一、单选题（共 20 道试题，共 50 分。）
1. Newspapers ________ against him, and TV networks banned him.
A. edit
B. editor
C. editorial
D. editorialized
正确答案：D
2. You are moved to pity, excitement, or ______________.
A. gaiety
B. costume
C. simultaneously
D. engrossed
正确答案：A
3. We were hoping to ___________ these difficult decisions until September.
A. set off
B. stave off
C. take off
D. give off
正确答案：B
4. I worked so late in the office last night that I hardly had time ___the last bus.
A. to have caught
B. to catch
C. catching
D. having caught
正确答案：B
5. I could see at once that the lock had been __________ with.
A. tampered
B. satiated
C. backed
D. unfrosted
正确答案：A
6. Television sells us instant ________.
A. gratify
B. gratitude
C. gratification
D. grate
正确答案：C
7. In fact it was this silence that ________ all the last moments of our climb.
A. dominating
B. dominated
C. dominates
D. dominate
正确答案：B
8. Since everyone we knew could sew ________, praise was rarely handed out for the commonly practiced craft.
A. competently
B. competent
C. stitch
D. apronlike
正确答案：A
9. They ________ to follow him, eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops.
A. tune
B. react
C. rebel
D. surge
正确答案：D
10. We may fail to see how a ___________ Deity could wish us to draw such conclusions from the hierarchical order He has created.
A. objective
B. benevolent
C. sentiment
D. scruple
正确答案：B
11. It only took me an hour to pick up the __________ of skiing.
A. populace
B. stalking
C. omnipotence
D. rudiments
正确答案：D
12. This gifted woman‘s daughter (my wife) was taught her mother‘s __________ skills.
A. material
B. alleged
C. gruesome
D. venerable
正确答案：D
13. The soldiers had __________ barricades to protect themselves.
A. erected
B. amplified
C. conformed
D. ordained
正确答案：A
14. Medicare has ________ the population into reassuring itself that the once terrible financial burdens of late-life illnesses are now eradicated.
A. morbid
B. eaped
C. toiled
D. lulled
正确答案：D
15. After the recent scandal, the priest is expected to do the ________ thing and resign from his position.
A. decent
B. celebrated
C. wilted
D. bland
正确答案：A
16. It takes the human voice to ________ them with the shades of deeper meaning.
A. refuse
B. confuse
C. infuse
D. refusing
正确答案：C
17. A man was not stamped as a ___________ for protesting against vivisection.
A. iron
B. triumph
C. crank
D. imbecile
正确答案：C
18. When a local paper has a monopoly in a region, as most of them do, why is it necessary to aim at the lowest common ________?
A. service
B. feature
C. denominator
D. dispatch
正确答案：C
19. I‘m usually ____________ by beggars and drunks as I walk to the station.
A. battered
B. ragged
C. accosted
D. terraced
正确答案：C
20. The vocabulary and grammatical differences between British and American English are so trivial and few as hardly___.
A. noticed
B. to be noticed
C. being noticed
D. to notice
正确答案：B
二、判断题（共 20 道试题，共 50 分。）
1. As Americans are eating second-rate foods of more or less the same kind, they are actually eating the way hogs used to be fed by their ancestors.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
2. Alice Cooper took his own life at the end of a rock concert in order to shock and thrill the audience.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
3. When the male gorilla discovered the author and his party, he suddenly rose and was ready to charge at them.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
4. According to Orwell, all writers, even writers of railway guides, have aesthetic considerations.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
5. Eveline didn‘t go with Frank because she was afraid the boat would sink and she would be drowned.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
6. British high school students wore uniforms provided by the government.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
7. According to Jim Binns, young people today are ever more conscious of the “generation gap” than young people of the past.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
8. Over the hours of climbing left the author exhausted, ready to give up the search for gorillas.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
9. If alarmed, all gorillas show their fear or anger by beating on their chests.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
10. In Marguerite’s mind, Mrs. Flowers was a god-like figure.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
11. Lacking direct evidence, scientists have assumed that gorillas live in a manner similar to that of humans.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
12. Anyone can perform miracles so long as he concentrates something; but television discourages concentration.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
13. She is not satisfied with the present status of women in the American political world because she despises the tedious and specific jobs.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
14. The language in his later works is more flowery and less precise.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
15. Clara was not sure whether her favourable position in the school would impress her parents.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
16. Old-fashioned cheeses can no longer be bought anywhere in the United States.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
17. Before Sanders enrolled in Yale Law School, Watts was already a topic for discussion on the campus.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
18. To the author, the best thing that shows how a man is full of contradictions is the matter of sleep.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
19. It was difficult for the black woman to win the election due not so much to her racial background as to her sex.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
20. Young people doubt that the older generation are capable rulers and should, therefore, be their teacher.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
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