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2020-2021《高级英语》（二）期末课程考试试卷

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Part One

Section A Word Explanation (10%)

1. Something that is _______ is deliberately deceitful, dishonest or untrue.

A. spontaneous B. frenzied C. fraudulent D. stultifying

2. If something ____________ your skin, it cuts it badly and deeply

A. lacerate B. demolish C. scud D. shrink

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A. fracturing B. modulating C. undermining D. reeling

14. After she said these words , there was a ________pause in their talk.

A. obscene B. unfathomable C. aesthetic D. momentary

15. He is a (an ) _______boy, always insisting on his own rights and opinions.

A. languish B. assertive C. almighty D. tyranny

16. He has always been ______________with fear of unemployment.

A. intoxicated B. exuberant C. indifferent D. obsessed

17. Mr. Wilson is a man totally ________of all humor.

A. indicative B. devoid C. grueling D. enigmatical

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3. People and animals that are _________ are hostile and unfriendly.

A. inimical B. derelict C. facetious D. aberrant

18. You will, in fact, find nothing of the sort in Europe ---- _________perhaps in the more

4. Something that is __________ is so bad or unpleasant that it makes you feel disgust or

putrid parts of England.

dismay.

A. and B. therefore C. without D. save

A. appealing B. appalling C. apparent D. appearing

19. There is no _______motive in work other than the product being made and the

5. If you _________, you travel or move slowly and not in any particular direction.

processes of its creation.

A. invoke B. meander C. prescribe D. infuse

A. interior B. exterior C. ulterior D. superior

6. A person who acts without thinking about what they are doing is often called an

20. To the west of Gulfport ,the town of Pass Christian was virtually __________.

____________.

A. pitched in B. rested on C. wiped out D. whipped up

A. automation B. automaton C. automat D. autonomy

Part Two Reading Comprehension (20%)

7. A __________ is a group of trees that are close together, often because they have been Directions: There are 3 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions

planted in this way. or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.

A. gruff B. grudge C. grovel D. grove You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer

8. If you ________ to something, you mention it in a very indirect way. Sheet.

A. illustrate B. concoct C. allude D. invoke Passage One

9. If a place is ______ by a particular route or method of transport, you are able to reach it Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

by this route or method. When I applied under Early Decision to the University of Pennsylvania four years ago,

A. accessible B. assessable C. accessable D. acessable I was motivated by two powerful emotions: ambition and fear. The ambition was to fulfill

10. If someone has _______ motives or reasons for doing something, they do not my lifelong expectation of attending an Ivy League school; the fear was that without the

show their motives openly but hide them. advantage offered by Early Decision, I wouldn’t make the cut. A Penn admissions officer

A. hideous B. desultory C. compulsive D. ulterior told me that the previous year they had accepted 45 percent of Early Decision applicants

and just 29 percent of total applicants. The implication was clear: applying under Early

Section B Decision dramatically improves your chances of acceptance. At Brown University, my

Vocabulary &Structure (10%) other favorite, applying early did not confer any advantage. While Brown was my No. 1

There are 10 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices choice, Penn was a close second, and I desperately wanted to make sure I got into one of

marked A), B), C) and D). Choose One answer that best completes the sentence.

the two.

I applied just before the Nov. 1 deadline, and six weeks later I got my acceptance package.

11. It ________me to think of all the money we’ve wasted. I was thrilled and relieved. While my friends spent winter vacation finishing as many as

A. embattles B. rejoice C. infuriates D. recede 18 applications each, I relaxed. On a school trip to France over spring break, I drank wine

12. If you _____ something, such as food or drink, you reduce its quality or make it while everyone else struggled with international calling cards to phone home and find out

weaker, for example by adding water to it. where they’d been accepted. People cried about getting rejected, or began the difficult and

A. adulterate B. moor C. vaccinate D. sue agonizing process of choosing between two or more schools. Strangely, none of this made

13. This terrific movie keeps _________me all the time. me feel better about having applied early. It made me feel worse. When a lot of people

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from my class got into Brown, I wondered if I, too, could have.

Penn sent a discombobulating array of material to incoming freshmen over the summer.

As the pile of mail mounted, so did my concerns that I had made the wrong choice. I had

been to Penn only one day, in October of my senior year. I realize now I did not know

nearly enough about myself or the school. Picking classes was far more arcane than I had

expected (or than it would have been at a smaller school). And when I got to the campus, I

found that fraternities and sororities were a more noticeable and obnoxious presence than

the 30 percent student membership had suggested to me.

