?高級英語2018年10月真題試題（00600）

高級英語2018年10月真題試題及答案解析（00600）

高級英語2018年10月真題試題及答案解析（00600），本試卷總共150分鐘，寫作題無標準答案。

一、單項選擇題

Each of the following sentences is given four choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (15 points， 1 point for each)

1.The campaign plan is supposed to be ( ) to the letter.

A.devised
B.executed
C.operated
D.performed

2.His intelligence and integrity won unanimous ( ) of his colleagues.

A.admiration
B.interest
C.enthusiasm
D.amazement

3.His parents were concerned about his heavy smoking and ( ) him for taking risks with his health.

A.abused
B.admonished
C.abhorred
D.abandoned

4.The new administration considers it necessary to ( ) its position and policy on the diplomatic disputes.

A.reiterate
B.recommend
C.release
D.relieve

5.Players are likely to be ( ) by the game"s slow pace and fishy subject matters.

A.put out
B.put down
C.put up
D.put off

6.The leader of the secret organization requires all members to take a(n) ( ) of allegiance.

A.note
B.job
C.oath
D.order

7.While waiting for her interview, Sarah sat on the bench ( ) nervously with the clasp of her handbag.

A.Flipping
B.twiddling
C.pricking
D.whipping

8.The new policy on sex discrimination is expected to ( ) discrimination in employment.

A.Illuminate
B.predominate
C.contaminate
D.eliminate

9.I had no clue what he was trying to suggest because he just couldn" t ( ) the subject.

A.keep to
B.keep up with
C.keep off
D.keep out of

10.The delegates of the two countries started the disarmament talks after an exchange of ( ).

A.courtesy
B.honor
C.pleasantry
D.respect

11.The hawk ( ) and soared away carrying a rabbit in its giant claws.

A.swooped
B.glided
C.twisted
D.fell

12.Hit by the recession, he lost his job and now has little ( ) income.

A.rising
B.national
C.retirement
D.disposable

13.This textbook aims to ( ) a wide range of important topics from natural science to social science.

A.cover
B.hide
C.conceal
D.disguise

14.What is great about the Harry Potter series is that the reader is likely to be ( ) to examine their interpersonal relationships.

A.simulated
B.assimilated
C.stimulated
D.accumulated

15.Lisa"s fairytale world came to a(n) ( ) end when her best friend was unexpectedly transferred to another school.

A.comic
B.impressive
C.abrupt
D.ridiculous

二、閱讀題(一)

In this section, there are ten incomplete statements or questions, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (20 points, 2 points for each).

11.(1) Big houses in Ireland are,I am told, very isolated.I say "I am told"because the isolation, or loneliness of my own house is only borne in on me, from time to time, by the exclamations of travelers when they arrive."Well,"they exclaim with a hint of denunciation,"you are a long way from everywhere!"I suppose I see this the other way round: everywhere seems to have placed itself a long way from me-if "everywhere"means shopping towns, railway stations or Ireland's principal through roads. But one's own point of departure always seems to one normal.(I have grown up accustomed to seeing out of my windows nothing but grass. sky, tree, to being enclosed in a ring of almost complete silence and to making journeys for anything that I want). Actually,a main road passes my gates(though it is a main road not much travelled); my post village, which is fairy animated, is just a mile up the hill, and daily bus, now, connects this village with Cork. The motor car demolishes distances, and the telephone and wireless keep the house knit up, perhaps too much with theworld. The loneliness of my house, as of many others, is more an effect than a reality. But it is the effect that is interesting.(2) (When I visit other big houses,I am struck by some quality that they all have not so much isolation as mystery). Each house seems to live under its own spell, and that is the spell that falls on the visitor from the moment he passes in at the gates. The ring of woods inside the territory wall conceals, at first, the whole territory from the eye: this looks, from the road, like the woods in sleep, with a great glade inside. Inside the gates the avenue often describes loops, to make itself of still more extravagant length; it is sometimes arched by beeches, sometimes silent with moss. On each side lie those tree-studded grass spaces we Anglo-lrish call lawns and English people puzzle us by speaking of as "the park."On these browse cattle, or there may be horses out on grass.A second gate(generally white-painted, so that one may not drive into it in the dark) keeps these away from the house in its inner circle of trees. Having shut this clanking white gate behind one, one takes the last reach of avenue and meets the faded, dark-windowed and somehow hypnotic stare of the big house. Often a line of mountains rises above it, or a river is seen through a break in woods. (But the house, in its silence. seems to be contemplating the swell or fall of its own lawns).(3) (The paradox of these big houses is that often they are not big at all. Those massive detached villas outside cities probably have a greater number of rooms). We have of course in Ireland the great houses-houses Renaissance Italy hardly rivals, houses with superb facades, colonnades, pavilions and, inside, chains of plastered, painted saloons, but the houses, that I know best, and write of, would be only called"big"in Ireland-in England they would be"country houses,"no more. They are of adequate size for a family, its dependants ,a modest number of guests. They gave few annexes, they do not ramble; they are nearly always compactly square. (Much of the space inside(and there is not so much space) has been sacrificed to airy halls and lobbies and to the elegant structure of staircases. Their facades(very often in the Italian manner) are not lengthy, though they may be high. Is it height-in this country of otherwise low building-that got these Anglo-Irish houses their"big"name? Or have they been called "big"with a slight inflection-that of hostility, irony? One may call a man "big"with just that inflection because he seems to think the hell of himself.(4) These houses, however, are certainly not little. Let us say that their size, like their loneliness, is an effect rather than a reality. Perhaps the wide, private spaces they occupy throw a distending reflection on to their walls. And, they were planned for spacious living for hospitality above all. Unlike the low, warm, ruddy French and English manors, they have made no natural growth from the soil-the idea that begot them was a purely social one. The functional parts of them-kitchens and offices, farm-buildings, outbuildings-were sunk underground, concealed by walls or by trees; only stables (for horses ranked very highly) emerged to view, as suavely planned as the house.In Paragraph 1, the word "denunciation"means ( ).

