2020年广东自考《高级英语》题库六
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2020年广东自考《高级英语》题库六
Section 1: Choose the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the underlined part (20%).
1. It is just conceivable that he’ll win, but it’s very unlikely really.
a. expected
b. imaginable
c. supposed
d. presumed
2. Artificial diamond is indistinguishable from genuine one, but much cheaper.
a. differential in
b. indifferent to
c. differentiable from
d. identical to
3. I was offered my teaching job back but I declined. Later I became a geologist for an oil company.
a. received
b. accepted
c. hesitated
d. refused
4. The recent archeological discovery attested the scientists’ speculation .
a. sued
b. confirmed
c. appealed
d. protested
5. Tony became disdainful of his friends when he succeeded in the attempt.
a. scornful
b. proud
c. thankful
d. grateful
6. Motors and bicycles threaded their way among the throngs of people entering and leaving the market.
a. swarm
b. crowds
c. flock
d. herd
7. Police followed the would-be thieves and caught them red-handed.
a. enraged
b. likely
c. attempted
d. timid
8. The remarks by leaders of the Taiwan authority met with scathing criticism from all sides
a. bitter
b. static
c. dynamic
d. gentle
9. Shakespeare was one of the most prolific writers in England.
a. creative
b. productive
c. ingenious
d. inventive
10. The hypothesis proposed for the origin of the solar system was to be discussed this week.
a. protected
b. provoked
c. stated
d. approved
11. The buildings collapsed in the earthquake.
a. broke down
b. turned down
c. put down
d. kept down
12. Tom’s answer was equivocal whenever the teacher asked the same question of him.
a. identical
b. different
c. ambiguous
d. difficult
13. There were incessant demands for the resignation of the Georgian president from the office for his inefficient running of state affairs.
a. occasional
b. temporary
c. continuous
d. intermittent
14. His conscience impelled him to admit his part in the affair.
a. compelled
b. discouraged
c. exhausted
d. exhilarated
15. Large areas of land have been contaminated by the leakage from the nuclear reactor.
a. corrupted
b. discolored
c. polluted
d. decayed
16. His tension was veiled by casual remarks.
a. concealed
b. inspired
c. sharpened
d. weakened
17. We had to sit and swelter in the room while our friends were at the beach.
a. doze off
b. suffer from heat
c. take shelter
d. toil
18. All kinds of functional furniture are sold in this supermarket.
a. practical
b. practicable
c. operational
d. operatable
19. Weapons of mass destruction must be strictly forbidden. Otherwise, if a nuclear war started, it would be the cataclysm for all humankind.
a. termination
b. destruction
c. devastation
d. calamity
20. They entered the shop, which was a curious ramshackle building.
a. grotesque
b. sombre
c. unsteady
d. Gothic
Section 2 Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in each of the blanks.(10%)
21. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through _______ boyhood.
a. endless
b. permanent
c. eternal
d. timeless
22. It grows louder and more _____ until you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing flashes, as the burnished copper catches the light of _____ lamps and braziers.
a. distinct, innumerable
b. clear, countless
c. distinct, numerable
d. unclear, innumerable
23. This is the _________ lawyer who is likely to win the whole nation’s attention.
a. clever
b. intelligent
c. remarkable
d. brilliant
24. If he does guess correctly, he will price the item high, and _______ little in the bargaining
a. produce
b. yield
c. surrender
d. resign
25. They would also like to _____ the atomic museum.
a. demolish
b. destroy
c. ruin
d. smash
26. I was again crushed by the thought that I stood on the _______ of the first atomic bombardment.
a. spot
b. site
c. place
d. area
27. The house detective’s piggy eyes surveyed her ________ from his gross-jowled face.
a. sardonically
b. sarcastically
c. ironically
d. cynically
28. She was sanding outside in the snow, ____ with cold.
a. spinning
b. shivering
c. shaking
d. staggering
29. All the rooms on the second floor have nicely ____ carpets, which are included in the price of the house.
a. adapted
b. equipped
c. suited
d. fitted
30. If you bear any visible scars of atomic burns, your children will encounter prejudice ______ those who do not.
a. on the side of
b. at the side of
c. on the part of
d. at the part of
II Translation (20%)
1. 1. 吃完饭弗兰克经常帮助洗餐具。(take a hand in)
2. 2. 土壤散发着青草的气味。 (smell of)
3. 3. 他们用出其不意的进攻打垮了敌人。(overwhelm)
4. 4. 我们俩谁也不善于计算数字。 (adept at)
5. 5. 在压力下，别无办法，他只好离职。(choice)
6．He was so absorbed in his work that he was oblivious of the goings-on around him.
7. Molten iron is poured into the mixer much in the same way as tea is poured into a cup from a teapot.
8．It’s hard work. But you must hang on.
9．The newspaper reporters got excited at the very sight of the Nobel Prize winner.
10．We shall be strengthened not weakened in determination and in resources.
III. Paraphrase (20%) ：
1．It is a vast, somber cavern of a room.
2. …he will price the item high, and yield little in the bargaining.
3. I though somehow I had spared.
4. (Stretchers and wheelchairs lined the walls of endless corridors, and nurses walked by carrying nickel-plated instruments,) the very sight of which would send shivers down the spine of any healthy visitor.
5. I asked whether for him, the arch anti-Communist, this was not bowing down in the House of Rimmon.
6. We shall be strengthened and not weakened in determination and resources.
7. The Duchess of Croydon－three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance behind her－did not yield easily.
8.… railroads began drying up the demand for steamboat pilots.
9. A clash had been building up between fundamentalists and the modernists.
10. Even in so settled a matter as spelling, a dictionary cannot always be absolute.
IV. Name the figures of speech used in the following sentences.(one in each sentence)(10%)
1. The water lay gray and wrinkled like an elephant’s skin.
2. The town was stormed after a long siege.
3. Gray hairs should be respected.
4. He is He Newton of this century.
5. I am sorry I must go somewhere.
6. His speech brought the house down.
7. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
8. One man’s meat is another’s poison.
9. … go back to the glorious sixteenth century,
10. If winter comes, can spring be for behind?
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