英语部分专项训练(二)

英语部分专项训练（二）

Section Ⅰ Use of English

Directions:

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C

or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.

Driving through snowstorm on icy roads for long distances is a most nerve-racking

experience. It is a paradox that the snow, coming __1__ gently, blowing gleefully in a high wind,

all the while __2__ down a treacherous carpet, freezes the windows,__3__ the view. The might of

automated man is__4__ . The horses, the powerful electrical systems, the deep-tread tires, all go

__5__ nothing. One minute the road feels __6__, and the next the driver is sliding over it, light as

a__7__, in a panic, wondering what the heavy trailer trucks coming up__8__the rear are going to

do. The trucks are like __9__ when you have to pass them, not at sixty or seventy __10__ you do

when the road is dry, but at twenty-five and thirty. __11__ their engines sound unnaturally loud.

Snow, slush and__12__ of ice spray from beneath the wheels, obscure the windshield, and rattle

__13__your car. Beneath the wheels there is plenty of __14__ for you to slide and get mashed to a

pulp. Inch __15__ inch you move up, past the rear wheels, the center wheels, the cab, the front

wheels, all__16__too slowly by. Straight ahead you continue,__17__ to cut over sharply would

send you into a slip,__18__in front of the vehicle. At last, there is__19__enough, and you creep

back over, in front of the truck now, but__20__the sound of its engine still thundering in your ears.

1. ［A］ up ［B］ off ［C］ down ［D］ on

2. ［A］ lies ［B］ lays ［C］ settles ［D］ sends

3. ［A］ blocks ［B］ strikes ［C］ puffs ［D］ cancels

4. ［A］ muted ［B］ discovered ［C］ doubled ［D］ undervalued

5. ［A］ for ［B］ with ［C］ into ［D］ from

6. ［A］ comfortable ［B］ weak ［C］ risky ［D］ firm

7. ［A］ loaf ［B］ feather ［C］ leaf ［D］ fog

8. ［A］ beneath ［B］ from ［C］ under ［D］ beyond

9. ［A］ dwarfs ［B］ giants ［C］ patients ［D］ princesses

10. ［A］ what ［B］ since ［C］ as ［D］ that

11. ［A］ So ［B］ But ［C］ Or ［D］ Then

12. ［A］ flakes ［B］ flocks ［C］ chips ［D］ cakes

13. ［A］ onto ［B］ against ［C］ off ［D］ along

14. ［A］ snow ［B］ earth ［C］ room ［D］ ice

15. ［A］ by ［B］ after ［C］ for ［D］ with

16. ［A］ climbing ［B］ crawling ［C］ winding ［D］ sliding

17. ［A］ meanwhile ［B］ unless ［C］ whereas ［D］ for

18. ［A］ sheer ［B］ mostly ［C］ rarely ［D］ right

19. ［A］ might ［B］ distance ［C］ air ［D］ power

20. ［A］ with ［B］ like ［C］ inside ［D］ upon

Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension

Part A

Directions:

Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.

Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

Text 1

With the extension of democratic rights in the first half of the nineteenth century and the

ensuing decline of the Federalist establishment, a new conception of education began to emerge.

Education was no longer a confirmation of a pre-existing status, but an instrument in the

acquisition of higher status. For a new generation of upwardly mobile students, the goal of

education was not to prepare them to live comfortably in the world into which they had been born,

but to teach them new virtues and skills that would propel them into a different and better world.

Education became training; and the student was no longer the gentleman-in-waiting, but the

journeyman apprentice for upward mobility.

In the nineteenth century a college education began to be seen as a way to get ahead in the

world. The founding of the land-grant colleges opened the doors of higher education to poor but

aspiring boys from non-Anglo-Saxon, working-class and lower-middle-class backgrounds. The

myth of the poor boy who worked his way through college to success drew millions of poor boys

to the new campuses. And with this shift, education became more vocational: its object was the

acquisition of practical skills and useful information.

For the gentleman-in-waiting, virtue consisted above all in grace and style, in doing well

what was appropriate to his position; education was merely a way of acquiring polish. And vice

was manifested in gracelessness, awkwardness, in behaving inappropriately, discourteously, or

ostentatiously. For the apprentice, however, virtue was evidenced in success through hard work.