高级英语模拟题

高级英语（第二册）A卷

Directions:

1. Write all your answers on the Answer Sheet

2. You must hand in both your test book and your Answer Sheet I. Vocabulary (10%)

1. I was feeding one of the (s) in the public garden.

a. gazelle b. gazette c. geese d. game

2. Most of Morocco is so that no wild animal bigger than a hare can live on it.

a . barren b. desolate c. bleak d. dull

3. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of those problems which divide us.

a. bespeaking b. beholding c. belaboring d. befriending

4. United, there is little we cannot do in a of co-operative ventures. a. toast b. most c. cost d. host

5. Keen , calculating, perspicacious , acute and ……I was all of them. a. astride b. astral c. asteroid d. astute 6. “Oh yes ” He cried, clutching the greasy ____ to him .

a. felt b. melt c. pelt d. belt 7. And the whole they have set upon thin, brick piers .

a. prevaricate b. preposterous c. preponderant d. preparative

8. I award this championship only after laborious research and _____ prayer.

a. indecent b. indent c. indeed d. incessant

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9. This they have converted into a thing of clapboards, with a narrow, low pitched roof.

a. dingo b. bingo c. lingo d. dingy 10. Meanwhile, the true intellectuals were far from .

a. clattered b. tattered c. flattered d. mattered II. Paraphrase the following sentences (20%)

1. But there is one thought which every white man (and in this connection it doesn‟t matter two-pence if he calls himself a socialist) thinks when he sees a black army marching past.

2. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews, many of them old grandfathers with flowing grey beards, al clamoring for a cigarette. Even a blind man somewhere at the back of one of the booths heard a rumor of cigarettes and came crawling out, groping in the air with his hand.

3. But in the American village and small town the pull is always toward ugliness, and in that Westmoreland valley it has been yielded to with an eagerness bordering upon passion。

4. A good job Hitler wasn‟t here. Perhaps he was on his way, however. You hear the usual dark rumors about Jews, not only from the Arabs but from the poorer Europeans.

5. …, the file of old women had hobbled past the house with their firewood, and though they had registered themselves on my eyeballs I cannot truly say that I had seen them.

6. Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind?

7. And if a beachhead of co-operation may the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secured and the peace preserved.

8. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack. She already had the makings.

9. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of them.

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10. But they chose that clapboarded horror with their eyes open, and having chosen it, they let it mellow into its present shocking depravity.

III. Fill in the blanks with words or expressions marked with A, B, C, or D. (10%)

1. ________________the donkeys are damnably treated. A. There is no question that C. It is no question that

B. There is no question which D. It is little question that

2. …, there was ______remedy for the sensitive mind _____ immigrate to Europe where “they do things better.” A. no…but

B. little…but

C. little…but to D. little…except A. One thing omitted C. Except one omission even see him. A. the fact is

B. a mere chance is

D. the chances are

C. you have much chance

3. __________, Polly fitted these specifications perfectly.

B. With one omission D. Except for one omission

4. In a hot country, anywhere south of Gibraltar or east of Suez, ________ you don‟t

5. The little crowd of mourners—all men and boys, no women—__________the market place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, wailing a short chant over and over again.

A. threaded their way through B. broke their way through C. winded their way through A. wrapped out of shape C. warping out of shape

D. worked their way in B. warped out of shape D. warped out of shape

6. …thanks to a lifetime of sitting in this position his left leg is ___________.

7. ____________is that the corpse here are never put into coffins, they are merely wrapped in a piece of rags and carried on a rough wooden bier on the shoulders of four friends.

