综合英语(二)2014年10月真题试题及答案解析(00795)

TOPIC: In the story “Forty Years On”, the narrator‘s aunt is constantly telling him of another boy’s“achievements” to spur him on. Suppose you were the narrator, what is your view on this strategy?

人们最普遍忽视的一种建立信任的办法是对不在场的人要忠诚。

就在下课铃声快要响起时，大部分学生己经合上了书本，交头接耳，并准备冲出教室。

大多数人在面试中处于被动地位，只不过是努力做到有问必答。

我在美国的旅游经历吿诉我拥有朋友的重要性。

政府、个人的经验以及专家的建议是信息的三个主要来源。

Continuous exposure to sound above 80 decibels could be_______. (harm)

His visit is intended to________ties between the two countries. (strength)

With great tolerance towards various religions, people in this country have never been involved in any________wars. (religion)

A narrow-minded person is________to consider new ideas or other people's opinions. (willing)

To him, friendship is nothing but a promise of _________and unselfishness.(loyal)

The boss claimed that his company needed more feedback from________in order to improve its products. (consume)

This question has already been analyzed in_________and does not require any further discussion. (deep)

A heavy storm moved________over the island, demolishing buildings and flooding streets. (direct)

Drug manufacturing is the most________business in some countries. (profit)

According to the author, how should we solve the problem of cheating?

Which of the following can best explain the word “deterrent”in Paragraph 6?

One important duty of any government is to protect the interests of_______.(payer, tax)

Passage 2

Cheating was, is and probably always will be a fact of life. Recently, technology has provided new ways to cheat, but advanced electronics can’t be blamed for our increasing willingness to tolerate it.Once upon a time, being an honorable person included the notion that your word was your bond, and integrity was a crucial element in establishing a good reputation. My teaching experience tells me, however, that lying and cheating are seen by a lot of kids today as a crucial part of any path to success. The only shame is in getting caught. And our school’s not-uncommon policy is basically to forgive aa first offense and to enter it into the permanent record only if the student is caught again.What’s worse, many students aren’t fully aware of what constitutes cheating. While teaching at a university a few years ago, I was surprised when a student I had accused of cheating by cutting and pasting text from a website denied having cheated. He indignantly argued that he would never cut and paste—he had retyped the entire thing.A few weeks ago, a student took my final exam in the morning and gave the answers to someone who was taking it that afternoon. The second student didn’t notice that the question on his test was slightly different, and the answer was now wrong. When confirmed, he professed not to understand that he had cheated. He thought that getting a test answer from another student in advance was no different than studying with a partner. A few days later, when his mother came in to find out why her son had failed, she too said she couldn’t understand the difference.As for the proposed penalties in a survey of students, they thought that giving an F on an assignment was OK, giving an F on the report card was acceptable but harsh and that putting the names of the cheaters on a public “all of shame” would be going too far.That implies that students put a value on their public reputation, so a wall of shame might be an effective threat. But one of my colleagues compared it to cutting off the hands of a thief as a deterrent to further crime. Another went so far as to say that it would be the same as taking the offending students outside and having the class throw things at them. Instead of focusing on the penalty for cheating, she said, we should be addressing the pressures that make students feel they need to cheat to succeed.She has a point. It’s easy to hear every day about people borrowing money they had no way of paying back, and banks falsifying forms to enable the borrowing, and Wall Street brokers knowingly selling worthless housing securities based on those loans. And no one was punished for that.Students, parents, teachers and administrators complain that there is too much cheating going on in our schools, but they tend to point at each other when asked who should be responsible for fixing the problem. That’s not how change will happen—but something has to change.

What makes the problem of cheating even worse according to author?

How do students feel about the penalty that they get an F on the report card?

Which of the following can best explain the word “countered” in Paragraph 10?

What made Daniel’s gift so impressive to the teacher?

Which of the following might be the best title for the story?

What does the author refer to when she describes fifth-grade as a den of forest lions?

