?高級英語2017年10月真題試題（00600）

高級英語2017年10月真題試題及答案解析（00600）

高級英語2017年10月真題試題及答案解析（00600），本試卷總共150分鐘，寫作題無標準答案。

一、單項選擇題

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.It is universally acknowledged that making the ( ) from youth to adulthood can be very painful.

A.transmission
B.transition
C.transportation
D.transformation

2.Whether women should spend more time outside home has long been the subject of heated ( ) within the medical profession.

A.debate
B.quarrel
C.dispute
D.conflict

3.The constant noise from his neighbors ( ) Mr. Andrews, who was busy writing his new novel.

A.exhilarated
B.exasperated
C.exhausted
D.extinguished

4.It was so embarrassing that the chair ( ) under her weight at the meeting.

A.collapsed
B.fell
C.dropped
D.tripped

5.It seems ( ) to assume that all the drugs for sale have been tested.

A.judicious
B.sensitive
C.shrewd
D.reasonable

6.While negotiating, one must bear in mind that a trade war is not a war in the ( ) sense.

A.exact
B.accurate
C.literal
D.precise

7.Gamblers are ( ) folk who do not like to remain in one place for long lest it bring them bad luck.

A.Ignorant
B.superstitious
C.Innocent
D.distrustful

8.Instead of ( ) education and critical thinking, we should work on plausible measures against organized crimes.

A.scorning
B.scoping out
C.Scolding
D.scoffing at

9.The recollection of the parting scene made me fall into a state of deep ( ).

A.melancholy
B.anguish
C.apprehension
D.memory

10.Boys shouldn"t stay indoors all the time. They get ( ) if they cannot go outside to play.

A.active
B.excited
C.fidgety
D.hesitant

11.It was midsummer. It looked as if the whole town were in the water,swimming or simply ( ) about.

A.splashing
B.pouring.
C.spilling
D.sprinkling

12.The host made a sincere ( ) to his guests for having canceled the firework show.

A.excuse
B.reason
C.cause
D.apology

13.Every morning she makes herself a cup of coffee, without which she cannot ( ).

A.function
B.continue
C.burgeon
D.survive

14.Critics generally believe that Hemingway"s work is ( ) on his own life.

A.founded
B.established
C.based
D.built

15.Holmes was asked to help the police investigating the ( ) deaths of children at the hospital.

