台州学院继续教育学院
《高级英语》
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I. Each of the following ntences is given four choices of words or expressions. Choo the right one to complete the ntence .(15 points, 1 point for each)
1. He began to ______ as the inten cold pervaded the room.
A. shake B. quake
C. jerk D. shiver
2. There is a growing recognition that we should abolish racial ______.
A. gregation B. paration
生活大爆炸第五季24C. integration D. evaporation葡萄的英文
fraud
3. The pianist was ______ with the most extravagant applau from the audience.
A. loaded B. burdened
C. presd D. weighed
4. The problem of poverty didn’t ______ itlf until the earthquake.
A. manifest B. demonstrate
C. emerge D. exhibit
5. It is desirable to ______ the chemicals before the plant is riously damaged.
A. splash B. spill
combC. pour D. spray
6. They got their just ______ when the scheme was finally uncovered.
A. dert B. desrt
C. derts D. desrts
7. There will be live ______ of the concert on TV and radio.
A. transaction B. transition
C. transmission D. transportation
8. The tail of the whale ______ their boat and they all fell into water.
hospitalA. plucked B. flicked
C. pecked D. flapped
9. The first priority for a government is to enable its citizens to live in peace and ______ .
A. tranquility B. altitude
C. complexity D. attitude
10. In time of prosperity， friends will be plenty; in time of ______ ， not one among twenty.
A. dilemma B. adversity
C. insomnia D. deadlock
11. He refud to ______ of such a solution to his problem.
A. deceive B. receive
C. conceive D. perceive
12. He felt proud to proclaim that he knew only English and somehow ______ of his native culture.
mother father gentleman
A. contemporary B. temporary
C. contemptuous D. contemptible
13. I didn’t expect him to descend to ______ abu.
A. common B. personal
C. ordinary D. individual
qty14. Make a phone call if you are wishing to renew your ______ to our magazine.
A. contribution B. distribution
C. subscription D. attribution
15. What you say is far ______ from what you said before.
A. moved B. removed
C. proved D. disproved
II. Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding three items ll , lll, IV.
(1) Freedom’s challenge in the Atomic Age is a sobering topic. We are facing today a strange new world and we are all wondering what we are going to do with it. What are we going to do with one of our most precious posssions, freedom? The world we know, our Western world, began with something as new as the conquest of space.
(2) Some 2,500 years ago Greece discovered freedom. Before that there was no freedom. There were great civilizations, splendid empires, but no freedom anywhere. Egypt, Babylon, Nineveh, were all tyrannies, one immenly powerful man ruling over helpless mass. In Greece, in Athens, a little city in a little country, there were no helpless mass, and a time came when the Athenians were led by a great man who did not want to be powerful. Absolute obedience to the ruler was what the leaders of the empires insisted on. Athens said no, there must never be absolute obedience to a man except in war. There must be willing obedience to what is good for all. Pericles, the great Athenian statesman, said: “We are a free government, but we obey the laws, more especially tho which protect the oppresd, and the unwritten laws which, if broken, bring shame.”
(3) Athenians willingly obeyed the written laws which they themlves pasd, and the unwritten, which must be obeyed if free men live together. They must show each other kindness and pity and the many qualities without which life would be intolerable except to a hermit in the dert. The Athenians never thought that a man was free if he could do what he wanted. A man was free if he was lf-controlled. To make yourlf obey what you approved was freedom. They were saved from looking at their lives as their own private affair. Each one felt responsible for the welfare of Athens, not becau it was impod on him from the outside, but becau the city was his pride and his safety. The creed of the first free government in the world was liberty for all men who could control themlves and would take responsibility for the state. This was the conception that underlay the lofty reach of Greek genius.
