综合英语(三)试卷4

综合英语模拟题（4）
Ⅰ.The following paragraphs are taken from the text, followed by a list of words or expressions. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.（12 points,
1 point for each）
When Mick Jagger’s fans look at him 1 a high priest or a god, are you with them or 2 them? Do you share Chris Singer’s almost religious 3 for Bob Dylan? Do you think he or Dylan is 4 ? Do you 5 Alice Cooper as sick? Or are you 6 somehow to this strange clown, perhaps because he 7 your wildest fantasies?” Music expresses its 8 ,” says sociologist lrving Horowitz. Horow itz sees the rock music area as a sort of 9 forum, a place where ideas lash and crash. He sees it as a place 10 American society struggles to define and 11 its feelings and beliefs. “The redefinition,” Horowitz says, “is a task u niquely 12 by the young. It is they alone who combine invention and exaggeration, reason and motion, word and sound, music and sound, music and politics.”
A. reject
B. times
C. against
D. reverence
E. where
F. debating
G. misguided
H. as
I. acts out J. redefine K. drawn L. performed
Ⅱ. There are several sentences with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to F. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences. One word or expression for each blank only.(15points.1 point for each.)
13. Horowitz sees the rock music arena as a sort of debating , a place where ideas
clash and crash.
14. “More than any other generation,” he said, “our generation views the adult world
with great … there is also an increased tend ency to reject completely that w orld.”
15. The Rolling Stones, street-fighting men, demanded revolution.
16. They to follow him, eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops.
A. skepticism
B. surge
C. arrogan
D. forum
17. Shortly before his graduation, Jim Binns, president of the senior class at Stanford
University, wrote me about some of his . “More than any other generation,” he said, “our generation views th e adult world with great skepticism and there is also an increased tendency to reject completely that world.”
18. It attracts some of the more active and young people of every generation.
19.They lived, in bitter , to see the establishment they had overthrown
replaced by a new one, just as hard-faced and stuffy.
20. As soon as you capture one mountain range, another one just ahesd.
21. It can be handled in the same way that hard problems have been coped with
be-fore-piecemeal, pragmatically, by the efforts or many people.
A. idealistic
B. disillusionment
C. looms
D. dogged
E. misgivings
22. I f you don’t do what the doctor says you’ll have to go to hospital, the mot her
her severely.
23. I smiled in my best manner and asked for the child’s first name, I said, come
on, Mathilda, open your mouth and let’s take a look at your throat.
24. When I arrived I was met by the mother, a big startled looking, very clean
and , who merely said, Is this the doctor?
25. I explained the danger but said that I would not insist on a throat examination so
long as they would take the .
26. After all, I had already fallen in love with the asvage brat, the parents
were .to me.
27.From the start of that campaign, I faced hostility because of my sex.
A. apologetic
B. professional
C. responsibility
D. admonished
E. contemptible F undisguised
Ⅲ.Each of the following sentences is given two choices of words or expressions.
Choose the right one to complete the sentence and mark the corresponding letter.(15 points,1 point for each)
28.The wartime government first _____ men into the army from non-essential industries.
