高级英语2014年10月真题试题（00600）

高级英语2014年10月真题试题及答案解析（00600）

高级英语2014年10月真题试题及答案解析（00600），本试卷总共150分钟，写作题无标准答案。

一、单项选择题

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)

1.This project may help you to understand how much time your child needs to ( ) for her homework.

A.divide
B.allot
C.separate
D.distribute

2.The air crash ( ) because the pilot shut down the wrong engine.

A.incurred
B.concurred
C.occurred
D.recurred

3.When you zoom in to make the characters ( )，the images become rough and blocky.

A.legible
B.readable
C.touchable
D.countable

4.The government decided against using ( ) to break up the demonstrations.

A.forecast
B.formality
C.fortune
D.force

5.To ( ) poverty and to fight terrorism are given priority to at the G-8 summit.

A.illuminate
B.contaminate
C.eliminate
D.discriminate

6.This political organization has been ( ) for a decade since it was introduced by a newspaper in 2000.

A.dormant
B.instant
C.constant
D.persistent

7.She even risked violating the law in order to gain a(n) ( ) over her rival.

A.strength
B.advantage
C.power
D.privilege

8.She was advised not to resort to ( ) imitations, but save up for the real thing.

A.close
B.mean
C.shallow
D.cheap

9.She ( ) the good old days she had with her late husband.

A.recited
B.remembered
C.memorized
D.incited

10.Shirley ( ) the dust from the sleeve of her purple dress.

A.flapped
B.plucked
C.flicked
D.plumed

11.His excellent experience ( ) him for the post.

A.qualified
B.selected
C.verified
D.questioned

12.As poor people in one of the poorest countries, they had been trying to ( ) as much food as possible for the winter.

A.process
B.hoard
C.preserve
D.retain

13.All of us were ( ) with excitement on seeing the movie star.

A.confused
B.defused
C.infused
D.refused

14.There were several colonial houses to choose from, ranging from the modest to the ( ).

A.proud
B.docile
C.lavish
D.credible

15.The energy ( ) by the nuclear reaction is transformed into heat.

A.relieved
B.freed
C.loosened
D.released

二、阅读题(一)

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).

11.Friendship(1) We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Although all the selfishness chills the world like east winds, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! (How many we see in the street. or sit with in church, whom, though silently. we warmly rejoice 10 be with!) Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knows.(2) The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain friendly excitement. In poetry, and in common speech, the emotion of kindness and satisfaction which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire; so swift, or much swift, more active, more cheering, are those fine inward irradiation. (From the highest degree of passionate love, to the lowest degree of goodwill. they make sweetness of life.)(3) Our intellectual and active powers increase with our affection. The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not equip him with one good thought or happy expression; but it is necessary to write a letter to a friend-and forthwith troops of gentle thought invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words.(4) See, in any house where virtue and self-respect wait, the excitement which the approach of a stranger causes. A commended stranger is expected and announced, and uneasiness between pleasure and pain invades all the hearts of a household. His arrival almost brings fear to the good hearts that would welcome him. The house is dusted, all things fly into their places, the old coat is exchanged to the new, and they must get up a dinner if they can. Of a commended stranger, only the good report is told by others, only the good and new is heard by us. He stands to us for humanity. He is what we wish. Having imagined and invested him, we ask how we should stand related in conversation and action with such a man, and are uneasy with fear. The same idea exalts conversation with him. We talk better than we often do. (We have the nimblest fancy. a richer memory, and our dumb devil has taken leave for the time.)For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communication, drawn from the oldest secret experience, so that they who sit by, of our own kinsfolk and acquaintance, shall feel a lively surprise at our unusual powers. But as soon as the stranger begins to intrude his (partialities), his definitions, his defects, into the conversation, it is all over. He has heard the first, the last and best he will ever hear from us. He is no more strange now. Vulgarity, ignorance, misapprehension are old acquaintances. Now, when he.comes, he may get the order, the dress, and the dinner,-but the throbbing of the heart, and the communications of the soul, no more.(5) What is so pleasant as these streams of affection which make a young world for me again? What so delicious as a just and firm encounter of two, in a thought. in a feeling? How beautiful, on their approach to this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and true! The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is transformed; there is no winter, and no night; all tragedies, all boredom, vanish, -all duties even; nothing fills the proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons. Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should. rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.(6) I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the beautiful, who daily shows himself so to me in his gifts? I chide society. I embrace solitude, and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely, and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass. my gate. Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all the time. Nor is nature so poor but she gives me this joy several times, and thus we weave social threads of our own, a new web of relation; and as many thoughts. in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our creation, and no longer strangers and pilgrims in a traditional globe.What is the author's purpose of writing this passage?

