高级英语2复习题

山东理工大学成人高等教育高级英语 2复习题

I.Point out the figure of speech in the following sentences. 一．Pun, Metaphor, Synecdoche, Transferred epithet, Simile, Alliteration, Parallels, Repetition. Antithesis, Metonymy

1. We can batten down and ride it out, if we see danger, we can get out before dark. ( )

2. The children went from adult to adult like buckers in a fire brigade.

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3. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed. ( )

4. No gravestone, no name, no identifying mark of any kind.

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5. Charlie pitched in with Seebees in the worst volunteer work of all—searching for bodies. ( )

6. A white skin is always fairly conspicuous. ( )

7. People there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. ( )

8. If a free society can not help the many who are poor, it can not save the few who are rich.( )

9.They sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard. ( )

10.Wind and rain now whipped the house. ( ) 二．Pun, Metaphor, Synecdoche, Transferred epithet, Simile, Alliteration, Parallels, Repetition. Antithesis, Metonymy

1、If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If there is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force.( )

2、There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. ( )

3、We renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak, and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.( )

4、He looked from the gazelle to the bread and from the bread to the gazelle, with a sort of quite amazement.( )

5、Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. ( )

6、The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.( )

7、The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth. ( )

8、The uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war. ( )

9、Let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own. ( ) 10、.Charlie pitched in with Seebees in the worst volunteer work of all—searching for bodies. ( )

三．Pun, Metaphor, Synecdoche, Transferred epithet, Simile, Alliteration, Parallels, Repetition. Antithesis, Metonymy

1. Wind and rain now whipped the house. ( )

2. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. ( )

3. He pitched in with Seabees in the worst volunteer work of all-- searching for bodies. ( )

4. Sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelieved numbers, like clouds of flies. ( )

5. He is a poor creature. ( )

6. I have never read Li Bai. ( )

7. People there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. ( )

8. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.( )

9.They sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard. ( )

10. The wave ran mountain high. ( )

II. Paraphrase the following sentences.

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1. There is always a great danger that “words will harden into things for us.

2. There are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef (boeuf).

3 Each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty

4. To enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

5. Don’t you want to be in the swim?

6. She was not yet of pin-up proportions.

7. The generator was doused, and the lights went out.

8. She carried on along for a few bars; then her voice trailed away.

9. Every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.

10. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.