高级英语试题

全国2008年1月高等教育自学考试

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)

As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lesson in living.” She said that I must always be 1 of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some 2 , unable to go to school, were more 3 and even more intelligent than 4 professors. She encouraged me to

5 carefully to what country people 6 mother wit. When salesmen are doing well, there is 7 upon them to begin doing better, for 8 they may start doing worse.

When they are doing 9 , they are doing terribly. When a salesman lands a large order or 10 in an important new account, 11 elation is brief, for there is danger he might lose that large order or important new account to a salesman 12 a competing company the next time around. The American dream promised older people that if they 13 hard enough all their lives, things would 14 well for them. Today’s elderly were brought up to 15 in pride, self-reliance and independence. Many 16 tough, determined individuals 17 manage to survive against adversity. But even the tough ones reach a 18 where help should be available to them.

Another solitary man was fishing further along the canal, 19 Arthur knew that they would leave each other 20 peace, would not even call 21 greetings. No one bothered 22 : you were a hunter, a dreamer, your own 23 , away from it all for a few hours on any day that the 24 did not throw down its rain. A. people E. boss I. believe M. are Q. out U. from B. fear F educated J. in N. point R. who V. called C. his G. intolerant K. but O. listen S. you W. poorly D. worked H. brings L. weather P pressure T. turn out X. college II. In this section, there are fifteen sentences taken from the textbooks 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. They lived, in bitter disillusionment, to see the establishment they had overthrown replaced by a ______ one, just as hard-faced and stuffy.

26. Among members of my own party, closed meetings were held to discuss ______ of stopping me.

27. No doubt somebody would have ______ if she hadn’t been there; she was part of the performance, after all. 28. All I cared ______ was that she had made tea cookies for me and read to me from her favorite book.

29. He sat with his ______ still pressed over his stomach, hiding his watch, but all through the cell you could hear its blunt tick tock tick.

30. Give me a restless ______ or two in bed and I can solve, to my own satisfaction, all the doubts of humanity. 31. I am not able, and I do not want, completely to ______ the world-view that I acquired in childhood.

32. We’re angry about the same things you are ______ policy—a little angrier because our lives were the things used to test those policies.

33. I frequently feel I’m being taken advantage of merely ______ I’m asked to do the work I’m paid to do.

34. Through the wide doors of the sheds she ______ a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes.

35. Persons who do remain at home while ______ ill health have serious difficulties in getting social, medical and psychiatric services brought directly to them.

36. What women didn’t seem to realize ______ that there were things you knew but shouldn’t say.

37. They execute extraordinarily well, and their proposition to customers is guaranteed low ______ or hassle-free service, or both.

38. Standing in front of the flower-stand woman she knew she ______ not have to explain that she wanted to leave them.

39. For some reason he smiled at what he saw, and turned ______ some yards along the towpath. A. irregular E. noticed I. would M. price Q. caught U. apology B. ways F abandon J. humiliating N. new R. in vain V. was C. genetics G. in terms of K. compulsion O. hands S. in W. by means of D. about H. to walk L. meditate P crunch T. hour X. because 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. Mutual cooperation was ______ from the generals’ point of view, because it wasn’t helping them to win the war. A. understandable

B. undesirable

41. He was much more restless than last night, and, despite sleeping drugs, much more ______. A. awake

B. wakeful

42. The marketplace ______ the requirements of advertisers. A. cares for

B. caters to

43. At first I found the ______ of being unemployed very difficult to cope with. A. stigma

B. ugliness

44. Using the right hand to shake hands is a(an) ______. A. invention

B. convention

45. Let’s try and discuss this like two ______ human beings. A. rational

B. fashionable

46. Colleges and universities can no longer take ______ the learning that should be occurring on their campuses. A. for granted

B. for pride

47. I won’t pay top prices for goods of ______ quality. A. high

B. inferior

48. I took what he said ______, but afterwards it became clear that he really meant something else. A. literally

B. freely

49. John was standing in the doorway in his ______ blue suit. A. broken

B. shabby

50. About fifteen minutes later, I managed to secretly ______ the distressed woman from danger. A. rescue

B. reserve

51. Finally they realized that they must reduce their country’s ______ on imported grain. A. development

B. dependency

52. Susan looked ______, her whole body weak with exhaustion. A. pitiful

B. hopeful

53. Do you think that marriage between gay couples should be ______ in our country some day? A. realized

B. legalized

54. If you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for continuity of the ______ arts, for history—then you have no business being in college. A. beautiful

B. fine

Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding four items IV, V, VI and VII.

Waiting as a Way of Life

（1）Waiting is a kind of suspended animation, a feeling that one can’t do anything because one is waiting for

something to happen. Waiting casts one’s life into a little hell of time. It is a way of being controlled, of being rendered immobile and helpless. One can read a book or sing (odd looks from the others) or chat with strangers if the wait is long enough to begin forming a bond of shared experience, as at a snowed-in airport. But people tend to do their waiting impassively. When the sound system went dead during the campaign debate in 1976, Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter stood in mute suspension for 27 minutes, looking lost.

（2）To enforce a wait, of course, is to exert power. To wait is to be powerless. Consider one minor, almost subliminal

form. The telephone rings. One picks up the receiver and hears a secretary say, “Please hold for Mr. Green.” One sits for perhaps five seconds, the blood pressure just beginning to cook up toward the red line, when Green comes on the line with a hearty “How are ya?” and business proceeds and the moment passes, Mr. Green having established that he is (subtly) in control, that his time is more precious than his callee’s.

（3）Waiting is a form of imprisonment. One is doing time—but why? One is being punished not for an offense of

one’s own but often for the inefficiencies of those who impose the wait. Hence the peculiar rage that waits cause, the sense of injustice. Aside from boredom and physical discomfort, the subtler misery of waiting is the knowledge that one’s most precious resource, time, a fraction of one’s life, is being stolen away, irrecoverably lost. （4）Americans have enough miseries of waiting, of course—waits sometimes connected with affluence and leisure.

The lines to get a passport in Manhattan last week stretched around the block in Rockefeller Center. Travelers waited four and five hours just to get into bureaucracy’s front door. A Washington Post editorial writer reported a few days ago that the passengers on her 747, diverted to Hartford, Connecticut, on the return flight from Rome as a result of bad weather in New York City, were forced to sit on a runway for seven hours because no customs inspectors were on hand to process them.

（5）The great American waits are often democratic enough, like traffic jams. Some of the great waits have been

collective, tribal — waiting for the release of the American hostages in Iran, for example. But waiting often makes class distinctions. One of the more depressing things about being poor in America is the endless waiting in welfare or unemployment lines. The waiting rooms of the poor are often in bad conditions, but in fact almost all waiting rooms are spiritless and blank-eyed places where it always feels like 3 in the morning.

（6）One of the inestimable advantages of wealth is the immunity that it can purchase from serious waiting. The rich do

not wait in long lines to buy groceries or airplane tickets. The help sees to it. The limousine takes the privileged right out onto the tarmac, their shoes barely grazing the ground. （7）People wait when they have no choice or when they believe that the wait is justified by the reward—a concert

ticket, say. Waiting has its social orderings, its rules and assumptions. Otherwise peaceful citizens explode when someone cuts into a line that has been waiting a long time. It is unjust; suffering is not being fairly distributed. Oddly, behavioral scientists have found that the strongest protests tend to come from the immediate victims, the people directly behind the line jumpers. People farther down the line complain less or not at all, even though they have been equally penalized by losing a place.

（8）Waiting can have a delicious quality (“I can’t wait to see her.” “I can’t wait for the party”), and sometimes the

waiting is better than the event awaited. At the other extreme, it can shade into terror: when one waits for a child who is late coming home or—most horribly—has vanished. When anyone has disappeared, in fact, or is missing in action, the ordinary stress of waiting is overlaid with an unbearable anguish of speculation: Alive or dead? （9）Waiting can seem an interval of nonbeing, the blank space between events and the outcomes of desires. It makes

time maddeningly elastic: it has a way of seeming to compact eternity into a few hours. Yet its brackets ultimately expand to the largest dimensions. One waits for California to drop into the sea or for the Messiah. All life is a waiting, and perhaps in that sense one should not be too eager for the wait to end. The region that lies on the other side of waiting is eternity.

IV. In this section, there are ten incomplete statements, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose

the best answer and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 1 point for each) 55. In the first paragraph, the writer introduces ______. A. how people wait in different situations B. the great anger of people caused by waiting C. how miserable people feel while waiting

D. negative aspects of waiting and some way of coping

56. Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter stood in mute suspension when the sound system went dead because they ______. A. wanted to have a rest C. chose to wait that way

B. didn’t like each other D. didn’t know what to say

57. The example given in Paragraph 2 shows that ______. A. one can receive an unexpected phone call B. sometimes one is forced to wait

C. Mr. Green is too slow to come to the phone D. a caller is always superior to a callee

58. From the passage we get to know that waiting makes people angry because ______. A. they don’t have so much time C. it is ridiculous for them to wait 59. Which of the following statements is true? A. Waits are considered terrible by Americans. B. Waiting is sometimes considered pleasant. C. People wait for different reasons in America. D. Travelers in America are free from waiting. 60. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A. Americans were greatly concerned about the American hostages in Iran B. waiting for the American hostages in Iran to be released was great C. the American hostages in Iran were admired by people at home D. all Americans were waiting for the American hostages to be released 61. We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. being poor in America means waiting for various things B. in order to get what they want Americans have to wait C. rich people are free from waiting in long lines to buy things D. endless waiting depresses Americans more than anything else 62. According to the passage, people waiting in a line ______. A. fail to protest against line jumpers B. all hate the line jumpers very much C. consider line jumping an immoral behavior D. respond differently to the line jumpers 63. It is implied that ______.

A. worrying about the result is worse than waiting B. waiting for a missing person is the worst thing C. many people can’t bear the stress of waiting D. some people would rather wait than know the result . The author’s tone of the last paragraph is ______. A. sincere C. pessimistic

B. ironic D. optimistic

B. their time is wasted by strangers D. they feel being punished unfairly

V. There is one underlined part in each of the following sentences, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and

D. Choose the one that is closest in meaning to the underlined part and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each) 65. One is doing time—but why? A. passing time carelessly C. calculating time accurately

66. But waiting often makes class distinctions. B. spending time in prison D. enjoying the time lonely

A. differences C. connections

B. similarities D. conflicts

67. The limousine takes the privileged right out into the tarmac, their shoes barely grazing the ground. A. touching C. feeling

B. polluting D. walking

68. Otherwise peaceful citizens explode when someone cuts into a line that has been waiting a long time. A. become excited C. get very angry

B. turn into a mob D. protest immediately

69.„ the ordinary stress of waiting is overlaid with an unbearable anguish of speculation: Alive or dead? A. belief C. doubt

B. expectation D. guess

VI. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2

points for each)

70. One is being punished not for an offense of one’s own but often for the inefficiencies of those who impose the wait. 71. Aside from boredom and physical discomfort, the subtler misery of waiting is the knowledge that one’s precious resource, time, a fraction of one’s life, is being stolen away, irrecoverably lost.

72. Americans have enough miseries of waiting, of course—waits sometimes connected with affluence and leisure. 73. One of the more depressing things about being poor in America is the endless waiting in welfare or unemployment lines.

