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BOOK TWO Test Three
I. Vocabulary (30%)
Section
1: From the list of words at the top, select the
correct word or phrase for
each blank
space. Use each word or phrase only once (15%).
skin and bones
sit out
indulge
in
susceptible to
erectness
hamlets
sanctuary
slashing
agonizing
unabated
doused
blasts
marooned
dogmatic
unfathomable
1.
The children
huddled in the ________ rain within the circle of
adults.
2.
They
came to ________ the storm with the Koshaks.
3.
With
two
walls
in
their
bedroom
_________
beginning
to
disintegrate,
John
ordered everyone to
leave.
4.
The
generator was _________, and the lights were out.
5.
Then for the
first time I noticed the poor old bodies reduced
to ________.
6.
The enlistment craze continued
_________.
7.
One
wall began crumbling on the _________ group.
8.
What
they
had
wanted
was
an
America
more
sensitive
to
art
and
less
_______________standardization.
9.
Many
other
novelists,
dramatists,
poets,
and
critics
directed
sad
and
bitter
_______ at their
native land.
10.
She had an _________ of carriage, an
ease of bearing.
11.
However intricate they ways in which
animals communicate with each other, they
do not ___________ anything that
deserves the name of conversation.
12.
I have
whirled through the malarious tidewater ________
of Goergia.
13.
The
taste
for
them
is
as
enigmatical
and
yet
as
common
as
the
taste
for
___________ theology.
14.
What I allude
to is the unbroken and __________ ugliness
15.
They meet, in
some _____________ ways, its obscure and
unintelligible demands.
Section 2: From the list of words at
the top, select the correct synonym for the
underlined words or phrase in each
sentence (15%)
depression
systematically
begged
supported
condition
criticized
according to narrow
disappeared
unbearable
decaying
set
down
troubled
fiendish
ignored
1.
2.
3.
4.
The plight
condition
of the
human beings makes one’s blood boil.
The men methodically
systematically
prepared for
the hurricane.
Grandmother Koshak
implored,
begged
“Children, let’s sing”.
Business
was
suffering
a
recession
depression
that
prevented
the
opening
up
of
new jobs.
5.
We can prop up
supported
that mattress with
our heads and shoulders.
6.
The novelists flayed
criticized
the
Babbitts but loved their country.
7.
It arises and
flourishes in obedience to
according to
biological
laws.
8.
So
tremendous
was
the
storming
of
recruitment
centers
that
harassed
troubled
sergeants actually pleased with
volunteers to go home.
9.
The spirit of carnival
and
the enthusiasm
for high military
adventure were soon
dissipated.
disappeared
10.
We
had
reached
an
international
stature
that
would
forever
prevent
us
from
retreating behind the artificial walls
of a provincial
narrow
morality.
11.
The
innumerable artists could never be written off
ignored
as sterile.
12.
They
made
the
stadium
perfect
in
their
own
sight
by
putting
a
completely
impossible
unbearable
penthouse,
painted a starring yellow.
13.
The
same
solemn
oath
our
forebears
prescribed
set
down
nearly
a
century
and
three-quarters ago.
14.
I have seen
the mill towns of decomposing
decaying
New England and the
desert
of Utah.
15.
They show
grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect,
become almost diabolical.
fiendish
II. Paraphrase the following sentences.
(20%)
1.
We can
batten down and ride it out.
2.
Still, a white
skin is always fully conspicuous.
3.
Suddenly the
alchemy of conversation took
place
.
4.
But this
peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey
of hostile powers.
5.
In fact, the best conversationalists
are those who are prepared to lose.
6.
They have
taken as their model a brick on end
7.
Each
tow
n
had
its
“fast”
set
which
prided
itself
on
its
unconventionality.
8.
This
they
have
converted
into
a
thing
of
dingy
clapboards,
with
a
narrow,
low-
pitched roof.
9.
Boy and man, I had been through it
often before.
10.
People with
brown skins are next door to invisible.
III. Translate the
following sentences (using the expressions given
in the brackets.
(20%)
1.
In the past,
those who foolishly sought power by riding the
back of the tiger ended
up inside.
2.
The rebellion
of the lower class against a cultural dominance of
the ruling class is
still there.
3.
Let
both
sides
explore
what
problems
unite
us
instead
of
belaboring
those
problems that divide us.
4.
The King’s
English is no more than a class representation of
reality.
5.
Here was wealth beyond computation,
almost beyond imagination
–
and here were
human habitations so
abominable that they would have disgraced a race
of alley
cats.
6.
受到这样的待遇经过了好几个世纪后，他们已经不再为拥挤不堪而烦恼了。
(cease)
7.
那座楼房改成学校了。
(convert)
8.
一想到他们所挥霍的钱，我就火
冒三丈。
(infuriate)
9.
学会自律是成功道路上的第一步。
(discipline)
10.
不要一起挤进电梯。
(squash)
IV.
Name
the
figures
of
speech
used
in
the
following
sentences.
(one
in
each
sentence) (10%)
1.
Several
vacationers
there
held
a
hurricane
party
to
watch
the
storm
from
their
spectacular vantage
point.
2.
The conversation was on wings.
3.
If a free
society cannot help the many who are poor, it
cannot save the few who
are rich.