A. That appeals to the flies B. What is appealed to the flies C. What appeals to the flies

D. What appeal to the flies

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8. Along the edges of the fields channels are _________a depth of thirty or forty feet to get at the tiny trickles which run through the subsoil. A. hacked out to

B. hacking out to

C. hacked into D. hacked off

9. _______become downright black, _____ it is still sightly, especially if its trimmings are of white stone…. A. Let it…and B. Let it…x C. If it…and

D. Even if…and

10. When you go through the Jewish quarters you _______ what the medieval ghettoes were probably like. A. gather together some idea of C. gather some idea of

B. gather yourself up some idea of D. you gained some idea of

IV. Identification of the rhetorical devices (10%)

1. And if a beachhead of co—operation may push back the jungle of suspicion 2. the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth 3. Obviously, if there were architects of any professional sense or dignity in the region, they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides

4. This loomed as a project no small dimensions, and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey.

5. Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter.

6. Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls, work their way slowly across the field……

7. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.

8. We had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our full bordering Oceans. 9. to battle for success

10. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

V. Read the following passage and answer questions: (20%) Questions:

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1. According to the passage, the notion that their fighting had “made the world safe for democracy” was outmoded, why? Had their fighting really made the world safe for democracy? If yes, state your reasons. If not, state your reasons. (5%)

2. Why was it bitter for the returning veteran to return for the battlefields? (3%)

3. How do you understand the phrase “a good taste”? (2%)

4. How do you understand the two “give” in the last sentence of this passage? (5%)

5. Write a summary of this passage in 50 words. (5%)

Naturally, the spirit of carnival and enthusiasm for high military adventure were soon dissipated once the eager young men had received a good taste of twentieth century warfare. To their lasting glory, they fought with distinction, but it was a much more altered group of soldiers who returned form the battlefield in 1919. Especially was this true of the college contingent, whose idealism had led them to enlist early and who had generally seen a considerable amount of action. To them, it was bitter to return to a home town virtually untouched by the conflict, whose citizens still talked with the naive Fourth-of-July bombast they themselves had been guilty of two or three years earlier. It was even more bitter to find that their old jobs had been taken by the stay-at-homes, that business was suffering a recession that prevented the opening up of new jobs, and that veterans were considered problem children and less desirable than non-veterans for whatever business opportunities that did exist. Their homes were often uncomfortable to them; they had outgrown town and families and had developed a sudden bewildering world-weariness which neither they nor their relatives could understand. Their energies had been whipped up and their naivete destroyed by the war and now, in sleepy Gopher Prairies all over the country, they were being asked to curb those energies and resume the pose of self-deceiving Victorian innocence that they now felt to be as outmoded as the notion that their fighting had “made the world safe for democracy.” And, as if home town conditions were not enough, the returning veteran also had to face the sodden, Napolenic cynicism of Versailles, the hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition, and the smug patriotism of the war profiteers. Something in the tension-ridden youth of America

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had to “give” and, after a short period of bitter resentment, it “gave” in the form of a complete overthrow of genteel standards of behaviour.

VI. Read the following passages and choose the correct answer to each question that follows (15%)

Passage 1 UNCLE LOT

And so I am to write a story—but of what, and where? Shall it be radiant with the

sky of Italy or eloquent with the beau ideal of Greece? Shall it breathe odor and languor from the orient, or chivalry from the occident or gaiety from France? or vigor from England? No, no; these are all too old—too romance-like—too obviously picturesque for me. No; let me turn to my own land—my own. New England; the land of bright fires and strong hearts; the land of deeds, and not of words; the land of fruits, and not of flowers; the land often spoken against, yet always respected; „The latches of whose shoes the nations of the earth are not worthy to unloose.‟

Now from this very heroic apostrophe, you may suppose that I have something very heroic to tell. By no means. it is merely a little introductory breeze of patriotism, such as occasionally brushes over every mind, bearing on its wings the remembrance of all we ever loved of cherished in the land of our early years; and if it should seem to be rodomontade to any people in other parts of the earth, let them only imagine it to be said about „Old Kentucky,‟ old England, or any other corner of the world in which they happened to be born and they will find it quite rational.

