高级英语试题10套

2021年1月22日发(作者：谷小波)
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

m
oral 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.
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lary (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 m
an‘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 19
th
century to the
English peasants of the 12
th
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.
< br>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 3
1
/
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.

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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。< br>
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
14
th

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.
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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
Test Four

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%).








preposterous
swath





raked








precariously







pitched


cretin


unfathomable
put down







unabated






split asunder

adjunct


unleashed







immune

flash


crooks

16.

They have set the whole building upon thin, ____________ brick piers.
17.

Along the Gulf Coast the hurricane devastated everything in its

_________.
18.

They lean this way and that, hanging on to their bases ___________
19.

Camille had ________ its way northward across Mississippi.
20.

Charlie _________ in with Seabees in the worst volunteer work of all, searching
for bodies.
21.

Heartened by the knowledge that Polly was not altogether a
_______, I began a
long review of all I had told her.
22.

Both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction
_________
by
science
engulf
all
humanity
in
planned
or
accidental
self-destruction.
23.

They meet, in some __________ ways, its obscure and unintelligible demands.
24.

Journalism was a mere _________ to commercialism.
25.

Politics were corrupt and filled with incompetents and _______.
26.

It
is
impossible
to
________
the
wallpaper
to
mere
inadvertence
of
the
manufacturers.
27.

The enlistment craze continued _______.
28.

It should not be laid down as an edict and made _________ to change from below.
29.

For we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and _________.
30.

Suddenly they see the moment for one of their best anecdotes, but in a _______
the conversation has moved on.

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







line


narrow-minded

illegal


condition






peak

sadness



abandoned

criticism






scorn


hurt



decomposing
troubled
unfashionable




in dispute


sheltered

16.

Flaming diatribes poured from their pens denouncing the materialism.
17.

Prohibition
afforded
the
young
the
additional
opportunity
of
making
their
pleasures illicit.
18.

But the blues did occasionally afflict all the adults.
19.

The plight
of the human beings makes one‘s blood boil.

20.

It was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column, a mile or two miles
of armed men, flowing peacefully up the road.
21.

To surrender oneself to idiocy is the acme of mindlessness.
22.

We
had
reached
an
international
stature
that
would
forever
prevent
us
from
retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality.
23.

And yet the same reactionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue
around the globe.
24.

Greenwich Village had also harbored enough major writers.
25.

They were trying to flout the morality of their grandfathers.
26.

They felt that the Victorian innocence was as outmoded.
27.

There was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the eye.
28.

You
will,
in
fact,
find
nothing
of
the
sort
in
Europe
–
save
perhaps
in
the
more
putrid parts of England.
29.

So
tremendous
was
the
storming
of
recruitment
centers
that
harassed
sergeants
actually pleased with volunteers to go home.
30.

One wall began crumbling on the marooned group.

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%)
22.

Everybody out the back door to the cars!
23.

The glow of the conversation burst into flames.
24.

Our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the
instruments of peace.
25.

Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other‘s lives.

26.

When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all
hope or caring.
27.

Red brick, even in a steel town, ages with some dignity.
28.

I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.
29.

They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical.
30.

It could still go ignorantly on.
31.
It
is
incredible
that
mere
ignorance
should
have
achieved
such
masterpieces
of
horror.


III. Translate the following sentences (using the expressions given in the brackets.
(20%)
1.

Obviously,
if
there
were
architects
of
any
professional
sense
or
dignity
in
the
2.

3.

4.

5.

region, they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides.
Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
As we listen today to the arguments about bilingual education, we ought to think
ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.
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.
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended
up inside.
6.

浪费别人的时间无异于谋杀。
(next to)
7.

是否立即执行新政策在公司内部仍未取得一致意见。
(at issue)
8.

谈到提高教育收费问题，我们应该设身处地替农民想一想。

9.

汹涌的大海吞没了那艘小帆船。（
engulf
）

10.

他一再强调需要进行公众调查。（
hammer away
）


IV.
Name
the
figures
of
speech
used
in
the
following
sentences.
(one
in
each
sentence) (10%)
1.

Blowndown power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads.
2.

This is no small accomplishment.

3.

And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master
of its own house.
4.

But I was not one to let my heart rule my head.

5.

