?高級英語2013年1月真題試題（00600）

高級英語2013年1月真題試題及答案解析（00600）

高級英語2013年1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.The development of netnews has formed a(n) ( ) challenge to traditional journalism transmitted by newspapers, broadcasting stations and televisions.

A.united
B.uniform
C.unpleasing
D.unprecedented

2.It is easy to ( ) a spear in the daylight, but it is difficult to avoid an arrow in the dark.

A.dodge
B.evade
C.escape
D.invade

3.We were annoyed by his ( ) reply, for we had been led to expect definite assurances of his approval.

A.nonsense
B.noncurrent
C.noncommittal
D.nonsacred

4.The patient has the right to considerate and ( )care.

A.respectable
B.respectful
C.respective
D.respected

5.Rosie"s wonderful world came to a(n) ( ) end when her parents" marriage broke up.

A.vfast
B.snap
C.abrupt
D.hasty

6.His evidence was a blend of smears, half truths and ( ) lies.

A.downright
B.upright
C.thorough
D.radical

7.His report was attacked as a gross ( ) of the truth.

A.retort
B.illusion
C.resolution
D.distortion

8.His success is a classic case of thrifty and ( ) businessmen.

A.crafty
B.shrewd
C.tricky
D.cunning

9.He interpreted her condemnation of recent political development as an ( ) criticism of the government.

A.implicit
B.explicit
C.impatient
D.explored

10.When someone is angry because they recognize an abuse being committed to another person, that is ( ) anger.

A.jealous
B.ridiculous
C.contemptible
D.justifiable

11.Many large companies seem totally ( ) about the environment.

A.unbent
B.unbalanced
C.unconcerned
D.unconnected

12.You"ll never finish the job if you ( ) over details.

A.fuss
B.mess
C.boss
D.miss

13.Instructors should ( ) new movements before letting the class try them.

A.demolish
B.manifest
C.demonstrate
D.manipulate

14.It is very unpleasant to have to ( ) the smoke from other people"s cigarettes.

A.inhale
B.exhale
C.import
D.export

15.The government has ( ) its refusal to compromise with terrorists.