But, as touching our story, it is time to being. Did you every see the little village of Newbury, in New England I dare say you never did; for it was just one of those out-of-the-way places where nobody every came unless they came on purpose: a green little hollow, wedged like a bird‟s nest between half a dozen high hills, that kept off the wind and kept out foreigners; so that the little place was as straightly sui generis as if there were not another in the world. The inhabitants were all of that respectable old steadfast family who make it a point to be born, bred, married, to die, and be buried all in the selfsame spot. There were just so many houses, and just so many people lived in them; and nobody ever seemed to be sick, or to die either, at least while I was there. The natives grew old till they could not grow any older, and

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then they stood still, and lasted from generation to generation. There was, too, an unchangeability about all the externals of Newbury. Here was a red house, and there was a brown house, and across the way was a yellow house; and there was a straggling rail fence or a tribe of mullein stalks between. The minister lived here, and Squire Moses lived there, and Deacon Hart lived under the hill, and Messrs. Nadab and Abihu Peters lived by the crossword, and the old „wider‟ Smith lived by the meeting-house, and Ebenezer Camp kept a shoemaker‟s shop on one side, and Patience Mosely kept a milliner‟s shop in front; and there was old Comfort Scran, who kept store for the whole town, and sold axeheads, brass thimbles, licorice balls, fancy handkerchiefs, and everything else you can think of. Here, too, was the general post-office, where you might see letters marvelously folded, directed wrong side upward, stamped with a thimble, and superscribed to some of the Dollys, or Pollys, or Peters, or Moseses forenamed or not named.

For the rest, as to manners, morals, arts, and sciences, the people in Newbury always went to their parties at three o‟clock in the afternoon, and came home before dark; always stopped all work the minute the sun was down on Saturday night; always went to meeting on Sunday; had a schoolhouse with all the ordinary inconveniences; were in neighborly charity with each other; read their Bibles, feared their God, and were content with such things as they had—the best philosophy, after all. 1. In the first paragraph the author contrasts the East and the West as

[A] indolent and gallant. [C] foreign and familiar. [A] prefer rigorous arguments. [C] need a lot of persuading. and because its inhabitants are

[A] talkative rather than diligent. [C] romantic rather than serious.

[B] productive rather than self-indulgent. [D] charming rather than admired. [B] charming and rude. [D] passive and aggressive. [B] share similar feelings. [D] dislike figurative language.

2. In the second paragraph we can see that the author assumes her readers

3. The author chooses New England as her subject matter because she knows it well

4. The facts in the passage indicate that village of Newbury is

[A] accustomed to seeing vagabonds. [B] a densely populated area. country.

5. The author‟s view of Newbury is

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[C] socially and politically progressive. [D] located in a remote part of the

[A] retrospective. [B] detached. [C] impartial.[D] skeptical.

Passage 2

NEW SPIN ON TRACKING DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES

As spring unfolds across North America, tornadoes once again are in the news. it‟s a Describing this status recently in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological

reminder that the United States is the severe-storm capital of the world.

Society, Elbert W. Friday Jr., National Weather Service director, observed that “the United States experiences more severe local storms and flooding than any to her country in the world.” He added that a typical year brings “some 10,000 violent thunderstorms, 5,000 floods, and 1,000 tornadoes.

Yet the country is not helpless before this onslaught. Thanks to advances in meteorological knowledge and in the forecast and warning system, the tornado death rate, for example, has been cut in half in recent decades. It‟s down from nearly 2,000 per decade 60 years ago to less than 1,000 per decade today.

Now the weather service is poised for what Mr. Friday calls “a meteorological revolution.” Sharp-eyed new radars, more vigilant weather satellites, and computerized-information handling will bring what he calls “dramatic improvements in...forecasts and... detection of and warnings for severe weather.” This is particularly true for tornadoes.

These funnel-shaped circulations develop in association with severe thunderstorms. As the National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Color., explains, the funnels often form at the thundercloud base. But tornado spotters also have to watch what‟s happening on the ground. The first clue may be swirling dust and debris.

Of the 710 to 1,000 tornadoes reported annually in the US, about 79 percent are what the American meteorological Society calls “weak.” About 20 percent are “strong”. About I percent are “violent.”

