高级一期中考.docx

The mid-term exam is to be held in next Sunday. The content of the paper involves texts of unit 1, u 3, u 4 and u 5. After the exam, we come back for the rest of the class on December the 11th and 18th , we are supposed to teach Unit 10 (Text I) on December the 11th , Unit 11 (Text I) on December the 18th . The Final-term exam involves Unit 8 (Text I), Unit 9 (Text II), and Unit 10 (Text I), and Unit 11(Text I).I. Multiple Choice (10%)II. Paraphrase the following sentences on the answer sheet (20%)III.Proofread the given passage (10%)The following passage on the answer sheet contains several errors, each line with a maximum of one error. You should proofread the passage and correct the errors in the following way:For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the bland provided at the end of the line.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “”sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “/” and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line. .IV. Translate the underlined parts in following into Chinese (15%) V. Translate the underlined parts in the following into English (15%)VI. Reading Comprehension (30%)Section A1. Read the passage and fill in the blank with the best answer from the four choices (15%):Section BJudge whether the statements are true or false by writing T or F. (15%)考题1We were fascinated by the view outside the room a beautiful verdant meadow and brook_ through it. A. rambling B. striding C. creeping D. meandering2.The children whistled when they _ down the street, _ at the closed shop windows, clinking their shillings in their pockets. A. roamed, sauntering B. loitered, strollingC. strolled, roaming D. sauntered, loitering3. Jim Brown got his _title of marquis when he was only a toddler. A. congenital B. hereditary C. innate D. born4. The electronic computers in our computer center are_ of storing millions of bits of information. A. competent B. able C. fit D. capable 5. Before you start a business, you have to raise the necessary_. A. asset B. investment C. capital D. income6. In a television-oriented family, children cannot expect to have much time to _ to games, familiar songs and shared activities. A. devote B. concentrate C. spare D. spend7. My daughter was to _ in the TV program that she forgot to turn the microwave over off. A. distracted B. attracted C. enchanted D. engrossed8. Susan is a devoted daughter, always very_ to the needs of her old parents. A. attentive B. observant C. recurrent D. earnest9. We are not sure why she didnt go into the advanced class, but we_ she failed the English Proficiency Test. A. predict B. deduce C. induce D. suspect10. I remember seeing the film but the name of the protagonist just _ me. A. fails B. misses C. escapes D. deludesThere are no synonyms, and the same statement can never be repeated in a changed form of words. (a changed form of a word change the meaning of the statement)The exact use of language gives us mastery over the material we are dealing with. (makes us master)Beauty and myths are perennial masks of poverty. (Beautiful scenery and myths that concerning the luck of the locate people who are exempt from the strains and tensions of the middle class are long-standing covers of poverty)Without being a malapropism, a word may still fail to be the right word for the writers purpose. (Without being a word that is misused, a word may still fail to be the exact word)At the age of 16, he asked himself whether a light wave would seem stationary if one ran abreast of it. (He asked himself whether a light wave would seem still if one ran side by side with it)He ultimately found work, in 1902, as a patent examiner in Berne, and there in 1905, his genius burst into fabulous flower. (His talent produced unbelievable success suddenly)It is improper to assign to television the subsidiary role its many apologists insist it plays. (It is improper to attribute to