高级英语(上)试卷A试题含答案

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英语专业级《高级英语(上)》试卷(A)

（考试形式：闭卷）

I. Vocabulary Selection (15%)

In this part, there are 15 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only ONE right answer.

1．Due to the fact that universities can not enroll all the candidates, ______ to university is competitive.

A．admission B．affidavit C．admiration D．allegiance

2．The World Cup has been the ______ of this month's events; a large number of soccer fans around the world focus their attention on the little “ball”.

A．twilight B．realms C．highlights D．headlines

3．They ______ to hear that their football team won a great victory over the opponent team.

A．relieved B．released C．rejoiced D．rescued

4．Each individual expresses his opinion in the group by where he stands when a lot of people ______ together in a chat.

A．squeeze B．stick C．pad D．cluster

5．When she called me a thief, I decided to sue her for ______ .

A．ridicule B．scandal C．slander D．encumber

6．George W. Bush said Saddam Hussein is ______ and must be disarmed immediately.

A．pugnacious B．proverbial C．magnanimous D．malleable

7．They tell the people in their community not to store apples in the refrigerator because fresh fruit like apples is ______ .

A．perishable B．vanishing C．exquisite D．fickle

8．The spokesman said he believed the attack was in ______ for the death of the bombing.

A．requital B．rhetoric C．retrospect D．retaliation

9．The President is certain to know the result of this vote as a (n) ______ for further economic decision-making.

A．mandate B．aviation C．pretext D．rampage

10．The villagers were ______ by the news of the criminal's release from the prison.

A．indignant B．puzzled C．overjoyed D．elusive

11．If it goes on to ______ its responsibilities, then the British government must act immediately in its place.

A．discipline B．abdicate C．bash D．challenge

12．The sentry guard dived into his ______ and closely observed the stranger towards him.

A．fortress B．exodus C．foxhole D．eviction 13．An overwhelming richness of vegetation may have caused the level of oxygen, to rise above today's ______, with a corresponding depletion of carbon dioxide.

A．concentration B．saturation C．satiation D．plenitude

14．The psychology therapist's job is to help people "re-author" stories that aren't doing them ______ .

A. just

B. justice

C. justiceships

D. justification

15．The dream quickly gave way to a cold number: the house they wanted ______ $52,000 more than their budget.

A．cost B．took C．spent D．required

II. Paraphrase (20%)

Directions: Explain in English the meaning of the underlined words or expressions in each sentence.

1. Many girls’ interests turn to marriage or stereotypically female jobs.

2. When students participate in classroom discussion, they hold more positive attitudes toward school, and that positive attitudes enhance learning.

3. Boys are more assertive in grabbing their attention-a classic case of the squeaky wheel getting the educational oil.

4. They give no sign that the possibility of an alternative ever suggests itself to their mind.

5. The tiger is said to have emerged, but presently crept back again, as if too much bewildered by his new responsibilities.

6. It alone prevents the hardest and the most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

7. It is not surprising that they need some stimulus to use the foreign language for natural purposes.

8. The relationship is a formal and formalized one for which conventionalities suffice.

9. This confident attitude is very fragile and can be stifled quite early.

10. He supposed that nobody could ever countenance waging war again.

11. In such a perverse state of affairs, affairs of state tend to undergo some rather bizarre reversals.

12. An author is evading his responsibilities, if he is not intelligible.

13. I suggest in return that this attitude betrays either laziness or affectation. It is the abdication of authorship.

14. He is not fetching up thoughts that lie too deep for tears.

15. Power, travel, external security, free time, and other blessings are potentially available to the affluent.

16. Religious groups and those who elevate the status of poverty as they equate money with evil exhort us to live simply.

17. Psychologists generally agree that they set the stage for schizophrenia.

18. He had rushed them along to secure such openings about the deck as had not been already battened down earlier in the evening.

19. Such is the prestige, the privilege, and the burden of command.

20. It unveiled the black figures of men caught on the bridge, heads forward, as if petrified in the act of butting.