高级英语(上)试卷D试题卷

1、Colum n A1 attribute to2 fall into3 PUt into effect4 meddle in5 PaSS for6 a CaSe in POint7 get no Where8 in PrOPer PerSPeCtiVe9 let dow n10 impose On“ CameXXX学院 学年 学期英语 专业级高级英语（上）试卷（D）考试形式：（闭卷）题号（型）IIIIIIIVVVI总分评分人得分核分人I. MatChing (10%)DireGtiOns: MatCh the PhraSeS in CoIUmn A With the appropriate C

2、hinese explanatiOnS in CoIUmn B. Write dow n the IetterS With COrreSPO ndi ng numbers On your ANSWER SHEET.Colum n BA实行，实现，使生效B 一事无成，无进展C恰当的例子D插手，干涉E归因于F落入，陷入，分为G误认为H强加于I用恰当的观点J放下，降低，使失望II. ParaPhraSe (20%)DireCtions: Explain in English the meaning of the Underlined words or expressiOnS in each of t

3、he followi ng SentenCeSand the n Write your an SWerS On your ANSWER SHEET.11. UnfOrtUn ately, accepta nce, the imprecise resp OnSe PaCking the least educational punch, gets the most equitable SeX distribution in CIaSSrooms.12. CIaSSroom ChiVaIry is not on Iy misplaced; it is detrimental.13. In a rai

4、lroad accident a menagerie-tiger, whose Cage had broken OPen, is Said to have emerged, but PreSentIy CrePt back aga in.14. A PraCtiCaI joker SaW a discharged Vetera n Carry ing home his dinner.15. The tiger is Said to have emerged, but PreSently CrePt back again, as if too much bewildered by his new

5、 respOnSibiIities.16. The relati On ShiP is a formal and formalized One for WhiCh COnVen ti On alities suffice.17. The COnStrUCtion Of OUr VehiCIe PreSUPPOSeS a design.18. ThiS con fide nt attitude, so esse ntial to developme nt of future SPeak ing skill, is Very fragile and can be StifIed quite ear

6、ly.19. The IiOn'share of the damage is ma'doing.20. I Can guess that you are IiVing on a devastated Earth.21. Government is SUPPOSed to be the Way We human beings handle our collective affairs, but We just can'seem to get the hang Of it.22. AS a model of lucid SCrUtiny of a life 'exp

7、erience, MaUghamSThe SUmming-Upis Un surpassed.23. I have n ever had to PUt Wet towels round an ach ing brain in order to excavate the meanings from a poem of TennySon.24. ReIigiOUS groups and those who elevate the StatUS of POVerty as they equate money With evil exhort US to live SimPly.25. Some, o

8、n the other hand, determine to break out of their fettered StatUS and relentlessly StriVe for their Share of the gold.26. Manyfine bus in ess ideas go dow n the dra in in this way.27. They develop skills, become kno WIedgeable, develop expertise, and work Very hard.28. JUkeS had bee n SOmeWhat taken

9、 aback by the StartIi ng ViCiOUS ness of the first squall.29. SUCh is the prestige, the PriVilege, and the burde n of comma nd.30. It UnVeiled the black figures of men CaUght on the bridge, heads forward, as if Petrified in the act of butting.III. Readi ng COmPrehe nsio n (30%)DireCtions: In this Se

10、Ct ion there are four PaSSageS followed by a total Qf 15 multiple-choice questio ns. Read the PaSSageS CarefUIly and the n Write your an SWerS On your ANSWER SHEET.PaSSage OneYou may not have thought of it just this way, but the Ietter you Write is Part of you, and expressi on of your PerS on ality.

