2012-2013-2 高级阅读2 期末复习提纲(with keys)

2012-2013-2 高级阅读2 期末复习提纲考试形式：闭卷（A B卷）考试内容：Part I Reading Comprehension (20%)（共20题，每题1分）Part II Correction (10%) （共10题，每题1分）Part III True or False (15%) （共15题，每题1分）Part IV Vocabulary (15%) （共15题，每题1分）Part V Translation (20%)Section A：Translate the following Chinese phrases and sentences into English.（共15分）Section B：Translate the following English paragraph into Chinese. （共5分）Part VI Writing (20%) （本题20分）CorrectionPeople's attitude toward drugs varies from person to pe rson.Some regard it as miraculous; others think of them as1. _______dangerous. Then what is the sensible attitude toward dr ugs?I think the first thing to think is the _difference betwee n 2. _______drugs and wonder drugs. The antibiotics can really trea t certainbacterial diseases. _On the other hand, the major diseas es 3. _______threatening Americans today are cancer, stroke, high bl ood pressure,coronary disease, etc. Against them, the doctor's bag of tricks is limited.He has wonder drugs. So the first important lesson is n ot to 4. _______expect too many from drugs. If you can accept the fact5. _______that the war against many of our most devastating dise ases is, at best,a holding operation more than an inevitable triumph, t hey will 6. _______do a great deal to ease your own life as well as that of your 7. _______doctor.Too many patients exert great pressure on doctor s to describefor every symptom, even when such treatment is unwa rranted 8. _______or dangerous.Unfortunately, the medical profession is guilty of taking part, to a certainextent, in the wrongful action. The patient who demand s a short of penicillinfor every sniffle and sneeze may be given an injection by a reluctant 9. _______physician because he is certain thatif he does not , the patient will not searchuntil he find a doctor who will.10. _______答案：1. it——themthem指代上文的drugs2. 在think和is之间加of或about此处为不及物动词，一般在后面跟of或about3. treat——curecure特别用以指病后通过治疗得以恢复健康；treat则只强调治疗本身4. 在wonder前加no根据上下文意义，医生没有治愈上文提及的各种疾病的特效药5. many——much用much指代“期望”这一抽象的概念性的东西6. more——rather此处不是比较概念，而是否定概念“不是”7. they——itit指代上文的the fact that the war against many of o ur most devastatingdiseases is, at best, a holding operation more than an inevitable triumph.8. describe——prescrible根据上下文意义和语法，应为“医生为每一种症状开药”9. an——the此处的injection特指上文的a short of penicillin 10. 删除not根据上下文意义，“患者会一直寻求，直到找到愿意为其打针或开药的医生为止”More fat, more sugar, more salt, less exercise –more and morepeople around the world are suffering the consequence.1. _______Since 1980, the WHO's report reveals levels of obesitydoubled in every region of the world. Half a billion people,2. _______or 12 per cent of the global population, are now considered obese.One in three adults suffers from high blood pressure –a condition 3. _______that causes half of all deaths from stroke and heart disease.And blood sugar levels are raising too – 10 per cent of4. _______the world's population is diabetic.The WHO's report is not all bad news as though: the statistics 5. _______show that maternal mortal rates have fallen dramatically6. _______in the last 20 years, from over half a million in 1990 toless than 300,000 in 2010. And vaccination campaignshave significantly increased deaths from childhood diseases7. _______such as measles.But the global rise in deaths from heart disease, cancer and diabetes,and the rise in the conditions which lead to those deaths, is not 8. _______causing alarm. The WHO wants all its member states totackle risk factor such as poor diet, and smoking, and9. _______set targets to reducing deaths. 10._______答案：1. consequences2. 加have3. suffer4. rising5. 去掉as6. mortality7. reduced8. 去掉not 或者把not改成now9. factors10. forWhy does the idea of progress loom so large in the modern world? Surely because progressof particular kind is actually taking place around us and is more and more manifesting. 1.______Although mankind has undergone no general improvement in intelligence or morality,it has made extraordinary progress in the accumulation of knowledge. Knowledgebegins to increase as soon as the thoughts of one individual could be communicated 2._______to another by mean of speech. With the invention of writing, knowledge could be 3. _______communicated and stored. Libraries made education possible, and educationin turn added libraries: the growth of knowledgefollowed a kind of compound 4. _______-interest law, which was greatly enhanced by the invention ofprinting. All thiswas comparatively slow until, with the coming of science, the tempo was suddenly risen. 5._____Then knowledge began to be accumulated according to a systematic plan. However,as soon as new knowledge is acquired, it is now turned to practical account. 