张汉熙⾼级英语试题及答案第⼆册模拟试题1
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第⼆册模拟试题
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I. Determine whether the following statements are True or
Fal. Mark them with T or F to indicate your answer. (10×1)
1. Although written in an objective tone, in Marrakech, Orwell shows he is outraged by the miry of the poor.
2. The title of the text, Pub Talk and the King’s English, is well chon becau it captures the readers’ attention and accurately describes the subject of the text.
3.Pub Talk and the King’s English and The Future of the English are both clear and well organized texts with a logical structure.
4. In The Libido for the Ugly, Mencken objectively and realistically describes the architecture in Westmoreland.
5. Argumentative essays always include some explanation.
6. The Worker as Creator or Machine is a piece of exposition that explains how the capitalist system has caud the worker to become alienated from their product and thus their own work.
7. The Sad Young Men is a clearly structured essay that includes many Americanisms to better explain the experience of Lost Generation.
8. The Future of the English is a misleading title becau the text does not explain what the future of English people is going be like.
9.Baldwin writes with a critical and harsh tone as he describes the life of an American in Europe in The Discovery of What it Means to be an American.
10. Although Loving and Hating New York is a piece of exposition where Griffith states that he both loves and hates New York city, the author does not fully develop why he hates the city.
II. Choo one out of the 10 rhetorical or figurative devices listed below that best describes the underlined words for
each ntence. (8×1)
1. And this is true, whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernable mops of hair.
2. The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. It is that of a Presbyterian grinning.
3. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young.
4. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever en on earth.
5. America has shown us too many exhausted salesmen taking refuge in bars and breaking up their homes.
6. An American writer fights his way to one of the lowest rungs on the American social ladder.
7. New York is a wounded city, but not a dying city.
8. Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls, work their way slowly across the field. EuphemismHyperboleMetaphorMetonymy SynecdochePersonificationSimileTransferred epithet RepetitionMetonymy
III. Write, in your own words, a ntence that you think best express the meaning of the original ntence. (6×2)
1. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden.
2. Ev en with the educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.
3. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there ems to be a positive libido for the ugly.
4. Work became the chief factor in a system of “inner-worl dly asceticism,” an answer to man’s n of aloneness and isolation.
5. Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit.
6. To put cars and motorways before hous ems to Englishness a communal imbecility.
IV. Choo one word or phra from the list below which you regard as the most appropriate substitution for each of the italicized parts of the following ntences. (10×1)
1. The girls formed a clo-knit group.
2. Their friendship was on the rocks.
3. Some of us were issued incorrect pay checks, owing to a mistake in the accounting department.
4. It is to his credit that he freely admitted his guilt.
5. The traffic made a terrible racket in the street below.
6. Never try to reason with him when he’s gotten up on the wrong side of the bed.
7. It’s high time we did something about our neighbour’s dog.
8. The pull of the position is that he does not have to work on the weekend.
9. The risk paid off handsomely.
10. We all sat up when the holiday was announced.
A: AdmirableB: With a hazardous manner
C: Bad-temperedD: Became astonished
E: DisturbanceF: Drawing power
G: In a state of disasterH: Past the appropriate time
I: Result favorablyJ: Tightly united
K: The desireL: As a result of
V. Twelve words are taken away at irregular intervals from the passage below. Y ou are expected to lect 12 out of the 15 provided answers from below to fill in the blanks with the correct forms that best keep the meaning and structure of the ntences. (12×1)
To plagiarize is to 1 someone el’s academic work—in the
2 of writing or ideas—as one’s own work. The Americans’ belief in the value of the individual and the sanctity of the individual’s property
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4 . Ideas belong to people; they are a form of property.
Scholars’ 5 and ideas are 6 property. Students and 7 scholars are not suppod to 8 tho ideas in their own writing without acknowledging where the ideas came from. 9 leave out the acknowledgement and thereby convey the impression that another’s words are one’s own is “plagiarism.”
