综合英语(二)2013年4月真题试题及答案解析(00795)

TOPIC: List some of the good virtues that the washwoman possessed and describe how unusual she was.

Use the outline given below.

? her sense of duty and her strong will to fulfill her tasks

? her affection and her tolerance for her son

? her self-esteem and her independence

他母亲己无法忍受他的坏脾气了。

由于交通经常堵塞，他决定到远离市中心的地方居住。

他不顾家人的反对，决定亲自去处理这次事故.

现在房价上涨得很快，许多年轻人己经买不起房子了。

我因为书中精美的插图而更加喜欢这本书。

Unlike her quiet mother, she is very_______. (talk)

To many landscape designers, a garden can be described as a beautiful, ________outdoor environment furnished with plants. (order)

_______courses enable students to extend their studies in other areas so as to widen their knowledge. (option)

He is measuring the________of his dining room. (long)

If for any reason you are_______ with this software, return it within thirty days for a full refund. (satisfied)

Someone who is _______always tries to do what they want, even though other people may advise them not to. (strong, will)

When I saw her looking at me reassuringly, I felt much _______. (relief)

The villagers set off firecrackers for the_______of the big harvest. (celebrate)

It snowed last night. Now the roads are________and slippery. (ice)

So many people exhaust their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to_______their health. (gain)

Which of the following correctly describes fan fiction?

How can we describe the writer’s attitude to fan fiction?

Why do some writers object to fan fiction?

Passage 2

J.K. Rowling probably isn’t going to write any more Harry Potter books. That Doesn’t mean there won’t be any more. It just means they won’t be written by J.K. Rowling. Instead they’ll be written by people like Racheline Maltese.Maltese is38. She’s an actress and a professional writer—journalism, cultural criticism, fiction, and poetry. She describes herself as queer. She’s a fan of Harry Potter. Sometimes she writes stories about Harry and the other characters from the Potter stories and posts them online for free. “For me, it’s sort of like an acting exercise,” Maltese says. “You have known characters. You apply a set of given circumstances to them. Then you wait and see what happens.”Maltese is a writer of fan fiction: stories and novels that make use of the characters and settings from other people’s professional creative work. Fan fiction writers don’t do it for money. That’s not what it’s about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couch-bound consumers of the media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.Right now fan fiction is still the cultural equivalent of dark matter: it’s largely invisible to the mainstream, but at the same time, it’s unbelievably massive. Fan fiction comes before the Internet, but the Web has made it greatly easier to talk and be heard, and it holds hundreds of millions of words of fan fiction. There’s fan fiction based on books, movies, TV shows, video games, plays, musicals, rock bands and board games. There’s fan fiction based on the Bible. In most cases, the quantity of fan fiction generated by a given work is much larger than the work itself; in some cases, the quality is higher than that of the original too. FanFiction.net, the largest archive on the Web (though only one of many), hosts over 2 million pieces of fan fiction, ranging in length from short-short stories to full-length novels. The Harry Potter section alone contained, at press time, 526,085 entries.Nobody makes money from fan fiction, but whether anybody loses money on fan fiction is a separate question. The people who create the works that fan fiction borrows from are sharply divided on it Rowling and Stephenie Meyer have given Harry Potter and Twilight fan fiction their blessing; if anything, fan fiction has acted as a marketing agent for their work. Other writers consider it a violation of their copyrights, and more, of their emotional claim to their own creations. They feel as if their characters had been kidnapped by strangers.You can see both sides of the issue. Do characters belong to the person who created them? Or to the fans who love them so passionately that they spend their nights and weekends laboring to extend those characters’ lives, for free? There’s a division here, a geological fault line, that looks small on the surface but runs deep into our culture, and the tectonic plates are only moving farther apart. Is art about making up new things or about transforming the raw material tha’'s out there? Cutting, pasting, sampling, remixing and mashing up have become mainstream modes of cultural expression, and fan fiction is part of that. It challenges just about everything we thought we knew about art and creativity.

Harry Potter stories will probably be continually written by_______.

What is the purpose for some people to write fan fiction?

Why did the writer cry?

In Paragraph 5,“people who at the time just happen to be displaced”refers to

Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

When I objected that I didn’t feel any aptitude for salesmanship, she asked how I’d like to lend her my leather belt so she could wrack some sense into me.

Why did the one-legged man refuse the writer’s present?

