高级英语试题10套(2)

Test Two

I. Vocabulary (30%)

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%). twopence host room flattered belligerent whipped cowered mummified warped squashed contingent distinction recollections adjunct at odds

16. Wind and rain now __________ the house. 17. The dog _________ with eyes closed. 18. The man‘s left leg is _________ out of shape. 19. The old women are __________ with age and heat. 20. In this connection it doesn‘t matter ___________ if he calls himself a socialist. 21. The black soldiers‘ feet ___________into boots that looked like blocks of wood. 22. For we dare not meet a powerful challenge _________ and split asunder. 23. Especially was this true of the college _________ , whose idealism had led them to enlist early.

24. United, there is little we cannot do in a _________of co-operative ventures. 25. They fought with __________ . 26. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic _________ to the middle-aged.

27. Journalism was a mere __________ to commercialism. 28. The booming of American industry no longer left ________ for the code of the Victorian age..

29. Meanwhile, the true intellectuals were far from _________. 30. Our official reluctance to declare our status as a __________ was intolerable to many of our citizens.

Section 2: From the list of words at the top, select the correct synonym for the underlined words or phrases in each sentence (15%) raised insecurely pleasant-looking tendency rotting sheltered scorn trait unpleasant narrow-minded set free exhausting looked down upon fights covered