张汉熙高级英语试题及答案 第一册模拟试题3

《高级英语》

第一册模拟试题（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 much-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:

(A) Antithesis

(B) Hyperbole

(C) Alliteration

(D) Oxymoron

(E) Simile (F) Periodic 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 ‘victorious 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. “He 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 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 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 objectively 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,” Ogi lvie gets the amount of money he expected in the end.

6.In “The Trial That Rocked the World,”John Scopes describes prosecutor Bryan with admiration and awe.

7.In“Mark Twain—Mirror of America” the author describesMark 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 place 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 author holds an optimistic view