高英上第二课QUIZ(附答案)

Book 1 Quiz 2

I. Give synonyms: (14%)

1. reverie: day dream/dreamy thinking

2. stunning: attractive

3. agitated: upset

4. adrift: floating

5. prospect: expectation

6. slay: kill

7. bombardment: bombing 8. renown: fame 9. assent: agreement 10. jolt: shock, jerk 11. cataclysm: disaster 12. heave: utter

13. sidewalk: pavement 14. preserve: maintain

II. Explain: (14%)

1. preoccupation: sth that takes up all one’s thoughts, absorption

2. intermezzo: a short light music between the acts of a play or an opera, anything that happens

between two events

3. the ritual formula: form of words used regularly

4. genetic damage: damage that can be passed from parents to children

5. be inhibited: feel restrained, have to suppress one’s feelings

6. hidden wounds: invisible wounds

7. spinal column: backbone

III. Translate phrases: (10%)

1 杂货店grocery store

2 后视镜rear-view mirror

3 急转弯sharp twist

4 徐徐停下来slip to a stop

5 采访任务reportorial assignment

6 犯罪现场the scene of crime

7 十恶不赦的罪行heinous crime 8 引人注目的景象arresting spectacle

9 嘎然而止screech to a halt 10 经过灾难的城市the martyred city

IV. Complete sentences: (10%)

1. The traffic thundered past our house all night and its _incessant_( unceasing) noise gave us not

a moment of peace.

2. His uncle used to be a carpenter _by trade__ (by occupation).

3. As a social worker in one of the worst slum areas, she _rubs shoulders with_(mixes with) the poor and the helpless.

4. They are working hard, _oblivious of_ (unmindful of, ignoring) all fatigue.

5. Everybody laughed at the joke but Joe, it took a moment for it _to sink in_(be understood) before he laughed too.

6. She _confessed_ (admitted) herself completely ignorant of modern art.

7. Far too many beautiful buildings in London are being _demolished_ (pulled down).

8. Many artists _sketched_ (draw roughly) their subjects before putting painting to canvas.

9. Today these practices are no more, but their memory _lingers on__ (lasts).

10. The drunkard _lurched__ (walked unsteadily from one side to another side) across the street in

the dark.

V. Paraphrase: (10%)

1. ... I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything a Nippon railways official might say.

I was so overcome with emotion that I could not speak or think clearly, and I was troubled about some sad events. My sad thoughts had no connection with what the stationmaster might say.

2. ...the very sight of which would send shivers down the spine of any healthy visitor.

Even healthy visitors would shiver when they see those surgical instruments.

3. I thought somehow I had been spared.

I thought for some reason or other I had not been affected. /No harm had been done to me.

4. ...each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares, I make a new little paper bird. One more day of suffering would mean a day nearer to my death (would bring me closer to death),

I make a new little paper bird.

5. ...the other that would like to get rid of everything, even the monument that was erected at the point of impact.

Another group of people would like to get rid of everything, even the monument set up at the exact point over where the bomb exploded.

VI. Point out rhetorical devices: (10%)

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VII. Cloze test: (22%)

On Aug. 6, 1945, a B-29, the “Enola Gay”, _dropped_ the first atomic _bomb_ used in warfare on the _city_ of Hiroshima. _Thousands_ of human beings and most of the city _vanished_ in a searing flash. Two days _later_ the Soviet Union _ declared_ war on Japan and entered Manchuria. On Aug. 9 a _second__ atomic bomb leveled the city of Nagasaki. Japan _surrendered_ on Aug. 14, _bringing_ the Second World War to a close.

The appalling carnage of WWII _claimed_ the lives of 55million _people_, half of them _civilians_. More than 400000 _Americans_ were killed _despite_ the fact that no _battles_ were fought on the _soil_ of the continental United States. The _war_ reduced the number of _powers_ to two, the US and the _USSR_, the death knell having been _sounded_ for the British and French __Empires_.