高级英语试题10套

Test One

I. Vocabulary (30%)

Section 1: From the list of words at the top, select the correct word or phrase for each blank space. Use each word or phrase only once (15%).

lashed scudded desolate derelict

undoing makings booming contemptuous

a catalytic agent sprees swiveled smoldered

lucrative macabre adjunct

1.Hurricane Camille _________ northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico.

2.Gray clouds________ in from the Gulf on the rising wind.

3.Most of Morocco is so _________ that no wild animal bigger than a hare can lie

on it.

4.The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a _________

building lot.

5.The Americans are unwilling to witness or permit the slow ________ of these

human rights to which this nation has been committed.

6.Although she was not very smart now, she already had the _________

7.The _________ of American industry no longer left any room for the code of the

Victorian age.

8.Journalism was a mere ________ to commercialism.

9.The war acted as ____________ in this breaking down of the Victorian social

structure.

10.Like most escapist _________, this one lasted until the money ran out.

11. Not hostile, not _________ , not sullen, not even inquisitive.

12. Back and forth, his head ________, desire waxing, resolution waning.

13.Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still

__________.

14.Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most _________

and characteristic activity.

15.It reduced the whole aspiration of man to a ________and depressing joke.

Section 2: From the list of words at the top, select the correct synonym for the underlined words or phrases in each sentence (15%)

hit distress fell apart noticeable

crazy gap aimlessly toughened

call forth ambitious perceptive industrious

put an end to m oral attitudes criticism

1.Hurricane Camille was certain to pummel Gulfport, Miss., where the Koshaks

lived.

2.The group heard gunlike reports as other upstairs windows disintegrated.

3.But the blues did occasionally afflict all the adults.

4.Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews.

5.Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.

6.The conversation moved desultorily here and there.

7.What al this tells us is of a deep rift in the culture of England after the Norman

Conquest.

8.For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human

poverty and all forms of human life.

9.This new generation has been tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter

peace.

10.Flaming diatribes poured from their pens denouncing the materialism.

11.Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.

12.He was an enterprising fellow.

13.He called himself a perspicacious man.

14.I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.

15.Thus in a changing world youth was faced with the challenge of bring our mores

up to date.

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%)

1.We’re elevated 23 feet.

2.The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it.

3.No one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just

glows.

4.And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at

issue around the globe.

5.And it is an activity only of humans.

6.Boy and man, I had been through the region often before.

7.The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the

middle-aged

8.The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it.

9.All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact.

10.United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.

III. Translate the following sentences (using the expressions given in the brackets. (20%)