高级英语试题10套(8)

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

1. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees.

2. It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.

3. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. 4. ―It were not fit I should do so,‖ answered Rebecca, with proud humility.

5. And so they have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by mortal eye. 6. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.

7. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start. 8. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. 9. The country itself is not uncomely.

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

高级英语第二册试卷库参考答案及评分标准（卷5）

I. Vocabulary (30%) (1分1题) Section 1 1. skimmed 2. blew in 3. stowed

4. infested 5. wring 6. flesh and blood

7. mellow 8. catalytic agent 9. blind and deaf 10. negation 11. written off

Section 2 1. fell apart 2. huddled 3. distress 4. transported 5. dwelling places 6. adjusted 7. almost 8. industrious 9. scolded 10. talking about 11. rich 12. swelling 13. rotting 14. set down 15. bright

12. smoldered 13. gear 14. inimical 15. enlist

II． Paraphrase （20%） （2分1题）

1. The electrical systems in the car had been out of work because of the sea water.

2. We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority would continue to be in effect or in force.

3. Before the terrible forces of destruction, which science can now release, overwhelm mankind; before this self-destruction , which may be planned or brought about by an accident, takes place.

4. These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields; but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meet beef.

5. The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers.

6. People in certain strata of American society seem definitely to hunger after ugly things.

7. At the very mention of this post-war period, middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly.

8. Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance or terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankind‘s final war. 9. The English language received proper recognition and was used by the King once more.

10.These ugly designs, in some way that people cannot understand, satisfy the hidden an unintelligible demands of this type of mind.

III. Translation （20%） （2分1题）

21. 人类手中所掌握的力量足以硝棉一切形式的人类贫困和一切形式的人类生命。 22. 我努力克制住心中排山倒海似的惊慌情绪。

23. 在这里，人类的居所却如此令人厌恶，连一群无家可归的杂种猫都为之羞耻。 24. 我一遍又一遍的举出例证，指出问题的错误指出，不停地讲下去。 25. 红砖在岁月的冲刷下愈发显的气派。

26. The torch of the Olympics will be passed from generation to generation, signifying the wish

for peace of all nations.

27. There is something in what he said。

28. After two years of strenuous work, I finally made an excellent table tennis player out of Jane。 29. Tom felt frustrated at not being able to do anything to fight the hurricane。 30. I asked him about life in USA and that made him sit up.

IV. Figure of speech （10%）（1分1题） 1. metaphor 2. antithesis

3. irony or sarcasm and irony 4. oxymoron 5. hyperbole 6. metonymy 7. metaphor

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