英语专业2008级《现代大学英语》期中考试卷

tragically in all the recent Negro riots.

试卷类别：闭卷 考试时间：2010-11-09 12. One sees screaming youngsters and angry adults fighting

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英语专业2008级《现代大学英语》期中考试卷

（2010－2011学年度上学期）

题号 一 二 三 四 五 六 合计 得分 I. Vocabulary (20%) Section A (5 points)

Directions: Complete each of the following sentences with an appropriate form of the word given in brackets.

1. (metropolitan) Let us be dissatisfied until those that live on the

outskirts of hope are brought into the of daily security. 2. (assort) It's an inexact term for a wild of changes

in politics, business, health, entertainment.

3. (consistent) Westernization, I discovered over months of study

and travel, is a phenomenon shot through with and populated by very strange bedfellows.

4. (buoyant) There will be those moments when the of

hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair.

5. (quiet)Nothing may disturb or the mysterious nosings about, feelings round, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.

Section B (15 points)

Directions: Complete the following sentences with the

words given below. Change the form where necessary. strain, befall, come up with, odd, wile, doubt, separate, formidable, eliminate, suggest, discriminate, devoid, detach, degenerate, sympathy, etch, shatter 1. The most member of a family is a \"black sheep.\" 2. \"I've learned about 11 different styles of mah-jongg,\" he told

me with that friendliness of those whose true

connection is with machines.

3. It is necessary also to discuss the ends and the aims for which

we are fighting, for which we are doing battle with these obstacles.

4. It imagination that this could be the same country

where a generation ago the three most desired luxury items

were wristwatches, bicycles, and sewing machines.

5. Negroes who have a double disability will have a greater effect

on when they have the additional weapon of cash

to use in their struggle.

6. Be sympathetic; be tender; flatter; deceive; use all the arts and

of our sex.

7. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will

diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on

the scale of dollars is . 8. She was so constituted that she never had a mind or a wish of

her own, but preferred to always with the minds and

wishes of others.

9. This had led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals

through power of love and conscience. 10. It’s really hard to be original these days, so the easiest way to

me as a novelist. 14. Our dreams will sometimes be and our ethereal

hopes blasted.

15. Though men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in these

respects, I that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women. II. Reading Comprehension (25%)

Directions: There are 2 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

The other problem that arises from the employment of women is that of the working wife. It has two aspects: that of the wife who is more of a success than her husband and that of the wife who must rely heavily on her husband for help with domestic tasks. There are various ways in which the impact of the first difficulty can be reduced. Provided that husband and wife are not in the same or directly comparable lines of work, the harsh fact of her greater success can be obscured by a genial conspiracy to reject a purely monetary measure of achievement as intolerably crude. Where there are ranks, it is best if the couple work in different fields so that the husband can find some special reason for the superiority of the lowest figure in his to the most elevated in his wife's. A problem that affects a much larger number of working wives is the need to re-allocate domestic tasks if there are children. In The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell wrote of the unemployed of the Lancashire coalfields: \"Practically never ... in a working- class home, will you see the man doing a stroke of the housework. Unemployment has not changed this convention, which on the face of it seems a little unfair. The man is idle from morning to night but

the woman is as busy as ever - more so, indeed, because she has to manage with less money. Yet so far as my experience goes the women do not protest. They feel that a man would lose his manhood if, merely because he was out of work, he developed in a 'Mary Ann'.\" It is over the care of young children that this re-allocation of duties becomes really significant. For this, unlike the cooking of fish fingers or the making of beds, is an inescapably time-consuming occupation, and time is what the fully employed wife has no more to spare of than her husband. The male initiative in courtship is a pretty indiscriminate affair, something that is tried on with any remotely plausible woman who comes within range and, of course, with all degrees of tentativeness. What decides the issue of whether a genuine courtship is going to get under way is the woman's response. If she shows interest the engines of persuasion are set in movement. The

truth is that in courtship society gives women the real power while pretending to give it to men.

What does seem clear is that the more men and women are together, at work and away from it, the more the comprehensive amorousness of men towards women will have to go, despite all its past evolutionary services. For it is this that makes inferiority at work abrasive and, more indirectly, makes domestic work seem unmanly, if there is to be an equalizing redistribution of economic and domestic tasks between men and women there must be a compensating redistribution of the erotic initiative. If women will no longer let us beat them they must allow us to join them as the blushing recipients of flowers and chocolates.

