张汉熙高级英语试题及答案 第一册模拟试题4

第 1 页 共 9 页 高 级 英 语

第一册 模拟试题（四）

I. Choose the rhetorical or figurative device from the list below that

best describes the underlined words. All of the devices listed are

used only once. Mark your answer with capital letters like A, B,

C, …or J . (10%)

List of devices:

A) Repetition F) Personification

B) Ridicule G) Antithesis

C) Inversion H) Simile

D) Alliteration I) Euphemism

E) Oxymoron J) Transferred Epithet

1. …He commented with a crushing sense of despair on men’s final

release from earthly struggles…

2. He called my conviction a “victorious defeat.”

3. We will never parley, we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of

his gang.

4. Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.

5. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.

6. A world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

7. Gone was the fierce fervour of the days when Bryan had swept the

political arena like a prairie fire.

8. The oratorial storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone

blew up in the little court in Dayton swept like a fresh wind though the

schools…

9. Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience.

10. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm around my shoulder

as we were waiting for the court to open.

第 2 页 共 9 页 II. Determine whether the following statements are True or

False. Mark them with T or F to indicate your answer. (15%)

1. In “Blackmail”, the Duke of Croydon has the most power because he is

the English ambassador to the United States.

2. In the title of the text, “Hiroshima—the ‘Liveliest’ City in Japan”, the

word Liveliest is placed in quotations to show sarcasm.

3. In “The Trial That Rocked the World,” Clarence Darrow argues that

fundamentalist views deteriorate the progress of society and impede

intellectual and cultural advancements.

4. In “But What’s a Dictionary For?” the author points out the contradictions

in the publications that criticized the Third International Dictionary because

the abusive publications are written in the language that the Third

International describes.

5. In “The Middle Eastern Bazaar”, the author speaks to the audience in second-person, as if the reader is walking through the bazaar with him.

6. In “An Interactive Life” the author argues that technology will help

society as a whole but disconnect and isolate individuals.

7. In “Mark Twain—Mirror of America”, the author argues that Twain’s days

as a cub pilot enhance all of his writing and particularly his writing about

the Mississippi River.

8. The author expresses that the real outcome of the trial in “The Trial that

Rocked the World” was a victory for the fundamentalists, who proved that

only creationism is reasonable to teach.

9. In “Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the USSR”, we can tell that Winston

Churchill changed from an anti-communist to a pro-communist.

10. In “Middle Eastern Bazaar” the author describes what he sees, hears

and smells in the bazaar.

III. Explain, in your own words, the meaning of the underlined

part of each sentence. (10%)

1. Springing to her feet, her face wrathful, gray-green eyes blazing,

she faced the grossness of the house detective squarely. 第 3 页 共 9 页 2. As my father growled, “That’s one hell of a jury!”

3. I was about to make my little bow of assent, when the meaning of

these last words sank in, jolting me out of my sad reverie.

4. After the preliminary sparring over legalities, Darrow got up to

make his opening statement.

5. The instant riches of a mining strike would not be his in the

mining trade, but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his

pickax.

IV. Choose from the list below the appropriate substitution

for each of the italicized parts of the following sentences.

(10%)

A. collect B. groups of thinking C. like

D. sounding over and over E. bribe

1. As for the impacts of the future of the global economy, there are many

schools of thought.

2. “If you want me to keep your boyfriend a secret, you’ll have to buy me

off.”

3. Although Madison hated Sam in September, after two months of

meetings with him at work, she was beginning to warm to his sense of

humor.

4. “After you’re done working, will you round up everyone? I have a

surprise to give to our boss. I want everyone there.”

5. After my girlfriend dumped me, all I heard was her voice ringing in

my head for months.

V. Fifteen words are taken away at irregular intervals from

the passage below. You are expected to fill in the blanks with