阜阳师范学院03－04学年第1学期
高级英语（第一册）B卷
Directions:
1. Write all your answers on the Answer Sheet.
2. You must hand in both your test book and your Answer Sheet.
I. Fill in the blank in the following items with the correct form of the word given in the brackets. Make sure the word you fill in is appropriate both syntactically and semantically. (10%) Example:
1. The aircraft came down next to a river in a __________ setting, with farmers plowing fields against snow-capped mountains in the background. (picture) 2. The condo high-rise at the top of Little Sugar Mountain _________ over the northwestern N.C. ski country, a slab of concrete planted among the ridges like a huge headstone. (tower)
3. They said Sharon’s ___________ with trying to halt attacks by Palestinians before agreeing to peace talks is at best misguided. (preoccupied)
4. As the ________ of Michael Jackson’s arrest was beamed to viewers around the world, fans rallied to the pop icon’s defense while his entertainment industry peers mostly kept a cautious silence. (spectacular)
5. Jason Isaacs, who plays the _________ Captain Hook and Wendy’s father, said people who know the story only from Disney’s spry animated version will be surprised at the movie’s dark depths. (villain)
6. In order to understand Dutch drugs policy, it is necessary to understand something of the Netherlands itself. Dutch policy does not _________, but is based on the assumption that drug use is a fact and must be dealt with. (morals)
7. Rodriguez did not give a reason for her departure but insisted that her decision was “__________,” according to the president’s office. (revocable)
8. UNICEF, the global agency dedicated to improving the welfare of children
We are determined that the law shall be enforced. (determination)
worldwide, says the situation facing AIDS orphans in Africa is becoming ever more desperate and should provoke both
________ and action by the international community. (outrageous)
9. The party, known locally as the HDZ, suffered a __________ defeat in 2000, when Croats overwhelmingly voted for Racan’s reformists. (humiliate)
10. However, we were no marksmen: our misses far outnumbered our hits. The crows, in particular, seemed to sense this for they often perched unafraid, eyeing us ________ as we let fly at them. (disdain)
11. People of all ages with delicate sensibilities will hate it, and my _________ is that quite a few younger viewers, on either side of college age, may not groove on it either. (hunched)
12. Sharma said there was a “___________ campaign” to cause division among security forces in the state between ethnic Assamese and native Hindi-speakers by spreading false rumours that Assamese police were being killed. (calculation) 13. The season’s first significant snowstorm in the Upper Midwest dumped more than a foot of snow in Minnesota, making highways__________, and snow also fell heavily Monday in parts of Wisconsin. (hazard)
14. New York theater’s first effort was Anne Nelson’s “The Guys,” which began production in December 2001. The painfully sincere 90-minute drama depicts a New York journalist who helps a fire captain praise his men. “The Guys” means to honor the firemen’s memory by ____________ them, casting them as ordinary “guys” and not the idealized martyrs of news media stories. (human)
15. Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce has already come out against the measure, saying that _________ competition is a bad idea. (bar)
16. Beginning today, the United States will intensify our _________ with the Congress and our friends and allies, and partners overseas. (consult)
17. In a revealing biography, “Inside the Opaque Kingdom,” Carmen Binladin chronicles her nine years of married life in a _________, male-dominated community, “where women are no more than house pets.” (puritans)
18. More than just a night of playing dress-up, Halloween is an opportunity for parents to learn a little bit about the way their kids think and for children themselves to discover the true breadth of their __________. (ingenious) 19. The bill amends the Crimes Act to allow imprisonment of employers whose negligence or ____________ results in the death of an employee. (reckless) 20. Told with an affectionate and __________eye, “Monsieur Ibrahim” is suffused with an optimism and an innocence. (romance)
II. Structure: complete the following sentences with the best expression from the four choices. (10%)
1. Every here and there, a doorway gives ______ a sunlit courtyard.
a. a glance of b. a glimpse of c. a stare of d. a survey of
2. The shop-keepers speak in slow, measured tones, and the buyers ______.
a. follow a suit b. follow the suit c. follow suits d. follow suit 3. The shop-owner instructs, and sometimes ______ with a hammer himself.
a. takes a hand b. takes hands c. takes hand d. takes two hands
4. Little girls and elderly ladies in kimonos ______ teenagers and women in western dress.
a. rubbed shoulders with b. rubbed shoulder with c. rubbed the shoulder with d. rubbed the shoulders with
5. The tall building of the martyred city flashed by as we lurched from side to side
______ the driver’s sharp twists of the wheel.
a. in response to b. as response to c. in response of d. as response of 6. At last this intermezzo ______, and I found myself in front of the gigantic City Hall.
