高级英语(三) 期末考试A卷I. Among the four choices, choose the one that is the closest in meaning to the italicized word.（30%）1. He hurled the statue to the floor with such force that it shattered.a. dropped b. pulledc. pushed d. threw2. Since he had never been in such a situation before, his apprehension was understandable:a. eagerness b. fear c.hesitation d. excitement3. He is the most intrepid explorer in the present century:a. successful b. fearless c. reliable d. enthusiastic4. Your mood seems very meditative this evening.a. Gleeful b. thoughtful c. desperate d. stern5. Walking a tightrope across the falls was a foolhardy venture.a. shrewd b. gallant c. rash d. amazing6. The fourth year sociology class was a homogeneous group of university students:a. uniform b. average c. unrelated d. distinguishable7. placid as a cow:a. calm b. strong c. enormous d. irritable8. wanton mischief:a. great b. sly c. reckless d. mysterious9. To coerce a guard:a. beg b. punish c.release d. compel by force10. a thousand-feet-deep abyss:a. hole b. minec. bottomless chasm d. ocean11. The motion won passage by 11votes to 7, with 3 abstentions:a. Was carried away b. was taken c. was legalized d. was proposed12. The accompanying thing of better housing and working conditions in Europe is the longer life of the population:a. necessity b. association c. concomitant d. co-existence13. The king enjoyed the sycophantic attentions of his followers:a. quiet b. servilely flattering c. frolicsome d. eagerly awaiting14. Neon is an inert gas. It will not combine chemically with anything.a. An inactive b. an active c. an important d. a useful15. The students exulted at the last day of school.a. were downcast b. rejoicedc.left d. stayed16. ephermeral fame:a. acute b. illusory c. perpetual d. commonplace17. indubitable insulta. questionable b. downrightc. gross d. unprovoked18. the mediocrity of todays writing:a. inferiority b. uniqueness c. precision d. subtlety19. a back of infirmity:a. confirmation b. disability c. soundness d. expansion20. overt hostilitya. concealed b. ignorant c. perceivable d. latentII.Reading comprehension(Please write down your answer on the Answer Sheet.10%):The relationship between the home and market economics has gone through two distinct stages. Early industrialization began the process of transferring some production processes (e.g. clothmaking, sewing, and canning foods) from the home to the marketplace. Although the home economy could still produce these goods, the processes were laborious and the market economy was usually more efficient. Soon, the more important second stage was evident- the marketplace began producing goods and services that had never been produced by the home economy, and the home economy was unable to produce them (e.g. electricity and electrical appliances, the automobile, advanced education, sophisticated medical care). In the second stage, the question of whether the home economy was less efficient in producing these new goods and services was irrelevant; if the family were to enjoy these fruits of industrialization, they would have to be obtained in the marketplace. The traditional ways of taking care of these needs in the home, such as nursing the sick, became socially unacceptable( and, in most serious cases, probably less successful). Just as the appearance of the automobile made the use of the horse-drawn carriage illegal and then impractical, and the appearance of television changed the radio from a source of entertainment to a source of background music, so most of the fruits of economic growth did not increase the options available to the home economy toe either produce the goods or services or purchase them in the market. Growth brought with it increased variety in customer goods, but not increased flexibility for the home economy in obtaining these goods and services. Instead, economic growth brought with it increased consumer reliance on the marketplace. In order to consume these new goods and services, the family had to enter the marketplace as wage earners and consumers. The neoclassical model that views the family as deciding whether to produce goods and services directly or to purchase them in the marketplace is basically a model of the first stage. It cannot accurately be applied to the second ( and current ) stage.21. The reason why many production processes were taken over by the marketplace was that _.A. it was a necessary step in the process of industrializationB. they depended on electricity available only to the market economyC. it was troublesome to produce such goods in the homeD. the marketplace was more efficient with respec