A.miraculous
B.meticulous
C.mysterious
D.monotonous

二、閱讀題(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.(1) Toward the end of the nineteenth century, a small group of artists working in France and Germany began to re-evaluate the meaning and function of art. In the preceding century, art had lost many of its traditional functions. It had ceased to be an important method for recording the way things look because that job had been taken over by the camera. Artists now sought to isolate the special province of art, to define its own particular essence. Painters and sculptors joined other intellectuals in questioning classical standards based on rationalized patterns and generalized ideals. The world view of the 1890s had been so altered by the tumultuous changes of the nineteenth century that the cool. orderly classical figure style and static Renaissance compositions no longer seemed appropriate forms of expression.(2) In 1886 the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) came from Holland to France, where he produced a revolution in the use of color. He used purer, brighter colors than artists had used before, he also recognized that color, like other formal qualities, could act as a language in and of itself. He believed that the local or "real" color of an object does not necessarily express the artists;experience. Artists, according to van Gogh, should seek to paint things not as they are, but as the artists feel them. In Public Garden at Arles, the colors of the pathway, the trees, and the sky are all far more intense and pure than the garden's real colors. Thus, van Gogh captures the whole experience of walking alone in the stillness of a hot afternoon.(3) Practically unknown in his lifetime, van Gogh's art became extremely influential soon after his death in 1890. One of the first artists to be affected by his style was a Norwegian artist named Edward Munch (1863-1944), who discovered van Gogh's use of color in Paris. In The Dance of Life, Munch used strong, simple line and intense color to explore the unexpressed sexual stresses and conflicts that Sigmund Freud's studies were bringing to light. (In Germany the tendency to use color for its power to express psychological forces continued in the work of artists known as the German Expressionists.)(4) Alongside the revolution in color, another revolution was occurring in the use of space. (Ever since the Renaissance. European artists had treated the outside edges of paintings as window frames.) The four sides of a frame bounded an imaginary cube of space - -a three dimensional world- -in which figures and background were presented. From about 1880 on, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) explored a new way of expressing the experience of seeing. He sought to create painting with perfectly designed compositions, true both to the subject matter and to his own perceptions. He also wanted to include and build upon tradition.(5) Between 1909 and 1914, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) worked together to develop a new style that is called cubism. Like Cezanne, they explored the interplay between the flat world of the art of painting and the three-dimensional world of visual perception. (The two worlds influence each other. so that in art as in life, one confuses symbols or painted representations with the objects in the real world for which they stand.) This observation about experience is explicit in a cubist work like The Violin. Illustrations of fruit cut from an actual book are pasted in the corner. These sheets are real objects introduced into a drawing, or symbol. But the illustrations are also printed reproductions of drawings that were based on real fruit.(6)In a typical Renaissance or baroque painting, objects are set inside an imaginary block of space, and they are represented from a single stationary point of view. A cubist work is constructed on a different system, so that it re-creates the experience of seeing in a space of time. One can only know the nature of a volume by seeing it from many angles. Therefore, cubist art presents objects from multiple viewpoints. (Furthermore, vision is conditioned by context. memories. and events in time). In The Violin, some of the words cut from real newspapers refer ironically to an artist's life. The numerous fragmentary images of cubist art make one aware of the complex experience of seeing.(7) The colors used in early cubist art are deliberately banal, and the subjects represented are ordinary objects from everyday life. Picasso and Braque wanted to eliminate eye-catching color and intriguing subject matter so that their audiences would focus on the process of seeing itself.(8) Throughout the period from 1890 to 1914, avant-garde artists were de-emphasizing subject matter and stressing the expressive power of such formal qualities as line, color, and space. (It is not surprising that some artists finally began t0 create work that did not refer to anything seen in the real world). Piet Mondrian (1872- 1944), a Dutch artist, came to Paris shortly before World War I. There he saw the cubist art of Picasso and Braque. The cubists had compressed the imaginary depth in their paintings so that all the objects seemed to be contained within a space only a few inches deep. They had also reduced subject matter to insignificance. It seemed to Mondrian that the next step was to eliminate illusionistic space and subject matter entirely. His painting Composition 7, for example, seems entirely flat.(9) Mondrian, like several other early masters of modern art, was a philosophical idealist. He held that the objects of perception are actually manifestations of another independent and changeless realm of essences. Art, he believed, should take its audience beyond the world of appearances into the other, more “real" reality. Logically, he eliminated from his paintings any references to the visible world.(10)The revolution in art that took place near the turn of the twentieth century is reverberating still. After nearly a hundred years, these masters of modern art continue to inspire their audiences with their passion and vision.According to Paragraph 1, in the 1890s artists sought to ( ).

A.fight against the threat posed by the camera
B.restore many of art"s traditional patterns
C.redefine the specific essence of art
D.use art to record reality precisely

12.The word "compositions" in Paragraph 1 means ( ).

A.publications
B.elements
C.illustrations
D.exhibitions

13.It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that van Gogh ( ).

A.presented things according to the way he felt them.
B.avoided treating color as a formal quality in and of itself
C.conformed to the traditional ways of depicting everyday objects
D.used the local color of an object to express his personal experience

14.From Paragraph 3 we learn that Edward Munch ( ).

A.was not well-known until after his death
B.found himself influenced by van Gogh in Norway
C.explored the hidden sexual stresses and conflicts in his paintings
D.was barely informed of Sigmund Freud and his psychological studies

15.Paragraph 4 shows that Cezanne"s paintings ( ).

A.tended to reject art tradition
B.revolutionized the use of space
C.expressed the hearing experience
D.reflected a three dimensional world

16.According to Paragraph 6 and Paragraph 7, a cubist work is ( ).