It wasn't long before I knew Penn was not right for me and I looked into transferring. For

me, it was about more than just changing schools. I wanted to have the traditional

application experience I'd missed out on during my first go-round. The only school on my

list that allowed transfers during the second semester of freshman year was Wesleyan, so I

waited out the whole year, and then applied to Yale, Brown and Wesleyan. I got into

Wesleyan. The irony that I could have gotten in sooner, without getting rejected by the

other schools, was not lost on me. But I know I made the right decision.

To high-school seniors who want to avoid making the same mistake I did, my advice is

simple: don’t apply under Early Decision unless you are absolutely sure that the school is

your first choice. And, just as important, don’t let your parents or college-guidance

counselor persuades you to apply under Early Decision. They may have their own agenda,

or at least their own perception of who you are and what you want. As I discovered, no

one can really know what you want better than yourself, and even you may need time to

figure out what that is.

21. The main reasons for the author to apply under Early Decision are _______.

A. pride and ambition

B. dream and fear

C. easiness and effort-saving

D. trouble-saving and release

22. It can be inferred from the text that the main advantage of Early Decision is that

______.

A. you can graduate from the high school earlier

B. you don’t worry about the results

C. you needn’t take the entrance examination

D. you’re more likely to be accepted

23. The description of the author’s feelings in Paragraph 2 shows that _______.

A. he is satisfied with his choice

B. there are many advantages of being accepted earlier

C. less effort is needed under Early Decision

D. he is happy with and doubts about his decision

24. We can draw a conclusion from the text that ________.

A. a full consideration is needed before applying

B. students should avoid the short cut

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C. a quick decision will do you no good

D. the author shouldn’t apply under Early Decision

25. From the text we can see that the writer seems _________.

A. regretful

B. optimistic

C. gloomy

D. sensitive

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has so come to be taken

for granted as a means of solving differences, that it is not even questioned. There are

countries where the white man imposes his rule by brute force; there are countries where

the black man protests by setting fire to cities and by looting and pillaging. Important

people on both sides, who would in other respects, appear to be reasonable men, get up

and calmly argue in favor of violence – as if it were a legitimate solution, like any other.

What is really frightening, what really fills you with despair, is the realization that when it

comes to the crunch, we have made no actual progress at all. We may wear collars and ties

instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the

recorded history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us

absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence never solves a problem but

makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the bloodshed, and the suffering mean nothing. No

solution ever comes to light the morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking

ruins and wonder what hit us.

The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions lie are finding it harder and

herder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted by their own

kind because they advocate such apparently outrageous things as law enforcement. If half

the energy that goes into violent acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at

cleaning up the slums and ghettos, at improving living-standards and providing education

and employment for all, we would have gone a long way to arriving at a solution. Our

strength is sapped by having to mop up the mess that violence leaves in its wake. In a

well-directed effort, it would not be impossible to fulfill the ideals of a stable social

programme. The benefits that can be derived from constructive solutions are everywhere

apparent in the world around us. Genuine and lasting solutions are always possible,

providing we work within the framework of the law.

Before we can even begin to contemplate peaceful co-existence between the races,

we must appreciate each other’s problems. And to do this, we must learn about them: it is

a simple exercise in communication, in exchanging information. “Talk, talk, talk,” the

advocates of violence say, “all you ever do is talk, and we are none the wiser” It’s rather

like the story of the famous barrister who painstakingly explained his case to the judge.

After listening to a lengthy argument the judge complained that after all this talk, he was

none the wiser. “Possible, my lord,” the barrister replied, “none the wiser, but surely far

better informed.” Knowledge is the necessary prerequisite to wisdom: the knowledge that

violence creates the evils it pretends to solve.

26. What is the best title for this passage?

A. Advocating Violence.

B. Violence Can Do Nothing to Diminish Race Prejudice.

C. Important People on Both Sides See Violence As a Legitimate Solution.

D. The Instincts of Human Race Are Thirsty for Violence.

27. Recorded history has taught us___________.

A. violence never solves anything.

B. nothing.

C. the bloodshed means nothing.

D. everything.

28. It can be inferred that truly reasonable men___________.

A. can’t get a hearing.

B. are looked down upon.

C. are persecuted.

D. Have difficulty in advocating law enforcement.

29. “He was none the wiser” means__________.

