1、 高级英语 练习题一 一、 近义词 (每小题 1 分，共 10 分 ) A B 1. harry a. definite 2. extol b. eatable 3. inherently c. ripe 4. mature d. worry 5. edible e. praise 6. pronounced f. temporary 7. retraction g. withdrawing 8. transient h. predetermine 9. angelic i. heavenly 10. ordain j. innately A B 11. dilemma a. whirl 12
2、. intrepid b. quandary 13. holocaust c. discard 14. affluent d. massacre 15. piety e. bias 16. swirl f. rich 17. prejudice g. insistent 18. command h. loyalty 19. eliminate i. express 20. couch j. order A B 21. diversity a. different 22. peeve b. bear 23. novice c. irritation 24. pessimistically d.
3、feather 25. squander e. variety 26. elate f. beginner 27. discrepant g. depressingly 28. sustain h. stimulate 29. tier i. waste 30. plume j. shelf 二、反义词 （每小题 1 分，共 10 分） A B 1. uncompromising a. independent 2. belligerence b. feminine 3. inevitable c. altruism 4. reverence d. avoidable 5. parasitic
4、e. flexible 6. unsullied f. spoiled 7. masculine g. friendliness 8. egoism h. increase 9. skeptical i. disrespect 10. dwindle j. credulous Find the words in Column B which are opposite in meaning to the words in Column A. A B 11. suspicious a. friendly 12. hostile b. masculine 13. groggily c. urban
5、14. reverence d. steadily 15. dominant e. credulous 16. casual f. serious 17. feminine g. recessive 18. bucolic h. exciting 19. skeptical i. disrespect 20. tedious j. trusting 三、定义 （每小题 1 分，共 10 分） Find the definition for each of the words in the list. 1. pilgrimage a. a journey to some sacred place
6、 to show respect to God 2. bequeath b. surprisingly great, remarkable 3. aesthetics c. the power to enter into the feelings or spirit of others 4. stupendous d. great tiredness 5. subsidize e. to support with money 6. empathy f. paying scrupulous attention to detail 7. guise g. hand down, give or pa
7、ss to others after death 8. fatigue h. loss of memory, either in part or completely 9. amnesia i. an outer appearance 10. meticulous j. the study and science of the philosophy of beauty 四、修辞 （每小题 2 分，共 20 分） 1. When Mr. Roper asked his guinea pigs which of these media they would be least inclined to
8、 believe, the newspapers topped the list. 2. For if you degrade and cheapen the word too long, the people will turn to the picture. 3. It is easier to let the ads dictate the format than develop a format that elevates news above dogfood. 4. Change means trouble, change means work, change means cost.
9、 5. It is a morality play, that isolates, and sets against each other 6. Clara did not mind the cold, for she liked anything that was not small and cramped and heartlessly cosy 7. Her blackboard technique was also extremely idiosyncratic; she would write up equations, get them wrong, mumble to herse
10、lf, rub them out, look them up in a book, 8. She handled her apparatus with the efficient familiarity with which other women handle their baking boards and rolling pins 9. But, of the average tinned or glass-packed strawberry jam, you need half a cupful to get the idea of what youre eating. 10. My s
11、cholarship to college was a ticket. 五、解释 （每小题 2 分，共 10 分） 1、 This strategy also has ancient antecedents. 2、 By a mans heroes ye shall know him. 3、 He is the stereotyped monster of horror films 4、 But then fatigue created a kind of mental anaesthetic. 5、 The essence escapes but its aura remains. 6、 I
12、t demands patience, always in short supply. 7、 is no more than shadow boxing as a general rule. 8、 She didnt encourage familiarity. 9、 I have tried often to search behind the sophistication of years for the enchantment I so easily found in those gifts. 10、 I think this society is being force-fed wit
13、h trivial fare 11. years of housework had left their mark on her. 12. The girls respected her because she had nerve and a good front of confidence 13. But her great quality was a capacity for being genuinely impervious to inattention. 14. But the other side lies open to exactly the same charge. 15.