A.public accusation
B.heated debate
C.hearty approval
D.stealthy discussion

12.The author"s feeling toward motor cars, telephone, and wireless is one of ( ) .

A.distaste
B.anger
C.fear
D.relief

13.According to Paragraph 2, the reason that the big house renders the visitor the impression of isolation is that ( ).

A.it is located in a wood
B.it is far from the main road
C.it is reminiscent of enchantment
D.it has a lawn for cattle and horses

14.In Paragraph 2, the expression "tree-studded"means ( ).

A.tree-surrounded
B.tree-sheltered
C.tree-dotted
D.tree-shaded

15.In Paragraph 2, the figure of speech used in the sentence "Having shut this clanking white gate... the big house."is ( ).

A.Metaphor
B.personification
C.parallelism
D.euphemism

16.In Paragraph 3, the word "ramble"means ( ).

A.move back and forth
B.shake now and then
C.extend in all directions
D.appear out of nowhere

17.In Paragraph 3, the author uses the analogy of a "big"man to show that ( ).

A.the house is big in the sense that it looks self-important
B.the house is big in size in comparison with a man
C.the house is intimidating as hell
D.the house is spacious to live in

18.According to Paragraph 4, the effect that these houses are big in size is the result of ( ).

A.the need for wide spaces
B.careful design
C.the plan for spacious living
D.visual illusion

19.The fact that stables are suavely planned as the house implies that ( ).

A.horses are considered important
B.horses are vulnerable to harsh weather
C.horses are more useful than other farm animals
D.horses are considered symbolic of a man"s rank

110.Which of the following might be the best title for this passage?

A.Irish Architecture
B.The Big House
C.Modern Houses
D.The History of Architecture

三、英譯漢(二)

Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (10 points, 2 points for each)

21.I have grown up accustomed to seeing out of my windows nothing but grass，sky，tree，to being enclosed in a ring of almost complete silence and to making journeys for anything that I want.

22.When I visit other big houses, I am struck by some quality that they all have-not so much isolation as mystery.

23.But the house, in its silence, seems to be contemplating the swell or fall of its own lawns.

24.The paradox of these big houses is that often they are not big at all.Those massive detached villas outside cities probably have a greater number of rooms.

25.Much of the space inside (and there is not so much space) has been sacrificed to airy halls and lobbies and to the elegant structure of staircases.

四、寫作題(三)

Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 points)

31.What is your ideal house?

五、完形填空題

The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (25 points, 1 point for each)

41.The run must have tuned Bonnie up. When they got back (32), as soon as he lowered her into the crib, she began to (33) and wave her arms. He didn't want to play with her. He tossed some (34) and a rattle into the crib and walked into the (35), where he turned on the (36) water and began to comb his hair.But some years ago,I married a girl whose mother is an (37) cook of the kind called"old-fashioned". This gifted woman's daughter (my wife) was (38) her mother's venerable skills. She still buys (39) products from the neighbors and, in so far as possible, she uses the same materials her mother and grandmother did-to prepare meals that are (40). They are just as good as I (41) them from my courtship.Not surprisingly, Watts, too, was in the (42) of painful discussion about the riots. It was beginning to look as (43) the deepest impact of the riots was (44) the people of Watts themselves. Old attitudes about the community were in (45).There were no explanations that seemed complete. No one knew for sure (46) it all began.Most of the work that most people have to do is not in itself (47), but even such work has (48) great advantages. To begin with, it (49) a good many hours of the day without the need of deciding what one shall do. Most people, (50) they are left free to fill their own time according to their own choice, are at a (51) to think of anything sufficiently pleasant to be worth doing.It was mid-June,1972, the Chicago Amphitheater was (52), sweltering, rocking. Onstage, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones was (53) "Midnight Rambler."Critic Don Heckman was there when the song (54)."Jagger,"he said,"grabs a half-gallon (55) of water and runs along the front platform, sprinkling its contents over the first few rows of sweltering listeners. They (56) to follow him, eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops."A.blocks  B.throes  C.upheaval  D.superior  E.fillsF.interesting  G.home  H.on  I.dairy  J.lossK.packed  L.recall  M.shout  N.singing  O.endedP.when  Q.taught  R.certain  S.how  T.bathroomU.jug  V.hot  W.though  X.expert  Y.surge()

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六、漢譯英

Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your Answer Sheet. (20 points, 2 points each for 57-60, 4 points for 61, 8 points for 62)

51.他們主持會議，提拔人才，允許別人在準備發(fā)布的通告中使用他們的名字。

52.地方經理把錢分配在他們認為合適的地方，制定經費預算，并逐級上報給公司主管部門，讓他們了解情況。

53.追捧新潮的勢利行為，雖然不是我們這個時代所獨有的，卻具有了空前的重要性。

54.她感到手和胳膊稍微有些刺痛，但她認為這是走路累的。

55.現(xiàn)在，她真的狂怒了。在這以前她一直處于守勢，但是現(xiàn)在她開始進攻了。她試圖從她父親的腿上逃掉，向我撲來，而失敗的淚水模糊了她的雙眼。

56.我覺得這些結論合情合理，至少以他們的觀點來看是這樣。對于下一代人來說，與此相關的問題并不在于我們的社會是否不完美(我們可以將其視為理所當然)，而是如何對待它。盡管美國這個社會嚴酷且沒有理性，但它畢競是我們所擁有的唯一的世界。