Weak funnels last under 10 minutes and have wind speeds on the order of 110 miles per hour(m.p.h.) They leave ground tracks less than a mile long and 100 yards wide. Although called “weak,” they are potentially dangerous, while their short lifetimes make timely warnings difficult.

Strong tornadoes last from 10 minutes to more than two hours. maximum winds, as estimated from damage surveys, range up to 280 mph or higher. A single thunderstorm

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cell may produce these powerful tornadoes in cycles. Each such sequence may last for tens of minutes. It can leave damage trails over 100 miles long by 1,000 yards wide.

Tornadoes have touched down throughout North America in every month of the year. But NCAR notes that they occur predominantly over the Great Plains and Midwest and are common in Eastern states and the Gulf of Mexico. Their region of most frequent occurrence begins near the Gulf Coast in March and shifts toward Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska by May and June.

A weather satellite launched April 13 will help forecasters monitor this tornado “season.” The $220 million GOES-8 (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite), the first of five improved weather “eyes,” can pinpoint storms to within 1.2 miles, compared with 6.2 to 12.4 miles for the old system.

A new class of radars is also part of the meteorological “revolution.” Unlike their predecessors, they sense motion of clouds, rain, and wind-borne

debris. There will be 150 such radar sites. The National Weather Service will have 121. The Federal Aviation Agency and the Department of Defense will operate the other installations and share data with the Weather Service.

6. When compared to other countries, the passage states that the United States [A] has a greater number of serious storms.

[B] fails to predict most violent

[D] is often hit by hurricanes.

thunderstorms. [C] never experiences typhoons. Passage 3

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7. According to paragraph four, the US Weather Service is

[A] reluctant to change.

[B] on the brink of change.

[D] already technologically advanced. [B] leave homes and property unscathed.

[C] inefficient and outdated. [A] are of constant duration.

8. The facts in the passage tell us that tornadoes

[C] are too varied to classify. [D] often accompany thunderstorms. [A] comprise 20 percent of reported storms. [B] begin when lightning strikes. [C] usually take people by surprise.

[D] never occur in January.

9. “Weak” tornadoes

10. In the US, Meteorological forecasting

[A] has cut tornado deaths by 40%. [B] can prevent floods. [C] depends on ground observers. [D] will soon be more precise.

GRAPES OF WRATH

We live in southern California growing grapes, a first generation of vintners, our

home adjacent to the vineyards and the winery. It‟s a very pretty place, and in order to earn the money to realize our dream of making wine, we worked for many years in a business that demanded several household moves, an incredible amount of risk-taking and long absences from my husband. When it was time, we traded in our old life, cinched up our belts and began the creation of the winery.

We make small amounts of premium wine, and our lives are dictated by the rhythm of nature and the demands of the living vines. The vines start sprouting tiny green tendrils in March and April, and the baby grapes begin to form in miniature, so perfect that they can be dipped in gold to form jewelry. The grapes swell and ripen in early fall, and when their sugar content is at the right level, they are harvested carefully by hand and crushed in small lots. The wine is fermented and tended until it is ready to be bottled. The vineyards shed their leaves, the vines are pruned and made ready for the dormant months—and the next vintage.

It sounds nice, doesn‟t it? Living in the country, our days spent in the ancient routine of the vineyard, knowing that the course of our lives as vintners was choreographed long age and that if we practiced diligently, our wine would be good and we‟d be successful. From the start we knew there was a price for the privilege of becoming a wine-making family, connected to the land and the caprices of nature.

We work hard at something we love, we are slow to panic over the daily emergencies, we are nimble at solving problems as they arise. Some hazards to completing a successful vintage are expected: rain just before harvesting can cause mold; electricity unexpectedly interrupted during the cold fermentation of white wine can damage it; a delayed payment from a major client when the money is needed.

