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湖北第二师范学院省级精品课程:高级英语第二册综合测试 (1)A Comprehensive Test On Book Two Adv. Eng. For each of the following word, there are four choices marked A,B,C,D. Choose the one which best explains the word given: 20%1. intricate A. difficult B. complicated C. invalid D. simple2. eradicate A. cut into many small parts B. go round in circle C. draw together into a small space D. put an end to; destroy3. wax A. grow bigger or greater B. become less or smaller C. drop heavily D. cover with thick coating4. squash A. invade B. infer C. squeeze D. separate5. veer A. move forward B. look sideways C. change directions D. pour out6. exultant A. triumphant B. ecure C. exhausted D. overflowing7. unsightly A. invisible B. ugly C. precipitate D. provisional8. testy A. examining B. proving C. impatient D. judging9. tug A. pull B. push C. place D. fix10. covet A. surround B. cover C. avoid D. desire11. gruelling A. complaining B. moaning C. tiring D. unwilling12. infamy A. being famous for B. being shameful C. being honest D. being refused13. dominance A. ruling class B. manageable domain C. controlling power D. religious establishment14. frustrate A. discourage B. bring about good result C. come out fruitfully D. worry about the result15. derelict A. grievous B. deprived C. abandoned D. hunted16. infuriate A. set apart from other B. fill with rage C. become fastened D. keep in a certain position17. hack a A. cut carefully B. dig roughly C. make slowly D. move smoothly18. convict A. criminal B. aggressor C. captain D. captor19. plight A. condition B. irritation C. conscience D. objection20. sanctuary A. a warm place B. shelter C. a clean place D. a harm place21. hobble A. walk in difficulty with small steps B. walk quickly with strides C. walk slowly and lazily D. walk sideways with tips and toes22. debris A. small individual parts B. completely good places C. well preserved pieces D. scattered broken pieces23. invective A. beautiful words B. facial expressions C. convincing speech D. abusive language24. invoke A. call forth B. take down C. put up D. take the form of25. prescribe A. order or direct B. produce C. protect D. agree26. vantage c A. variable situation B. comfortless position C. advantage D. disadvantage27. inquisitive A. unnecessarily curious B. seriously urgent C. completely controlled D. ready made28. gruff A. serious B. grievous C. rough D. gentle29. alienate b A. ally B. estrange C. unite D. oppose30. extinguish a A. put out B. put up C. put on D. put down31. immune A. secure B. impure C. odorous D. revival32. disintegrate A. joint together B. break up into pieces C. regard as a individual D. look down upon33. coin d A. happen B. coincide C. comfort D. invent34. anecdote A. short amusing story B. long tedious talk C. uninteresting writing D. exciting information35. incredulous A. unbelieving B. increasing C. industrious D. unimproved36. tart b A. differrent B. sarcastic C. loaded D. special37. trauma A. emotional shock B. mental work C. the state of not having enough D. a reinforced structure for observers38. adversary A. a person who gives advice B. a friend C. an enemy D. a listener39. delve c A. give oneself up B. clasp carefully C. search carefully and deeply D. look down upon40. tribulation A. contribution B. delivery C. distribution D. great difficulty or trouble. Explain the underlined words or phrases: 15%1. Sometimes the blues did occasionally afflict all. 2. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. 3. All of them are mummified with age and the sun, and all of them are tiny. 4. I do not shrink from this responsibility, I welcome it. 5. As the Jews live in self-contained communities they follow the same trades as the Arabs, except for agriculture. 6. The main thrust of Camille had passed. 7. Then for the first time I noticed the poor old earth- coloured bodies, bodies reduced to bones and leathery skin, bent double under the crushing weight. 8. She already had the makings. 9. Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is . 10. However intricate the ways in which animals communicate with each other, they do not indulge in anything that deserves the name of conversation. 11. ., but in a flash the conversation has moved on and the opportunity is lost. 12. Parts of the beach and highway were strewn with dead dogs, cats, cattle. 13. What really appeals to the flies is that the corpses here are never put into coffins. 