A. recruited
B. registered
29. Some kinds of tobacco do not _____ well with each other.
A. mix
B. blend
30. The teacher couldn’t help being _____ by the stupidity of the student.
A. exhilarated
B. exasperated
31. She lived in a _____ world of make-believe.
A. unrealistic
B. unreal
32. The escaped prisoner’s _____ is still unknown.
A. whereabouts
B. whereas
33. The witness made a false to the court.
A. promise
B. oath
34. The American side for certain conditions in the negotiation.
A. hold back
B. hold out
35. He was by his many disappointments intently.
A. embittered
B. agitated
36. The pain from the toothache was .
A. intolerant
B. intolerable
37. Pamela herself with suspicion, fear and jealousy.
A. abused
B. tormented
38. He ate up all the food on the table.
A. quickly
B. abruptly
39. Four years later, when I Congress, my sex became a major issue.
A. ran for
B. elected
40. When people looked at him too , he felt very uncomfortable.
A. tentatively
B. intently
41. In the light of the moon, I could see the outlines of the beacon towers.
A. dark
B. dim
42. Fingertip painting is thought of as a vigorous but form of art.
A. naive
B. immature
Ⅳ. Translate the following into English.( 18 points,6 point for each )
43. 她觉得自己能够十分在行地不动声色地听别人的谈话，十分在行地利用别人在
她周围谈话的时机短暂地介入别人的生活。

44. 得知自己是那么令人讨厌时，她怀着一颗破碎的心匆匆赶回家里。

45. 得知他获得了当地最有名大学的奖学金时，我为他感到高兴。

Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding four items:Ⅴ, Ⅵ,Ⅶan d Ⅷ.
An English-Speaking World
(1)On 5 September 1977, the American spacecraft V oyager One( 旅行者1号)blasted off on its historic mission to Jupiter and beyond. On board, the scientists had in-stalled a recorded greeting from the people of the planet Earth. Preceding a brief message in fifty-five different languages for the people of outer space, the gold-plated disc plays a statement, from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, an Austrian named Kurt Waldheim, speaking on behalf of 147 member states in English.
(2)The rise of English is a remarkable success story. When Julius Caesar landed in
Britain nearly two thousand years ago, English did not exist. Five hundred years later, English, incomprehensible to modern ears, was probably spoken by about as few people as currently speak Cherokee-and with about as little influence. Nearly a thousand years later, at the end of the sixteenth century, when William Shakespeare was in his prime, English was the native speech of between five and seven million Englishmen and it was , in the words of a contemporary, of small reach, it stretches no further than this island of ours.
(3)Four hundred years later, the contrast is extraordinary. Between 1600 and the present, in armies, navies, companies and expeditions, the speakers of English-including Scots, Irish, Welsh, American and many more-traveled into every corner of the globe, carrying their language and culture with them. Today, English is used by at least 750 million people, and barely half of those speak it as a mother tongue. Some estimates have put that figure closer to one billion. What-ever the total, English at the end of the twentieth century is more widely scat-tered, more widely spoken and written, than any other language has ever been. It has become the language of the planet, the first global language.
(4)The statistics of English are astonishing. Of all the world’s languages (which now number some 2700 ), it is arguably the richest in vocabulary. The Ox-ford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 words; and a further half million technical and scientific terms remain uncatalogued. According to traditional estimates, neighboring German has a vocabulary of about 185,000 words and French fewer than 100,000. About 350 million people use the English vocabulary as a mother tongue: about one-tenth of the world’s population, scattered across every continent and surpassed, in numbers, though not in distribution, only by the speakers of the many varieties of Chinese. Three-quarters of the world’s technical and scientific periodicals: it is the language of technology from Silicon Valley to Shanghai. English is the medium for 80 percent of the information stored in the world’s computers. Nearly half of all business deals in Europe are conducted in English. It is the language of sports and glamour: the official language of the Olympics and the Miss Universe competition. English is the official language of the air, of the area, and of Christianity. Five of the largest broadcasting companies in the world (CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, CBC) transmit in English to audiences that regularly exceed one hundred million.
(5)English has a few rivals, but no equals. Neither Spanish nor Arabic, both international languages, has this global sway. Another rival, Russian, has the political and economic under-pinning of a world language, but far from spreading its influence outside the Soviet empire. Germany and Japan have, in matching the commercial and industrial vigor of the United States, achieved the commercial precondition of
language-power, but their languages have also been invaded by English.
