高英试卷整理
Part I: The following are the multiple-choice questions concerning the history, culture and society of major English speaking countries, British and American literature, and English linguistics. Choose the best answer to each question. (10 points)
1.（A卷）1972 was the worst year of the political turmoil in Northern
Ireland because ( ) A. 13 Catholics were shot by the police B. of the ―Bloody Sunday‖ when 468 people were killed C. the government implemented the ―internment‖ policy D. the Protestants for med their own ―parliament‖ and took revenge on Catholics
2.（A卷）Which of the following statements is NOT true about most of
the British universities and colleges? A. They are privately funded. B.
They are publicly funded. C. They used to be rather elitist. D. They have been taking more and more overseas students in recent decades. 3.（A卷）Australia has the credit of( ) A. being the world’s earliest to
adopt secret ballot in parliament election B. being the world’s first to adopt a two-house system in parliament C. being the most active in implementing compulsory vote D. being the first to allow citizens access to government information
4.（A卷）Sydney is the capital city of ( ) A. Queensland B. New South
Wales C. Victoria D. West Australia
5.（A卷）Which of the following is NOT a major religion in America? A.
Protestantism B. Catholicism C. Judaism D. Islam
6.（A卷）China and the United States established diplomatic relations in
( ) during the presidency of ( ) A. 1972; Richard Nixon B. 1974; Gerald Ford C. 1976; Walter Mondale D. 1979; Jimmy Carter
7.（A卷）The American Civil War ended in ( ), which brought an end to
( ) A. 1860; the separation between the North and South B. 1863; the slavery system in the South C. 1865; the political disputes between the North and South D. 1863; the economic difference between the North and South
8.（A卷）The formal head of state of Canada is ( ) A. the Prime Minister
B. the British Queen
C. the Governor-General
D. the head of the
Parliament
9.（A卷）Woolf shares with James Joyce in that many of their works are
characteristic of ( ) A. critical realism B. romanticism C. sentimentalism
D. stream of consciousness
10.（A卷）The English Renaissance is also known as the Golden Age of ( )
A. English Verse
B. English Drama
C. English Fiction
D. English Prose
11.（A卷）Scott Fitzgerald was the author of all the following EXCEPT ( )
A. The Great Gatsby
B. Tender is the Night
C. This Side of Paradis e
D.
Main Street
12.（A卷）Which of the following plays is NOT written by O’Neil? A.
Beyond the Horizon B. Death of a Salesman C. The Hairy Ape D.
Desire Under the Elms
13.（A卷）Who wrote Death of a Salesman? A. Tennessee Williams B.
Eugene O’Neil C. Arthur Miller D. Edward Albee
14.（A卷）The author of The Joy Luck Club is ( ) A. Maxine Hong
Kingston B. Amy Tan C. Gish Jen D. Edith Maud Eaton
15.（A卷）English belongs to ( ) A. the Germanic language family B. the
Italic language family C. the Slavic language family D. the Iranian language family
16.（A卷）Phonetically speaking, ―n‖ in tenth and ―n‖ in ten are ( ) A.
pronounced in the same way B. not pronounced in the same way C. in fact different phonemes D. realized by the same phone
17.（A卷）/s/ in works, /z/ in finds and /iz/ in teaches are say to be ( ) A.
allomorphs of the same morpheme B. allophones of the same phoneme
C. derivational morphemes
D. root morphemes of the past tense
18.（A卷）Which of the following is not an affix in English? A. ―ed‖ in
wanted B. ―or‖ in actor C. ―tel‖ in telex D. ―able‖ in workable
19.（A卷）Which of the following rules can be used to generate the
phrases such as: ―useful horses‖, ―the cat‖, ―a sweet boy‖, ―John‖? A.
NP→Det N B. NP→N C. NP→AP N D. NP→(Det)（AP）N
20.（A卷）Which of the following are homonyms? A. Big and Small B.
Pair and Pear C. Cold and Hot D. Big and Large
21.（B 卷）1 The Grapes of Wrath is a novel written by ( ) with ( ) as its
background. A. Theodore Dreiser; the evil life in cities B. Scott
Fitzgerald; the Gilded Age C. John Steinbeck; the Great Depression D.
