西南大学网院 高级英语二【 0849 】 课程考试试题卷

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西南大学网络与继续教育学院课程考试试题卷

类别： 网教    专业： 英语（教育）         2016年 12月
课程名称【编号】： 高级英语二  【 0849 】           A卷
大作业                                     满分：100 分
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I.         Reading Comprehension (20%)
Directions: In this part there are 2 passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.

Passage 1

The creation of the self must, by its very nature, be a cooperative affair. The potentiality for language acquisition and language use appears to be granted as a birthright. But the accident of birth will determine whether the language acquired will be Chinese, Swahili, Spanish, or English. And the same accident will determine the nature of the dialect acquired within the language. These “accidents” assume the presence of people and a culture that together bring the language to the individual.
If, then, the individual creates himself through language, it is only with the help provided by a sympathetic environment; a mother who encourage him to babble, to distinguish sounds and consequences, and then to utter sentences; and a host of other people who act and react linguistically around him. Gradually as the individual develops, he acquires not only language but what might be called a “linguistic personality”, a set of language behavior patterns that make up a substantial part of his identity as a person different from other persons.
The creation of the self—in the sense of the selfs development into a distinctive person with distinctions that are in large part linguistic (or asserted or fulfilled through language)—is a creation of the self in a kind of gross or obvious sense. Few would quarrel with the rough outline sketched above, though some might want to express it in a different set of terms. But there is another, more subtle sense in which we can speak of the creation of the self implied in Alfred North Whitehead’s assertion that “it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind.” Where a nineteenth-century divine, or a twentieth-century philosopher, might refer to “souls”, the modern psychologist might refer to the sense of an enduring self. This sense is generated, sustained, and preserved in language.

1. Whether your mother tongue is English or Chinese is determined by _____.
A. your birthright
B. the culture in which you are born
C. the chance of your birth
D. the use of language
2. One’s language development is assisted by all of the following EXCEPT______.
A. his mother
B. a sympathetic environment
C. his language teacher
D. other people around him
3. “Linguistic personality” means _____.
A. a personality that involves the use of language
B. the behavior of a person who speaks a different language from others
C. language behavior patterns similar to other persons who speak the same language
D. linguistic behavior patterns that differentiate him from others
4. The two expressions “souls” and “enduring self” (in the third paragraph) _____.
A. have the similar meaning
B. mean differently
C. are terms of philosophy and psychology respectively
D. have a religious connotation
5. Which of the following is NOT true? _____.
A. The acquisition of a dialect within a language is determined by the accident of birth
B. There are still great debates whether language helps the creation of the self into a distinctive person
C. In the acquisition of language, one also acquires a set of distinctive language behavior patterns
D. Everyone is bestowed with the potential ability of language acquisition and language use


Passage 2

The most exciting kind of education is also the most personal. Nothing can exceed the joy of discovering for yourself something that is important to you! It may be an idea or a bit of information you come across accidentally — or a sudden insight, fitting together pieces of information or working through a problem. Such personal encounters are the “payoff” in education. A teacher may direct you to learning and even encourage you in it — but no teacher can make the excitement or the joy happen. That’s up to you.
A research paper, assigned in a course and perhaps checked at various stages by an instructor, leads you beyond classrooms, beyond the texts for classes and into a process where they joy of discovery and learning can come to you many times. Preparing the research paper is an active and individual process, and ideal learning process. It provides a structure within which you can make exciting discoveries, of knowledge and of self, that are basic to education. But the research paper also gives you a chance to individualize a school assignment, to suit a piece of work to your own interests and abilities, to show others what you can do. Writing a research paper is more than just a classroom exercise. It is an experience in searching out, understanding and synthesizing, which forms the basis of many skills applicable to both academic and nonacademic tasks. It is, in the fullest sense, a discovering, an education. So, to produce a good research paper is both a useful and a thoroughly satisfying experience!
To some, the thought of having to write an assigned number of pages, often more than ever produced before, is disconcerting. To others, the very idea of having to work independently is threatening. But there is no need to approach the research paper assignment with anxiety, and nobody should view the research paper as an obstacle to overcome. Instead, consider it a goal to accomplish, a goal within reach if you use the help this book can give you.
6. According to the writer, personal discoveries ______.
A. are the most valuable part of one’s personal education
B. are helpful in finding the right information
C. will give one encouragement and direction
D. will help one to successfully complete school assignments
7. It can be inferred from the passage that writing a research paper gives one chances _____.
A. to prove that one is a productive writer
B. to use the skills learnt in the classroom
C. to fully develop one’s personal abilities
D. to demonstrate how well one can accomplish school assignment
8. From the context, the word “disconcerting” (Para. 3, Line 2) most probably means _____.
A. misleading        B. embarrassing        C. stimulating        D. upsetting
9. The writer argues in the passage that _____.
A. one should explore new areas in research
B. one should trust one’s own ability to meet course requirements
C. one should use all one’s knowledge and skills when doing research
D. one should consider research paper writing a pleasure, not a burden
10. What will probably follow this passage?
A. How to write research paper.
B. The importance of research in education
C. How to make new discoveries for oneself.
D. The skill of putting pieces of information together.


II.         Translation (40%)
Directions: Choose ONE of the following passages and translate it into Chinese. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.

Passage 1
I have often wondered at the savagery and thoughtlessness with which our early settlers approached this rich continent.  They came at it as though it were an enemy, which of course it was.  They burned the forests and changed the rainfall; they swept the buffalo from the plains, blasted the streams, set fire to the grass, and ran a reckless scythe through the virgin and noble timber.  Perhaps they felt that it was limitless and could never be exhausted and that a man could move on to new wonders endlessly. Certainly there are many examples to the contrary, but to a large extent the early people pillaged the country as though they hated it, as though they held it temporarily and might be driven off at any time.


Passage 2
        At first, the tears came slowly; then, as she remembered all that had gone wrong, they streamed in great heaving sobs which shock her body. She cried for the past and present; for the home she had had and lost; for her children whom she could no longer keep with her; for D. O. who, despite his faults as a husband, and the failure to support his family, was at least familiar, but now had deserted her. She wept for what she herself had been and had become; for the fact that she had no money, nowhere to go but to the mean, cock-roach-infested rooms downtown, from which she would be evicted tomorrow, having nothing left – after the taxi ride and driver’s theft – from the pathetically small amount with which she had hoped to stave off the landlord … she was not even sure if she had enough small change to return downtown.


III. Writing (40%)
Directions: Write an essay of about 300 words on the following topic. In the first part of your essay, you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be granted for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result ni a loss of marks.

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