74. The rich do not wait in long lines to buy groceries or airplane tickets. The help sees to it.

VII. Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words.Write your answers on the Answer

Sheet. (10 points)

75. What is the author’s purpose in writing the article?

VIII. Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (18 points, 2

points each for 76-80, 8 points for 81)

76.我们的城市将继续变得更加拥挤喧嚣，景色将变得更加混乱，空气和水变得更脏。 77.当我们从敞开的后门走进去的时候，看到厨房里站着一些人。

78.他们每个人都能说出至少一位上级，感到他对自己怀有敌意，而且存心想毁了自己的前途。 79.她做梦也没想到会和这些熟悉的东西分开，今后可能再也见不到它们了。 80.他站在大门口，尖顶帽推到脑后，头发向前散乱地垂在晒得黝黑的脸上。

81.老年生活既不是本来就痛苦，也不是本来就美满的。它和生命的每个阶段一样，有困难、欢乐、恐惧和无限的潜力。变老的过程以及最后的死亡必须从根本上就被看作是生命周期的自然进程，老年人结束了生命，为年轻人让路。老年的独特之处实际上主要在于变老的事实和死亡的逼近。

全国2008年10月高等教育自学考试

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)

Women have an average life 1 of seven years longer than men and tend to marry men older than themselves; so

two-thirds (six million) of all older women are widows. 2 widowed they do not have the same social prerogatives as older men to 3 and marry those who are younger. 4 , they are likely to end up alone—an ironic 5 of events when one remembers that most of them were raised from childhood to consider 6 the only acceptable state.

The sheriff follows the county attorney 7 the other room. Then Mrs. Hale rises, hands 8 _ together, 9 intensely at Mrs. Peters, whose eyes make a slow turn, finally 10 Mrs. Hale’s. A moment Mrs. Hale holds her, then her own eyes 11 the way to where the box is concealed. 12 Mrs. Peters throws back quilt pieces and tries to put the box in the bag she is wearing.

A company that delivers value 13 customer intimacy builds 14 with customers like those between good neighbors. Customer-intimate companies don’t deliver what the market wants

15 what a specific customer wants. The customer-intimate company 16 a business of knowing the people it sells to and the products and services they need. It continually 17 its products and services and does so at 18 prices.

Childhood’s 19 never asks to be proved (all conclusions are absolute). I didn’t question why Mrs. Flowers had 20 me out for attention, nor did it 21 me that Momma might have asked her to give me a little talking to. All I 22 was that she had made tea cookies for me and read to me from her 23 book. It was 24 to prove that she liked me. A. via E. logic I. but M. expectancy Q. meeting B. reasonable F. occur to J. makes N. turn R. As a result C. enough G. tailors K. singled D. cared about H. bonds L. into O. date P tight S. When T. point U. Suddenly V. favorite W. marriage X. looking II. In this section, there are fifteen sentences taken from the textbooks 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. The campaign for more physical beauty seems to be both a tremendous success and a ______failure.

26. When salesmen are doing well, there is pressure upon them to begin doing better, ______ they may start doing worse.

27. In its entertainment, television ______ far too much to the lowest instincts of man, particularly the lust for violence. 28. Modernity-snobs naturally tend to throw away their old ______ and buy new ones at a greater rate than those who are not modernity-snobs.

29. But far worse is the nightmare of travel in and around Los Angeles, where public transport does not exist and people are literally choking ______ in their exhaust fumes.

30. She felt her blood ______ her temples and there was pressure in her chest below the hollow.

31. We don’t advertise openings and we don’t solicit applications. We keep a low ______, and we do things differently. 32. She had hard work to see that the two young children who had been left to her ______ went to school regularly and got their meals regularly.

33. On the edge of a small cape that marked the side of the bay away from the promontory was a loose ______ of rocks.

34. She hurried on the almond Sundays and ______ the match for the kettle in quite a dashing way.

35. For all but the last six, I have done the work—all the tedious details that ______ between victory and defeat on election day—while men reaped the rewards, which is almost invariably the lot of women in politics. 36. The child strikes his head in the bath and falls unconscious. The man sits down and watches him ______. 37. Her tongue was cut and she was screaming in wild ______ shrieks.

38. I believe that TV’s appeal to the short attention span is not only inefficient communication but decivilizing ______. 39. Indeed from the first draw any mark of pleasure was taboo: one couldn’t mock the ______ man by any sign of relief. A. lamentable E. cares I. pricking along M. or Q. caters B. to death F. processes J. condemned N. possessions R. terrifying C. for fear G. struck K. painting O. as well S. separate D. unless H. drown L. in death P. charge T. hysterical 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. A fist fight followed, with much shouting and ______, until the ragged man succeeded in driving up to the door. A. disputing

B. squabbling

41. Susie will examine our secondary school programs to insure that all students are prepared to be responsible, productive and technologically ______ citizens of the 21st century. A. literary

B. literate

42. Meanwhile I’m just going to be hanging around ______ my thumbs, so if you’ve got anything an idle detective can do, just say the word. A. twiddling

B. twisting

43. These tasks were repetitive, lengthy, and lacking in any ______ interest. A. intrinsic

B. instinctive

44. Louisa said she could not go on living with a man who had married her under false ______. A. pretences

B. preferences

45. Deep at night, they could still hear gun-fire ______ in the distance. A. rumbling

B. rambling

46. Her husband did not like her new interests and her ______ added further strain to an already failing marriage. A. persistence

B. obstinacy

47. Political leaders have reached a ______ agreement to hold a preparatory conference next month. A. hesitant

B. tentative

48. Initially this was ______ at as farfetched conjecture, but gradually it has received grudging respect and empirical support. A. scolded

B. scoffed

49. Gaining ______ to the club was no easy matter. A. permission

B. admittance

50. Even though thousands of people die violently each year in Sri Lanka, the death of an important figure causes national ______.

A. anguish

B. melancholy

51. The rapid fire of questions was deliberate, she knew, designed to scare her into ______ out the truth. A. blurting

B. blunting

52. Small debts could rapidly mount up and begin to exert ______ pressure on the relationship between husband and wife.

A. intolerant

B. intolerable

53. This part of the story is perhaps the most exciting, since the company not only kept its head above water, but produced a series of plays which ______ its reputation. A. increased

B. enhanced

54. He looked across the sea: a faint ______ of pale light was rising in the midnight-blue sky. A. glimmer

B. glamour

Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding four items IV, V, VI and VII.

How America Lives

(1) Americans still follow many of the old ways. In a time of rapid changes it is essential that we remember how much of the old we cling to. Young people still get married. Of course, many do get divorced, but they remarry at astonishing rates. They have children, but fewer than before. They belong to churches, even though they attend somewhat less frequently, and they want their children to have religious instruction. They are willing to pay taxes for education, and they generously support institutions like hospitals, museums and libraries. In fact, when you compare the America of today with that of 1950, the similarities are far greater than the differences.

