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Part I
Vocabulary (20%)
Directions A: There are 20
incomplete sentences in this section. For each
sentence there are four choices
marked A, B, C
and D. Choose one answer that best completes the
sentence.
1. The wind ______ the tree of all
its leaves. ( )
A. striped B. stripped
C. struck D. stretched
2. She has been
______ in line to buy some stamps. ( )
A.
waited B. waiting
C. awaited D. awaiting
3. He was unable to keep up the ______ on his
car. ( )
A. loan B. money
C. deposit
D. payments
4. He gave a(n) ______ to the
United Nations. ( )
A. gift B. address
C. note D. agreement
5. This book tells
you how to ______ getting ill while traveling. (
A. escape B. remove
C. recover D. avoid
6. He got through his work with ______ and
efficiency. ( )
A. speed B. spark
C.
space D. speech
7. She insisted that he ______
the experiment all over again. (
A. did B.
had
C. do D. leave
8. I invited him to the
meeting, but he ______. ( )
A. declined
B. accepted
C. removed D. escaped
9. Our
vacation is ______ and we still can’t decide where
to go. (
A. going B. approaching
C. flying
D. keeping
10. These flowers will not grow in
a cold ______. ( )
A. weather B. air
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)
)
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C. day D. climate
11. He spoke with more eagerness ______ is
appropriate on such occasions. ( )
A.
than that
C. than
B. than what
D.
other than
12. He feels a deep ______ towards
his parents for his miserable childhood. ( )
A. indignation
C. indigenous
B.
indignity
D. indignant
13. The badly
wounded have ______ for medical attention over
those only slightly hurt.( )
A. privilege
C. potential
B. priority
D. principle
14. They stayed up late trying to ______ out a
way to solve the problem. ( )
A. let
C. knock
B. give
D. figure
15.
After he won the first prize, he was full of
______ and believed that he was an expert on
everything. ( )
A. arrogance
C.
conceit
B. vanity
D. contempt
16. That
mountain track is not ______ in winter. You’d
better go there in summer. ( )
A.
practicable
C. feasible
B. practical
D. possible
17. Our school bus always
______ more than fifty students, which, in fact,
is not allowed. ( )
A. is seating
C.
is seated
B. has been seated
D. seats
18. Language is not ______ throughout the
country but falls into dialects. ( )
A.
constant
C. steady
B. uniform
D.
steadfast
19. At that time they did hope to
create a new world they had dreamed of, ______ of
all human sins. ( )
A. cleanse(使清除)
C. had cleansed
B. cleansed
D.
cleansing
20. She hopes to ______ her artistic
talents in the job. ( )
A. apply
C.
employ
B. utilize
D. avail
Directions
B: There are 20 sentences in this section. In each
sentence there is a word or phrase underlined.
Below each sentence there are four choices
marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that
can replace
the underlined part of each
sentence without changing its original meaning.
21. With time going by, the rocks decompose
and then become sand to continue to exist. (
)
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A.
decay
C. form
B. molder
D.
disintegrate
22. Mary is so careful about her
weight that she doesn’t eat staple food at all. (
)
A. sensible
C. senseless
B.
sensational
D. sensitive
23. He is advised
not to watch TV for more than 4 hours a day.
Otherwise, it would be a strain on his eyes.
(
)
A. hurt
C. stress
B. tension
D.
burden
24. Do not be deceived by what he has
said this time. ( )
A. taken in
C.
taken after
B. taken over
D. taken on
25. They suggested that we should leave a
separate room for smokers. ( )
A. reserve
C. maintain
B. conserve
D. preserve
26. This attracted the attention of Richard
Humphries who was then the most eminent boxer in
England. ( )
A. qualified
C. infamous
B. humorous
D. famous
27. He expressed
criticism on the new style of writing which is now
quite popular on the Internet in his latest
paper. ( )
A. blame
C. evaluation
B. denunciation
D. accusation
28.
Every time when she tried to move her body, she
let out a moan in pain. ( )
A. wail (哀号)
C. groan
B. whimper (呜咽)
D. weep
29. As we all know, thick forests are the
natural habitat for birds, animals and insects,
and we must forbid cutting
trees without any
limitation. ( )
A. home
C. residence
B. resort
D. refuge
30. Even though
the government denied it but what the spokesman
said is a clear indication that the government
will sooner or later collect this kind of tax.