a. came to end b. came to the end c. came to an end d. came to ending 7. I now stood on the site where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered on to die ____ slow agony. a. at b. from c. of d. in 8. I am a fisherman ______.
a. by trade b. for trade c. on trade d. of trade 9. Hitler was wrong and we should ______ to help Russia.
a. go out all b. go all out c. make out all d. make all out 10. Winant said the same would be true ______the U.S.A. a. with b. of c. for d. to
11. The custom-made object, now restricted to the rich, will be ______ everyone’s reach.
a. with b. in c. within d. for
12. In June 1941 Hitler suddenly launched an attack ______ Russia.
a. for b. to c. on d. against
13. The widest benefits of the electronic revolution will ______ the young.
a. come to b. run to c. go to d. accrue to
14. The Industrial Revolution ______ an immense range of tasks from men’s
muscles.
a. took away b. took off c. took from d. took over
15. The computer revolution is propelling mankind ______ a higher order ______ existence.
a. to…of b. at…of c. to…for d. at…for
16. Mark Twain digested the New American experience before sharing it with the world ______ writer and lecturer. a. by b. for c. like d. as
17. In no area of American life is personal service so precious ______ in medical care.
a. with b. as c. for d. that
18. Mark Twain began ______ his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.
a. seeking b. picking c. digging d. making 19. Bitterness ______ the man who had made the world laugh.
a. fed on b. fed with c. fed up d. fed for
20. He accepted a job as reporter ______ the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. a. for b. at c. with d. by
III. Paraphrase the following sentences by using your own words. (20%) 1. If he does guess correctly, he will price the item high, and yield little in the bargaining.
2. The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.
3. All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic.
4. Ogilvie who had declared he would appear at the Croydons’ suite an hour after his cryptic telephone call actually took twice that time.
5. For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed.
6. In no area of American life is personal service so precious as in medical care.
7. The miracle ship has acquired the force and significance associated with the development of hand tools or the discovery of the steam engine.
8. This is no class war, but a war in which the whole British Empire is engaged, without distinction of race, creed, or party.
9. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied – a cosmos.
10. The very act of stepping on this soil, in breathing this air of Hiroshima, was for me a far greater adventure than any trip or any reportorial assignment I’d previously taken.
IV. Identify the name of the figure of speech used in the underlined part in the following sentences. You must write down English words. (10%)
1. ( )
As you approach it a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear.
2. ( ) 3
( )
Was I not at the scene of the crime? I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.
4
( )
We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air…
5
( )
I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. 6 7 8 9
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Swallowing, sullenly, he complied.
But for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax. Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood. He commented with a crushing sense of despair on man’s final release from earthly struggles. 10 ( )
A world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.
V. Cloze: complete the blanks in the following passage by choosing the right word from the list. Make sure the word you fill is both grammatically and semantically correct. (10%)
age
as continuous donkey-boy
such
take
foot harmonious
variety
kind simultaneous
shadow throng inch make
The Middle Eastern bazaar _____1_____you back hundreds-even thousands-of years. The one I am thinking of particularly is entered by a Gothic arched gateway of ______2____brick and stone. You pass from the heat and glare of a big, open square into a cool, dark cavern which extends ____3______far as the eye can see, losing itself in the _____4_____distance. Little donkeys with ____5______tinkling bells thread their way among the _____6_____of people entering and leaving the bazaar. The roadway is about twelve ______7____wide, but it is narrowed every few yards by little stalls where goods of every conceivable _____8_____are sold. The din of the stall-holders crying their wares, of _____9_____ and porters clearing a way for themselves by shouting vigorously, and of would-be purchasers arguing and bargaining is _____10_____and makes you dizzy.
VI. Proof-reading and error-correction: read the following passage and correct the error in each line that is marked out. Remember there is an error with each numbered line. Make sure you use the right symbol to indicate the error. Do this part on the answer sheet. (10%)
*Please go to the answer sheet. VII.
Reading comprehension (30%)
In this section there are four passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answer in your ANSWER SHEET. Text A
Recent research has claimed that an excess of positive ions in the air can have an ill-effect on people’s psychological health. What are positives ions? Well, the air is full of irons, electrically charged particles, and generally there is a rough balance between the positive and the negative charged. But sometimes this balance becomes disturbed and a larger proportion of positive ions are found. This happens naturally before thunderstorms, earthquakes or when winds such as the Nistral, Foehn, Hamsin or Sharav are blowing in certain countries. Or it can be caused by a build-up of static electricity indoors from carpets or clothing
made of man-made fibers, or from TV sets, duplicators or computer display screens.
