高级英语(二)期末A 试卷

2021年1月22日发(作者：傅承义)
郑州大学西亚斯学院
2011-2012
学年第二学期

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考试科目：高级英语（二）

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Part I

(10 points, 1 point for each)

Word explanation. Explain the italicized words.


1.

However
intricate

the
ways
in
which
animals
communicate
with
each
other,
they do not indulge in anything that deserves the name of conversation.

2.

This much we
pledge
—
and more.

3.

New York
was never a
good
convention
city, but
it
is
making
something of a
comeback
as a tourist attraction.

4.

Nature
’
s pleasures are much
qualified
in New York.

5.

Youth was faced with the challenge of bringing our
mores
up to date.

6.

Meanwhile, the true intellectuals were
far from flattered
.

7.

The
scene
was
so
hideous
that
it
reduced
the
whole
aspiration

of
man
to
a
macabre joke.

8.

Red brick, even in a steel town,
ages
with some dignity.

9.

The conversation had
swung
from Australian convicts of the 19
th
century to the
English peasants of the 12
th
century.

10.

The cars wouldn
’
t start, and the electrical systems had been
killed
by water.


Part II

(20 points, 2 points for each)









Paraphrase. Write the answers down on the answer sheet.


1.

The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict
building-lot.

2.

The charm of conversation is that it does not really start from anywhere, and
no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or
just glows.

3.

So let us remember on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and
sincerity is always subject to proof.

4.

The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills.

5.

It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of
horror.

6.

No
aspect
of
life
in
the
Twenties
has
been
more
commented
upon
and
sensationally
romanticized
than
the
so-called
Revolt
of
the
Younger
Generation.

7.

They
had
outgrown
town
and
families
and
had
developed
a
sudden
bewildering
world-weariness
which
neither
they
nor
their
relatives
could
understand.

8.

No longer so looked up to or copied, New York even prides itself on being a
holdout from prevailing American trends.

9.

A
testing
of
oneself,
a
fear
of
giving
in
to
the
most
banal
and
marketable
of
one
’
s talents, still draws many of the young to New York.

10.

There is always a danger that
“
words will harden into things for us
”
.


Part III (20 points, 2 points for each)





Translation.
Translate
the
following
sentences
into
Chinese
and
English
respectively. Write your translations down on the answer sheet.


1.

The larger children sprawled on the floor, with the smaller ones in a layer on
top
of
them,
and
the
adults
bent
over
them.
The
floor
tilted.
The
box
containing the litter of kittens slid off a shelf and vanished in the wind.

2.

They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they
sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that
they are gone. And even the graves themselves soon fade back into the soil.

3.

We
observe
today
not
a
victory
of
party
but
a
celebration
of
freedom,
symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.

4.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of
our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His
help, but knowing that here on earth God
’
s work must truly be our own.

5.

The condescending view from the fiftieth floor of the city
’
s crowds below cuts
these people off from humanity. So does an attitude which sees the public only
in terms of large, malleable numbers.

6.

多样化使纽约这个城市多姿多彩，变幻无穷。漫步 纽约，你会不断体验不
同的风情和风味。你可以去许多各具特色的地方吃饭和购物。

7.

青年人的叛逆行为是随着第一次世界大战开始的。
1915
年 到
1916
年间的
僵持局面，
德国对美国傲慢无礼的态度以及美国政府迟迟不 愿宣战的做法，
都使美国所有理想主义的公民觉得无法忍受。

8.

他的神情完全出乎我的意料，不含敌意，也不带轻蔑，更不是愠怒，甚至
谈不上好奇。那是一种腼腆的 黑人的目光，是一种表示深厚敬意的目光。

9.

这里正是工业化美国的心 脏，是其最赚钱、最典型的活动中心，世上最富
有、最伟大国家的骄傲与自豪——可这里的景象却如此丑 陋可怕，让人无
法忍受。

10.

人类自有文化就有文化交流。人 类文化从整体来说，是各国、各民族文化
汇聚、交流的产物。现代国际间的文化交流，更是以空前的规模 、内容、
形式和手段，在直接或间接地进行着。

Part IV (10 points, 1 point for each)

Identify
the
rhetorical
devices
used
in
the
following
sentences.
Write
the
answers down on the answer sheet.


1.

Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.

2.

Even with the most educated and the most lit
erate, the King’s English slips and
slides in conversation.

3.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.

4.

United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided,
there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds
and split asunder.

5.

I was not one to let my heart rule my head.

6.

This loomed as a project of no small dimensions.

7.

The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian
social structure.

8.

But since the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring
of the dollar, there was little remedy for the sensitive mind but to emigrate to
Europe.

9.

The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town.

10.

Let us bear in mind the possibility of devising a painless, sudden and dignified
death.


Part V

(30 points, 2 points for each)








Reading comprehension. Read the following passages and then choose the right
answer
to
each
question
given
below.
Then
write
your
choices
down
on
the
answer sheet.


Passage 1

A total of

million digital televisions have been sold, and the sales of HDTV
sets have quadrupled since last year. Consumers have bought HDTVs to play their
DVDs and to have clearer pictures and wide screens. Only a small percentage of
the people who have purchased HDTVs, however, have actually hooked their TVs
up to receive high-definition
television
digital
signals.
Perhaps
television viewers
are
having
trouble
keeping
up
with
the
changes
in
technology.
Even
the
manufacturers
of
HDTVs,
like
Mitsubishi,
Thomson
Multimedia,
Sony,
and
Samsung seem to have a tough time learning how to make their sets work with
the various digital TV formats because little standardization has been required or
implemented in the industry.

Some
of
the
HDTVs
weigh
over
200
lbs.,
and
a
variety
of
retailers
offer
a
delivery service to the buyer
’
s home to help install the heavy sets. This is known as
a white-glove service and usually comes with an extra fee. After HDTV purchasers
get
their
sets
home
and
hook
them
up,
they
will
still
need
to
work
to
get
the
digital signals to their systems. Most of the industry
’
s cable providers do not yet
offer high-definition programming, and only about 15% of commercial television
stations have switched over to even the lowest improved digital pictures. Worse
yet,
viewers
may
need
to
install
antenna
before
they
can
even
get
the
digital
signals
to
their
new
HDTV
sets.
Another
frustration
for
home-theater
seekers
is
that the current HDTV sets allow owners only to watch high-definition programs,
not to record them.


1.

“
Hook
up
”

as
in
“
hooked
their
TVs
up
”

underlined
in
Paragraph
1
most
probably means to










.

A.

have a hood over the TV

B.

be connected to

C.

relate oneself to

D.

keep contact with


2.

A
majority
of
HDTV
consumers
could
not
enjoy
high-quality
digital
pictures
because










.

A.

they did not tune in to the right channel

B.

they did not install the system

C.

the market retailers created the confusion on purpose

D.

the manufacturers did not have a uniform standard for their sets


3.

According
to
the
passage,
which
of
the
following
offers
most
of
the
HDTV
programs so far

A.

Retailer delivery services.

B.

Cable providers.

C.

Commercial television stations.

D.

HDTV set manufacturers.