There are outside influences that disrupt production and take patience, good will and perseverance. (For example ) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms regulates every facet of the wine business. A winery‟s records are audited as often as two or three times a year and every label—newly written for each year‟s vintage—must be approved....

(But) The greatest threat to the winery, and one that almost made us lose heart, came out of a lawyer‟s imagination. Our little winery was served notice that we were named in a lawsuit accusing us of endangering the public health by using lead foils on our bottles

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(it was the only material used until recently) “without warning consumers of a possible risk.” There it was, our winery‟s name listed with the industry‟s giants....

...I must have asked a hundred times: “Who gets the money if the lawsuit is successful?” The answer was, and I never was abler to assimilate it, the plaintiffs and their lawyers who filed the suit! Since the lawsuit was brought in behalf of consumers, it seemed to me that consumers must get something if it was proved that a lead foil was dangerous to them. We were told one of the two consumer claimants was an employee of the firm filing the suit!

There are attorneys who focus their careers on lawsuits like this. It is an immense danger to the small businessman. Cash reserves can be used up in the blink of an eye when in the company of lawyers. As long as it‟s possible for anyone to sue anybody for anything, we are all in danger. As long as the legal profession allows members to practice law dishonorably and lawyers are congratulated for winning big money in this way, we‟ll all be plagued with a corruptible justice system.

11. The phrase “cinched up our belts,” in the firs paragraph, suggests that the couple 12. 13. 14.

[A] thought creating a winery would be easy. [B] wore clothing that was too big.

[C] strapped their belongings together and moved. [D] prepared for the difficult work ahead. The grapes are harvested on a date that [A] may vary. [B] is traditionally set.

[C] depends on the approval of the regulatory bureau. [D] is determined by availability of pickers.

According to the author, the life of vintners is most controlled by [A] the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. [B] unexpected changes in temperature. [C] the sugar content of the grapes. [D] the tempo of the seasons.

The writer complains that when she questioned the lawyers she [A] never got an answer. [B] never got a simple answer.

[C] could make no sense of the answer she got. [D] could not understand the answer she got.

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15. The writer thinks that the legal profession VII. (15%)

The Rivet Poppers

As you walk from the terminal toward your airliner, you notice a man on a ladder busily prying rivets out of its wing. Somewhat concerned, you saunter over to the rivet popper and ask him just what the hell he‟s doing.

“I work for the airline---Growthmaia International,” the man informs you, “and “But how do you know you won‟t finally weaken the wing doing that?” you “Don‟t worry.” he assured you. “I‟m certain the manufacturer made this plane the airline has discovered that it can sell these rivets for two dollars apiece.” inquire.

much stronger than it needs to be, so no harm‟s done. Besides, I‟ve taken lots of rivets from this wing and it hasn‟t fallen off yet. Growthmania Airlines needs the money; if we didn‟t pop the rivets, Growthmania wouldn‟t be able to continue expanding. And I need the commission they pay me---fifty cents a rivet!”

“You must be out of your mind.”

“I told you not to worry; I know what I‟m doing. As a matter of fact, I‟m going to

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Use

brief words and correct grammar. Both your ideas and language will be graded.

[A] strives to protect consumers. [B] includes rapacious attorneys.

[C] does a good job of policing its members. [D] is part of an incorruptible system.

fly on this flight also, so you can see there‟s absolutely nothing to be concerned about.”

Any sane person would, of course, go back into the terminal, report the gibbering idiot and Growthmania Airlines to the FAA, and make reservations on another carrier. You never have to fly on an airliner. But unfortunately all of us are passengers on a very large spacecraft---one on which we have no option but to fly. And, frighteningly, it is swarming with rivet poppers behaving in ways analogous to that just described.

