homes for young married couples because ______.A. there is no market demand for small housesB. America is a nation impotent to house its young peopleC. most young people would dream of having larger homesD. it is not very lucrative for builders to put up small houses59. The America of today is similar with that of 1950, a case in point is ______.A. young people have more children than their parents didB. young people do many things in the same ways as their parents didC. American people are reluctant to donate money to public servicesD. many young people are cautious about getting re-married after a divorce60. Which of the following is a serious problem that exists in American society?A. American women are changing the rules.B. America cannot provide homes for its young people.C. American public schools are as good as private schools.D. None of the jobless can enjoy more welfare than before.61. As the writer expects to see a reaffirmation of traditional family values, sharp restraints onpornography, a return to religion and a rejection of certain kinds of social legislation, he is somewhat ______.A. radicalB. cynicalC. conservativeD. open-minded62. Obviously, the writer is ______ the major changes that have taken place and that are occurringin American life.A. in favor ofB. enraged byC. critical ofD. worried about63. The American system of government has survived and should survive, because ______.A. it is truly democraticB. it is the oldest on earthC. it has experienced numerous changesD. it offers its people chances of happiness64. This essay is ______.A. narrativeB. expositoryC. descriptiveD. argumentativeV. There is one underlined part in each of the following sentences, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is closest in meaning to the underlined part and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)65. In a time of rapid changes it is essential that we remember how much of the old we cling to.A. adhere toB. put up withC. take pride inD. agree upon66. It is as if our country spent the 1960s and 1970s jealously breaking out of old restraints andnow wishes to put the brakes on.A. stop itB. embrace itC. renounce itD. accelerate it67. Thirty years ago I could not have imagined a group of women employees suing a majorcorporation for millions of dollars of salary...A. applying toB. competing withC. making a legal claim againstD. demanding compensation from68. In the bad old days she might have known destitution, but with family assistance she was ableto hold her children together...A. scarcityB. prosperityC. prostitutionD. impoverishment69. I consider this the most-serious danger confronting family life in America, and I am appalledthat the condition has been allowed to develop.A. satisfiedB. shockedC. remindedD. convincedVl. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)70. They belong to churches, even though they attend somewhat less frequently, and they wanttheir children to have religious instruction.71. The 1980 election, especially for the Senate and House of Representatives, signaled a decidedturn to the right insofar as political and social attitudes were concerned.72. Nor could I imagine women in universities going up to the men who ran the athletic programsand demanding a just share of the physical education budget.73. The problem is that good public schools are becoming pitifully rare, and I would not want totake the chance that the one I sent my children to was inadequate.74. For a major nation to show itself impotent to house its young people is admitting a failure thatmust be corrected.VII. Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 points)75. What do you think are the merits that we could learn from Americans?VIII.Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (18 points, 2 points each for 76-80, 8 points for 81)76. 就政策而言，我们和你们一样对相同的事情感到愤怒——我们更为愤怒，因为我们的生命成了用来检验政策的东西。