《高级英语通关三部曲》第二部分：必考句子[1]

全国2009年7月高等教育自学考试 《高级英语通关三部曲》 第二部：必考句子 1.“Jagger,he said, ”grabs a half-gallon jug of water and runs along the front platrorm, sprinkling its contents over the first few rows of sweltering listeners. 2.He ends it by pretending to end his life-with a guillotine. 3. “This is pilgrimage” Chris said. “I ought to be crawling on my knees. ” 4.It’s just that Elvis managed to embody the frustrated teenage spirit of the 1950s. 5.The Beatles showed there was a range of emotions between love and hate. 6.Like all artists, these rock musicians mirror feelings and beliefs that help us see and form our own. 7.our generation views the adult world with great skepticism…there is also an increased tendency to reject complety that world. 8.In one way or another, its practitioners batten on the society which they scorn. 9.But for the poor in spirit, with low levels of both energy and pride, it may be the least intolerable choice available. 10.They lived, in bitter disillusionment, to see the establishment they had overthrown replaced by a new one, just as hard-faced stuffy. 11.As a College newspaper editor at that time, I protested against this just as vehemently as student activists are protesting today. 12.Apparently he speaks for a lot of his contemporaries. 13.You must excuse us, doctor, We have her in the kitchen where it is warm. It is very damp here sometimes. 14.She had magnificent blonde hair, in profusion. 15.As I moved my chair a little nearer suddenly with one catlike movement both her hands clawed instinctively for my eyes and she almost reached them too. 16.After all, I had already fallen in love with the savage brat, the parents were contemptible to me. 17.Her tongue was cut and she was screaming in wild hysterical shrieks. 18.I could have torn the child apart in my own fury and enjoyed it. 19.Tried to get off her father’s lap and fly at me while tears of defeat blinded her eyes. 20.In one of the World’s biggest countries, euthanasia is condemned by the medical establishment, secretly practiced many times more often, and almost never comes to light. 21.It is the small one, Holland , which has rules for euthanasia and so can police it effectively. 22.This started a debate that will rumble on into the autumn. 23.Yet medical monstrosities that are hardly any better undoubtedly continue, almost as a matter of macabre routine, in America, Britain and many other countries. 24.Just as there can be culpable omissions, so too can there be blameless acts. 25.The child strikes his head in the bath and falls unconscious. The man sits down and watches him drown. 26.Another worry is that a legal framework for euthansia, permitting a doctor to comply with a dying man’s requst in a prescribed set of circumstances, might pose dangers for society by setting a precedent for killing. 27.By refusing to discuss it, they usher in something worse. 28.For all but the last six, I have done the work-all the tedious details that make the difference between victory and defeat on election day. 29.From the start of that campaign, I faced undisguised hostility because of my sex. 30.Among members of my own party, closed meetings were held to discuss ways of stopping me. 31.When there are no children going to bed hungry in this rich nation, I may be ready to go back to teaching. 32.What we need is more women in politics, because we have a very special contribution to make. 33.Being the first black woman elected to congress has made me some kind of phenomenon. 34.Her heels clicked on the sidewalk in front of the café as we left,and she became agitated as she talked. 35.He is gone from me now, I’m just telling that you are in for a disappointment. 36.Salina was talking, telling me about Magpie’s return to crow creek after months in exile and how his relatives went his sister’s house and welcomed him home. 37.Nobody spoke but Elgie came over, his bloodshot eyes filled with sorrow and misery. 38.Although it was so brilliantly fine-the blue sky powdered with gold and the great spots of light like white wine splashed over the jardins Publiques. 39.And when she breathed, something light and sad-no. not sad, exactly-something gentle seemed to move in her bosom. 40.A beautiful woman came along and dropped her bunch of violets, and a little boy ran after to hand them to her, and she took them and threw away as if they’d been poisoned. 41.But he shook his head, lighted a cigarette, slowly breathed a great deep puff into her face and, even while she was still talking and laughing, flicked the match away and walked on. 42.No doubt somebody would have noticed if she hadn’t been there; she was part of the performance, after all. 43.She hurried on the almond Sundays and struck the match for the kettle in quite a dashing way. 44.She was one of the few gentlewomen I have ever known, and has remained throughout my life the measure of what a human being can be. 45.There was a little path beside the rocky road, and Mrs, Flowers walked in front swinging her arms and picking her way over the stones. 46.Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning. 47.My imagination boggled at the punishment I would deserve if in fact I did abuse a book of Mrs. Flowers’. 48.When I finished the cookies she brushed off the table and brought a thick, small book from the bookcase. 49.I have tried often to search behind the sophistication of years for the enchantment I so easily found in those gifts. 50.Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus. 51．Capturing your attention, and holding it is the prime motive of most television programming and enchances its role as a profitable advertising vehicle. 52.Quite simply television operates on the appeal to the short attention span. 53．I believe that TV’s appeal to the short attention span is not only inefficient communication but decivilizing as well. 54.This one was very young, with inexperience even in the shape of his mustache which he had shaved too much on the left side. 55. He sat with his hands still pressed over his stomach, hiding his watch, but all through the cell you could hear its blunt tick tock tick.. 56.The clerk prepared the draw, sacrificing for it one of his letters from home. 57.On three pieces he made a cross in pencil, and then folded each piece. 58.He thrust his hand into the shoe and made careful excavations as though he had one particular scrap of paper in mind. 59.Indeed from the first draw any mark of pleasure was taboo: one couldn’t mock the condemned man by any sign of relief. 