11、 TherefOre to Write IetterS that are mere Patter ns of form is to PreSe nt a colorless PerS on ality.Letters, by their Very n ature, are too in dividual to be Sta ndardized. A Ietter may be absolutely PerfeCt accord ing to the Sta ndards of good taste and good form; but Unl ess it also expresses SOm

12、ething of the Writer' S PerSonality, it is not a good letter.In other words, don't be SatiSfied to Write IetterS that are just COrreCt and nothing more. Try to Write IetterS that are COrreCt for you. IetterS that are Warm and alive With reflecti ons of your own PerS on ality.And if this SQUn

13、dS like a PIatitUde ( 陈词滥调),stop for a moment and think back over your rece nt COrreSP onden ce.What WaS the most in teresti ng Ietter you received? WaS it a Ietter anyone could have Written? Or WaS it a Ietter that inStantly as you read it that brought the PerSonality of the Sender right into the r

14、oom With you.as though you were face to face, listening instead of reading?The fault with too many letters, today as in the past the reason so many letters are dull and lifeless, and often fail to accomplish the purpose for which they are written is simply this: They sound exactly like the letters e

15、veryone else writes. They are neither exciting to receive nor stimulating to read.31. What does the author mean by saying“the letter you write is part of youA. Writing letters plays an important part in your life.B. When you write letters, you should be careful about what to write.C. People can see

16、your personality from the letters you write.D. You should write good letters.32. What does the author want to explain in the fourth paragraph?A. A good letter presents one's personality.B. His opinion is a platitude.C. Letter-writing is interesting.D. Talking face to face is a better way to comm

17、unicate than writing letters33. The best title for the passage is.A. Letter WritingB. Personality in Letter WritingC. To Write Interesting LettersD. To Write Correct LettersPassage Two“ White hostility toward African Americans, and the resulting discrimination, have been fueled by a sense of threat.

18、 During slavery, many working-class whites, encouraged by slaveholders, feared the release of large numbers of blacks into the labor market and society in general. When northern industries used African Americans as strikebreakers in the first decades of this century, white workers feared the loss of

19、 their jobs. Today, many white Americans fear “ blackviolence ”M.oreover, specific fears about the “ costs o”f welfare as well as the “ taking ” of jobs through affirmative action have added t of black violence.These fears have translated into negative stereotypes of African Americans as a people wh

20、o are prone to crime and violence, unwilling to work, and a drain on the white taxpayer through their welfare dependency. In turn, these stereotypes have been used to justify informal discrimination, to prevent the help to the urban poor, to be negligent in enforcing laws or policies prohibiting dis

21、criminatory practices against black workers, and most important, to hesitate in making a serious effort at job creation for African Americans. The result is that African Americans 'share of valued resources has not increased much over the last two decades, even as formal discrimination has beeng

22、reatly lessened. This fact is used to further the negative belief that African Americans have “not taken advantage of their equal opportunities.”34. According to the passage,how did the northern industries make use of African Americans in 1900s?A. Sent them to ask the strikers to go back to work.”?B

23、. Made them work very hard.C. Employed them to threaten the white strikers.D. Released them into the labor market.35. What is the ill influence of these negative stereotypes?A. Giving help to the poor black.B. Justifying informal discrimination.C. Enforcing laws prohibiting discriminatory practices

24、against black workers.D. Creating opportunities of employment for the black.36. What can be inferred from “ adrain on the white taxpayer ”about the African Americans?A. They are unwilling to work.B. They never pay tax.C. They lack security.D. Their welfare depends on the white's tax.37. The auth

25、or wrote the passage to tell us.A. African Americans pose a threat to the whites in employmentB. African Americans are dependent on the tax paid by the whitesC. African Americans are discriminated against because they are often on strikeD. the sense of threat intensifies the white's hospitalitay

26、tioandagdiasicnrsimt inthe African AmericansPassage ThreeOn the face of it, Hobart is a strange place in which to write a book about aprostmodernization. It is the capital of Tasmania, the smallest, most southerly and only island states of Australia. It is situated on the estuary of the river Derwen

27、t, and we look down the estuary from our offices to the expanse of the Southern Ocean which extends, uninterrupted by land, to Antarctic. Tasmania 'esxtreme social conservatism. What are coyly referred to as homosexual acts'remain illegal in the state, and condom vending machines only recent

28、ly ceased to be so. By contrast, guns (unlike fireworks) are readily available to anyone over the age sixteen with the money to pay for them. But this is not the whole story about Tasmania. Hobart is indistinguishable in many respects from any other late modern, or early postmodern city. Its suburbs

29、 nestle around air-conditioned shopping malls; its urban landscape is dotted with the familiar icons of Kentucky Fried4ChiCken, MCDOnald ' and PiZZa HUt outlets; its radio anCl televisiOn StatiOnS transmit SOUndS and images WhiCh COUICl be instantly recognized in MeIbOUlTle, Miami Or ManChester.