When a large number of positive ions are present in the air many people experience unpleasant effects such as headaches, fatigue, irritability, and some particularly sensitive people suffer nausea or even mental disturbance. Animals are also found to be affected, particularly before earthquakes; snakes have been observed to come out of hibernation, rats to flee from their burrows, dogs howl and eats jump about unaccountably. This has led the US Geographical Survey to fund a network of volunteers to watch animals in an effort to foresee such disasters before they hit vulnerable areas such as California.
Conversely, when large numbers of negative ions are present, then people have a feeling of well-being. Natural conditions that produce these amounts are near the sea, close to waterfalls or fountains, or in any place where water is sprayed, or forms a spray. This probably accounts for the beneficial effect of a holiday by the sea, or in the mountains with tumbling streams or waterfalls.
To increase the supply of negative ions indoors, some scientists recommend the use of ionisers: small portable machines which generate negative ions. They claim that ionisers not only clean and refresh the air but also improve the health of people sensitive to excess positive ions. Of course, there are the detractors, other scientists, who dismiss such claims and are skeptical about negative /positive ion research. Therefore people can only make up their own minds by observing the effects on themselves, or on others, of a negative rich or poor environment. After all, it is debatable whether depending on seismic readings to anticipate earthquakes is more effective than watching the cat. 1. What effect does excessive positive ionization have on some people?
A. They think they are insane. B. They feel rather bad-tempered. C. They become violently sick. D. They are too tired to do anything.
2. According to the passage, static electricity can be caused by_____
A. using home-made electrical goods. B. wearing clothes made of natural material.
C. walking on artificial floor coverings. D. copying TV programmes on a computer.
3. By observing the behaviour of animals, scientists may be able to _____. A. prevent disasters. B. organize groups of people. C. predict earthquakes.
D.control areas of California.
4. People should be able to come to a decision about ions in the air if they _____
A. note their own reactions. B. move to a healthier area. C. observe domestic animals. D. watch how wealthy people behave. Text B
One of the greatest problems in assessing most accounts of folk customs is that they tend to give only the antiquary’s point of view. After all, to most observers, the people they were looking at were simple and illiterate, unmindful of the true significance of the customs they had preserved. Why question them at length if they didn’t understand the essential nature of what they were doing? So a folklorist is likely to emphasize aspects of a tradition which relent his or her own or which fit in with preconceived ideas, while possibly ignoring or giving only passing mention to aspects which may, in fact, be of equal importance.
One aspect which generally gets left out of accounts is the viewpoint of the participants themselves: for instance, why they indulge in a particular activity at a particular time of year or of their lives and what feelings they experience while doing so. And now, ideas deriving from folklore studies are so widespread that they may easily have become an integral part of the attitudes of the participants in a custom. So the folklorist is rather like a man starting at a scene in a mirror who must be aware , to fully understand that scene, that his own reflection is a major part of what he is looking at.
It is, however, also true to say that many contemporary students of folklore are fully aware of the problems which beset their enquiries. Like true scientists they draw their conclusions by looking at available evidence, rather than selecting
evidence which fits in with existing theories. Some have also looked away from the ‘obviously’ ancient and turned their attention to folklore where it thrives, in the social life modern cities, in industry and sport etc. They may, for example, end up looking at the lore of the motor car, or of popular music, and at customs which, though they have no hints of paganism, nevertheless have much in common with older activities which do.
Many folklorists have gradually come to the conclusion that folklore is not necessarily a thing of the past , a relic of ancient and outmoded ways of thinking, but the means by which people try to make sense of the world (or to confront is lack of sense) and try to alleviate boredom and suffering. 5. Why are early accounts of folk customs unreliable?
A. The participants did not reveal the significance of their customs. B. The participants were not aware of the meaning of their customs.
C. Folklorists did not consider the participants intelligent enough to answer the questions.
D. Folklorists undervalued the opinions of the participants.
6. Why is the study of folklore today different?
A. Participants insist on the accuracy of their own interpretations. B. Participants are now influenced by earlier studies of their activities. C. Folklorists are too concerned to justify their own theories. D. Folklorists are often misled by unreliable earlier studies.
7. What is new about folklorists today?
A. They are now more cautious about the evidence they accept. B. They want to investigate the more obscure areas of folklore. C. They are studying the creation of folklore in present-day society.
