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Reading comprehension ★ 1. A 2. D 3. D 4. C 5. A 6. D 7. C 8. D 9. A 10. B

Vocabulary★ A. 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. D 6. C 7. C 8. C 9.D 10. A

★ B. 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. D 7. A 8. D 9. B 10. C

Cloze ★ 1. A 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. B 8. C 9.B 10. D

Translation 壳牌公司努力构建的管理风格是让雇员直接参与影响其工作的决策。在最终确立所在部门的工作目标之前，公司鼓励员工参与讨论这些目标。通过员工汇报制度，公司还鼓励员工参与制定来年的工作目标，认同其培训需求，励炼其志向，以便公司在制定专业培训计划时把这些也考虑在内。这种做法是该公司雇佣关系哲学的核心。集团公司相信这种做法对公司大有裨益，同时对雇员的合理期望也给予承认。

★ 1. To our delight, that region has shaken off poverty and is ( well ) on the way to well-off society.

★ 2. Over the past ten years, with joint efforts the graduate education has fared well in our country.

★ 3. The growth rate of the economy in that country shot up to an unbelievable level.

★ 4. Activities such as summer camp is out of reach for the children in poverty-stricken regions.

★ 5. She was less the product of the environment than of her family.

Fast reading ★ 1. B 2. B 3. C 4. B 5. A

Unit 2 Move Over, Big Brother

Reading comprehension ★ 1. B 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. D 8. B 9. D 10. C

Vocabulary ★ A. 1. C 2. A 3. A 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. B 8. A 9.C 10. D

★ B. 1. A 2. D 3. C 4. C 5. D 6. C 7. A 8. D 9. D 10. B

Cloze★ 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. B 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. A 9.D 10. D

Translation 人们已经越来越意识到计算机的某些应用对我们所谓的“个人隐私”这种抽象的价值观可能带来的影响。过去，冗繁的活字印刷技术抑制了人们搜集并保存其同伴的信息的欲望，因而限制了关于个人情况记载的数量。但现在许多人已表示担忧, 由于计算机信息量大、准确率高、储存长久，它可能会成为监视系统的中心，使社会变成透明的世界，将家庭、财政收支、社交等暴露在各种各样漫不经心的观察者面前，这些人中有些是病态的好奇者，也有居心不良或刺探商业情报的人。

★ 1. There was also general concern about the health of the civilian population and the lack of access to medical treatment for special groups.

★ 2. Globalization has been a mixed blessing for human rights around the world, undermining the economic power of national governments but strengthening a sense of world community.

★ 3. The mayor sent me an invitation in response to my request for an interview.

★ 4. As for “Have you eaten?”, this sounds like an invitation to dine! How many na?ve Chinese have asked American friends “Have you eaten?” and ended up having to buy them a meal!

★ 5. There is the possibility that they would stick it to you when they see that you are foreigners.

Fast reading ★ 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. C

Unit 3 The Rise of the Green Building

Reading comprehension ★ 1. D 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. C 8. A 9. D 10. A

Vocabulary

★ A. 1. D 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. D 8. C 9.A 10. B

★ B. 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. B 6. B 7. D 8. C 9. D 10. B

Cloze

★ 1. light 2. power 3. thanks 4. thicker 5. within 6. mass 7. glass 8. led 9.flexible 10. typically Translation

A. 长期以来，不破坏生态平衡的建筑设计被认为是无关紧要的。而最近，英国皇家建筑师学会提出的有利于生态环境的原则——规定一个建筑物的建设和使用都不应该消耗地球的资源——已开始影响主流建筑。由于矿物燃料的价格飞涨和对气候变化日益感到不安，越来越多的设计师开始考虑环境因素。这个议程正逐步地渗入重要的建筑师设计中，而大的建筑公司也正在注意到这个问题。

全球变暖对主流建筑的习惯做法造成巨大的威胁。如果现在的趋势持续下去，目前建造的适应于欧洲北部凉爽气候的建筑物到2080年将需要空调持续运行，从而增加能耗费用并产生温室气体。所以建筑学家正争先恐后地设计模型吸收多余的热量，再加上结合已被验证的来自地中海地区的冷却方法，更好地利用自然通风，利用更多的遮光设施、百叶窗和庭院，采用更小的窗子来阻挡阳光进入。

B. (1)The chairman of the committee is expected to be back next Thursday.

(2)In the case of James, the manager decided to promote him to the next grade.

