05级高级英语试题A

滨州学院

2007

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2 008

学年第一学期期末考试

英语专业（本）

2005

级《高级英语》试 卷（

A

）

（答案一律写在答题纸上，在本试卷上做答无效）

I

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Multiple choice:(30%)

Section 1: Choose the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the underlined part

(20%).

1. There is a divergence of opinions among the committee members on the issue of promotion.

A similarity

B agreement

C differentiation

D resemblance

2. She had a firm conviction that her view could hold water.

A supposition

B belief

C convulsion

D assumption

3. The community hospital enlisted the support of the local residents to keep it going.

A obtained

B lacked

C rejected

D yielded

4. He won the election by an overwhelming majority of votes.

A slim

B scarce

C large

D sparse

5. The noise of the explosion penetrated the wall of the room.

A collapsed

B cracked

C bypassed

D pierced

6. People in the area still practice the customs of their fathers.

A formulator

B advocate

C ancestors

D plagiarizer

7. The remarks by leaders of the Taiwan authority met with scathing criticism from all sides

A bitter

B static

C dynamic

D gentle

8. She was extremely nervous at the prospect of her turn to make the presentation.

A on word of

B upon hearing of

C at the request of

D at the thought of

9. The committee is awaiting the chairman to give his assent to the proposal.

A rejection

B view

C approval

D veto

10. No one knew what the army was doing; there was a veil of secrecy over their activities.

A cover

B sign

C indication

D bit

11. Tony became disdainful of his friends when he succeeded in the attempt.

A scornful

B proud

C thankful

D grateful

12. Violence erupted due to the loss of the home team.

A burst

B exploded

C blasted

D occurred

13. The wild and rampant spread of AIDS forced a vigorous war against the disease.

A powerful

B lengthy

C prolonged

D pretentious

14. His conscience impelled him to admit his part in the affair.

A

compelled

B

discouraged

C

exhausted

D

exhilarated

15 The stalled Middle Eastern situation has arrested world attention.

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A

caught

B

seized

C

occupied

D

empowered

16. The High Court demanded that he interpret his involvement in the bribery scandal.

A verify

B present

C account

D acknowledge

17. Mr. Johnson is to preside over this Asian-European ministerial meeting.

A

declare

B

prepare

C

host

D supervise

18. Artificial diamond is indistinguishable from genuine one, but much cheaper.

A differential in

B indifferent to

C differentiable from

D identical to

19.

On

many

of

the

previous

occasions

the

US

trade

negotiators

would

revert

to

the

issue

of

China?s human rights problems.

A restated

B reiterate

C reconsider

D reverse

20. It is just conceivable

that he?ll win, but it?s very unlikely really.

A expected

B imaginable

C supposed

D presumed

Section 2 Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in each of the blanks.(10%)

21. The shop- keepers speak in slow, measured tones, and the buyers ______.

A follow suit

B take suit

C follow suits

D take suits

22.

I treaded cautiously______ the tatami matting.

A on

B in

C down

D out

23. He plays tennis to the ____ of all other sports.

A eradication

B exclusion

C extension

D inclusion

24. She answered with an ____ “No” to the request that she attend the public hearing.

A eloquent

B effective

C emotional

D emphatic

25. The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein______ her racing mind.

A in

B inside

C to

D on

26. He has made a declaration to the ________ that all fighting must cease at once.

A following

B fact

A with

C point

D effect

D to

27. Winant said the same would be true ______the U.S.A.

B of

C for

28. But later my hair began to fall_______, and my belly turned to water.

A down

B out

C through

D away

29.

Every

here

and

there,

a

doorway

gives

a

of

a

sunlit

courtyard,

perhaps

before

a

mosque

or a caravanserai, …

A glance

B glimpse

C peek

D peep

30.

His

gaze

moved

on

to

sweep

the

spacious,

well-appointed

room,

the

Duke

who

faced them uncertainly, his back to a window.

A surrounding

B adjoining

C encompassing

D bordering

II. Reading comprehension. (20%)

2

Read

the

following

passage

and

answer

the

questions

by

choosing

the

most

appropriate

choice. Put your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

Passage 1

INK-STAINED RICHES:

Mencken, the Daddy of Bad-Boy Punditry

In his essay on H.L. Mencken entitled “Saving a Whale,” journalist Murray Kempton points

out that “whales are the only mammals that the museums have never managed to stuff and mount in

their original skins.” To Kempton, Mencken is a very great wh

ale who, almost 40 years after his

death, still defies critical taxonomy. That is putting it politely. Mencken in death provokes as much

vitriol as he did while living. He has been called a racist, a humanitarian, an arch conservative and a

great liberal, and the thorny fact is, he was all those things. Nobody knows what to make of a man

who turned his diary into a manure pile of anti-Semitism at the same time he was working diligently

to get Jews out of Hitler?s Germany.

Biographers have been struggling t

o take Mencken?s measure since the 1920s. Fred Hobson?s

Mencken

...is the latest and best attempt. Hobson is the first of Mencken?s biographers to use all the

posthumously published diaries, where the “Sage of Baltimore” vented his most odious bigotries

and

where

he

most

clearly

revealed

the

alienation

and

loneliness

at

the

heart

of

his

personality.

Hobson does not try to resolve the contradictions in Mencken?s personality. Instead, he wisely uses

this new material to portray Mencken as a man forever in conflict with himself, the carefree cutup

coexisting with the control freak, the comic with the tragedian. Eventually

—

at least a decade before

the

1948

stroke

that

robbed

him

of

the

ability

to

read

or

write

—Mencken?s

darker

angels

took

charge

of

his

soul.

In

1

942,

he

wrote,

“I

have

spent

all

of

my

62

years

here,

but

I

still

find

it

impossible

to

fit

myself

into

the

accepted

patterns

of

American

life

and

thought.

After

all

these

years, I remain a foreigner.”

But as Hobson points out, the darkness was there all along, and the miracle is that out of this

almost paralyzing bleakness, Mencken was once able to spin exuberant, lacerating prose that is as

funny

as

it

is

essentially

serious.

At

the

peak

of

his

powers,

in

the

?20s

and

early

?30s,

he

slaughtered every sacred cow in sight, from Prohibition to fundamentalism. But as hard as he could

be on hillbillies and Klansmen, he was even harder on professors: “Of a thousand head of such dull

drudges not ten, with their doctors? dissertations behind them, ever contribute

so much as a flyspeck

to

the

sum

of

human

knowledge.”

Coining

phrases

like

“the

Bible

belt”

and

aphorisms

like

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good

and hard,” Mencken left his indecorous fingerpri

nts all over American thought and speech.

As a newspaper columnist, a magazine editor and a book writer, Mencken radically broadened

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the scope and raised the standards of American journalism. But most important, he proved that an