6. _____What is called ―modern civilization‖ is not the result of a balanced developmentof all man’s nature, but not of accumulated knowledge applied to practical 7._______life. The problem now facing humanity is: What is going to be done with all thisknowledge? Like is often pointed out, knowledge is a two edged 8._______weapon which could be used equally for good or evil. It is now being 9. ______frequently used indifferently for both. Could any spectacle, for instance,be more grimly whimsical than that gunners using science to shatter 10.______men’s bodies while, close at hand, surgeons use it to restorethem.答案:1、manifesting→manifest2、begins→begin3、mean→means4、added后加to5、risen →raised6、However→Moreover7、But 后面的not去掉8、Like →As9、Could→can10、That后面加ofA true classic, as I should like to hear it defined, is an author who has enriched the human spirit, who has truly increased itstreasure, who has cause it to take a step forwards, who has1.______discovered some unequivocal moral truth or lay fresh hold2. _____on some eternal passion in that heart which all seemed3. _____known and explored; who has conveyed their thought,4. _____his observing, or his discovery in whatever form, only5. _____provided it be broad or great, refined and sensible,6. _____sane and beautiful in itself; who has spoken to all men with7. _____a style of his own which the same time turns out to be8. _____every man style, a style that is new without neologism, at9. _____once new and old, easily contemporaneous with every age.10. _____答案:1. forwards→ forward2. lay→ laid3. which→ where4. their→ his5. observing→ observation6. or→ and7. with→ in8. which ∧the same time→ 加at9. man→ man’s10. √True or False1. Disney creates an illusion or ―a perfect world‖for its visitors by encouraging them to see the park through the eyes of a child, defining itself as a place that can ―bring dreams to life‖, and inviting them to escape their containment in physical reality. ( Unit 4 Disney World )2. Disney World differs from other utopians invented by Western civilization in that it is only a place of entertainment and does not tend to mislead people. ( Unit 4 Disney World )3. The author argues that it is the churches, not the presidents that make the rules, and cultivate the peoplewith a good sense of what is right and wrong in the 20th century. ( Unit 5 American Values )4. The difference between what we appear to be and what we really want to be is manifested in a desire to leave his own country and to fight a personal spiritual struggle. ( Unit 8 Being There )5. The author thinks the latest travelers are more interested in seeing marvels and admiring the wonderful diversity of the world. ( Unit 8 Being There )1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. F6. The author’s political experiences illustrate that women’s persistent efforts could guarantee a dominant position in politics. ( Unit 9 I’d Rather Be Black Than Female )7. The author thinks that American society is making sincere efforts to get blacks treated as equally as whites. But American women are not as fortunate as American blacks. ( Unit 9 I’d Rather Be Black Than Female )8. According to the text, status symbols tell more about a man’s personality than his daily performances, because he stamps his visual taste on his things making the totality resemble him. ( Psychology: Semiotics of Home Decor ) 9. The furnishings of a home, the style of a house, and itslandscape are all part of a system—a system of symbols. ( Psychology: Semiotics of Home Decor )10. We can learn from the text that psychological health is more important than physical health in the way it gives more quality to one’s life and enable people to live longer. ( Unit 11 How to Grow Old )6. F 7. F 8. F 9.T 10.. F11. With the decay of vitality and increase of weariness, thefear of death in the old people is inevitable and justifiable.( Unit 11 How to Grow Old )12. In September, the cold-blooded insects are at the mercy of the sun because it is sometimes too hot and sometimes too cold for them. ( Unit 11 Sweet September )13. The author neither agreed with Tolstoy nor did he followthe straightforward truth shown in Gospels about the immediate effects of property on people. ( Unit 14 My Wood )14. Since creation and enjoyment are often unattainablewithout property as their material basis, they become equally evil in social life. ( Unit 14 My Wood )15. James Joyce’s short story Araby is about a boy’s growingpains intellectually, psychologicaliy and spritually. 11. F12. T 13. F 14. F 15. T16. We can learn from the text that psychological health ismore important than physical health in the way it gives more quality to one’s life and enable people to live longer.( Unit 11 How to Grow Old )17. With the decay of vitality and increase of weariness, thefear of death in the old people is inevitable and justifiable.