Foreign students are sometimes accud of plagiarizing the works of other people. It is probably the 10 that much of the plagiarism foreign students commit (usually by copying the words of another into a paper they themlves are writing and failing to include a footnote saying who originally wrote the words) is 11 out of misunderstanding rather than out of dishonesty. To American scholars the 12 of “intellectual property” Is perfectly clear and nsible. It is obvious to them when an idea has been “stolen.” And stealing ideas is a cardinal sin in the American academic world.
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VI. Reading Comprehension (20×1)
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As a first cour, the 60th Cannes Film Festival rved its audiences desrt. Wong Kar-wai, the Hong Kong director who was president of the jury at the 2006 festival, held in Cannes, France, opened this year’s event with “My Blueberry Nights,” a romantic confection that begins with a lingering shot of vanilla ice cream melting into the gooey filling of a blueberry pie. The film, Mr. Wong’s first English-language feature, takes place in a postcard America of diners and red neon signs, a land of heartbreak and cond chances where folks play poker and drink whiskey and subsist on cheeburgers, pork chops and, in at least one ca, quite a bit of that pie.
The pie eater is Norah Jones, the singer and songwriter, who makes her screen debut as the character, Elizabeth, a New Yorker on the rebound from a long relationship with an unfaithful, unen and unnamed boyfriend. She takes refuge in a homey restaurant managed by Jeremy, where there is always a lot of blueberry pie left over at closing time.
After they strike up a late-night, pastry-fueled friendship, aled with a lovely, drowsy screen kiss, Elizabeth takes off on a journey that leads her from Memphis to Nevada, through a ries of waitress jobs, slightly altered
identitie s (she’s Lizzie in one place, Beth in another) and encounters with other lonely souls. The include an alcoholic policeman, his estranged wife and agambler, who ems to talk a better game than she plays.
Over the years Mr. Wong has acquired a passionate following — one that occasionally manifests cultlike tendencies —for his nsual visual style and oblique narratives of erotic longing. “My Blueberry n ights” may strike his devotees, and skeptics as well, as both a notable departure and a variation on his characteristic themes. He is still interested in the mysterious nature of desire and the effects of time and distance upon it. But the tting, the language and the conventions of English-language screen acting give this movie, for better or wor, a decided air of novelty.
Mr. Wong’s other recent films, like “In the Mood For Love” and “2046” (both shown at previous festivals here) unfold mainly in the narrow hallways and cramped rooms of hotels and apartment buildings in crowded Asian cities, where the men dress in dark suits and the women wear flower-printed cheongsams.
Tho movies are den with color and shadow. In “My Blueberry Nights,” the colors are still rich and smoky, but the wider format gives the compositions a loor, more open feeling. And the characters, contemporary Americans (and one British expatriate), are correspondingly relaxed, even in their moments of distress. Whereas their Asian counterparts in other Wong Kar-wai movies —Gong Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung — show emotion through masks of mystery and rerve, Ms. Jones and her co-stars invite and promi easy empathy.
1. In paragraph 1, the ntence “the 60th Cannes Film Festival rved its
audiences desrt” contains which combination of rhetorical devices:
(A) personification and metaphor
(B) simile and metonymy
(C) personification and simile
(D) metaphor and euphemism
2. The phra “a postcard America” in paragraph 1 can best be interpreted
to mean which of the following?
(A) a picture of the United States
(B) a very popular place
(C) a familiar American scene
(D) a rural, country town
3. Using context clues, the idiom in 2 “on the rebound” could best be
interpreted as which of the following?
