高级英语一试题及答案

1《高级英语（一）》期末考试A卷

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I． Vocabulary: (20%)

. The water was so ___A___ we could see the fish clearly.

A. transparent B. bright C. visible D. opaque

2. Birds of a feather ___B__ together.

A. lock B. flock C. block D. clock

3. Days and nights ___A___.

A. alternate B. contemplate C. extricate D. minimize

4. The annual conference of the organization was held in London last

year.B

A. important B. yearly C. sufficient D. critical

5. The air is filthy and dangerous to breathe from the belching of

uncontrolled products from combustion of coal, coke, oil, and gasoline.A

A. burning B. bursting C. contamination D. pollution

6. If we overwork ourselves, we may suffer from both physical and

psychological fatigue.D

A. picture B. mimic C. mark D. tire

7. Steel is an integral part of the modern skyscrapers.D

A. tedious B. difficult C. naive D. inherent

8. He is a novice who has never prepared a meal.B

A. interesting B. layman C. sin D. mistake

9. He was elated over the favorable reviews of his novel.C

A. grievous B. trembling C. overjoyed D. lazy 10. .Some people seem to have a morbid interest in death.C

A. merciless B. sorry C. unhealthy D. helpless

II. Text Comprehension(20%)

1. She is not going to get rid of the upright piano because___C__(She Is

an Unwilling Tool of Middleclassdom)

a. Her daughter plays it.

b. She wants to learn to play it someday.

c. It is such a beautiful instrument.

d. Nobody would want to buy such an old piano.

2. In this account, Langston Hughes was__A__.(Salvation)

a. giving an honest self-analysis

b. entertaining the reader in a humorous tone.

c. expressing his dissatisfaction with his aunt.

d.

describing a church service.

3.It is generally believed that our language mechanism enables

us__A__.(Thinking of Words)

a. to talk about all the technicalities of company law or of central heating

with the glibness of a solicitor or a plumber.

b. to talk about anything fluently.

c. to acquire any knowledge.

d.

to handle anything we need to handle.

4.“Hey, missis”is not an appropriate form of address to a stranger

because_C__(Thinking of Words)

a. Missis is not the equivalent of Madame.

b. It is not very effective.

c. It is not used by polite educated people.

d.

It is used only by polite educated people.

5. A man stabbed Miss Genovese __D_.(38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call

the Police) a. As soon as she saw him in the lot.

b. When she had got to the entrance to her apartment.

c. Before she reached a street light in front of a bookstore.

d. Before she got to a call box to the 102nd Police Precinct.

6. Which statement is true?（Appetite）(A)

a. When people have a thing too easily and too often, they will take it

for granted

and miss out the pleasure of having it.

b. Lee doesn’t like children

c. Lee enjoys being hungry as it is a pleasure to him.

d. when a person loses his appetite, he will soon die.

7. One of the major pleasures in life is appetite, so(Appetite)(C)

a. one should eat to one’s full.

b. one should preserve this keenness of ling.

c. one ought to have a taste of the multitudinous flavors of different

kinds of food

d. one should starve it.

8. In this essay, the pronoun “you” is used to refer to (What Is It Like to Be

Poor?)(C)

a. man in general

b. the reader

c., the writer

d. none of the above

9. But although affiliative behavior shares some of the properties

associated with biological drives, I doubt whether our desire to make friends is

really much influenced by adaptive considerations. By “biological drives” the

author means (Befriending)(B)

a. biological energy

b. the animal instincts which spur us to do what we do.

c. something which drives us together d. our human desire which drives us together.

10. In fact, studies of friendship seem to implicate more complex factors.

This sentence means that(Befriending)(C)

a. studies of friendship involve more complex factors

b. studies of friendship imply that there are more complex factors

c. studies of friendship show that there are some more complex factors

d. studies of friendship are very complicated

III. fill in the blank with a proper word from the words given(20%)

proof, result, trickle, where, leave, eastward, westward,

live, newcomers, stock, group, roots, landless

Then the _trickle_of immigrants became a stream, and the population

began to move _westward_- not to grab and _leave_ but to settle and live_,

they thought. The _newcomers_ were of peasant _stock_, and they had their

_roots_ in a Europe _where_they had been _landless_, for the possession of

land was the

requirement and the _proof_ of a higher social class than they had

known.

IV. Translation (20%)

1. 当我把书点了一下，我发现书架上总共有50本书。

When I counted the books, I found there were 50 books in all on the shelf.

2.

过分激烈的争论只会引起意见分歧与不和。

Excessive heated debate will only lead to disagreement and discord.

3. 我们必须学会在错综复杂的矛盾中找出主要矛盾。

We must learn to find the principal contradiction among the intricate

contradictions.

4. 我不知道他是怎么回事，但是他似乎不想说话。