2014年秋华师高级英语试题 (2).docVIP

AA man is not likely to fashion a spear for himself (1) w point will fall off in mid-flight; nor is a woman who weaves her own basket (2) l to make it out of rotted straw. (3) S , if one is sewing a parka for a husband who is (4) a to go hunting for the family (5) w the temperature at sixty below, all stitches will be perfect. And when the (6) m who make boats are the uncles and fathers of those who sail them, they will be as seaworthy as the state of the art permits.2. Growth (7) a layer on layer of executives, foremen, engineers, production workers, and sales specialists to the payroll. (8) S each new employee contributes a (9) d share to the overall production process, (10)a from the company and its product are likely to increase along with the neglect or even purposeful sabotage of quality standards.答案: 1. whose 2. likely 4. about5. with 6. men 7. adds8. Since 9, diminished 10. alienationAfter the first years, as childrens consumption of the new medium increased, together with parental (1) c about the possible effects of so much television viewing, a steady refrain helped to soothe and reassure anxious (2) p . Television always enters a (3) p of influences that already exist: the home, the peer group, the school, the church, and culture (4) g , write the authors of an early and influential study of televisions (5) e on children. In other words, if the childs home life is all rights parents need not worry about the effects of all that television watching.But television does not (6) m influence the child; it deeply influences that pattern of influences that is (7) m to ameliorate its effects. Home and family life (8) h changed in important ways since the advent of television. The peer group has become television-oriented, and much of the time (9) c spend together is occupied b y television viewing. Culture generally has been (10) t by television.答案: 1. concern 2. parents 3. pattern 4. generally 5. effects6. merely 7. meant 8. has9. children10. transformedBBut it is not particularly easy for one to climb up out of the working-class - especially he is handicapped by the possession of ideals and illusions. 1)When I lived on a ranch in California, and 2)I was hard to find the ladder whereby to climb. 3)I early inquired for the rate of interest on invested money, and worried 4)my childs brain for an understanding of the virtues and excellencies 5)of the remarkable invention of man, compound interest. Further, 6)I ascertained current rates of wages 7)for workers of all ages, and the cost of 8)living. By all this data I concluded that if I began immediately and 9) worked and saved until I was fifty years of age, I would then stop 10) working and enter into participation in a fair portion of the delights and good-nesses that would then be open to me higher up in society. 答案: 1. especially 和 he之间加 if 2. 去掉When 3. hard 和 to 之间加 put4. 去掉 for 5.把 for 改成 into 6. 把 the 改成 that 7. ascertained 和 current 之间加 the 8. 没有错误9. 把 By 改成 From 10. 把 would 改成 couldEEven a slight alteration in the wording of a statement can subtly (1) s the meaning. Look at these two sentences:1)In my childhood I loved to watch trains go by.2)When I was a child I loved watching trains go by.At first glance these two sentences are (2) e the same. But look more closely and you will see that there are very (3) t differences. In my childhood is a shade more (4) a than When I was a child. Watching perhaps emphasizes the (5) l at trains a little more than to watch. This is a very subtle example, and it would be (6) p to argue about it, but everyone would at (7) o agree that there is a marked difference (8) b the next two statements: 1)He died poor. 2)He expired in indigent circumstances.In one sense expired is a (9) s for died and in indigent circumstances for poor, but when the whole statement is (10) c , we cannot maintain that the two are the same.答案: 1. shift2. exactly3. tiny4. abstract 5. looking 6. possible7. once8. between 9. synonym 10. consideredHHere I found, also, warm faith in the human, glowing idealism, sweet-nesses of unselfishness, renunciation, and martyrdom - the splendid stinging things of the spirit. 1) Here the life was clean, noble, and alive. Here life 2)rehabilitated itself, became wonderful and glorious; I was 3)glad to be alive. I was in touch with great souls who 4) exalted flesh and spirit over dollars and cents, and for whom 5) the thin wail of the starved slum child meant more over all 6)the pomp and circumstances of commercial expansion 7) and world empire. All about me were the nobleness of 8) purpose and heroism of effort, my days and nights 9)were sunshine and star-shine, all fire and dew, and before 10)my eyes, ever burning and blazing, the Holy Grail, Christs own Grail, the warm human, long-suffering and maltreated, but to be rescued and saved at the last.答案: 1. 在本行第一个 the 之前加 all 2. 去掉 the 3. 把 became 改成 becoming4. 无错误5. 把 for 改成 to6. 把 over 改成 than7. 把 circumstances 改成 circumstance8. 去掉 the9. 在my 之前加 and10. 把第三个 and 改成 withII looked at the flower, not knowing what to say, and then answered, “I see something soft and beautiful, Grandpa.”Kneeling, he pulled me close. “It isnt just the roses that are beautiful, Billy. Its that special place in your heart that makes them so.”His eyes met mine again. “Billy, I planted these roses a long, long time ago - before your mother was even a dream. I put them into the soil the day my first son was born. It was my way of saying thank-you to God. That boys name was Billy, just like yours. I used to watch him pick roses for his mother.”I saw my grandfathers tears. I had never seen him cry before. His voice became hoarse.