( )
A. symptom
C. demonstration
B. symbol
D. signal
31. What can
destine (命中注定) him to such a terrible lot, when
his soul is dead and his body is alive? ( )
A. foredoom
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C. forecast D.
foretaste
32. Today’s low inflation and steady
growth in household income translates into more
purchasing power. ( )
A. changes
C.
transplants
B. transfers
D. transmits
33. The journalist refused to reveal the
source of her information. ( )
A. report
C. publish
B. disclose
D. betray
34. Comparison and contrast are often used
intentionally in advertisements. ( )
A.
purposefully
C. incidentally
B.
pertinently
D. overwhelmingly
35. These
ancient buildings are part of our national legacy
which, of course, should be protected. ( )
A. privacy
C. legend
B. heritage
D. property
36. My father always hopes
that I could mingle with his friends’ children but
I prefer to stay alone. ( )
A. reject
C. complain
B. merge
D. combine
37. With the fast development and expansion of
cities, the outlying suburbs of which become
prosperous, too.
( )
A. exterior
C. outer
B. external
D. outside
38. I am sorry I have no time at present to
probe into more detail or give you an account of
the incident. ( )
A. bring into
C.
come into
B. talk into
D. go into
39.
This type of apparatus can produce more than
40,000 blood specimen a day. ( )
A.
examples
C. operations
B. models
D.
samples
40. Smith did the only sensible thing
by asking the Indians for food and shelter in
their village. ( )
A. sensitive
C.
wise
Part II Cloze (10%)
Directions: There
are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each
blank there are four choices marked A, B,
C
and D. Choose the ONE that best fits into the
passage.
Interpersonal communication is your
interaction with others. Talking to a friend on
campus, chatting to a(n)
41 friend on
campus, chatting on the phone with a classmate
about a(n) 42
test, arguing the 43 of a
movie with friends, discussing strategies for
accomplishing tasks at work, 44 for a
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job, and planning the
future 45 a loved one are all forms of
interpersonal communication.
Effective
interpersonal communication 46 our sensitivity
to others and to the situation. One goal of
effective interpersonal communication is to
maintain relationships, and forming 47
messages that accurately convey our ideas and
feelings 48 not offending the other person is
key 49 our
success.
Effective
interpersonal communication 50 us. People who
can clearly express their ideas, beliefs, and
opinions become influential and 51 control
over what happens to them and to others that they
52 . When
we accurately and precisely 53
our thoughts, others gain a better
54 for
our position. Their understanding and appreciation
make it more likely that they will respond in 55
that are consistent with our needs.
Effective interpersonal communication helps us
manage the 56 we create. Presenting ourselves in
such a
way that others will 57 and trust us
is important in both public and private
58
—— whether we’re communicating in a professional
setting, 59 our interpersonal skills are vital
to
getting a job, holding a position, or
rising in an organization, or in a private setting
where we’re trying to 60
and maintain
relationships.
( )41. A. familiar
(
)42. A. upcoming
( )43. A. advances
(
)44. A. interviewing
( )45. A. for
(
)46. A. describes
( )47. A. sound
(
)48. A. if
( )49. A. to
( )50. A.
empowers
( )51. A. exhaust
( )52.
A. care about
( )53. A. interpret
(
)54. A. assessment
( )55. A. approaches
( )56. A. impressions
( )57. A.
respect
( )58. A. settings
( )59. A.
when
( )60. A. work
B. informal
B.
final
B. strength
B. interfering
B.
with
B. conveys
B. directory
B. when
B. of
B. reinforces
B. exert
B.
care for
B. explain
B. evaluation
B.
methods
B. practices
B. despise
B.
locations
B. where
B. build
C.
intimate
C. mid-term
C. population
C.
interacting
C. over
C. portrays
C.
diction
C. while
C. for
C. supports
C. affect
C. care with
C. encode
C. appreciation
C. ways
C. things
C. mock
C. situations
C. how
C.
keep
D. near
D. intermediate
D.
fondness
D. interpreting
D. to
D.
betrays
D. verbal
D. as
D. in
D.
sustains
D. enact
D. take to
D. decode
D. appraisal
D. ends
D. experiences
D. sneer
D. circumstances
D. if
D. retain
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Part III Reading Comprehension (40%)
Directions: There are four passages in this
part. Each passage is followed by some questions
or unfinished
statements. For each of them
there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Read
each passage carefully and
decide on the best
answer.
