张汉熙高级英语试题及答案第二册模拟试题1

《高级英语》 第二册 模拟试 题 快递公司问题件快递公司问题件货款处理关于圆的周长面积重点题型关于解方程组的题及答案关于南海问题 (一) I. Determine whether the following statements are True or False. Mark them with T or F to indicate your answer. (10×1) 1. Although written in an objective tone, in Marrakech, Orwell shows he is outraged by the misery of the poor. 2. The title of the text, Pub Talk and the King’s English, is well chosen because it captures the readers’ attention and accurately describes the subject of the text. 3. Pub Talk and the King’s English and The Future of the English are both clear and well organized texts with a logical structure. 4. In The Libido for the Ugly, Mencken objectively and realistically describes the architecture in Westmoreland. 5. Argumentative essays always include some explanation. 6. The Worker as Creator or Machine is a piece of exposition that explains how the capitalist system has caused the worker to become alienated from their product and thus their own work. 7. The Sad Young Men is a clearly structured essay that includes many Americanisms to better explain the experience of Lost Generation. 8. The Future of the English is a misleading title because the text does not explain what the future of English people is going be like. 9. Baldwin writes with a critical and harsh tone as he describes the life of an American in Europe in The Discovery of What it Means to be an American. 10. Although Loving and Hating New York is a piece of exposition where Griffith states that he both loves and hates New York city, the author does not fully develop why he hates the city. II. Choose one out of the 10 rhetorical or figurative devices listed below that best describes the underlined words for each sentence. (8×1) 1. And this is true, whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernable mops of hair. 2. The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. It is that of a Presbyterian grinning. 3. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young. 4. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth. 5. America has shown us too many exhausted salesmen taking refuge in bars and breaking up their homes. 6. An American writer fights his way to one of the lowest rungs on the American social ladder. 7. New York is a wounded city, but not a dying city. 8. Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls, work their way slowly across the field. Euphemism Hyperbole Metaphor Metonymy Synecdoche Personification Simile Transferred epithet Repetition Metonymy III. Write, in your own words, a sentence that you think best expresses the meaning of the original sentence. (6×2) 1. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden. 2. Even with the educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation. 3. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly. 4. Work became the chief factor in a system of “inner-worldly asceticism,” an answer to man’s sense of aloneness and isolation. 5. Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit. 6. To put cars and motorways before houses seems to Englishness a communal imbecility. IV. Choose one word or phrase from the list below which you regard as the most appropriate substitution for each of the italicized parts of the following sentences. (10×1) 1. The girls formed a close-knit group. 2. Their friendship was on the rocks. 3. Some of us were issued incorrect pay checks, owing to a mistake in the accounting department. 4. It is to his credit that he freely admitted his guilt. 5. The traffic made a terrible racket in the street below. 6. Never try to reason with him when he’s gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. 7. It’s high time we did something about our neighbour’s dog. 8. The pull of the position is that he does not have to work on the weekend. 9. The risk paid off handsomely. 10. We all sat up when the holiday was announced. A: Admirable B: With a hazardous manner C: Bad-tempered D: Became astonished E: Disturbance F: Drawing power G: In a state of disaster H: Past the appropriate time I: Result favorably J: Tightly united K: The desire L: As a result of V. Twelve words are taken away at irregular intervals from the passage below. You are expected to select 12 out of the 15 provided answers from below to fill in the blanks with the correct forms that best keep the meaning and structure of the sentences. (12×1) To plagiarize is to 1 someone else’s academic work—in the 2 of writing or ideas—as one’s own work. The Americans’ belief in the value of the individual and the sanctity of the individual’s property 3 ​​​to 4 . Ideas belong to people; they are a form of property. Scholars’ 5 and ideas are 6 property. Students and 7 scholars are not supposed to 8 those ideas in their own writing without acknowledging where the ideas came from. 9 leave out the acknowledgement and thereby convey the impression that another’s words are one’s own is “plagiarism.” Foreign students are sometimes accused of plagiarizing the works of other people. It is probably the 10 that much of the plagiarism foreign students commit (usually by copying the words of another into a paper they themselves are writing and failing to include a footnote saying who originally wrote the words) is 11 out of misunderstanding rather than out of dishonesty. To American scholars the 12 of “intellectual property” Is perfectly clear and sensible. It is obvious to them when an idea has been “stolen.” And stealing ideas is a cardinal sin in the American academic world. case commit consider admit form idea notion other represent to use writing extend belief with VI. Reading Comprehension (20×1) (A) As a first course, the 60th Cannes Film Festival served