(A) returning
(B) being rejected
(C) disappointed
(D) recovering
4. The word “pas try-fueled” in paragraph3 indicates which of the following?
(A) the friendship was characterized by nsitive and sweet emotions
(B) the friendship began due to the woman’s repeated visits to the restaurant for pie
(C) the friendship is shallow and has no deep substance
(D) the friendship started due to a love for desrt
5. Choo the best replacement for the word “air” in paragraph 4.
(A) impression
(B) characterization
(C) awareness
(D) imagination
6. The author us dashes (—) in paragraph 4 and 6 for which of the following purpos:
(A) to point out an interruption and a change of thought
(B) to list items
(C) to provide an appositive and further information for special emphasis
(D) to include insignificant information
7. Which of the following statements about the passage is true:
(A)Wong’s new English-language film is very similar to his
Chine-language films.
(B)Wong’s films have attracted a group of enthusiasts.
(C)Wong’s new film takes place in America, but it does not accurately reprent American culture.
(D)Wong’s film, “My Blueberry Nights,” was popular at the Cannes
Film Festival.
8. According to the passage, we can infer that Wong’s film, “My Blueberry Nights,” _________.
(A) express the director’s distinguishing themes in a distinct, n ew style.
(B) is very confusing to viewers.
(C) exceeds the expectations of Wong’s followers.
(D) is a comedy.
9. In paragraph 3, the passage describes a gambler, who ________.
(A) is successful at her hobby.
(B) is skilled at convincing people.
(C) always boasts herlf, but never amounts to anything.
(D) bores people by her excessive talking.
10. The tone of this passage is:
(A) indifferent
(B) objective
(C) cynical
(D) subjective
(B)
For the past 50 years Tiananmen Square has been the nearest thing the Chine Communist party has had to holy ground. It is the plaza that Mao built, famed for its rallies during the Cultural Revolution. In a sign of widening intellectual debate in China, one of the country's leading young architects has propod a radical transformation of the square.
Ma Yansong, an award-winning urban planner, says the grey concrete symbol of China's red politics should be given a green makeover. To heighten awareness about the environment, he believes the Beijing square should be transformed into a park and forest. In his model, the vast expan of paving slabs outside the Forbidden City is replaced by trees and grass. There are lush thickets around the mausoleum containing Mao Zedong's embalmed body and a verdant entrance to the Gre
at Hall of the People.
"We want to transform this empty political square into something that can be enjoyed," Mr. Ma said. "Our aim is to propo not to criticize, to rai the issue of public space. The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions."
Mr. Ma, who completed an apprenticeship in London under the prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, is one of the boldest and least orthodox within China's architectural community. His firm, MAD, has offices in Beijing and Dubai, is working on five big projects in China, and is behind a curvaceous 50-storey tower arising in Ontario, Canada.
The architect believes Tiananmen Square need not be considered sacrosanct, becau its origins are relatively recent and foreign. The plaza was created after Mao Zedong's Communists came to power in 1949. Copying Red Square in Moscow, it was designed for military parades and giant public rallies. But this function is, he says, outdated. "Tiananmen is ... the physical centre but not the real centre. No Beijing people go there," he said. "The question we pod ourlves was: how to make the area more enjoyable if we no longer need it for its historical functions?"
However, his plan for Tiananmen is controversial. “Tiananm en
Square is a nsitive topic," Mr. Ma said. "The idea of turning the plaza into a forest makes many people feel uncomfortable." As the city gears up for the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is becoming a showroom for the world's leading architects. Paul Andreu, from France, helped lay the giant egg-shaped national theatre, while the UK architect Norman Foster designed the dragon-inspired airport terminal, which will be the world's largest when it opens next year. Yet despite the new national stadium -known as the bird's nest - and the giant egg theatre, the pastoral theme does not extend much beyond the shapes and names of all the new steel and concrete designs. The city's suburbs are eating up farmland as sprawl continues.
With urban development twisting out of the grasp of planners and regulators, Mr. Ma argues that a green Tiananmen could indicate changing priorities. "I read that Beijing has 2.8% of green space, including the lakes. It was much better in the past. It is very bad now."
11. The architect, Ma Yansong, suggests _________.
(A) that Tiananmen Square be painted green.
(B) that Tiananmen Square should be changed into a park.
(C) that Beijing’s urban planning should be more concerned with