D. They want to discover the links between paganism and modern society customs.
8. What does participation in folk customs mean to people?
A. It can be of psychological benefit to them.
B. It enables them to escape the problems of the modern world. C. It can be a means of regaining ancient wisdom.
D. It is an attempt to reconstruct what is lost forever. Text C
Lily Chen always prepared an ‘evening’ snack for her husband to consume on his return at 1.15 a.m. This was not strictly necessary since Chen enjoyed at the unusually late hour of 11.45 p.m. what the boss boasted was the best ‘employees’ dinner in any restaurant. They sat, waiters, boss, boss’s mother too, at a round table and ate soup, a huge fish, vegetables, shredded pork, and a tureen of steaming rice. Lily still went ahead and prepared broth, golden-yellow with floating oily rings, and put it before her husband when he returned. She felt she would have been failing in her wifely duties otherwise. Dutifully, Chen drank the soup he raised to his mouth in the patterned porcelain spoon while Lily watched him closely from the sofa. It was far too rich for him. Lily had the gas fire burning five minutes before her husband’s football on the stone stairs and Chen would be perspiring heavily by the time he finished, abandoning the spoon and applying the bowl to his lips to drink the last awkward inches, the breads of moisture on his forehead as salty as the broth. He fancied they fell in and over-seasoned the last of the soup. Four years ago, at the beginning of their marriage. Chen had tried leaving the last spoonful but Lily’s reproachful eyes were intolerable. She was merciless now, watching him with sidelong glances from the sofa, her knees pressed closely together while she paired the baby’s socks from the plastic basket on the floor. ‘Did you enjoy that, Husband?’ ‘Was it nice?’ she would enquire brightly. Chen would grunt in his stolid way, not wishing to hurt her feelings but also careful not to let himself in for a bigger bowl in the future.
Although comfortably full, Chen would have liked a biscuit but Lily was unrelenting here as well. Sweet after salty was dangerous for the system, so she had been taught; it could upset the whole balance of the dualities or female and male principles, yin and yang. Lily was full of incontrovertible pieces of lore like this which she had picked up from her father who had been a part-time bone-setter and Chinese boxer. For four years, therefore, Chen had been going to bed tortured with the last extremities of thirst but with his dualistic male and female principles in harmony. This was more than could be said for Lily. Chen often thought, who concealed a steely will behind her demure exterior.
9. What was Chen’s job?
A. He ran a restaurant. B. He washed dishes. C. He was a cook. D. He worked as a waiter.
10. Chen always finished his soup because Lily____
A. felt content if he did. B. would then allow him a drink. C. did not like to throw food away. D. complained bitterly if he didn’t.
11. Chen’s home-life was difficult because of his wife’s_____
A. lack of concern. B. rigid ideas. C. thoughtlessness. D. unco-operative behavior.
12. Which of the following statements correctly describes the relationship between Lily and Chen?
A. They were indifferent to each other. B. They made each other suffer. C. They respected each other. D. They did not get on well. Text D
Every year more than half a million American kids drainage tubes surgically implanted in their ears to combat persistent infections. The procedure, known as tympanostomy, may not be as common as the tonsillectomy was in the 1940s, but it now ranks as the nation’s leading childhood operation and a new study suggests it’s being vastly overused. In reviewing more than 6,000 scheduled ear tube operations, a team of experts led by Harvard pediatrician Lawrence Kleinman found that fewer than half were clearly justified. “Each year,” the researchers write in the current Journal of the American. Medical Association
(JAMA), “several hundred thousand children in the United States may be receiving tympanostomy tubes that offer them no demonstrated advantage… and may place them at increased risk. ”
Tube placement isn’t terribly risky procedure, but it costs $ 1,000 to $ 1,500 and sometimes scars the eardrum, causing a partial loss of hearing. Studies show that the benefits are most likely to outweigh the risks if a child’s middle ear has produced sticky fluid for more than four months despite treatment with antibiotics. For less virulent infections, drug treatment is usually a cheaper, safer alternative (though drugs, too, can be overused). In the new JAMA study, Kleinman’s team reviewed the medical charts of 6,429 kids, all under 16, whose doctors had recommended the procedure. Even making “generous assumptions” about the likely benefits, the researchers found that a quarter of the proposed operations were inappropriate, since less invasive alternative were available, while another third were as likely to harm the recipients as help them.
Parents needn’t panic about ear tubes that are already in place. Once successfully implanted, the tiny devices provide drainage for six months to a year, then come out by themselves. But the new findings could help families make better-informed decisions, while reducing health costs by hundreds of millions of dollars every year. 13. In the 1940s______
A. tympanostomies were never performed. B. tonsillectomies were done too frequently. C. there were too few American pediatricians. D. American children had fewer ear infections.
14. The Harvard study concluded that_____.
A. children never benefit from ear surgery. B. tympanostomy tubes result in deafness. C. some surgeons are too eager to operate. D. ear tube operations are too expensive.