Passage 1

Every day as I drove through town, I saw a one-legged man going through ashcans for cigarette butts and trash cans outside of fast food restaurants looking for food. It was only a month before Christmas, starting to get cold, and I could not quit thinking about him. It was a year when we didn’t have enough money to really have much in the way of presents, but I figured what was too little for us would be a lot for someone who had nothing.So I bought a toothbrush, toothpaste, a pack of cigarettes, cans of tuna, just little things that didn’t cost much and then I added a blanket and sweatshirts. I made a box up like a present and went in search of this man. I saw him hobble away from the dumpster next to McDonalds. I pulled over, grabbed the box and went up to him. I said, “I would like to give you a Christmas present. There are some food items in here and some things you might be able to use.”He sidestepped around me and said, “No, thank you, I just had lunch. I don’t need anything.”Then he hobbled on down the sidewalk, leaving me standing there in tears. I took the box down to a little shop that gave things out to the poor and homeless and told them what had happened and asked that they give the box to someone who could use it. The person there told me not lo be upset as I was still crying. I told her I was not crying for myself but for him because what I had done was to lake away his dignity as if he were a person in need. I was so ashamed. What a great lesson for me to learn, though.A few years later I was able to volunteer for a day in St. Anthony’s Dining Room in San Francisco where 1,500 to 2,000 homeless are fed every day. These folks give up their sleeping spot, carry everything they own and stand in line for up to 6 hours to receive the only food they will get to sustain themselves for a 24 hour period. We took one tray of food at a time, and treated them as if they were in a restaurant ordering a meal they were paying for. And when we took our break, we would sit down with one of them and talk and share our food with someone if we had too much.Since that time, I have had the opportunity, or to be exact, the blessing of being able to sit down and visit with people who at the time just happen to be displaced. I have heard that, statistically, the majority of us could not make it if we had to go two months without an income and homelessness were to happen to us. Speaking for me, yes, that would be true and my immediate reaction would be like the first gentleman I mentioned. I might have nothing else but I would want to maintain my dignity as long as possible. Accepting help is sometimes harder than giving it.

How did the writer feel about the one-legged man when she saw him?

Every year we’re selling more than a 1,000 million worth of cars abroad. If we spend a few million greasing the palms of some of the buyers, who’s hurt?

Once, at my prep, school, I had a story in the magazine and Mother was beside herself.

We begin to move restlessly about if we feel time is slipping away without some return—be this in terms of pleasure, work value, or rest.

In other words, love comes into an imperfect world to make it livable.

As the boat rose and fell on the long swells, I could feel sleep creeping over me like paralysis.

This [not living in memories] is not always easy; one's own past is a gradually increasing weight.

One difficult but essential thing to remember is to refuse to let other people’s bad manners goad you into retaliating in kind.

He [George Washington] might have been first in the hearts of his countrymen, but today [on a TV talk show] he’d be dragging his bottom in the ratings.

When you stay in a new environment for a while, you move to stage two—the crisis stage—in which the shine wears off and day-to-day realities sink in.

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Many women can ________with the movie’s heroine, who struggles to gain respect and fulfill her ambitions.

Want to keep your mind healthy throughout your life?    16   an instrument. A new study found that musicians    17  brains that function better than their peers well into old age.Researchers    18   the mental abilities of senior citizens and discovered that musicians performed better at a number of skills. In   19   , they excelled at visual memory tasks.  20  musicians had similar verbal capabilities to non-musicians, their ability to memorize new words was better, too. Perhaps most importantly, the musicians’ IQ  21      were higher overall than those who spent their lives listening to music    22    performing it.The experience of musicians also played a role in how  23    their minds were. The younger they began to play their instruments, the better their minds performed at the mental tasks.    24   , the total number of years they played instruments throughout their life      25    how strong their brains remained years later. A preliminary study of 70 older participants, with different musical experience over their lifetimes, provides a connection   26   musical activity and mental balance in old age. The results revealed     27    participants with at least 10 years of musical experience had better performance in nonverbal memory, naming, and executive processes in advanced age     28    non-musicians.The study also found that musicians who     29      in their spare time had even higher-functioning brain capabilities. This finding supports    30    recent study that reported people who walk regularly maintain healthier brains. With that in mind, perhaps joining a marching band will make you the smartest person at the retirement home in the future.

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Sometimes adventurers had to face major survival concerns, such as predicting the weather________.

An appointment________made prevents me from accepting your kind invitation.

Students should ________the temptation of computer games and focus on study.

Each of the lakes in this area has its own_______charm.

It is our_______that stability and unity must be maintained if the reforms under way are to be successful.

The salesman approached the house________because of the barking dog.

She is very close to her roommate_______she has shared a lot of secrets.

I can_______you that any money you contribute will be put to the best possible use.

They lost their way in the forest, and_______made matters worse was night began to fall.

Some people in the group complained that their tour________better organized.

I can’t find my keys in my purse. I_______them in my office.

She spent the last day of her vacation________ a final look around the harbor.

The printer doesn’t work. Don’t you think it’s about time we ________it?

I will leave_______to your judgment whether that’s the best solution to the problem.