(2) Americans seem to be growing conservative. The 1980 election, especially for the Senate and House of Representatives, signaled a decided turn to the right insofar as political and social attitudes were concerned. It is as if our country spent the 1960s and 1970s jealously breaking out of old restraints and now wishes to put the brakes on. We should expect to see a reaffirmation of traditional family values, sharp restraints on pornography, a return to religion and a rejection of certain kinds of social legislation.

(3) Patterns of courtship and marriage have changed radically. Where sex was concerned, I was raised in an atmosphere of suspicion, repression and Puritanism, and although husky young kids can survive almost anything, many in my generation suffered grievously. Without reservation, I applaud the freer patterns of today, although I believe that it’s been difficult for some families to handle the changes.

(4) American women are changing the rules. Thirty years ago I could not have imagined a group of women employees suing a major corporation for millions of dollars of salary which, they alleged, had been denied them because they had been discriminated against. Nor could I imagine women in universities going up to the men who ran the athletic programs and demanding a just share of the physical education budget. At work, at play, at all levels of living women are suggesting new rules.

(5) America is worried about its schools. If I had a child today, I would send her or him to a private school for the sake of safety, for the discipline that would be enforced and for the rigorous academic requirements. But I would doubt that the child would get any better education than l did in my good public school. The problem is that good public schools are becoming pitifully rare, and I would not want to take the chance that the one I sent my children to was

inadequate.

(6) Some Americans must live on welfare. Since it seems obvious that our nation can produce all its needs with only a part of the available work force, some kind of social welfare assistance must be doled out to those who cannot find jobs. When I think of a typical welfare recipient I think of a young neighbor woman whose husband was killed in a tragic accident, leaving her with three young children. In the bad old days she might have known destitution, but with family assistance she was able to hold her children together and produced three fine, tax-paying citizens. America is essentially a compassionate society.

(7) America cannot find housing for its young families. I consider this the most serious danger confronting family life in America, and I am appalled that the condition has been allowed to develop. For more than a decade, travelers like me have been aware that in countries like Sweden, Denmark, Russia and India young people have found it almost impossible to acquire homes. In Sweden the customary wait was 11 years of marriage, and we used to ask, “what went wrong?” It seemed to us that a major responsibility of any nation would be to provide homes for its young people starting their families. Well, this dreadful social sickness has now overtaken the United States, and for the same reasons. The builders in our society find it profitable to erect three-bathroom homes that sell for $220,000 with a mortgage at 19 percent but find it impossible to erect small homes for young marrieds. For a major nation to show itself impotent to house its young people is admitting a failure that must be corrected.

(8) Our prospects are still good. We have a physical setting of remarkable integrity, the world’s best agriculture, a splendid wealth of minerals, great rivers for irrigation and an unsurpassed system of roads for transportation. We also have a magnificent mixture of people from all the continents with varied traditions and strengths. But most of all, we have a unique and balanced system of government.

(9) I think of America as having the oldest form of government on earth, because since we started our present democracy in 17, every other nation has suffered either parliamentary change or revolutionary change. It is our system that has survived and should survive, giving the maximum number of people a maximum chance for happiness.

IV. In this section, there are ten incomplete statements, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 1 point for each) 55. Which of the following is NOT a major aspect of the American life discussed by the writer? A. Family value and housing. C. Agriculture and transportation.

B. Social welfare and education. D. Marriage and women’s social status.

56. The author welcomes the freer patterns of today’s courtship and marriage ______. A. since nobody can survive almost anything

B. because many young kids of his time suffered bitterly

C. although all the families find it difficult to deal with the changes D. whether or not these changes have indicated a decided turn to the right 57. American public schools today are ______. A. no better than those decades ago B. no worse than those in the past C. less desirable than they used to be

D. more desirable than private schools

58. Builders seem not willing to put up small homes for young married couples because ______. A. there is no market demand for small houses

B. America is a nation impotent to house its young people C. most young people would dream of having larger homes D. it is not very lucrative for builders to put up small houses

59. The America of today is similar with that of 1950, a case in point is ______. A. young people have more children than their parents did

B. young people do many things in the same ways as their parents did C. American people are reluctant to donate money to public services D. many young people are cautious about getting re-married after a divorce 60. Which of the following is a serious problem that exists in American society? A. American women are changing the rules.

B. America cannot provide homes for its young people. C. American public schools are as good as private schools. D. None of the jobless can enjoy more welfare than before.

61. As the writer expects to see a reaffirmation of traditional family values, sharp restraints on pornography, a return to religion and a rejection of certain kinds of social legislation, he is somewhat ______. A. radical

C. conservative

B. cynical D. open-minded

62. Obviously, the writer is ______ the major changes that have taken place and that are occurring in American life. A. in favor of C. critical of

B. enraged by D. worried about

63. The American system of government has survived and should survive, because ______. A. it is truly democratic B. it is the oldest on earth

C. it has experienced numerous changes D. it offers its people chances of happiness . This essay is ______. A. narrative C. descriptive

B. expository D. argumentative

V. There is one underlined part in each of the following sentences, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is closest in meaning to the underlined part and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)

65. In a time of rapid changes it is essential that we remember how much of the old we cling to. A. adhere to C. take pride in

B. put up with D. agree upon

66. It is as if our country spent the 1960s and 1970s jealously breaking out of old restraints and now wishes to put the brakes on. A. stop it C. renounce it

B. embrace it D. accelerate it

67. Thirty years ago I could not have imagined a group of women employees suing a major corporation for millions of dollars of salary...

A. applying to C. making a legal claim against

B. competing with

D. demanding compensation from

68. In the bad old days she might have known destitution, but with family assistance she was able to hold her children together...

A. scarcity C. prostitution

B. prosperity D. impoverishment

69. I consider this the most-serious danger confronting family life in America, and I am appalled that the condition has been allowed to develop. A. satisfied C. reminded

B. shocked D. convinced

Vl. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)

70. They belong to churches, even though they attend somewhat less frequently, and they want their children to have religious instruction.

