《高級英語（一）》期末考試A卷

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I．Choosethe best answer.(Please write down your answer on the Answer Sheet 20%)

1. The water was so ________ we could see the fish clearly.

A. transparent    B. bright    C. visible    D. opaque

2. Birds of a feather ______ together.

   A. lock   B. flock   C. block   D. clock

3. Days and nights ________.

   A. alternate      B. contemplate   

C. extricate       D. minimize

The annual conference of the organization was held in London last year.

A. important   B. yearly   C. sufficient   D. critical

5. The air is filthy and dangerous to breathe from the belching of uncontrolled products from combustion of coal, coke, oil, and gasoline.

   A. burning        B. bursting   

C. contamination    D. pollution

6. All the rules we have unconsciously assimilated can safely be ignored.

   A. written    B. accounted   C. cooperated   D. learned

7. Seeds remain dormant in the earth during winter.

   A. impossible    B. unanimated   C. irritant     D. unpleasant

8. In some countries, poverty hasn’t been eliminated yet.

A. removed         B. worsened  

C. cancelled       D. intensified

9. Efforts to convince him were futile.

   A. rich    B. meager    C. massive   D. vain 

10. The output of produce was impaired by the cold weather.

   A. enhanced       B. delayed   

C. lessened       D. controlled

II.Choose one best answer to complete the sentence.(Please write down your answer on the Answer Sheet.20%):

Westley decided to get up because____.(salvation)

he had seen Jesus.

he was getting impatient.

he was tired of hearing sisters and deacons praying.

he was moved by prayer and song in the church.

Mr. Frederick M. Lussen was perplexed by the fact that  _____.(38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police)

it was very extraordinary homicide.

the killer was such a merciless one.

the woman’s neighbors didn’t call the police.

the killer should have tried three times before he was able to kill the woman.

When Lee was a child ______.(Appetite)

he was often invited to parties to eat toffees.

toffee was his favorite sweet.

he never ate toffees; he only looked at them.

he found more pleasure in looking at the toffee before eating it than eating it outright.

In those days, Orwell used to have his meals______. (What Is It Like to Be Poor?)

in a restaurant     b. in the Luxemburg Gardens

c. in his own room     d. in a wine shop

When their black and white TV broke down,____ (She Is an Unwilling Tool of Middleclassdom)

they had it repaired for $112.

they moved it out to their new house.

they got a color portable.

they bought a new one.

She is not going to get rid of the upright piano because_____(She Is an Unwilling Tool of Middleclassdom)

her daughter plays it.

she wants to learn to play it someday.

it is such a beautiful instrument.

nobody would want to buy such an old piano.

In this account, Langston Hughes was____.(Salvation)

giving an honest self-analysis

entertaining the reader in a humorous tone.

expressing his dissatisfaction with his aunt.

describing a church service.

It is generally believed that our language mechanism enables us____.(Thinking of Words)

to talk about all the technicalities of company law or of central heating with the glibness of a solicitor or a plumber.

to talk about anything fluently.

to acquire any knowledge.

to handle anything we need to handle.

“Hey, missis”is not an appropriate form of address to a stranger because___(Thinking of Words)

missis is not the  equivalent of Madame.

it is not very effective.

it is not used by polite educated people.

it is used only by polite educated people.

A man stabbed Miss Genovese ___.(38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police)

as soon as she saw him in the lot.

when she had got to the entrance to her apartment.

before she reached a street light in front of a bookstore.

before she got to a call box to the 102nd Police Precinct.

III.Fill in the blank with the proper word given (Please write down your answer on the Answer Sheet. 20%)

creatures, adopted, valuables, eastern, travelers, goodly, good, collecting, permanence, hearts, few, little, manyFor a ___1___time the Americans were ___2____,moving about the country ___3__ its ____4__,but with little idea of ___5___ ; their roots and ____6___were in the towns and the growing cities along the __7___ edge. The __8__who stayed ,who lived among the Indians,__9__ their customs and some even took Indian wives and were as strange and somehow treasonable__10___.

IV. Translate the following sentences into English (Please write down your answer on the Answer Sheet 20%)

1.他報出了一連串他所訪問過的城市的名字。

2.我們被告知我們已經(jīng)失敗，這真使我們大為沮喪。

3. 父親過分嚴厲的管教會使孩子心中產(chǎn)生反抗的情緒。

4.杰克無法以他微薄的工資收入養(yǎng)活他的家庭。

5. 如果你再不節(jié)制飲食，你的體重就會大大增加。

V. Translate the following paragraph into Chinese.(Please write down your answer on the Answer Sheet. 20%)

For me, one of the keenest pleasures of appetite remains in the wanting, not the satisfaction. In wanting a peach, or a whisky, or a particular texture or sound, or to with a particular friend. For in this condition, of course, I know that the object of desire is always at its most flawlessly perfect. I think that appetite is too good to lose, too precious to be bludgeoned into insensibility by satiation and over-doing it.