高級(jí)英語試題10套

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%). lashedscudded desolatederelict undoingmakingsboomingcontemptuous a catalytic agentspreesswiveledsmoldered lucrativemacabreadjunct1

2、. 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

3、 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.

4、 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

5、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 under

6、lined words or phrases in each sentence (15%) hitdistressfell apartnoticeable crazy gapaimlesslytoughened call forthambitiousperceptiveindustriousput an end to moral attitudescriticism 1. Hurricane Camille was certain to pummel Gulfport, Miss., where the Koshaks lived.2. The group heard gunlike repo

7、rts 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

8、 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 diatrib

9、es 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 i

10、n 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 leaps and s

11、parkles 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

12、 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 expressions given in

13、 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 who are ric

14、h.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. 暴風(fēng)雨使旅客們處于孤立無援的處境。(maroon)7. 他們個(gè)個(gè)都把一杯啤酒看成是一件難得的奢侈品。（look on）8. 他有可能已經(jīng)聽說這個(gè)壞消息了。(chances)9. 我問起他美國(guó)的生活，他馬上警覺起來。（sit up）10. 一絲智慧的光芒閃現(xiàn)在他的眼中。(glimmer)IV.

15、 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 d

16、ivide 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 deba

17、te. 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.高級(jí)英語第二冊(cè)試卷庫(kù)參考答案及評(píng)分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)（卷1）I.Vocabulary (30%

18、) (1分1題)Section 11. lashed2. scudded3. desolate4. derelict5. undoing6. makings7. booming8. adjunct9. a catalytic agent10. sprees11. contemptuous12. swiveled13. smoldered14. lucrative15. macabre Section 21. hit2. fell apart3. distress4. crazy5. noticeable6. aimlessly7. gap8. put an end to9. toughened

19、10. criticism11. call forth12. ambitious13. perceptive14. industrious15. moral attitudesII Paraphrase （20%） （2分1題）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 go as it moves aiml

20、essly 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

21、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. T

22、he 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 lo

23、t of things in a great number of joint undertakings.III. Translation （20%） （2分1題）1. 不一會(huì)兒，一陣強(qiáng)風(fēng)掠過，將整個(gè)屋頂卷入空中，拋向40英尺以外。2在熱帶的景色中，萬物皆一目了然，唯獨(dú)看不見人。3一個(gè)自由社會(huì)如若不能幫助眾多的窮人，也就無法保全少數(shù)的富人。4趕時(shí)髦就是最缺乏理智的表現(xiàn)。5.人們的居住條件如此糟糕，連那些流浪街頭的野貓也為之害羞。6The travelers were marooned by the storm.7Everyone of them looks on a glass of beer

24、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題）1. metaphor2. transferred epithet3. antithesis4. parallelism5. metonymy6. sy

25、necdoche7. 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%). twopencehostroomflattered belligerentwhippedcoweredmummified warpedsquashedcont

26、ingentdistinction recollectionsadjunctat 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.21. The black soldiers feet _into

27、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

28、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

29、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%)raisedinsecurelypleasant-lookingtendency rottingshelteredscorntrait unpleasantnarrow-mindedset freeexhausting looke

30、d down uponfightscovered1. 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 ug

31、liness.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 grand

32、fathers.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 ess

33、ay 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. Para

34、phrase 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 ot

35、her, did not delve into each others lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.4. This much we pledgeand 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 re

36、duced 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

37、 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 d

38、o, 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. 對(duì)生活在這片貧瘠的土地上的人來說，他們祖祖輩輩的生活就是從是從貧瘠的土壤中費(fèi)力地弄出點(diǎn)吃的來。（wring）7. Tim的婚姻亮起了紅燈。(on the rock

39、s)8. 法律規(guī)定對(duì)受賄該處以什么刑法？(prescribe)9. 他試圖超過他的對(duì)手但最終還是失敗了。(outpace)10. 他從小就有藝術(shù)家的素質(zhì)。(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 conversat

40、ion 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

41、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 wh

42、at you can do for your country.10. We felt strong, smug, secure.高級(jí)英語第二冊(cè)試卷庫(kù)參考答案及評(píng)分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)（卷2）I. Vocabulary (30%) (1分1題)Section 11. whipped2. cowered3. warped4. mummified5. twopence6. squashed7. at odds8. contingent9. host10. distinction11. recollections12. adjunct13. room14. flattered15. belligerent Secti

43、on 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題）2. The burying-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds

44、 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 others lives

45、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 per

46、ceived 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 yo

47、ung people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families.III. Translation （20%） （2分1題）1 我撕下一塊面包，他感激地把面包放進(jìn)破衣裳貼身的地方。2 于是話題又從19世紀(jì)的澳大利亞囚犯轉(zhuǎn)到12世紀(jì)的英國(guó)農(nóng)民。3 只要我們團(tuán)結(jié)起來，我們?cè)谠S多合作性事業(yè)中就會(huì)無往而不勝；而一旦彼此分裂，我們 就會(huì)無所作為。4 我們決不能因?yàn)閼峙露勁?，但我們也決不要懼怕談判。5 這兒的景色丑陋得這樣可怕，以致人的報(bào)復(fù)和壯志在這兒成了令人毛骨悚然的、令人 沮喪的笑料。

48、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 outpace his opponent but failed.10He already had the makings

49、 of an artist from childhood. He was born with the makings of an artist.IV. Figure of speech （10%）（1分1題）11. personification12. metaphor13. onomatopoeia14. synecdoche15. simile16. metaphor17. litotes18. euphemism19. antithesis20. alliterationTest ThreeI. Vocabulary (30%)Section 1: From the list of wo

50、rds at the top, select the correct word or phrase for each blank space. Use each word or phrase only once (15%). skin and bonessit outindulge insusceptible to erectnesshamletssanctuaryslashing agonizingunabateddousedblasts marooneddogmaticunfathomable1. The children huddled in the _ rain within the

51、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 c

52、ontinued _.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. How

53、ever 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 allud

54、e to is the unbroken and _ ugliness15. 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%) depressionsystematicallybeggedsupported conditioncriticizedaccor

55、ding tonarrow disappearedunbearabledecayingset down troubledfiendishignored 1. The plight of the human beings makes ones blood boil.2. The men methodically prepared for the hurricane.3. Grandmother Koshak implored, “Children, lets 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