(3)The candidate's speech represented the mainstream thinking on economic policy.

(4)For God’s sake, I didn't expect to see you here.

(5)What is at stake here is not whether the US goes alone or not, but whether the international community is prepared to take necessary action.

V. Fast Reading 1. F 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. T 7. F 8. T 9. F 10. F

Unit 4 Speech at Tsinghua University

Reading comprehension ★ 1. B 2. C 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. C 7. D 8. A 9. D 10. B

Vocabulary

★ A. 1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. D 8. B 9.A 10. B

★ B. 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. A 8. C 9. A 10. D

Cloze★ 1. C 2. A 3. D 4. A 5. B 6. B 7. D 8. C 9.B 10. A

Translation

自2001年来，全球抗击艾滋病的行动发生了巨大的变化。在艾滋病流行初期曾严重匮乏抗击艾滋病的政治承诺，现已在国家、区域和全球各级水平上得到明显加强。在世界上两个人口最多的国家，领导人发出的倡议正产生重要影响。在中国，高级政要已经开始公开谈论艾滋病问题；在印度，设立了由总理担任主席的国家艾滋病问题委员会。

★ 1. Each of us has a stake in the outcome of the conference.

★ 2. The black market sales were choked off according to the local government’s decree.

★ 3. The country has made great strides towards self-sufficiency and its achievements in economic development have captured world attention.

★ 4. The consensus that AIDS is an exceptional problem that warrants an exceptional response holds forth the promise that the global response to AIDS will at last match the epidemic in its scale and complexity.

★ 5. As an old industrial base, Liaoning Province is sparing no efforts to revive its economy.

Fast reading ★ 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. D

Unit 5 Impressions of America

Reading comprehension★ 1. C 2. B 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. B 7. C 8. B 9. C 10. D

Vocabulary

★ A. 1. C 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. C 8. C 9. A 10. D

★ B. 1. D 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. D 6. A 7.C 8. B 9. A 10. B

Cloze★ 1. D 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. C 6. D 7. A 8. C 9. B 10. D

Translation 我觉得这个奖（诺贝尔文学奖）不是颁给我这个人，而是给我的工作的—我本着人性精神在痛苦与汗水中一辈子的工作，不是为了荣誉，更不是为了利益，而是以人性精神为素材创造出以前

不存在的东西。所以这个奖只是交给我保管。不难找到一篇献词，因为这个奖的金钱价值与它原先的宗旨和意义是相称的。但是我要在这样做时也得到喝彩赞扬，利用此刻身在顶峰的机会，那些已经致力于同样的痛苦和辛劳的年轻男女也许会聆听我在此说的话，他们中间有人总有一天会站在我现在所站的地方。

★ 1. If the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

★ 2. America is the noisiest country that ever existed.

★ 3. The line of strength and the line of beauty are one.

★ 4. They will have nothing about them that is not beautiful.

★ 5. Every American girl is entitled to have twelve young men devoted to her.

Fast reading ★ 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F

Unit 6 At What Cost Beauty

Reading comprehension ★ 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. B 5. D 6. A 7. C 8. A 9. B 10. C

Vocabulary★ A. 1. C 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. A 6. A 7. C 8. D 9.D 10. D

★ B. 1. B 2. B 3. C 4. D 5. A 6. D 7. A 8. C 9. B 10. C

Cloze★ 1. B 2. B 3. C 4. C 5. A 6. C 7. D 8. D 9.A 10. C

Translation答案是明确的：不会。因为真正的美既是外在的也是内在的。瓷缸美，美在外形、颜色和表面纹理。瓷缸可能是空的，也可能爬满了蜘蛛，里面可能装满了蜂蜜，也可能装满了黏液，这都不影响它的美丑。但女人是活生生的人，所以她外表的美还不算美。人体外表受内在精神特征的影响。我见过一些女人，按照瓷器行家的标准，既迷人又漂亮。她们的形体、肤色和表面肌理均无可挑剔，但就是不美。因为漂亮的花瓶不是空空如也，就是败絮其中，精神的空虚或丑陋自然会暴露无遗。相反，内秀却能改变那些纯美学家认为是不完美的和奇丑的形体。

★ 1. Somewhat to his own surprise, he ended up designing the whole car and putting it into production.

