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精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上郑州大学西亚斯学院2011-2012学年第二学期 试卷（供 2009/2011 级 外语学院 商务英语本科/专升本 专业使用）考试科目：高级英语（二） 试卷类型： A 备注：（ ）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 pledgeand more.3. New York was never a good convention city, but it is making something of a comeback as a tourist attraction.4. Natures 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 19th century to the English peasants of the 12th century.10. The cars wouldnt 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 ones 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.专心-专注-专业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 Gods work must truly be our own.5. The condescending view from the fiftieth floor of the citys 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 literate, the Kings 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 1A total of 4.6 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 buyers 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 industrys 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 TVB. be connected toC. relate oneself toD. keep contact with2. A majority of HDTV consumers could not enjoy high-quality digital pictures because .A. they did not tune in to the right channelB. they did not install the systemC. the market retailers created the confusion on purposeD. the manufacturers did not have a uniform standard for their sets3. 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.4. On the whole, this passage is positioned to talk about .A. the overall picture of the HDTV sectorB. how the giant TV makers should offer better productsC. a lament over consumers inability to use a high-end TV setD. a criticism of the TV makers for doing nothing about a big problemPassage 2William Sydney Porter (1861-1910), who wrote under the pseudonym of O. Henry, was born in North Carolina. His only formal education was to attend his Aunt Linas school until the age of fifteen, where he developed his lifelong love of books. By 1881 he was a licensed pharmacist. However, within a year, on the recommendation of a medical colleague of his Fathers, Porter moved to La Salle County in Texas for two years herding sheep. During this time, Websters unabridged Dictionary was his constant companion, and Porter gained a knowledge of ranch life that he later incorporated into way of his short stories. He then moved to Austin for three years, and during this time the first recorded use of his pseudonym appeared, allegedly derived from his habit of calling “Oh, Henry” to a family cat. In 1887, Porter married Athol Estes. He worked as a draftsman, then as a bank teller for the First National Bank.In 1894, Porter founded his own humor weekly, the “Rolling Stone”, a venture that failed within a year, and later wrote a column for the Houston Daily Post. In the meantime, the First National Bank was examined, and the subsequent indictment of 1886 stated that Porter had embezzled funds. Porter then fled to New Orleans, and later to Honduras, leaving his wife and child in Austin. He returned in 1897 because of his wifes continued ill-health; however she died six months later. Then, in 1898 Porter was found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment in Ohio. At the age of thirty five, he entered prison as a defeated man; he had lost his job, his home, his wife and finally his freedom. He emerged from prison three years later, reborn as O. Henry, the pseudonym now used to hide his true identity. He wrote at least twelve stories in jail, and after re-gaining his freedom, went to New York City, where he published more than 300 stories and gained fame as Americas favorite short story writer. Porter married again in 1907, but after months of poor health, he died in New York City at the age of forty-eight in 1910. O. Henrys stories have been translated all over the world.5. Why did the author write the passage?A. Because it is a tragic story of a gifted writer.B. To outline the career of a famous American.C. Because of his fame as Americas favorite short story writer.D. To outline the influences on O. Henrys writing.6. According to the passage, Porters father was .A. responsible for his move to La Salle County in TexasB. the person who gave him a life-long love booksC. a medical doctorD. a licensed pharmacist7. The word “allegedly” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to .A. supposedlyB. reportedlyC. wronglyD. mistakenly8. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Both of Porters wives died before he died.B. Porter left school at 15 to become a pharmacist.C. Porter wrote a column for the Houston Daily Post called “Rolling Stone”.D. The first recorded use of his pseudonym was in Austin.Passage 3A strange thing about humans is their capacity for blind rage. Rage is presumably an emotion resulting from survival instinct, but the surprising thing about it is that we do not deploy it against other animals. If we encounter a dangerous wild animal - a poisonous snake or a wild cat - we do not fly into a temper. If we are unarmed, we show fear and attempt to back away; if we are suitably armed, we attack, but in a rational manner not in a rage. We reserve rage for our own species. It is hard to see any survival value in attacking ones own, but if we take account of the long competition, which must have existed between our own subspecies and others like Neanderthal man - indeed others still more remote from us than Neanderthal man- human rage becomes more comprehensible.In our everyday language and behavior there are many reminders of those early struggles. We are always using the words “us and them”. “Our” side is perpetually trying to do down the “other” side. In games we artificially create other subspecies we can attack. The opposition of “us” and “them” is the touchstone of the two-party system of “democratic” politics. Although there are no very serious consequences to many of these modern psychological representations of the “us and them” emotion, it is as well to remember that the original aim was not to beat the other subspecies in a game but to exterminate it.The readiness with which humans allow themselves to be regimented has permitted large armies to be formed, which, taken together with the “us and them” blind rage, has led to destructive clashes within our subspecies itself. The First World War is an example in which Europe divided itself into two imaginary subspecies. And there is a similar extermination battle now in Northern Ireland. The idea that there is a religious basis for this clash is illusory, for not even the Pope has been able to control it. The clash is much more primitive than the Christian religion, much older in its emotional origin. The conflict in Ireland is unlikely to stop until a greater primitive fear is imposed from outside the community, or until the combatants become exhausted.9. A suitable title for this passage would be _ _.A. Why Human Armies Are Formed B. Mans Anger Against RageC. The Human Capacity for RageD. Early Struggles of Angry Man10. According to the author, the surprising aspect of human anger is .A. its lengthy and complex developmentB. a conflict such as is now going on in Northern IrelandC. that we do not fly into a temper more oftenD. that we reserve anger for mankind11. The passage suggests that .A. historically, we have created an “us” versus “them” societyB. humans have had a natural disinclination toward formal groupingC. the First World War is an example of how man has always avoided dominationD. the emotional origin of the war in Ireland is lost in time12. The author believes that a religious explanation for the war in Northern Ireland is .A. founded in historical factB. deceptiveC. apparentD. probably accuratePassage 4Art, like words, is a form of communications. Words, spoken and written, render accessible to humans of the latest generation all the knowledge discovered by the experience and reflection, both of preceding generations and of the best and foremost minds of their own times. Art renders accessible to people of the latest generations all the feelings experienced by their predecessors, and those already felt by their best and foremost contemporaries. Just as the evolution of knowledge proceeds by dislodging and replacing that which is mistaken, so too the evolution of feeling proceeds through art. Feelings less kind and less necessary for the well-being of humankind are replaced by others kinder and more essential to that end. This is the purpose of art, and the more art fulfills that purpose, the better the art; the less it fulfills it, the worse the art.1