71. The 1980 election, especially for the Senate and House of Representatives, signaled a decided turn to the right insofar as political and social attitudes were concerned.

72. Nor could I imagine women in universities going up to the men who ran the athletic programs and demanding a just share of the physical education budget.

73. The problem is that good public schools are becoming pitifully rare, and I would not want to take the chance that the one I sent my children to was inadequate.

74. For a major nation to show itself impotent to house its young people is admitting a failure that must be corrected. VII. Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words. Write your answers on the Answer

Sheet. (10 points)

75. What do you think are the merits that we could learn from Americans?

VIII.Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (18 points, 2

points each for 76-80, 8 points for 81)

76. 就而言，我们和你们一样对相同的事情感到愤怒——我们更为愤怒，因为我们的生命成了用来检验政

策的东西。

77. 在我看来，没有比睡眠问题更能说明事物的对立性了。

78. 人类历史上什么时候有这么多人一起把闲暇时间耗在一种玩具——电视上？ 79. 也许她再也看不到这些熟悉的东西了，她做梦也没想到会和它们分开。 80. 先不说写作是为了养家糊口，我认为写作有四个主要动机，至少写散文是如此。

81. 与美国传统不同，总的来说，在英国黑人和白人之间并没有细微的区分。在伦敦，除了为数不多的几家只

对白人开放的俱乐部外，划分种族界限的场合很少。英国人没有肤色偏见，牛津的大学生活更是如此。就是在这样一种宽松的气氛里，我的关于种族和家庭的戒备心理松懈下来了。

全国2009年10月高等教育自学考试

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) So at least the historical evidence seems to suggest. When I was graduating from college, my

1 also found the world in a mess. The economic machinery had 2 down almost everywhere: In this country 3 a quarter of the population was out of work. A major war seemed all too 4 . As a college newspaper editor at that time, I protested 5 this just as vehemently as student 6 are protesting today.

But today she passed the baker’s by, climbed the 7 , went into the little dark room—her room like a cupboard—and sat down on the red eiderdown. She sat 8 for a long time. The box 9 the fur came out of was 10 the bed. She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, 11 looking, laid it inside. But when she put the 12 on she thought she heard something crying.

The Watts-as-a-way-station mentality has a firm hold on 13 those who remain and those who leave. Such as 14 is, the ghetto is regarded as 15 place to make a career for those who have a future. Without 16 , the prime American values underscore the 17 . Negroes, inside it or out, and whites too, behave toward the 18 like travelers.

I know that American technical genius, and 19 of all the moon landing, seems to give the 20 to too summary a condemnation of the 21 system, but there is more to education 22 the segmental equipping of the mind. There is that transmission of the value of the 23 as a force still miraculously fertile and moving—mostly 24 from American education at all levels.

II. In this section, there are fifteen sentences taken from the textbooks 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. Like all artists, these rock musicians _____ feelings and beliefs that help us see and form our own. 26. If you don’t do what the doctor says you’ll have to go to the hospital, the mother admonished her _____.

27. I hope that the example of my _____ will convince other women to get into politics—and not just to stuff envelopes, but to run for office.

28. There was a little path beside the rocky road, and Mrs. Flowers walked _____ swinging her arms and picking her way over the stones.

29. It has become _____ to think that, like fast food, fast ideas are the way to get to a fast-moving, impatient public. 30. All skilled work can be pleasurable, provided the skill _____ is either variable or capable of indefinite improvement.

31. She frowned, conscientiously worrying over what _____ he might secretly be longing for which she had been too busy or too careless to imagine.

32. When salesmen are doing well, there is pressure upon them to begin _____ better, for fear they may start doing worse.

33. Television also provides a wide _____ of opinion by setting up four or five experts and letting them knock each other down.

34. I guess before we’re _____ she may have something more serious than preserves to worry about.

35. She brought a cigarette out of her apron pocket and tucked it deep into one _____ of her mouth, the way she did when something pleased her.

36. Except for some exclusive clubs in London, there were _____ occasions where racial lines were drawn. 37. Undoubtedly the desire for food has been, and still is, one of the main causes of great _____ events.

38. At the same time, of course, the producer must do his bit by producing nothing but the most perishable _____. 39. The northern wind blows viciously today, and there’s no _____ heating to turn on, but it will be pleasant when the wind drops.

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. His _____ and unwillingness to learn from others prevent him from being an effective member of the team. A. arrogance

B. advantage

41. We must try to create a more caring, more _____ society. A. compassionate

B. competitive

42. It was _____ and she did not know enough to analyze each problem properly. A. encouraging

B. exhausting

43. Although each TV series will be rated on the basis of its usual content, the ratings can _____ from week to week.

A. flow

B. fluctuate

44. This _____ factor means that there is often a connection in appearance and temperament between parents and children.

A. historical B. hereditary

45. Though she _____ and pleaded, he refused to go to the dance. A. coaxed

B. admonished

46. Jack managed to get 147 tapes and 100 books plus lots of magazines through customs in a(n) _____ way. A. incredulous

B. miraculous

47. These days people are becoming more and more _____ about the food they eat. A. sophisticated

B. selective

48. The question of going to the United States for a doctor’s degree _____ his mind. A. preoccupied B. intruded

49. In the last twenty years, breakthroughs in technology have _____ advanced the way we communicate, bringing us computers, cell phones and the Internet. A. profoundly

B. deeply

50. In our culture, we are accustomed to sophisticated prescription drugs containing a _____ of chemical ingredients. A. plenty

B. variety

51. We cannot _____ the country’s telecommunications to unqualified people. A. trust

B. entrust

52. Imagine how many times restaurants and merchants had to change their posted prices during the _____ 1970s, when prices almost doubled. A. inflationary

B. extraordinary

53. Compared with the _____ period last year, average temperatures have been low. A. corresponding

B. related

54. In the middle of these otherwise _____ plains is a striking range of mountains. A. featureless

B. pointless

Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding three items IV, V and VI.