its audiences dessert. Wong Kar-wai, the Hong Kong director who was president of the jury at the 2006 festival, held in Cannes, France, opened this year’s event with “My Blueberry Nights,” a romantic confection that begins with a lingering shot of vanilla ice cream melting into the gooey filling of a blueberry pie. The film, Mr. Wong’s first English-language feature, takes place in a postcard America of diners and red neon signs, a land of heartbreak and second chances where folks play poker and drink whiskey and subsist on cheeseburgers, pork chops and, in at least one case, quite a bit of that pie. The pie eater is Norah Jones, the singer and songwriter, who makes her screen debut as the character, Elizabeth, a New Yorker on the rebound from a long relationship with an unfaithful, unseen and unnamed boyfriend. She takes refuge in a homey restaurant managed by Jeremy, where there is always a lot of blueberry pie left over at closing time. After they strike up a late-night, pastry-fueled friendship, sealed with a lovely, drowsy screen kiss, Elizabeth takes off on a journey that leads her from Memphis to Nevada, through a series of waitress jobs, slightly altered identities (she’s Lizzie in one place, Beth in another) and encounters with other lonely souls. These include an alcoholic policeman, his estranged wife and a gambler, who seems to talk a better game than she plays. Over the years Mr. Wong has acquired a passionate following — one that occasionally manifests cultlike tendencies — for his sensual visual style and oblique narratives of erotic longing. “My Blueberry nights” may strike his devotees, and skeptics as well, as both a notable departure and a variation on his characteristic themes. He is still interested in the mysterious nature of desire and the effects of time and distance upon it. But the setting, the language and the conventions of English-language screen acting give this movie, for better or worse, a decided air of novelty. Mr. Wong’s other recent films, like “In the Mood For Love” and “2046” (both shown at previous festivals here) unfold mainly in the narrow hallways and cramped rooms of hotels and apartment buildings in crowded Asian cities, where the men dress in dark suits and the women wear flower-printed cheongsams. Those movies are dense with color and shadow. In “My Blueberry Nights,” the colors are still rich and smoky, but the wider format gives the compositions a looser, more open feeling. And the characters, contemporary Americans (and one British expatriate), are correspondingly relaxed, even in their moments of distress. Whereas their Asian counterparts in other Wong Kar-wai movies — Gong Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung — show emotion through masks of mystery and reserve, Ms. Jones and her co-stars invite and promise easy empathy. 1. In paragraph 1, the sentence “the 60th Cannes Film Festival served its audiences dessert” contains which combination of rhetorical devices: (A) personification and metaphor (B) simile and metonymy (C) personification and simile (D) metaphor and euphemism 2. The phrase “a postcard America” in paragraph 1 can best be interpreted to mean which of the following? (A) a picture of the United States (B) a very popular place (C) a familiar American scene (D) a rural, country town 3. Using context clues, the idiom in 2 “on the rebound” could best be interpreted as which of the following? (A) returning (B) being rejected (C) disappointed (D) recovering 4. The word “pastry-fueled” in paragraph 3 indicates which of the following? (A) the friendship was characterized by sensitive and sweet emotions (B) the friendship began due to the woman’s repeated visits to the restaurant for pie (C) the friendship is shallow and has no deep substance (D) the friendship started due to a love for dessert 5. Choose the best replacement for the word “air” in paragraph 4. (A) impression (B) characterization (C) awareness (D) imagination 6. The author uses dashes (—) in paragraph 4 and 6 for which of the following purposes: (A) to point out an interruption and a change of thought (B) to list items (C) to provide an appositive and further information for special emphasis (D) to include insignificant information 7. Which of the following statements about the passage is true: (A)Wong’s new English-language film is very similar to his Chinese-language films. (B)Wong’s films have attracted a group of enthusiasts. (C)Wong’s new film takes place in America, but it does not accurately represent American culture. (D)Wong’s film, “My Blueberry Nights,” was popular at the Cannes Film Festival. 8. According to the passage, we can infer that Wong’s film, “My Blueberry Nights,” _________. (A) expresses the director’s distinguishing themes in a distinct, new style. (B) is very confusing to viewers. (C) exceeds the expectations of Wong’s followers. (D) is a comedy. 9. In paragraph 3, the passage describes a gambler, who ________. (A) is successful at her hobby. (B) is skilled at convincing people. (C) always boasts herself, but never amounts to anything. (D) bores people by her excessive talking. 