30、 There are even SenSeSn WhiCh TaSmania SetS the PaCe Of global Change. The United TaSmania Group Of the 1970s has a CIaim to be the WOrICl S first green' POlitiCaI debate, and the PreSent date LabOr administration holds OffiCe Only With the SUPPOrt Of a group Of green ParIiamentarians. In ShOrt)

31、 rharginality' is no IOnger an entirely self-evident category. We have found the ParadOXiCal and VOIatiIe mix Of PaSt) PreSent and POSSibIe futures WhiCh marks OUt State to be a SUggeStiVe backgroUnd for OUr reflectiOnS On POStmOdernizing Change, WhiCh SeemS SimUltaneously to CliSrUPt) accelerat

32、e and reverse the developmental logic Of modernization.In ano ther, more immediate SenSe OUr teachi ng and research has formed the COn text from WhiCh the book has emerged. It became clear to US that OUr CliVerSe interests in CUltUre) State) inequality, SOCial movement, Organizations and SCience Wer

33、e COnVerging in a COnCelTl With Patterns Of Change in COntemporary advaneed societies. FrOm this realizatiOn Came the idea for a book in WhiCh a general accoUnt Of POStmOdernizing Change would be PUt to WOrk in OUr inCliViCIUaI areas Of interest. WhiIe the book is COnCeiVeCl as much more than a Seri

34、eS Of UnCOrInected essays, We have not attempted to apply the general accoUntin a rigid, mechanistic way. The reader will find that Clifferent Climensions Of POStmOdernizing PrOCeSSeS are emphasized in Clifferent ChaPterS according to the PeCUIiaritieS Of the SUbjeCt matter. The greater part Of ChaP

35、ter 1 WaS designed and Written by WaterS) although CrOOk and PakUISke also COntributed SeCtiOnS and PrOPOSeCl amendments to SUCCeSSiVe drafts. The Other ChaPterS have been SUbjeCteCl to a rather exhaustive PrOCeSS Of COIIeCtiVe revision. CrOOk bears respOnSibility for ChaPter 2, 7, and 8; PakUISi fo

36、r ChaPter 3 and 5; and WaterS for Chapters 4 and 6.38. In What SenSe is HObart §trang6'?A. It is the SmaIIeSt CaPitaI Of AUStralia.B. It is the Only island State SitUateCl On the estuary.C. There SeemS to be a COntradictiOn between HObart and POStmOdernization.D. It is the PIaCe Where both

37、COn SerVatiSm and fas hi On are existi ng.39. WhiCh Of the following is NOT true Of Hobart?A. SOCial COnSerVatiSm is represented by the PeOPIe rejection Of behaviors SUCh ashomosexuality.B. There are many SimiIaritieS between HObart and any Other modern city.C. PeOPIeS tolerance toward guns is an in

38、CliCatiOn Of their extreme SOCial COn SerVatiSm.D. The POStmOdernizing Change manifests itself in What has been happening in thestate.40. It Can be inferred that One Of the most important features Of POStmOdernizatiOn isC. COnSerVatiSmD. ParadOXC. VerSatiIeD. ViOIentB. PreVaiIing POStmOdernizatiOnD.

