微信小程序《高级英语（二）》期末考试
I. Vocabulary: 20%
1. This very night I will dismiss such trivial phantasies as jumping sheep and crooked pictures, and evoke the phantom of a crushing, stupendous Bore. ( B )
A. lose sight of B. give up C. play with D. make up for
2. In the story, there is an impossible character, a victim of insomnia, who finds that a volume of Wordsworth’s poems is the only sure ___B_____.
A. incredulous B. soporific C. solitary D. indispensable
3. There is much work which is exceedingly irksome. ( C )
A. pleasant B. satisfactory C. annoying D. dissatisfactory
4. The Army would rescind the magazine’s accreditation to cover the war. ( D )
A. give honor to B. pay attention to C. pay respect to D. put an end to
5. The modern cult of beauty is not exclusively a function of wealth. ( C )
A. attraction B. praise C. worship D. form
6. It was in the ____B____ light of the early dawn that I saw a man moving towards me.
A. dark B. dim C. damp D. dizzy
7. He ____C____ for a whole week before making that important decision.
A. thought of B. depended on C. meditated D. wondered
8. Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom from drudgery. ( C )
A. great pleasure B. serious mistake
C. hard and dull work D. important duty
9. To counter their efforts, treasure hunters argue that without the lure of gold and million-dollar treasures, the wrecks and their historical artifacts would never be recovered at all. ( B )
A. knowledge B. attraction C. luxury D. glare
10. The cult of beauty must therefore be symptomatic of changes that have taken place outside the economic sphere. ( B )
A. superior to B. the signs of C. bringing about D. sympathized by
11. In short, a lot of television usurps one of the most precious of all human gifts, the ability to ____D____ your attention yourself, rather than just passively surrender it.
A. seize B. use C. apply D. focus
12. After twenty years of antagonism, the two countries were finally __C____.
A. friendly B. agreeable C. peaceful D. reconciled
13. Provided a man does not have to work so hard as to ____B____ his vigor, he is likely to find far more zest in his free time than an idle man could possibly find.
A. gain B. impair C. recover D. loosen
14. There’s no longer any moral indignation. And if there is, it comes from people who are almost exhausted from past indignities inflicted on them. ( C )
A. agreement B. approval C. anger D. standard
15. Driving after drinking Whiskey is ____C____ to cause traffic accidents.
A. about B. tempted C. apt D. assured
16. The incredible precision of the equipment is ___C_____ to the mechanical skill of the engineers who built it.
A. stamina B. ambivalent C. variable D. testimony
17. People should ____A____ their minds of too strong a desire for money.
A. clean B. purge C. spill D. fill
18. Provided a man does not have to work so hard as to impair his vigor, he is likely to find far more zest in his free time than an idle man could possibly find. ( B )
A. dream B. imagination C. excitement D. boredom
19. What America and NATO did in Yugoslavia ___B_____ to mass murder.
A. is compatible B. is tantamount C. appeals D. is conducive
20. I don’t think we can _____B___ the possibility that he may have been murdered.
A. include B. extend C. exclude D. exceed
II. Text Comprehension: 20%
1. In J. B. Priestley’s essay, insomnia (sleeplessness) (“On Getting Off to Sleep”) ( A )
A. is incurable for all people.
B. is a praiseworthy agony inherent in an active and intellectual mind.
C. is not a problem in this world.
D. can be overcome if one has a strong will.
2. “The artificial ways of inducing sleep are legion, …” (“On Getting Off to Sleep”) This means thatb ( B )
A. nothing can help people get off to sleep.
B. the methods that people use to try to get to sleep are endless.
C. people try very hard to get to sleep.
D. it’s a hard job for people to get to sleep.
3. In the sentence “when it is time to close the five ports of knowledge, most folks I know seem to find no difficulty in plunging their earthly parts into oblivion,” earthly parts refers to (“On Getting Off to Sleep”) ( C )
A. knowledge of the world.
B. five parts of the body.
C. five senses
D. state of sleeplessness
4. Which of the following is the organization of the essay “Why I Write”? (“Why I Write”) ( C )
A. The author first gives his theory about writing and then explains it with examples.
B. The author first tells his own experience as a writer and then gives his views about his motives for writing.
C. The author first explains in general the different views about motives for writing, and then gives his own views.
D. The author first gives his reasons for writing and then elaborates on the relationship between political stands and aesthetic achievements.