14、One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. 六、阅读理解 （共 40 分， 1.每小题 2 分 ,2.每小题 2.5 分， 3.每小题 2 分，4.题 10分） （一） Read the following writing and then answer the questions. In the collected body of writing we call literature, there may be distinguished two separate groupings cap
15、able of blending, but also fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly the literature of power. The function of the first is to teach; the function of the second is to move. The first is rudder, the second an oar or sail. The first speaks to the mere dis
16、cursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately to the higher understanding or reason, but always through the affection of pleasure and sympathy. Whenever we talk in ordinary language of seeking information or gaining knowledge, we understand the works as connected with absolute novelty. But it
17、is the grandeur of all truth which can occupy a very high place in human interests, although it may not be absolutely novel to the meanest of minds. What do we learn from Paradise Lost? Nothing at all. What do we learn from a cook book? Something new, something we did not know before, in every parag
18、raph. But would we therefore put the wretched cookbook on a higher level of estimation than the divine poem? What we owe to Milton is not any knowledge, of which a million separate items are still but a million advancing steps on the same earthly level; what we owe is power, that is, exercise and ex
19、pansion of your own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where every pulse and each separate influx is a step upwardsa step ascending as upon Jacobs ladder from earth to mysterious altitude above the earth. All the steps of knowledge, from first to last, carry us farther on the same plane,
20、 but could never raise us one foot above your ancient level on earth; whereas, the very first step of power is flightan ascending into another element where earth is forgotten. 1. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D. (10 分 ) 1). The passage is written to _. A. differentiate between the attainme
21、nt of factual knowledge and the arrival at philosophical understanding B. disparage intellectual activities and the attainment of learning C. encourage mysticism as a desirable philosophical goal D. inspire writers to produce more practical books 2). According to the passage, the literature of knowl
22、edge are_. A. teachers books B. books from which we seek information or gain knowledge C. informative literary works D. books about the rudder 密 封 3). The sentence The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding means_. A. The first classification of literature is only for readers with discurs
23、ive understanding B. Books teaching knowledge are not so logically produced as philosophical readers C. The literature of knowledge are understand as random works D. To read a book in the first classification of literature involves only a lower, discursive understanding on the part of the reader 4).
24、 The true implication concerning the comparison between Paradise Lost and a cook book is _. A. Paradise Lost is more informative than a cook book B. both books are equally evaluated C. wretched as it is, a cook book is more valuable than Paradise Lost, from which we learn nothing at all D. Paradise
25、Lost is greater than a cook book 5). Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage? A. We have gained most of our knowledge from the reading of political treatises. B. The first step on the moon was mankinds most important moment. C. A recipe for bread is worth a thousand poems.
26、 D. Great literature must address itself to fundamental philosophical truth rather than to material progress. 2. Explain the following words or sentences. (10 分 ) 1). novel 2). the meanest 3). In the collected body.repulsion. 4). What we owe to Milton is not any knowledge, but power. 3. List the rhe
27、torical devices used in the passage. (10 分 ) 4.What is the figurative speech in using the word “plane”? (10 分 ) （二） Read the following writing and then answer the questions. Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck 1. He woke suddenly and completely. It was four oclock, the hour at which his fa
28、ther had always called him to get up and help with the milking. Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still! His father had been dead for thirty years, and yet he still waked at four oclock in the morning. But this morning, because it was Christmas, he did not try to sleep again. 2. Yet w
29、hat was the magic of Christmas now? His childhood and youth were long past, and his own children had grown up and gone. 3. Yesterday his wife had said, It isnt worthwhile, perhaps And he has said, Oh, yes, Alice, even if there are only the two of us, lets have a Christmas of our own. 4. Then she had
30、 said, Lets not trim the tree until tomorrow, Robert. Im tired. 5. He had agreed, and the tree was still out by the back door. 6. He lay in his bed in his room. The door to her room was shut because she was a light sleeper. Years ago they had decided to use separate rooms. Neither of them slept as w
31、ell as they once had. They had been married so long that nothing could separate them, actually. 7. Why did he feel so awake tonight? For it was still night, a clear and starry night. No moon, of course, but the stars were extraordinary! Now that he thought of it, the stars seemed always large and cl
32、ear before the dawn of Christmas Day. 8. He slipped back in time, as he did so easily nowadays. He was fifteen years old and still on his fathers farm. He loved his father. He had not known it until one day a few days before Christmas, when he had overheard what his father was saying to his mother.