The rivet poppers on Spaceship Earth include such people as the President of the United States, the Chairman of the Soviet Communist Party, and most other politicians and decision makers; many big businessmen and small businessmen, and inadvertently, most other people on the planet including you and us. Philip Handler,

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the president of the United States National Academy of Sciences, is an important rivet popper, and so are industrialist Daniel Ludwig (who is energetically chopping down the Amazon rainforest), Senator Howard Baker, enemy of the Snail Darter, and Vice President George Bush, friend of nuclear war. Others prominent on the rivet popper roster include Japanese whalers and woodchoppers, many utility executives, the auto moguls of Detroit, the folks who run the AMAX corporation, almost all economists, the Brazilian government, Secretary of the Interior James Watt, the editors of Science, Scientific American, and the Wall Street Journal, the bosses of the pesticide industry, some of the top bureaucrats of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and some of those in the Department of the Interior, the officers of the Entomological Society of America, the faculties of every engineering school in the world, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church.

Now all of these people (and especially you and we) are certainly not crazy or malign. Most of them are in fact simply uninformed---which is one reason for writing a book on the processes and consequences of rivet-popping.

Rivet-popping on Spaceship Earth consists of aiding and abetting the extermination of species and populations of nonhuman organisms. The European Lion, the Passenger Pigeon, the Carolina Parakeet, and the Sthenele Brown Butterfly are some of the numerous rivets that are now irretrievably gone; the Chimpanzee, Mountain Gorilla, Siberian Tiger, Right Whale, and California Condor are prominent among the many rivets that are already loosened. The rest of the perhaps ten million species and billions of distinct populations still more or less hold firm. Some of these species supply or could supply important direct benefits to humanity, and all of them are involved in providing free public services without which society could not persist.

The natural ecological systems of Earth, which supply these vital services, are analogous to the parts of an airplane that make it a suitable vehicle for human beings. But ecosystems are much more complex than wings and engines. Ecosystems, like well-made airplanes, tend to have redundant subsystems and other “design” features that permit them to continue functioning after absorbing a certain amount of abuse. A dozen rivets, or a dozen species, might never be missed. On the other hand, a thirteenth rivet popped from a wing flap, or the extinction of key species involved on the cycling of nitrogen, could lead to a serious accident.

In most cased an ecologist can no more predict the consequences of the extinction of a given species than an airline passenger can assess the loss of a single rivet. But

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both can easily foresee the long-term results of continually forcing species to extinction or of removing rivet after rivet. No sensible airline passenger today would accept a continuous loss of rivets from jet transports. Before much more time has passed, attitudes must be changed so that no sane passenger on Spaceship Earth will accept a continuous loss of population or species of nonhuman organisms.

Over most of the several billion years during which life has flourished on this planet, its ecological systems have been under what would be described by the airline industry as “progressive maintenance.” Rivets have dropped out or gradually worn out, but they were continuously being replaced; in fact, over much of the time our spacecraft was being strengthened by the insertion of more rivets than were being lost. Only since about ten thousand years ago has there been any sign that that process might be more or less permanently reversed. That was when a single species, Homo sapiens, began its meteoric rise to planetary dominance. And only in about the last half-century has it become clear that humanity has been forcing species and populations to extinction at a rate greatly exceeding that of natural attrition and far beyond the rate at which natural processes can replace them. In the last twenty-five years or so, the disparity between the rate of loss and the rate of replacement has become alarming; in the next twenty-five years, unless something is done, it promises to become catastrophic for humanity.

The form of the catastrophe is, unfortunately, difficult to predict. Perhaps the most likely event will be an end of civilization in T.S. Eliot‟s whimper. As nature is progressively impoverished, its ability to provide a moderate climate, cleanse air and water, recycle wastes, protect crops from pests, replenish soils, and so on will be increasingly degraded. The human population will be growing as the capacity of Earth to support people is shrinking. Rising death rates and a falling quality of life will lead to a crumbling of post-industrial civilization. The end may come so gradually that the hour of its arrival may not be recognizable, but the familiar world of today will disappear within the life span of many people now alive.

