2011年春季学期英语专业阅读(2)期末考试复习自测题答案版

2011

年春季学期淮阴师范学院外国语学院英语专业阅读（

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年春季学期英语专业阅读（

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unit 1

Part 1

( b )1. In the beginning, Chaos, an amorphous, gaping void

encompassing

the entire universe…

(para.1)

a. controlling

b. surrounding

c. causing

(

c

)2.

Also

born

out

of

Chaos

were

Gaia,

called

Earth,

or

Mother

Earth,

and

Uranus,

the

embodiment

of the Sky and the Heavens

?

(para.3)

a. abstract concept

b. personification

c. concrete

representation

( a )3. This satisfied Cronus, and Gaia was able to

spirit

the baby Zeus away to be raised in Crete,

far from his grasping father. (para.6)

a. take away secretly

b. inspirit

c. blow

( c )4. Zeus needed his brothers and sisters

’

help in

slaying

the tyrant

?

(para.7)

a. murdering

b. defeating

c. killing

( b )5. Metis, Zeus

’

s first wife, found a way of

administering

an emetic to Cronus

?

(para.7)

a. managing

b. giving c. tendering

( b )6. The results were that all of his children, led by Zeus,

vanquished

Cronus forever into

Tartarus

’

domain

?

(para.7)

a. won

b. defeated

c. disappeared

( c )7. All the others were left to

fend for

themselves in lands below Mount Olympus. (para.8)

a. raise

b. fight

c. look after

( c )8.

?

feasted endlessly on steaming hot

game

from the surrounding forests

?

(para.9)

a. wild animals

b. pastime

c. meat of hunted animals

( b )9.

?

thus greatly improving their

lot

in life. (para.11)

a. luck

b. fate

c. living

( a )10.

Impelled

by her natural curiosity

, Pandora opened the jar, and all the evils that plague

men flew out and spread over the earth. (para.13)

a. driven

b. stirred

c. moved

Part 2

( a )1. He is also known to punish those that lie or break

oaths

. (para.2)

a. formal promises

b. offensive expressions

c. declarations

( a )2. Zeus

courted

her unsuccessfully. (para.4)

a. tried to gain the love of

b. sought

c. flattered

( b )3. Hestia, the eldest sister of Zeus, is the goddess of the hearth fire, hence

presiding

over

domestic life. (para.5)

a. performing

b. controlling

c. directing

( c )4. People traveled to it from all over the Greek world to

divine

the future. (para.10)

a. guess

b. know

c. foretell

( c )5. In addition to her natural gifts she has a magical girdle that

compels

anyone she wishes to

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desire her. (para.12)

a. frees

b. makes

c. forces

Part 4

( c )1. He therefore

committed

the child to the care of a herdsman with orders to destroy him...

(para.1)

a. referred

b. performed

c. entrusted

( a )2. Oedipus was not

daunted

by these alarming accounts... (para.3)

a. frightened

b. nervous

c. bothered

( a )3. Man, who in childhood creeps on hands and knees, in manhood walks

erect

... (para.3)

a. upright

b. direct

c. raised

( b )4. The Sphinx was so

mortified

at the solving of her riddle that she cast herself down from

the rock and perished. (para.3)

a. disciplined

b. humiliated

c. miserable

( c )5. The gratitude of the people for their

deliverance

was so great that they made Oedipus their

king, giving him in marriage their queen Jocasta. (para.4)

a. liberation

b. salvation

c. rescue

Part 5

( a )1. Echo by

her talk contrived to

detain

the

goddess till the nymphs made their escape.

(para.1)

a. delay

b. fool

c. cheat

( c )2. Nor did the mountain goats resort to it,

?

neither was it

defaced

with fallen leaves or

branches (para.6)

a. removed

b. appeared

c. deformed

( c )3. He stood gazing with admiration at those bright eyes,

?

the glow of health and

exercise

over all. (para.6)

a. carrying out

b. piece of work

c. physical activity

( b )4

?

.he cherished the flame that

consumed

him (para.7)

a. destroyed

b. engaged fully

c. used up

( c )5. He was

transfixed

;

?

(para.7)

a. fixed fast

b. impaled

c. unable to move

Part 6

( b )1. So she summoned her son, Cupid, telling him to put a

spell

on Psyche.(para.1)

a. letter

b. magic power

c. word

( a )2. Always

obedient

, Cupid flew down to earth with two vials of potions. (para.2)

a. willing to obey

b. rebellious

c. pious

( b )3. Accidentally

, he

pricked

her with one of his arrows, which would make someone fall in

love instantly

. (para.2)

a. stung

b. pierced slightly

c. stabbed

( b )4. Psyche

roamed

about looking for her husband but in vain, and eventually in desperation

she went to the temple of V

enus and prayed for help. (para.7)

a. walked

b. wandered

c. strayed

( a )5. V

enus was

livid

, knowing well that Psyche could never have done this alone! (para.10)

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a. extremely angry

b. black-and-blue

c. ashen

unit 2

part 1

( b )1. Within it, the

perfectly

opposed principles of Yin and Y

ang became balanced ... (para.1)

a. practically

b. completely

c. in a perfect way

( a )2. In some

versions

of the story

, Pangu is aided in this task by the four most prominent

beasts... (para.2)

a. views

b. translations

c. accounts

( a )3. After the 18,000 years had

elapsed

, the sky became very high; the earth, dense and Pangu,

extremely tall. (para.2)

a. passed

b. returned

c. continued

( c )4. His body

dissolved

and his head became the mountains

?