Passage One
People in the mass
advertising business and other people who study
American society have been very
interested in
the question: What does the American consumer
like? Max Lerner, a well-known scholar who has
studied American society, has said that
American consumers are particularly fond of three
things: comfort,
cleanliness, and novelty.
Lerner believes that the American love of
comfort perhaps goes back to the frontier
experience. The pioneers
had a rough life on
the frontier and very few comforts. This
experience may have created a strong desire in the
pioneers and their children for goods that
would make life more comfortable. Today, the
Americans’ love of
comfort is seen in the way
they furnish their homes, the way they design
their cars, and the way they like to travel.
Cleanliness is also highly valued by
Americans. There is a strong emphasis on keeping
all parts of the body
clean. Perhaps the
Puritan (清教徒) heritage has played some role in the
desire for cleanliness. The Puritans, a
strict
Protestant church group who were among the first
settlers of America, stressed the need to cleanse
the body
of dirt and of all evil tendencies.
The saying “Cleanliness is next to Godliness”
reflects the belief of most
Americans that it
is important to keep their bodies clean by taking
a bath and wearing clean clothes every day.
Indeed, many Americans are offended by anyone
who does not follow their accepted standards of
cleanliness.
In addition to cleanliness and
comfort, Americans love novelty. They love to have
things that are new and
convenient. Perhaps
the love of novelty comes from their pride in
their inventiveness. Americans have always
been interested in inventing new products and
improving old ones. They like to see changes in
cars, clothing, and
products for the home. New
models of cars are particularly appealing.
Advertisements encourage people to get rid
of
old cars and try new ones, whether the old ones
still work or not. The American economy seems to
be based on
consumption, not conservation.
61. The best title for the passage is ______.
( )
A. What American Consumers Like
B. The Stupidity of the American Consumers
C. American Consumers and Puritan Heritage
D. Frontier Experience and Puritan Heritage
62. According to the author, the American
consumers are fond of the following except
______.( )
A. comfort and cleanliness
C. clean clothes and fine houses
B.
novelty and convenience
D. thrift and economy
63. The American love of comfort can be shown
in the way they ______. ( )
A. love new
models of car
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B.
eat in fast-food restaurants
C. design their
cars and furnish their homes
D. wear clean
clothes and take bath every day
64. Americans’
love of cleanliness is believed to be associated
with ______. ( )
A. their living standard
C. their Puritan tradition
B. their
lifestyle
D. their advanced technology
65.
In general, Americans are interested in the
following EXCEPT______. ( )
A. inventing
new products
C. buying things that are popular
B. improving old products
D. buying things
that are unknown before
Passage Two
There
are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term.
Information in long-term memory can be recalled
at a later time when it is needed. The
information may be kept for days or weeks. In
contrast, information in
short-term memory is
kept for only a few seconds, usually by repeating
the information over and over. The
following
experiment shows how short-term memory has been
studied.
Henning studied how students who are
learning English as a second language remember
vocabulary. The
subjects in his experiment
were 75 college students. They represented all
levels of ability in English: beginning,
intermediate, advanced, and native speaking
students.
To begin with, the subjects listened
to recording of a native speaker reading a
paragraph in English.
Following the recording,
the subjects took a 17-question test to see which
words they remembered. Each question
had four
choices. The subjects had to circle the word they
had heard in the recording. Some of the questions
had
four choices that sound alike. For
example, weather, whether, wither, and wetter are
four words that sound alike.
Some of the
questions had four choices that have the same
meaning. Method, way, manner, and system would be
four words with the same meaning. Finally, the
subjects took a language proficiency test.
Henning found that students with a lower
proficiency in English made more of their mistakes
on words that
have the same meaning. Henning’s
results suggest that beginning students hold the
sound of words in their
short-term memory, and
advanced students hold the meaning of words in
their short-term memory.
66. The purpose of
Henning’s experiment is to study ______. ( )
A. how the students remember English
vocabulary by short-term memory
B. how the
students learn English vocabulary
C. how to
improve the students’ English vocabulary
D.
how to take a language proficiency test
67.
The word “subject” in the passage most probably
means ______. ( )
A. the college course
the students take
C. something being
considered
B. the topic of the listening
material
D. the students experimented on
68. Which of the following statements is TRUE
according to the passage? ( )
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A. Information in
short-term memory is different from that in long-
term memory.
