福建师范大学4春学期课程考试《高级英语(二)》作业考核试题.doc

福建师范大学网络学院 ? 《高级英语（二）》期末考试 I. Vocabulary: B 1. This very night I will dismiss such trivial phantasies as jumping sheep ａnd crooked pictures, ａnd evoke the phantom of a crushing, stupendous Bore. A. lose sight of B. give up C. play with D. make up for B 2. In the story, there is an impossible character, a victim of insomnia, who finds that a volume of Wordsworth’s poems is the only sure ________. A. incredulous B. soporific C. solitary D. indispensable C 3. There is much work which is exceedingly irksome. A. pleasant B. satisfactory C. annoying D. dissatisfactory D 4. The Army would rescind the magazine’s accreditation to cover the war. A. give honor to B. pay attention to C. pay respect to D. put an end to C 5. The modern cult of beauty is not exclusively a function of wealth. A. attraction B. praise C. worship D. form B 6. It was in the ________ light of the early dawn that I saw a man moving towards me. A. dark B. dim C. damp D. dizzy C 7. He ________ for a whole week before making that important decision. A. thought of B. depended on C. meditated D. wondered C 8. Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom ｆrom drudgery. A. great pleasure B. serious mistake C. hard ａnd dull work D. important duty B 9. To counter their efforts, treasure hunters argue that without the lure of gold ａnd million-dollar treasures, the wrecks ａnd their historical artifacts would never be recovered at all. A. knowledge B. attraction C. luxury D. glare B 10. The cult of beauty must therefore be symptomatic of changes that have taken place outside the economic sphere. A. superior to B. the signs of C. bringing about D. sympathized by B 11. In short, a lot of television usurps one of the most precious of all human gifts, the ability to ________ your attention yourself, rather than just passively surrender it. A. seize B. ｕｓｅ C. apply D. focus A 12. After twenty years of antagonism, the two countries were fi