On
their
low
sides
these
abominable
houses
bury
themselves
swinishly
in
the
mud.

6.

You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations
of outer space.

7.

The
slightest
mention
of
the
decade
brings
nostalgic
recollections
to
the
middle-aged and curious questionings by the young.

8.

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

9.

Have you any coppers?
10.

He is all fire and fight.


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I.

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

preposterous
2.

swath
3.

precariously
4.

raked
5.

pitched
6.

cretin
7.

unleashed
8.

unfathomable
9.

adjunct
10.

crooks
11.

put down
12.

unabated

Section 2
1.

criticism

2.

illegal

3.

sadness

4.

condition

5.

line
6.

peak
7.

narrow-minded
8.

in dispute
9.

sheltered
10.

scorn

11.

unfashionable
12.

hurt

13.

decomposing
14.

troubled
15.

abandoned
13.

immune
14.

split asunder
15.

flash

II
．

Paraphrase
（
20%
）

（
2
分
1
题）

32.

Everybody went out through the back door and ran to the cars!
33.

The conversation suddenly became spirited and exciting.
34.

The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of
war have far surpassed the instruments of peace.
35.

People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are
not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other
‘
s lives.
36.

When the brick is covered with the black soot of the mills it takes on the color of a rotten egg.
37.

Red brick, even in a steel town, looks quite respectable with the passing of time.
38.

I have given Westmoreland the highest award for ugliness after having done a lot of hard work
and research and after continuous praying.
39.

They
show
such
fantastic
and
bizarre
ugliness
that
,
in
looking
back,
they
become
almost
wicked.
40.

The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong.
10. It is hard to believe that people built such horrible houses just because they did not know what
beautiful houses were like.

III. Translation
（
20%
）

（
2
分
1
题）

11.

显然， 如果这一地区有几个有点职业责任感和荣誉感的建筑师的话，他们就会紧依山坡
修建一些瑞士式木屋。< br>
12.

在美国这个大熔炉中产生出一个新的种族，他们就像仇视真理一样仇视美。

13.

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。

14.

他们尽管一起并肩生活，却并不过问彼此的私生活，也不探究对方的内心秘密。

15.

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。

16.

Wasting other
‘
s time is next door to murder.
17.

Whether to implement the new policy or not is still at issue in the company
18.

When it comes to raising the educational fees, we ought to think in the shoes of the peasants.
19.

The stormy sea engulfed that small sailboat
20.

He kept hammering away at his demand for a public inquiry

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

1.

simile
2.

litotes
3.

metaphor
4.

metonymy
5.

metaphor
6.

hyperbole
7.

transferred epithet
8.

irony or sarcasm and irony
9.

synecdoche
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.
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
）< br>
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
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）


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.

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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8.

simile
9.

litotes
10.

onomatopoeia

Test Six


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%).







subversion

poise

etiology

mortal






let-up


lucrative
insensate

delve into






ultimatum

infamy

unabated

into the shoes of






on the rocks

on wings
on the wrong side of bed

16.

Although they lived side by side, they did not _____________
each other‘s lives.

17.

The fact that their marriages may be ______________, is simply not the concern.
18.

The conversation was __________.
19.

The King‘s English is a model –
a rich and instructive one
–
but is ought not to be
an___________
20.

We ought to think ourselves back________________ the Saxon peasants.
21.

They got out of bed ________________.
22.

For
man
holds
in
his
________
hands
the
power
to
abolish
al
forms
of
human
poverty and all forms of human life.
23.

Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or
_____________ anywhere in the Americas.
24.

She
had
an
erectness
of
carriage,
an
ease
of
bearing,
a
of
carriage,
an
ease
of
bearing, a ________ that clearly indicated the best of breeding.
25.

I reeled back, overcome with the ___________ of it.

26.

I cited instances, pointed out flaws, kept hammering away without _______.

27.

The _________ of this madness deserves a great deal more study than it has got.
28.

Here
was
the
very
heart
of
industrial
America,
the
center
of
its
most
____________ and characteristic activity.
29.

Are
they
so
frightful
because
the
valley
is
full
of
foreigners
–

dull,
________
brutes, with no love of beauty in them?
30.

The enlistment craze continued ___________.

Section 2: From the list of words at the top, select the correct synonym for the

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