高级英语（一）23春在线作业2-0004
试卷总分:100 得分:100
一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 60 分)
1.I could detect ________ variances in fragrance as we strolled through the garden.
A.beginning
B.subtle
C.substitute
D.sacred
2.They lived, in bitter ________, to see the establishment they had overthrown replaced by a new one.
A.illusion
B.disillusion
C.disillusionment
D.illusions
3.Since everyone we knew could sew ________, praise was rarely handed out for the commonly practiced craft.
A.competently
B.competent
C.stitch
D.apronlike
4.Even when it is downright ________ it contains much that a full-time politician would consider irrelevant.
A.world-view
B.propaganda
C.construction
D.detachment
5.Employers rarely make ____________ for the possible physical limitations of otherwise valuable older employees, and instead they are fired, retired or forced to resign.
A.concessions
B.subsistence
C.confrontation
D.humiliation
6.The beast you feel is savage, ________ hostile, basically a murderer.
A.intrinsic
B.abrupt
C.intrinsically
D.abruptly
7.They ________ to follow him, eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops.
A.tune
B.react
C.rebel
D.surge
8.There were food shortages and other _______________ during the Civil War.
A.discrepant
B.multitude
C.deprivations
D.accumulation
9.Our planet unfortunately, is running out of noble savages and ________ landscapes.
A.unsullied
B.sullied
C.tension
D.pastoral
10.She knew it was that that had given her the ___________________.
A.palpitations
B.shillings
C.clacking
D.cretonne
11.Just look at that waterfall! Isn‘t it amazing? she ___________.
A.marvelled
B.illicit
C.resented
D.suspected
12.It closed around one with a thick ________ drug-like heaviness.
A.palpable
B.palpably
C.adjured
D.adjure
13.Now we headed into a thick scrub of ________ bamboo and hypericum trees.
A.lobelias
B.mingled
C.mingling
D.lest
14.When a local paper has a monopoly in a region, as most of them do, why is it necessary to aim at the lowest common ________?
A.service
B.feature
C.denominator
D.dispatch
15.I have done the work – all the ________ details that make the difference between victory and defeat on election day.
A.tedious
B.liberal
C.invariable
D.handicapped
16.She liked its huge, barnlike, inhuman ___________, its corridors shoulder-high in dark green, shoulder-to-ceiling in pale peppermint.
A.bleakness
B.accessibility
C.beret
D.frizzy
17.I imagined the picture on the wall without difficulty, and gave it a few ________ touches.
A.plumb
B.monotony
C.avail
D.deft
18.Newspapers ________ against him, and TV networks banned him.
A.edit
B.editor
C.editorial
D.editorialized
19.But women ________ in the lower-paying, menial, unrewarding, dead-end jobs.
A.dominated
B.predominate
C.rank
D.homemaker
20.An excited group of children ______________ out of school.
A.left
B.squandered
C.tumbled
D.courted
二、判断题 (共 20 道试题,共 40 分)
21.Mrs. Flowers was from an aristocratic family and enjoyed respect of both the white and black folks in the town.
22.To become a rock star seems to be the fastest way to fortune and fame.
23.While at Wittier college, Sanders (the author of "I‘ll Never Escape the Ghetto") felt ashamed of telling people that he was from "
24.The mental problems of the old are untreatable.
25.It takes no effort to be an ideal listener, as we can do it instinctively.
26.Besides political issues, rock music also deals with the emotional life of the American people.
27.An American is exposed to about 10,000 hours of television each year on average.
28.Modern men also have primitive impulse.
29.All Spaniards are interested in bullfight.
30.According to Jim Binns, young people today are ever more conscious of the “generation gap” than young people of the past.
31.For fifty years or more, Orwell wrote a story about himself.
32.As Americans are eating second-rate foods of more or less the same kind, they are actually eating the way hogs used to be fed by their ancestors.
33.When he saw the gorilla, the author was so fascinated by its charming appearance that he forgot to use his binoculars.
34.Though the infliction of pain in itself is an evil act, it requires no justification if it can be done for a good purpose.
35.Mrs. Flowers understood Marguerite’s feelings better than Momma did.
36.The real world is beset with social problems which, instead of being solved once for all, often lead to others.
37.Shirly Chisholm (the author) loves teaching and is waiting anxiously to go back to her job in school.
38.Many newspapers are owned by one party.
39.Primitive men, due to lack of such entertainments as modern men have, easily got bored.
40.The more lovely a musical piece sounds, the more value it has.
