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1、1绍兴文理学院元培学院 学年 学期英语专业 级高级英语（下） 试卷（E）题 号（型）一 二 三 四 五 六 总 分 评分人得 分 核分人I. Directions: Explain in English the meaning of the underlined words or expressions in each sentence (10%)1. Besides, I intend to be quick about it, and not dawdle. 2. Obsessed though I was with the notion of bringing life into the
2、 three eggs, I wasnt quite prepared to pay the price. 3. Well, what was she raving about? 4. She wrenched away, crying for him to take his rope and go to hell. 5. By this time Fifth Avenue is deserted by all but a few strolling insomniacs, some cruising cabdrivers, and a group of sophisticated femal
3、es. 6. He earns $100,000 a year, is a gentleman of impeccable taste. 7. People slump behind newspapers or walk aimlessly about with no place to sit, nobody to talk to, nothing to do. 8. But now and then, they coalesce into a fire which is an inflammation of the mind of him who watches. 9. This mailm
4、an and his pancreas-careful neighbors for fifty-two years until the night the one turned rampant and set fire to the house of the other. 10. In his fallen mouth a single canine tooth, perfectly embedded, gleams, a badge of better days. II. Directions: Among the four choices, choose the one that is t
5、he closest in meaning to the italicized word. (10 %) 1. He tarried to tell his hostess how much he had enjoyed the party.a. neglected b. attempted c. lingered d. struggled2. He is the most intrepid explorer in the present century.a. successful b. fearless c. reliable d. enthusiastic3. The picture is
6、 tilted; please straighten it.a. high b. level c. crooked d. adjustable4. Your mood seems very meditative this evening.a. gleeful b. thoughtful c. desperate d. stern5. The gunfire was sporadic.a. intermittent b. frequent c. continuous d. distant6. To implore his frienda. beg b. deceive c. please d.
7、entertain7. Labyrinthine forestsa. very dense b. pathless c. having intricate paths d. man-made8. Eat with relisha. distaste b. much taste c. hesitation d. refined delight9. Lucid thoughtsa. free-flowing b. honest c. clear d. hard to explain10. Furtive actionsa. clever b. quick c. stealthy d. dishon
8、estIII. Paraphrase (20%)1. They are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and their false accusations.2. My gander, the widower, lived a solitary, life-nobody to swap gossip with, nobody to protect. He seemed dazed.3. A gander carries his head high and affects a threatening attitude.4
9、. A gooses eye is a small round enigma.5. Pain invents its own language.6. An anger rises toward her for the charge she has given.7. The bridge is an almost restless structure of graceful beauty which, like an irresistible seductress.8. He swallowed the words red hot, his face burned.9. You might as
10、 well talk to a sieve as that woman when she got going.10. I must take care what sparks I let fly toward such inflammable matter.IV. Reading Comprehension (30%)Passage AUnlike the carefully weighed and planned compositions of Dante, Goethes writings have always the sense of immediacy and enthusiasm.
11、 He was a constant experimenter with life, with ideas, and with forms of writing. For the same reason, his works seldom have the qualities of finish or formal beauty which distinguish the masterpieces of Dante and Virgil. He came to love the beauties of classicism, but these were never an essential
12、part of his make-up. Instead, the urgency of the moment, the spirit of the thing, guided his pen. As a result, nearly all his works have serious flaws of structure, of inconsistencies, of excesses and redundancies and extra niceties.班级： 姓名： 学号： OOOO装O订O线OOOO O2In the large sense, Goethe represents t
13、he fullest development of the romanticist. It has been argued that he should not, be so designated because he so clearly matured and outgrew the kind of romanticism exhibited by Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats. Shelley and Keats died young; Wordsworth lived narrowly and abandoned his early attitudes.
14、 In contrast, Goethe lived abundantly and developed his faith in the spirit, his understanding of nature and human nature, and his reliance on feelings as mans essential motivating force. The result was an all-encompassing vision of reality and a philosophy of life broader and deeper than the partia
15、l visions and attitudes of other romanticists. Yet the spirit of youthfulness, the impatience with close reasoning or “logic-chopping,”and the continued faith in nature remained his to the end, together with an occasional waywardness and impulsiveness and a disregard ed artistic or logical propriety
16、 which savor strongly of romantic individualism. Since so many twentieth-century thoughts and attitudes are similarly based; on the stimulus of the Romantic Movement, Goethe stands as particularly the poet of the modern man as Dante stood for medieval man and as Shakespeare for the man of the Renaissance.1. The title that bes