Ernest Hemingway; the First World War
22.（B 卷）2 Joseph Heller is well-known for his ( ) a novel of ( ) A. The
Sea Wolf; hard realism B. A Farewell to Arms; war protest C. The Sound and the Fury; stream of consciousness D. Catch-22; black humor 23.（B 卷）3 The author of Invisible Man is ( ) A. Kate Chopin B.
Richard Wright C. Ralph Ellison D. William Faulkner
24.（B 卷）4 Which of the following plays was written by Tennessee
William? A. The Glass Menagerie B. Desire under the Elms C. Death of
a Salesman D. The Zoo Story
25.（B 卷）5 Who wrote Death of a Salesman? A. Tennessee Williams B.
Eugene O’Neil C. Arthur Miller D. Edward Albee
26.（B 卷）6 J. D. Salinger was best remembered as the author of ( ) A.
On the Way B. The Catcher in the Rye C. Catch-22 D. Winds of War 27.（B 卷）7 Rabbit Run was the first novel of the Rabbit series written
by ( ) A. John Updike B. Saul Bellow C. Norman Mailer D. John Barth 28.（B 卷）8 ( ) author of Beloved and Song of Solomon, won the 1993
Nobel Prize for literature. A. Richard Wright B. Ralph Ellison C. Alice Walker D. Toni Morrison
29.（B 卷）9 Maxine Hong Kingston wrote all of the following BUT ( ) A.
The Woman Warrior B. China Men C. The Fifth Chinese Daughter D.
Tripmaster Monkey
30.（B 卷）10 The author of The Joy Luck Club is ( ) A. Maxine Hong
Kingston B. Amy Tan C. Gish Jen D. Edith Maud Eaton
31.（B 卷）11 Which of the following is not a sub-branch of linguistics?
A. Morphology
B. Phonology
C. Acoustics
D. Semantics
32.（B 卷）12 Which of the following is part of Chomsky’s theory? A.
Sense relationships B. Transformational rules C. Immediate constituent analysis D. Componential analysis
33.（B 卷）13 Like structural linguistics, transformational-generative
grammar also takes ( ) A. a synchronic approach B. a diachronic approach C. a cognitive approach D. a generative approach
34.（B 卷）14 Unlike structural linguistics, transformational-generative
grammar examines ( ) A. the deep structure of a language only B. both the surface and the deep structures C. the surface structure of a language only D. neither deep nor surface structures
35.（B 卷）15 English belongs to ( ) A. the Germanic language family B.
the Italic language family C. the Slavic language family D. the Iranian language family
36.（B 卷）16 Which of the following task is not undertaken by the
phonologist? A. Studying the sound structure of one language. B.
Discovering the phonemes of one language. C. Setting up rules governing the distribution of phonemes. D. Examining the phrase structure of a language
37.（B 卷）17 [h] is a ( ). A. voiceless labiodental fricative B. voiced
labiodental fricative C. voiceless glottal fricative D. voiced interdental
fricative
38.（B 卷）18 [u] is ( ). A. a high front unrounded oral vowel B. a mid
front unrounded oral vowel C. a high back rounded oral vowel D. a mid front rounded nasal vowel
39.（B 卷）19 The word ―tip‖ is pronounced ( ) A. [t h ip] B. [t h ip h] C. [tip]
D. [ti]
40.（B 卷）20 Phonetically speaking, ―n‖ in tenth and ―n‖ in ten are ( ) A.
pronounced in the same way B. not pronounced in the same way C. in fact different phonemes D. realized by the same phone
Part II: Multiple Choices (10 points)
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked [A]. [B]. [C]. [D]. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the AYSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (10 points)西安交通
1. （A卷）Carbon monoxide formed by the incomplete combustion of some carbonaceous material, has been a _______ to humans since the domestication of fire.
A. hazard
B. dispute
C. docile
D. boost
2. （A卷）I couldn’t help but _____ when I heard his st ory.