39、 PrefaCe to POStmOdernizatiOnA. marginalityB. globalizatiOn41. WhiCh WOrCl Can replace Volatile”？A. ChangingB. COnSiStent42. The best title for this article may beA. A SeIf-COntradictory PIaCeC. HaPPenings in the RemOteSt SeaPaSSage FOUr“ Peopldhought Of themselves as having rights from COmPanies, S

40、aiCl HOShUa Freeman, a IabOr historian at COIUmbia University. That SenSe Of entitlement grew even StrOnger in the early decades after WOrICl War Il and COIIeCtiVe bargaining became the arena for arguing OUt WageS) PenSiOns, health inSUrance, VaCatiOns, hours and job security.notion born in the 1920

41、That SyStem is CliSaPPearing today. Career-IOng attachmentsto One employer, a'S) are no IOnger the .norm. The n>raasusness makesIeSS CliStinction between WOrkerS and managers. RightS are relative, at best. An inCreaSingly COnSerVatiVe electorate has reduced government ' rele in regulating

42、 the economy. UniOnS have IOSt in flue nce and membership.What PeOPIe do is try to COPe) by themselves, SaiCI Mrs. SkeIIy) Of DYG. Self-employment is One SOIUtion, DYG' S POIIS ShOW) and that is a rising trend.On the job, to hide any Weaknessin their PerfOrmance, She SaiCI. Theywork IOnger hours

43、 and take WOrk home, WithOUt Ietting the boss know, to give the impressiOn that they Can do CliffiCUlt tasks quickly. There is nothing Iike) ' Wsllairethis together.There is too much COmPetitiOrL PeOPIe talk Of their weakness to friends and SPOUSeS) but not to coworkers. ”And many AmeriCans feel

44、 in their hearts that the Unemployment might be justified.“There is a SenSeamOng PeOPIe that We are inefficient and bloated, rs. SkeIIy SaiCI. ” M “And Untithey feel that is no IOnger true, they are reluctant to CritiCiZe the forces that are CUtting OUt the fat and the inefficiencies.”43. It Can be

45、inferred from the SeCOnd ParagraPh that.A. PeOPIe do not enjoy their rights noWadaySB. PeOPIe are more IikeIy to Change their jobs than they Were in the 1920C. WOrkerS and managers Share the Same rights todayD. noWadayS) PeOPIe refuse to take Part in the UniOn44. ACCOrCling to MrS SkeIIy) WhiCh Of t

46、he following is true? A. PeOPIe Iike to WOrk OVertime.B. PeOPIe Want to WOrk at home.C. People Want to impress the boss With their CaPability and efficiency.D. People need help from their families, for they CannOt cope With difficult problems themselves.45. The main idea of the PaSSage is.A. people

47、thought of themselves as hav ing rights from compa niesB. people ' S SenSe of entitlement is not as StrOng as it USed to beC. people work at homeD. people regard Un employme nt as usualIV. Proofread ing and Error COrreCt ion(10%)Proofread the give n PaSSage On your ANSWER SHEET as in StrUCted.V.

48、 Ge neral Kno WIedge (10%)DireCtions: There are ten multiple-choice questio ns in this SeCti on. Choose the best an SWer to each questio n. Mark your an SWerS On your ANSWER SHEET.56. The IargeSt City in AUStraIia is.A. Syd neyB. MelbourneC. Ca nberraD. Perth57. WhiCh branch of AmeriCa n gover nment

49、 has the power to in terpret the COn StitUti on?A. The SUPreme CourtB.The PreSide ntC. The Two HOUSeSD.The Sen ate58. The head of State of NeW Zeala nd is represe nted by.A. the Prime Mi nisterB.the Gover nor-Ge neralC. the BritiSh Mo narchD.the OmbUdSman59. Among the most typical English sports, ha

50、ving been in existence SinCe the 16thCen tury, it is.A. CriCketB. rugbyC. box ingD. football60. In, the chaos of the con temporary world and the despair of WeSternerS afterthe first world War are expressed.A. Ode to the WeSt WindB. The WaSte LandC. I Wandered Lonely as a CloudD. TeSS of the D ' Urbervilles61. It is gen erally regarded that KeatS ' most importa nt and mature poems are in theform of .A. elegyB. odeC. epicD. SOnnet62. The