出自:河南大学-本科英语
1[填空题,20分] Today’s heroes—some of them, anyway—tell us they enjoy their 1 . “And I 2 to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never 3 of us billion-dollar babies.” The 4
“culture hero” who 5 that is Alice Cooper.
If I said that being black is a greater 6 than being a woman, probably no one would 7
me. Why? Because “we all know” there is 8 against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still 9 nearly all men—and, I am afraid, most women—as 10 .
There is, however, another 11 possessed by the best work, which is even more important as a 12 of happiness than is the exercise of 13 . This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no 14 in most, something is built up which remains as a 15 when
the work is completed.
My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the 16 year at Whittier College, was 17 . It was to me less of a 18 ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University, to Yale Law School, and back to Watts. I had 19 then, as now, to make Watts my 20 .
Well, it’s a good life and a good 21 , all said and 22 , if you don’t 23 , and if you know that the big wide world hasn’t 24 from you yet, no, not by a long way, though it won’t be long now. The float bobbed more violently than before and, with a 25 on his face, he began to wind in the reel.
A. handicap
B. element
C. weaken
D. means
E. heard
F. question
G. freshman
H. home
I. strikes
J. done
K. source
L. different
M. conceived
N. particular
O. grin
R skill
Q. laughed
R. prejudice
S. monument
T. sings
U. rewards
V. departure
W. intended
X. world
Y. bizarre
3[填空题,20分] Many doctors working on the battlefield of terminal suffering think that only squeamishness demands a 1 difference between passive and active euthanasia on request. Their 2 for killing goes like this: one of a doctor’s 3 is to prevent suffering; sometimes that is all there is left for him to do, and killing is the only way to do it. There is nothing new in this view. When Hippocrates 4 his oath for doctors, which explicitly rules 5 active killing, most other Greek doctors and thinkers disagreed with his 6 .
The women’s magazines are about one third 7 to clothes, one third to mild comment 8 sex, and the 9 third to recipes and pictures of handsome salads, desserts, and main 10 . “Institutes” exist to experiment and tell housewives how to cook attractive meals and how to turn leftovers into 11 of art. The food thus pictured looks 12 famous paintings of still life. The only trouble is it’s tasteless.
One of the greatest and most 13 criticisms of television has been that in 14 to the largest audience possible, it neglects minority audiences and minority tastes. This is still 15 true. But there is, perhaps, one program a day and many, of course, on Sunday which an intelligent man or woman can enjoy and 16 interest from. In my trips east or west or north or south, I pick up the 17 paper to find this enjoyment or interest— 18 vain.
American individualism, on the 19 of it an admirable philosophy, wishes to manifest itself in independence of the community. You don’t share things in 20 ; you have your own things. A family’s strength is signalized by its possessions. Herein lies a 21 . For the desire for possessions must eventually mean dependence on possessions. Freedom is slavery. Once let the 22 instinct burgeon, and there are ruggedly individual forces 23 too ready to make it come to full and monstrous 24 . New appetites are invented; what to the European are bizarre 25 become, to the American, plain necessities.
A．acquisitive
B．appealing
C．argument
D．ban
E．blossom
F．common
G．courses
H．dedicated
I．derive
J．duties
K．face
L．firm
M．formulated
N．in
O．justified
P．largely
Q．like
R．local
S．on
T．only
U．other
V．out
W．paradox
X．works
4[填空题,20分] She 1 to me because she was like people I had never met 2 . Like women in English novels who 3 the moors (whatever they were) with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful 4 . Like the women who sat in front of roaring 5 , drinking tea incessantly from silver trays full of scones and crumpets. Women who walked over the "heath" and read morocco-bound books and had two last names 6 by a hyphen. It would be safe to say that she made me proud to be Negro, just by being herself.
Homes and restaurants do what they can with this 7 —— which my mother-in-law would
8 on the spot. I have long thought that the 9 blindfold test for cigarettes should be applied to city 10 . For I am sure that if you 11 them blindfolded, you couldn.t tell the beans from the 12 , the turnips from the squash. Chavel was filled with a huge and 13 joy. It seemed to him that already he was 14 —— twenty nine men to draw and only two marked papers left. The 15 had suddenly grown in his favor from ten to one to fourteen to one: the greengrocer had drawn a slip and 16 carelessly and without pleasure that he was safe. Indeed from the first draw any mark of pleasure was 17 : one couldn.t mock the condemned one by any 18 of relief.
Red Indians, while they were still 19 by white men, would smoke their pipes, not calmly as we do, but 20 , inhaling so deeply that they sank into a 21 . And when excitement by means of nicotine failed, a patriotic orator would stir them 22 to attack a neighboring tribe, which would give them all the 23 that we (according to our temperament) 24 from a horse 25 or a General Election.
A. taboo B. faint C. shameful D. orgiastically E. saved
F. race G.. up H. peas I. sign J. famed
K. fireplaces L. indicated M. stuff N. personally O. chances
P. enjoyment Q. distance R. vegetables S. discard T. divided
U. unaffected V. pureed W. walked X. appealed Y derive