【正文】 slashing agonizing unabated doused blasts marooned dogmatic unfathomable1. The children huddled in the ________ rain within the circle of adults.2. They came to ________ the storm with the Koshaks.3. With two walls in their bedroom _________ beginning to disintegrate, John ordered everyone to leave.4. The generator was _________, and the lights were out.5. Then for the first time I noticed the poor old bodies reduced to ________.6. The enlistment craze continued _________.7. One wall began crumbling on the _________ group.8. What they had wanted was an America more sensitive to art and less _______________standardization.9. Many other novelists, dramatists, poets, and critics directed sad and bitter _______ at their native land.10. She had an _________ of carriage, an ease of bearing.11. However intricate they ways in which animals municate with each other, they do not ___________ anything that deserves the name of conversation.12. I have whirled through the malarious tidewater ________ of Goergia.13. The taste for them is as enigmatical and yet as mon as the taste for ___________ theology.14. What I allude to is the unbroken and __________ ugliness15. They meet, in some _____________ ways, its obscure and unintelligible demands.Section 2: From the list of words at the top, select the correct synonym for the underlined words or phrase in each sentence (15%) depression systematically begged supported condition criticized according to narrow disappeared unbearable decaying set down troubled fiendish ignored 1. The plight of the human beings makes one’s blood boil.2. The men methodically prepared for the hurricane.3. Grandmother Koshak implored, “Children, let’s sing”.4. Business was suffering a recession that prevented the opening up of new jobs.5. We can prop up that mattress with our heads and shoulders.6. The novelists flayed the Babbitts but loved their country.7. It arises and flourishes in obedience to biological laws.8. So tremendous was the storming of recruitment centers that harassed sergeants actually pleased with volunteers to go home.9. The spirit of carnival and the enthusiasm for high military adventure were soon dissipated.10. We had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality.11. The innumerable artists could never be written off as sterile.12. They made the stadium perfect in their own sight by putting a pletely impossible penthouse, painted a starring yellow. 13. The same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and threequarters ago.14. I have seen the mill towns of deposing New England and the desert of Utah.15. They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, bee almost diabolical.II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%)12. We can batten down and ride it out.13. Still, a white skin is always fully conspicuous.14. Suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place.15. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot bee the prey of hostile powers.16. In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.17. They have taken as their model a brick on end18. Each town had its “fast” set which prided itself on its unconventionality.19. This they have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a narrow, lowpitched roof.20. Boy and man, I had been through it often before.21. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.III. Translate the following sentences (using the expressions given in the brackets. (20%)1. In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.2. The rebellion of the lower class against a cultural dominance of the ruling class is still there.3. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems that divide us.4. The King’s English is no more than a class representation of reality. 5. Here was wealth beyond putation, almost beyond imagination – and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.6. 受到這樣的待遇經(jīng)過了好幾個世紀后，他們已經(jīng)不再為擁擠不堪而煩惱了。(on the rocks)8. 法律規(guī)定對受賄該處以什么刑法？(prescribe)9. 他試圖超過他的對手但最終還是失敗了。（sit up）10. 一絲智慧的光芒閃現(xiàn)在他的眼中。(chances)9. 我問起他美國的生活，他馬上警覺起來。（wring）7. Tim的婚姻亮起了紅燈。5． 這兒的景色丑陋得這樣可怕，以致人的報復和壯志在這兒成了令人毛骨悚然的、令人 沮喪的笑料。13. 讓雙方探究達成共識的問題，而不要在引起分歧的問題上虛耗心力。（engulf）10. 他一再強調需要進行公眾調查。17. That building has been converted into a school.18. It infuriates me to think of all the money that they have wasted.19. Learning to discipline oneself is the first step on the road to success20. Don’t squash into the lift together.IV. Figure of speech （10%）（1分1題）21. transferred epithet22. metaphor23. antithesis24. hyperbole25. simile26. litotes27. personification28. synecdoche29. euphemism30. parallelismTest FourI. 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%). preposterous swath raked precariously pitched cretin unfathomable put down unabated split asunder adjunct unleashed immune flash crooks16. They have set the whole building upon thin, ____________ brick piers.17. Along the Gulf Coast the hurricane devastated everything in its _________.18. They lean this way and that, hanging on to their bases ___________19. Camille had ________ its way northward across Mississippi.20. Charlie _________ in with Seabees in the worst volunteer work of all, searching for bodies.21. Heartened by the knowledge that Polly was not altogether a _______, I began a long review of all I had told her.22. Both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction _________ by science engulf all huma