60.Some men drew the first slip which touched their fingers; others seemed to suspect that fate was trying to force on them a particular slip. 61.If it be true that our thoughts and mental images are perfectly tangible 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. 62.Give me a restless hour or two in bed and I can solve, to my own satisfaction, all the doubts of humanity. 63.Once in bed, when it is time to close the five ports of knowledge, most folks I know seem to find no difficulty in plunging their earthly parts into oblivion. 64.Taking these fables to heart, I would resolve to do likewise, and, going to bed, would clench my teeth, look as determined as possible in the darkness. 65.I must confess that I always suspect the men who boast that they unvaryingly fall asleep as soon as they get into bed-those “as soon as my head touches the pillow” fellows. 66.For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. 67．A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot. 68.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 compulsion from outside. 69.Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. 70.Whether work should be placed among the cause of happiness or among the causes of unhappiness may perhaps be regarded as a doubtful question. 71.I think, however, that, provided work is not excessive in amount, even the dullest work is to most people less painful than idleness. 72.Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom from drudgery. 73.Provided a man does not have to work so hard as to impair his vigor, he is likely to find far more zest in his free time than an idle man could possibly find. 74.Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work. 75．I imagine that an able surgeon, in spite of the painful circumstances in which his work is done, derives satisfaction from the exquisite precision of his operations. 76.But the press isn’t the only party in this country that’s guilty of this rampant insensitivity. 77.And so we’re suddenly faced with a sickening situation in this country. 78.He spoke of how some people glamorize the criminal misfits of society while the best men die in Asian rice paddies to preserve the freedoms that those misfits abuse. 79.It’s a distortion because we in no way considered ourselves the “best men” in this country. 80.But more important, we won’t move until they set a date for withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. 81.The problem of Vietnam is not just the problem of war and diplomacy; It’s a problem of the very basic American idealism that we are trying to question. 82.The modern cult of beauty is not exclusively a function (in the mathematical sense) of wealth. 83.Women are retrenching on other things than their faces. 84.The campaign for more physical beauty seems to be both a tremendous success and a lamentable failure. 85.All men and women will be beautiful only when the social arrangements give to every one of them an opportunity to live completely and harmoniously. 86.The senior partner studied the resume for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y.MC Deere, at least not on paper. 87.With three job offers from three of the most prestigious firms in the country, he did not need this interview, this firm. 88.The letter you received last month was sent after we screened over two thousand third-year students at the best schools. 89. We keep a low profile, and we do things differently. 90. Actually Harvard selected me, applied at several schools and was accepted everywhere. 91. All the three people froze, and for a few seconds stared incredulously at each other. 92. I will bypass him on most of our assignments rather than take up his time and delay their delivery to people who have an immediate need for them. 93. The figures are photocopied and distributed throughout the company to all the people and departments whose work is related to selling. 94. When salesmen are doing well, there is pressure upon them to begin doing better, for fear they may start doing worse. 95. If a salesman’s wife dies and he is not ready to remarry, he is usually moved into an administrative position after several months of mourning. 96. I frequently feel I’m being taken advantage of merely because I’m asked to do the work I’m paid to do. 97. She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from. 98. Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father’s violence. 99. She had hard work to keep the house together and to see that the two young children who had been left to her charge went to school regularly and got their meals regularly. 100．Her time was running out, but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against the window curtain, inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne. 101. Through the wide doors of the sheds she caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes. 102. Her distress awoke a nausea in her body and she kept moving her lips in silent fervent prayer. 103.I am speaking of the local press which in hundreds of American communities is the only news available, aside from those recitals of ticker tape that pass for radio news. 104. In its entertainment, television caters far too much to the lowest instincts of man, particularly the lust for violence. 105.I believe that over a period of decades newspapers have become a habit rather than a function. 106. For if you degrade and cheapen the word too long, the people will turn to the picture. 107. Americans find it difficult to think about old age until they are propelled into the midst of it by their own aging and that of relatives and friends. 108. Those of us who are not old barricade ourselves from discussions of old age by declaring the subject morbid, boring or in poor taste. 109. Old age is neither inherently miserable nor inherently sublime-like every stage of life it has problems, joys, fears and potentials. 110. The American dream promised older people that if they worked hard enough all their lives, things would turn out well for them. 111. Medicare pays for only 45 percent of older people’s health expenses; the balance must come from their own incomes and savings, or from Medicaid, which requires a humiliating means test. 112. There is prejudice against the old by doctors and other medical personnel who don’t like to bother with them. 113. At the rear the outer door opens and the sheriff comes in followed by the county attorney and Mr. Hale. 114. She just nodded her head, not getting a bit excited but rocking back and forth. 