“One day a terrible war came, and my son, like so many sons, went away to fight a great evil. He and I walked to the train station together Three months later a telegram came. My son had died in some tiny village in Italy. All I could think of was that the last thing I said to him in this life was goodbye.”Grandpa slowly stood up. “Dont ever say goodbye, Billy. Dont ever give in to the sadness and the loneliness of that word. I want you to remember instead the joy and the happiness of those times when you first said hello to a friend. Take that special hello and lock it away within you - in that place in your heart where summer is an always time. When you and your friends must part, I want you to reach deep within you and bring back that first hello.”A year and half later, my grandfather became gravely ill. When he returned from several weeks in the hospital, he wanted his bed next to the window, where he could see his beloved rosebush.Then the family was summoned and I returned to the old house. It was decided that the oldest grandchildren would be allowed to say their goodbyes. When it came to my turn, I noted how tired he looked. His eyes were closed and his breathing was slow and hard.I took his hand as gently as he had once taken mine.“Hello, Grandpa,” I whispered. His eyes slowly opened.“Hello, my friend,” he said, with a brief smile. His eyes closed again and I moved on.I was standing by his rosebush when an uncle came to tell me that my grandfather had died. Remembering Grandpas words, I reached deep within my for those special feelings that had made up our friendship. Suddenly, and truly, I knew what he had meant about never saying goodbye - about refusing to give in to the sadness.7. The author was named after his uncle when he was born. ( )答案:正确It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. For these 1)the former is the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours 2)in the office or factory bring with them as their reward, 3)not the means of sustenance, but also a keen appetite for pleasure 4)even in their simplest and most modest forms. 5)But the Fortunes favored children belong to the second class. 6)Their life is a natural harmony. For them 7)the working hours are never long. Each day is a holiday, 8)and for ordinary holidays when they come are grudged 9)as reinforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. 10)答案: 2. 把 is 改成 are 3. or 和 factory 之间加 the4. not 和 the 之间加 only 5. 把 their 改成 its 6. 去掉Fortunes 前面的 the 7. 无错误8. long 后面加 enough9. 去掉 for10. 把 reinforced 改成 enforcedIt was the same (1) e , crime and betrayal, betrayal and crime - men who were alive, but who were (2) n clean nor noble, men who were clean and noble but who were not alive. (3) T there was a great hopeless mass, neither noble nor alive, but merely clean. It did not sin positively nor (4) d ; but it did sin (5) p and ignorantly by acquiescing in the current immorality and profiting by it. Had it been noble and alive it (6) w not have been ignorant, and it would have refused to (7) s in the profits of betrayal and crime.I discovered that I did not like to live on the parlor floor of society. Intellectually I was bored. Morally and (8) s I was sickened. I remembered my intellectuals and idealists, my unfrocked preachers, broken professors, and clean-minded, class-conscious workingmen. I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and star-shine, (9) w life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever (10) b and burning the Holy Grail.答案: 1. everywhere2. neither 3. Then 4. deliberately 5. passively6. would7. share 8. spiritually9. where10. blazingMMost Americans blindly accept the idea that newer is automatically better. But a human life contradicts this premise. There is a great deal of happiness to be found as we grow older. My own parents, now in their sixties, recently told me that they are happier now than they have ever been. They would not want to be my age. Did this surprise me? At first, yes. Then it gladdened me. Their contentment holds out great promise for me as I move into the next perhaps even better phase of my life.10. The authors parents contentment makes her believe that shell also be happy. ( )答案:正确My daughter Allie is leaving for university in a week. Her room is cluttered with shopping bags filled with blankets, towels, jeans and jumpers.She wont talk about going.I say, “Im going to miss you,” but she gives me one of her looks and leaves the room. Another time I say, in a voice so friendly it surprises even me: “Do you think youll take your posters and pictures with you, or will you get new ones at university?”She answers, her voice filled with annoyance, “How should I know?”My daughter is off with friends most of the time. Yesterday was the last day shed have for a few months with her friend Katharine, whom shes known since kindergarten. Soon, it will be her last day with Sarah, Claire, Heather . and then it will be her last day with me.My friend Karen told me, “The month before I left for university, I screamed at my mother the whole month. Be prepared.”I stand in the kitchen, watching Allie make a glass of iced tea. Her face, once so open and trusting, is closed to me. I struggle to think of something to say to her, something meaningful and warm. I want her to know Im excited about the university she has chosen, that I know the adventure of her life is just starting and that I am proud of her. But the look on her face is so angry that I think she might slug me if I open my mouth.One night after a long period of silence between us I asked what I might have done or said to make her angry with me. She sighed and said, “Mum, you havent done anything. Its fine.” It is fine just distant.Somehow in the past we always found some way to connect. When Allie was a toddler, I would go to the day-care center after