A.retold
B.redeemed
C.reacted
D.reiterated

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.World's Rich Nations Miss a GoldenOpportunity to Back Fair Trade(1) Perhaps the defining moment of Tony Blair's premiership was the speech that he gave to the Labour Party conference in October 2001. In June his party had returned to office with a huge majority. In September two planes were flown into the World Trade Centre in New York. (The speech appeared to mark his transition from the insecure prime minister to a visionary and a statesman, determined to change the world). The most memorable passage was his declaration on Africa. "The state of Africa", he told us, "is a scar on the conscience of the world. But if the world as a community focused on it, we could heal it. And if we don't, it will become deeper and angrier."(2) This being so, I would like to ask Britain's visionary prime minister to explain what he thinks he was doing at the G8 summit in France. A few weeks ago President Jacques Chirac did something unprecedented. After years of opposing any changes to European farm subsidies(補貼), he approached the US government to suggest that Europe would stop subsidising its exports of food to Africa if America did the same.(3) His offer was significant, not only because it represented a major policy reversal for France, but also because it provided an opportunity to abandon the (perpetual) agricultural arms race between the European Union and the US, in which each side seeks to offer more subsidies than the other. (The West's farm subsidies, as Blair has pointed out, are a disaster for the developing world, and particularly for Africa).(4) Farming accounts for some 70% of employment on that continent, and most of the farmers there are desperately poor. Part of the reason is that they are unfairly undercut by the subsidised products dumped on their markets by exporters from the US and the EU. Chirac' s proposals addressed only part of the problem, but they could have begun the process of dismantling the system that does so much harm to the West's environment and the lives of some of the world's most (vulnerable) people.(5) We might, then, have expected Blair to have welcomed Chirac's initiative. Instead the prime minister has single-handedly destroyed it. The reason will by now be familiar. George Bush, who receives substantial political support from US agro-industrialists, grain exporters and pesticide manufacturers, was not prepared to make the concessions required to match Chirac's offer. If the EU, and in particular the UK, had supported France, the moral pressure on Bush might have been irresistible. But as soon as Blair made it clear that he would not support Chirac's plan, the initiative was dead.(6) So, thanks to Mr Blair and his habit of doing whatever Bush tells him to, Africa will continue to suffer. Several of the food crises from which that continent is now suffering are made worse by the (plight) of its own farmers. The underlying problem is that the rich nations set the global trade rules. (The current world trade agreement was supposed to have prevented the EU and the US from subsidising their exports to developing nations). But, as the development agency Oxfam has shown, the agreement contains so many loopholes that it permits the two big players simply to call their export subsidies by a different name.(7) So, for example, the EU has, in several farm sectors, stopped paying farmers according to the amount they produce and started instead to give them direct grants, based on the amount of land they own and how much they produced there in the past. The US has applied the same formula, and added a couple of tricks of its own. One of these is called "export credit": the state reduces the cost of US exports by providing cheap insurance for the exporters. These credits, against which Chirac was hoping to trade the European subsidies, are worth some $7.7bn to US grain sellers. In combination with other tricks, they ensure that American exporters can undercut the world price for wheat and maize by between 10% and 16%, and the world price for cotton by 40%. (But the ugliest of its hidden export subsidies is its use of aid as a means of penetrating the markets of poorer nations). While the other major donors give money, which the World Food Programme can use to buy supplies in local markets, thus helping farmers while feeding the starving, the US insists on sending its own produce, stating that this programme is "designed to develop . " and expand commercial outlets for US products".(8) The result is that the major recipients are not the nations in greatest need, but the nations that can again in the words of the US department of agriculture,. "demonstrate the potential to become commercial markets" for US farm products. This is why, for example, the Philippines currently receives more US food aid than Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe put together, all of which, unlike the Philippines, are currently suffering from serious food shortages.(9) But US policy also ensures that food aid is delivered just when it is needed least. Oxfam has produced a graph plotting the amount of wheat given to developing nations by the US against world prices. When the price falls the volume of "aid" rises. This is as clear a demonstration of agricultural dumping as you could ask for. The very programme that is meant to help the poor is in fact undermining them.(10) (So, when faced with a choice between saving Africa and saving George Bush from a mild diplomatic embarrassment, Blair has, as we could have predicted,done as his master bids). The scar on the conscience of the world has just become deeper and angrier.The word "perpetual" in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ( ).

A.cruel
B.costly
C.horrible
D.ceaseless

12.What percentage of African workers are involved in farming?

A.about 70%
B.about 40%
C.about 16%
D.about 10%

13.According to the author, agricultural subsidies are a bad thing because ( ).

A.they only benefit the USA
B.they cause political unrest in Africa
C.they lead to cheaper food prices in Africa
D.they make the price of imported food cheaper than locally produced food

14.The word “vulnerable” in Paragraph 4 means ( ).

A.tough
B.weak
C.hostile
D.indifferent

15.The author is angry with Tony Blair because ( ).

A.he remains an insecure prime minister
B.he won the election with a huge majority
C.he always challenges the American position
D.he changed his mind and opposed the French proposal

16.The word “plight” in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ( ).

A.a bitter complaint
B.a difficult condition
C.a habit of laziness
D.an arrogant attitude

17.The EU and the US have avoided the World Trade Agreement ban on subsidising food exports ( ).

A.by helping the starving in Africa
B.by giving money directly to poor farmers
C.by giving these subsidies a different name
D.by paying farmers according to the amount they produce

18.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A.The G8 summit meeting was held in France.
B.France recently offered to stop subsidising food exports to Africa.
C.American exporters charge 10% more than the world price for wheat.
D.The Philippines receives more US food aid than Mozambique, Zambia,Zimbabwe and Malawi.

19.Richer countries like the Philippines receive more US food aid than poorer countries because ( ).

A.they have a louder voice
B.they have bigger populations
C.they are better potential markets for US products
D.they have always been loyal allies of the United States

110.The author"s attitude to Blair"s decision is ( ) .

