河南大学高英1模拟试题1

河南大学《高级英语》

第一册模拟试题（一）

I. Choose the rhetorical or figurative device from the list below that best describes the underlined words. All of the devices listed are used 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

1. He tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Confederate guerillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy.

2. Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what

people claim to be and what they really are.

3. I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on

like a swarm of crawling locusts.

4. Thanks to his brilliant leadership, our company is now bankrupt.

5. His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world.

6. The machine was operated by one man, who shovels the linseed pulp into a stone

vat, climbs up nimbly to a dizzy height to fasten ropes,…

7. The White House has denied the report that more troops will be sent to Iraq.

8. Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience.

9. From this nothing will turn us—nothing.

10. The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind.

List of devices:

(A) Antithesis

(B) Hyperbole

(C) Alliteration

(D) Metaphor

(E) Simile

(F) Irony

(G) Repetition

(H) Euph emism

(I) Metonymy

(J) Transferred Epithet

II. Determine whether the following statements are True or False. Mark them with T or F to indicate your answer. (15%)

1. “The Middle Eastern Bazaar”is a piece of objective description, where the author’s opinions, commentary and emotions are excluded.

2. The author of “Hiroshima” expected that most Japanese people would still be upset by the atomic bombing but when he visited he found that no one was.

3. In “Mark Twain—Mirror of America”the writer presents us two different and self-contrary aspects of Mark Twain which bring an unrealistic tone to the article.

4. Winston Churchill used a lot of literary devices to make his speech powerful.

5. The purpose of Winston Churchill’s “Speech on Hitler’s invasion of the USSR” was to show how it was not contradictory for Britain to denounce communism while supporting the USSR.

6. In “Blackmail” the Duke took the leading role in talking and bribing the detective into driving their car to Chicago.

7. “Mark Twain—Mirror of America” is an appropriately chosen title because the author describes the events of Twain’s life in a way that all Americans could recognize and relate to.

8. The title of the essay “The Trial that Rocked the World” is hyperbole, though the trial did have a great influence on the intellectual climate of the United States.

9. According to the author of “But What’s a Dictionary For?”, editors of magazines or newspapers like The New York Times and Life Magazine, who were upset by Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, could easily write their articles using its Second Edition.

10. According to the author of “Britannia Rues the Waves”,Britain is not handicapped in her attempts to counter the challenges of the developing world and the Soviet Union at an international level.

III. Explain, in your own words, the meaning of the underlined part of each sentence. (10%)

1. I will unsay no word that I have spoken about it.

2. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied—a

cosmos.

3. The fundamentalists adhered to a literal interpretation of the Old Testament.

4. All languages are dynamic rather than static.

5. Much of Britain’s liner fleet rarely sees a British port.

IV. Choose from the list below the appropriate substitution for each of the underlined parts of the following sentences. Mark your answer