A. buckle
B. dilute
C. chuckle
D. bruise
3. （A卷）Early space ______ showed that radiation varies in different parts of space around the Earth.
A. meteors
B. probes
C. rams
D. drenches
4.（A卷）A wink can be a way of ______ or indicating that the party is only joking.
A. flushing
B. cracking
C. sleeting
D. flirting
5. （A卷）Gulf officials say an affluent lifestyle is bleeding the region’s heavily _____ water supplies.
A. subsided
B. campaigned
C. salinated
D. unwarranted
6. （A卷）He was so ____ in the TV program that he forgot to turn the oven off.
A. tarnished
B. revamped
C. engrossed
D. bequeathed
7. （A卷）The _____ of color and action which fills the world is taken for granted.
A. pageant
B. panorama
C. convolution
D. epicurean
8. （A卷）I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly _____.
A. delimited
B. loomed
C. fostered
D. accumulated
9. （A卷）The universe is organized in ______ with, in many cases, pretty wide gaps between them.
A. uniformities
B. enunciation
C. promulgation
D. aggregates
10. （A卷）I will try to explain to you what has given rise to these ______ and given me a bad name.
A. flickers
B. tentacles
C. slanders
D. galaxies
11. （A卷）The house by the sea had a mysterious air of ____ about it.
A. melancholy
B. serenity
C. serioso
D. retroject
12. （A卷）A middle-aged woman of tremendous ______ sat down beside the other patients in the waiting room.
A. retrogress
B. tabac
C. girth
D. saber
13.（A卷）________ terror filled their brains as they witnessed the explosions.
A. Numbing
B. Tantalous
C. Paralysis
D. Sentient
14. （A卷）Penny’s _______ speech given at the state competition won her the first prize.
A. promptitude
B. impromptu
C. prorate
D. natant
15. （A卷）The slender boy _______ the wall like a lizard.
A. allayed
B. fluked
C. plastered
D. scaled
16. （A卷）The salon was the most elegant room Madeline had ever seen despite its ____.
A. annotation
B. parlance
C. relegance
D. austerity
17. （A卷）The Royal Museum contains a ______ of the king's famous declaration.
A. facsimile
B. humbug
C. wager
D. congeal
18. （A卷）The raccoon is a _______ animal.
A. nebulous
B. nocturnal
C. marsupial
D. diurnal
19. （A卷）The lawsuit was lost because of ______ in the statements of the witness.
A. discrepancies
B. conjugations
C. coincidences
D. remonstrations
20. （A卷）There is only time to ____ the plan and we will discuss it in detail next week.
A. decry
B. eliminate
C. expound
D. adumbrate
21. （B 卷）In spite of everything that has happened, she has a very serene expression on her face.
A. angry
B. frightened
C. calm
D. happy
22. （B 卷）If a client insists upon being stubborn lawyers have to settle claims in court.
A. abject
B. obstinate
C. indignant
D. sympathetic
23. （B 卷）There is a controversy even among doctors as to whether this disease is contagious or not.
A. discussion
B. disagreement
C. quarrel
D. argument
24. （B 卷）They believed that the merchants had conspired to undermine the nation’s economic independence.
A. plotted
B. planned
C. strove
D. managed
25. （B 卷）The old man behaves so discreetly as if he were surrounded by invisible spies.
A. angrily
B. bravely
C. cautiously
D. instantly
26. （B 卷）His first impulse is to jump back and warm the others, but he knows the commotion would frighten the cobra into striking.
A. fuss
B. disturbance
C. disorder
D. response
27. （B 卷）The idea was conceived 15 years ago when Dr. Gunnar Junger was working as clinical chemist in northern Sweden.
A. accepted
B. devised
C. handed over
D. discussed
28. （B 卷）I hated to see the loathsome sights in commercials about cold remedies.
A. violent
B. bloody
C. shocking
D. disgusting
29. （B 卷）Future scientific discoveries will make possible the future prolongation of human life span.