1. Paragraph One advises the working wife who is more successful than her husband to

A. work in the same sort of job as her husband.

B. play down her success, making it sound unimportant. C. stress how much the family gains from her high salary. D. introduce more labour-saving machinery into the home.

2. Orwell's picture of relations between man and wife in Wigan Pier (Paragraph Two) describes a relationship which the author of the passage

A. thinks is the natural one. B. wishes to see preserved. C. believes is fair.

D. is sure must change.

3. Which of the following words is used literally, NOT metaphorically?

A. Abrasive (Paragraph Five). B. Engines (Paragraph Four). C. Convention (Paragraph Two). D. Heavily (Paragraph One).

4. The last paragraph stresses that if women are to hold important jobs, then they must

A. sometimes make the first advances in love. B. allow men to flirt with many women.

C. stop accepting presents of flowers and chocolates. D. avoid making their husbands look like \"Mary Anns\".

5. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about the present form of courtship?

A. Men are equally serious about courtship. B. Each man \"makes passes\" at many women.

C. The woman's reaction decides the fate of courtship.

D. The man leaves himself the opportunity to give up the chase quickly.

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

Richard, King of England from 1189 to 1199, with all his characteristic virtues and faults cast in a heroic mould, is one of the most fascinating medieval figures. He has been described as the creature and embodiment of the age of chivalry, In those days the lion was much admired in heraldry, and more than one king sought to link himself with its repute. When Richard's contemporaries called him\" Coeur de Lion\"(The Lion heart), they paid a lasting compliment to the king of beasts. Little did the English people owe him for his services, and heavily did they pay for his adventures. He was in England only twice for a few short months in his ten years' reign; yet his memory has always English hearts, and seems to present throughout the centuries the pattern of the fighting man. In all deeds of prowess as well as in large schemes of war Richard

shone. He was tall and delicately shaped strong in nerve and sinew, and most dexterous in arms. He rejoiced in personal combat, and regarded his opponents without malice as necessary agents in his fame. He loved war, not so much for the sake of glory or political ends, but as other men love science or poetry, for the excitement of the struggle and the glow of victory. By this his whole temperament was toned; and united with the highest qualities of the military commander, love of war called forth all the powers of his mind and body.

Although a man of blood and violence, Richard was too impetuous to be either treacherous or habitually cruel. He was as ready to forgive as he was hasty to offend; he was open-handed and munificent to profusion; in war circumspect in design and skilful in execution; in political a child, lacking in subtlety and experience. His political alliances were formed upon his likes and dislikes; his political schemes had neither unity nor clearness of purpose. The advantages gained for him by military genius were flung away through diplomatic ineptitude. When, on the journey to the East, Messina in Sicily was won by his arms he was easily persuaded to share with his polished, faithless ally, Philip Augustus, fruits of a victory which more wisely used might have foiled the French King's artful schemes. The rich and tenable acquisition of Cyprus was cast away even more easily than it was won. His life was one magnificent parade, which, when ended, left only an empty plain.

In 1199, when the difficulties of raising revenue for the endless war were at their height, good news was brought to King Richard. It was said there had been dug up near the castle of Chaluz, on the lands of one of his French vassals, a treasure of wonderful quality; a group of golden images of an emperor, his wife, sons and daughters, seated round a table, also of gold, had been unearthed. The King claimed this treasure as lord paramount. The lord of Chaluz resisted the demand, and the King laid siege to his small, weak castle. On the third day, as he rode daringly, near the wall. confident in his hard-tried luck, a bolt from a crossbow struck him in the left shoulder by the neck. The wound, already deep, was aggravated by the necessary cutting out of the arrow-head. Gangrene set in, and Coeur de Lion knew that he must pay a soldier’s debt. He prepared for death with fortitude and calm, and in accordance with the principles he had followed. He arranged his affairs, he divided his personal belongings among his friends or bequeathed them to charity. He declared John to be his heir, and made all present swear fealty to him. He ordered the archer who had shot the fatal bolt, and who was now a prisoner, to be brought before him. He pardoned him, and made him a gift of money. For seven years he had not confessed for fear of being compelled to be reconciled to Philip, but now he received the offices of the Church with sincere and exemplary piety, and died in the forty-second year of his age on April 6, 1199, worthy, by the consent of all men, to sit with King Arthur and Roland and other heroes of martial romance at some Eternal round Table, which we trust the Creator of the Universe in His comprehension will not have forgotten to provide.

