2018年自考考试《高级英语》试题及答案

2018年自考考试《高级英语》试题及答案

一、单项选择

1. The boys seem to be ________ for a fight. (A)

A. itching

B. longing

C. desiring

D. wishing

2. They were cheap enough, so I ________ out $10 and got two. (D)

A. sprinkled

B. split

C. poured

D. splashed

3. There are so many people that the hall was bursting at the ________. (A)

A. seams

B. links

C. seals

D. joints

4. However, the painting is rare and it will cost you a(n) _______ sum of money.(C)

A. fantastic

B. extreme

C. grotesque

D. fancy

5. Her foolish anger made ________ of our plans for peace with the enemy. (B)

A. senseless

B. nonsense

C. meaninglessness

D. confusion

6. They have not got married, and they live in ________. (C)

A. error

B. crime

C. sin

D. dirt

7. We’d better get started and stop _______ about. (A)

A. fiddling

B. roaming

C. grinding

D. idling

8. Let’s go to ask Tom. He is always _______ in new ideas.D

A. rich

B. feral

C. fervent

D. fertile

二、释义

1. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact.

All the imperial empires are built up by treating in the colonies like animals instead of like human beings.

2 Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews.

At once, a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited from their dark hole-like booths in all directions.

3. Every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.

Every one of these poor Jews regarded the cigarette as something very luxury which they could not possibly afford.

4. In a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in everything except the human beings. In a tropical region, when one looks at the scenery, one can see everything natural but cannot see a single person.

5. How long before they turn their guns in the other directions?

How much longer before they turn their guns around and aim at us?

6. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind. All the white man, from the onlookers, the officers on their horses to the white N.C. Os marching with the black soldiers, had this thought hidden somewhere in his mind.

7. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.

If we united together, we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.

8. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.

We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution which brings hope of progress to all our countries.

9. Before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in