高级英语试题10套

Test One

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%). lashed scudded desolate derelict undoing makings booming contemptuous a catalytic agent sprees swiveled smoldered lucrative macabre adjunct

1. Hurricane Camille _________ northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico. 2. Gray clouds________ in from the Gulf on the rising wind. 3. Most of Morocco is so _________ that no wild animal bigger than a hare can lie on it.

4. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a _________ building lot.

5. The Americans are unwilling to witness or permit the slow ________ of these human rights to which this nation has been committed.

6. Although she was not very smart now, she already had the _________ 7. The _________ of American industry no longer left any room for the code of the Victorian age.

8. Journalism was a mere ________ to commercialism. 9. The war acted as ____________ in this breaking down of the Victorian social structure.

10. Like most escapist _________, this one lasted until the money ran out. 11. Not hostile, not _________ , not sullen, not even inquisitive. 12. Back and forth, his head ________, desire waxing, resolution waning. 13. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still __________. 14. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most _________ and characteristic activity.

15. It reduced the whole aspiration of man to a ________and depressing joke.

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

hit distress fell apart noticeable crazy gap aimlessly toughened call forth ambitious perceptive industrious

put an end to moral attitudes criticism

1. Hurricane Camille was certain to pummel Gulfport, Miss., where the Koshaks lived.

2. The group heard gunlike reports as other upstairs windows disintegrated. 3. But the blues did occasionally afflict all the adults. 4. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. 5. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. 6. The conversation moved desultorily here and there. 7. What al this tells us is of a deep rift in the culture of England after the Norman Conquest.

8. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

9. This new generation has been tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

10. Flaming diatribes poured from their pens denouncing the materialism. 11. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. 12. He was an enterprising fellow. 13. He called himself a perspicacious man. 14. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. 15. Thus in a changing world youth was faced with the challenge of bring our mores up to date.

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%) 1. We‘re elevated 23 feet.

2. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it.

3. No one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just

glows.

4. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at

issue around the globe.

5. And it is an activity only of humans.

6. Boy and man, I had been through the region often before.

7. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the

middle-aged

8. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it. 9. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact.

10. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.

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

1. A moment later, the hurricane lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air.

2. In a tropical landscape one‘s eyes takes in everything except the human beings. 3. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

4. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason.

5. Here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of rally cats. 6. 暴风雨使旅客们处于孤立无援的处境。(maroon)

7. 他们个个都把一杯啤酒看成是一件难得的奢侈品。（look on） 8. 他有可能已经听说这个坏消息了。(chances) 9. 我问起他美国的生活，他马上警觉起来。（sit up） 10. 一丝智慧的光芒闪现在他的眼中。(glimmer)

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

1. We can batten down and ride it out.

2. Instantly, from the dark holes all around, there was a frenzied rush of Jews.

3. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

4. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. 5. Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter. 6. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.

7. One blinked before them as one blinks before a man with his face shot away. 8. He is no mean opponent in the coming debate.

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

10. Hopeful young writers, their minds and pens inflamed against war and Babbittry, came in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic center. 高级英语第二册试卷库参考答案及评分标准（卷1）

I.Vocabulary (30%) (1分1题) Section 1 1. lashed 2. scudded 3. desolate 4. derelict 5. undoing 6. makings

7. booming 8. adjunct 9. a catalytic agent 10. sprees 11. contemptuous 12. swiveled

13. smoldered 14. lucrative Section 2 1. hit 2. fell apart 3. distress 4. crazy 5. noticeable 6. aimlessly 7. gap 8. put an end to 9. toughened 10. criticism 11. call forth 12. ambitious 13. perceptive 14. industrious 15. moral attitudes

15. macabre

II． Paraphrase （20%） （2分1题） 1. We‘re 23 feet above sea level.

2. The house has been at this place since 1915, and has never been damaged by any hurricanes. 3. No one knows how the conversation will go as it moves aimlessly and desultorily or as it becomes spirited and exciting.

4. Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today, this issue has not yet been decided in many countries around the world. 5. And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings.

6. As a boy and later when I was a grown-up man, I had often traveled through the region.

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

8. The house has been at this place since 1915, and has never been damaged by any hurricanes. 9. All the empires build up their empires by treating the people in the colonials like animals (by not treating the people in the colonials as human beings).