(para.2)

a. melted

b. disappeared

c. broke up

part 2

( b )1. The Three Sorvereigns are

ascribed

various identities in different Chinese historical texts.

(para. 3)

a. described

b. referred to

c. given

( a )2. They retired to Kunlun Mountians where the diving being approved their union and the

siblings set about

procreating

the human race. (para. 4)

a. producing

b. originating

c. creating

( b )3. He

instituted

marriage and offered the first open air sacrifices to haven. (para. 4)

a. advanced

b. established

c. set forth

( c )4. He is also considered to have been a determining influence in establishing Chinese social

order, in that

allocated

a name to each family

. (para. 7)

a. ascribed

b. classified

c. designated

part 4

(

a

)1.

Mencius

was

a

Confucian

follower

who

made

major

contributions

to

the

spread

of

humanism in Confucian thought, declaring that man, by nature, was

inherently

good. (para.3)

a. naturally

b. particularly

c. normally

( b )2.

?

he asserted that goodness is

attainable

only through education and conduct befitting

one

’

s status. (para.4)

a. specific

b. achievable

c. measurable

( a )3

?

. the only way to preserve the social order was to

impose

discipline from above, and to

strictly enforce laws. (para.5)

a. force

b. order

c. put

( a )4. The Legalists exalted the state above all, giving its prosperity and martial

prowess

priority

over the welfare of the common people. (para.5)

a. outstanding ability

b. art

c. skill

(

c

)5.

Mozi

advocated

frugality

,

condemning

the

Confucian

emphasis

on

ritual

and

music,

which he

denounced

as extravagant. (para.8)

a. declared

b. informed

c. strongly criticized

Part 7

( a )1. The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken into account in one

’

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deliberations

?

(para.2)

a. long and careful considerations b. slow movements c. careful thoughts

( b )2. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete

accord

with their ruler

?

(para.2)

a. agreement

b. obedience

c. subject

( b )3. Which of the two sovereigns is

imbued

with the Moral Law? (para.3)

a. enough

b. filled

c. spread

( a )4. On which side is discipline most

rigorously

enforced? (para.3)

a. strictly

b. severely

c. precisely

( a )5. Hold out baits to

entice

the enemy. (para.4)

a. tempt

b. persuade

c. attempt

unit 3

part 1

( c )1. During the few weeks at a time when he was at home, he would

shuffle around

the house

making it nice and cozy for Sophie and her mother. (para.7)

a. drag his feet around

b. move about

c. rearrange

( a )2. Sophie

slung

her schoolbag on the floor and put a bowl of cat food out for Sherekan.

(para.14)

a. threw

b. put

c. laid

( b )3. The girl in the mirror did not react with as much as a

twitch

. (para.21)

a. sudden convulsive movement b. sudden quick movement c. sudden pain

( b )4. Sophie;s father was not

condemned

to living with this straight dark hair. (para.26)

a. sentenced to

b. forced into

c. doomed to

( a )5. Her mother always went on about her difficult

labor

. (para.26)

a. the process of giving birth to a baby

b. the supply of work

c. physical work

( a )6. The mysterious letters had made Sophie

’

s head

spin

. (para.46)

a. become dizzy

b. shake

c. turn round quickly

( c )7. Clutching the two envelopes in her hand, Sophie ran through the garden,

crouched

down

on all fours, and wormed her way through the hedge. (para.52)

a. lowered

b. crawled

c. squatted

( c )8. Sophie tried to

console

herself with the thought that this was probably the best solution to

the whole problem. (para.58)

a. convince

b. argue

c. comfort

( c )9. Who had

jolted

Sophie out of her everyday existence and suddenly brought her face to

face with the great riddles of the universe? (para.64)

a. awaked

b. moved

c. startled

( b )10. Her mind was

in turmoil

. (para.67)

a. in excitement

b. in confusion

c. in doubt

Part 2

( b )1. For the first time she began to feel that at school as well as everywhere else people were

only concerned with

trivialities

. (para.3)

a. insignificance

b. unimportant things

c. important things

( b )2. Sophie noticed the

touch

of bitterness in Joanna

’

s tone. (para.14)

a. note

b. trace

c. style

( c )3. Philosophers

’

search for the truth

resembles

a detective story. (para.38)

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