5. Orwell first gives information about his early development because (“Why I Write”) ( A )
A. he thinks that is a very important part of his life.
B. his views about motives for writing were formed at that time.
C. he thinks that one cannot evaluate a writer’s motives without such background knowledge.
D. that was the time when he first came into contact with writing.
6. In the sentence “Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen — in short, with the whole top crust of humanity,” the whole top crust of humanity refers to (“Why I Write”) ( B )
A. those most respected in society.
B. the richest people in the society.
C. the most highly-educated people.
D. those oppressing other social classes.
7. According to Russell, which of the following are advantages of work? (“Work”) ( D )
A. to prevent boredom and provide possibility of fulfilling oneself.
B. to make life interesting and constructive.
C. to be the cause of happiness and reduce boredom
D. to display one’s unusual skills and improve one’s personality
8. What are the two elements the author mentions that make work interesting? (“Work”) ( C )
A. eliminating tedium and providing outlets for satisfaction.
B. income and ambition.
C. the exercise of skill and construction.
D. income and reputation.
9. “To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.” (“Work”) Which of the following may be a proper explanation of the sentence? ( D )
A. Only in the most recent development of an advanced society has man been able to use his leisure in a sensible way.
B. With the development of civilization, people have become unable to fill leisure intelligently.
C. Civilization has produced more leisure, so it requires more intelligence from people.
D. The more advanced society is, the more intelligently people spend their leisure time.
10. “Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run.” (“Work”) In this sentence, continuity of purpose means ( B )
A. having a long-term goal instead of temporary purpose.
B. always having a goal ahead and working persistently toward it.
C. always having a new purpose at each stage of life.
D. always changing one’s purpose for work.
11. In John F. Kerry’s view, the veterans attended the Los Angles investigation (“I Would Like to Tell You Something”) ( D )
A. to show their attitudes towards unfair treatment they’d got and demand for redemption for the losses they had sustained..
B. to form an anti-war organization and impose pressure on the government in order to put an end to the war.
C. to confess their crimes so that they could rid themselves once and for all of guilty feelings.
D. to make it known that the crimes committed in Vietnam is national rather than personal so as to jolt the public consciousness out of its hypocritical dormancy.
12. “America has created a monster in the form of millions of fighting men.” (“I Would Like to Tell You Something”) The sentence implies: ( D )
A. The American army in Vietnam was a terrible force with millions of soldiers.
B. Millions of soldiers have returned embittered and angry about having fought a war they don’t believe in.
C. Millions of soldiers killed millions of civilians in Vietnam, so the army is regarded as a monster.
D. Without the millions of fighting men, America would not be so powerful.
13. In Huxley’s view, the modern cult of beauty is due to (“The Beauty Industry”) ( A )
A. the fact that beauty industry was not affected by depression.
B. the influence of modern advertisements.
C. a diffusion of wealth and changes of women’s status and people’s attitudes.
D. the indulgence in attraction and negligence of “souls”.
14. When the author says “perhaps it (the soap) will transform them into the likeness of those ravishing creatures who smile so rosily and creamily, so peachily and pearlily,…” he suggests that (“The Beauty Industry”) ( A )
A. it will make women as beautiful as those girls appearing in advertisements.
B. women will take to the habit of using the soap to make them beautiful.
C. it will cause women to take liking to the image of beautiful girls.
D. it will form women’s idea of what real beauty is like.
15. At the beginning of the article “What’s Wrong With Our Press”, the writer says “Newspapers have two great advantages over television.”, that is, screen against wives and lining the garbage pail. (“What’s Wrong with Our Press?”) ( A )
A. This suggests that the following parts of the article is devoted to these two advantages only.
B. The writer does not mean to have readers take the remark seriously.
C. It’s because the writer really thinks newspapers are far superior to television.
D. The remark is based on statistics.
16. What’s the purpose of the author in writing “What’s Wrong With Our Press?” ( D )
A. She criticizes newspapers so as to show the superiority of television over newspapers.
B. She wants to demonstrate that newspapers are already out of date.
C. She wants the readers to believe that newspapers are much better than television.
D. She aims at improving newspapers so that they can better perform the service of informing the people.
17. Which of the following conforms to Copland’s view of the expressive plane of music? (“What to Listen for in Music”) ( B )
