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1、高级英语考试试卷（A）考试时间： 120 分钟 I. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words and phrases. (10%)appeal to press forward in the long run withdraw fromto the utmost at odds keep abreast of devoid of in due course insistent on1. The child seems to be quite _ any sense of right or wrong. N
2、ot surprising really when you think what his parents are like.2. With that possibility in mind, I shall find the murderer _. 3. Modern liberalism is fundamentally _ _ with democratic government because it demands results that ordinary people would not freely choose.4. In the extension of medical ser
3、vices to all the people, the qualified medical and hospital facilities already established are utilized _.5. Moving to Spain will be better for you _ _.6. Farmers have _ the government for help.7. A great many worries can _ him _ active participation in work and life.8. So much is happening in the w
4、orld of science that its difficult to _ all the latest developments.9. Those individuals and companies confined to all-domestic operations are most likely to suffer by lower prices and have been among those most _ tariff protection. 10. What happened today does nothing to diminish it. We must _ on m
5、anned space mission.II. Paraphrase the following sentences, especially paying attention to the underlined part. （20%）1. The plutonium would then be vaporized and released into the environment; and there goes Florida. (Jenny Clanton)2. Two failures in nine trips are great in baseball, but not when we
6、re dealing with nuclear payloads. (Jenny Clanton)3. If a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor (John F. Kennedy)4. to remember that in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
7、(John F. Kennedy)5. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. (John F. Kennedy)6. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain. (Winston Churchill)7. All this fades away before the spectacle which
8、is now unfolding. (Winston Churchill)8. The scene will be clear for the final act, without which all his conquests will be in vain. (Winston Churchill)9. affection which is received should liberate the affection which is to be given, and only where both exist in equal measure does affection achieve
9、its best possibilities. (Bertrand Russell)10. Evidently this springs from some defect in their nature, but it is one not altogether easy either to diagnose or to cure. (Bertrand Russell)III. Point out the rhetorical device in the underlined part of each sentence and write your answers on the answer
10、sheet. Only one item can be chosen for each sentence. (10%)personification metonymy rhetoric question onomatopoeia antithesis transferred epithet metaphor parallelism alliteration simile 1. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. 2. I lik
11、e all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. 3. It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful. 4. No one, least of all I, anticipated that my case would snowball into one of the most famou
12、s trials in U.S. history. 5. But above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been. 6. It was that population and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and recklessness of cost or consequences. 7. There lies before us, if we choose, continual pr
13、ogress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? 8. I now stood on the site of the first atomic bombardment, where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second, where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered
14、 on to die in slow agony, where thousands upon thousands of cities had vanished in sorrow and tears.9. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. 10. A moment later, the hurricane in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the
15、air.IV. Proofreading (10%) (see “Answer Sheet”)V Reading comprehension (25%)Passage 1Failure is probably the most fatiguing experience a person ever has. There is nothing more enervating than not succeedingbeing blocked, not moving ahead. It is a vicious circle. Failure breeds fatigue, and the fatigue makes it harder to get to work, which compounds the failure. We experience this tiredness in two main ways: as start-up fatigue and performance fatigue. In the former case, we keep putting off a task that we are under some compulsions to discharge. Either
