自考英语专业：2012年1月高级英语历年真题00600

 This creature prowls around， devouring animals， people， or corpses， but he returns to human form by day. As with Dracula， the wolfman became a popular subject for movies， beginning with The Werewolf of London (1935) and the wolfman films of the 1940s. According to one superstition the werewolf， after being killed， turns into a vampire.

(8) The belief that the dead can return to haunt and harm the living has long been an element of fiction. Ghost stories are at least as old as the Bible: in the Old Testament， King Saul calls up the ghost of Samuel to foretell the outcome of a battle. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet， the ghost of the slain king provides the information from which Hamlet plots revenge for his father’s murder. One of the masters of the modern ghost story was Ambrose Bierce， some of whose stories were collected in Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce (1964). A variation on the ghost theme is the haunted house， about which hundreds of stories have been written.

(9) Between the vampires and the ghosts are creatures called the living dead and zombies who return from the grave to devour the living. Hollywood celebrated this story in Night of the Living Dead (1968) and other films. In literature one of the best examples is the intriguing book The Beast with Five Fingers (1928; film version 1946) by W.F. Harvey. It is the story of a severed hand that goes on living after its owner dies. The movie Friday the 13th (1980) and its sequels also used the revived corpse as villain. In the 1986 film Trick or Treat， a dead rock music star is called back to life.

III. In this section， there are ten incomplete statements or questions， followed by four choices marked A， B， C and D. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (20 points， 2 points for each)

41. In the first paragraph， Edgar Allan Poe’s story is quoted to show ______.

 A. how beautiful his writing is

 B. what a horror story is like

 C. He was good at writing horror stories

 D. His stories are dark and mysterious

42. The word “ominous” in the first paragraph means ______.

 A. foreshadowing evil B. foretelling luck

 C. forecasting rain D. forbearing pain

43. “Many kinds of fiction are self-explanatory” in the second paragraph means ______.

 A. they target ordinary readers

 B. they are easy to understand

 C. their categories show what they are about

 D. they often employ horror to develop their plots

44. The most important element that makes a horror story is ______.

 A. uncertainty B. suspension

 C. irrationality D. superstition

45. The assumption behind horror stories is that ______.

 A. humanity is evil in nature

 B. humanity is basically good

 C. humanity can be taught to be good

 D. humanity can be explained

46. The word “entombed” in the sixth paragraph means ______.

 A. wicked B. fainted

 C. wounded D. buried

47. The word “slain” in the eighth paragraph means ______.

 A. captured B. killed

 C. bitten D. beaten

48. Stories of haunted houses deal with the theme of ______.

 A. vampires B. zombies

 C. werewolves D. ghosts

49. A typical example of a zombie story is ______.

 A. Carrie  B. The Beast with Five Fingers

 C. Dracula  D. The Werewolf of London

50. The purpose of this passage is to ______.

 A. persuade B. inform

 C. entertain D. reason

IV. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (10 points， 2 points for each)

51. The horror story is less easily defined， perhaps because other types of fiction so often use the trappings of terror to enhance their plots.

52. Human beings have always acknowledged that there is evil in the world and a dark side to human nature that cannot be explained except perhaps in religious terms.

53. Much horror literature is grounded in superstition， fear of demons， and the dread of death.

54. Similar to the vampire legend is the story of the wolfman， the human being under a curse who turns into a half man， half wolf presumably when the moon is full.

55. The belief that the dead can return to haunt and harm the living has long been an element of fiction.

V. Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 points)

56. Do you like horror stories? Why or why not?

VI. Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (20 points， 2 points each for 57-60， 4 points for 61， 8 points for 62)

57.我很擅长这些欺骗伎俩，虽然我不能每次都骗得了自己。

58.我同意我们的食物有营养，而且我们大多数人的饮食是均衡的。

59.但我还没有放弃找到加速入睡的办法的希望。

60.我认为对于知识的追求主要源于对权力的热爱，而所有科技上的进步亦是如此。

61.老年生活既不是本来就痛苦，也不是本来就美满的。它和生活的每个阶段一样，有自己的问题、欢乐、恐惧和潜力。

62.这个国家的一切——社会结构、家庭组织形式、经济、国际地位——变得更加复杂，而不是更加简单。然而，其占主导地位的传播工具，作为国家的主要连接纽带，却对通常难以解决的人类问题向人们兜售简单的解决方案。

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