B. Long-term memory can be
achieved only by training.
C. It is easier to
test short-term memory than long-term memory.
D. Henning gave a test on vocabulary to his
students.
69. From Henning’s results we can
see that ______. ( )
A. beginners have
difficulty distinguishing the pronunciation of
words
B. advanced students remember words by
their meaning
C. it is difficult to remember
words that sound alike
D. it is difficult to
remember words that have the same meaning
70.
The passage is primarily about ______. ( )
A. memory
C. short-term memory
B. two
kinds of memory
D. an experiment on students
Passage Three
Study confirms that moderate
drinking reduces stroke (中风) risk. Similar to the
way a drink or two a day
protects against
heart attacks, moderate alcohol consumption wards
off strokes, a new study found.
The study also
found that the type of alcohol consumed—beer, wine
or liquor—was unimportant. Any of
them, or a
combination was protective, researchers reported
in today’s Journal of the American Medical
Association. “No study has shown benefit in
recommending alcohol to those who do not drink”,
cautioned the
authors, led by Dr. Ralph L.
Sacco of Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons in New York. But
the new data
support the guidelines of the National Stroke
Association, which say moderate drinkers may
protect
themselves from strokes by continuing
to consume alcohol, the authors said.
The
protective effect of moderate drinking against
heart attacks is well established, but the data
had been
conflicting about alcohol and
strokes, the authors said. The new study helps
settle the question and is the first to
find
blacks and Hispanics (西班牙人和葡萄牙人) benefit as well
as whites, according to the authors. Further
research is needed among other groups, such as
Asian, who past study suggested may get no stroke
protection
from alcohol or may even be put at
greater risk.
Among the groups where the
protective effect exists, its mechanism appears to
differ from the protective
effect against
heart attacks, which occurs through boosts in
levels of so-called “good” cholesterol (胆固醇), the
authors said. They speculated alcohol might
protect against stroke by acting on some other
blood trait, such as the
tendency of blood
platelets (血小板) to clump (结块), which is key in
forming the blood clots (血块) that can
cause
strokes.
The researchers studied 677 New York
residents who lived in the northern part of
Manhattan and had strokes
between July 1, 1993
and June, 1997. After taking into account
differences in other factors that could affect
stroke
risk, such as high blood pressure, the
researchers estimated that subjects who consumed
up to two alcoholic drinks
daily were only
half as likely to have suffered clot-type strokes
as nondrinkers. Clot-type strokes account for 80%
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of
all strokes, a leading cause of the US deaths and
disability. Stroke risk increased with heavier
drinking. At
seven drinks per day, risk was
almost triple that of moderate drinkers.
An
expert spokesman for the American Heart
Association, who was not involved in the study,
said it was
well-done and important
information. But it shouldn’t be interpreted to
mean, “I can have two drinks and
therefore not
worry about my high blood pressure or worry about
my cholesterol,” said Dr. Edgar J. Kenton, an
associate professor of clinical neurology
(神经学) at Thomas Jefferson University Medical
College in
Philadelphia. Instead, he said, the
study provides good reason to do further research
and to add alcohol to the list
of modifiable
(可更改的) risk factors for stroke.
71. According
to Dr. Sacco, ______. ( )
A. different
wines work differently on drinkers at stroke risk
B. nondrinkers should also consume a moderate
amount of alcohol
C. drinkers should keep to
one kind of alcohol to ward off strokes
D.
moderate alcohol consumption protects against
strokes
72. The new study conducted by Dr.
Sacco and his colleagues is unique in that (
)
A. it refutes early studies on the
protective effect of moderate drinking against
heart attacks
B. it confirms early studies of
moderate drinking against heart attacks
C. it
helps to resolve the disputes over the effect of
moderate drinking against strokes
D. it finds
that moderate drinking can benefit people of
different races equally well
73. Which of the
following statements is TRUE about the effect of
drinking against strokes? ( )
A. Moderate
drinking protects against heart attacks and
strokes in different ways.
B. Even heavy
drinkers suffer less chance of a stroke than
nondrinkers.
C. Alcohol works only on patients
who suffer clot-type strokes.
D. White people
are more likely to benefit from moderate drinking
than nonwhites.
74. From the fourth paragraph
we learn that ______. ( )
A. heart
attacks are more likely caused y alcohol than
stroke.
B. moderate drinking discourages blood
platelets from clotting.