10. The tone of this passage is: (A) indifferent (B) objective (C) cynical (D) subjective (B) For the past 50 years Tiananmen Square has been the nearest thing the Chinese Communist party has had to holy ground. It is the plaza that Mao built, famed for its rallies during the Cultural Revolution. In a sign of widening intellectual debate in China, one of the country's leading young architects has proposed a radical transformation of the square. Ma Yansong, an award-winning urban planner, says the grey concrete symbol of China's red politics should be given a green makeover. To heighten awareness about the environment, he believes the Beijing square should be transformed into a park and forest. In his model, the vast expanse of paving slabs outside the Forbidden City is replaced by trees and grass. There are lush thickets around the mausoleum containing Mao Zedong's embalmed body and a verdant entrance to the Great Hall of the People. "We want to transform this empty political square into something that can be enjoyed," Mr. Ma said. "Our aim is to propose not to criticize, to raise the issue of public space. The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions." Mr. Ma, who completed an apprenticeship in London under the prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, is one of the boldest and least orthodox within China's architectural community. His firm, MAD, has offices in Beijing and Dubai, is working on five big projects in China, and is behind a curvaceous 50-storey tower arising in Ontario, Canada. The architect believes Tiananmen Square need not be considered sacrosanct, because its origins are relatively recent and foreign. The plaza was created after Mao Zedong's Communists came to power in 1949. Copying Red Square in Moscow, it was designed for military parades and giant public rallies. But this function is, he says, outdated. "Tiananmen is ... the physical centre but not the real centre. No Beijing people go there," he said. "The question we posed ourselves was: how to make the area more enjoyable if we no longer need it for its historical functions?" However, his plan for Tiananmen is controversial. “Tiananmen Square is a sensitive topic," Mr. Ma said. "The idea of turning the plaza into a forest makes many people feel uncomfortable." As the city gears up for the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is becoming a showroom for the world's leading architects. Paul Andreu, from France, helped lay the giant egg-shaped national theatre, while the UK architect Norman Foster designed the dragon-inspired airport terminal, which will be the world's largest when it opens next year. Yet despite the new national stadium - known as the bird's nest - and the giant egg theatre, the pastoral theme does not extend much beyond the shapes and names of all the new steel and concrete designs. The city's suburbs are eating up farmland as sprawl continues. With urban development twisting out of the grasp of planners and regulators, Mr. Ma argues that a green Tiananmen could indicate changing priorities. "I read that Beijing has 2.8% of green space, including the lakes. It was much better in the past. It is very bad now." 11. The architect, Ma Yansong, suggests _________. (A) that Tiananmen Square be painted green. (B) that Tiananmen Square should be changed into a park. (C) that Beijing’s urban planning should be more concerned with environmental issues. (D) that Tiananmen Square should resemble a natural reserve. 12. Which of the following is not a reason Mr. Ma gives to support the transformation of Tiananmen? (A) The change would increase the public’s understanding of the environment. (B) Local residents of Beijing do not commonly visit the square. (C) The square has become obsolete. (D) The new square would attract more foreigners to the city. 13. According to the passage, which of the following is not true of Mr. Ma? (A) His firm, MAD, is working on a building project in Dubai. (B) He studied architecture in London. (C) He is considered daring and non-traditional. (D) He thinks the lack of green space in Beijing is a dire situation. 14. “Green makeover” in paragraph 2 refers to ​​​______. (A) the changing of an image that will produce more beautiful results. (B) a restoration that will benefit the environment. (C) a reconstruction characterized by the presence of vegetation and foliage. (D) to improve the appearance by covering with grass. 15. Using context clues, what is your interpretation of the word, “sacrosanct” in paragraph 5? (A) permanent (B) sacred (C) significant (D) familiar 16. “Gears up” in paragraph 7 can best be understood as _______. (A) organizes (B) changes (C) prepares (D) adjusts 17. In paragraph 7, “Beijing is becoming a showroom for the world’s leading architects” contains which rhetorical device? (A) Personification (B) Metaphor (C) Simile (D) Metonymy 18. The word “pastoral” in paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to which of the following? (A) relating to the outdoors (B) rural (C) having simplicity and charm (D) relating to the country life 19. In paragraph 7, “the city’s suburbs are eating up farmland” means which of the following? (A) the city is growing larger (B) as the city expands, it is developing and absorbing more rural land (C) the city is devastating its environment (D) the city is consuming more natural areas 20. This passage mainly addresses which of the following subjects? (A) The lack of green space in Beijing. (B) Urban planning for the 2008 Olympics (C) The historical uses for Tiananmen Square. (D) The green transformation of Tiananmen Square. VII. Give brief answers to the following two questions. (2×4) 1. Referring to Marrakech, why does Orwell reveal his feelings about the donkeys but conceal his feelings about the people? 2. Referring to The Future of the English, what is the dominant purpose of the text? Is the intention clearly stated? VIII. Choose one of the two topics and write out a short essay on it in about 300 words. (1×20) 1. Describe a situation where you made a decision that you are proud of. Explain how and why you made this decision. 2. If you could change one aspect of Henan University, what would you change and why? 第 10 页 共 11 页