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《高级英语（三）》期末考核试题
I.vocabulary(30%)
1. Can you vouch for Fred’s integrity?
a. withdraw b. deny c. believe d. attest to
2. The crew gave an exuberant shout when the boat got under way.
a. stentorian b. boisterous
c. enthusiastic d. shrilling
3. Unfriendly aliens may be deported.
a. kept out b. sent out
c. put into prison d. tried in court
4. To curtail expending:
a. reduce b. increase c. plan d. disclose
5. pageant
a. weary b. spectacle c. heaven d. ostensible
6. hectic
a. Cogent b. heinous c. feverish d. avid
7. offset
a. Journey b. decline c. start d. compensate
8. tentions:
a.Was carried away b. was taken
c. was legalized d. was proposed
9.We must quieten the restive animals.
a. Buoyant b. restless c. remorseful d. resistant
10.He was famous for his repartee and his sarcasm.
a. Witty retort b. will full departure c. monologue d. sacrifice
11.Superannuated man was indignant because he felt that he could still perform a
good day’s work.
a. Senile b. experienced c. retired d. attenuated
12.The king enjoyed the sycophantic attentions of his followers.
a. Quiet b. servilely flattering c. frolicsome d. eagerly awaiting
13.At one time in history, temporal rulers assumed that they had been given their thrones by Divine right.
a. Priestly b. scholarly c. secular d. sporadic
14.tenacious salesmen
a. lax b. unyielding c. imperfect d. impatient
15. Many of President Roosevelt’s critics felt that he was too autocratic.
a. democratic b. self-powerful c. concealing the truth d. upper-class
II. fill in the blank with a proper word from the words given(20%):
included, excluded, like, dislike, companion, accommodation, traffic, hope for, thankful to, whatever, wherever, liners, berths
I was prepared to ___1___Max Kelada even before I knew him. The war had just finished and the passenger ___2____ in the ocean-going ___3__ were heavy. ____4__ was very hard to get and you had to put up with ___5___ the agents chose to offer you. You could not ____6___a cabin to yourself and I was ___7___be given one in which there were only two__8__. But when I was told the name of my __9__, my heart sank.
It suggested closed port-holes and the night air rigidly__10___.
III. Translation (25%):
今天，即使在西方发达国家，社会仍然是由家庭组成的，社会的基本细胞是家庭而不是个人。在我国，家庭的价值就更不容置疑的。人们首先是在家庭中生活、成长、发展和完善的。家庭是塑造人的微观环境，是人的社会化的第一课堂。没有家庭文明作为基础，整个社会的精神文明根本无从谈起，或者只能像沙滩上的大厦，迟早会坍塌的。
IV. paragraph translation (25%)
So society has us all at its mercy. It has only to murmur to the man that staying home is a feminine characteristic, and he will be out of the house like a bullet. It has only to suggest to the woman that logic and reason are the exclusive province of the masculine mind, whereas “intuition” and “feeling” are the female forte, and she will throw her physics textbooks out of the window, barricade herself into the house and give herself up to having wishy-washy poetical feelings while she arranges the flowers.
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