( Unit 11 How to Grow Old )18. According to the author, young people may feel morejustifiably bitter about death than senior people since they have not fully experienced the best things life has to offer. ( Unit 11 How to Grow Old )19. The author cautions us that Disney World is a world of illusions ―manufactured for us by machines‖. ( Unit 4 Disney World )20. Real American values can be best understood by looking at who our heroes are and at what we read and what we choose to do with our spare time. ( Unit 5 American Values ) 16. F 17. F 18. T 19. T 20. T21. The author emphasizes the importance of getting a clearvision of the idealized American value, because it is the driving force for a healthy future. ( Unit 5 American Values )22. One of the pleasures during your travel is the fact thatyou can see things you are familiar with. ( Unit 8 Being There )23. In ―I’d Rather Be Black Than Female‖, the author points out that the prejudice against women is more serious than racial discrimination against blacks, because the prejudice has not been noticed by men. Only women’s awareness of the prejudice is not powerful enough to eliminate it. ( Unit 9 I’d Rather Be Black Than Female )24. Even though people are conscious of the purpose for which they spend so much time and money to acquire, arrange and maintain their household possessions, they never fully realize how complicated their relationships are to things. ( Psychology: Semiotics of Home Decor )25. In order to survive in this very competitive world, every human being has to seek for social status and be able to discriminate different status symbols. ( Psychology: Semiotics of Home Decor )21. F 22. F 23. F 24. T 25. F26. According to the author, young people may feel morejustifiably bitter about death than senior people since they have not fully experienced the best things life has to offer. ( Unit 11 How to Grow Old )27. For people all over the world, September is morewelcomed than May with its elegance, richnessand ripeness. ( Unit 11 Sweet September )28. The kitchen harvest comes right after the garden harvest of the last sweet corn, the tomatoes, the root vegetables, and it reaches its peak with the canning, the preserving and the freezing of all its varieties. ( Unit 11 Sweet September )29. Since creation and enjoyment are often unattainablewithout property as their material basis, they become equally evil in social life. ( Unit 14 My Wood )30. There is nothing wrong with materialism and carnality themselves, but they are often manipulated by the desire for ownership. ( Unit 14 My Wood)26. T 27. F 28. T 29. F 30. T1. T2. F3. F4. T5. F6. F7. F8. F 9.T 10.. F11. F 12. T 13. F 14. F 15. T 16. F 17. F 18. T 19. T 20. T21. F 22. F 23. F 24. T 25. F 26. T 27. F 28. T 29. F 30. TVocabulary1.A. justifyB. crusadeC. usher inD. weightE. apply toF. incredibleG. depreciateH. militancyI. consolidate J. conceal from K. lay upL. resignM. apt to N. invalid O. make a difference P. swirl aroundQ. concern with R. guard against1. Driving after drinking Whiskey is ____________cause traffic accidents.2. It doesn’t ____________ if the meeting is postponed fora day.3. The Dramatic ____________ of the currency caught even some economists off guard.4. Reform and Open-door policy has ____________ a new era of economic development.5. The singer was fully ____________ in suing the newspaper for slander.6. The assassination of Martin Luther King did not quenchthe civil rights movement. It made the black leaders more ____________.7. The boat is ____________ with overloading.8. She hoped that marriage would ____________ their relationship.9. Her commitment to a great cause degenerated from a ____________ into an obsession.10. For such a tiny woman she had a(n) ____________ appetite.11. Remove the motor when you ____________ your boat.12. Burning Embers ____________ the target, causing damage over time.13. A passport that is out of date is ____________.14. ―This is one reason why the government is showing anunprecedented ____________ corruption in public-works programs,‖ says e conomist Jean Dreze, who was instrumental in setting up the act.15. Scientific discoveries are often ____________ industrial and agricultural production methods.1 M (apt to)2 O (make a difference)3 G (depreciation)4 C (ushered in) 5.A (justified) 6 H (militant)7 D (weighted) 8 I (consolidate) 9 B (crusade)10 F (incredible) 11 K (lay up) 12 P (swirl around)13 N (invalid)14 Q (concern with) 15 E (applied to)2.A.prestigeB. integrateC. monotonyD. designateE.paramountF. equivalentG. scarceH. summonI. annihilate J. dwindle K. dissembleL. meddleM. universality N. hostility O. homogeneous( )1. The idea of a world car was inevitable. It was the automotive___________ of the InternationalStyle.( )2. Humans tend to ___________their selves with objects.( )3. He has been ___________ to appear in court on charges of incitmentto law-breaking.( )4. Feelings of ____ towards people from other backgrounds were not obvious.( )5. The naval force was __________ during the attack.( )6. The spread of technology makes the world look ever more_________.( )7. I have been amazed at the___________ of all of our experiences, whatever our origins, sex orage.