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 stowed mellow

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

infested smoldered gear

negation

enlist

written off skimmed wring

inimical

flesh and blood blind and deaf catalytic agent

_________.

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 adjusted

bright

.

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.

distress

almost set down

huddled scolded

transported industrious

swelling rich

dwelling places rotting talking about

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） 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

8. industrious 9. scolded 10. talking about 11. rich 12. swelling 13. rotting 14. set down

9. blind and deaf 10. negation 11. written off 12. smoldered 13. gear 14. inimical 15. enlist

Section 2 1. fell apart 2. huddled 3. distress 4. transported 5. dwelling places 6. adjusted 7. almost