高级英语试题10套(10)

Section 1: From the list of words at the top, select the correct word or phrase for each blank space. Use each word or phrase only once (15%).

snapped trailed hobbled inflamed

tribulation contingent bordering upon distinction blasts inverted sovereign testimony slumped diatribes delayed

31. 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds ________ them

32. She grandmother carried on alone for a few bars, then her voice ________ away. 33. Janis had just one __________ reaction.

34. Long lines of women, bent double like ________ capital Ls, work their way slowly across the fields.

35. The file of old women had ___________ past the house with their firewood. 36. The solders ________ under the weight of their packs. 37. Rejoice in hope, patient in ________. 38. It has been yielded to with an eagerness __________ passion. 39. Their minds and pens _________ against the war. 40. Especially was this true of the college ___________,whose idealism had led them to enlist early.

41. Flaming _________ poured from their pens denouncing the materialism.

42. Many other novelists, dramatists, poets, and critics, directed sad and bitter ________ at their native land.

43. They fought with _________. 44. To that world assembly of ___________ states, the United Nations, we renew our pledge of support.

45. Each generation of Americans has been summoned to give __________to its national loyalty.

Section 2: From the list of words at the top, select the correct synonym for the underlined words or phrase in each sentence (15%)

distress praise restrains abuse tendency disappeared mistake check fiendish ended intense roused

pleasant-looking out-of-date criticism

1. But the blues did occasionally afflict all the adults. 2. Other people may celebrate the lofty conversations in which the great minds are

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supposed to have indulged.

3. We will prevent the United Nations from becoming merely a forum for invective. 4. Yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind‘s final war.

5. The pull is always toward ugliness. 6. Red brick ages with dignity. Let it become downright black, it is still sightly. 7. They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical. 8. They had memories of the bravery denunciation of the Puritan morality. 9. They turned their energy to the destruction of an obsolescent nineteenth-century society.

10. It is impossible to put down the wallpaper to mere inadvertence of the manufacturers.

11. The spirit of carnival and the enthusiasm for high military adventure were soon dissipated. 12. Their energies had been whipped up and their naiveté destroyed by the war.

13. Now, they were being asked to curb those energies and resume the pose of self-deceiving Victorian innocence.

14. The young people ―wanted to get into the fun before the whole thing turned belly up‖. 15. As a result, their dissatisfaction with their native country, already acute upon their return now became even more intolerable.

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%)

1. Serious looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them.

2. As you penetrate the bazaar, the noise of the entrance fades away. 3. I thought somehow I had been spared.

4. His gaze moved on to sweep the spacious, well-pointed room. 5. Well, that‘s California all over.

6. The spectators chuckled and Bryan warmed to his work.

7. Mark twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles.

8. The book ―Huck Finn‖ presents a moving panorama for exploration of American society.

9. We shall be strengthened and not weakened in determination and in resources.

10. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain

III. Translate the following sentences (using the expressions given in the brackets. (20%)

1. ―The King‘s English‖ was no longer a form of what would now be regarded as

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2. 3. 4. 5.

racial discrimination.

She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack.

Words are not themselves a reality, but only representations of it.

There was not one that was not misshapen, and there was not one that was not shabby.

I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.

6. 我发现琼斯先生非但不枯燥无味，而且幽默、富于激情和同情心。(far from) 7. 狂风就像在身边呼啸而过的列车一样发出震耳的响声。(sound) 8. 现代雕塑的引人入胜之处就在于他能激发人们的想象力。(charm)

9. 我们应该把使用核武器的权利至于世界各国的绝对的管制之下。（under control）

10. 他特别强调要记住学生们的名字。(make a point)

IV. Name the figures of speech used in the following sentences. (One in each sentence) (10%)

1. Snow clothes the ground.

2. Several vacationers there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point.

3. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly, as on other and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautiful. 4. The country itself is not uncomely.

5. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.

6. There was an audible stillness, in which the common voice sounded strange.

7. And one and all they are streaked in grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks. 8. Greenwich Village set the pattern.

9. …yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind‘s final war.

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