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兽医英语试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. Which of the following is NOT a common symptom of canine distemper?A. FeverB. Loss of appetiteC. Excessive thirstD. Hair loss2. The term "euthanasia" refers to:A. The study of animal diseasesB. The act of putting a suffering animal to restC. The practice of animal husbandryD. The process of animal vaccination3. What is the primary function of a veterinarian?A. To groom petsB. To diagnose and treat animal diseasesC. To breed animals for saleD. To train animals for performance4. Which of the following is a common parasitic disease in cats?A. RabiesB. Feline leukemiaC. HeartwormD. Ringworm5. The abbreviation "IV" in veterinary medicine stands for:A. IntravenousB. In vitroC. International VeterinaryD. Invasive Veterinary6. What is the purpose of a vaccine in veterinary medicine?A. To treat existing diseasesB. To prevent the occurrence of diseasesC. To control the spread of diseasesD. Both B and C7. Which of the following is NOT a method for controlling the population of stray animals?A. Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)B. Adoption campaignsC. HuntingD. Euthanasia8. What does the acronym "BVD" stand for in veterinary medicine?A. Bovine Viral DiarrheaB. Borderline Veterinary DiseaseC. Basic Veterinary DiagnosticsD. Biological Veterinary Disease9. The process of artificially inducing labor in animals is known as:A. OvulationB. ParturitionC. InductionD. Embryonation10. Which of the following is a type of diagnostic imaging used by veterinarians?A. X-rayB. UltrasoundC. ThermographyD. All of the above二、填空题（每题1分，共10分）1. The veterinary medical examination of a pet is often referred to as a _______.2. The _______ is a common method used to prevent heartworm disease in dogs.3. Veterinarians often use a _______ to examine the internal structures of an animal.4. A _______ is a professional who specializes in the health and medical treatment of animals.5. The _______ is a contagious viral disease that affects both dogs and cats.6. In veterinary medicine, the term _______ refers to the surgical removal of an animal's reproductive organs.7. A _______ is a condition where an animal has ingested a foreign object.8. The _______ is a blood test used to determine the presence of antibodies.9. The process of _______ is used to determine the sex of an animal.10. Veterinarians may use _______ to treat wounds and prevent infection.三、简答题（每题5分，共30分）1. What are the key responsibilities of a veterinarian in a small animal clinic?2. Describe the process of a routine vaccination for a pet.3. Explain the importance of spaying and neutering in pet population control.4. What are the benefits of microchipping for pet owners and their pets?四、论述题（共40分）1. Discuss the role of a veterinarian in public health, including the prevention of zoonotic diseases and the promotion of food safety.（20分）2. Elaborate on the ethical considerations a veterinarian must take into account when deciding to perform euthanasia on a suffering animal.（20分）答案：一、选择题1. D. Hair loss2. B. The act of putting a suffering animal to rest3. B. To diagnose and treat animal diseases4. D. Ringworm5. A. Intravenous6. D. Both B and C7. C. Hunting8. A. Bovine Viral Diarrhea9. C. Induction10. D. All of the above二、填空题1. physical examination2. monthly heartworm preventative3. ultrasound4. veterinarian5. rabies6. sterilization7. foreign body ingestion8. serology9. sexing10. antibiotics三、简答题1. Key responsibilities include providing preventive care, diagnosing and treating illnesses, performing surgeries, and maintaining records of animal health.2. Routine vaccination involves selecting appropriate vaccines based on the pet's age, lifestyle, and risk factors, administering the vaccine, and monitoring for any adverse reactions.3. Spaying and neutering help control the pet population, prevent unwanted behaviors, and reduce the risk of certain health problems.4. Microchipping provides a permanent form of identification, aids in the return。

英语二翻译材料01 The Language of MusicA painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords would be inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left hand up and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm—two entirely different movements.Singers and instruments have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are spared this particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner’s responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties; the hammers that hit the string have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion, and each overlapping tone has to sound clear.This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts student conductors: they have to learn to know every note of the music and how it should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these sound with fanatical but selfless authority.Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home in the language of music that they can enjoy performing works written in any century02 Schooling and EducationIt is commonly believed in United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is important. Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions. People are engaged in education from infancy on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term. It is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one’s entire life.Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at approximately the same time, take assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, and so on. The slices of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the working of government, have usually been limited by the boundaries of the subject being taught. For example, high schoolstudents know that there not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their communities or what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. There are definite conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.03 The Definition of “Price”Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad of services, including labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the “system” of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else.If one were to ask a group of randomly selected individuals to define “price”, many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service or, in other words that price is the money values of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount, but with the amount and quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the form of money to be used, the credit terms and discounts that apply to the transaction, guarantees on the product or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully aware of all the fac tors that comprise the total “package” being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.04 ElectricityThe modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for million of years. Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity.All living cell send out tiny pulses of electricity. As the heart beats, it sends out pulses of record; they form an electrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to determine how well the heart is working. The brain, too, sends out brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram. The electric currents generated by most living cells are extremely small – often so small that sensitive instruments are needed to record them. But in some animals, certain muscle cells have become so specialized as electrical generators that they do not work as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of these cell are linked together, the effects can be astonishing.The electric eel is an amazing storage battery. It can seed a jolt of as much as eight hundredvolts of electricity through the water in which it live. ( An electric house current is only one hundred twenty volts.) As many as four-fifths of all the cells in the el ectric eel’s body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to length of its body.05 The Beginning of DramaThere are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argument for this view goes as follows. In the beginning, human beings viewed the natural forces of the world-even the seasonal changes-as unpredictable, and they sought through various means to control these unknown and feared powers. Those measures which appeared to bring the desired results were then retained and repeated until they hardened into fixed rituals. Eventually stories arose which explained or veiled the mysteries of the rites. As time passed some rituals were abandoned, but the stories, later called myths, persisted and provided material for art and drama.Those who believe that drama evolved out of ritual also argue that those rites contained the seed of theater because music, dance, masks, and costumes were almost always used, Furthermore, a suitable site had to be provided for performances and when the entire community did not participate, a clear division was usually made between the "acting area" and the "auditorium." In addition, there were performers, and, since considerable importance was attached to avoiding mistakes in the enactment of rites, religious leaders usually assumed that task. Wearing masks and costumes, they often impersonated other people, animals, or supernatural beings, and mimed the desired effect-success in hunt or battle, the coming rain, the revival of the Sun-as an actor might. Eventually such dramatic representations were separated from religious activities.Another theory traces the theater's origin from the human interest in storytelling. According to this vies tales (about the hunt, war, or other feats) are gradually elaborated, at first through the use of impersonation, action, and dialogue by a narrator and then through the assumption of each of the roles by a different person. A closely related theory traces theater to those dances that are primarily rhythmical and gymnastic or that are imitations of animal movements and sounds.06 TelevisionTelevision-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promises to reshape our lives and our world. It is an electronic revolution of sorts, made possible by the marriage of television and computer technologies.The word "television", derived from its Greek (tele: distant) and Latin (visio: sight) roots, can literally be interpreted as sight from a distance. Very simply put, it works in this way: through a sophisticated system of electronics, television provides the capability of converting an image (focused on a special photoconductive plate within a camera) into electronic impulses, which can be sent through a wire or cable. These impulses, when fed into a receiver (television set), can then be electronically reconstituted into that same image.Television is more than just an electronic system, however. It is a means of expression, as well as a vehicle for communication, and as such becomes a powerful tool for reaching other human beings.The field of television can be divided into two categories determined by its means of transmission. First, there is broadcast television, which reaches the masses through broad-based airwave transmission of television signals. Second, there is nonbroadcast television, which provides for the needs of individuals or specific interest groups through controlled transmission techniques.Traditionally, television has been a medium of the masses. We are most familiar with broadcast television because it has been with us for about thirty-seven years in a form similar to what exists today. During those years, it has been controlled, for the most part, by the broadcast networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS, who have been the major purveyors of news, information, and entertainment. These giants of broadcasting have actually shaped not only television but our perception of it as well. We have come to look upon the picture tube as a source of entertainment, placing our role in this dynamic medium as the passive viewer.07 Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and , in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the product and in part from his policy of expanding during periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were reducing their investments.Carnegie believed that individuals should progress through hard work, but he also felt strongly that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society. He opposed charity, preferring instead to provide educational opportunities that would allow others to help themselves. "He who dies rich, dies disgraced," he often said.Among his more noteworthy contributions to society are those that bear his name, including the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, which has a library, a museum of fine arts, and a museum of national history. He also founded a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie-MellonUniversity. Other philanthrophic gifts are the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote understanding between nations, the Carnegie Institute of Washington to fund scientific research, and Carnegie Hall to provide a center for the arts. Few Americans have been left untouched by Andrew Carnegie's generosity. His contributions of more than five million dollars established 2,500 libraries in small communities throughout the country and formed the nucleus of the public library system that we all enjoy today.08 American RevolutionThe American Revolution was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated evolution rather than outright revolution. During the conflict itself people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were not seriously disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the more isolated communities scarcely knew that a war was on.America's War of Independence heralded the birth of three modern nations. One was Canada, which received its first large influx of English-speaking population from the thousands of loyalists who fled there from the United States. Another was Australia, which became a penal colony now that America was no longer available for prisoners and debtors. The third newcomer-the United States-based itself squarely on