33、9. Marry, I hate to call Rob in the mornings. Hes growing so fast, and he needs his sleep. I wish I could manage alone. 1. Well, you cant, Adam. His mothers voice was brisk. Besides, he isnt a child any more. Its time he took his turn. 2. Yes, his father said slowly. But I sure do hate to wake him.
34、When he heard these words, something in him woke: his father loved him! He had never thought of it before, taking for granted the tie of their blood. Now that he knew his father loved him, there would be no more loitering in the mornings and having to be called again. He got up after that, stumbling
35、 blind with sleep, and pulled on his clothes. 3. And then on the night before Christmas, he lay thinking about the next day. They were poor, and most of the excitement was in the turkey they had raised themselves and in the mince pies his mother made. His sisters sewed presents, and his mother and f
36、ather always bought something he needed, not only a warm jacket, maybe, but something more, such as a book. And he always saved and bought them each something, too. 4. He wished, that Christmas he was fifteen, he had a better present for his father instead of the usual tie from the ten-cent store. H
37、e lay on his side and looked out of his attic window. 5. Dad, he had once asked when he was a little boy, What is a stable? 6. Its just a barn, his father had replied, like ours. 7. Then Jesus had been born in a barn, and to a barn the shepherds and the Wise Men had come, bringing their Christmas gi
38、fts! 8. A thought struck him like a silver dagger. Why should he not give his father a special gift, out there in the barn! He could get up earlier, creep into the barn and get all the milking done. And then when his father went in to start the milking, hed see it all done. 9. He laughed to himself
39、as he gazed at the stars. It was what he would do, and he mustnt sleep too soundly. 10. He must have waked twenty times, striking a match each time to look at his old watch. 11. At a quarter to three he got up and crept downstairs, careful of the creaky boards, and let himself out. A big star hung l
40、ow over the roof, a reddish gold. The cows looked at him, sleepy and surprised. It was early for them, too. 12. But they accepted him placidly and he fetched some hay for each cow and then got the milking pail and the big milk cans. 13. He had never milked all alone before, but it seemed almost easy
41、. He smiled and milked steadily, two strong streams rushing into the pail, frothing and fragrant. The cows were behaving well, as though they knew it was Christmas. 14. The task went more easily than he had ever known it to before. Milking for once was not a chore. It was a gift to his father. He fi
42、nished, the two milk cans were full, and he covered them and closed the milk-house door carefully, making sure of the latch. He put the stool in its place by the door and hung up the clean milk pail. Then he went out of the barn and barred the door behind him. 15. Back in his room he had only a minu
43、te to pull off his clothes and jump into bed, for he heard his father up. He put the covers over his head to silence his quick breathing. The door opened. 16. Rob! his father called. We have to get up, son, even if it is Christmas. 17. Aw-right, he said sleepily. 18. Ill go on out, his father said.
44、Ill get things started. 19. The door closed and he lay still, laughing to himself. In just a few minutes his father would know. His dancing heart was ready to jump from his body. 20. The minutes were endlessten, fifteen, he did not know how manyand he heard his fathers footsteps again. The door open
45、ed. 21. Rob! 22. Yes, Dad 23. You son of a His father was laughing, a queer sobbing sort of a laugh. Thought youd fool me, did you! His father was standing beside his bed, feeling for him, pulling away the cover. 24. Its for Christmas, Dad! 25. He found his father and clutched him in a great hug. He
46、 felt his fathers arms go around him. It was dark, and they could not see each others faces. 26. Son, I thank you. Nobody ever did a nicer thing 27. Oh, Dad, I want you to knowI do want to be good! The words broke from him of their own will. He did not know what to say. His heart was bursting with l
47、ove. 28. Well, I reckon I can go back to sleep, his father said after a moment. No, listenthe little ones are waked up. Come to think of it, son. Ive never seen you children when you first saw the Christmas tree, I was always in the barn. Come on! 29. He pulled on his clothes again, and they went do
48、wn to the Christmas tree, and soon the sun was creeping up to where the star had been. Oh, what a Christmas, and how his heart had nearly burst again with shyness and pride as his father told his mother about how he, Rob, had got up all by himself. 30. The best Christmas gift I ever had, and Ill remember it, son, every year on Christmas morning, as long as I live. 31. They had both remembered it, and now that his father was dead he remembered it alone; that blessed Christmas dawn when