The archer was flayed alive. 6 “ little did the English people owe him for his service” (paragraph one) means that the English A. paid few taxes to him. B. gave him little respect.

C. received little protection from him.

D. had no real cause to feel grateful to him.

7. Richard’s behaviour as death approached showed_________. A. bravery and self-control. B. Wisdom and correctness C. Devotion and romance D. Chivalry and charity

8. The point of the last short paragraph is that Richard was A. cheated by his own successors

B. determined to take revenge on his enemies.

C. more generous to his enemies than his successors. D unable to influence the behavior of his successors.

9. Which of the following phrase best describes Richard as seen by the author?

A. An aggressive king, too fond of war. B. A brave king with minor faults. C. A competent but cunning soldier. D. A king with great political skills.

10. The relationship between the first and second paragraphs is that

A. each presents one side of the picture.

B. the first generalizes the second gives examples. C. the second is the logical result of the first. D. both present Richard’s virtues and faults.

III. Proofreading and error correction. (10%)

The following passage contains 10 errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of one error. In each case, only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it.

When a human infant is born into any community in any part of the world it has two things in common with any infant, provided (1)_____

neither of them have been damaged in any way either before (2)__ or during birth. Firstly, and most obviously, new born children are completely helpless. Apart from a powerful capacity to pay attention to their helplessness by using sound, there is (3)____

nothing the new born child can do to ensure his own survival. Without care from some other human being or beings, be it mother, grandmother, or human groups, a child is very unlikely to survive. This helplessness of human infants is in marked contrast with the capacity of many new born animals to get on their feet within minutes of birth and run with herd within a few hours.(4)______ Although young animals are certainly in risk, sometimes (5)_____ For weeks or even months after birth, compared with the human infant they very quickly grow the capacity to fend for them.(6)_______

It is during this very long period in which the human infant

is totally depended on the others that it reveals the second (7)___ feature which it shares with all other undamaged human infants, a capacity to learn language. For this reason, biologists now

suggest that language be “species specific “ to the human (8)_____ race, that is to say, they consider the human infant to be

genetic programmed in such a way that it can acquire language.(9)______

This suggestion implies that just as human beings are designed to see three-dimensionally and in color, and just as they are

designed to stand upright other than to move on all fours, (10)____ so they are designed to learn and use language as part of their normal development as well-formed human beings.

IV. Please choose the corresponding rhetorical device

involved in each of the following sentences (10%)

1. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most

powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. A. simile B. metaphor C. hyperbole D. personification

2. As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. A. repetition B. parallelism C. antithesis D. synecdoche

3. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the

outer city of wealth and comfort and ……

A. transferred epithet B. metonymy C. antonomasia D. anaphora 4. The pen is mightier than the sword. A. metaphor B. antonomasia C. synecdoche D. metonymy

5. Without recognizing this we will end up with solutions that don’t solve, answers that don’t answer and explanations that don’t explain. A. rhetorical question B. litotes C. paralleled paradoxes D. biblical allusions

V. Paraphrase (10%)

1. You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto

exclusively owned by men. ( Professions for Women)

2. The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was

universal. (Goods Move, People Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change.)

3. Yet globalization is a reality, not a choice. (Goods Move, People

Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change.)

4. The absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious

habits and moral fiber. (Where Do We Go From Here)

5. At that time economic status was considered the measure of

the individual’s ability and talents. (Where Do We Go From Here)

VI. Translation (10+15=25%) Section A English to Chinese (10%)

1. To upset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an

affirmation of his own Olympian manhood.

2. Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been

successful unless the violent minority had the sympathy and support of the nonresistant majority.

3. Today we are in the throes of a worldwide reformation of

cultures, a tectonic shift of habits and dreams called, in the curious vocabulary of social scientists, “globalization.”

4. But I also discovered that cultures are as resourceful, resilient,

and unpredictable as the people who compose them.

5. Those aims cannot be taken for granted, they must be

perpetually questioned and examined.