republican principles.Yet even the political overturn was not so revolutionary as one might suppose. In some states, notably Connecticut and Rhode Island, the war largely ratified a colonial self-rule already existing. British officials, everywhere ousted, were replaced by a home-grown governing class, which promptly sought a local substitute for king and Parliament.09 SuburbanizationIf by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in which people moved about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart. But the early factories built in the 1840's were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housing was needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment. In time, the factories were surrounded by proliferating mill towns of apartments and row houses that abutted the older, main cities. As a defense against this encroachment and to enlarge their tax bases, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbors. In 1854, for example, the city of Philadelphia annexed most of PhiladelphiaCounty. Similar municipal maneuvers took place in Chicago and in New York. Indeed, most great cities of the United States achieved such status only by incorporating the communities along their borders.With the acceleration of industrial growth came acute urban crowding and accompanying social stress-conditions that began to approach disastrous proportions when, in 1888, the first commercially successful electric traction line was developed. Within a few years the horse-drawn trolleys were retired and electric streetcar networks crisscrossed and connected every major urban area, fostering a wave of suburbanization that transformed the compact industrial city into a dispersed metropolis. This first phase of mass-scale suburbanization was reinforced by the simultaneous emergence of the urban Middle Class, whose desires for homeownership in neighborhoods far from the aging inner city were satisfied by the developers of single-family housing tracts.10 Types of SpeechStandard usage includes those words and expressions understood, used, and accepted by a majority of the speakers of a language in any situation regardless of the level of formality. As such, these words and expressions are well defined and listed in standard dictionaries. Colloquialisms, on the other hand, are familiar words and idioms that are understood by almost all speakers of a language and used in informal speech or writing, but not considered appropriate for more formal situations. Almost all idiomatic expressions are colloquial language. Slang, however, refers to words and expressions understood by a large number of speakers but not accepted as good, formal usage by the majority. Colloquial expressions and even slang may be found in standard dictionaries but will be so identified. Both colloquial usage and slang are more common in speech than in writing.Colloquial speech often passes into standard speech. Some slang also passes into standard speech, but other slang expressions enjoy momentary popularity followed by obscurity. In some cases, the majority never accepts certain slang phrases but nevertheless retains them in their collective memories. Every generation seems to require its own set of words to describe familiar objects and events. It has been pointed out by a number of linguists that three cultural conditions are necessary for the creation of a large body of slang expressions. First, theintroduction and acceptance of new objects and situations in the society; second, a diverse population with a large number of subgroups; third, association among the subgroups and the majority population.Finally, it is worth noting that the terms "standard" "colloquial" and "slang" exist only as abstract labels for scholars who study language. Only a tiny number of the speakers of any language will be aware that they are using colloquial or slang expressions. Most speakers of English will, during appropriate situations, select and use all three types of expressions.12 MuseumsFrom Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant future.In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so. The reasons for this confluence of activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere - space. With collections expanding, with the needs and functions of museums changing, empty space has become a very precious commodity.Probably nowhere in the country is this more true than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has needed additional space for decades and which received its last significant facelift ten years ago. Because of the space crunch, the Art Museum has become increasingly cautious in considering acquisitions and donations of art, in some cases passing up opportunities to strengthen its collections.Deaccessing - or selling off - works of art has taken on new importance because of the museum's space problems. And increasingly, curators have been forced to juggle gallery space, rotating one masterpiece into public view while another is sent to storage.Despite the clear need for additional gallery and storage space, however," the museum has no plan, no plan to break out of its envelope in the next fifteen years," according to Philadelphia Museum of Art's president.13 Skyscrapers and EnvironmentIn the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities. Skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power. In one recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New York City raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120, 000 kilowatts-enough to supply the entire city of Albany, New York, for a day.Glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. The heat loss (or gain)through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typical masonry wall filled with insulation board. To lessen the strain on heating and air-conditioning equipment, builders of skyscrapers have begun to use double-glazed panels of glass, and reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror films that reduce glare as well as heat gain. However, mirror-walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboring buildings. Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a city's sanitation facilities, too. If fully occupied, the two World Trade Center towers in New York City would alone generate 2.25 million gallons of raw sewage each year-as much as a city the size of Stanford, Connecticut , which has a population of more than 109, 000.15 The NobelAcademyFor the last 82years, Sweden's NobelAcademy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be elevated from the great and the near great to the immortal. But today the Academy is coming under heavy criticism both from the without and from within. Critics contend that the selection of the winners often has less to do with true writing ability than with the peculiar internal politics of the Academy and of Sweden itself. According to Ingmar Bjorksten , the cultural editor for one of the country's two major newspapers, the prize continues to represent "what people call a very Swedish exercise: reflecting Swedish tastes."The Academy has defended itself against such charges of provincialism in its selection by asserting that its physical distance from the great literary capitals of the world actually serves to protect the Academy from outside influences. This may well be true, but critics respond that this very distance may also be responsible for the Academy's inability to perceive accurately authentic trends in the literary world.Regardless of concerns over the selection process, however, it seems that the prize will continue to survive both as an indicator of the literature that we most highly praise, and as an elusive goal that writers seek. If for no other reason, the prize will continue to be desirable for the financial rewards that accompany it; not only is the cash prize itself considerable, but it also dramatically increases sales of an author's books.17.Evolution of sleepSleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend back as far as the reptiles.There is some evidence that the two types of sleep, dreaming and dreamless, depend on the life-style of the animal, and that predators are statistically much more likely to dream than prey, which are in turn much more likely to experience dreamless sleep. In dream sleep, the animal is powerfully immobilized and remarkably unresponsive to external stimuli. Dreamless sleep is much shallower, and we have all witnessed cats or dogs cocking their ears to a sound when apparently fast asleep. The fact that deep dream sleep is rare among pray today seems clearly to be a product of natural selection, and it makes sense that today, when sleep is highly evolved, the stupid animals are less frequently immobilized by deep sleep than the smart ones. But why should they sleep deeply at all? Why should a state of such deep immobilization ever have evolved?Perhaps one useful hint about the original function of sleep is to be found in the fact that dolphins and whales and aquatic mammals in genera seem to sleep very little. There is, by and large, no place to hide in the ocean. Could it be that, rather than increasing an animal’s vulnerability, the University of Florida and Ray Meddis of LondonUniversity have suggested this to be the case. It is conceivable that animals who are too stupid to be quite on their own initiative are, during periods of high risk, immobilized by the implacable arm of sleep. The point seems particularly clear for the young of predatory animals. This is an interesting notion and probably at least partly true.18.Modern American UniversitiesBefore the 1850’s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dati ng from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students.Throughout Europe, institutions of higher learning had developed, bearing the ancient name of university. In German university was concerned primarily with creating and spreading knowledge, not morals. Between mid-century and the end of the 1800’s, more than nine thousand young Americans, dissatisfied with their training at home, went to Germany for advanced study. Some of them return to become presidents of venerable colleges-----Harvard, Yale, Columbia---and transform them into modern universities. The new presidents broke all ties with the churches and brought in a new kind of faculty. Professors were hired for their knowledge of a subject, not because they were of the proper faith and had a strong arm for disciplining students. The new principle was that a university was to create knowledge as well as pass it on, and this called for a faculty composed of teacher-scholars. Drilling and learning by rote were replaced by the German method of lecturing, in which the professor’s own research was presented in class. Graduate training leading to the Ph.D., an ancient German degree signifying the highest level of advanced scholarly attainment, was introduced. With the establishment of the seminar system, graduate student learned to question, analyze, and conduct their own research.At the same time, the new university greatly expanded in size and course offerings, breaking completely out of the old, constricted curriculum of mathematics, classics, rhetoric, and music. The president of Harvard pioneered the elective system, by which students were able to choose their own course of study. The notion of major fields of study emerged. The new goal was to make the university relevant to the real pursuits of the world. Paying close heed to the practical needs of society, the new universities trained men and women to work at its tasks, with engineering students being the most characteristic of the new regime. Students were also trained as economists, architects, agriculturalists, social welfare workers, and teachers.19.children’s numerical skillspeople appear to born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impress accuracy---one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of nothing that they have placed five knives, spoons and forks on the table and, a bit later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were secluded on a desert island at birth and retrieved seven years later, he or she could enter a second enter a second-grade mathematics class without any serious problems of intellectual adjustment.Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they slowly grasped-----or, as the case might be, bumped into-----concepts that adults take for quantity is unchanged as water pours from a short glass into a tall thin one. Psychologists have since demonstrated that young children, asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed into finding the total. Such studies have suggested that the rudiments of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers------the idea of a oneness,a twoness, a threeness that applies to any class of objects and is a prerequisite for doing。

英美文学作品选读试题 4I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 2 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter in the blanks.1. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. ChristianB. knightlyC. GreekD. primitive2. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A. Piers PlowmanB. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC. Confessio AmantisD. The Canterbury Tales3. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C. The Glorious revolution.D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.4. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D. The speaker meditates on man's salvation.5. “And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, /Byshallow rivers to whose falls /Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are probably taken from __.A. Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB. John Donne's “The Sun Rising”C. Shak espeare's “Sonnet 18”D. Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”6. “Bassanio: Antonio ,I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, My wife, and all the world.Are not with me esteem' d above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.”The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.A. dramatic ironyB. personificationC. allegoryD. symbolism7. The true subject of John Donne's poem, “The Sun Rising,” is to ___.A. attack the sun as an unruly servantB. give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC. criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___ in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic9. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A. horses that are endowed with reasonB. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC. giants that are superior in wisdomD. hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10. Here are four lines from a literary work: “Others for language all their care express,/And value books, as women men, for dress.” The work is ___.A. Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”B. John Milton's Paradise LostC. Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD. Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11. The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvationthrough constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A. Gulliver's TravelsB. The Rape of the LockC. Robinson CrusoeD. The pilgrim's Progress12. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?A. “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”B. “They are both gone up to the church to pary.”C. “Earth has not anything to show more fair.”D. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.14. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __.A. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley15. “Ode o na Grecian Urn”show s the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ ofhuman passion.A. glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC. transience…sordidnessD. glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”the term“soul” apparently refers to ___.A. Heathcliff himselfB. CatherineC. one's spiritual lifeD. one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning' s poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickensand Thackeray.A.poetryB.dramaC.proseD.epic prose19. ___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A. Jane EyreB. EmmaC. Wuthering HeightsD. Middlemarch20. The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychologicaldevelopment of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A. D. H. Lawrence'sB. J. Galsworthy'sC. W. Thackeray’sD. T. Hardy’sII. Reading Comprehension (20 points, 5 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.1. “Her eyes met his and he looked away. He neither believed nor disbelieved her, buthe knew that he had made a mistake in asking; he never had known, never would know, what she was thinking. The sight of her inscrutable face, the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that, soft and passive, but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.”Questions:A. Identify the writer and the work.B. What does the phrase “inscrutable face” mean?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?2. “ And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the phrase “butt-ends” mean?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?3. “God knows, I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I’m changed, and I can'ttell what's my name, or who I am.”Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. The speaker says he is changed. Do you think he is changed, or the socialenvironment has changed?C. What idea does the quoted sentence express?4. “I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the phrase “ages and ages hence” mean?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?III. Questions and Answers (20 points in all, 5 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.1. As a rule, an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surfacemeaning, and an implied meaning. List two works as examples of allegory. What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?2. Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers ofthought. Who are the two? And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?3. The white whale, Moby Dick, is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?4. Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on hisidea of the oversoul. What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul”?IV. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 50 words on each of the following topics in English.1. How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide brief evidence fromthe literary works you know best.2. Summarize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 50 words, and comment on the theme of the novel.参考答案：I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 2 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter in the blanks.1. B2. D3. C4. C5. D6. A7. B8. B9. A 10. C11. D 12. D 13. D 14. D 15. B16. B 17. D 18. C 19. A 20. AII. Reading Comprehension (20 points, 5 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.1. A. John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B. A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.C. It presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness. He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husband's possessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.2. A. T. S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufro ck.”B. The ends of cigarettes, meaning trivial things here.C. Here, Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.3. A. Washington Irving: “Rip Van Winkle”.B. The social environment is changed.C. When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years, he finds that everything has changed. All those old values are gone, and he can hardly feel at home in a changedsociety. One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change, improvement, and progress could subvert stable society.4. A. Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken”.B. Many many years later.C. The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads. But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life. He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader. “Make good choice of your life.”III. Questions and Answers (20 points in all, 5 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.1. It is usually concerned with moral, religious, political, symbolic or mythical ideas. Buyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene are examples.2. It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit; his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.”Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit. The French philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.3. To Ahab, the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe, or perhaps both.To Ishmale, the whale is an astonishing force, an immense power, which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful, but malignant at the same time. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe, for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general, the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.4. A. The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness, omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. Itexists in nature and man alike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B. According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C. He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes. IV. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 50 words on each of the following topics in English.1. How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide brief evidence fromthe literary works you know best.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emoticon and accuracy, and that literature, should be judged in terms of its service to humanity, and thus, literary expressions should be of proportion, unity, harmony and grace. Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace, wit (usually though satire/ humour), and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals, too);Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience, including art, and thus, literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,”and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wor dsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” or “The Solitary Reaper,)2. Summarize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about50 words, and comment on the theme of the novel.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant, uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind, his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures: coming across twofrauds, the “Duke” and the “King”, witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue.The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom”: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.。

New Horizon College English TestBand 3 (A)2005.1Paper OnePart I. Listening Comprehension (20% )Section A (1’*10=10’)Directions:In this section, you‟ll hear ten short conversations. After each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and question will be read only once. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question.1. A. She couldn‟t go. B. She hurt herself.C. She was delayed by the rain.D. She was not able to meet Nancy.2. A. To find a house about 20 miles away from work.B. To drive about 20 miles to work everyday.C. To buy a farm near the city.D. To give up her work in town.3. A. Carry the box down. B. Take the books upstairs.C. Move the bricks.D. Help the woman downstairs.4. A. The woman shouldn‟t be so upset.B. He‟s already an hour late for the interview.C. The woman feels nervous about the interview.D. He‟s too nervous to calm down.5. A. His money was stolen. B. He lost his passport.C. His passport is in the car.D. Somebody stole his passport.6. A. Looking for water. B. Planting something.C. Looking for something.D. Getting dirty.7. A. Twenty dollars. B. Twenty-five dollars.C. Forty dollars.D. Fifty dollars.8. A. He used to have one like that. B. He didn‟t think much of it.C. He would like to have one like that.D. It was not a very good bicycle.9. A. Borrow his notes. B. Take a note to his professor.C. Lend him her notes.D. Help him to make notes.10. A. It is raining. B. It is snowing.C. It is cloudy.D. It is clear.Section B (1’*5=5’)Directions:In this section, you‟ll hear a short passage. The passage will be read only once. At the end of the passage you‟ll hear five questions about what was said. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question.11. A. In a city. B. At the foot of a mountain.C. In his hometown.D. In a seaside village.12. A. In 1588. B. In 1885.C. In 1682.D. In 1518.13. A. His parents. B. His friends.C. Many of the tourists.D. His guests.14. A. He bought it. B. He sold it.C. He rented it.D. He left it empty.15. A. Because it is small. B. Because it is modern.C. Because it is quiet and peaceful.D. Because it is cheap.Section C ( Please put your answers on your Answer Sheet)(0.5*10=5’) Directions:In this section, you‟ll hear a passage three times. Listen carefully during the first reading. Then listen again. When the first part of the passage is being read, you should fill in the missing words during the pause at each blank. After listening to the second part, you are also required to write down the missing words according to what was said. Check your answers when the passage is read the third time.People in all parts of the world are observing “No Tobacco Day”. It is the day when the World Health Organization appeals to people to stop using tobacco _1_____. It hopes that if people stop smoking cigarettes or chewing tobacco for one day, they will stop _ 2_______.Health _ 3_____ have warned for years that smoking can lead to _ 4______ disease, cancer and other problems. The World Health Organization says disease linked to smoking kill at least 2,500,000 _ 5_____ each year.“No Tobacco Day” is aimed at smokers and those who _ 6_____ money from tobacco sales. So businesses are asked to stop _ 7_____ tobacco products for 24 hours. Newspapers are asked not to _ 8______ advertisements for cigarettes.Two important developments have been observed in _ 9_____ years. In industrial countries, the number of smokers has been falling about one percent a year. But in _ 10 __ countries, the number has been rising two percent a year.This is the result of increased efforts by tobacco companies to sell their products indeveloping countries.Part II. Vocabulary and Structure (20%)Directions: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence.16. By the fact that he stayed in the United States for more than ten years, he developedan American ________.A. stressB. soundC. voiceD. accent17. I would like to ________ you of the following changes we've made in the plans forthe development of our company.A. noticeB. noteC. notifyD. suggest18. In the 200 meters, Lisa and Rose came first and third .A. respectablyB. respectivelyC. respectfullyD. respecting19. The millions of calculations involved, had they been done by hand, _____ all practicalvalue by the time they were finished.A. had lostB. would have lostC. would loseD. should have lost20. Today the most difficult and questions about the economic crisis of the late1990s concern its deeper causes, both domestic and international.A. comprehensiveB. controversialC. conventionalD. controversy21. When the fire alarm rang we outside the emergency exit.A. approvedB. collectedC. resembledD. assembled22. The policeman carefully opened the box and put a chemical on the paper, and thefingerprints .A. showed upB. showed offC. showed downD. showed on23. The children of the rich and powerful experience from birth.A. priorityB. providingC. privilegeD. preceding24. I think the thing to do is to phone before you go.A. sensitiveB. sensibleC. sensationalD. senseless25. The environment of this city will be more seriously polluted ____ effectivemeasures are taken to prevent factories from sending out poisonous gases andwaste water.A. ifB. onceC. howeverD. unless26. We must make sure that tourism develops in harmony the environment.A. withB. forC. toD. on27. We give a 10% for immediate payment.A. counterB. discountC. deliveryD. replacement28. Please _______ my luggage is sent to the airport before seven tomorrow morning.A. see to thatB. see to it thatC. seeing thatD. seen that29. Is there a French word that is the