C. boosting the
levels of good cholesterol can lead to heart
attacks.
D. moderate drinking protects people
by making the blood cell clump.
75. What is
said in the last paragraph by Dr. Kenton indicates
that ______. ( )
A. he is in serious
doubt about the validity of the study.
B.
drinking alone can not protect against strokes.
C. people should add alcohol to their daily
diet.
D. the study has not built a link
between drinking and high blood pressure.
Passage Four
Communications technologies
are far from equal when it comes to conveying the
truth. The first study to
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compare honesty
across a range of communications media has found
that people are twice as likely to tell lies in
phone conversations as they are in emails. The
fact that emails are automatically recorded - and
can come back to
haunt (困扰) you - appears to
be the key to the finding.
Jeff Hancock of
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30
students to keep a communications diary
for a
week. In it they noted the number of conversations
or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10
minutes, and confessed to how many lies they
told. Hancock then worked out the number of lies
per conversation
for each medium. He found
that lies made up 14 per cent of emails, 21 per
cent of instant messages, 27 per cent of
face-
to-face interactions and an astonishing 37 per
cent of phone calls.
His results, to be
presented at the conference on human-computer
interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April,
have
surprised psychologists. Some expected emailers to
be the biggest liars, reasoning that because
deception (欺
骗) makes people uncomfortable, the
detachment (非直接接触)of emailing would make it easier
to lie. Others
expected people to lie more in
face-to-face exchanges because we are most
practiced at that form of
communication.
But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a
conversation is being recorded and could be
reread, and
whether it occurs in real time.
People appear to be afraid to lie when they know
the communication could later be
used to hold
them to account, he says. This is why fewer lies
appear in email than on the phone.
People are
also more likely to lie in real time — in an
instant message or phone call,say — than if they
have time to think of a response, says
Hancock. He found many lies are spontaneous
(脱口而出的) responses to
an unexpected demand,
such as: “Do you like my dress?”
Hancock hopes
his research will help companies work out the best
ways for their employees to communicate.
For
instance, the phone might be the best medium for
sales where employees are encouraged to stretch
the truth.
But given his results, work
assessment, where honesty is a priority, might be
best done using email.
76. Hancock’s study
focuses on ______. ( )
A. the
consequences of lying in various communications
media
B. the success of communications
technologies in conveying ideas
C. people’s
preferences in selecting communications
technologies
D. people’s honesty levels across
a range of communications media
77. Hancock’s
research finding surprised those who believed that
______. ( )
A. people are less likely to
lie in instant messages
B. people are unlikely
to lie in face-to-face interactions
C. people
are most likely to lie in email communication
D. people are twice as likely to lie in phone
conversations
78. According to the passage,
why are people more likely to tell the truth
through certain media of communication?
(
)
A. They are afraid of leaving behind traces
of their lies.
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B. They believe that honesty is the best
policy.
C. They tend to be relaxed when using
those media.
D. They are most practiced at
those forms of communication.
79. According to
Hancock, the telephone is a preferable medium for
promoting sales because______. ( )
A.
salesmen can talk directly to their customers
B. salesmen may feel less restrained to
exaggerate
C. salesmen can impress customers
as being trustworthy
D. salesmen may pass on
instant messages effectively
80. It can be
inferred from the passage that ______. ( )
A. honesty should be encouraged in
interpersonal communications
B. more employers
will use emails to communicate with their
employees
C. suitable media should be chosen
for different communication purposes
D. email
is now the dominant medium of communication within
a company
Part IV Translation (15%)
Directions A: Translate the following into
Chinese.
81. Before the campaign for election
of the President can begin, each political party
has to choose its candidate for
the
Presidency.
82. It remains to be seen if the
American automobile industry will ever again
regain its former glory.
Directions B:
Translate the following into English
83.
中国加入世界贸易组织,给农业发展带来的不仅仅是挑战,而且也是机遇。
84.
汉语是中国各民族共同使用的语言,联合国正式语言和工作语言之一。
85.
科学的发展已进入信息时代、核能时代、太空时代和生命科学时代。
Part V Writing
(15%)
ions: Write a composition on the topic:
Overseas Study at an Early Age. You should write
at least
150 words following the outline given
below:
(1) 目前很多父母在子女高中毕业前就送他们出国学习
(2)
形成这种趋势的原因
(3) 我对此的看法
浙江省2009年7月自学考试高级英语试题
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