2. 用英语回答有关课程内容的问题
考核学生对课程内容的和理解程度，以及一定的用英语笔头表述的能力。提出的是有关课文大意、背景、故事内容、人物等和理解课文有关问题。
1. How does the author, J.B. Priestley, think of the matter of sleep? When he is sleepless, what will he do? [选自《高级英语》上册第十一课]
Answer: The author thinks that sleep is just like a coy mistress who is much given to a teasing inconsistency and forever demanding to be wooed. In other words, to him, sleep always plays with him, and torments him but seldom lets him have it.
He often lies in bed, passing hours in sleeplessness. The more he wants to fall asleep, the more sleepless he becomes. However, as soon as he intends to write an essay, he feels an overpowering desire for sleep.
The author believes that artificial ways of inducing sleep are countless, but none of them works for him. Therefore, when he can’t fall asleep at night, he has a dialogue with an imaginary friend until he either laughs or falls asleep.
2. How did American young people look at the adult world in general according to the text “Four Choices for Young People”? What did they do about it?
Answer: American young people viewed the adult world with great skepticism and even worse, with increasing rejection, according to the lesson “Four Choices for Young People.
They saw this affluent society of America filled with poverty, injustice and hypocrisy. They became rebellious. They rejected the beliefs and values of society. While some young people fought against poverty, racial injustice at that time, others showed their discontent through passive ways. They were addicted to drugs and refused to take any social responsibilities.
解析：作该题型的题目时，要记住首先要有一个基本的观点“ARGUMENT”(当然，这个观点是从所学课文中，合理地、符合逻辑地得出来的，并非自己臆断或杜撰出来的。 所以这一切也是建立在对课文熟练掌握基础上的。)，然后，提供一些左证”SUPPORTING IDEAS”。
课文中的内容要能做到会归纳，会用自己的话来转述;
另外，要写完整的句子。少用“yes or no” 这样的方式来回答问题;最后，通读自己的答案，检查文法，尽可能消除拼读、语法错误。
3. 填空
考核学生对语法和词汇的运用能力。每句一个空格，要求学生从所提供的单词或词组中选择正确的答案填入空中。单词或词组选自课文中要求算重点练习的词语。
Fill in the blank in each sentence with the best word or expression from the box below, changing its form when necessary:
motivate in the long run regardless of be held to blamesquander to a great extent with honors take advantage ofsurvive be credited with fall victim to have trouble doing sth.
1. The chairman of the board of directors was forced to resign, _____ the power struggle among the directors.
2. Intelligent and hard-working, he passed _________ in degree examinations.
3. Some girls are so shy as to ________ mixing socially with people.
4. No one ________ for the loss of the game; each had done her best.
5. He enjoyed great popularity among the students, _________speaking five foreign languages.
6. The president decided to run for the second term, _________ the state of his health.
7. The small restaurant owner _________ all his hard-earned money in gambling within a year.
8. To increase productivity, we have to get the workers ______, but do you think material incentives will always work?
答案：
1. falling victim to 2. with honors 3. have trouble 4. was held to blame
5. credited with 6. regardless of 7. squandered 8. motivated
解析：这种题目的做法可以借鉴上面题型的处理办法，
1. 首先研读一下供选择的词做到心中有底，把词大致分分类。
2. 然后仔细研读每一个句子，了解句子内容，做到心中有底。
3. 根据语感，快速试填充一遍。
4. 接下来逐句推敲。
5. 根据上下文确定词义。使所选词的词义符合上下文逻辑意思的需要;尤其关注实词。
6. 根据句子结构确定词形。使所选词的形式符合所在句语法结构上的要求;重点关注虚词。
7. 着眼整体、注意关键词。如：but, however, even so… 说明后面的意思与前面的相反或对照，所选的词可能与前面某个词互为反义词。
8. 抓住关键句型，作直观判断。比如常考的句型有：定语从句中缺少引导词;比较从句中漏了than;其它从句中的表示语法结构关系词例如so…that;hardly…when 等是否遗漏。
9. 注意常用词语搭配，关注词语间的互为提示。
10. 然后通篇审核。
不同的是选择对了词之后，在填充时还要根据句子的意思确定词形的变化。这给考生增加了不少难度。例如：
例句1中选择对了“fall victim to ”，还要知道该句子中不缺谓语动词，必须将“ fall victim to”变成非谓语形式，即用分词短语“falling victim to ”。
例句4中，在选择对了“be held to blame ” 之后，还要注意时态及主谓一致原则，所以应将“be held to blame ”变成“be held to blame ”。
事实上在以往的试题中，按上面这种形式出题很少见，多采取下面的形式。这些题目的答案就不存在词形转换问题，相比来说，要容易一些。
这里是一些从以往试卷里挑选的题目：
There are 15 sentences with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your answer sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (1 point each, 15 points)
1.“Oh, no!” he said quickly, smiling at her out of that unfailing _____of contrition — a sort of chivalry.
2.At last, with the Vietnam War, Americans are beginning to realize that they are
_____ original sin as much as Europeans are.
3.The value of snobbery in general, its humanistic “point”, consists in its power to
_____ activity.
4.It is not altogether easy to decide what is the _____ of the love of excitement.
