?高級英語2015年10月真題試題（00600）

高級英語2015年10月真題試題及答案解析（00600）

高級英語2015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.Elizabeth swims so ( ), as if it"s the easiest thing in the world.

A.effortlessly
B.freely
C.carelessly
D.excitedly

2.His doctor reassured him that the new medicine was ( ) of poisonous components.

A.released
B.cleansed
C.relieved
D.cleaned

3.He saw it as a rare opportunity to attend the annual ( ) as a production assistant.

A.prevention
B.precaution
C.convention
D.conclusion

4.Our teacher ended the class by playing a video ( ) of the president"s interview.

A.clap
B.clip
C.click
D.clock

5.After she heard the news, she could barely stand still and the dishes ( ) from her hands.

A.dropped
B.drooped
C.stopped
D.stooped

6.He used a sponge to ( ) up the water on the table.

A.sop
B.top
C.hop
D.pop

7.Time usually passes quickly when you are ( ) your work.

A.absorbed in
B.involved in
C.concerned with
D.indifferent to

8.The secretary spent a whole day ( ) these invitation letters on the typewriter.

A.describing
B.prescribing
C.inscribing
D.transcribing

9.Their ( ) visit had to be postponed because of the terrible weather

A.projected
B.objected
C.subjected
D.rejected

10.The young man was told to ( ) the wall by painting.

A.tick
B.lick
C.stick
D.slick

11.Every year our mother ( ) woolen stockings for us.

A.knits
B.twists
C.weaves
D.plaits

12.The toilet is so dirty that it needs a good ( ).

A.dab
B.wipe
C.scrape
D.scrub

13.After the medical accident, she was reduced from head nurse to ( ) nurse.

A.mediocre
B.popular
C.ordinary
D.average

14.All year round, tourists come in ( ) to see the White House.

A.droves
B.prides
C.schools
D.packs

15.Don"t expect this horse to be ( ). It runs away whenever a chance presents itself.

A.wild
B.mute
C.sane
D.tame

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) Why do the Chinese dislike milk and milk products? Why do some nations trace descent through the father, others through the different instincts? Not because they were destined by God or Fate to different habits, not because the weather is different in China and the United States. Sometimes keen common sense has an answer that is close to that of the anthropologist:"Because they were brought up that way." (By "culture"anthropology means the total life way of a people, the social legacy the individual acquires from his group.) Or culture can be regarded as that part of the environment that is the creation of man.(2) This technical term has a wider meaning than the "culture" of history and literature.A humble cooking pot is as much a cultural product as is a Beethoven sonata. In ordinary speech a man of culture is a man who can speak languages other than his own, who is familiar with history, literature, philosophy, or the fine arts. In some circles that definition is still narrower. The cultured person is one who can talk about James Joyce, Scarlatti, and Picasso. To the anthropologist, however, to be human is to be cultured. The general abstract notion serves to remind us that we cannot explain acts solely in terms of the biological properties of the people concerned, their individual past experience, and the immediate situation. The past experience of other men in the form of culture enters into almost every event. Each specific culture constitutes a kind of blueprint for all of life's activities.(3) One of the interesting things about human beings is that they try to understand themselves and their own behavior. While this has been particularly true of Europeans in recent times, there is no group which has not developed a scheme or schemes to explain man's actions. (To the insistent human question"Why?"the most exciting illumination anthropology has to offer is that of the concept of culture.) Its explanatory importance is comparable to categories such as evolution in biology, gravity in physics, disease in medicine.A good deal of human behavior can be understood, and indeed predicted, if we know a people's design for living. Many acts are neither accidental nor due to personal peculiarities nor caused by supernatural forces nor simply mysterious.Even those of us who pride ourselves on our individualism follow most of the times a pattern not of our own making. We brush our teeth on arising. We put on pants-not a loincloth or a grass skirt. We eat three meals a day-not four or five or two. We sleep in a bed-not in a hammock or on a sheep pelt.I do not have to know the individual and his life history to be able to predict these and countless other regularities, including many in the thinking process, of all Americans who are not locked up in jails or hospitals for the insane.(4) To the American woman a system of plural wives seems "instinctively"hateful. She cannot understand how any woman can fail to be jealous and uncomfortable if she must share her husband with other women. She feels it"unnatural"to accept such a situation. On the other hand,a Koryak woman of Siberia, for example, would find it hard to understand how a woman could be so selfish and so undesirous of feminine companionship in the home as to wish to restrict her husband to one mate.(5) Some years ago I met in New York City a young man who did not speak a word of English and was obviously bewildered by American ways. (By"blood"he was an American, for his parents had gone from Indiana to China as missionaries.) Orphaned in infancy, he was reared by a Chinese family in a remote village. All who met him found him more Chinese than American. The facts of his blue eyes and light hair were less impressive than a Chinese manner of walking, Chinese arm and hand movements, Chinese facial expression, and Chinese modes of thought. The biological heritage was American, but the cultural training had been Chinese. He returned to China.(6) (A highly intelligent teacher with long and successful experience in the public schools of Chicago was finishing her first year in an Indian school.) When asked how her Navaho pupils compared in intelligence with Chicago youngsters, she replied,"Well,I just don't know. Sometimes the Indians seem just as bright. At other times they just act like dumb animals. The other night we had a dance in the high school.I saw a boy who is one of the best students in my English class standing off by himself. So I took him over to a pretty girl and told him to dance. But they just stood there with their heads down. They wouldn't even say anything." I inquired if she knew whether or not they were members of the same clan. "What difference would that make?"(7)"How would you feel about getting into bed with your brother?"(The teacher walked off in a fit of anger, but, actually, the two cases were quite comparable in principle.) To the Indians the type of bodily contact involved in our social dancing has a directly sexual connotation. The incest taboos between members of the same clan are as severe as between true brothers and sisters. The shame of the Indians at the suggestion that a clan brother and sister should dance and the indignation of the white teacher at the idea that she should share a bed with an adult brother represent equally nonrational responses, culturally standardized unreason.According to Paragraph 1, people from different cultures have different habits because( ).

