【正文】 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 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 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 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 like 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 famous trials in . 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 progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot fet 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 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 air. IV. Proofreading (10%) (see “Answer Sheet”) V． Reading prehension (25%) Passage 1 Failure is probably the most fatiguing experience a person ever has. There is nothing more enervating than not succeeding—being blocked, not moving ahead. It is a vicious circle. Failure breeds fatigue, and the fatigue makes it harder to get to work, which pounds the failure. We experience this tiredness in two main ways: as startup fatigue and performance fatigue. In the former case, we keep putting off a task that we are under some pulsions to discharge. Either because it is too tedious or because it is too difficult, we shirk it. And the longer we postpone it, the more tired we feel. Such startup fatigue is very real, even if not actually physical, not something in our muscles and bones. The remedy is obvious, though perhaps not easy to apply, an exertion of will power. The moment I find myself turning away from a job, or putting it under a pile of other things I have to do, I clear my desk of every thing else and attach the objectionable item first. To prevent startup fatigue, always tackle the most difficult job first. Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle. Here we are not reluctant to get started but we cannot seem to do the job right. Its difficulties appear insurmountable and however hard we work, we fail again and again. The mounting experience of failure carries with it an everincreasing burden of mental fatigue. In such a situation, I work as hard as I can—then let the unconscious take over. 1. Which of the following can be called a vicious circle? A. Successzealsuccesszeal B. Failuretirednessfailuretiredness C. Failurezealfailurezeal D. Successexhaustionsuccessexhaustion 2. According to the passage, when we keep putting off a task, we can experience______. A. tiredness B. performance fatigue C. startup fatigue D. unconsciousness 3. To overe startup fatigue, we need ______. A. toughness B. prevention C. muscles D. strong willpower 4. The word “insurmountable” in the last paragraph probably means ______. A. that cannot be solved B. that cannot be understood C. that cannot be imagined D. that cannot be objected 5. According to the passage, which of the following statement is not true? A. It is easier to overe startup fatigue B. Performance fatigue occurs when the job we are willing to take gets blocked. C. One will finally succeed after experiencing the vicious circle D. Fatigue often acpanies failure Passage 2 Every minute of every day, what ecologist James Carlton an oceanographer at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. calls a global conveyor belt redistributes ocean anisms. It39。s stability. Many developing countries now have the worst of both worlds, in that they grow their own narcotics and addict large number of their own people. There is a growing sense of fright in many governments that matters are out of control and the single way to recover is through cooperation with other countries. The high points of the conference were the drafting of two documents, both of which were adopted without a dissenting vote. One was a joint declaration of intent to bat drug abuse and trafficking. The other consisted of many derailed suggestions for particular regional and national policies. On the demand side, the delegates remended the establishment of a system fo