2011年成人高考专升本《英语》试题及答案

英语

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I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. ( 12 points, 0.5 point for each )

She 1 to me because she was like people I had never met 2 . Like women in English novels who 3 the moors (whatever they were) with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful 4 . Like the women who sat in front of roaring 5 , drinking tea incessantly from silver trays full of scones and crumpets. Women who walked over the "heath" and read morocco-bound books and had two last names 6 by a hyphen. It would be safe to say that she made me proud to be Negro, just by being herself.

Homes and restaurants do what they can with this 7 ——which my mother-in-law would

8 on the spot. I have long thought that the 9 blindfold test for cigarettes should be applied to city 10 . For I am sure that if you 11 them blindfolded, you couldn't tell the beans from the 12 , the turnips from the squash. Chavel was filled with a huge and 13 joy. It seemed to him that already he was 14 ——twenty nine men to draw and only two marked papers left. The 15 had suddenly grown in his favor from ten to one to fourteen to one: the greengrocer had drawn a slip and 16 carelessly and without pleasure that he was safe. Indeed from the first draw any mark of pleasure was 17 : one couldn't mock the condemned one by any 18 of relief.

Red Indians, while they were still 19 by white men, would smoke their pipes, not calmly as we do, but 20 , inhaling so deeply that they sank into a 21 . And when excitement by means of nicotine failed, a patriotic orator would stir them 22 to attack a neighboring tribe, which would give them all the 23 that

II. In this section, there are fifteen sentences with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. ( 15 points, 1 point for each )

25. In one way or another, its practitioners batten on the society which they and in which they refuse

to take any responsibility.

26. Under him, six or seven feet down, was a floor of perfectly clean, shining white sand, ______

firm and hard by the tides.

27. Even better than that, it was marvelous the things that came to you in the ______ of fishing.

28. The modern ________ of beauty is not exclusively a function (in the mathematical sense) of wealth.

29. When they got back home, as soon as he ________ her into the crib, she began to shout and wave her arms.

30. Television’s variety becomes a ______, not a stimulus.

31. She could have taken it off and laid it on her lap and ______ it.

32. The first time she saw the picture alone she was sure there was more action, only a _______

motion, but more.

33. She looked round the room, ______ all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from.

34. Behind the scenes, Price/Costco follows an operating model in which it buys larger quantities and ________ better prices than competing stores.

35. Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great ________ for writing, at any rate for writing prose.

36. Continuity of ________ is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

37. The county attorney, after again looking around the kitchen, opens the door of a cupboard _____.

38. Nobody spoke but Elgie came over, his ________ eyes filled with sorrow and misery.

39. He spoke of how some people ______ the criminal misfits of society while the best men die in Asian rice

III. Each of the following sentences is given two choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (15 points, 1 point for each )

40. She has born a ______ against me ever since I turned down her application.

A. grudge

B. malice