1、Test OneI. 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 derelictundoing makings booming contemptuousa catalytic agent sprees swiveled smolderedlucrative macabre ad
2、junct1. 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 America
3、ns 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 commercial
4、ism.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 ex
5、tinct 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
6、 underlined words or phrases in each sentence (15%)hit distress fell apart noticeablecrazy gap aimlessly toughenedcall forth ambitious perceptive industriousput an end to moral attitudes criticism1. Hurricane Camille was certain to pummel Gulfport, Miss., where the Koshaks lived.2. The group heard g
7、unlike 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. W
8、hat 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. Flam
9、ing 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
10、.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. Were 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
11、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 recol
12、lections to the middle-aged8. 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 expressio
13、ns 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 ones 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
14、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。(
15、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 probl
16、ems 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
17、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.Voc
18、abulary (30%) (1 分 1 题 )Section 11. lashed2. scudded3. desolate4. derelict5. undoing6. makings7. booming8. adjunct9. a catalytic agent10. sprees11. contemptuous12. swiveled13. smoldered14. lucrative15. macabreSection 21. hit2. fell apart3. distress4. crazy5. noticeable6. aimlessly7. gap8. put an end
19、 to9. toughened10. criticism11. call forth12. ambitious13. perceptive14. industrious15. moral attitudesII Paraphrase （20%） （2 分 1 题）1. Were 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 g
20、o 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 ye
21、t 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
22、 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 c
23、an 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。6The travelers were marooned by the storm.7Everyone of them lo
24、oks on a glass of beer as an impossible luxury.8Chances are that he has already heard about this bad news.9I 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. metaphor2. transferred epithet3. antithesis4.
25、parallelism5. metonymy6. synecdoche7. simile8. litotes9. euphemism10. metonymyTest TwoI. 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 flatteredbelligerent whipped cower
26、ed mummifiedwarped squashed contingent distinctionrecollections adjunct at odds16. Wind and rain now _ the house.17. The dog _ with eyes closed.18. The mans left leg is _ out of shape.19. The old women are _ with age and heat.20. In this connection it doesnt matter _ if he calls himself a socialist.
27、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 venture
28、s.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 age29. Meanwhile, the true intellectuals were far from _.30. Our of
29、ficial 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 tendencyrotting sheltered scorn traitunpleasant
30、 narrow-minded set free exhaustinglooked down upon fights covered1. 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 stil
31、l 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 tr
32、ying 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.
33、 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, despit
34、e 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, alth
35、ough they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each others 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 quit
36、e 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 t
37、he 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 v
38、entures. 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
39、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
40、/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 grea
41、t 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 n
42、ot 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 11. whipped2. cowered3. warped4. mummified5. twopence6. squashed7. at odds8. contingent9. host10. distinction11. recollections12. a
43、djunct13. room14. flattered15. belligerentSection 21. raised2. looked down upon3. pleasant-looking4. tendency5. insecurely6. rotting7. sheltered8. scorn9. covered10. narrow-minded11. exhausting12. set free13. fights14. trait15. unpleasantII Paraphrase （20%） （2 分 1 题）2. The burying-ground is nothing
44、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 othe
45、r frequently did not delve into each others 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
46、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
47、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
48、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 Tims marriage is on the rocks. 8 What punishment does the law prescribe for taking bribes?9 He tried to out
49、pace his opponent but failed.10He 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. personification12. metaphor13. onomatopoeia14. synecdoche15. simile16. metaphor17. litotes18. euphemism19. antithesis20. alliterationTest Th
