阜阳师范学院03-04学年第1学期

阜阳师范学院03－04学年第1学期

高级英语（第一册）B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. Fill in the blank in the following items with the correct form of the word given in the brackets. Make sure the word you fill in is appropriate both syntactically and semantically. (10%) Example:

1. The aircraft came down next to a river in a __________ setting, with farmers plowing fields against snow-capped mountains in the background. (picture) 2. The condo high-rise at the top of Little Sugar Mountain _________ over the northwestern N.C. ski country, a slab of concrete planted among the ridges like a huge headstone. (tower)

3. They said Sharon?s ___________ with trying to halt attacks by Palestinians before agreeing to peace talks is at best misguided. (preoccupied)

4. As the ________ of Michael Jackson?s arrest was beamed to viewers around the world, fans rallied to the pop icon?s defense while his entertainment industry peers mostly kept a cautious silence. (spectacular)

5. Jason Isaacs, who plays the _________ Captain Hook and Wendy?s father, said people who know the story only from Disney?s spry animated version will be surprised at the movie?s dark depths. (villain)

6. In order to understand Dutch drugs policy, it is necessary to understand something of the Netherlands itself. Dutch policy does not _________, but is based on the assumption that drug use is a fact and must be dealt with. (morals)

7. Rodriguez did not give a reason for her departure but insisted that her decision was “__________,” according to the president?s office. (revocable)

8. UNICEF, the global agency dedicated to improving the welfare of children

We are determined that the law shall be enforced. (determination) 1

worldwide, says the situation facing AIDS orphans in Africa is becoming ever more desperate and should provoke both ________ and action by the international community. (outrageous)

9. The party, known locally as the HDZ, suffered a __________ defeat in 2000, when Croats overwhelmingly voted for Racan?s reformists. (humiliate)

10. However, we were no marksmen: our misses far outnumbered our hits. The crows, in particular, seemed to sense this for they often perched unafraid, eyeing us ________ as we let fly at them. (disdain)

11. People of all ages with delicate sensibilities will hate it, and my _________ is that quite a few younger viewers, on either side of college age, may not groove on it either. (hunched)

12. Sharma said there was a “___________ campaign” to cause division among security forces in the state between ethnic Assamese and native Hindi-speakers by spreading false rumours that Assamese police were being killed. (calculation) 13. The season?s first significant snowstorm in the Upper Midwest dumped more than a foot of snow in Minnesota, making highways__________, and snow also fell heavily Monday in parts of Wisconsin. (hazard)

14. New York theater?s first effort was Anne Nelson?s “The Guys,” which began production in December 2001. The painfully sincere 90-minute drama depicts a New York journalist who helps a fire captain praise his men. “The Guys” means to honor the firemen?s memory by ____________ them, casting them as ordinary “guys” and not the idealized martyrs of news media stories. (human)

15. Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce has already come out against the measure, saying that _________ competition is a bad idea. (bar)

16. Beginning today, the United States will intensify our _________ with the Congress and our friends and allies, and partners overseas. (consult)

17. In a revealing biography, “Inside the Opaque Kingdom,” Carmen Binladin chronicles her nine years of married life in a _________, male-dominated community, “where women are no more than house pets.” (puritans)

18. More than just a night of playing dress-up, Halloween is an opportunity for parents to learn a little bit about the way their kids think and for children themselves to discover the true breadth of their __________. (ingenious) 19. The bill amends the Crimes Act to allow imprisonment of employers whose negligence or ____________ results in the death of an employee. (reckless)

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20. Told with an affectionate and __________eye, “Monsieur Ibrahim” is suffused with an optimism and an innocence. (romance)

II. Structure: complete the following sentences with the best expression from the four choices. (10%)

1. Every here and there, a doorway gives ______ a sunlit courtyard.

a. a glance of b. a glimpse of c. a stare of d. a survey of

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

a. follow a suit b. follow the suit c. follow suits d. follow suit 3. The shop-owner instructs, and sometimes ______ with a hammer himself.

a. takes a hand b. takes hands c. takes hand d. takes two hands

4. Little girls and elderly ladies in kimonos ______ teenagers and women in western dress.

a. rubbed shoulders with b. rubbed shoulder with c. rubbed the shoulder with d. rubbed the shoulders with

5. The tall building of the martyred city flashed by as we lurched from side to side

______ the driver?s sharp twists of the wheel.

a. in response to b. as response to c. in response of d. as response of 6. At last this intermezzo ______, and I found myself in front of the gigantic City Hall.

a. came to end b. came to the end c. came to an end d. came to ending 7. I now stood on the site where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered on to die ____ slow agony. a. at b. from c. of d. in 8. I am a fisherman ______.

a. by trade b. for trade c. on trade d. of trade 9. Hitler was wrong and we should ______ to help Russia.

a. go out all b. go all out c. make out all d. make all out 10. Winant said the same would be true ______the U.S.A. a. with b. of c. for d. to

11. The custom-made object, now restricted to the rich, will be ______ everyone?s reach.

a. with b. in c. within d. for

12. In June 1941 Hitler suddenly launched an attack ______ Russia.

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a. for b. to c. on d. against

13. The widest benefits of the electronic revolution will ______ the young.

a. come to b. run to c. go to d. accrue to

14. The Industrial Revolution ______ an immense range of tasks from men?s

muscles.

a. took away b. took off c. took from d. took over

15. The computer revolution is propelling mankind ______ a higher order ______ existence.

a. to…of b. at…of c. to…for d. at…for

16. Mark Twain digested the New American experience before sharing it with the world ______ writer and lecturer. a. by b. for c. like d. as

17. In no area of American life is personal service so precious ______ in medical care.

a. with b. as c. for d. that

18. Mark Twain began ______ his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.

a. seeking b. picking c. digging d. making 19. Bitterness ______ the man who had made the world laugh.

a. fed on b. fed with c. fed up d. fed for

20. He accepted a job as reporter ______ the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. a. for b. at c. with d. by

III. Paraphrase the following sentences by using your own words. (20%) 1. If he does guess correctly, he will price the item high, and yield little in the bargaining.

2. The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.

3. All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic.

4. Ogilvie who had declared he would appear at the Croydons? suite an hour after his cryptic telephone call actually took twice that time.

5. For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed.

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6. In no area of American life is personal service so precious as in medical care. 7. The miracle ship has acquired the force and significance associated with the development of hand tools or the discovery of the steam engine.

8. This is no class war, but a war in which the whole British Empire is engaged, without distinction of race, creed, or party.

9. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied – a cosmos.

10. The very act of stepping on this soil, in breathing this air of Hiroshima, was for me a far greater adventure than any trip or any reportorial assignment I?d previously taken.

IV. Identify the name of the figure of speech used in the underlined part in the following sentences. You must write down English words. (10%)

1. ( )

As you approach it a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear.

2. ( ) 3

( )

Was I not at the scene of the crime? I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.

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( )

We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air…

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( )

I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. 6 7 8 9

( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

Swallowing, sullenly, he complied.

But for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax. Huck Finn?s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood. He commented with a crushing sense of despair on man?s final release from earthly struggles. 10 ( )

A world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

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