A. expectancy
B. quality
C. condition
D. state
30. （B 卷）Mother showed me an expeditious method of packing on the day I went mountaineering.
A. careful
B. efficient
C. helpful D convenient
31. （B 卷）The doctor speculated that high cholesterol was a contributing factor to the patient’s health problems.
A. expected
B. thought
C. assumed
D. guessed
32. （B 卷）The old baby nurtured the child as if he had been her own.
A. loved
B. treated
C. brought
D. helped
33. （B 卷）It is almost impossible to learn multiplication without knowing the rudimentary steps of addition.
A. well-known
B. confusing
C. mentioned
D. elementary
34. （B 卷）The teacher nominated me as the representative at the meeting
A. appointed
B. sent
C. chose
D. dispatched
35. （B 卷）The loosing candidate conceded at midnight after the polls had closed.
A. won
B. yielded
C. worried
D. stood up
36. （B 卷）With a quick look, the teacher reproved the child for doing that in case.
A. praised
B. rewarded
C. criticized
D. encouraged
37. （B 卷）In the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, thunder was believed to be a manifestation of the wrath of the gods.
A. anger
B. spirit
C. voice
D. power
38. （B 卷）Many little wrinkles gathered between his eyes as he contemplated this.
A. dealt with
B. was looking forward to
C. tried his best to do
D. meditated
39. （B 卷）When bothered by other animals or humans, some species of honored lizards will posture threateningly and squirt blood from their eyes.
D. jump
A. stand
B.pose
C.squat
40. （B 卷）The resulting discrepancy can serve as a basis for the student to modify his way of using the present tense in English.
A. encourage
B. analyze
C. change
D. agree with
Part III: Reading Comprehension (15 points)
In this section, there are three reading passages following by a total of 15 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then write your answer on the answer sheet.
Passage I
If you had asked me then if I would accept a job as a restaurant critic for The New York Times, or any established publication, I would have replied, without a second thought, "Of course not!" And not just because I did not want to think of myself as an ambitious sort. Working in restaurants was honest labor; anyone could see that. Writing about them for the mainstream press was not; it felt like joining the enemy.
But reviewing was fun, so much fun that when mainstream
publishers started paying me for my opinions, I didn't do the decent thing. Before I knew it, I had stopped cooking professionally. Then I stopped cooking altogether. "She's joined the leisure class," my friends said.
I disarmed my critics by inviting them along; nobody I knew could afford to eat out and nobody refuseD. We went with equal amounts of guilt and pleasure, with a feeling that we were trespassing on the playgrounds of the rich.
We didn't belong in those starchy restaurants. We always got the worst table. And then, because I didn't own a credit card, I had to pay in cash. The year turned into two, and three, and more. I got a credit carD. I got good clothes. I was writing for increasingly prestigious publications. Meanwhile, a voice inside me kept whispering, "How could you?"
When I receive weekly letters from people who think it is indecent to write about $100 meals while half the world is hungry, the voice yacks right along. "They're absolutely right," it whispers. And when it asks, "When are you going to grow up and get a real job?" it sounds a lot like my mother.
And just about then is when I tell the voice to shut up. Because when my mother starts telling me that all I'm doing with my life is telling rich people where to eat, I realize how
much the world has changed.
Yes, there are still restaurants where rich people go to remind themselves that they are different from you and me. But there are fewer and fewer of them. As American food has come of age, American restaurants have changeD. Going out to eat used to be like going to the opera; today, it is more like going the movies.
41.
Why would the author have refused to accept the job as a restaurant critic if people had asked her then?
A Because she was ambitious.
B Because she didn't think highly of the job.
C Because she didn't think well of the job as a cook.
D Because she didn't want to criticize anyon
42.
The word "decent" in "doing the decent thing" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A very profitable
B morally acceptable
C fairly attractive
D very pleasant
43.
In Paragraph 4, by "The year turned into two, three and more," the author means that ______.
A she went on and on working in restaurants
B she lived a luxurious life for many years
C she kept working for publications until she got a credit card
D she went on and on writing as a restaurant critic
44.
Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A Most Americans can't afford to eat out.