A.they are raised in different ways
B.they have different religions
C.they have different climates
D.they eat different kinds of food

12.In Paragraph 2, the underlined word "constitutes"means ( ).

A.designs
B.forms
C.applies
D.proposes

13.Anthropologists believe ( ) can explain man"s actions.

A.evolution
B.gravity
C.culture
D.disease

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

A.odd habits
B.strange beliefs
C.unusual experiences
D.particular styles

15.A Koryak woman finds ( ).

A.American women undesirable
B.American women selfish
C.the system of plural husbands acceptable
D.the system of plural wives natural

16.According to Paragraph 5, the young man returned to China because ( ).

A.he was born a Chinese
B.he liked Chinese culture
C.he was culturally Chinese
D.he hated American culture

17.According to Paragraph 6, the root cause of the American teacher"s confusion was ( ).

A.the Indian students" inferior intelligence
B.her ignorance of the local Indian culture
C.the Indian students" strange dancing
D.her respect for the local Indian culture

18.In Paragraph 7, the underlined word "indignation""means ( ).

A.insult
B.shame
C.hatred
D.anger

19.What type of writing does this passage belong to?

A.Exposition.
B.Argumentation .
C.Narration.
D.Description.

110.What might be the best title for this passage?

A.Clans
B.History
C.Customs
D.Heritage

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.By "culture" anthropology means the total life way of a people, the social legacy the individual acquires from his group.

22.To the insistent human question "Why?" the most exciting illumination anthropology has to offer is that of the concept of culture.

23.By "blood" he was an American, for his parents had gone from Indiana to China as missionaries.

24.A highly intelligent teacher with long and successful experience in the public schools of Chicago was finishing her first year in an Indian school.

25.The teacher walked off in a fit of anger, but, actually, the two cases were quite comparable in principle.

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.To what degree docs a person"s cultural heritage define his or her identity?

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.When his time came to draw there were (32) three slips left, and it appeared to Chavel a (33) injustice that there were so few choices left for him. He drew one out of the (34) and then feeling certain that this one had been (35) on him by his companions and contained the (36) cross he threw it back and snatched another.Mitch crossed his (37) Money, that was the big question, particularly (38) it compared to his other offers. But, he (39), like all the other firms they had to shadowbox around the issue until things got (40) and it was apparent they had discussed everything in the world (41) money. So hit them with a soft question first.Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself (42) danger of her father's violence. She knew it was (43) that had given her the palpitations. When they were growing up he had never gone for her,(44) he used to go for Harry and Ernest, because she was a girl; but latterly he had begun to (45) her and say what he would do to her only for her (46) mother's sake.Her hair brushed his lips as she minced in, then (47) away, to the end of his arm; he could feel her toes (48) into the carpet. He flipped his own hair back from his eyes. The (49) ate through his skin and mixed with the nerves and (50) veins; he seemed to be great again, and all the other kids were around them, in a ring, (51) time.Fast reaction times are an advantage when dealing with the (52). Vistakon's managers, for example, responded (53) when competitors challenged the safety of the lenses. They (54) data combating the charges, via Federal Express, to (55) 17,000 eye-care professionals. Vistakon's speedy response engendered (56) in the marketplace.A.penciled  B.small  C.legs  D.dead  E.willedF.some  G.swung  H.only  I.that  J.threatenK.but  L.unknown  M.clapping  N.dig  O.knewP.goodwill  Q.like  R.shoe  S.how  T.distributedU.quickly  V.music  W.awkward  X.in  Y.monstrous()

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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.只要地球上的人口持續以這種癌變的速度增長，所有其它問題似乎都無從解決。

52.兩個紅衣女郎走過來，兩個身穿藍色衣服的年輕士兵迎上去，他們開懷大笑，成雙結對挽著胳膊離開了。

53.有一天父親與弗蘭克吵了起來，之后女兒只好偷偷地與情人會面。

54.她用力把煙戳到椅子扶手上的煙灰缸里，以致于煙灰缸都跳到了地板上。

55.大多數人在可以根據個人意愿自由安排時間時，會想不出什么事情足夠有趣又值得一做。無論做什么，他們都會想著別的事可能更有趣。

56.就在花市的停車場前，那個負責開關車門的人一那個白癡，坐在馬路牙子上，雙腿蜷縮著放在排水溝里。他在睡覺，頭朝后倚在電話桿上。雙手搭在便道的水泥地上，不再顫抖，了無生氣。他的頭也不再顫抖，熟睡的臉很美。