115. The county attorney, after again looking around the kitchen, opens the door of a cupboard closet. 116. Footsteps have been heard coming down the stairs. The sheriff enters followed by Hale and the county attorney. 117. Suddenly Mrs. Peters throws back quilt pieces and tries to put the box in the bag she is wearing. 118. When they got back home, as soon as he lowered her into the crib, she began to shout and wave her arms. 119. He ran the comb straight back on both sides of his head, then mussed the hair in front enough for one little lock to droop over his forehead. 120. Science, to my mind, is applied honesty, the one reliable means we have to find out truth. 121.I agree that our food is nutritious and that the diet of most of us is well-balanced. 122. It’s not possible to make the very best cheese in vast quantities at a low average cost. 123. It’s the way our wiser and calmer forebears fed not people, but hogs: as much as possible and as fast as possible with no standard of quality. 124.I couldn’t figure out what had happened to vegetables. I knew, of course, that most vegetables, to be enjoyed in their full deliciousness, must be picked fresh and cooked at once. 125. By ordinary standards these are credentials enough to qualify one as coming from watts. 126. Such as it is, the ghetto is regarded as no place to make a career for those who have a future. 127. I was especially intrigued by a career in watts because it was supposed to be impossible. 128. It never occurred to me at the time what I was doing. I thought of it only as being practical. 129. We have identified three distinct value disciplines, so called because each discipline produces a different kind of customer value. 130. Companies that pursue this are not primarily product or service innovators, nor do they cultivate deep, one to one relationships with customers. 131. Operationally excellent companies deliver a combination of quality, price, and ease of purchase that no one else in their market can match. 132. They execute extraordinarily well, and their proposition to customer is guaranteed low price or hassle-free service, or both. 133. Behind the scenes, price/Costco follows an operating model in which it buys larger quantities and negotiates better prices than competing stores. 134. Where others see glitches in their marketing plans or threats to their product lines, companies that focus on product leadership see opportunity and rush to capitalize on it. 135. Product leaders have a vested interest in protecting the entrepreneurial environment that they have created. 136. Undoubtedly the desire for food has been, and still is, one of the main causes of great political events. 137. I once befriended two little girls from Esthonia, who had narrowly escaped death from starvation in a famine. 138. Similarly, in any autocratic regime, the holders of power become increasingly tyrannical with experience of the delights that power can afford. 139. It is not altogether easy to decide what the root cause of the love of excitement is. 140. A great deal of work is sedentary and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles. 141. What is serious about excitement is that so many of its forms are destructive. 142. Evidence of that was her husband’s letting her come down alone; the trip to Mexico was for her to find herself, get back on her feet ,return to him healed. 143. She had married again when he was seventeen but this had not given him a retroactive father for the twelve-thirteen-year-old time of crisis. 144. Her hands and her neck began to sweat. But she knew that no emotion was pertinent. 145. She felt her blood pricking along her temples and there was pressure in her chest below the hollow. 146. The first time she saw the picture alone she was sure there was more action, only a flicking motion, but more,. That was hope and she had to feed it. 147.I have met several adolescent consumption-snobs, who thought that it would be romantic to fade away in the flower of youth. 148. Disease-snobbery is only one out of a great multitude of snobberies, of which now some, now others take pride of place in general esteem. 149. The snobbery of culture, still strong, has now to wrestle with an organized and active low-browism, as I know, in the whole of history. 150. For modernity-snobs naturally tend to throw away their old possessions and buy new ones at a greater rate than those who are not modernity-snobs. 151. The newspapers do their best to help those who help them; and to the flood of advertisement is added a flood of less directly paid-for propaganda in favor of modernity-snobbery. 152. The value of snobbery in general, its humanistic “ point ”, consists in its power to stimulate activity. 153. Swiss doctors and the Best that has been thought or said must be the daily and nightly preoccupation of all the snobs respectively of disease and culture. 154. American individualism, on the face of it an admirable philosophy, wishes to manifest itself in independence of the community. 155. But far worse is the nightmare of travel in and around Los Angeles, where public transport does not exist and people are literally choking to death in their exhaust fumes. 156. The more efficiently self-contained the home seems to be, the more dependent it is on the great, impersonal corporations, as well as a diminishing army of servitors. 157. At last, with the Vietnam War, Americans are beginning to realize that they are subject to original sin as much as Europeans are. 158. It has been assumed that the Youth of America has been in the vanguard of the discovery of both the disease and the cure. 159. The wealth qualification for the aspiring politician is taken for granted; a governmental system dedicated to the promotion of personal wealth in a few selected areas will never act for the public good. 160.“oh, no!” he said quickly, smiling at her out of that unfailing impulse of contrition---a sort of chivalry. 161. On the edge of a small cape that marked the side of the bay away from the promontory was a loose scatter of rocks. 162. After they had dived and come up, they swam around, hauled themselves up, and waite