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 peak scorn

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%)

narrow-minded sadness

hurt

illegal

condition criticism

troubled

abandoned sheltered

decomposing

unfashionable in dispute

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 region, they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides.

2. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

3. As we listen today to the arguments about bilingual education, we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant. 4. 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. 5. 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.

高级英语第二册试卷库参考答案及评分标准（卷4）

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

Section 2 1. criticism 2. illegal 3. sadness 4. condition 5. line 6. peak

7. narrow-minded 8. in dispute 9. sheltered

10. scorn

9. adjunct 10. crooks 11. put down 12. unabated 13. immune 14. split asunder 15. flash

11. unfashionable 12. hurt 13. decomposing 14. troubled 15. abandoned

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。

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