Of course, the “bang” is always possible. For example, it is likely that destruction of the rich complex of species in the Amazon basin could trigger rapid changes in global climate patterns. Agriculture remains heavily dependent on stable climate, and human beings remain heavily dependent on food. By the end of the century the extinction of perhaps a million species in the Amazon basins could have entrained

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famines in which a billion human beings perished. And if our species is very unlucky, the famines could lead to a thermonuclear war, which could extinguish civilization.

Fortunately, the accelerating rate of extinctions can be arrested. It will not be easy; it will require both the education of, and concerted action by, hundreds of millions of people. But no tasks are more important, because extinctions of other organisms must be stopped before the living structure of our spacecraft is so weakened that at a moment of stress it fails and civilization is destroyed.

1. Sum up the main idea of the passage with 100-150 words. Your summary should include the basic message that is conveyed by the author and the author‟s purpose in writing this essay. (8%)

2. What type of writing is this essay? How does the author develop his idea in this passage? Point out the way of his organizing his details. How effective is this kind of organization? (4%)

3. How urgent was the author‟s warning at the time when he wrote this essay? Does the essay still carry the same or more weight in the context of today‟s world? Why or why not? (3%)

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Answer Sheet

Name_____________ Student Number______________ Score____________

I. Vocabulary (10%)

II. Paraphrase (20%) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

III. Multiple Choice:

IV. Figures of Speech (10%) 1. 2. 3. 4.

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5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

V. Reading and Answering Questions (20%)

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VI. Passage Reading and Multiple Choice (15%)

VII. Passage Reading and Question Answering (15%)

1. (8%)

2.(4%)

3. (3%)

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阜阳师范学院2001－2002学年第2学期

高级英语（第二册）A卷 标准答案及评分标准

I. Vocabulary (10%)

1. a 2. b 3. c 4. d 5. d 6. c 7. b 8. d 9. d 10. c

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. 20% ( Answers: refer to Teacher’s Book II)

III. Fill in the blanks with words or expressions marked with A, B, C, or D. (10%) 1. A

2. C

3. B

4. D

5. A

6. D 7.C 8. A 9. A 10. C

IV. Identification of the rhetorical devices (10%)

1. metaphor 2. hyperbole 3. sarcasm 4. litotes/understatement 5. metonymy 6. simile 7. synecdoche 8. metaphor 9. Metaphor 10. antithesis

V. Reading the following passage and answer questions: (20%) Questions:

1. According to the passage, the notion that their fighting had “made the world safe for democracy” was outmoded, why? Had their fighting really made the world safe for democracy? If yes, state your reasons. If not, state your reasons. (5%)

2. Why was it bitter for the returning veteran to return for the battlefields? (3%)

3. How do you understand the phrase “a good taste”? (2%)

4. How do you understand the two “give” in the last sentence of this passage? (5%)

5. Write a summary of this passage in 50 words. (5%)

VI. Read the following passages and choose the correct answer to each question that follows (15%)

1-5 ABBDA 5-10 ABDCD 11-15 DADCB

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VII. Reading the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Use brief words and correct grammar. Both your ideas and language will be graded. (15%)

1. The essay is an exposition. The author uses analogy to develop his ideas. An analogy is drawn between the ecosystem of the earth and an airplane, or what human beings are doing to Mother Earth and rivet-popping on a plane. This way of organization is very effective: it is vivid and emphatic. It helps bring a sense of intimacy and urgency.

2. The author warned his people of a possible destruction of the ecosystem at the time of his writing, when there were enough evidences indicating the earth was endangered by human activities. Nowadays the problem seems more urgent, as most of the natural resources mentioned in the essay are already seriously damaged and human expansion is threatening the existence of the human race itself. The message in the essay is still relevant today.

1．阅读理解选择题一个题1分，共15分；

2．问题解答按以下原则评分：归纳中心思想一题无标准答案，学生须在归纳时总结出文章的主要内容、作者的基本目的、文章的主旨，阅卷时考虑学生的语言运用是否正确、有无语法错误、单词拼写、语言是否地道等。后面两题依照参，学生的答案和参相似或接近，用词须准确、地道，回答简明扼要，视情况给分。

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