Passage 1

He entered my life 20 years ago, leaning against the door of Room 202, where I taught fifth grade. He wore shoes three sizes too large and pants ripped at the knees.Daniel, as I’ll call him, though that not his real name, made this undistinguished entrance in the school of a t lakeside village known for its old money, white colonial homes and brass mailboxes. He told me his last school had been in a neighboring county. “We were picking fruit,” he said matter-of-factly.I suspected this friendly, untidy, smiling boy from a migrant family had no idea that he had been thrown into a den of fifth-grade lions who had never before seen torn pants. If he noticed sniggering, he didn’t tell anyone and it seemed that he wasn’t angry.Twenty-five children eyed Daniel suspiciously until the kickball game that afternoon. Then he led off the first inning with a home run. With it came a bit of respect from the critics of Room 202.Next was Charles’ turn. Charles was the least athletic, most overweight child in the history of fifth grade. After his second strike, amid the rolled eyes and groans of the class, Daniel edged up and spoke quietly to Charles’s depressing back. “Forget them, kid. You can do it.”Charles warmed, smiled, stood taller and promptly struck out anyway. But at that precise moment, defying the social order of this jungle he had entered, Daniel had gently begun to change things—and us.By autumn’s end, we all had been attracted by him. He taught us all kinds of lessons. How to call a wild turkey. How to tell whether fruit is ripe before that first bite. How to treat others, even Charles. Especially Charles. He never did use our names, calling me“Miss”and the students“kid.”The day before Christmas vacation, the students always brought gifts for the teacher. It was a ritual—opening each department-store box, surveying the expensive perfume or scarf or leather wallet, and thanking the child.That afternoon, Daniel walked to my desk and bent close to my car. “Our packing boxes came out last night,”he said without emotion. “We’re leaving tomorrow.”As I grasped the news, my eyes filled with tears. He countered the awkward silence by telling me about the move. Then, as I regained my calmness, he pulled a gray rock from his pocket. Deliberately and with great style, he pushed it gently across my desk.I sensed that this was something remarkable, but all my practice with perfume and silk had left me pitifully unprepared to respond. “It’s for you,” he said, fixing his eyes on mine. “I polished it up special.”I’ve never forgotten that moment.Years have passed since then. Each Christmas my daughter asks me to tell this story. It always begins after she has picked up the small polished rock that sits on my desk and nestles herself in my lap. The first words of the story never vary. “The last time I ever saw Daniel, he gave me this rock as a gift and told me about his boxes. That was a long time ago, even before you were born.”“He’s a grownup now,” I finish. Together we wonder where he is and what he has become.“Someone good I bet,” my daughter says. Then she adds, “Do the end of the story.”I know what she wants to hear—the lesson of love and caring learned by a teacher from a boy with nothing—and everything—to give. A boy who lived out of boxes. I touch the rock, remembering.“Hi kid,” I say softly. “This is Miss. I hope you no longer need the packing boxes. And Merry Christmas, wherever you are.”

What happened when Daniel first came to the new school?

The difficulty when strangers from two countries meet is not a lack of appreciation of friendship, but different expectations about what constitutes friendship and how it comes into being.

If you have wide and keen interests and activities in which you can still be effective, you have no reason to think about the merely statistical fact of the number of the years you have already lived...

If I love you, I can empathize with you and see the world through your eyes.

There is abundant luxury in the room but a minimum of taste.

Nowhere is thinking courtesy more important than in marriage.

People were only shapes in dense, gray fog of dust and ash.

Every piece of laundry was as clean as polished silver. Every piece was neatly ironed. She was a real find.

It is difficult to resist the impression that bribery and other questionable payments are on the increase.

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“What an amazing model!”... “What a picture Rembrandt would have made of him!"

But Barrett was beyond all reasoning. His mind had already cracked with thirst.

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People feel safer behind some kind of physical barrier. If a social situation is in any way threatening, there is an immediate urge to    16  such a barricade. For a tiny child faced with a stranger, the problem is   17   solved by hiding behind its mother’s body and peeking out at the intruder to see what he or she will do next. If the mother’s body is not   18   , a chair or some other piece of solid furniture will  19   . If the stranger insists on coming closer, then the peeking face must be hidden too. If the   20   intruder continues to approach despite these obvious signals of fear, then there is nothing for it  21  to scream or flee.This pattern is  22  reduced as the child matures. In teenage girls it may still be detected in the giggling cover-up of the face when embarrassed. But  23  the time we are adult, the childhood hiding is expected to disappear altogether, as we  24  stride out to meet our guests, customers, or friends. Each social occasion involves us, once again, in slightly threatening encounters similar to the ones  25   made us hide as scared infants. In other words, the  26   is still there, but their expression is blocked. Our adult   27  demand control and suppression of any primitive urge to withdraw and hide ourselves away. The more formal the occasion, the more   28  the moment of encounter becomes. Watching people under these conditions, it is possible to   29  the many small ways in which they continue to “hide behind their mother’s skirts.”The actions are still there, but they are less  30   . It is these that are the Barrier Signals of adult life.

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Studies show that people are more_________to suffer from back problems if they always sit before computer screens for long hours.

The shop assistant was dismissed as she was________of cheating customers.

Automation has made it possible to________great changes in industry.

The machine looked like a large,_______, old-fashioned typewriter.

I don’t think it’s my_______that the TV blew up. I just turned it on.

The effects of the medicine________and the pain returned.

If my car________more reliable, I would have driven to Lhasa instead of flying there last summer.

I tried to call several times yesterday, but your line was always_______.

He must be helping the old man to water the flowers, _______?

The old temple________roof was damaged in a storm is now under repair.

I suppose that when I come back in ten years’ time, all these old houses will________.

The new stadium being built for the next Asian Games will be_______the present one.

What a terrible day! I was late for class this morning.________, I forgot to bring my homework.

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we________despise and forget.

He wanted to produce plays for people like himself, who could never afford to see_________on Broadway.