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1、Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.-author-date高级英语写作试卷及答案高级英语写作试卷及答案高级英语英语写作试卷 I.Combine the following sentences in each set below into a single sentence, using either dependent clauses or phrases. (52 points)1a. The doctor was tak

2、ing the patients temperature. b. Suddenly a rock came crashing through the window. Answer:_2a. The fraternity members all over campus carried banners. b. They matched back and forth tirelessly.c. Their signs called for an end for building nuclear reactors.Answer:_3 a. The scientific establishment be

3、lieves that the earth was formed 1015 billion years ago b. It was formed after an explosion. c. This explosion set the universe in motion.Answer:_4 a Quite a few years ago a stranger came in and bought our small valley. b. This is where the redwood grew. c. At that time I was living in a little town

4、. d. The little town was on the west coastAnswer:_5 a. Most people believed that the earth was roughly 6000 years old.b. This idea was based on the information on the Bible.c. It was accepted until the beginning of the 19th century.d. At that time geologists and naturalists began to suspect somethin

5、g.e. What they suspected was that the earth must have existed for a longer period of time.Answer:_II Fill in the blanks with the necessary particles. (101 point)1. Go to bed at once. You look done _ _ and worn _ _.2. Nobody really expected him to get _ _that illness.3. It took a long time, but at la

6、st the enemy was beaten_ _.4. She was almost frozen when she came back. She sat still, sipping a cup of coffee, letting the blessed warmth of it reach _ _her body.5. If I stay in this place much longer Ill go _ _ my head.6. I hadnt seen him for five years and then I ran _ _ him yesterday at the barb

7、ers.7. Weve finished _ _ this book, so you can keep it if you like.8. He let _ _ his breath as soon as he saw that the aircraft was safely down on the earth.9. The manager says that we cant take_ _any new orders till weve deal _ _ the ones we have in hand.10. Mr. Smith hasnt got a phone on his desk

8、but if youll hold _ _a moment Ill bring him to this one.III Reading the following passages and answer the questions set on them. (10 points) I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment for the Common wealth and church, to have vigilant eyes how books demean themselves as well as men; and ther

9、eafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as male- factors. For books are not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are: nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that livi

10、ng intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons teeth, and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man ki

11、lls a reasonable creature, Gods image, but he who destroy a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.Questions: What is the central idea of this passage? How does the author develop this idea? Answer_ It is not the mere addition to our knowledge that is the illu

12、mination; but the locomotion, the movement onwards, of that mental centre, to which both what we know, and what we are learning, the accumulating mass of our acquirements, gravitates. And therefore a truly great intellect, and recognized to be such by the common opinion of mankind, such as the intel

13、lect of Aristotle, or of St. Thomas, or of Newton, or of Goethe is one which takes a connected view of old and new, past and present, far and near, and which has an insight into the influence of all these one on another; without which there is no whole, and no centre. It possesses the knowledge, not

14、 only of things, but also of their mutual and true relations; knowledge, not merely considered as acquirement, but as philosophy. Accordingly, when this analytical, distributive, harmonizing process is away, the mind experiences no enlargement, and is not reckoned as enlightened or comprehensive, wh

15、atever it may add to its knowledge. For instance, a great memory, as I have already said, does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called a grammar. There are men who embrace in their minds a vast multitude of ideas, but with little sensibility about their real relations toward

16、s each other. These may be antiquarians, annalists, naturalists; they may be learned in the law; they may be versed in statistics; they are most useful in their own place; I should shrink from speaking disrespectfully of them; still, there is nothing in such attainments to guarantee the absence of n

17、arrowness of mind. If they are nothing more than well-read men, or men of information, they have not what specially deserves the name of culture of mind, or fulfils the type of Liberal Education.Questions: What is the central idea of this passage? How does the author develop this idea?Answer_IV. The

18、 following expository Chinese passage uses analogy to persuade the readers to show gumption before adversity, equanimity after misfortune. Translate it into English, using proper English hypotactic syntactic devicessubordination of clauses and phrases. （20 points）人类在历史上的生活正好像旅行一样，旅途上的征人所经过的地方，有时是坦荡平

19、原，有时是崎岖险路。志于旅途的人，走到平坦的地方，固是高高兴兴地向前走，走到崎岖的境界，愈是奇趣横生，觉得在此奇绝壮绝的境界，愈能感得一种冒险的美趣。中华民族现在所逢的史路，是一段崎岖险阻的道路。在这一段道路上，实在亦有一种奇绝壮绝的境致，使我们经过此段道路的人，感到一种壮美的趣味。但这种壮美的趣味，是非有雄健的精神的，不能够感觉到的。我们的扬子江、黄河，可以代表我们的民族精神。扬子江及黄河遇到沙漠，遇见山峡，都是浩浩荡荡的往前流过去，以成其浊流滚滚、一泻万里的气势。目前的艰难境界，哪能阻抑我们民族生命的前进。我们应该拿出雄健的精神，高唱着进行的曲调，在这悲壮的歌声中，走过这崎岖险阻的道路。要

20、知在艰难的国运中建造国家，亦是人生最有趣味的事。Answer_ _ _ _ _ V. It is a common phenomenon that the plethoric members of the presentday Chinese men and women are head over ears into English, often, regrettably, at the expense of needful linguistic equipment in Chinese. Write an expository essay of no less than 400 words according to criterion of the traditional strategy exposition( 策论), that is to first discuss this cultural phenomenon, then to expound the importance of learning ones mother tongue. (50 points) On the Importance of Cultivating Chinese_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _