湖北第二师范学院省级精品课程:《高级英语》第二册综合测试(1)A Comprehensive Test On Book Two Adv. Eng.Ⅰ. For each of the following word, there are four choices marked A,B,C,D. Choose the one which best explains the word given: 20%1. intricateA. difficultB. complicatedC. invalidD. simple2. eradicateA. cut into many small partsB. go round in circleC. draw together into a small spaceD. put an end to; destroy3. waxA. grow bigger or greaterB. become less or smallerC. drop heavilyD. cover with thick coating4. squashA. invadeB. inferC. squeezeD. separate5. veerA. move forwardB. look sidewaysC. change directionsD. pour out6. exultantA. triumphantB. ecureC. exhaustedD. overflowing7. unsightlyA. invisibleB. uglyC. precipitateD. provisional8. testyA. examiningB. provingC. impatientD. judging9. tugA. pullB. pushC. placeD. fix10. covetA. surroundB. coverC. avoidD. desire11. gruellingA. complainingB. moaningC. tiringD. unwilling12. infamyA. being famous forB. being shamefulC. being honestD. being refused13. dominanceA. ruling classB. manageable domainC. controlling powerD. religious establishment14. frustrateA. discourageB. bring about good resultC. come out fruitfullyD. worry about the result15. derelictA. grievousB. deprivedC. abandonedD. hunted16. infuriateA. set apart from otherB. fill with rageC. become fastenedD. keep in a certain position17. hack aA. cut carefullyB. dig roughlyC. make slowlyD. move smoothly18. convictA. criminalB. aggressorC. captainD. captor19. plightA. conditionB. irritationC. conscienceD. objection20. sanctuaryA. a warm placeB. shelterC. a clean placeD. a harm place21. hobbleA. walk in difficulty with small stepsB. walk quickly with stridesC. walk slowly and lazilyD. walk sideways with tips and toes22. debrisA. small individual partsB. completely good placesC. well preserved piecesD. scattered broken pieces23. invectiveA. beautiful wordsB. facial expressionsC. convincing speechD. abusive language24. invokeA. call forthB. take downC. put upD. take the form of25. prescribeA. order or directC. protectD. agree26. vantage cA. variable situationB. comfortless positionC. advantageD. disadvantage27. inquisitiveA. unnecessarily curiousB. seriously urgentC. completely controlledD. ready made28. gruffA. seriousB. grievousC. roughD. gentle29. alienate bA. allyB. estrangeC. unite30. extinguish aA. put outB. put upC. put onD. put down31. immuneA. secureB. impureC. odorousD. revival32. disintegrateA. joint togetherB. break up into piecesC. regard as a individualD. look down upon33. coin dA. happenB. coincideC. comfortD. invent34. anecdoteA. short amusing storyB. long tedious talkC. uninteresting writingD. exciting information35. incredulousA. unbelievingB. increasingC. industriousD. unimproved36. tart bA. differrentB. sarcasticC. loadedD. special37. traumaA. emotional shockB. mental workC. the state of not having enoughD. a reinforced structure for observers38. adversaryA. a person who gives adviceB. a friendC. an enemyD. a listener39. delve cA. give oneself upB. clasp carefullyC. search carefully and deeplyD. look down upon40. tribulationA. contributionB. deliveryC. distributionD. great difficulty or troubleⅡ. Explain the underlined words or phrases: 15% 1. Sometimes the blues did occasionally afflict all.2. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch thestorm from their spectacular vantage point.3. All of them are mummified with age and the sun, andall of them are tiny.4. I do not shrink from this responsibility, I welcome it.5. As the Jews live in self-contained communities they follow the same trades as the Arabs, except foragriculture.6. The main thrust of Camille had passed.7. Then for the first time I noticed the poor old earth- coloured bodies, bodies reduced to bones and leatheryskin, bent double under the crushing weight.8. She already had the makings.9. Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from being a dry, pedanticdiscipline, is ....10. However intricate the ways in which animals communicate with each other, they do not indulge in anything that deserves the name of conversation.11. ..., but in a flash the conversation has moved on andthe opportunity is lost.12. Parts of the beach and highway were strewn withdead dogs, cats, cattle.13. What really appeals to the flies is that the corpseshere are never put into coffins....14. It so happened that I, as a law student, was taking a course in logic myself, so I had all the facts at my fingertips.15. Dicto Simpliciter means an argument based on anunqualified generalization.Ⅲ.Choose the one which best completes the meaning of each following sentence. (10%)1. Something that is _______ is deliberately deceitful, dishonest or untrue.A. spontaneousB. frenziedC. fraudulentD. stultifying2. If something ____a________ your skin, it cuts it badly and deeply.A. lacerateB. demolishC. scudD. shrink3. People and animals that are _________ are hostile and unfriendly.A. inimicalB. derelictC. facetiousD. aberrant4. Something that is __________ is so bad or unpleasant that it makes you feel disgust or dismay.A. appealingB. appallingC. apparentD. appearing5. If you _________, you travel or move slowly and not in any particular direction.A. invokeB. meanderC. prescribeD. forsake6. A person who acts without thinking about what they are doing is often called an ____________.A. automationB. automatonC. automatD. autonomy7. A __________ is a group of trees that are close together, often because they have been planted in this way.A. gruffB. grudgeC. grovelD. grove8. If you ________ to something, you mention it in a very indirect way.A. illustrateB. concoctC. alludeD. invoke9. If a place is ______ by a particular route or method of transport, you are able to reach it by this route or method.A. accessibleB. assessableC. accessableD. acessable10. If someone has _______ motives or reasons for doing something, they do not show their motives openly but hide them.A. hideousB. desultoryC. compulsiveD. ulteriorⅣ. Determine, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. Put a "T" for True and "F" for False. (10%)1. Polly thinks that logic is the most interesting thing shehas ever known.2. President Kennedy's policy towards the new states isto help them help themselves.3. With the spread of technology and science, peoplebecome more and more identical.4. The law student found Polly had all the necessary qualities except intelligence. So he decided to remedy byteaching her logic, but he failed.5. The reason why people would like to go to the starved countries of Asia and Africa to visit is that the peoplethere are poverty-stricken.6. While the family were picking through the wreckage trying to find sth still useful, they were very sad anddepressed.7. According to the writer, the King's English sets an excellent standard and people must accept and imitate it.8. Owing to some kind of accident if one even notices theold woman means when an old women happens to have an accident, one can see her under the heavy load ofsticks.9. The conversation rambled along aimlessly without a focal subject. When there was a specific topic, theconversation became spirited and exciting.10. The Jewish people don't engage in agriculture whilethe Arabs do.Ⅴ.Choose the one which fits the meaning of the texts we've learned. (10%)1. Mencken wrote that when the house becomes absolutely black, it appears _________.A. pleasing to the eyeB. ugly to the eyeC. dirty to the eyeD. horrible to the eye2. When the girl, Polly, backfired him with all the logical fallacies she had learned from him, the law student felt that he was like _______________.A. Madame CurieB. Mr. PidgeonC. PygmalionD. Frankenstein3. The general impression of the color of the houses in Westmoreland is ___________.A. greenB. redC. blackD. yellow4. There is always a great danger that "words are harden into things for us" means that there is always a great danger that ____________A. we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent.B. we might remember that words are only symbols and they are not concrete things.C. we might forget that words are concrete things.D. we might remember that words are only symbolsand they are only representation of concrete things.5. "You would go far to find another girl so agreeable" means _______________A. You wouldn't achieve much success if you could find another girl who was so agreeable.B. You would achieve much success if you could find another girl who was so agreeable.C. You would accomplish much if you couldn't find another girl so agreeable.D. You would accomplish much if you find another girl not so agreeable as Polly.6. The Arab navvy was hungry. He was not used to begging, so he sidled slowly toward the writer. Here “he sidled slowly" means _________.A. he spoke slowly and shylyB. he looked shyly and sidewiseC. he walked slowly to the writer's sidetD. he moved slowly and sidewise7. In the Middle Ages, work, according to Fromm, was _________A. a dutyB. a drudgery.C. meaningful.D. forced labor8. The stated policy of Kennedy toward Latin American countries is summed up in the phrase:________A. "alliance for progress".B. "revolutionary belief".C. "help them help themselves".D. "support their own freedom".9. The look of the young Negro soldier that Orwell was expecting was ________A. that of profound respect.B. that of curiosity.tC. hostile and contemptuous.D. sensitive and uneasy.10. ________ refers to the geometric patterns of the international style, the imaginative design of facadism and the playfulness of theme park.A. Modern cultureB. Modern artC. Modern architectureD. Modern technologyⅥ. Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four suggested answers marked A,B,C,D. Choose the best answer to each question. (15%)(1)An Englishman came to Tokyo with a contract that gave him two weeks paid holiday a year. He took the first. The second, he was warned in a none-too-subtle way, would incur the company's displeasure.He doggedly persisted with travel plans, On the eve of his planned departure he found his desk piled high with extra work-- a suggestion from management he should stay and work.August may be holiday time in the Western capitals of the world, but while London, Rome and New York are abandoned to tourists, in Tokyo it is business almost as usual.Not only do Japanese companies give their staff fewer paid holidays that those in other developed countries, most Japanese do not even take off all the daysthey are allowed.The three or four week holidays common in Europe and North America remain a distant prospect for most Japanese workers, who regard the "workaholic" nickname they were given a decade ago by an irate European Community official with mixed pride and frustration.1. Which statement is true according to the passage? dA. When an Englishman came to Tokyo to work, he took his holiday first.B. When an Englishman was employed by a Tokyo company, the first thing for him to do was to go on a holiday.C. When an Englishman was given a two-week holiday by his Japanese employer, it would be advisable for him to take half as much.D. No sooner had an English employee come to Tokyo than he enjoyed a two-week holiday given by his employer.2. It can be concluded that aA. the average