( )8. It was not the possession of riches that brought___________ , itwas the distribution and destruction of goods. ( )9. The church reacted as Enron did—and that is to deny, to delay, to ___________ to foolthemselves into thinking that all was well. ( )10. His money__________ away to nothing while traveling in Europe.( )11. Food was _______ and expensive then.( )12. A night in the town may help to break the___________ of the week.( )13. Do not ___________ in things that do not concern you.( )14. The welfare of the child must always be thecourt’s _____consideration.( )15. Mythology is the term to _______ thesuperstitions of the ancients.Keys:1. (F )2. (B )3. (H )4. (N )5. (I )6. (O )7. (M )8. (A )9. (K ) 10. (J ) 11. (G ) 12. (C ) 13. (L ) 14. (E ) 15.(D )3.A.entangleB.evasiveC. affluentD. conformE. pornograpyF. depreciationG. tokenH. pretentiousI. nurture J. impulse K. militant L. crusadeM. miscarry N. surge up O. contemplative P. stereotypeR. ascetic S. inherenternments often evoke patriotism to enforce _________.2. Weight is an __________ property of matter.3. She was in __________ mood.4. The sailor's legs got__________ with the ropes5. __________: Pictures, writing, or other material that is sexually explicit and sometimes equates sex with power and violence.6. There was no hint of _______________ in her manner.7. A few________ members of the crowd attacked thevendor.8. The purchasing power of money has _______since shebought her savings certificates.9. It's wrong to _______people, as if they were all alike.10. The 1950s were an age of ____________ in America.11. Appointing one woman to the otherwise all-male staff could look like _______.12. She had suffered multiple _________ before trying the treatment.13. The pilot had to take ________ action to avoid a mid-air collision.14. The study seems to show that ________ is moreimportant than nature in shaping a child's characterand future prospects.15. A sudden __________ of anger arose in him.1. D. conformity2. S. inherent3. O. contemplative4. A. entangled5. E. pornography6. H. pretentiousness7. K. militant8. F. depreciated9. P. stereotype 10. C. affluence 11. G. tokenism 12. M. miscarriage13. B. evasive 14. I. Nurture 15. J. impulse4.A. corollaryB. stampC. lingerD. designateE. paramountF. eradicatedG. definedH. pathologicalI. maintained J. scarce K. dissembleL. thriveM. entail N. prop O. debacle P. grappling withQ. dwindle R. cement S. annihilated T. equivalent( ) 1.The idea of a world car was inevitable. It was the automotive___________ of the InternationalStyle.( ) 2. Thailand is among several Asian nations____________ rising inflation even as theU.S. and Europe cope with sluggish (疲软的)growth.( ) 3. To put no personal stamp on a home is almost ________.( ) 4. A belief in freedom is often seen as the _______ of our nation.( ) 5. The naval force was __________ during the attack.( ) 6. It was a medical and political______, one that spawned fears of flu vaccinations lingering totoday.( ) 7. Such a decision would _____ a huge political risk in the mist of the presidential compaign.( ) 8. As the ________ of science, technology also exhibits the universalizing tendency..( ) 9. The church reacted as Enron did — and that is to deny, to delay, to ___________ to foolthemselves into thinking that all was well. ( ) 10. His money__________ away to nothing while traveling in Europe.( ) 11. She was waiting for us, her figure _____ by the light from the half-opened door.( ) 12. I like to _______ over breakfast and read the newspapers..( ) 13. Some couples _______ on conflict.( ) 14. The welfare of the child must always be the court’s _____________consideration.( ) 15. Mythology is the term to _________________ the superstitions of the ancients.( ) 16. Food was _________ and expensive then.( ) 17. The word ________ refers to all the objects or pieces of furniture that are used in a play orfilm.( ) 18. He was charged with abusing his power, but he __________ his innocence.( ) 19. Yellow fever was thought to have been nearly _____________ from large areas of the earth. ( ) 20. Car manufacturers __________ a vehicle identification number at several places on newcars to help track down stolen vehicles.Key:1. (T)2. (P )3. (H )4. (R)5. (S )6. (O ) 7 . (M ) 8. (A ) 9. ( K )10. (Q) 11. (G ) 12. (C ) 13. (L ) 14. (E ) 15. (D ) 16.（J）17.（N）18. ( I )19. (F) 20. (B)TranslationA. From Chinese into English1. 虚拟现实2. 模拟文化3. 摆脱约束4. 自恋个性5. 富裕；富足6. 政治权威7. 模拟城市8. 公众形象9. 超越凡俗之事10. 人世间甘苦11. 社会地位指数12. （应邀的）常驻作家13. 贵族血统14. 犯罪猖獗的地区15. 美食家答案:1. fictionalized realization2. simulation culture3. disengaged4. narcissistic personality5. affluence6. political pundits7. simulated cities8. public persona9. transcend the mundane10. human joys and sorrows11. index of social status12. author-in-residence13. blue blood14. crime-ridden areas15. gourmet16. 再次听到那首老歌，使他内心充满了怀旧之情。