4.
It
is not often that one so young has such a giant
intellect.
5.
These
abominable
houses
cover
the
bare
hillsides,
like
gravestones
in
some
gigantic
and decaying cemetery.
6.
The country
itself is not uncomely.
7.
Liquor talks mighty loud when it gets
loose from the jug.
8.
There is a
limit to what flesh and blood can bear.
9.
On
the
14
th
of
March,
at
a
quarter
to
three
in
the
afternoon,
the
greatest
living
thinker ceased to think.
10.
We can gain
knowledge, by reading, by reflection, by
observation or by practice.
V.
Proofreading
and Error-Correcting (10%)
Directions:
In
the
passage,
there
are
altogether
10
mistakes,
one
in
each
numbered line. You may
have to add a word, cross out a word, or change a
word.
Mark out the mistakes and put
your corrections in the blanks provided. If you
cross out a word, put a slash (/) in
the blank. Please note that you are not going
to look for any spelling errors.
Example
When
?
art museum wants a new exhibit, it buys
things
in
the
finished
form.
When
a
natural
history
museum wants an
exhibition, it must often build it.
[1] an
[2] the
[3] exhibit
If you knew Casablanca 20 years ago and
are to return today, you
1.
would
be
pleasantly
surprised
to
find
how
a
town
can
develop
and
undergo
major
changes and yet not lose its identity and the
human dimension.
Rapid
growth
has
always
been
a
feature
of
Casablanca,
thus
this
has
never
destroyed
its
balance.
It
is
an
industrial
town
and
a
major
financial
center,
but
it
is
also
a
tourist
town
who
has
its
own
specialized charm.
If
businessmen choose to locate his head offices
there, it is because
it has most of the
advantages of a city with few of the
disadvantages.
Its
reputation
as
a
conference
and
congress
town
has
already
been
constantly shown and business is
growing all the time.
Hence
Casablanca
has
become
the
economic
capital
of
the
kingdom of
Morocco. It fills a special position not just as
the center
of its region but also
within the life of nation: currently it is an area
of
open
demographic
and
economic
concentration,
thanks
to
a
hinterland
which has yet to be developed.
But
despite all this, Casablanca is not saturated, His
Majesty King
Hassan
II
wanted
the
town
to
develop
and
yet
remain
master
of
its
own
development.
This is why it has been
given an administrative structure which is
originated but which has the lofty
mission of making it a model town,
one
that must jealously preserve its historical and
cultural legacy. It is
from this
oersoective that a major, totally intergrated
developing plan
has been specially
conceived for the city so that it may welcome the
21 century with quite confidence.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.________
7.
8.
9.________
10.________
VI.
Reading comprehension. Read the following passage
and answer the
questions by choosing
the most appropriate choice. Put your answers on
the
ANSWER SHEET. (10%)
About Conformity
By
Dr. Russell M. Church
In
the
past
few
years
the
American
public
has
been
chided,
perhaps
more
than
usual, for being a collection of
conformists. We have been accused of accepting our
attitudes ready-
made from
the mass media or our local “opinion leaders,”
rather than
forming independent
attitudes after critical consideration of the
evidence.
It
is
charged
that
our
wants
as
consumers
are
not
our
own
but
are
dictated
by
Madison Avenue, or by the Joneses. We
have been accused of behaving in accordance
with the folkways of our organization
rather than on the basis of international values.
Even the self-consciously non-
conformist beatnik has been accused of conforming
to
the standards of his group.
Some of those who make
these charges of conformity may be under pressure
to
speak strongly about something to
which no one could take exception, but others are
sincerely
concerned
by
the
lack
of
independence
among
people
in
their
attitudes,
desires, and their behavior.
The first investigations of
conforming behavior in a standard laboratory
situation
were
those
of
Muzafer
Sherif
in
1935.
These
investigations
made
use
of
the
autokinetic phenomenon, the fact that a
stationary pinpoint of light in a totally dark
room gives the appearance of moving.
(Try it sometime-even though
you know
the
light to be stationary it seems to
be moving erratically.) Sherif asked subjects to
judge
the
extent
of
this
apparent
movement.
Alone
a
subject
would
become
increasingly
stable
in
his
judgements,
but
there
were
considerable
individual
differences
among
subjects
in
the
extent
of
movement
that
they
reported.
One
subject
might
typically
report movement of
8 or 10 inches and another
might
typically report movement of
only
1
or
2
inches.
When
individuals
with
different
norms
were
put
together
in
a
group of two
or three there was a marked convergence in their
judgements. Gradually,
after
100
or
more
trials
in
a
group,
individuals
who
had
established
independent
standards for the extent of movement
agreed rather closely with one another. (Many
subjects
were
influenced
“unconsciously,”
i.e.,
they
were
not
aware
that
they
were
being
influenced.) After these group norms had been
formed, individuals when again
judging
the extent of movement alone, tended to keep the
same group norms rather
than revert to
the norms they had previously established as
individuals. The degree of
conformity
within a group was even greater for subjects who
had not previously had
the opportunity
to judge the stimuli alone. Sherif concluded that
the judgements of the
others
of
the
extent
of
movement
had
a
marked
effect
on
the
judgements
of
the