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1、 《高 級 英 語》 第一冊 模擬試題（三） 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%) Model: The difference, for example, between the mu

2、ch-touted Second International and the much-clouted Third International is not like the difference between the horse and buggy and the automobile. Answer: (A) List of devices: 可復(fù)制、編制，期待你的好評與關(guān)注！ (A) Antithesis (B) Hyperbole (C) Alliteration (D) Oxymoron (E) Simile (F) Period

3、ic Sentence (G) Sarcasm (H) Euphemism (I) Synecdoche (J) Repetition 1. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer of freedom and adventure. 2. Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a ‘victori

4、ous defeat.’ 3. I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding along... 4. We will never parley, we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. 5. “You drove there in your fancy Jaguar, and you took a lady friend. 6. “No, sir,” the youngster said. “H

5、e said man had reasoning power.” “There is some doubt about that,” Darrow snorted. 7. From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are. 8. Resolutely he strode to the stand, carrying a palm fan like

6、a sword to repel his enemies. 9. Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. 10. Or what of those sheets and jets of air that are now being used, in place of old-fashioned oak and hinges... II. Determine whether the following statements are True or False. Mark them with

7、 T or F to indicate your answer. (15%) 1. In “The Middle Eastern Bazaar” the author describes how horses are used in the process of making linseed oil. 2. The author of “Hiroshima” feels that dropping the atomic bomb was a crime. 3. In “The Middle Eastern Bazaar” the author narrates objective

8、ly what he sees in the middle eastern bazaar. 4. In his speech, Winston Churchill uses many references to the Bible and to Christianity to connect with a Western, Christian audience, which included Americans. 5. In “Blackmail,” Ogilvie gets the amount of money he expected in the end. 6. In “Th

9、e Trial That Rocked the World,” John Scopes describes prosecutor Bryan with admiration and awe. 7. In “Mark Twain—Mirror of America” the author describes Mark Twain as a mirror because his writings reflect the American life of his time. 8. In “The Trial That Rocked the World,” the trial takes pl

10、ace in a largely pro-religion and pro-fundamentalist atmosphere. 9. The author of “But What’s a Dictionary For?” argues that for all of the shortcomings of Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, refusing to use it is silly and conservative. 10. In the article “An Interactive Life,” the aut

11、hor holds an optimistic view of the future and tells readers the best thing to do is to wait and see what happens. III. Explain, in your own words, the meaning of the underlined part of each sentence. (10%) 1. As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your e

12、ar. 2. I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and safer prey. 3. “It’s no go, old girl. I’m afraid. It was a good try.” 4. …Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he ranged ac

13、ross the nation for more than a third of his life, digesting the new American experience. 5. My heart went out to the old warrior as spectators pushed by him to shake Darrow’s hand. IV. Choose from the list below the appropriate substitution for each of the underlined parts of the following se

14、ntences. Mark your answer with capital letters like A, B, C, …or J . (10%) A. silent B. brightness E. stress C. unaware of D. mysterious 1. The glare of the headlights blinded me as I tried to cross the street. 2. Even though she sent a response, her answer was still cryptic. 3. The t

15、ension between Sarah and her ex-boyfriend was so thick no one said a word. 4. The students were mute as the teacher handed out their final grades. 5. Everyone was studying so hard they were oblivious to the thunder and lightning outside. V. Fifteen words are taken away at irregular interva

16、ls from the passage below. Choose the most appropriate one of the given words or expressions and fill in the blanks. Mark your answer with capital letters like A, B, C, …or O. (15%) A. over B. clasping C.smug D.sardonically E. pointed F. leisurely G. into H. surrender I. on J. spell K

17、. sharply L. hear M. in N. of O. fussy Wearily, in a gesture of 1 , the Duchess of Croydon sank back into her chair. 2 her hands to conceal their trembling, she asked, “What is it you know?” “Well now, I’ll 3 it out.” The house detective took his time, 4 puffing a cloud 5

18、 blue cigar smoke, his eyes 6 on the Duchess as if challenging her objection. But beyond wrinkling her nose 7 distaste, she made no comment. Ogilvie 8 to the Duke. “Last night, early on, you went to Lindy’s Place in Irish Bayou. You drove there in your fancy Jaguar, and you took a lady