Section B Chinese to English. (15%)

这次到台湾访问交流， 虽然行色匆匆，但是看了不少

地方， 访了旧友，交了新知。大家走到一起，谈论的一个重要话题就是中华民族在21世纪的强盛。虽然祖国大陆、台湾的青年生活在不同的社会环境中，有着各自不同的生活经历，但大家的内心都深深铭刻着中华文化优秀传统的印记，都拥有真行中华民族的共同理想。在世纪之交的伟大时代，我们的祖国正在走向繁荣富强，海峡两岸人民也将加强交流，共同推进祖国统一大业的早日完成。世纪之交的宝贵机遇和巨大挑战将青年推到了历史的前台。跨世纪青年一代应该用什么样的姿态去迎接充满希望的新世纪，这是我们必须回答的问题。1997年2月24日我们代表团下榻日月潭中信大饭店，送走了最后一批客人，已是次日凌晨

3点了。我躺在床上久久不能入睡，披衣走到窗前，往外看去，只见四周峰峦叠翠，湖面波光粼粼。望着台湾这仅有的景色如画的天然湖泊，我想了许多，许多……

这次到台湾访问交流，虽然行程匆匆，但是，看了不少

地方，访了旧友，交了新知，大家走到一起，谈论的一个重要话题就是中华民族在21世纪的强盛。虽然祖国大陆、台湾的青年生活在不同的社会环境中，有着各自不同的生活经历，但大家的内心都深深铭刻着中华文化优秀传统的印记，都拥有着振兴中华民族的共同理想。在世纪之交的伟大时代，我们的祖国正在走向繁荣富强，海峡两岸人民也将加强交流，共同推进祖国统一大业的早日完成。世纪之交的宝贵机遇和巨大挑战将青年推到了历史前台。跨世纪青年一代应该用什么样的姿态迎接充满希望的新世纪，这是我们必须回答的问题。

日月潭水波不兴，仿佛与我一同在思索…… 参考译文1：

On February 2，1997，our delegation checked into the ZhongXin Hotel by the side of the Riyuetan Lake. It was already 3 o'clock early the next morning by the time I saw off the last group of guests. For a long time，I could not fall asleep，even though I was comfortably lying in the bed. Putting on my clothes again，I got off the bed and walked to the window. Extending my eyes into the distance through the window，I was greeted by the view of the surrounding mountains and hills shrouded in layered greenness and the silvery flickering of waves scuttling across the surface of the Pool. Looking at the sole naturally-formed picturesque lake in Taiwan，I felt an infinite train of thoughts passing through my mind …

The current visit to Taiwan for exchange，brief and cursory as it is，has enabled us to see many places，to visit old friends while making new acquaintances. Whenever people gather together，an important topic of discussion has been how the Chinese nation can become prosperous and

powerful in the 21st

century. Although the young people on the Mainland and in Taiwan live in different social contexts （environments / milieus），with their individually different experiences of life，in the innermost recesses of their hearts are wrought an indelible mark by the fine traditions of the Chinese culture. They all cherish the same ideal to rejuvenate the Chinese nation （They share the same ideal to rejuvenate the Chinese nation）. In this great epoch at the turn of the century，our motherland is developing toward greater prosperity and powerfulness. People across the Taiwan Straits are bound to strengthen their exchanges and will mutually promote the earliest possible achievement of the great cause of reunification of the motherland. The precious opportunities and the tremendous challenges at the turn of the century have pushed the young people to the foreground（forefront）of the historical arena（stage）. At this transitional phase between the two millennia，in what way the young generation should embrace the forthcoming new century replete with hopes is a question to which we have to seek an answer.

In the Riyuetan Lake， the waves across the lake surface have by now all vanished. Enveloped in utter tranquility，the Lake has joined me in deep thoughts…

参考译文２：

During this brief stay in Taiwan for both visit and exchange, I saw a lot of places, visited some old friends and met some new acquaintances. When people got together, one major topic of the talk was the thriving of the Chinese nation in the 21st

century. Despite living in different social environments and having different life experiences, the youth of the mainland and the Island are both imprinted with the excellent traditions of the Chinese culture and share the common aspiration of revitalizing the Chinese nation. At the turn of this great era, our motherland is advancing towards prosperity. The people on both sides of the Straits are to strengthen their communication and make joint efforts to realize the great cause of reunifying the motherland as early as possible. The golden opportunity and the great challenge at this turn of the century have pushed the youth to the forefront of history. What attitude the trans-century generation adopt to embrace the promising new century will be a question that demands our answer.