work. Id find a quiet spot and she would nurse our eyes locked together, reconnecting.In her early teen, when other mothers were already the estrangement they felt with their adolescent daughters, I hit upon a solution: rescue raids. I would show up occasionally at school, sign her out of class and take her somewhere out to lunch, to the movies, once for a walk on the beach. It may sound irresponsible, but it kept us close when other mothers and daughters were floundering. We talked about everything on those outings outings we kept secret from family and friends.When she started secondary school, Id get up with her in the morning to make her a sandwich for lunch, and wed drink a cup pf tea together before the 6:40 bus came.A couple of times during her final year I went into her room at night, the light off, but before she went to sleep. Id sit on the edge of her bed, and shed tell me about problems: a teacher who lowered her grade because she was too shy to talk in class, a boy who teased her, a friend who had started smoking. Her voice, coming out the darkness, was young and questioning. A few days later Id hear her on the phone, repeating some of the things I had said, things she had adopted for her own. But now we are having two kinds of partings. I want the romanticized version, where we go to lunch and lean across the table and say how much we will miss each other. I want smiles through tears, bittersweet moments of reminiscence and the chance to offer some last bits of wisdom.But as she prepares to depart, Allies feelings have gone underground. When I reach to touch her arm, she pulls away. She turns down every invitation I extend. She lies on her bed, reading Emily Dickinson until I say I have always loved Emily Dickinson, and then she closes the book.Some say the tighter your bond with your child, the greater her need to break away, to establish her own identity in the world. The more it will hurt, they say. A friend of mine who went through a difficult time with her daughter but now has become close to her again, tells me, “Your daughter will be back to you.”“I dont know,” I say. I sometimes feel so angry that I want to go over and shake Allie. I want to say, “Talk to me or youre grounded!” I feel myself wanting to say that most horrible of all mother phrases: “Think of everything Ive done for you.”Late one night, as Im getting ready for bed, she comes to the bathroom door and watches me brush my teeth. For a moment, I think I must be brushing my teeth in a way she doesnt approve of. But then she says, “I want to read you something.” Its a pamphlet from her university. “These are tips for parents.”I watch her face as she reads aloud: “Dont ask your child if she is homesick,” it says. “She might feel bad the first few weeks, but dont let it worry you. This is a natural time of transition. Write her letters and call her a lot. Send a package of goodies.”Her voice breaks, and she comes over to me and buries her head in my shoulder. I stroke her hair, lightly, afraid shell bolt if I say a word. We stand there together for long moments, swaying. Reconnecting.I know it will be hard again. Its likely there will be a fight about something. But I am grateful to be standing in here at midnight, both of us tired and sad, toothpaste smeared on my chin, holding tight to while also letting go of my daughter who is trying to say goodbye.1. Although Allie is leaving home for university in a week, shell not be talking about going. ( )答案:正确2. After parting with her friends one by one, Allie will spend her last day with her mother. ( )答案:正确3. What the author has done and said makes her daughter angry. ( )答案:错误4. Since Allies babyhood the author has been offering tender love and care to her. ( )答案:正确5. The writer, together with her daughter, worked out the solution that kept them close. ( )答案:错误6. Allies teacher lowered her grade because she was too shy to talk in class. ( )答案:正确7. In the writers opinion, all mothers believe that the tighter your bond with your child, the greater her need to break away, to establish her own identity in the world. ( )答案:错误8. The writer always says that most horrible of all mother phrases: “Think of everything Ive done for you.” ( )答案:错误9. Allie finally reveals her true feelings to her mother after days of indifference and impatience. ( )答案:正确10. Allie wont talk about going before leaving for university because she hates to leave her beloved mother. ( )答案:正确OOne of the basic arguments against grouping the gifted is the fear of creating a caste of intellectual snobs. Similarly, some educators fear that the average and slow students would come to regard themselves as being 1)inferior. If my definition of the gifted were accepted, then these fears are2) groundless. Above all, the schools have grouped gifted athletes for years. 3) However how many athletes regard themselves 4)as part of an elite? Do varsity athletes look down 5)upon the other pupils as inferior? The vast majority apparently do not. 6)Consider also the number of gifted grouping in speech, 7)music, art, journalism. Schools have readily grouped the gifted 8)in these areas without apparent ill effect. 9)To the extend of my observation, encouraging gifted debaters, musicians, 10)artists, and writers to develop their special talents does not create envy or feelings of inferiority among less talented students.答案: 1. 去掉 being2. 把 were 改成 is3. 把 Above 改成 After4. 把 However 改成 Yet5. 无错误6. 去掉 upon 后面的 the7. 把 number 改成 amount8. journalism 前面加 and9. without 和 apparent 之间加 anyOur society worships youth. Advertisements convince us to buy Grecian Formula and Oil of Olay so we can hide the gray in our hair. Middle-aged folks work out in gyms and jog down the street, trying to delay the effect