A.critical
B.positive
C.optimistic
D.indifferent

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.The speech appeared to mark his transition from the insecure prime minister to a visionary and a statesman, determined to change the world.

22.The West"s farm subsidies, as Blair has pointed out, are a disaster for the developing world, and particularly for Africa.

23.The current world trade agreement was supposed to have prevented the EU and the US from subsidising their exports to developing nations.

24.But the ugliest of its hidden export subsidies is its use of aid as a means of penetrating the markets of poorer nations.

25.So, when faced with a choice between saving Africa and saving George Bush from a mild diplomatic embarrassment, Blair has, as we could have predicted, done as his master bids.

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 of the gap between rich and poor nations?

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.Between Elvis and Alice, rock critics say, a ( 32 ). of rock stars have helped our society define its beliefs and ( 33 ). Bob Dylan touched a ( 34 ) of disaffection. He spoke of ( 35 ) rights, nuclear fallout, and loneliness. He spoke of change and of the ( 36 ) of an older generation. “Something's happening here,” he sang. “You don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” On her way home she usually bought a slice of honey-cake at the baker's. It was her Sunday ( 37 ). Sometimes there was an almond in her slice, sometimes( 38 ) . It made a great ( 39 ). If there was an almond it was like carrying home a tiny present-a surprise-something ( 40 ) might very well not have been there. She hurried on the almond Sundays and struck the match for the kettle in quite a ( 41 ) way. The satisfaction of ( 42 ) time and of affording some outlet, however modest, for ambition, belongs to most work, and is sufficient to make even a man whose work is dull ( 43 ) on the average than a man who has no work ( 44 ) all. But when work is interesting, it is ( 45 ) of giving satisfaction of a far higher order than mere relief ( 46 ) tedium. The kinds of work in which there is some interest may be arranged in a hierarchy. Problems large and small confront the elderly. They are easy targets for crime in the ( 47 ) and in their homes. Because of loneliness, confusion, hearing and visual difficulties they are prime ( 48 ) of dishonest door-to-door salesmen and fraudulent advertising, and buy defective hearing aids, dance lessons, useless "Medicare insurance supplements", and quack health remedies. Persons crippled by arthritis or strokes are yelled at by ( 49 ) bus drivers for their slowness in climbing on and ( 50 ) buses. Traffic lights turn ( 51 ) before they can get across the street. Our research shows that no company can succeed today by trying to be all things to all people. It must ( 52 ) find the unique value that it alone can deliver to a chosen market. We have ( 53 ) three distinct value disciplines, so called because ( 54 ) discipline produces a different kind of customer value . Choosing one discipline to master does not mean that a company ( 55 ) the other two, only that it picks a dimension of value on which to stake its market reputation over the long ( 56 ).A.abandons  B.at  C.attitudes  D.bewilderment  E.capableF.civil  G.dashing  H.difference  I.each  J.from  K.happierL.identified  M.impatient  N.instead  O.killing  P.nerve  Q.notR.number  S.off  T.red  U.streets  V.term  W.that  X.treat  Y.victims ()

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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.但請記住，語言是人類與同伴交流的方式，正是語言把人類與低級動物區分開來。

52.三家全國最有聲望的公司為他提供了工作，他根本就不需要來參加這次面試，不需要來這家事務所。

53.奇怪的是，銷售人員對他們所承受的長期壓力和嚴密監督反應良好。

54.在我看來，科學須運用誠實，它是我們發現真理的唯一可靠手段。

55.生活中幾乎任何有趣和有益的事情都需要建設性的、持之以恒的努力。我們中最遲鈍、最缺乏天分的人也能有所作為，令那些從不專注的人感到驚奇。

56.就算汽車車主可以無視公共交通的缺乏，他也很難忽視服務行業總體上的惡化。他的汽車需要維修工，而維修工的費用越來越貴，效率卻越來越低。家用小裝置更換的費用比維修便宜。越是看起來設備齊全的家庭，越要依賴冷漠的大公司和人數日益減少的服務大軍。