19、friend. Leastways, I guess you’d call her that if you’re not too 9 .” As Ogilvie glanced, grinning, at the Duchess, the Duke said 10 “Get 11 with it!” “Well” – the 12 fat face swung back – “the way I 13 it, you won a hundred at the tables, then lost it at the bar. You were 14 a

20、second hundred – with a real swinging party – when your wife here got there in a taxi.” “How do you know all this?” “I’ll tell you, Duke – I’ve been in this town and this hotel a long time. I got friends all 15 . I oblige them; they do the same for me, like letting me know what gives, an’ where

21、.” VI. Reading Comprehension (20%) Passage (A) (from “A Woman Like Me” by Xi Xi) A woman like me is actually unsuitable for any man’s love. So the fact that the emotional involvement between Xia and me has reached this point fills even me with wonder. I feel that the blame for my having fal

22、len into this trap, from which there is no escape, rests solely with Fate, which has played a cruel trick on me. I am totally powerless to resist Fate. I’ve heard others say that when you truly like someone what may be nothing more than an innocent smile directed your way as you sit quietly in a cor

23、ner can cause your very soul to take wing. That’s exactly how I feel about Xia. So when he asked me: Do you like me? I expressed my feelings toward him without holding back a thing. I’m a person who has no concept of self-protection, and my words and deeds will always conspire to make me a laughing

24、stock in the eyes of others. Sitting in a coffee shop with Xia, I had the appearance of a happy person, but my heart was filled with a hidden sorrow; I was so terribly unhappy because I knew where Fate was about to take me, and now the fault would be mine alone. I made a mistake at the very beginnin

25、g by agreeing to accompany Xia on a trip to visit a schoolmate he hadn’t seen for a long time, then later on, by not declining any of his invitations to go to the movies. It’s too late for regret now, and, besides, the difference between regretting and not regretting is too slight to be important, s

26、ince at this very moment I am sitting in the corner of a coffee shop waiting for him. I agreed to show him where I work, and that will be the final chapter. I had already been out of school for a long time when I first met Xia, so when he asked me if I had a job, I told him that I had been working f

27、or several years. What sort of job do you have? He asked. I’m a cosmetician. I said. Oh, a cosmetician. He remarked. But your face is so natural. He said. 1. The author’s attitude toward mistakes and regret is that A. one should try to avoid mistakes. B. she thinks about her mista

28、kes often and regrets them. C. most of her mistakes were not her fault but Xia’s fault. D. she made mistakes and she must move on. 2. The author says she has “no concept of self-protection” because A. she is a daredevil who takes risks throughout life. B. she told Xia about the way

29、she felt about him without restraint. C. she is telling the reader about her relationship with Xia. D. she never learned how to keep herself safe. 3. The dialogue at the end of the passage does not use quotation marks primarily to A. show that the dialogue is ironic. B. show that the aut

30、hor and Xia used quiet voices when talking. C. show the surprise Xia had when he learned the author is a cosmetician. D. show that the dialogue is in the author’s head instead of really happening. 4. The implied meaning of Xia’s response “But your face is so natural” means that A. Xia be

31、lieves the author has a beautiful face. B. Xia cannot believe the author uses beauty products. C. Xia does not see the author’s real feelings. D. Xia thinks that the author is a humble woman. Passage (B) (from an article by Linton Weeks) Americans are fascinated by pirates: swashbuckling, s

32、alt-soaked seafarers who sport blousy shirts, spiffy vests, leather boots, eye patches, peg legs and the occasional parrot on the shoulder. There is romance in burying booty marked by a bloody X on a map and in making enemies walk the plank. There is something so timeless about piratical behavior —

33、 living the lawless life, stealing from the rich, sticking it to "The Man." Now come the Somali pirates, parading through the news: neo-buccaneers from the Horn of Africa wreaking unholy havoc on international shipping lanes. The Somali pirates have hijacked more than a dozen ships and crews, inclu

34、ding a Saudi Arabia-owned supertanker laden with crude oil. They want $10 million in ransom for the tanker. That will buy one big bottle of rum. And, arguably, make pirate-lovers think twice. Theres a proliferation of piracy around the world. Pillagers and plunderers ply the waters of the planet, m

