《高级英语》
第二册 模拟试题
(一)
I. Determine whether the following statements are True or False. Mark them with T or F to indicate your answer. (10×1)
1. Although written in an objective tone, in Marrakech, Orwell shows he is outraged by the misery of the poor.
2. The title of the text, Pub Talk and the King’s English, is well chosen because it captures the readers’ attention and accurately describes the subject of the text.
3.Pub Talk and the King’s English and The Future of the English are both clear and well organized texts with a logical structure.
4. In The Libido for the Ugly, Mencken objectively and realistically describes the architectu
re in Westmoreland.
5. Argumentative essays always include some explanation.
6. The Worker as Creator or Machine is a piece of exposition that explains how the capitalist system has caused the worker to become alienated from their product and thus their own work.
7. The Sad Young Men is a clearly structured essay that includes many Americanisms to better explain the experience of Lost Generation.
8. The Future of the English is a misleading title because the text does not explain what the future of English people is going be like.
9.Baldwin writes with a critical and harsh tone as he describes the life of an American in Europe in The Discovery of What it Means to be an American.
10. Although Loving and Hating New York is a piece of exposition where Griffith states tha
t he both loves and hates New York city, the author does not fully develop why he hates the city.
II. Choose one out of the 10 rhetorical or figurative devices listed below that best describes the underlined wordcheongsams for each sentence. (8×1)
1. And this is true, whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernable mops of hair.
2. The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. It is that of a Presbyterian grinning.
3. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young.
4. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth.
5. America has shown us too many exhausted salesmen taking refuge in bars and breaking up their homes.
6. An American writer fights his way to one of the lowest rungs on the American social ladder.
7. New York is a wounded city, but not a dying city.
8. Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls, work their way slowly across the field.
EuphemismHyperboleMetaphorMetonymy
SynecdochePersonificationSimileTransferred epithet
RepetitionMetonymy
III. Write, in your own words, a sentence that you think best expresses the meaning of the original sentence. (6×2)
1. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden.
2. Even with the educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.
3. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly.
4. Work became the chief factor in a system of “inner-worldly asceticism,” an answer to man’s sense of aloneness and isolation.
5. Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit.
6. To put cars and motorways before houses seems to Englishness a communal imbecility.
IV. Choose one word or phrase from the list below which you regard as the most appropriate substitution for each of the italicized parts of the following sentences. (10×1)
1. The girls formed a close-knit group.
2. Their friendship was on the rocks.
3. Some of us were issued incorrect pay checks, owing to a mistake in the accounting department.
4. It is to his credit that he freely admitted his guilt.
5. The traffic made a terrible racket in the street below.
6. Never try to reason with him when he’s gotten up on the wrong side of the bed.
7. It’s high time we did something about our neighbour’s dog.
8. The pull of the position is that he does not have to work on the weekend.
9. The risk paid off handsomely.
10. We all sat up when the holiday was announced.
A: AdmirableB: With a hazardous manner
C: Bad-temperedD: Became astonished
E: DisturbanceF: Drawing power
G: In a state of disasterH: Past the appropriate time
I: Result favorablyJ: Tightly united
K: The desireL: As a result of

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