15. Tympanostomy tubes are meant to______
A. dissolve slowly. B. replace medicines.
C. alleviate eardrum pressure. D. reduce earaches.
Answer Sheet
Name_____________ Student Number______________ Score____________
I. Blank-filling (10%) 1. 2. 6. 7. 11. 12. 16. 17.
II. Structure (10%) 1-5 6-10
III. Paraphrase (20%) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
IV. Figure of Speech (10%) 1. 2. 6. 7.
V. Cloze (10%)
3. 4. 8. 9. 13. 14. 18. 19. 11-15 3. 4. 8. 9.
5. 10. 15. 20. 16-20 5. 10
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10
VI. Proofreading and Error-Correcting (10%)
Directions: In the passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to add a word, cross out a word, or change a word. Mark out the mistakes and put your corrections in the blanks provided. If you cross out a word, put a slash (/) over the concerned word. Please note that you are not going to look for any spelling errors. Example
When art museum wants a new exhibit, it buys
[1] an [2] the [3] exhibit
things in the finished form. When a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it.
We all know the computer is coming into our home and work environments. But how many of us thought it would effect our marriages? One of my friends reports that at her evening computer course, more than a third of the people there came only because their spouse had purchased a home computer. It can certainly be the third party that upsets the delicate balance of a marriage.
In connecting to our national economy, it is important now not to get depressed about the latest gloomy business statistics, which they are strictly industrial-based measures of economic well-being. The information economy and the other sunrise sectors are going well. They are the ones to invest now. Small sunrise stocks versus large sunset stocks; buying Computer Software, Inc., selling U.S. Steel.
If, as predicted, electronics replaces the automobile like the most important industry in our economy, will we have to buy a home computer before buying a car?
1. ______
2. ______ 3. ______
4. ______
5. ______
We need cars now because we organized our society around it. Fifty years ago when we decided that since the economy was going to be built cars, everyone from age sixteen up should want and need one. But what did the automobile ever contribute to society besides transportation? Without it, would we have moved so far apart and created such poor public transportation? Of course, we need cars. Furthermore, three-care families? Who live in cities? In addition to transportation, the automobile has brought us air pollution, an average of 50,000 highway dyings each year, automobile insurance, and parking tickets. So far the computer looks relatively modest. The whole orientation of the computer are getting you to expand your brainpower through growth, education, and learning.
6. ______ 7. ______
8. ______
9. ______
10. _____
VII. Reading Comprehension (30%) 1-5
6-10
11-15
标准答案及评分标准（B卷）：
I. Blank-filling (10%) 1. picturesque 5. villainous 9. humiliating 18. ingenuity
每小题0.5分，共20个小题，10分。每小题填写的单词必须完全正确才给分，单词拼写错误、单复数不正确、时态不正确不给分。
II. Structure (10%)
1-5 bcaaa 6-10 cdabb 11-15 ccdda 16-20 dbcac
评分标准：每题0.5分， 共10分。
III. Paraphrase (20%) 参考答案见教参。
总分20分，每小题2分。基本符合原文内容、语言表达正确的给满分。每个拼写错误扣0.5分，扣完为止；每个语法错误扣0.5分，扣完为止。
IV. Figure of Speech (10%) 1. onomatopoeia 5. simile
答案若有拼字错误一律不给分。若有相异答案，经教师判断视为合理答案者，可酌情给分但若拼字错误仍不给分。
2. towers 3. preoccupation 7. irrevocable
4. spectacle 8. outrage
13. hazardous
17. puritanical
6. moralise 15. barring
10. disdainfully 11. hunch 19. recklessness
12. calculated
14. humanizing 16. consultations
20. romantic
2. rhetorical question 6. alliteration 10. antithesis
3. metaphor 4. parallelism
7. metonymy 8. hyperbole
9. euphemism
V. Cloze (10%)
1. takes 2. aged 3. as
4. shadowy 5. harmoniously 6. throngs
7. feet 8. kind 9. donkey-boys 10. continuous 本题共10分。每空一分。
要求：选词正确，词形也正确，得1分，任意一错不给分。
VI. Proofreading (10%) 1. effectaffect
2. In connecting toIn connection with
5. like as
6. it them
10. are is
9. dyings deaths
3. they / (delete)
4. invest invest (in) 8. Furthermore But
每小题1分，共10个小题，10分。每小题指出的错正确（符号使用正确、标示地方正确）给0.5分，改出的答案正确（拼写、大小写正确）给0.5分。
VII. Reading Comprehension (30%)
1-5 B C C A D 6-10 B C A D A 11-15 B C B C D
每小题2分，共30分。
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7. built built (on)
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