高级英语试题10套(12)

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%).

file outgrown outpaced forsaken tempt rejection expatriation fashioned

negation lacerated waif dingy mellowed glimmer standardization

46. The _______ of old women had hobbled past the house with their firewood

47. What they had wanted was an America more sensitive to art and less susceptible to ___________.

48. Their very homes were often uncomfortable to them; they had _________ town and families.

49. The instruments of war have far _________ the instruments of peace. 50. We dare not _______ them with weakness.

51. The ________ of Victorian gentility was in any case, inevitable.

52. It was in their defiant European _______ that our leading writers of the Twenties learned to think of themselves.

53. Just as Pygmalion loved the perfect woman he had ___________, so I loved mine. 54. Suddenly a _________ of intelligence came into her eyes.

55. He looked at the coat with the expression of a ________ at a bakery window. 56. Fads are the very ________ of reason.

57. Then thy have converted into a thing of ________ clapboards, with a narrow, low-pitched roof.

58. The houses were so ugly that they even insulted and _________the eye.

59. I have whirled thought the gloomy, God-_________ villages of Iowa and Kansas. 60. The house after years of neglect __________ into its present shocking depravity..

Section 2: From the list of words at the top, select the correct synonym for the underlined words or phrase in each sentence (15%) perplexing repeat confusing imposingly limited sheltered swarm ardent out-of-date subject greedy longed for rich horrifying put out

1. The taste for them is as enigmatical and yet as common as the taste for dogmatic theology.

2. The wind tore out one wall and extinguished the lantern.. 3. To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, we renew our

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pledge of support

4. They had developed a sudden bewildering world-weariness. 5. An important book rather grandiosely entitled Civilization in the United States,

was written.

6. Their released energies were turned to the destruction of an obsolescent nineteenth-century society.

7. The rebellion was not confined to the United States. 8. There were enough high school orators proclaiming the character-forming force

of the strenuous life. 9. Greenwich Village had also harbored enough major writers. 10. It was only natural that hopeful young writers should flock to the Greenwich

Village.

11. The self-conscious unconventionality was rapidly becoming a standard feature of

the country club class – and its less affluent imitators. 12. What they had wanted was an American more sensitive to art and culture, less

avid for material gain. 13. I had long coveted the charming girl. 14. But somehow I had never quite sensed its appalling desolation. 15. Logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing.

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%)

1. Mark Twain was obsessed with the frailties of the human race. 2. He participated abundantly in this life.

3. Hiroshima still felt the impact of the atomic cataclysm. 4. Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.

5. People are afraid of genetic damage from the radiation.

6. Steamboat decks teemed with the main current of pioneering humanity. 7. The buyers , overwhelmed by the sepulchral atmosphere, follow suit. 8. A flagrant example of lexicographic irresponsibility. 9. What underlies all this sound and fury? 10. Now we are getting somewhere.

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

1. Water inched its way up the steps as first-floor outside walls collapsed.

2. As we listen today to the arguments about bilingual education, we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.

3. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.

4. The pull toward ugliness has been yielded to with an eagerness bordering upon passion.

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5. Let both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. 6. 各种家用和医疗用品通过飞机和火车源源不断地运进水灾区。（stream in） 7. 这里的土地大半是一片荒凉，能够在此生存的野生植物还没有一英尺高.(desolate)

8. 这次商业谈判的最终成败是握在你们手中的。（rest） 9. 这种药会使人对SARS产生免疫力。（immune） 10. 他说的话也有一定的道理 (something)

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

1. Hurricane Camille seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 31/2

miles away.

2. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. 3. He has fallen in possession of a complete Shakespeare. 4. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker.

5. The Arab navvy looked with a sort of amazement, as though he had never seen this kind of thing before.

6. There are about a hundred hands working in his factory.

7. Younger brothers and sisters of the war generation now began to play with the toys of vulgar rebellion.

8. …four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.

9. The country itself is not uncomely.

10. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

高级英语第二册试卷库参考答案及评分标准 （卷8）

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