35、ostly in the lower latitudes — off the coasts of northern South America, on either side of Africa and throughout Asian seas — attacking hundreds of vessels every year. The motivations for present-day pirates, says Donald G. Shomette, author of Pirates on the Chesapeake, are the same socioeconomic f

36、orces that have driven people to become pirates for centuries. "Piracy is pretty much on the lowest end of the food chain in terms of morals and law and everything else," Shomette says. "Pirates come from the bottom end of the societal order. Its a chance for people who have no chance of advancemen

37、t to advance. Its a way out." And therein lies the allure, for those who are poor and have nothing — and for those who are rich and have seen all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. "The outlaw, the bad guy is almost always the most interesting character in a story," says Shomette. Pirates "let

38、 us take a look at our darker side." 5. What is the best title for this passage? A. Somali Pirates Rob Ships near Africa. B. The Evil Nature of Pirates. C. Americans’ Obsession with Pirates. D. Why Americans Are Like Pirates. 6. The author argues that one reason Americans like pirates is th

39、at A. pirate stories represent a different class order of society with poor outlaws as heroes. B. to pirates, bloodshed means nothing. C. Americans like the way that pirates drink and party. D. pirates set an alternative model for businesses. 7. In paragraph 3, “wreaking unholy hav

40、oc on international shipping lanes” means that Somali pirates are A. defacing holy areas around the world. B. are looked down upon in many countries. C. disrupting transportation in the ocean for many countries. D. difficulty to arrest and escape law

41、 enforcement everywhere. Passage (C) Banning fast food advertisements from children’s television programs would reduce the number of overweight children in the U.S. by 18 percent and decrease the number of overweight teens by 14 percent, economists have estimated in a new study. The researche

42、rs used several statistical models to link obesity rates to the amount of time spent viewing fast food advertising, finding that viewing more fast food commercials on television raises the risk of obesity in children. The study appears in this month’s issue of The Journal of Law and Economics. “The

43、re is not a lot of evidence that overweight kids are more likely to watch TV than other kids,” said Michael Grossman, professor of economics at the City University of New York. “We’re arguing the causality is how many messages are aired -- seeing more of these messages is leading people to put on we

44、ight.” The study’s co-authors are Shin-Yi Chou, an economist at Lehigh College, and Inas Rashad, an economist at Georgia State University. But the researchers’ estimate relies on older data gathered in the late 1990s, according to Elaine Kolish, a spokesman for the Council of Better Business Bureau

45、s. Since then, two of the largest fast food chains -- Burger King and McDonald’s -- and more than a dozen other packaged food companies have signed on to the council’s Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, she said, pledging to advertise only their healthier products to children under

46、 age 12. As a result, both Burger King and McDonald’s now air ads for children’s meals including apple sticks and low-fat milk. “I can’t help think that two huge chains advertising apples and milk to kids is going to be affecting children’s preferences,” Ms. Kolish said. Kelly Brownell, director

47、of Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy, said reliable estimates of television’s impact on childhood obesity are hard to calculate because of the many assumptions statisticians must make. "That said, food marketing is a blight on the landscape of our children and has been shown time and aga

48、in to have a negative impact," he added. Only three countries -- Sweden, Norway and Finland -- have banned commercial sponsorship of children’s programs, and study authors acknowledged that the chances of such a ban in the U.S. are slim. 8. The researchers argue that commercials are dangerous to

49、 children because A. of the content of the ads. B. of the number of ads shown. C. of the images in the ads. D. of the number of obese children who watch TV. 9. In paragraph 6, Mr. Brownell’s attitude toward food marketing on children is A. pessimistic: he sees these ads as danger

50、ous to children. B. neutral: he doesn’t see these ads influencing children. C. optimistic: he sees benefits to children through the ads. D. hopeful: he thinks that these ads will enhance children’s mental capacities. 10. The main findings of the economists’ study are that A. children wh

51、o watch TV in the US become obese by 14-18 %. B. without fast-food TV ads on TV, between 15-20 % of children in the US would be less fat. C. fast food restaurants are trying to increase commercials on children’s shows by 14-18 %. D. 14-18 % of US children and teens who watch TV are fat. VII. W

52、rite out a short essay on your view of the following subject in about 200 words. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar, and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. (20%) Try to describe an interesting traveling experience of yours. You may choose whatever title you like.