高级英语试题10套(3)

1. The Saxon peasants who tilled the land and reared the animals could not afford the meat.

2. The Norman lords of courts turned up their noses at the rabbit meat. 3. Red brick ages with dignity. Let it become downright black, it is still sightly. 4. The pull is always toward ugliness. 5. They lean this way and that, hanging on to their bases precariously. 6. You will, in fact, find nothing of the sort in Europe –save perhaps in the more putrid parts of England. 7. Greenwich Village had also harbored enough major writers. 8. They were trying to flout the morality of their grandfathers. 9. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees. 10. We had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality. 11. It took five grueling nights, but it was worth it. 12. Charles Lamb unfettered the informal essay with his memorable work. 13. The one hundred days fracas with Spain had dissolved into a one-sided victory. 14. The ?lost generation‘ attitude nevertheless acted as a common denominator of the writing of the times.

15. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills.

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%) 1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. 2. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a

frenzied rush of Jews.

3. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each other‘s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings. 4. This much we pledge－and more.

5. They got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. 6. Conversation is not for making a point.

7. But somehow I had never quite sensed its appalling desolation.

8. It reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke. 9. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills. 10. They had outgrown towns and families.

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

1. I tore off a piece of bread and he stowed it gratefully in some secret place under his rags.

2. The conversation had swung from Australian convicts of the 19th century to the

English peasants of the 12th century.

3. United, there is little we can not do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

4. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

5. It reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke. 6. 对生活在这片贫瘠的土地上的人来说，他们祖祖辈辈的生活就是从是从贫瘠的土壤中费力地弄出点吃的来。（wring） 7. Tim的婚姻亮起了红灯。(on the rocks) 8. 法律规定对受贿该处以什么刑法？(prescribe) 9. 他试图超过他的对手但最终还是失败了。(outpace) 10. 他从小就有艺术家的素质。(makings)

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. The glow of the conversation burst into flames.

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

4. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.

5. Petey lay snoring in his bed, the raccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet.

6. The effect of the ugly stadium with an impossible yellow penthouse is that of a fat woman with a black eye.

7. The country itself is not uncomely.

8. When we came back we found him in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep — but forever.

9. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. 10. We felt strong, smug, secure.

高级英语第二册试卷库参考答案及评分标准（卷2）

I. Vocabulary (30%) (1分1题) Section 1 1. whipped 2. cowered 3. warped 4. mummified

5. 6. 7. 8. twopence squashed at odds contingent

9. host

10. distinction 11. recollections 12. adjunct Section 2 1. raised

2. looked down upon 3. pleasant-looking 4. tendency 5. insecurely 6. rotting 7. sheltered 8. scorn 9. covered

10. narrow-minded 11. exhausting 12. set free 13. fights 14. trait

15. unpleasant

13. room

14. flattered 15. belligerent

II． Paraphrase （20%） （2分1题）

2. The burying-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth

looking a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up. 3. Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out

wildly excited.

4. Bar friends, although they met each other frequently did not delve into each other‘s lives or

the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.

5. This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.

6. It is not a matter of interest if they are cross or in a bad temper.

7. Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view.

8. But somehow in the past I never really perceived how shocking and wretched this whole

region was.

9. This dreadful scene makes all human endeavors to advance and improve their lot appear as a

ghastly, saddening joke.

10. The country itself is pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread by the innumerable

mills in this region.

11. The young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their

families.

III. Translation （20%） （2分1题）

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