exact of the English word “home”?A. ceremonyB. promoteC. equivalentD. approximate30. The color TV set that you bought at a lower price is ________ the one that we boughtat a slightly higher price.A. inferior toB. inferior thanC. much inferior toD. much inferior than31. She accused the Party, and by ,accused its leaders too.A. implicationB. meaningC. significanceD. sense32. It is doubtful that she has _________ the role of the Prime Minister in British politics.A. transplantedB. transferredC. transportedD. transformed33. I don‟t like her because she is always putting me in positions.A. clumsyB. awardC. awfulD. awkward34. He is telling a story of Yang Liwei, every of us is proud.A. whomB. whichC. of whomD. of which35. We Edison‟s success to intelligence and hard work.A. attributedB. contributedC. distributedD. ledPart III. Reading Comprehension (30%)Directions:Read the following passages carefully and do the multiple-choice questions.Passage 1Surfing the Internet can be as addictive as drugs, alcohol or gambling, a researcher from University of Pittsburgh said last month.In a study of almost 400 men and women in Canada, researchers found Internet addiction hooked people into spending 40 hours or more a week online, most often involved in role-playing games or engaged in chat room discussions.One-17-year-old boy was so addicted(上瘾)to the Internet activities that his parents had to admit him to a drug\alcohol rehabilitation（康复）hospital for 10 days for treatment.One woman, described by friends, family and children as a perfect homemaker, wife and mother, became so addicted to the Internet that she would not cook, clean or do the laundry（洗熨衣物）and was neglecting her children and husband because she was spending as much as 12 hours a day talking to acquaintances on the Internet. Finally her husband said, “Choose me or the computer.” She divorced him.Psychologist Kimberly Young, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh‟s Bradford campus, found that 76 percent of the subjects in the study spends anaverage of 40 hours a week on the Internet.Of 396 people who met Young ‟s criteria （标准）for addicted Internet users, 157 were men, 239 women. The men were younger with an average age of 29; the women average 43 years of age.The largest group of addicted users of the Internet was people who were not working outside the home; that is, homemakers, students and those who were disabled or retired.In a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Toronto, 82 percent of the addicted users said that they had slowly drifted into their addictions.（278 words ）36. According to the researcher in University of Pittsburgh, surfing the Internet can be________.A. alcoholicB. harmfulC. excitingD. stimulating37. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?A. Many Internet surfers play games and chat online.B. Some Internet surfer has to receive medical treatment to get over the addiction.C. Nearly half of the Internet surfers spend almost 6 hours online every day.D. Internet, sometimes, can exert influence more powerful than family.38. It can be inferred from the passage the majority of addicted Internet users are .A. young menB. middle-aged men 39.C. young womenD. middle-aged womenIt is implied people who are likely to be addicted Internet users are usually .A. those who are busy with their work.B. those who are not employedC. those who want to escape from their boring lifeD. those who want to make friends40. The writer ‟s attitude towards surfing the Internet is .A. appreciativeB. satiric （讽刺的）C. criticalD. solemnPassage 2In the summer of 1978 an English farmer named Ian Stevens was driving his tractor through a field of wheat when he discovered something strange. Some of his wheat was lying flat on the ground. The flattened （被压平的）wheat formed a circle about six meters across. Around this circle were four smaller circles of flattened wheat. In the following years more and more similar circles were found in a field of wheat or corn. So people cannot help but ask the question: What causes the circles?At first, people suspected that the circles were a trick. To prove that the circles were a trick, people tried to copy them: they tried to make circles exactly like the ones the farmers had found. They couldn't do it. They couldn't enter a field of grain without leaving tracks, and they couldn't flatten the grain without breaking it. The circles are apparently not a trick.Many people believe that beings from outer space are making the circles. Some think that the beings are trying to communicate with us from far away and that the circles are messages from them. Others believe that the beings have actually landed on earth and that the circles are marks left by their spaceships. Several times people reported seeing strange flying objects near fields where circles later appeared.Scientists say they're not sure what causes them. They have suggested several theories. For example, some scientists say that "microbursts" of wind created the circles. A microburst is a downward rush of cool air —the same downward rush of air that sometimes causes an airplane to crash. Other scientists say that forces within the earth cause the circles to appear. But circles often appear in forms. It is hard to believe that any natural force could create those forms. And recently farmers have discovered not only circles but also other shapes such as triangles in their fields. Could any natural force created a perfect triangle in a field of grain?In the summer of 1990 some scientists spent three weeks in the part of England where many circles have appeared. They had all the latest high-tech equipment. This equipment —worth 1.8 million dollars —recorded nothing. But one night, as the scientists were watching a field, circles formed in the field behind them. These circles are shown in the photograph. The scientists had neither seen nor heard anything. (402 words)41. What causes the circles?A. Teenagers.B. Farmers.C. Flying objects.D. None of the above.42. The thing that proves that the circles were not a trick is that ________.A. two men said they made the circles themselvesB. farmers were making the circles to attract touristsC. people cannot copy the circles without leaving marks or breaking the grainD. scientists suggest theories that support the idea that circles were made bynatural forces43. The circles mean ________.A. that beings from outer space are trying to communicate with human beingsB. that beings from outer space have visited the earthC. that there do exist strange flying objectsD. none of the above44. The only thing for the scientists to be happy about in the summer of 1990 ispossibly ________.A. that they discovered how the circles were madeB. that they saw the circles with the help of the latest high-tech equipmentC. that they were able to show the circles in a photographD. none of the above45. A proper title for this passage is ________.A. An Unsolved MysteryB. Strange Flying ObjectsC. The Power of Natural ForcesD. The Discovery of Strange CirclesPassage 3Accidents are caused; they don‟t just happen. The reason may be easy to see: an overloaded tray, a