B American food has remained unchanged.
C Americans like going to the movies.
D Food in most American restaurants is cheap.
45.
Which of the following can be concluded from this article?
A Cooks are respected in the U. S.
B The author was once a cook.
C Rich people like going to the theatre.
D Restaurant critics all feel guilty.
41.
Why would the author have refused to accept the job as a restaurant critic if people had asked her then?
A Because she was ambitious.
B Because she didn't think highly of the job.
C Because she didn't think well of the job as a cook.
D Because she didn't want to criticize anyon
回答:х该问题分值: 2
答案:B
由第一段最后一句writing about them...felt like joining the enemy可知在作者眼中，当餐厅评论家与投奔敌人一样。
42.
The word "decent" in "doing the decent thing" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A very profitable
B morally acceptable
C fairly attractive
D very pleasant
回答:√该问题分值: 2
答案:A
本句中提到出版商started paying me for my opinions，这是有利可图的。选项A为正确答案。
43.
In Paragraph 4, by "The year turned into two, three and more," the author means that ______.
A she went on and on working in restaurants
B she lived a luxurious life for many years
C she kept working for publications until she got a credit card
D she went on and on writing as a restaurant critic
回答:√该问题分值: 2
答案:D
从第四段倒数第二句可以得知作者在写餐馆评论。她不在餐馆工作，而且生活并不奢侈，其写作目的也并非为了得到信用卡。
44.
Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A Most Americans can't afford to eat out.
B American food has remained unchanged.
C Americans like going to the movies.
D Food in most American restaurants is cheap.
回答:х该问题分值: 2
答案:D
从本段得知，美国的大部分人都能负担起在餐馆吃饭的费用，推断出美国大部分餐馆都不贵。选项A不符合文意。选项B根据American food has come of age得知美国食物并非一
成不变。选项C并不能由文中推出，只能推测出在美国看电影便宜。
45.
Which of the following can be concluded from this article?
A Cooks are respected in the U. S.
B The author was once a cook.
C Rich people like going to the theatre.
D Restaurant critics all feel guilty.
回答:х该问题分值: 2
答案:B
由第二段I had stopped cooking professionally得知作者曾经是厨师。
Passage Two （A卷）
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Early or Later Day Care
The British psychoanalyst John Bowlby maintains that separation from the parents during the sensitive "attachment" period from birth to three may scar a child's personality and predispose to emotional problems in later life. Some people have drawn the conclusion from Bowlby's work that children should not be subjected to day care before the age of three
because of the parental separation it entails, and many people do believe this. But there are also arguments against such a strong conclusion.
Firstly, anthropologists point out that the insulated love affair between children and parents found in modem societies does not usually exist in traditional societies. For example, in some tribal societies, such as the Ngoni, the father and
mother of a child did not rear their infant alone---far from it. Secondly, common sense tells us that day care would not be
so widespread today if parents, care-takers found children had problems with it. Statistical studies of this kind have not
yet been carded out, and even if they were, the results would be certain to be complicated and controversial. Thirdly, in the
last decade there have been a number of careful American studies of children in day care, and they have uniformly reported
that day care had a neutral or slightly positive effect on children's development. But tests that have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enough accepted to settle the issue.
But Bowlby's analysis raises the possibility that early day care has delayed effects. The possibility that such care
might lead to, say, more mental illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can only be explored by the use of statistics. Whatever
the long-term effects, parents sometimes find the immediate effects difficult to deal with. Children under three are likely
to protest at leaving their parents and show unhappiness. At the age of three or three and a half almost all children find
the transition to nursery easy, and this is undoubtedly why more and more parents make use of child care at this time. The matter, then, is far from clear-cut, though experience and available evidence indicate that early care is reasonable for infants.
1. Which of the following statements would Bowlby support?
A. The first three years of one's life is extremely important to the later development of personality.
B. Early day care can delay the occurrence of mental illness in children.
C. Statistical studies should be carried out to assess the positive effect of day care for children at the age of three or
older.
D. Children under three get used to the life at nursery schools more readily than children over three.