television the unimportant role its many supporters insist it plays)Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people. (Turning on the television set can stop the process that makes children become mature)Here is a great mass of people, yet it takes an effort of the intellect and will even to see them. (Here is a great number of people, yet one has to be determine enough and clever enough to see them)However, a curious myopia afflicted those early observers. (A curious lack of long-range perspective to think suffered those early observers)ProofreadingThe first time I witnessed people eating pet foods was among neighbors and acquaintances during my youth in the South. At the time it was not uncommon or startling to me to see dog-food patties sizzling in a pan on the top of a stove or kerosene space heater in a dilapidated house with no running water, no refrigerator, no heat, no toilet and the unrelenting stench of decaying insects. I simply thought of it as the unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of being poor in the South.我首次目睹人类一饲料充饥是在我年轻的时候。当时我住在南部，那些以饲料为食品的人是我的邻居和熟人。当时他们住在破旧的屋子里，没有水，没有冰箱，没有暖气设备，没有厕所，屋里只有一股有腐烂的昆虫散发出的驱不散的强烈臭味。所以，当我看到他们用平底锅在炉子或是煤油取暖器上有狗食小馅饼煎得咝咝响时，我觉得很平常，一点儿也不感到惊讶。我只是认为这是贫穷的恶果，虽然不幸，却不可避免。Consider the family life described here: Presumably the father comes home from work during the Sesame Street -Electric Company stint. The children are either watching television, gobbling their dinner, or both. While the parents eat their dinner in peaceful privacy, the children watch another hour of television. Then there is only a half-hour left before bedtime, just enough time for baths, getting pajamas on, brushing teeth, and so on. The childrens evening is regimented with an almost military precision. They watch their favorite programs, and when there is nothing much on I really like, they watch whatever else is on - because watching is the important thing. Their mother does not see anything amiss with watching programs just for the sake of watching; she only wishes there were some first-rate childrens shows on at those times.让我们想一下这里所描述的家庭生活情景吧：大概父亲在芝麻街和玩具总动员这两个固定节目之间的这段时间回家，孩子们要么正在看电视，要么正在狼吞虎咽的吃饭，要么两者同时进行，当父母两人安安静静吃饭的时候，孩子们再看上一小时的电视，如此一来在睡觉前就只剩下半小时的时间，这段时间只够洗澡、换睡衣、刷牙等一些睡觉前的准备工作，孩子们晚上的时间就像军事部署一样有严密的安排，他们看自己喜欢的电视节目，当没有他们喜欢的节目时，电视里放什么，他们就看什么，因为看电视本身就是一件重要的事情，而他们的母亲却不知道就在这消极被动的看电视的过程中却丢失了很多重要的东西，她仅仅是希望在那期间有一些制作优秀的儿童节目。TranslateThe foreign student of English may be discouraged and dismayed when he learns that there are over 400,000 words in the English language, without counting slang. But let him take courage. More than half of these words are dread. They are not in current use. Even Shakespeare used a vocabulary of only some 20,000 words. The average Englishman today probably has a vocabulary range of from 12,000 to 13,000 words. 当学习英语的外国学生得知英语中竟有40多万单词（尚未包括俚语）时，他们可能会丧失信心和勇气，但是他们应该鼓起勇气，因为超过半数的单词，早已被历史所淘汰，现在已经不流通。即使是莎士比亚也只使用了大概2万单词而已。现在的英国人平均量大概在1.21.3万左右。It is good to make your vocabulary as complete as you can, but a great deal can be said and written with a vocabulary of no more than 10,000 words. The important thing is to have a good control and command over the words you do know. Better know two words exactly than three vaguely.尽可能地充实你的词汇量当然是件好事，但实际上如果拥有1万单词，你就可以满足大量的口头和书面表达的需要了。问题在于要求你所懂得的词汇了如指掌才能运用自如。准确地掌握两个词胜过含糊地懂三个。A good carpenter is not distinguished by the number of his tools, but by the craftsmanship with which he uses them. A good writer, therefore, is not measured by the extent of his vocabulary, but by his skill in finding the “mot juste ”, the word that will hit the nail cleanly on the head.优秀的工匠并非因其拥有的工具数量而出名，而是因为其使用这些工具的精湛技术而出名；所以衡量一个作家的标准，不在于其词汇量的大小，而在于其使用准确的词语，恰如其分地表达写作意图的能力。A quarter of a century after the introduction of television into American society, a period that has seen the medium become so deeply ingrained in American life that in at least one state the television set has attained the rank of a legal necessity, sa