高级英语试题10套(4)

18. euphemism 19. antithesis 20. alliteration

Test Three

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%).

skin and bones sit out indulge in susceptible to erectness hamlets sanctuary slashing agonizing unabated doused blasts marooned dogmatic unfathomable

1. The children huddled in the ________ rain within the circle of adults. 2. They came to ________ the storm with the Koshaks. 3. With two walls in their bedroom _________ beginning to disintegrate, John ordered everyone to leave.

4. The generator was _________, and the lights were out. 5. Then for the first time I noticed the poor old bodies reduced to ________. 6. The enlistment craze continued _________. 7. One wall began crumbling on the _________ group. 8. What they had wanted was an America more sensitive to art and less _______________standardization. 9. Many other novelists, dramatists, poets, and critics directed sad and bitter _______ at their native land. 10. She had an _________ of carriage, an ease of bearing. 11. However intricate they ways in which animals communicate with each other, they do not ___________ anything that deserves the name of conversation. 12. I have whirled through the malarious tidewater ________ of Goergia. 13. The taste for them is as enigmatical and yet as common as the taste for ___________ theology. 14. What I allude to is the unbroken and __________ ugliness 15. They meet, in some _____________ ways, its obscure and unintelligible demands.

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

depression systematically begged supported

condition criticized according to narrow disappeared unbearable decaying set down troubled fiendish ignored

1. The plight of the human beings makes one‘s blood boil. 2. The men methodically prepared for the hurricane. 3. Grandmother Koshak implored, ―Children, let‘s sing‖.

4. Business was suffering a recession that prevented the opening up of new jobs. 5. We can prop up that mattress with our heads and shoulders. 6. The novelists flayed the Babbitts but loved their country. 7. It arises and flourishes in obedience to biological laws. 8. So tremendous was the storming of recruitment centers that harassed sergeants actually pleased with volunteers to go home.

9. The spirit of carnival and the enthusiasm for high military adventure were soon dissipated. 10. We had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality. 11. The innumerable artists could never be written off as sterile. 12. They made the stadium perfect in their own sight by putting a completely impossible penthouse, painted a starring yellow.

13. The same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.

14. I have seen the mill towns of decomposing New England and the desert of Utah. 15. They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical.

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%) 12. We can batten down and ride it out. …… 此处隐藏：1188字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……