14. It so happened that I, as a law student, was taking a course in logic myself, so I had all the facts at my finger tips. 15. Dicto Simpliciter means an argument based on an unqualified generalization. .Choose the one which best completes the meaning of each following sentence. (10%)1. Something that is _ is deliberately deceitful, dishonest or untrue. A. spontaneous B. frenzied C. fraudulent D. stultifying2. If something _a_ your skin, it cuts it badly and deeply. A. lacerate B. demolish C. scud D. shrink3. People and animals that are _ are hostile and unfriendly. A. inimical B. derelict C. facetious D. aberrant4. Something that is _ is so bad or unpleasant that it makes you feel disgust or dismay. A. appealing B. appalling C. apparent D. appearing5. If you _, you travel or move slowly and not in any particular direction. A. invoke B. meander C. prescribe D. forsake6. A person who acts without thinking about what they are doing is often called an _. A. automation B. automaton C. automat D. autonomy7. A _ is a group of trees that are close together, often because they have been planted in this way. A. gruff B. grudge C. grovel D. grove8. If you _ to something, you mention it in a very indirect way. A. illustrate B. concoct C. allude D. invoke9. If a place is _ by a particular route or method of transport, you are able to reach it by this route or method. A. accessible B. assessable C. accessable D. acessable10. If someone has _ motives or reasons for doing something, they do not show their motives openly but hide them. A. hideous B. desultory C. compulsive D. ulterior. Determine, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. Put a T for True and F for False. (10%)1. Polly thinks that logic is the most interesting thing she has ever known. 2. President Kennedys policy towards the new states is to help them help themselves. 3. With the spread of technology and science, people become more and more identical. 4. The law student found Polly had all the necessary qualities except intelligence. So he decided to remedy by teaching her logic, but he failed. 5. The reason why people would like to go to the starved countries of Asia and Africa to visit is that the people there are poverty-stricken. 6. While the family were picking through the wreckage trying to find sth still useful, they were very sad and depressed. 7. According to the writer, the Kings English sets an excellent standard and people must accept and imitate it. 8. Owing to some kind of accident if one even notices the old woman means when an old women happens to have an accident, one can see her under the heavy load of sticks. 9. The conversation rambled along aimlessly without a focal subject. When there was a specific topic, the conversation became spirited and exciting. 10. The Jewish people dont engage in agriculture while the Arabs do. .Choose the one which fits the meaning of the texts weve learned. (10%)1. Mencken wrote that when the house becomes absolutely black, it appears _. A. pleasing to the eye B. ugly to the eye C. dirty to the eye D. horrible to the eye2. When the girl, Polly, backfired him with all the logical fallacies she had learned from him, the law student felt that he was like _. A. Madame Curie B. Mr. Pidgeon C. Pygmalion D. Frankenstein3. The general impression of the color of the houses in Westmoreland is _. A. green B. red C. black D. yellow4. There is always a great danger that words are harden into things for us means that there is always a great danger that _ A. we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent. B. we might remember that words are only symbols and they are not concrete things. C. we might forget that words are concrete things. D. we might remember that words are only symbols and they are only representation of concrete things.5. You would go far to find another girl so agreeable means _ A. You wouldnt achieve much success if you could find another girl who was so agreeable. B. You would achieve much success if you could find another girl who was so agreeable. C. You would accomplish much if you couldnt find another girl so agreeable. D. You would accomplish much if you find another girl not so agreeable as Polly.6. The Arab navvy was hungry. He was not used to begging, so he sidled slowly toward the writer. Here “he sidled slowly means _. A. he spoke slowly and shyly B. he looked shyly and sidewise C. he walked slowly to the writers sidet D. he moved slowly and sidewise7. In the Middle Ages, work, according to Fromm, was _ A. a duty B. a drudgery. C. meaningful. D. forced labor8. The stated policy of Kennedy toward Latin American countries is summed up in the phrase:_ A. alliance for progress. B. revolutionary belief. C. help them help themselves. D. support their own freedom.9. The look of the young Negro soldier that Orwell was expecting was _ A. that of profound respect. B. that of curiosity.t C. hostile and contemptuous. D. sensitive and uneasy.10. _ refers to the geometric patterns of the international style, the imaginative design of facadism and the playfulness of theme park. A. Modern culture B. Modern art C. Modern architecture D. Modern technology. Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four suggested answers marked A,B,C,D. Choose the best answer to each question. (15%)(1)An Englishman came to Tokyo with a contract that gave him two weeks paid holiday a year. He took the first. The second, he was warned in a none-too-subtle way, would incur the companys displeasure.He doggedly persisted with travel plans, On the eve of his planned departure he found his desk piled high with extra work- a suggestion from management he should stay and work. August may be holiday time in the Western capitals of the world, but while London, Rome and New York are abandoned to tourists, in Tokyo it is business almost as usual.Not only do Japanese companies give their staff fewer paid holidays that those in other developed countries, most Japanese do not even take off all the days