10. United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.

III. Translation （20%） （2分1题）

1. 不一会儿，一阵强风掠过，将整个屋顶卷入空中，抛向40英尺以外。 2．在热带的景色中，万物皆一目了然，唯独看不见人。

3．一个自由社会如若不能帮助众多的穷人，也就无法保全少数的富人。 4．赶时髦就是最缺乏理智的表现。

5.人们的居住条件如此糟糕，连那些流浪街头的野猫也为之害羞。 6．The travelers were marooned by the storm.

7．Everyone of them looks on a glass of beer as an impossible luxury. 8．Chances are that he has already heard about this bad news. 9．I asked him about life in America and that made him sit up. 10. A glimmer of intelligence came into her eyes)

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

2. transferred epithet 3. antithesis 4. parallelism 5. metonymy 6. synecdoche 7. simile 8. litotes

9. euphemism 10. metonymy

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

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）

1． 我撕下一块面包，他感激地把面包放进破衣裳贴身的地方。 2． 于是话题又从19世纪的澳大利亚囚犯转到12世纪的英国农民。

3． 只要我们团结起来，我们在许多合作性事业中就会无往而不胜；而一旦彼此分裂，我们

就会无所作为。

4． 我们决不能因为惧怕而谈判，但我们也决不要惧怕谈判。

5． 这儿的景色丑陋得这样可怕，以致人的报复和壮志在这儿成了令人毛骨悚然的、令人

沮丧的笑料。

6． For people living in this poor area, their life generation after generation has been to wring a little food out of this eroded area. 7． Tim‘s marriage is on the rocks.

8． What punishment does the law prescribe for taking bribes? 9． He tried to outpace his opponent but failed.

10．He already had the makings of an artist from childhood. He was born with the makings of an artist.

IV. Figure of speech （10%）（1分1题） 11. personification 12. metaphor 13. onomatopoeia 14. synecdoche 15. simile 16. metaphor 17. litotes

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.

13. Still, a white skin is always fully conspicuous. 14. Suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place.

15. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. 16. In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose. 17. They have taken as their model a brick on end

18. Each town had its ―fast‖ set which prided itself on its unconventionality.

19. This they have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a narrow, low-pitched roof.

20. Boy and man, I had been through it often before. 21.People with brown skins are next door to invisible.

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

1. In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

2. The rebellion of the lower class against a cultural dominance of the ruling class is still there.

3. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems that divide us.

4. The King‘s English is no more than a class representation of reality.

5. Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination – and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats. 6. 受到这样的待遇经过了好几个世纪后，他们已经不再为拥挤不堪而烦恼了。(cease)

7. 那座楼房改成学校了。(convert)

8. 一想到他们所挥霍的钱，我就火冒三丈。(infuriate) 9. 学会自律是成功道路上的第一步。(discipline) 10. 不要一起挤进电梯。(squash)

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

1. Several vacationers there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. 2. The conversation was on wings.

3. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

4. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.

5. These abominable houses cover the bare hillsides, like gravestones in some gigantic and decaying cemetery. 6. The country itself is not uncomely.

7. Liquor talks mighty loud when it gets loose from the jug. 8. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.

9. On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think.

10. We can gain knowledge, by reading, by reflection, by observation or by practice. 高级英语第二册试卷库参考答案及评分标准（卷3）

I. Vocabulary (30%) (1分1题) Section 1 1． slashing

2． sit out

3． sanctuary 4． doused

5． skin and bones 6． unabated 7． marooned 8． susceptible to 9． blasts

Section2 1. condition 2. systematically 3. begged 4. depression 5. supported 6. criticized 7. according to 8. troubled

9. disappeared 10. narrow 11. ignored]

12. unbearable 13. set down 14. decaying 15. fiendish

10．erectness 11．indulge in 12．hamlets 13．dogmatic 14．agonizing 15．unfathomable

II． Paraphrase （20%） （2分1题）

1. We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane safely.

2. However, a white-skinned European is always quite noticeable. However, people always

notice any one with white skin.

3. Suddenly a miraculous change in the conversation took place.

4. We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution which brings of

progress to all our countries.