A. he was not at all wise in listening.

B. He was not at all wiser than nothing before.

C. He gains nothing after listening.

D. He makes no sense of the argument.

30. According the author the best way to solve race prejudice is__________.

A. law enforcement.

B. knowledge.

C. nonviolence.

D. Mopping up the violent mess.

Passage Three

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry-William Shakespeare-but

there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal

Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live

off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage,

Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights.

The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue.

They frankly dislike the RSC’s actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and

noisiness. It’s all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their

living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his share of noise - making.

The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus-and often

take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side –don’t usually see the plays, and

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some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do

manage a little sight -seeing along with their play going. It is the playgoers, the RSC

contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night (some of

them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take

in everything and get out of town by nightfall.

The townsfolk don’t see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the

subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor traditionally. Nevertheless

every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge. Hilton is building its

own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the

Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.

Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a

subsidy. (The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its

1,431 seats were 94 per cent occupied all year long and this year they’ll do better.) The

reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low.

It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young

people who are Stratford’s most attractive clientele. They come entirely for the plays, not the

sights. They all seem to look alike (though they come from all over) –lean, pointed, dedicated

faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the

flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the

sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:

31. From the first two paragraphs, we learn that__________.

A. the townsfolk deny the RSC’s contribution to the town’s revenue

B. the actors of the RSC imitate Shakespeare on and off stage

C. the two branches of the RSC are not on good terms

D. the townsfolk earn little from tourism

32. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that__________.

A. the sightseers cannot visit the Castle and the Palace separately

B. the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers

C. the sightseers do more shopping than the playgoers

D. the playgoers go to no other places in town than the theater

33. By saying “Stratford cries poor traditionally” (Line 2-3, Paragraph 4), the author

implies that__________.

A. Stratford cannot afford the expansion projects

B. Stratford has long been in financial difficulties

C. the town is not really short of money

D. the townsfolk used to be poorly paid

34. According to the townsfolk, the RSC deserves no subsidy because__________.

A. ticket prices can be raised to cover the spending

B. the company is financially ill-managed

C. the behavior of the actors is not socially acceptable

D. the theatre attendance is on the rise

35. From the text we can conclude that the author__________.

A. is supportive of both sides

B. favors the townsfolk’s view

C. takes a detached attitude

D. is sympathetic to the RSC.

Passage Four

Questions 35 to 40 are based on the following passage.

Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one out of

every five Americans at work was employed, i. e., worked for somebody else. Today only

one out of five is not employed but working for himself. And when fifty years ago “being

employed” meant working as a factory labourer or as a farmhand, the employee of today

is increasingly a middle-class person with a substantial formal education, holding a

professional or management job requiring intellectual and technical skills. Indeed, two

things have characterized American society during these last fifty years: middle-class and

upper- class employees have been the fastest- growing groups in our working population-

growing so fast that the industrial worker, that oldest child of the Industrial Revolution,

has been losing in numerical importance despite the ex- pans/on of industrial production.

Yet you will fine little if anything written on what it is to be an employee. You can

find a great deal of very dubious advice on how to get a job or how to get a promotion.

You can also find a good deal of work in a chosen field, whether it be the mechanist’s

trade or bookkeeping (簿记). Every one of these trades requires different skills, sets

different standards, and requires a different preparation. Yet they all have employeeship in

common. And increasingly, especially in the large business or in government,

employeeship is more important to success than the special professional knowledge or

skill. Certainly more people fail because they do not know the requirements of being an

employee than because they do not adequately possess the skills of their trade; the higher

you climb the ladder, the more you get into administrative or executive work, the greater

the emphasis on ability to work within the organization rather than on technical abilities or

professional knowledge

36. It is implied that fifty years ago__________.

A. eighty percent of American working people were employed in factories

B. twenty percent of American intellectuals were employees

C. the percentage of intellectuals in the total work force was almost the same as that

of industrial workers

D. the percentage of intellectuals working as employees was not so large as that of

industrial workers

37. According to the passage, with the development of modern industry,___________.

A. factory labourers will overtake intellectual employees in number

B. there are as many middle -class employees as factory labourers

C. employers have attached great importance to factory labourers

D. the proportion of factory labourers in the total employee population has decreased

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38. The word “dubious” (L. 2, Para. 2) most probably means__________.