(6)The remarkable story of how English spread within predominantly Eng-lish-speaking societies like the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand is not unique. The truly significant development, which has occurred only in the last one hundred years or so, is the use of English, taking the most conservative estimates, by three or four hundred million people for whom it is not a native language. English has become a second language in countries like India, Nigeria or Singapore where it is used for administration, broadcasting and education. In these countries, English is a vital alternative language, often unifying huge territories and diverse populations. When Rajiv Gandhi appealed for an end to violence that broke out after the assassination of his mother, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, he went on television and spoke to his people in other countries, usually to promote trade and scientific progress, but to the benefit of international communication generally. A Dutch poet is read by a few thousands. Translated into English, he can be read by hundreds of thousands.
(7)The emergence of English as a global phenomenon as either a first, second or foreign language has recently inspired the idea that we should talk not of English, but of many Englishes, especially in Third World countries where the use of English is no longer part of the colonial legacy, but the result of decisions made since independence. But what kind of English is it? This is a new and hotly contested debate. The future, of course, is unpredictable, but one thing is certain; the present flux of English is part of a process that goes back to Shakespeare and beyond.
Ⅴ.Choose the correct answer according to the
content.( 10 points,2 points for each ).
46. We know from this passage that English was first spoken . ( )
A. around A. D. 500
B. 500 years ago
C. 2,000years ago
D. in the 1500s
47. What is the main topic of this passage? ( )
A. English and its rivals
B. History of the English Ianguage.
C.Enalish as a global phenomenon.
D. English in comparison with other languages.
48. Compared with Chinese, English . ( )
A. has more foreign speakers
B. is spoken by more people
C. enjoys a longer history
D. is less distributed geographically
49. An example which shows that English is the language of glamour is . ( )
A. the Olympic Games
B. Silicon Valley
C. the Miss Universe competition
D. the Oxford English Dictionary
50. German and Japanese . ( )
A. are comparable with English for political reasons
B. are languages which are the richest in vocabulary
C. are immune to any influence from English
D. have hardly qualified as global languages
Ⅵ.Choose the best answer for the underlined part.( 10 points,2 points for each ).
51.Five hundred years later, English, incomprehensible to modern ears, was probably
spoken by about as few as currently speak Cherokee-and with about as little influence. ( )
A. modern people can understand it very well
B. it was familiar to modern people
C. it cannot be understood by modern people
D. it was easy to be understood by modern ears
52. On 5 September 1977, the American spacecraft V oyager One blasted off on its historic mission to Jupiter and beyond. ( )
A. was sent off to the sky
B. was carried out
C. was launched by the firing of rockets
D. was transmitted
53. Nearly a thousand years later, at the end of the sixteenth century, when Wil-liam Shakespeare was in his prime... ( )
A. in a time of little prosperity
B. at the height of power and glory
C. first or earliest part
D. his health condition was very good
54. The statistics of English are astonishing. ( )
A. The numbers of words in English are very surprising.
B. When we hear the statistic, we’ll get a shock.
C. The English vocabulary is very large, which makes us astonished.
D. People all took by surprise for the numbers of English.
55. English has a few rivals, but no equals. ( )
A. English has a few rivals and they can catch up with it easily.
B.A few rivals want to fight with it to get an equal position, they’ll succeed sooner
or later.
C. Although the rivals of English tried best to compare with it, they failed.
D. English has a few rivals, but none of them can compare with it.
Ⅶ.Translate from English into Chinese. ( 10 points,2 points for each ).
56. Preceding a brief message in fifty-five different languages for the people of outer
space, the gold-plated disc plays a statement.
57. Whatever the total, English at the end of the twentieth century is more widely
scattered, more widely spoken and written, than any other language has ever been.
58. About 350 million people use the English vocabulary as a mother tongue: about
one-tenth of the world’s population.
59. Germany and Japan have, in matching the commercial and industrial vigor of the
United States, achieved the commercial precondition of language-power, but their languages have also been invaded by English.
60. The emergence of English as a global phenomenon as either a first, second or foreign
language has recently inspired the idea .
Ⅷ.Answer the following question in English within 60~80 words.( 10 points ).
61.Why do we say that English has become the language of the planet, the first global language?。