5. In fact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or force

others to accept his point of view.

6. The model they followed in building their houses was a brick standing upright.

7. Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people , who lived unconventional

lives.

8. These brick-like houses were made of shabby, thin wooden boards and their roofs were

narrow and had little slope.

9. As a boy and later when I was a grown-up man, I had often traveled through the region. 10. People with brown skins are the most invisible II. Translation （20%） （2分1题）

11. 过去那些企图骑上虎背为自己壮声势的愚人结果都没能逃脱葬生虎腹的命运。 12. 下层人民对于统治阶级的文化专制还是有一定的抵触情绪。 13. 让双方探究达成共识的问题，而不要在引起分歧的问题上虚耗心力。 14. 标准英语只不过是某个阶级用来表达现实的符号而已。

15. 这里的财富不计其数，多的几乎无法想象 ――但是这里，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。

16. After centuries of this kind of treatment they have ceased to bother about overcrowding。 17. That building has been converted into a school.

18. It infuriates me to think of all the money that they have wasted. 19. Learning to discipline oneself is the first step on the road to success 20. Don‘t squash into the lift together.

IV. Figure of speech （10%）（1分1题） 21. transferred epithet 22. metaphor 23. antithesis 24. hyperbole 25. simile 26. litotes

27. personification 28. synecdoche 29. euphemism 30. parallelism

10. alliteration

Test Five

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%).

blew in infested negation written off stowed smoldered inimical skimmed mellow gear enlist wring

flesh and blood blind and deaf catalytic agent

1. The hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and __________ it 40 feet through the air. 2. The French doors in an upstairs room _________. 3. I tore off a piece of bread and he _______ it gratefully in some secret place under his rags.

4. The Jews are working in dark fly-_________ booths that look like caves.

5. The reality of life is an endless back-breaking struggle to ________ a little food out of an eroded soil.

6. There is a limit to what _______________can bear. 7. They let the color the house _______ into its present shocking depravity. 8. The war acted as a ______________ in this breaking down of the Victorian social structure.

9. The country was ______________ to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar.

10. Fads, I admit, are the very ___________ of reason. 11. The innumerable artists could never be ______________ as sterile. 12. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still _________. 13. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high _______. 14. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly ________ to man, had made the country look so ugly..

15. Our young men began to _________ under foreign flags.

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

fell apart distress huddled transported adjusted almost scolded industrious

bright set down swelling rich dwelling places rotting talking about

.

1. The group heard gunlike reports as other upstairs windows disintegrated. 2. The dog cowered with eyes closed. 3. But the blues did occasionally afflict all the adults. 4. Household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car. 5. Here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.

6. With an immense effort of will, I modulated my voice. 7. To them, it was bitter to returned to a home town virtually untouched by the conflict.

8. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. 9. The novelists flayed the Babbitts but loved their country. 10. Let both sides explorers what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

11. She was a suitable mother for my well-heeled children. 12. Frantically I fought back the tide of panic surging through me. 13. I have seen the mill towns of decomposing New England and the desert of Utah. 14. The same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.

15. They made the stadium perfect in their own sight by putting a completely impossible penthouse, painted a starring yellow

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%) 1. The electrical systems had been killed by water. 2. To enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

3. Before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

4. There are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef.

5. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.

6. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly.

7. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged.

8. Yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind‘s final war.

9. English had come royally into its own.

10.They meet, in some fathomable way, its obscure and unintelligible demands.

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

1. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

2. Frantically I fought back the tide of panic surging through me.

3. Here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of rally cats.

4. Over and over again I cited instances, pointed out flaws, kept hammering away without let-up.

5. Red brick, even in a steel town, ages with some dignity.

6. 奥运的火炬会一代代传下去的，标志着全世界人民对和平的愿望。(signify) 7. 他说的话也有一定的道理 (something)

8. 经过两年的艰苦努力，我终于使Jane变成了一个优秀的乒乓球运动员了。（out of）

9. Tom深为自己在飓风面前无能为力而深感懊丧。（frustrate） 10. 我问起他美国的生活，他马上警觉起来。（sit up）

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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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%).

snapped trailed hobbled inflamed

tribulation contingent bordering upon distinction blasts inverted sovereign testimony slumped diatribes delayed

31. 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds ________ them

32. She grandmother carried on alone for a few bars, then her voice ________ away. 33. Janis had just one __________ reaction.