Bright Sparks

(1) By the time Laszlo Polagar’s first baby was born in 1969 he already had firm views on child-rearing. An eccentric citizen of communist Hungary, he had written a book called “Bring up Genius!” and one of his favorite sayings was “Geniuses are made, not born”.

(2) An expert on the theory of chess, he proceeded to teach little Zsuzsa at home, spending up to ten hours a day on the game. Two more daughters were similarly hot-housed. All three obliged their father by becoming world-class players. The youngest, Judit, is currently ranked 13th in the world, and is by far the best female chess player of all time.

(3) Would the experiment have succeeded with a different trio of children? If any child can be turned into a star, then a lot of time and money are being wasted worldwide on trying to pick winners.

(4) America has long held “talent searches”, using test results and teacher recommendations to select children for advanced school courses, summer schools and other extra tuition. This provision is set to grow. In his state-of-the-union address in 2006, President George Bush announced the “American Competitiveness Initiative”, which, among much else, would train 70,000 high-school teachers to lead advanced courses for selected

pupils in mathematics and science. Just as the super powers’ space race made Congress put money into science education, the thought of China and India turning out hundreds of thousands of engineers and scientists is scaring America into stimulating its brightest to do their best. (5) The philosophy behind this talent search is that ability is innate; that it can be diagnosed with considerable accuracy; and that it is worth cultivating.

(6) In America, bright children are ranked as “moderately”, “highly”, “exceptionally” and “profoundly” gifted. The only chance to influence innate ability is thought to be in the womb or the first couple of years of life. Hence the craze for “teaching aids” such as videos and flashcards for newborns, and “whale sounds” on tape which a pregnant mother can strap to her belly.

(7) In Britain, there is a broadly similar belief in the existence of innate talent, but also an egalitarian (平等主义的) sentiment which makes people queasy about the idea of investing resources in grooming intelligence. (8) Teachers are often opposed to separate provision for the best-performing children, saying any extra help should go to stragglers. In 2002, in a bid to help the able while leaving intact the ban on most selection by ability in state schools, the government set up the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth. This outfit runs summer schools and master classes for children nominated by their schools. To date, though, only seven in ten secondary schools have nominated even a single child. Last year all schools were told they must supply the names of their top 10%. (9) Picking winners is also the order of the day in excommunist states, a hangover from the times when talented individuals were plucked from their homes and ruthlessly trained for the glory of the nation. But in many other countries, opposition to the idea of singling out talent and grooming it runs deep. In Scandinavia, a belief in virtues like modesty and social solidarity makes people flinch from the idea of treating brainy children differently. (10) And in Japan there is a widespread belief that all children are born with the same innate abilities - and should

therefore be treated alike. All are taught together, covering the same syllabus at the same rate until they finish compulsory schooling. Those who learn quickest are expected then to teach their classmates.

(11) Statistics give little clue as to which system is best. The performance of the most able is heavily affected by factors

other than state provision. Most state education in Britain is nominally non-selective, but middle-class parents try to live near the best schools. Ambitious Japanese parents have made private, out-of-school tuition a thriving business. And Scandinavia’s egalitarianism might work less well in places with more diverse populations and less competent teachers. For what it’s worth, the statistical data suggest that some countries, like Japan and Finland, can avoid selection and still thrive. But that does not mean that any country can ditch selection and do as well. (12) Mr. Polgar thought any child could be a prodigy given the right teaching, an early start and enough practice. Some say the key to success is simply hard graft. Judit, the youngest of the Polgar sisters, was the most driven, and the most successful; Zsofia, the middle one, was regarded as the most talented, but she was the only one who did not achieve the status of grand master. “Everything came easiest to her,” said her older sister. “But she was lazy.” IV. In this section, there are ten incomplete statements followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose

the best answer and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (20 points, 2 points for each) 55. In their childhood, the three daughters of Polagar _____. A. played chess in house all day long

B. had plenty of intense training on chess C. took various lessons on games in house D. revealed their talent in playing chess

56. In paragraph 3, the author tends to _____ Polagar’s view on child-rearing. A. support C. question

B. despise D. defend

57. In America, student winners are usually picked out on the basis of _____. A. test results and praises from teachers B. teacher recommendations and test papers C. test scores and teacher recommendations D. self-presentation and teachers’ evaluations

58. The American “talent searches” is based on the belief that _____. A. there is no innate ability B. few have inborn talent

C. education can help develop talent D, one’s innate ability can be measured

59. In paragraph 7, the word “queasy” is closest in meaning to _____. A. curious C. unhappy 60. According to the passage, in Britain, _____.

A. state schools are forbidden to select winners by talent B. state schools are allowed to select students by ability C. secondary schools are eager to pick talented students D. the government is entitled to picking talented children 61. In paragraph 8, the word “outfit” is closest in meaning to _____. A. corporation C. government

B. community D. organization B. worried D. comfortable

62. In Scandinavia, people value virtues like modesty and social solidarity, so they _____. A. approve of the idea of selecting different brains B. single out the talented children from the dull ones C. refuse to teach talented children in normal ways D. avoid picking talented children for special education 63. In paragraph 11, the word “ditch” is closest in meaning to _____. A. abandon C. welcome . Of the Polgar sisters, _____.

A. all achieved the status of grand master B. two became world-class chess players

B. embrace D. denounce

C. the youngest was the most diligent one D. the eldest was under the greatest pressure

V. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)

65. … the thought of China and India turning out hundreds of thousands of engineers and scientists is scaring America into stimulating its brightest to do their best.

66. To date, though, only seven in ten secondary schools have nominated even a single child. Last year all schools were told they must supply the names of their top 10%.

67. But in many other countries, opposition to the idea of singling out talent and grooming it runs deep.

68. And Scandinavia’s egalitarianism might work less well in places with more diverse populations and less competent teachers.

