高级英语2015年10月真题试题及答案解析（00600）

就在花市的停车场前，那个负责开关车门的人一那个白痴，坐在马路牙子上，双腿蜷缩着放在排水沟里。他在睡觉，头朝后倚在电话杆上。双手搭在便道的水泥地上，不再颤抖，了无生气。他的头也不再颤抖，熟睡的脸很美。

有一天父亲与弗兰克吵了起来，之后女儿只好偷偷地与情人会面。

大多数人在可以根据个人意愿自由安排时间时，会想不出什么事情足够有趣又值得一做。无论做什么，他们都会想着别的事可能更有趣。

她用力把烟戳到椅子扶手上的烟灰缸里，以致于烟灰缸都跳到了地板上。

只要地球上的人口持续以这种癌变的速度增长，所有其它问题似乎都无从解决。

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两个红衣女郎走过来，两个身穿蓝色衣服的年轻士兵迎上去，他们开怀大笑，成双结对挽着胳膊离开了。

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To what degree docs a person's cultural heritage define his or her identity?

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When his time came to draw there were (32) three slips left, and it appeared to Chavel a (33) injustice that there were so few choices left for him. He drew one out of the (34) and then feeling certain that this one had been (35) on him by his companions and contained the (36) cross he threw it back and snatched another.Mitch crossed his (37) Money, that was the big question, particularly (38) it compared to his other offers. But, he (39), like all the other firms they had to shadowbox around the issue until things got (40) and it was apparent they had discussed everything in the world (41) money. So hit them with a soft question first.Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself (42) danger of her father's violence. She knew it was (43) that had given her the palpitations. When they were growing up he had never gone for her,(44) he used to go for Harry and Ernest, because she was a girl; but latterly he had begun to (45) her and say what he would do to her only for her (46) mother's sake.Her hair brushed his lips as she minced in, then (47) away, to the end of his arm; he could feel her toes (48) into the carpet. He flipped his own hair back from his eyes. The (49) ate through his skin and mixed with the nerves and (50) veins; he seemed to be great again, and all the other kids were around them, in a ring, (51) time.Fast reaction times are an advantage when dealing with the (52). Vistakon's managers, for example, responded (53) when competitors challenged the safety of the lenses. They (54) data combating the charges, via Federal Express, to (55) 17,000 eye-care professionals. Vistakon's speedy response engendered (56) in the marketplace.

A.penciled B.small C.legs D.dead E.willed

F.some G.swung H.only I.that J.threaten

K.but L.unknown M.clapping N.dig O.knew

P.goodwill Q.like R.shoe S.how T.distributed

U.quickly V.music W.awkward X.in Y.monstrous

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The teacher walked off in a fit of anger, but, actually, the two cases were quite comparable in principle.

By "blood" he was an American, for his parents had gone from Indiana to China as missionaries.

A highly intelligent teacher with long and successful experience in the public schools of Chicago was finishing her first year in an Indian school.

To the insistent human question "Why?" the most exciting illumination anthropology has to offer is that of the concept of culture.

What might be the best title for this passage?

By "culture" anthropology means the total life way of a people, the social legacy the individual acquires from his group.

In Paragraph 7, the underlined word "indignation'"means ( ).

What type of writing does this passage belong to?

A Koryak woman finds ( ).

According to Paragraph 5, the young man returned to China because ( ).

According to Paragraph 6, the root cause of the American teacher's confusion was ( ).

Anthropologists believe ( ) can explain man's actions.

In Paragraph 3, the underlined word "peculiarities"means ( ).

Don't expect this horse to be ( ). It runs away whenever a chance presents itself.

(1) Why do the Chinese dislike milk and milk products? Why do some nations trace descent through the father, others through the different instincts? Not because they were destined by God or Fate to different habits, not because the weather is different in China and the United States. Sometimes keen common sense has an answer that is close to that of the anthropologist:"Because they were brought up that way." (By "culture"anthropology means the total life way of a people, the social legacy the individual acquires from his group.) Or culture can be regarded as that part of the environment that is the creation of man.