34. Long lines of women, bent double like ________ capital Ls, work their way slowly across the fields.

35. The file of old women had ___________ past the house with their firewood. 36. The solders ________ under the weight of their packs. 37. Rejoice in hope, patient in ________. 38. It has been yielded to with an eagerness __________ passion. 39. Their minds and pens _________ against the war. 40. Especially was this true of the college ___________,whose idealism had led them to enlist early.

41. Flaming _________ poured from their pens denouncing the materialism.

42. Many other novelists, dramatists, poets, and critics, directed sad and bitter ________ at their native land.

43. They fought with _________. 44. To that world assembly of ___________ states, the United Nations, we renew our pledge of support.

45. Each generation of Americans has been summoned to give __________to its national loyalty.

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

distress praise restrains abuse tendency disappeared mistake check fiendish ended intense roused

pleasant-looking out-of-date criticism

1. But the blues did occasionally afflict all the adults. 2. Other people may celebrate the lofty conversations in which the great minds are

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supposed to have indulged.

3. We will prevent the United Nations from becoming merely a forum for invective. 4. Yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind‘s final war.

5. The pull is always toward ugliness. 6. Red brick ages with dignity. Let it become downright black, it is still sightly. 7. They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical. 8. They had memories of the bravery denunciation of the Puritan morality. 9. They turned their energy to the destruction of an obsolescent nineteenth-century society.

10. It is impossible to put down the wallpaper to mere inadvertence of the manufacturers.

11. The spirit of carnival and the enthusiasm for high military adventure were soon dissipated. 12. Their energies had been whipped up and their naiveté destroyed by the war.

13. Now, they were being asked to curb those energies and resume the pose of self-deceiving Victorian innocence.

14. The young people ―wanted to get into the fun before the whole thing turned belly up‖. 15. As a result, their dissatisfaction with their native country, already acute upon their return now became even more intolerable.

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%)

1. Serious looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them.

2. As you penetrate the bazaar, the noise of the entrance fades away. 3. I thought somehow I had been spared.

4. His gaze moved on to sweep the spacious, well-pointed room. 5. Well, that‘s California all over.

6. The spectators chuckled and Bryan warmed to his work.

7. Mark twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles.

8. The book ―Huck Finn‖ presents a moving panorama for exploration of American society.

9. We shall be strengthened and not weakened in determination and in resources.

10. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain

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

1. ―The King‘s English‖ was no longer a form of what would now be regarded as

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2. 3. 4. 5.

racial discrimination.

She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack.

Words are not themselves a reality, but only representations of it.

There was not one that was not misshapen, and there was not one that was not shabby.

I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.

6. 我发现琼斯先生非但不枯燥无味，而且幽默、富于激情和同情心。(far from) 7. 狂风就像在身边呼啸而过的列车一样发出震耳的响声。(sound) 8. 现代雕塑的引人入胜之处就在于他能激发人们的想象力。(charm)

9. 我们应该把使用核武器的权利至于世界各国的绝对的管制之下。（under control）

10. 他特别强调要记住学生们的名字。(make a point)

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

1. Snow clothes the ground.

2. Several vacationers there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point.

3. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly, as on other and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautiful. 4. The country itself is not uncomely.

5. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.

6. There was an audible stillness, in which the common voice sounded strange.

7. And one and all they are streaked in grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks. 8. Greenwich Village set the pattern.

9. …yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind‘s final war.

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I. Vocabulary (30%) (1分1题) Section 1 1. snapped 2. trailed 3. delayed 4. inverted 5. hobbled 6. slumped

7. tribulation 8. bordering upon 9. inflamed 10. contingent 11. diatribes 12. blasts

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13. distinction 15. testimony

14. sovereign

Section 2 1. distress 2. praise 3. abuse 4. restrains 5. tendency

6. pleasant-looking 7. fiendish 8. criticism 9. out-of-date 10. mistake 11. disappeared 12. roused 13. check 14. ended 15. intense

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II． Paraphrase （20%） （2分1题）

1. Serious looking-men were so absorbed in their conversation that they seemed to pay no attention to the people around them.