they are allowed.The three or four week holidays common in Europe and North America remain a distant prospect for most Japanese workers, who regard the workaholic nickname they were given a decade ago by an irate European Community official with mixed pride and frustration.1. Which statement is true according to the passage? d A. When an Englishman came to Tokyo to work, he took his holiday first. B. When an Englishman was employed by a Tokyo company, the first thing for him to do was to go on a holiday. C. When an Englishman was given a two-week holiday by his Japanese employer, it would be advisable for him to take half as much. D. No sooner had an English employee come to Tokyo than he enjoyed a two-week holiday given by his employer.2. It can be concluded that a A. the average Japanese is more obsessed with work than his counterparts in other developed nations. B. JAPANESE workers are least reluctant to take holidays. C. JAPANESE employees are most eager to please their bosses. D. There are so many people competing for jobs in Japan.3. How do JAPANESE workers react to the epithet given? b A. They feel insulted. B. They are overwhelmed with conflicting feelings. C. They think they deserve to be called work freaks. D. They become furious.4. Which of the following statements is NOT true? a A. Rome is swarming with tourists in August. B. Europeans on the whole wont deny themselves the pleasure of enjoying paid holidays. C. An European employee in Japan might be hindered from going on a long holiday. D. Self-discipline and loyalty make the Japanese heat- resistant.5. This passage may lead us to infer that b A. more marriages will break up in Japan because husbands are spending all their time and energy working. B. a tradition of hard work and loyalty to the group fostered by Japanese companies, is partly responsible for the reluctance to take holidays . C. Japanese workers enjoy the challenge, the excitement and the opportunity for growth that their work provides. D. they are not actually working for the steak. Its the sizzle that fascinates them.(2)A mule which will gallop for a half-mile in the single direction elected by its rider even one time becomes a neighbourhood legend; one that will do it consistently time after time is an incredible phenomenon. Because, unlike a horse, a mule is far too intelligent to break its heart for glory running around the rim of a mile-long saucer. A creature capable of but one idea at a time, the horses strongest quality is timidity and fear. He can be tricked and cajoled by a child into breaking his limbs or his heart too in running too far, too fast, or jumping things too wide or hard of high; he will eat himself to death if not guarded like a baby. If he had only one gram of the intelligence of the most backward rat, he would be the rider. You can make the mule work for you, but that only within his own rigid self-set regulations. He will not permit himself to run too much. He will draw a wagon or a plough, but he will not run a race. He will not try to jump anything he does not indubitably know beforehand; he will not enter any place unless he knows of his own knowledge what is on the other side; he will work for you patiently for ten years for the chance to kick you once.6. With respect to eating habits, horses A. prefer baby food. B. will eat almost anything. C. can easily starve to death. D. dont know when to stop eating.7. The author of this passage is being A. humorous B. moralistic C. matter-of-fact D. romantic8. Rats, according to the author, A. have brains weighing one gram. B. are not as intelligent as mules. C. are more intelligent than horses. D. are backward and stubborn.9. Mules are not used for racing because most of them A. cannot run fast enough. B. refuse to do it. C. wont run unless theyre sure of winning . D. wont do it more that once.10. A mule will work for you as long as A. you give him enough to eat. B. he wants to anyway. C. you work for him in exchange. D. you are very firm with him.(3)I will now teach, offering my way of life to whomsoever desires to commit suicide by the scheme which has enabled me to beat the doctor and the hangman for seventy years. Some of the details may sound untrue, but they are not. I am not here to deceive; I am here to teach.We have no permanent habits until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up- and that is one of the main things. I have made it a rule to go to bed when I had to. This has resulted in an unswerving regularity of irregularity. It has saved me sound, but it would injure another person.In the matter of diet - which is another main thing- I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didnt agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince pie after midnight, up to then I had always believed it wasnt loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven -thirty in the evening, eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And If wish to urge upon you this, which I think is wisdom- that if you find you cant make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, dont you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks and get out at the first way station where theres a cemetery.I h