A.To show how ignorant and vulgar old acquaintances are
B.To describe the scene of meeting a commended friend at home.
C.To acknowledge his gratefulness for having many noble-minded friends.
D.To reveal the nature and importance of general human affection in our society.

12.The element of love such as kindness in Paragraph 1 is ( )

A.hard to find in the street
B.pervasive in human society
C.like wandering eye-beams
D.like east winds

13.According to Paragraph 2, ( ) is like the tangible effect of fire.

A.kindness felt towards others
B.kindness felt towards oneself
C.kindness felt towards poetry
D.kindness felt towards speech

14.In Paragraph 3, the word "forthwith" means ( ).

A.forward
B.further
C.immortally
D.immediately

15.Paragraph 3 conveys that ( ).

A.our affection increases with our intellectual powers
B.our intellectual powers increase with our affection
C.our intellectual powers grow by writing letters
D.our affection grows by years of meditation

16.In Paragraph 4, the word "commended" means ( ).

A.praised
B.ordered.
C.summoned
D.demanded

17.According to Paragraph 4, while engaged in a conversation with a commended stranger, ( ).

A.we become more confident and complacent
B.we become more persuasive and aggressive
C.we become more expressive and capable
D.we become more sincere and graceful

18.In Paragraph 4, the word“partialities" means ( ).

A.references
B.conferences
C.biases
D.barriers

19.In Paragraph 5, the author intends to show ( ).

A.the pleasant impact of affection on our perception about life
B.the essence of a firm and just encounter of two people
C.the secret of being always content and cheerful
D.the way of approaching the true and gifted

110.According to the last paragraph, the author"s attitude towards affection is ( )

A.cynical
B.positive
C.negative
D.critical

三、英译汉(二)

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

21.How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom, though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with.

22.From the highest degree of passionate love, to the lowest degree of goodwill, they make sweetness of life.

23.We have the nimblest fancy, a richer memory, and our dumb devil has taken leave for the time.

24.Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

25.I embrace solitude, and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely, and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate.

四、写作题(三)

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

31.In what sense is friendship essential to everyone?

五、完形填空题

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)

41.These conclusions (26) me as reasonable, at least from their point of view. The (27) question for the arriving generation is not (28) our society is imperfect,but how to deal with it. For all its harshness and (29) , it is the only world we've got. Choosing a (30) to cope with it, then, is the first decision young adults have to make, and usually the most important decision of their lifetime.The trouble with television is that it discourages (31). Almost anything interesting and (32) in life requires some constructive, (33) applied effort. The dullest, the least gifted of us can (34) things that seem miraculous to those who never concentrate on anything. But television encourages us to apply no (35). It sells us instant gratification. It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain.I believe that over a period of (36) newspapers have become a habit rather than a (37). They have held their franchise so long that change has (38) inadmissible. I do not know, in fact, of any medium that has changed as (39) in the last twenty years as the daily press. And this resistance to change is the end of growth- which, in (40) , marks the end of usefulness.Old age is neither inherently miserable (41) inherently sublime-like every stage of life it has problems, joys, fears and (42) . The process of aging and (43) death must ultimately be accepted as the natural progression of the life.cycle, the old (44) their prescribed life spans and making way (45) the young.Homes and restaurants do what they can with this stuff (46) my mother-in-law would (47) on the spot. I have long thought that the famed (48) test for cigarettes should be (49) to city vegetables. For I am sure that if you pureed them blindfolded, you couldn't tell the 50 from the peas, the turnips from the squash.A.consistently  B.nor  C.applied  D.rewarding  E.forF.irrationality  G.little  H.which  I.decades  J.decadesK.effort  L.potentials  M.concentration  N.discard  O.strategyP.eventual  Q.relevant  R.function  S.turn  T.blindfoldU.beans  V.become  W.achieve  X.completing  Y.whether()

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六、汉译英

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)

51.一个人的成就与黑人区广大青年依靠自己的努力取得成功之间的可比性是极其微小的，并将继续如此。

52.显然，相比年轻人，老年人会更经常生病，而且更为严重，他们中86%患有不同程度的慢性疾病。

53.这可能是人类的本能，当食物的味道像图书馆的浆糊一样时，就会不自觉地一直吃，希望以此来满足失望的味蕾。

54.自从人类文明开始以来，就一直有人试图逃离，期望找到一种更加简单、田园和宁静的生活。

55.但是，性别成为主要问题是在四年后我参加国会议员竞选的时候。与我同属一党的成员们召开秘密会议，讨论阻挠我的办法。

56.进行这一调查并不是使老兵们可以吐露心声或者净化灵魂;调查的目的是为了证明美国在印度支那的政策与种族灭绝并无二致;对于所发生的一切不仅士兵有责任，而且每一个纵容这种残暴及泯灭人性的行为继续下去的人都难辞其咎。