A.conditioned by context and events in time
B.created inside an imaginary block of space
C.presented by using intense eye-catching colors
D.constructed by viewing objects from many angles

17.The word "banal" in Par 7 means ( ).

A.exciting
B.boring
C.popular
D.pathetic

18.According to Paragraph 9, Mondrian believed that ( ).

A.an artist should also be a philosopher
B.an artist should present the visible world
C.it was impossible to go beyond the world of appearances
D.the objects of perception manifested a changeless realm of essences

19.The word "reverberating" in Paragraph 10 means ( ).

A.echoing repeatedly
B.disappearing suddenly
C.spreading quickly
D.emerging unexpectedly

110.Which of the following might be the best title for this passage?

A.Greatest Artists
B.Revolution in Art
C.The History of Art
D.Modernist Art

三、英譯漢(二)

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

21.In Germany the tendency to use color for its power to express psychological forces continued in the work of artists known as the German Expressionists.

22.Ever since the Renaissance, European artists had treated the outside edges of paintings as window frames.

23.The two worlds influence each other, so that in art as in life, one confuses. symbols or painted representations with the objects in the real world for which they stand.

24.Furthermore, vision is conditioned by context, memories, and events in time.

25.It is not surprising that some artists finally began to create work that did not refer to anything seen in the real world.

四、寫作題(三)

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

31.What do you think is the function of art?

五、完形填空題

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.Childhood's logic never asks to be proved (all (32) are absolute). I didn't question (33) Mrs. Flowers had singled me out for attention, nor did it occur to me that Momma might have asked her to give me a little talking (34) . All I cared about was that she had made tea cookies for me and (35) to me from her favorite book. It was enough to (36) that she liked me.The key is to segment the market vertically. This (37) the company to pitch. specific customers with (38) services that no other company can begin to provide. Example: One customer (39) is the legal profession. Cable & Wireless is developing (40) and functions that have tremendous (41).However, patterns of (42) by Asian-Americans to this country, the cultural (43) language problems and discrimination they have faced have all taken a (44) of their elderly and their families. This is particularly (45) of older Chinese men, who were not allowed to (46) their wives and families with:them to the United States or to intermarry.This increased my natural hatred of (47) and made me for the first time fully aware of the existence of the working classes, and the job in Burma had (48) me some understanding of the nature of (49) ; but these experiences were not enough to give me an accurate (50) orientation. Then came Hitler, the Spanish Civil War, etc. By the end of 1935 I had still (51) to reach a firm decision.I remember going to a writer for a (52) magazine and telling him this was a story the American people should (53) . He agreed, but said it would never get (54) his desk because the Army would rescind the magazine's (55) to cover the war, and if you don't cover the war you don't sell magazines, and if you don't sell magazines then (56) happens because that's the American way.A.authority  B.accreditation  C.conclusions  D.segment  E.nothingF.national  G.to  H.specialized  I.political  J.bringK.prove  L.by  M.why  N.given  O.appealP.hear  Q.enables  R.features  S.toll  T.immigrationU.imperialism  V.true  W.failed  X.barriers  Y.read()

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六、漢譯英

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.但是，十幾億年以來，人們一直都是根據味道來進食的。

52.女人好像沒有意識到的是有些事情你知道但不該說出來。

53.他在我們面前站了片刻，然后示意我們進入客廳。

54.在這方面，他們唯一的競爭對手就是大公司的領導。

55.我親自處理這些重要的項目，如果做得不錯而獲得稱贊，我就會欣喜不己，感到極其驕傲和自負。但是在這種挑戰與滿足的波峰之間，是單調與絕望。

56.不久前我和一個老朋友談到這個問題。她教給我一個屢試不爽的應對失眠的妙方，那就是想象自己在反復地做某個細小的動作，直到她煩透了這種單調的生活，睡意也就悄然而至了。她最喜歡的方式是想象在墻上有一幅畫掛得有點歪，然后去把它正過來。