Japanese is more obsessed withwork than his counterparts in other developed nations.B. JAPANESE workers are least reluctant to take holidays.C. JAPANESE employees are most eager to please their bosses.D. There are so many people competing for jobs in Japan.3. How do JAPANESE workers react to the epithet given? bA. They feel insulted.B. They are overwhelmed with conflicting feelings.C. They think they deserve to be called work freaks.D. They become furious.4. Which of the following statements is NOT true? aA. Rome is swarming with tourists in August.B. Europeans on the whole won't deny themselves the pleasure of enjoying paid holidays.C. An European employee in Japan might be hindered from going on a long holiday.D. Self--discipline and loyalty make the Japanese heat- resistant.5. This passage may lead us to infer that bA. more marriages will break up in Japan because husbands are spending all their time and energy working.B. a tradition of hard work and loyalty to the group fostered by Japanese companies, is partly responsible for the reluctance to take holidays .C. Japanese workers enjoy the challenge, the excitement and the opportunity for growth that their work provides.D. they are not actually working for the steak. It's the sizzle that fascinates them.(2)A mule which will gallop for a half-mile in the single direction elected by its rider even one time becomes a neighbourhood legend; one that will do it consistently time after time is an incredible phenomenon. Because, unlike a horse, a mule is far too intelligent to break its heart for glory running around the rim of a mile-long saucer... A creature capable of but one idea at a time, the horse's strongest quality is timidity and fear. He can be tricked and cajoled by a child into breaking his limbs or his heart too in running too far, too fast, or jumping things too wide or hard of high; he will eathimself to death if not guarded like a baby. If he had only one gram of the intelligence of the most backward rat, he would be the rider. You can make the mule work for you, but that only within his own rigid self-set regulations. He will not permit himself to run too much. He will draw a wagon or a plough, but he will not run a race. He will not try to jump anything he does not indubitably know beforehand; he will not enter any place unless he knows of his own knowledge what is on the other side; he will work for you patiently for ten years for the chance to kick you once.6. With respect to eating habits, horsesA. prefer baby food.B. will eat almost anything.C. can easily starve to death.D. don't know when to stop eating.7. The author of this passage is beingA. humorousB. moralisticC. matter-of-factD. romantic8. Rats, according to the author,A. have brains weighing one gram.B. are not as intelligent as mules.C. are more intelligent than horses.D. are backward and stubborn.9. Mules are not used for racing because most of themA. cannot run fast enough.B. refuse to do it.C. won't run unless they're sure of winning .D. won't do it more that once.10. A mule will work for you as long asA. you give him enough to eat.B. he wants to anyway.C. you work for him in exchange.D. you are very firm with him.(3)I will now teach, offering my way of life to whomsoever desires to commit suicide by the scheme which has enabled me to beat the doctor and the hangman for seventy years. Some of the details may sound untrue, but they are not. I am not here to deceive; I am here to teach.We have no permanent habits until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up-- and that is one of the main things. I have made it a rule to go to bed when I had to. This has resulted in an unswerving regularity of irregularity. It has saved me sound, but it would injure another person.In the matter of diet -- which is another main thing-- I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince pie after midnight, up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening, eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And If wish to urge upon you this, which I think is wisdom- that if you find you can't makeseventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery.I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy.I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice, sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got--meaning thechairman-- if you've hot one; I am making no charges. I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle. It was only to show off; it was to pulverise those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.11. The author's tone in this passage isA. solemn.B. gay.C. ironic.D. blasphemous.12. The best title for this passage would beA. How to Get to Seventy.B. How to Tell a Funny Story.C. Smoking and Ageing.D. My Funny Life.13. The author's age is probablyA. 70B. 40C. mysteriousD. 5514. This passage was most likely writtenA. in 18th century America.B. in 20th century America.C. in 19th century America.D. between 1950 and 1979.15. Although the author says," I am here to teach," his purpose is reallyA. to deceive.B. to joke.C. to persuade.D. to smoke.Ⅶ. There are 10 blanks in the following passage taken from the text we’ve learned. Fill in the blanks with suitable words: (10%)Most of Morocco is so desolate that no wild animalit. Huge areaswere once covered with forest have turnedof it is cultivated, with frightful labor. Everything is done byinverted capital Ls, work their way slowly across thethe prickly weeds with theireach stalk.Ⅷ. Translate the following sentences into English: (10%)1. 反腐败是一场严肃的政治斗争，对我们党和国家的前途有着重大的作用。