2. As you pass through the bazaar, the noise of the entrance gradually disappears. 3. I thought for some reason or other no harm had been done to me.

4. His glance passes swiftly over the big, excellent furnished and arranged room. 5. Well, that‘s typical of California.

6. Bryan was encouraged by the audience‘s appreciation and became more enthusiastic. 7. Mark twain exercised and experimented with his new writing ability.

8. The book ―Huck Finn‖ presents a moving and constantly changing picture for close examination of American society.

9. We shall be more determined and shall make better and fuller use of our resources.

10. Let us strengthen our unity and our efforts in the fight against Nazi Germany when we have not yet been overwhelmed and when we are still powerful.

III. Translation （20%） （2分1题）

11. “标准英语”再也不带有今天所谓的种族歧视的性质了。

12. 尽管她的身材还没有挂在墙上的美女照片那么苗条，但我相信时间会弥补这个不足。 13. 词语本身不是现实，它不过是用以表达现实的一种形式而已。 14. 没有一幢房屋不是歪歪扭扭的， 没有一幢不是破破烂烂的。

15. 我是在经过一番苦心探究和不断祈祷后才将这顶丑陋之最的桂冠封赠与它的。

16. I find that Mr. Jones, far from a dull person, is a humorous person, full of passion and

sympathy。

17. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away.

18. The charm of modern sculpture is that it stimulates/arouses/excites/evokes imagination. 19. We should bring the right to use nuclear weapons under the absolute control of all nations. 20. He made a point of remembering the students by name.

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

2. transferred epithet 3. antithesis 4. litotes 5. metonymy 6. oxymoron 7. metaphor 8. metonymy 9. synecdoche 10. onomatopoeia

Test Eight

I. Vocabulary (30%)

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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）

I. Vocabulary (30%) (1分1题) Section 1 1. file

2. standardization 3. outgrown 4. outpaced 5. tempt

6. rejection 7. expatriation 8. fashioned

9. glimmer 10. waif 11. negation 12. dingy 13. lacerated 14. forsaken 15. mellowed

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Section 2

1. perplexing 2. put out 3. repeat 4. confusing 5. imposingly 6. out-of-date 7. limited 8. ardent 9. sheltered 10. swarm 11. rich 12. greedy 13. longed for 14. horrifying 15. subject

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II． Paraphrase （20%） （2分1题）

1. Mark Twain was distressed by the moral weaknesses of the human race. 2. He was very much involved in this life.( he had all kinds of experience.) 3. People in Hiroshima had not forgotten the disaster the city had suffered. 4. Bryan wiped the sweat off his bald head in silence.

5. People fear that the effect of the atomic radiation may pass on from parents to children. 6. Steamboat decks were filled with people of pioneering spirit.

7. The buyers, overcome (seized) by the grave-like atmosphere, also speak in slow ,and measure tones( do the same thing ).

8. A shameless example of irresponsibility in making the dictionary. 9. What causes the abuse in the popular press? 10. Now we are making some progress.

III. Translation （20%） （2分1题）

11. 一楼的外墙坍塌了，海水渐渐地漫上了楼梯。

12. 当我们听着有关双语教育问题的争论时，我们应该设身处地的替当时的撒克逊农民想一

想。

13. 我的大脑――这件精密的仪器――即可运转起来。 14. 人们对丑的追求已达到狂热程度。

15. 让双方重新开始努力寻求和平，不要等到科学所释放出来的破坏力将整个人类推向有计

划的或偶然发生的自我毁灭之时。

16. Household and medical supplies streamed into the flooded area by plane and train. 17. Most of this area is so desolate that no wild plant higher than one foot can live on it。 18. In your hands will rest the final success or failure of this business talk。 19. The medicine will make you immune from SARS. 20. There is something in what he said。

IV. Figure of speech （10%）（1分1题） 1. personification 2. mixed metaphor 3. metonymy 4. metonymy 5. simile

6. synecdoche 7. metaphor 8. onomatopoeia 9. litotes 10. antithesis

Test Nine

I. Vocabulary (30%)

Section 1: Choose the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the underlined

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