A. valuable B. useful C. doubtful D. helpful

39. According to the writer, professional knowledge or skill is__________.

A. less important than awareness of being a good employee

B. as important as the ability to deal with public relations

C. more important than employer-employee relations

D. as important as the ability to co-operate with others in the organization

40. From the passage it can be seen that employeeship helps one__________.

A. to be more successful in his career B. to be more specialized in his field

C. to solve technical problems D. to develop his professional skill

Part Three Paraphrase (20%)

Directions: Explain the following sentences in your own words.

41. We can batten down and ride it out.

42. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?

43. They got out of bed on the wrong side is simple not a concern.

44. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.

45. Conversation is not for making a point.

46. There is no split of work and play, or work and culture.

47. It would be best if you imagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the

occasion.

48. boy and man , I had been through it often before.

49. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lighting speed.

50. The true intellectuals were far from flattered.

Part Four (25%)

Section A:

Point out the figures of speech used in the following sentences: (10%)

A. metaphor B. simile C. alliteration D. antithesis E. synecdoche F. hyperbole

G. metonymy H. personification

51. When the war was over, he laid down the sword and took up the pen. ( )

52. United there is little we cannot do, in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is

little we can do. ( )

53. Safe in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy, Godforsaken villages of Iowa

and Kansas, and the malarious tidewater hamlets of Georgia. ( )

54. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as chemist’s scales, and as

penetrating as a scalpel. ( )

55. The fact their marriage may be on the rocks or that their love affairs have been broken

or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. ( )

56. The air of morning was so clear that the snow still crowning the Eighteen Peaks

burned with whit-gold fire across the miles of sunlit air, under the dark blue of the sky.

( )

57. That did it. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. ( )

58. The match will soon be over and defeat is staring us in the face. ( )

59. I also see the dull, drill, docile, brutish masses of Hun soldiers plodding on. ( )

60. I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling, hollow-eyed hulk. ( )

Section B Translate the following sentences into Chinese (15%)

61. We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend,

oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

62.

The charm of conversation is that it does not really start from anywhere, and no one

has any idea it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.

63.

Most of all, he hates himself, because he sees his life passing by, without making any

sense beyond the momentary intoxication of success.

64.

Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

65.

Flaming diatribes poured from their pens denouncing the materialism and what they

considered to be the cultural boobery of our society.

Part Five Writing (15%)

Directions: In a year’s time you are going to graduate from university. How do you think

your college years have prepared you for your future life? Write an essay of

about 300 words on the following topic:

What I have learned from my years at university

In the first part of your essay you should state dearly your main argument, and in the

second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you

should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.

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2020-2021《高级英语》（二）期末课程考试试卷答案

Part One 1-10 CAABB BDCAD 11-15 CAADB 16-20 DBDCC

Part Two

21-25 BDDAA 26-30 BBDCA 31-35 ABCDD 36-40 DDCAA

1. We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.

2. How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack us?

’s not a matter of interest or importance if their marriages are breaking up , or their love

affairs have been broken or they are just in a bad temper .

4. Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of

the frightful things it can do .

5. Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our ideas or point of view .

6. Therefore pleasure and work went together; so did the cultural development of the worker go

hand in hand with the work he was doing.

7. It would be best if the reader pictures Omelas to himself as his imagination tells him , assuming

his imagination will be equal to the task.

8. As a boy later when I was a grown-up man, I had often travelled through the region .

9. Sitting with his leg crossed and with using a very old-fashioned lathe , a carpenter quickly

gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.

10. The true intellectuals who started the revolt against society did not feel pleased or honored

by the imitation of their life style by so many people.

Part Four section A 51-60 GDEBA ABHCF

Section B :

1. 为维护自由， 使其长存不灭，我们将会不惜付出任何代价，肩负任何重担，迎战一切困难，援助一切朋友，反击一切敌人。

2. 闲谈的引人入胜之处在于它没有事先定好的话题。它时而迂回流淌， 时而奔腾起伏，时而火花四射，时而热情洋溢，话题最终会扯到什么地方去谁也拿不准。

3．但他最为痛恨的是他自己， 因为他眼见自己的有生之年，除了赢利而带来的一时陶醉之外，都在毫无意义的白白流逝。

4．从美国这个大熔炉中产生了 一个新的种族，他们象仇视真理一样地仇视美。

5． 于是他们的笔尖下便喷射出愤怒的火花，猛烈抨击着美国社会中的唯物质主义以及他们所称的文化市侩习气。

Part Five Writing

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