高级英语2011B卷

《高级英语》课程试卷（B）

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本试卷用于外语系英语本科专业三年一期学生

（时量120分钟，总分100分）

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Ⅰ. Choose the best answer (10%)

1. Little girls and elderly ladies in kimonos ______ teenagers and women in western dress.

a. rubbed the shoulder with

b. rubbed shoulders with

c. rubbed the shoulder with

d. rubbed the shoulders with

2. At last this intermezzo ______, and I found myself in front of the gigantic City

Hall.

a. came to an end

b. came to the end

c. came to end

d. came to ending

3. The seller makes a point ______ protesting that the price he is charging is depriving him ______ all profit.

a. of…from

b. from…of

c. of…of

d. from…from

4. The shop-keepers speak in slow, measured tones, and the buyers ______.

a. follow suit

b. take suit

c. follow suits

d. take suits

5. I suppose they will be ______ in hordes.

a. gathered up

b. collected up

c. piled up

d. rounded up

6. The subjugation of the western Hemisphere______ his will

a) to b) in c) according to d) against

7. Bitterness fed_______ the man who had made the world laugh.

a) back b) to c) up d) on

8. But later my hair began to fall_______, and my belly turned to water.

a) off b) out c) through d) away

9.2. I treaded cautiously______ the tatami matting.

a) on b) in c)down d) out

10. In June 1941 Hitler suddenly ______ an attack on Russia.

a. launched

b. exerted

c. developed

d. created

Ⅱ. Read the following sentences carefully, and then identify the figures of speech. (10%)

1. The din of the stall-holders crying their wares, of donkey-boys and porters

clearing a way for themselves by shouting vigorously, and of would-be purchasers arguing and bargaining is continuous and makes you dizzy.

2. Was I not at the scene of the crime?

3. I felt sick, and every since then they have been testing and treating me.

4. 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 a safer prey.

5 . We will never parley, we will never negotiate...

6 .The case had erupted round my head.

7. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder.

8.Tom Sawyer‟s endless summer of freedom and adventure.

9 .Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference

between what people claim to be and what they really are.

10.The instant riches of a mining strike would not be his in the reporting trad e, but

for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax.

Ⅲ.Read the following passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, and c hoose the one that you think is the correct answer. (15%)

Passage 1

Ink-Stained Riches:

Mencken, the Daddy of Bad-Boy Punditry

In his essay on H.L. Mencken entitled “Saving a Whale,” journalist Murray Kempton points out that “whales are the only mammals that the museums have never managed to stuff and mount in their original skins.” To Kempton, Mencken is a very great whale who, almost 40 years after his death, still defies critical taxonomy. That is putting it politely. Mencken in death provokes as much vitriol as he did while living. he has been called a racist, a humanitarian, an arch conservative and a great liberal, and the thorny fact is, he was all those things. Nobody knows what to make of a man who turned his diary into a manure pile of anti-Semitism at the same time he was working diligently to get Jews out of Hitler‟s Germany.

Biographers have been struggling to take Mencken‟s measure since the 1920s.