5.The American dream promised older people that if they worked hard enough all their lives, things would _____ well for them.
6.I believe that over a period of decades newspapers have become a habit a function.
7.Her time was_____, but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against the window curtain, inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne.
8.They are always on trial, always on the _____ of failure, collectively and individually.
9. From the start of that campaign, I faced ________ hostility because of my sex.
10. A beautiful woman came along and ________ her bunch of violets, and a little boy ran after to hand them to her, and she took them and threw them away as if they’d been poisoned.
11. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to ________ them with the shades of deeper meaning.
12. If it be true that our thoughts and mental images are perfectly ________ things, like our books and pictures, to the inhabitants of the next world, then I am making for myself a better reputation there than I am in this place.
13. Although I had to search, and did search, for the right words, I seemed to be making this descriptive effort almost against my will, under a kind of ________ from outside.
14. ________ a man does not have to work so hard as to impair his vigor he is likely to find more zest in his free time than an idle man could possibly find.
15. And so we are suddenly ________ a sickening situation in this country.
A. undisguised B. tangible C. stimulate D. verge
E. infuse F. compulsion G. ridge H. dropped
I. faced with J. screened K. escalated into L. provided
M. vanguard N. root cause O. rather than P. subject to
Q. turn up R. retrenching S. increased T. retaining
U. turn out V. pretending W. reason X. impulse
答案：
1. X 2. P 3. C 4. N 5. U
6. O 7.D 8. V 9. A 10. H
11. E 12. B 13. F 14. L 15. I
4。选题
考核学生对词义的正确理解，学生根据上下文选择正确答案勾出。
Each of the following sentences is given two choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence.
1.The burn needs a (an) ([A] application, [B] treatment) of ointment three times a day, or it will get infected.
2.Porters laden with heavy bags were now ([A] walking, [B] Working) their way slowly across a rope bridge.
3.The ([A] studied, [B] learned) casualness of the stranger’s manner put us on guard immediately.
4.This pretty girl seems to have plenty of confidence, but appearances are sometimes ([A] deceptive, [B] deceitful).
5.To get ([A] permitted, [B] admitted) to the university, a student must have good results from the junior college.
6.Some plants are very ([A] sensible, [B] sensitive) to light; they prefer the shade.
7. As the living standard improves, the (A. span, B. length) of life is getting longer and longer.
8. The poor emperor was forced by the usurper to (A. abandon, B. abdicate).
9. I find it difficult to operate this computer. Can you (A. demonstrate, B. exemplify) it for me?
10. The formal declaration of the news went four (A. documents, B. drafts) before it was submitted to the conference.
11. I had a fantastic (A. stretch, B. stroke) of luck last weekend. I picked up a genuine Stradivarius violin for only $20.
12. In the A-series football match, AC-Milan (A. beat, B. defended) all the other teams and became the champion as expected.
13. Some people watch television so much that they cannot (A. conceive, B. imagine) of living without it.
14. Filled with great (A. adulation, B. admiration) for their integrity and courage, he was determined to be a man like them.
15. The professor looked over our papers with a hasty (A. sight, B. glance).
16. He was born in a small town (A. lived, B. inhabited) by about 1,500 people.
17. Mary made one last (A. attraction, B. appeal) to her father for permission to go to the party.
18. The old man thought their behavior was (A. contemptible, B. contemptuous), but he didn’t say anything in front of the hostess.
答案：
1. A 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. B
7. A 8. B 9. A 10. B 11. B 12. A
13. A 14. B 15. B 16. B 17. B 18. A
解析(限于篇幅只分析13-18题)：
这一部分主要检查学员对同、近义词的区分与应用。
13题区分A. conceive, B. imagine：都有“想象”的意思。imagine 表达“想象, 设想, 幻想”时，是及物动词, conceive 表达“想象;构想;设想”(常与by连用)。故此题选择A。
14题区分A. adulation, B. admiration：两词都有“对别人表达好意”之义，但前者表示“谄媚, 奉承”之意，有贬义;后者则有“赞美;钦佩;赞赏”之意，故答案为B。
15题区分A. sight, B. glance：都有“看”的意思。glance更有“匆匆一看”的意思，结合该句填空处前面一词 “hasty (匆忙的)”，我们可以断定应选择B。
16题区分A. lived, B. inhabited：都有“住”的意思。live作及物动词有“过着, 度过, 经历”之意，作不及物动词才有“活着, 生活, 居住”之意, inhabit有“居住; 栖息; 占据”，常作及物动词，且常用于被动语态。根据题意，应选择B。
17题区分A. attraction, B. appeal：都有“吸引，招人喜欢”的意思。attraction是“吸引; 吸引力”的意思; , appeal除了有“吸引力”之意，还有“请求, 呼吁, 要求”的意思。这句话中明显要求是后一个意思，故答案应选B。
18题区分A. contemptible, B. contemptuous：都有“瞧不起的”之意。contemptible是“可鄙的， 下贱的， 不齿的， 可轻视的”之意;contemptuous为“轻蔑的， 目空一切的， 傲慢的”。前这表达被别人瞧不起，后者是瞧不起别人。故选择A。
