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

Section2

1. condition

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

9. disappeared 10. narrow

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

11. ignored] 12. unbearable 13. set down 14. decaying 15. fiendish

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 pitched immune

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 _________.

swath cretin

raked precariously

unfathomable put down

adjunct

unleashed

unabated split asunder

flash

crooks