★ 2. Before long her white sails were little more than a speck upon the waters.

★ 3. In spite of others' discouragement, he saved his daughter from the fire at the cost of his own life.

★ 4. On a more practical level, we should consider how we are going to find the money.

★ 5. If you buy six bars of soap, you get another one thrown in.

Fast reading ★ 1. C 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. D

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绍兴文理学院元培学院学年学期 英语专业____级《高级英语（上）》试卷（D） I. Matching (10%) Directions: Match the phrases in Column A with the appropriate Chinese explanations in Column B. Write down the letters with corresponding numbers on your ANSWER SHEET. Column A Column B 1 attribute to A 实行，实现，使生效 2 fall into B 一事无成，无进展 3 put … into effect C 恰当的例子 4 meddle in D 插手，干涉 5 pass for E 归因于 6 a case in point F 落入，陷入，分为 7 get nowhere G 误认为 8 in proper perspective H 强加于 9 let down I 用恰当的观点 10 impose on J 放下，降低，使失望 II. Paraphrase (20%) Directions: Explain in English the meaning of the underlined words or expressions in each of the following sentences and then write your answers on your ANSWER SHEET. 11. Unfortunately, acceptance, the imprecise response packing the least educational punch, gets the most equitable sex distribution in classrooms. 12. Classroom chivalry is not only misplaced; it is detrimental. 13. In a railroad accident a menagerie-tiger, whose cage had broken open, is said to have emerged, but presently crept back again. 14. A practical joker saw a discharged veteran carrying home his dinner. 15. The tiger is said to have emerged, but presently crept back again, as if too much bewildered by his new responsibilities. 16. The relationship is a formal and formalized one for which conventionalities suffice. 17. The construction of our vehicle presupposes a design. 18. This confident attitude, so essential to development of future speaking skill, is very fragile and can be stifled quite early. 19. The lion’s share of the damage is man’s doing. 20. I can guess that you are living on a devastated Earth. 21. Government is supposed to be the way we human beings handle our collective affairs, but we just can’t seem to get the hang of it. 22. As a model of lucid scrutiny of a life’s experience, Maugham’s The Summing-Up is unsurpassed. 23. I have never had to put wet towels round an aching brain in order to excavate the meanings from a poem of Tennyson. 24. Religious groups and those who elevate the status of poverty as they equate money with evil exhort us to live simply. 25. Some, on the other hand, determine to break out of their fettered status and relentlessly strive for their share of the gold. 26. Many fine business ideas go down the drain in this way. 27. They develop skills, become knowledgeable, develop expertise, and work very hard. 28. Jukes had been somewhat taken aback by the startling viciousness of the first squall. 29. Such is the prestige, the privilege, and the burden of command. 30. It unveiled the black figures of men caught on the bridge, heads forward, as if petrified in the act of butting. III. Reading Comprehension (30%) Directions: In this section there are four passages followed by a total of 15 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then write your answers on your ANSWER SHEET. Passage One You may not have thought of it just this way, but the letter you write is part of you, and expression of your personality. Therefore to write letters that are mere patterns of form is to present a colorless personality. Letters, by their very nature, are too individual to be standardized. A letter may be absolutely perfect according to the standards of good taste and good form; but unless it also expresses something of the writer’s personality, it is not a good letter. In other words, don't be satisfied to write letters that are just correct and nothing more. Try to write letters that are correct for you... letters that are warm and alive with reflections of your own personality. And if this sounds like a platitude (陈词滥调), stop for a moment and think back over your recent correspondence. What was the most interesting letter you received? Was it a letter anyone could have written? Or was it a letter that instantly “came alive”as you read it—that brought the personality of the sender right into the room with you.