shelf out of reach, a patch of ice on the road. But more often than not there is a chain of events leading up to the misfortune-frustration, tiredness or just bad temper-that show what the accident really is, a sort of attack on oneself.Road accidents, for example, happen frequently after a family quarrel, and we all know people who are accident-prone, so often at odds with（和…人争执）themselves and the world that they seem to cause accidents for themselves and others.By definition, an accident is something you cannot predict or avoid, and the ideawhich used to be current, that the majority of road accidents are caused a majority of criminally careless drivers, is not supported by insurance statistics. These show that most accidents involve ordinary motorists in a moment of carelessness of thoughtlessness.It is not always, clear, either, what sort of conditions make people more likely to have an accident. For instance, the law requires all factories to take safety precautions and most companies have safety committees to make sure the regulations are observed, but still, every day in Britain, some fifty thousand men and women are absent from work due to an accident-noise and fatigue, boredom or worry are possible factors which contribute to this. Doctors who work in factories have found that those who drink too much, usually people who have a high anxiety level, run three times the normal risk of accidents at work.46. This passage might be taken from _____________.A. a text bookB. a science fictionC. a popular magazineD. an annual report of a company47. The writer indicates that ___________.A. British people are often absent-minded.B. doctors should work in factories to avoid accidents.C. drivers are the only factor leading to road accidents.D. there are always some people who fail to observe regulations.48. Which of the following is not mentioned as a factor of accidents?A. anxietyB. tirednessC. bad weatherD. carelessness49. “Accident-prone”(Para.2) probably means “___________.”A. liable to have accidentsB. likely to be killed in accidentsC. responsible for road accidentsD. possible to avoid accidents50. Which of the following could serve as the best title for this passage?A. Causes of AccidentsB. Prevention of AccidentsC. Results of AccidentsD. Accidents and anxietyPassage 4America‟s most creative playwright today is a 47-year-old black man who grew up in a Pittsburgh slum, dropped out of secondary school, did most of his reading at the neighborhood public library, and never saw plays until he started to write them. His name is August Wilson, and his plays, which all are about the 20th century black experience in urban America, have won him audience‟s acclaim(喝彩), critical approval and innumerable awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1987 for “Fences” and in 1990 for “The Piano Lesson”.August Wilson was born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, of a white father and a black mother. His father , a baker of German descent, had just about abandoned the family and was rarely at home. His mother, Daisy Wilson, who had migrated north from North Carolina, raised August and his three sisters on her scanty wages as a cleaning lady and on her welfare checks, in a two-room cold-water flat. His friends, his neighbors, his surroundings all were black, and he became familiar with black speech and thought-processes. Later on, when the family moved to a somewhat better, more mixed neighborhood, he still retained his black connections and interests. But he developed affinities（爱好）of his own, too. Especially an affinity for reading, which his mother taught him by age five.“My mother believed that if you could read, anything was possible,” he has said. “I read everything there was at the Carnegie Library, two blocks from the house. When I was 14, I discovered the …Negro Section‟. That‟s what it was called. It consisted of 30 books or so on two little shelves. I still can remember how great it was when I read Ralph Ellison‟s …Invisible Man‟. I guess from the time I was 12 I wanted to write poetry. Not plays. Poems.”51. “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson” in the first paragraph are names of ________.A. subjectsB. filmsC. playsD. novels52. The evidence of this passage suggests that August Wilson .A. didn‟t enjoy his childhood.B. didn‟t finish elementary school.C. did most of his reading at a public library.D. was born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.53. The word “scanty”(Para.2) probably means .A. plentifulB. meagerC. excessiveD. enough54. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?A. August Wilson is a successful American playwright.B. Wilson‟s plays deals with the urban black American today.C. Wilson became interested in writing poems at the age of five.D. Wilson learned the importance of reading from his mother.55. What is the author‟s attitude towards August Wilson?A. indifferentB. contemptuousC. ironicalD. objectivePaper TwoPart IV. Replacement (10%)Directions: Replace the underlined words in the following sentences with expressions or phrases using the key word(s) supplied in the brackets. Please take care to usethe right form and keep the original meaning.56.I think we should express our good wishes to the bride and the bridegroom.(glass)57.The children there are being put in danger every day because care workers still do not know how to protect them from HIV. (risk)58.Pop stars often become very famous when they are very young. (fame)59.What he said had nothing to do with the problem.(bearing)60.It is most likely that the patient will die within three months if she is not givenproper treatment. (chance)61.Besides her work in the school, our teacher gives music lessons after school hours.(addition)62.Wearing short hair is no longer in fashion now. (style)63.The picture she showed me is almost the same as the one my mother has. (identical)64.Hoping that he might be able to provide an explanation for the problem, I asked him for help.(shed)65.It does n‟t seem ugly to me; no, not at all, I think it is rather beautiful. (contrary)Part V. Cloze (5%)Directions: The following paragraph was chosen from your textbooks. Fill in the blanks with the exact words.Commitment among parents is a key 66 in the Hyde mixture. 67 the student to gain admission, parents also must agree to accept and 68 the school‟s philosophies and outlook. The parents agree in writing 69 meet monthly in one of 20 regional groups, go to a yearly three-day 70 retreat, and spend at least three times a year in workshops, discussion groups and 71 at Bath. Parents of Maine students have an 72 rate of 95% in the many sessions. Joe and Malcolm Gauld both say children 73 to do their utmost 74 they see their parents making similar efforts. The biggest 75 for many parents, they say, is to realize their own weaknesses.Part VI. Writing (15%)Directions: For this part, you are asked to write a composition on the topic Private Motor Vehicles. You should write at least 120 words and you should base yourcomposition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:Private Motor Vehicles1. 私家车极大地提高了人们的活动空间。