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高级英语试题
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I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (25 points, 1 point for each)
Today’s heroes—some of them, anyway—tell us they enjoy their 1 . “And I 2 to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never 3 of us billion-dollar babies.” The 4
“culture hero” who 5 that is Alice Cooper.
If I said that being black is a greater 6 than being a woman, probably no one would 7
me. Why? Because “we all know” there is 8 against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still 9 nearly all men—and, I am afraid, most women—as 10 .
There is, however, another 11 possessed by the best work, which is even more important as a 12 of happiness than is the exercise of 13 . This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no 14 in most, something is built up which remains as a 15 when
the work is completed.
My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the 16 year at Whittier College, was 17 . It was to me less of a 18 ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University, to Yale Law School, and back to Watts. I had 19 then, as now, to make Watts my 20 .
Well, it’s a good life and a good 21 , all said and 22 , if you don’t 23 , and if you know that the big wide world hasn’t 24 from you yet, no, not by a long way, though it won’t be long now. The float bobbed more violently than before and, with a 25 on his face, he began to wind in the reel.
A. handicap |
B. element |
C. weaken |
D. means |
E. heard |
F. question |
G. freshman |
H. home |
I. strikes |
J. done |
K. source |
L. different |
M. conceived |
N. particular |
O. grin |
R skill |
Q. laughed |
R. prejudice |
S. monument |
T. sings |
U. rewards |
V. departure |
W. intended |
X. world |
Y. bizarre |
II. Each of the following sentences is given four choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (15 points, 1 point for each)
26. The citizens are grateful to the government for the ______ environment.
A. wholesome B. wholesale
C. noisome D. tiresome
27. The farmers’ ______ from the contest aroused heated debates.
A. omission B. exclusion
C. inclusion D. emission
28. He owed his victory to endurance and ______.
A. instance B. existence
C. subsistence D. perseverance
29. He killed his enemy and received a ______ wound himself.
A. moral B. fateful
C. mortal D. factual
30. To remove the paint, he had to apply a knife to ______ the table.
A. scrape B. rub
C. dab D. peel
31. The local government decided to ______ money for the building of a new post office.
A. distribute B. divide
C. contribute D. allot
32. She was ______ of her notorious family scandal.
A. shameful B. shameless
C. ashamed D. shamed
33. Since then, the contrast between his two careers has become even more ______.
A. symbolized B. distinguished
C. predominated D. pronounced
34. I recall how ______ it was years ago when people littered everywhere in our city.
A. annoying B. scaring
C. frightening D. humiliating
35. I don’t complain about the smoking ______ because I hate watching people smoking in hospitals.
A. programs B. restrictions
C. arguments D. advertisements
36. His muscles are firmest and his ______ colds and infections is highest.
A. ignorance of B. independence of
C. resistance to D. attribution to
37. Regardless of ______ poll results, a number of objections have been published in newspapers.
A. practical B. sensible
C. favorable D. outstanding
38. At British universities, it is ______ to cease work and spend a half-hour or so sipping tea and eating cookies with the members of one’s department.
A. satisfactory B. extraordinary
C. contemporary D. customary
39. The concentration of populations in cities has given ______ to many problems of housing, education, and medical services.
A. rise B. reason
C. result D. response
40. This discovery is highly ______ in the circle of science.
A. measured B. appreciated
C. calculated D. experimented
Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding three items III, IV, V.
A Wrong Man in Workers’ Paradise
(1) The man had never believed in mere utility.
(2) Having had no useful work, he indulged in mad whims. He made little pieces of sculpture—men, women and castle, quaint earthen things dotted over with sea-shells. He painted. Thus he wasted his time on all that was useless, needless. People laughed at him. At times he vowed to shake off his whims, but they lingered in his mind.
(3) Some boys seldom ply their books and yet pass their tests. A similar thing happened to this man. He spent his earth life in useless work and yet after his death the gates of Heaven opened wide for him.
(4) But mistakes are unavoidable even in Heaven. So it came to pass that the aerial messenger who took charge of the man made a mistake and found him a place in Workers’ Paradise.
(5) In this Paradise you find everything except leisure.
(6) Here men say: “God! We haven’t a moment to spare.” Women whisper: “Let’s move on, time’s a-flying.” All exclaim: “Time is precious.” “We have our hands full, we make use of every single minute,” they sigh complainingly, and yet those words make them happy and exalted.
(7) But this newcomer, who had passed all his life on Earth without doing a scrap of useful work, did not fit in with the scheme of things in Workers’ Paradise. He lounged in the streets absently and jostled the hurrying men. He lay down in green meadows, or close to the fast flowing streams, and was taken to task by busy farmers. He was always in the way of others.
(8) A hustling girl went every day to a silent torrent (silent, since in the Workers’ Paradise even a torrent would not waste its energy singing) to fill her pitcher.
(9) The girl’s movement on the road was like the rapid movement of a skilled hand on the strings of a guitar. Her hair was carelessly done; inquisitive wisps stooped often over her forehead to peer at the dark wonder of her eye.
(10) The idler was standing by the stream. As a princess sees a lonely beggar and is filled with pity, so the busy girl of Heaven saw this one and was filled with pity.
(11 ) “A—ha !” she cried with concern. “You have no work in hand, have you?”
(12) The man sighed, “Work! I have not a moment to spare for work.”
(13) The girl did not understand his words, and said: “I shall spare some work for you to do, if you like.”
(14) The man replied: “Girl of the silent torrent, all this time I have been waiting to take some work from your hands.”
(15) “What kind of work would you like?”
(16) “Will you give me one of your pitchers, one that you can spare?”
(17) She asked: “A pitcher? You want to draw water from the torrent?”
(18) “No, I shall draw pictures on your pitcher.”
(19) The girl was annoyed.
(20) “Pictures, indeed! I have no time to waste on such as you. I am going.” And she walked away.
(21) But how could a busy person get the better of one who had nothing to do? Every day they met, and every day he said to her: “Girl of the silent torrent, give me one of your clay pitchers. I shall draw pictures on it.”
(22) She yielded at last. She gave him one of her pitchers. The man started painting. He drew line after line; he put color after color.
(23) When he had completed his work, the girl held up the pitcher and stared at its sides, her eyes puzzled. Brows drawn, she asked: “What do they mean, all those lines and colors? What is their purpose?”
(24) The man laughed.
(25) “Nothing. A picture may have no meaning and may serve no purpose.”
(26) The girl went away with her pitcher. At home, away from prying eyes, she held it in the light, turned it round and round and scanned the painting from all angles. At night she moved out of bed, lighted a lamp and scanned it again in silence. For the first time in her life she had seen something that had no meaning and no purpose at all.
(27) When she set out for the torrent the next day, her hurrying feet were a little less hurried than before. For a new sense seemed to have wakened in her, a sense that seemed to have no meaning and no purpose at all.
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