69. Mr. Polgar thought any child could be a prodigy given the right teaching, an early start and enough practice. VI. Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 points)

70. Do you believe in innate ability? Why or why not?

VII. Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (18 points, 2

points each for 71-75, 8 points for 76)

71．不幸的是，我们地球上高尚的野蛮人和未被玷污的地方越来越少，除了北极和南极，边疆地区已无处可觅。 72．美国唯一没有受到经济萧条影响的产业就是美容业。

73．在消费者中有组织的浪费是我们工业繁荣的先决条件。消费者将买来的东西越快扔 掉并购买新的，对

生产者就越好。

74．这一切至关重要且相互关联的因素共同决定一个人晚年生活的质量。

75．对于这些产品领导者，竞争的不是价格或顾客服务(尽管那些不容忽视)，而是产品的性能。

76．读写能力可能算不上一项不可剥夺的，但我们极有学问的开国元勋们并不觉得 它不合理，甚至达

不到。从统计数字看，我们不仅没有在全国范围内达到人人都能读写的目标，而目离达到这个目标越来越

远。尽管我不会简单到认为电视是造成这一局面的直接原因，我却相信它起了一定作用，是一个影响因素。

全国2010年10月自学考试高级英语试题和答案

I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. 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. (25 points, 1 point for each)

Today’s heroes—some of them, anyway—tell us they enjoy their 1 . “And I 2 to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never 3 of us billion-dollar babies.” The 4 “culture hero” who 5 that is Alice Cooper.

If I said that being black is a greater 6 than being a woman, probably no one would 7

me. Why? Because “we all know” there is 8 against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still 9 nearly all men—and, I am afraid, most women—as 10 .

There is, however, another 11 possessed by the best work, which is even more important as a 12 of happiness than is the exercise of 13 . This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no 14

in most, something is built up which remains as a 15 when the work is completed.

My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the 16 year at Whittier College, was 17 . It was to me less of a 18 ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University, to Yale Law School, and back to Watts. I had 19 then, as now, to make Watts my 20 . Well, it’s a good life and a good 21 , all said and 22 , if you don’t 23 , and if you know that the big wide world hasn’t 24 from you yet, no, not by a long way, though it won’t be long now. The float bobbed more violently than before and, with a 25 on his face, he began to wind in the reel. A. handicap F. question K. source R skill U. rewards B. element G. freshman L. different Q. laughed V. departure C. weaken H. home M. conceived R. prejudice W. intended D. means I. strikes N. particular S. monument X. world E. heard J. done O. grin T. sings Y. bizarre II. Each of the following sentences is given four 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) 26. The citizens are grateful to the government for the ______ environment. A. wholesome C. noisome

B. wholesale D. tiresome

27. The farmers’ ______ from the contest aroused heated debates. A. omission C. inclusion

B. exclusion D. emission

28. He owed his victory to endurance and ______. A. instance C. subsistence

B. existence D. perseverance

29. He killed his enemy and received a ______ wound himself. A. moral C. mortal

B. fateful D. factual

30. To remove the paint, he had to apply a knife to ______ the table. A. scrape C. dab

B. rub D. peel

31. The local government decided to ______ money for the building of a new post office. A. distribute C. contribute

B. divide D. allot

32. She was ______ of her notorious family scandal. A. shameful C. ashamed

B. shameless D. shamed

33. Since then, the contrast between his two careers has become even more ______. A. symbolized C. predominated

B. distinguished D. pronounced

34. I recall how ______ it was years ago when people littered everywhere in our city. A. annoying C. frightening

B. scaring D. humiliating

35. I don’t complain about the smoking ______ because I hate watching people smoking in hospitals. A. programs C. arguments

B. restrictions D. advertisements

36. His muscles are firmest and his ______ colds and infections is highest. A. ignorance of C. resistance to

B. independence of D. attribution to

37. Regardless of ______ poll results, a number of objections have been published in newspapers. A. practical C. favorable

B. sensible D. outstanding

38. At British universities, it is ______ to cease work and spend a half-hour or so sipping tea and eating cookies with the members of one’s department. A. satisfactory C. contemporary

B. extraordinary D. customary

39. The concentration of populations in cities has given ______ to many problems of housing, education, and medical services. A. rise C. result

B. reason D. response

40. This discovery is highly ______ in the circle of science. A. measured C. calculated

B. appreciated D. experimented

Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding three items III, IV, V.

A Wrong Man in Workers’ Paradise

(1) The man had never believed in mere utility.

(2) Having had no useful work, he indulged in mad whims. He made little pieces of sculpture—men, women and castle, quaint earthen things dotted over with sea-shells. He painted. Thus he wasted his time on all that was useless, needless. People laughed at him. At times he vowed to shake off his whims, but they lingered in his mind.

(3) Some boys seldom ply their books and yet pass their tests. A similar thing happened to this man. He spent his earth life in useless work and yet after his death the gates of Heaven opened wide for him.

(4) But mistakes are unavoidable even in Heaven. So it came to pass that the aerial messenger who took charge of the man made a mistake and found him a place in Workers’ Paradise. (5) In this Paradise you find everything except leisure.

(6) Here men say: “God! We haven’t a moment to spare.” Women whisper: “Let’s move on, time’s a-flying.” All exclaim: “Time is precious.” “We have our hands full, we make use of every single minute,” they sigh complainingly, and yet those words make them happy and exalted.

(7) But this newcomer, who had passed all his life on Earth without doing a scrap of useful work, did not fit in with the scheme of things in Workers’ Paradise. He lounged in the streets absently and jostled the hurrying men. He lay down in green meadows, or close to the fast flowing streams, and was taken to task by busy farmers. He was always in the way of others.

(8) A hustling girl went every day to a silent torrent (silent, since in the Workers’ Paradise even a torrent would not waste its energy singing) to fill her pitcher.

(9) The girl’s movement on the road was like the rapid movement of a skilled hand on the strings of a guitar. Her hair was carelessly done; inquisitive wisps stooped often over her forehead to peer at the dark wonder of her eye.

(10) The idler was standing by the stream. As a princess sees a lonely beggar and is filled with pity, so the busy girl of Heaven saw this one and was filled with pity. (11 ) “A—ha !” she cried with concern. “You have no work in hand, have you?” (12) The man sighed, “Work! I have not a moment to spare for work.”

(13) The girl did not understand his words, and said: “I shall spare some work for you to do, if you like.”

