高级英语期末考试卷.pdf

四川外语学院2005 2006 学年第 一 学期高级英语期末考试试卷（A）考试时间：120 分钟系部：英语语言文化系年级：2003 级班级：I.Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words and phrases.I.Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words and phrases.(10%)(10%)appeal topress forwardin the long runwithdraw fromto the utmostat oddskeep abreast ofdevoid ofin due courseinsistent on1.The child seems to be quite _ any sense of right or wrong.Notsurprising really when you think what his parents are like.2.With that possibility in mind,I shall find the murderer _.3.Modern liberalism is fundamentally _ _ with democratic governmentbecause it demands results that ordinary people would not freely choose.4.In the extension of medical services to all the people,the qualified medical andhospital facilities already established are utilized _.5.Moving to Spain will be better for you _ _.6.Farmers have _ the government for help.7.A great many worries can _ him _ active participation in work andlife.8.So much is happening in the world of science that its difficult to _ allthe latest developments.9.Those individualsand companies confined to all-domesticoperations aremost likely to suffer by lower prices and have been among those most_ tariff protection.10.What happened today does nothing to diminish it.We must _ onmanned space mission.II.II.ParaphraseParaphrase thethe followingfollowing sentences,sentences,especiallyespecially payingpaying attentionattention toto thetheunderlined part.underlined part.（20%20%）1.The plutonium would then be vaporized and released into the environment;andthere goes Florida.(Jenny Clanton)2.Two failures in nine trips are great in baseball,but not when were dealing withnuclear payloads.(Jenny Clanton)3.If a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion,let both sidesjoin in creating a new endeavor(John F.Kennedy)4.to remember that in the past,those who foolishly sought power by riding theback of the tiger ended up inside.(John F.Kennedy)5.And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the masterof its own house.(John F.Kennedy)6.Let us redouble our exertions,and strike with united strength while life and powerremain.(Winston Churchill)7.All this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding.(WinstonChurchill)8.The scene will be clear for the final act,without which all his conquests will be invain.(Winston Churchill)9.affection which is received should liberate the affection which is to be given,andonly where both exist in equal measure does affection achieve its best possibilities.(Bertrand Russell)10.Evidently this springs from some defect in their nature,but it is one not altogethereasy either to diagnose or to cure.(Bertrand Russell)III.Point out the rhetorical device in the underlined part of each sentence andIII.Point out the rhetorical device in the underlined part of each sentence andwrite your answers on the answer sheet.Only one item can be chosen for eachwrite your answers on the answer sheet.Only one item can be chosen for eachsentence.(10%)sentence.(10%)personificationmetonymyrhetoricquestiononomatopoeiaantithesistransferred epithetmetaphorparallelismalliterationsimile1.She was,to be sure,a girl who excited the emotions,but I was not one to let myheart rule my head.2.I like all the small noises of a ship:the faint creaking,the slap of a rope,the hissof sudden spray.3.It is,after all,easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an uglysmart girl beautiful.4.No one,least of all I,anticipated that my case would snowball into one of themost famous trials in U.S.history.5.But above all I love these longpurposeless days in which I shed all that I haveever been.6.It was that population and rushing them through with a magnificentdash anddaring and recklessness of cost or consequences.7.There lies before us,if we choose,continual progress in happiness,knowledge,and wisdom.Shall we,instead,choose death,because we cannot forget ourquarrels?8.I now stood on the site of the first atomic bombardment,where thousands uponthousands of people had been slain in one second,where thousands uponthousands of others had lingered on to die in slow agony,where thousands uponthousands of cities had vanished in sorrow and tears.9.The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade.10.A moment later,the hurricane in one mighty swipe,lifted the entire roof off thehouse and skimmed it 40 feet through the air.IVIV.Proofreading(10%).Proofreading(10%)(see“Answer Sheet”)(see“Answer Sheet”)V V Reading comprehension(25%)Reading comprehension(25%)Passage 1Passage 1Failure is probably the most fatiguing experience a person ever has.There isnothing more enervating than not succeedingbeing blocked,not moving ahead.It isa vicious circle.Failure breeds fatigue,and the fatigue makes it harder to get to work,which compounds the failure.We experience this tiredness in two main ways:asstart-up fatigue and performance fatigue.In the former case,we keep putting off atask that we are under some compulsions to discharge.Either because it is too tediousor because it is too difficult,we shirk it.And the longer we postpone it,the more tiredwe feel.Such start-up fatigue is very real,even if not actually physical,not something inour muscles and bones.The remedy is obvious,though perhaps not easy to apply,anexertion of will power.The moment I find myself turning away from a job,or puttingit under a pile of other things I have to do,I clear my desk of every thing else andattach the objectionable item first.To prevent start-up fatigue,always tackle the mostdifficult job first.Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle.Here we are not reluctant to getstarted but we cannot seem to do the job right.Its difficulties appear insurmountableand however hard we work,we fail again and again.The mounting experience offailure carries with it an ever-increasing burden of mental fatigue.In such a situation,I work as hard as I canthen let the unconscious take over.1.Which of the following can be called a vicious circle?A.Success-zeal-success-zealB.Failure-tiredness-failure-tirednessC.Failure-zeal-failure-zealD.Success-exhaustion-success-exhaustion2.According to the passage,when we keep putting off a task,we canexperience_.A.tirednessB.performance fatigueC.start-up fatigueD.unconsciousness3.To overcome start-up fatigue,we need _.A.toughnessB.preventionC.musclesD.strong willpower4.The word“insurmountable”in the last paragraph probably means _.A.that cannot be solvedB.that cannot be understoodC.that cannot be imaginedD.that cannot be objected5.According to the passage,which of the following statement is not true?A.It is easier to overcome start-up fatigueB.Performance fatigue occurs when the job we are willing to take gets blocked.C.One will finally succeed after experiencing the vicious circleD.Fatigue often accompanies failurePassage 2Passage 2Every minute of every day,whatecologist James Carlton-an oceanographer atWilliams College in Williamstown,Mass.-calls a global conveyor beltredistributes ocean organisms.Its planet wide biological disruption that scientistshave barely begun to understand.These creatures move from coastal waters wherethey fit into the local web of life to places where some of them could tear that webapart.This is the larger dimension of the infamous invasion of fish-destroying,pipe-clogging zebra mussels.What concerns Carlton and his fellow marine ecologists is the lack of knowledgeabout the hundreds of alien invaders that quietly enter coastal waters around the worldevery day.Whats new is the scale and speed of the migrations made possible by themassive volume of ship-ballast water,continuously moving around the worldShips load up with ballast water and its inhabitants in coastal waters of one portand dump the ballast in another port that may be thousands of kilometers away.Asingle load can run to hundreds of gallons.Some larger ships take on as much as 40million gallons.The creatures that come along tend to be in their larva freefloatingstage.When discharged in alien waters they can mature into crabs,jellyfish,slugs,and many other forms.Since the problem involves coastal species,simply banning ballast dumps incoastal waters would,in theory,solve it.Coastal organisms in ballast water that isflushed into midocean would not survive.Such a ban has worked for North AmericanInland Waterway.But it would be hard to enforce it worldwide.Heating ballast wateror straining it should also halt the species spread.But before any such worldwideregulations were imposed,scientists would need a clearer view of what is going on.The continuous shuffling of marine organisms has changed the biology of the seaon a global scale.It can have devastating effects as in the case of the American combjellyfish that recently invaded the Black Sea.It has destroyed that seas anchovyfishery by eating anchovy eggs.It may soon spread to western and northern Europeanwaters.The maritime nations that created the biological conveyor belt should support acoordinated international effort to find out what is going on and what should be doneabout it.6.According to Dr.Carlton,ocean organisms are _.A.being moved to new environments.B.destroying the planet.C.succumbing to the zebra mussel.D.developing alien characteristics.7.Oceanographers are concerned because _.A.their knowledge of this phenomenon is limited.B.they believe the oceans are dying.C.they fear an invasion from outer-space.D.they have identified thousands of alien webs.8.It can be inferred from the article that banning ballast dumps in coastalwaters proved successful in _.A.North American Inland WaterwayB.the globeC.EuropeD.America9.According to Marine ecologists,transplanted marine species _.A.are all compatible with one another.B.may upset the ecosystems of coastal waters.C.can only survive in their home waters.D.sometimes disrupt shipping lanes.10.The identified cause of the problem is _.A.the rapidity with which larvae mature.B.a common practice of the shipping