(2) This technical term has a wider meaning than the "culture" of history and literature.A humble cooking pot is as much a cultural product as is a Beethoven sonata. In ordinary speech a man of culture is a man who can speak languages other than his own, who is familiar with history, literature, philosophy, or the fine arts. In some circles that definition is still narrower. The cultured person is one who can talk about James Joyce, Scarlatti, and Picasso. To the anthropologist, however, to be human is to be cultured. The general abstract notion serves to remind us that we cannot explain acts solely in terms of the biological properties of the people concerned, their individual past experience, and the immediate situation. The past experience of other men in the form of culture enters into almost every event. Each specific culture constitutes a kind of blueprint for all of life's activities.

(3) One of the interesting things about human beings is that they try to understand themselves and their own behavior. While this has been particularly true of Europeans in recent times, there is no group which has not developed a scheme or schemes to explain man's actions. (To the insistent human question"Why?"the most exciting illumination anthropology has to offer is that of the concept of culture.) Its explanatory importance is comparable to categories such as evolution in biology, gravity in physics, disease in medicine.A good deal of human behavior can be understood, and indeed predicted, if we know a people's design for living. Many acts are neither accidental nor due to personal peculiarities nor caused by supernatural forces nor simply mysterious.Even those of us who pride ourselves on our individualism follow most of the times a pattern not of our own making. We brush our teeth on arising. We put on pants-not a loincloth or a grass skirt. We eat three meals a day-not four or five or two. We sleep in a bed-not in a hammock or on a sheep pelt.I do not have to know the individual and his life history to be able to predict these and countless other regularities, including many in the thinking process, of all Americans who are not locked up in jails or hospitals for the insane.

(4) To the American woman a system of plural wives seems "instinctively"hateful. She cannot understand how any woman can fail to be jealous and uncomfortable if she must share her husband with other women. She feels it"unnatural"to accept such a situation. On the other hand,a Koryak woman of Siberia, for example, would find it hard to understand how a woman could be so selfish and so undesirous of feminine companionship in the home as to wish to restrict her husband to one mate.

(5) Some years ago I met in New York City a young man who did not speak a word of English and was obviously bewildered by American ways. (By"blood"he was an American, for his parents had gone from Indiana to China as missionaries.) Orphaned in infancy, he was reared by a Chinese family in a remote village. All who met him found him more Chinese than American. The facts of his blue eyes and light hair were less impressive than a Chinese manner of walking, Chinese arm and hand movements, Chinese facial expression, and Chinese modes of thought. The biological heritage was American, but the cultural training had been Chinese. He returned to China.

(6) (A highly intelligent teacher with long and successful experience in the public schools of Chicago was finishing her first year in an Indian school.) When asked how her Navaho pupils compared in intelligence with Chicago youngsters, she replied,"Well,I just don't know. Sometimes the Indians seem just as bright. At other times they just act like dumb animals. The other night we had a dance in the high school.I saw a boy who is one of the best students in my English class standing off by himself. So I took him over to a pretty girl and told him to dance. But they just stood there with their heads down. They wouldn't even say anything." I inquired if she knew whether or not they were members of the same clan. "What difference would that make?"

(7)"How would you feel about getting into bed with your brother?"(The teacher walked off in a fit of anger, but, actually, the two cases were quite comparable in principle.) To the Indians the type of bodily contact involved in our social dancing has a directly sexual connotation. The incest taboos between members of the same clan are as severe as between true brothers and sisters. The shame of the Indians at the suggestion that a clan brother and sister should dance and the indignation of the white teacher at the idea that she should share a bed with an adult brother represent equally nonrational responses, culturally standardized unreason.

In Paragraph 2, the underlined word "constitutes"means ( ).

After the medical accident, she was reduced from head nurse to ( ) nurse.

The toilet is so dirty that it needs a good ( ).

All year round, tourists come in ( ) to see the White House.

The young man was told to ( ) the wall by painting.

Their ( ) visit had to be postponed because of the terrible weather

Every year our mother ( ) woolen stockings for us.

The secretary spent a whole day ( ) these invitation letters on the typewriter.

Time usually passes quickly when you are ( ) your work.

He used a sponge to ( ) up the water on the table.

After she heard the news, she could barely stand still and the dishes ( ) from her hands.

Our teacher ended the class by playing a video ( ) of the president's interview.

His doctor reassured him that the new medicine was ( ) of poisonous components.

He saw it as a rare opportunity to attend the annual ( ) as a production assistant.

Elizabeth swims so ( ), as if it's the easiest thing in the world.