(14) The man replied: “Girl of the silent torrent, all this time I have been waiting to take some work from your hands.” (15) “What kind of work would you like?”

(16) “Will you give me one of your pitchers, one that you can spare?” (17) She asked: “A pitcher? You want to draw water from the torrent?” (18) “No, I shall draw pictures on your pitcher.” (19) The girl was annoyed.

(20) “Pictures, indeed! I have no time to waste on such as you. I am going.” And she walked away.

(21) But how could a busy person get the better of one who had nothing to do? Every day they met, and every day he said to her: “Girl of the silent torrent, give me one of your clay pitchers. I shall draw pictures on it.”

(22) She yielded at last. She gave him one of her pitchers. The man started painting. He drew line after line; he put color after color.

(23) When he had completed his work, the girl held up the pitcher and stared at its sides, her eyes puzzled. Brows drawn, she asked: “What do they mean, all those lines and colors? What is their purpose?” (24) The man laughed.

(25) “Nothing. A picture may have no meaning and may serve no purpose.”

(26) The girl went away with her pitcher. At home, away from prying eyes, she held it in the light, turned it round and round and scanned the painting from all angles. At night she moved out of bed, lighted a lamp and scanned it again in silence. For the first time in her life she had seen something that had no meaning and no purpose at all.

(27) When she set out for the torrent the next day, her hurrying feet were a little less hurried than before. For a new sense seemed to have wakened in her, a sense that seemed to have no meaning and no purpose at all. (28) She saw the painter standing by the torrent and asked in confusion: “What do you want of me?” (29) “Only some more work from your hands.” (30) “What kind of work would you like?”

(31) “Let me make a colored ribbon for your hair,” he answered. (32) “And what for?” (33) “Nothing.”

(34) Ribbons were made, bright with colors. The busy girl of Workers’ Paradise had now to spend a lot of time every day tying the colored ribbon around her hair. The minutes slipped by, unutilized. Much work was left unfinished. (35) In Workers’ Paradise work had of late begun to suffer. Many persons who had been active before were now idle, wasting their precious time on useless things such as painting and sculpture. The elders became anxious. A meeting was called. All agreed that such a state of affairs had so far been unknown in the history of Workers’ Paradise. (36) The aerial messenger hurried in, bowing before the elders and made a confession. (37) “I brought a wrong man into this Paradise,” he said. “It is all due to him.”

(38) The man was summoned. As he came the elders saw his fantastic dress, his quaint brushes, his paints, and they knew at once that he was not the right sort for Workers’ Paradise.

(39) Stiffly the President said: “This is no place for the like of you. You must leave.”

(40) The man sighed in relief and gathered up his brush and paint. But as he was about to go, the girl of the silent torrent came up tripping and cried: “Wait a moment. I shall go with you.”

(41) The elders gasped in surprise. Never before had a thing like this happened in Workers’ Paradise—a thing that had no meaning and no purpose at all.

III. In this section, there are ten incomplete statements or questions, followed by four choices marked A, B, C

and D. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (20 points, 2 points for each).

41. What do you think is the main point of the story? A. The love of a painter for a pretty girl. B. The opposition between beauty and utility.

C. The change of heart in a girl who used to believe in mere utility. D. The ideal society where no time is wasted and no idler is tolerated. 42. What is the author’s attitude in this story? A. He is indifferent to the artist. B. He is in sympathy with the artist.

C. He is absolutely objective in telling the story. D. He makes fun of those who believe in Paradise.

43. In the sentence “...but they lingered in his mind” in Paragraph 2, “they” refers to ______. A. his whims C. the things he made

B. his vows D. the people he met

44. What is the proper meaning of the phrase “a scrap of” in Paragraph 7? A. a lot of C. a bit of

B. a load of D. a pile of

45. In Paragraph 8, with the sentence “...in the Workers’ Paradise even a torrent would not waste its energy singing”, the author intends to ______. A. state a fact

C. praise the Workers’ Paradise

B. laugh at the man

D. scoff at the Workers’ Paradise

46. What is the meaning of the phrase “get the better of” in Paragraph 21 ? A. pick

B. make use of

C. defeat D. make fun of

47. What is the meaning of the word “quaint” in Paragraph 38? A. disgusting C. ugly

B. strange D. disturbing

48. Based on the author’s description of the girl, we know that ______. A. she was curious

B. she was not very attractive C. she was much busier than the others D. she was the princess of the Workers’ Paradise

49. When the elders asked the man to leave the Workers’ Paradise, the man was ______. A. disappointed C. pleased

B. worried D. surprised

50. From the end of the story we can infer that ______. A. the girl won against the elders C. the elders won against the man

B. the elders won against the girl D. the man won against the elders

IV. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2

points for each)

51. Having had no useful work, he indulged in mad whims.

52. So it came to pass that the aerial messenger who took charge of the man made a mistake and found him a place in Workers’ Paradise.

53. Here men say: “God! We haven’t a moment to spare.” Women whisper: “Let’s move on, time’s a-flying.” 54. The girl’s movement on the road was like the rapid movement of a skilled hand on the strings of a guitar.

55. As a princess sees a lonely beggar and is filled with pity, so the busy girl of Heaven saw this one and was filled with pity.

V. Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 points)

56. Do you think art is something that has no meaning and no purpose at all? Why or why not?

VI. Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (20 points, 2

points each for 57-60, 4 points for 61, 8 points for 62)

57．心情好时，我可以谱写出恢弘的交响乐，绘制出壮丽的画卷。 58．这家事务所还强烈反对离婚、追求女色以及酗酒。 59．五个月前她得到杰利在战场上失踪的消息。

60．如果你一辈子都拒绝吊在眼前的诱饵，那就根本算不上活着了。

61．大概17岁到24岁期间，我试图摈弃这个念头，但这样做的同时我清楚这违背了我的本性，我知道自己迟早

都要安定下来写作。

62．我认为，这几十年里报纸已经成为一种习惯，而不是一种功能。报纸已享有太长时间的，任何变化都

会让人们难以接受。实际上，我不知道近20年里还有哪种媒体的变化像日报那样小。反对变化就是停止发展，进而使报纸失去作用。