industry.C.a centuries old species.D.the world wide movement of ocean currents.11.The article suggests that a solution to the problem _.A.is unlikely to be identified.B.must precede further research.C.is hypothetically easy.D.will limit global shipping.Passage 3The United Nation Conference on Drug Abuse that took place earlier this year inVienna,was a very productive meeting.As never before,the nations of the worlddemonstrated a willingness to put aside ideological and individual differences toconfront a common threat.Most previous international gatherings on this subject have not seen the sameintensity of delegate interest.Many nations have gone through a shock of recognition.A decade ago,only those nations identified as consuming countries were thought tohave a serious drug problem.Today,not only have many producing countries alsobecome consuming countries but many have missed the growth within their bordersof drug trafficking gangs(often allied with terrorists)so powerful they present adanger to the states stability.Many developing countries now have the worst ofboth worlds,in that they grow their own narcotics and addict large number of theirown people.There is a growing sense of fright in many governments that matters areout of control and the single way to recover is through cooperation with othercountries.The high points of the conference were the drafting of two documents,bothofwhich were adopted without a dissenting vote.One was a joint declaration of intent tocombat drug abuse and trafficking.The other consisted of many derailed suggestionsfor particular regional and national policies.On the demand side,the delegates recommended the establishment of a systemfor collecting information on the nature and scope of narcotics use.In addition,drugeducation should be taught in schools and governments and labor organizationsshould act together in the anti-drug campaign inthe work place.The delegates alsorecommended strict adherence to international agreements to curb the supply ofnarcotics.President Ronald Reagan,in his statement to the conference,reflected a somberbut hopeful view.Noting the magnitude of the effort necessary,the Presidentremarked,Thats why this conference is so encouraging and so important-itpresents an excellent opportunity for the nations of the world to build cooperation andplan effective strategies and tactics.It wont be easy.The alternative,however,is thecontinued internal decay of our societies.12.Striking feature of the UN Conference on Drug Abuse is that _.A.the delegates were unprecedentedly unanimous in their attempt to control drugabuseB.the conference touched upon many issues in the world.C.it was held by many countries.D.two documents were signed.13.Many countries are shocked to find that _.A.consuming countries are confronting a serious drug problemB.drug trafficking gangs are often allied with terroristsC.drug problem has become more serious than everD.drug abuse if undermining their government14.According to the passage,which of the following is true?A.only those consuming countries are thought to have a serious drug problemB.the nations of the world do not have a consensus to find against drug problems.C.The United Nation Conference on Drug Abuse in Vienna was not veryproductive.D.The most important result of the United Nation Conference on Drug Abuse inVienna was the drafting of two important documents.15.Many countries have realized that the single way to control drugs is through_.A.cooperation in the developed countriesB.cooperation in the developing countriesC.domestic policiesD.world-wide cooperation16.According to the passage the drug problem for the developing countries is themost serious because _.A.they lack necessary funding to curb drug abuseB.they are both producing and consuming countries of drugsC.they are not efficient in their attempt to combat drug abuseD.they have not enlisted support from developed countries17.The delegates seemed to lack confidence in _.A.curbing the demand for dangerous drugsB.destroying the process of distributionC.establishing system for collecting information about drug abuse.D.persuading people not to take drugs18.According to the passage President Reagan _.A.pointed out that the effort to combat drug abuse was inestimableB.expressed his doubt about the possibility of international agreementC.suggested that if drug abuse is not curbed,world civilization will degenerateD.said that the conference was encouraging and important because internationalcooperation is necessary.Passage 4For much of the world,the deathof Richard Nixon was the end of a complexpublic life.But researchers who study bereavement wondered if it didnt also signifythe end of a private grief.Had the former president merely run his allotted fourscoreand one,or had he fallen victim to a pattern that seems to afflict longtime marriedcouples:one spouse quickly following the other to the grave?Pat,Nixons wife of 53 years,died last June after a long illness.No one knowsfo