A. It plays a more important role than the other two in the process of listening to music.
B. Every musical piece has a certain meaning behind the notes, but it is not easy to define the meaning.
C. The less a piece of music expresses, the greater it may be.
D. An intelligent listener can find what a musical piece expresses.
18. What does the author mean by “inside and outside his music”? (“What to Listen for in Music”) ( B )
A. listening to the music while doing whatever he’s engaged in.
B. losing one’s self in the enjoyment of music and remaining critical and objective about it.
C. understanding the theme and the form of the music at the same time.
D. thinking that music is expressive and purely musical at the same time.
19. What finally made Eveline decide to leave her home? (“Eveline”) ( D )
A. She was weary of a dull job and a life of quiet desperation with a brutal father.
B. She loved her boy friend and wanted to marry him.
C. She always cherished a dream of the exotic land and wanted to live happily there.
D. She remembered her mother who had lived a miserable life.
20. “…we have leaped over that long period of time preceding death known as old age.” (“The Tragedy of Old Age in America”) This means: ( B )
A. We’ve discussed death first and left the old age later.
B. We haven’t experienced old age before we die.
C. We have not examined old age which comes before death.
D. We have jumped to conclusion about death when we are old.
III. Fill in each blank with a word or phrase from the list below in its proper form: 20%
literal; downright; tangible; faced with;
take it for granted; derive; amount to; infer from;
take refuge; reminiscent of; take it to heart;
1. She ___derives_____ great joy from playing the violin.
2. The ___literal _____ meaning of ‘television’ is ‘seeing from a distance’.
3. Whether I pay or whether my wife pays ____amounts to____ the same thing, because we share all our money.
4. Although she agreed with me I ___inferred from_____ her expression that she was reluctant.
5. They are ____faced with____ various problems in carrying out the plan.
6. I know it was silly of me but I just ____can’t take it to heart____ that they were married.
7. I think the way she’s been treated is a ____downright____ disgrace.
8. Accused of incompetence, he ___took refuge_____ in lying.
9. That song is so ____reminiscent of____ my childhood.
10. The reader should not ____ take it for granted ____ if he finds that he gives 20 or more “yes” answers (to the questionnaire).
IV. Cloze Test: 10 %
There are ten blanks in the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper word taken from the list. Note that three of the given words are not applicable.
were; be; hit; any ; suffered; sphere; therefore; nevertheless
suggest; towards; beyond; exclusively; retrenching;
This is clearly not the whole story. The modern cult of beauty is not _exclusively_ a function in the mathematical sense of wealth. If it _were_, then the personal appearance industries would have been as hardly _hit_ by the trade depression as _any_ other business. But, as we have seen, they have not _suffered_. Women are _retrenching_ on other things than their faces. The cult of beauty must _therefore_ be symptomatic of changes that have taken place outside the economic _sphere_. Of what changes? Of the changes, I _suggest_, in the status of women; of the changes in our attitude _towards_ “the merely physical”.
V. Translation: 20%
A. from Chinese to English 10%
1.是我还是我妻子付款其实都是一回事，因为我们的钱是共有的。(amount, share)
- Whether I pay for my wife or not is actually the same thing, because our money is shared.
2.不管怎样，在装饰自己上更为昂贵的试验和大马力汽车及电冰箱一样都是多数欧洲人经济能力所不及的。（means）
- In any case, the more costly experiments in beautification are still as much beyond most European means as are high-powered motor-cars and electric refrigerators.
B. from English into Chinese 10%
1. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. （4%）
介于十七岁和二十四岁之间我想放弃这个想法，但我认为我是害怕我的天性，我迟早会坐下来写书。
2. Women, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. Freer not only to perform the generally unenviable social functions hitherto reserved to the male, but also freer to exercise the mor leasing, feminine privilege of being attractive. (4%)
妇女，很明显，比过去更自由。自由不仅执行一般羡慕的社会功能迄今为止一直为男性，但也更自由的行使MOR租赁，女性吸引力的特权。
3. Simple-minded souls always want to have a meaning, and the more concrete it is the better they like it. The more the music reminds them of a train, a storm, a funeral, or any other familiar conception the more expressive it appears to be to them. (4%)
V. Answer the question: 10%
What are the problems old people in America have to face? ( “The Tragedy of Old Age in America”)
头脑简单的人总是要有一个意义，更具体他们就越喜欢它。更多的音乐能使他们想起一列火车，一场暴风雨，一次葬礼，或者任何熟悉的概念，更在他们看来表达的东西。
