【正文】 lding 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 humanity in planned or accidental selfdestruction.23. They meet, in some __________ ways, its obscure and unintelligible demands.24. Journalism was a mere _________ to mercialism.25. Politics were corrupt and filled with inpetents and _______.26. It is impossible to ________ the wallpaper to mere inadvertence of the manufacturers.27. The enlistment craze continued _______.28. It should not be laid down as an edict and made _________ to change from below.29. For we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and _________.30. Suddenly they see the moment for one of their best anecdotes, but in a _______ the conversation has moved on.Section 2: From the list of words at the top, select the correct synonym for the underlined words or phrase in each sentence (15%) line narrowminded illegal condition peak sadness abandoned criticism scorn hurt deposing troubledunfashionable in dispute sheltered16. Flaming diatribes poured from their pens denouncing the materialism.17. Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit.18. But the blues did occasionally afflict all the adults.19. The plight of the human beings makes one’s blood boil.20. It was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column, a mile or two miles of armed men, flowing peacefully up the road.21. To surrender oneself to idiocy is the acme of mindlessness.22. We had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality.23. And yet the same reactionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe.24. Greenwich Village had also harbored enough major writers.25. They were trying to flout the morality of their grandfathers.26. They felt that the Victorian innocence was as outmoded.27. There was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the eye.28. You will, in fact, find nothing of the sort in Europe –save perhaps in the more putrid parts of England.29. So tremendous was the storming of recruitment centers that harassed sergeants actually pleased with volunteers to go home.30. One wall began crumbling on the marooned group.II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%)22. Everybody out the back door to the cars!23. The glow of the conversation burst into flames.24. Our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace.25. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.26. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring.27. Red brick, even in a steel town, ages with some dignity.28. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.29. They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, bee almost diabolical.30. It could still go ignorantly on.31. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror.III. Translate the following sentences (using the expressions given in the brackets. (20%)1. Obviously, if there were architects of any professional sense or dignity in the region, they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides.2. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.3. As we listen today to the arguments about bilingual education, we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.4. Although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.5. In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.6. 浪費(fèi)別人的時(shí)間無異于謀殺。(next to)7. 是否立即執(zhí)行新政策在公司內(nèi)部仍未取得一致意見。(at issue)8. 談到提高教育收費(fèi)問題，我們應(yīng)該設(shè)身處地替農(nóng)民想一想。9. 洶涌的大海吞沒了那艘小帆船。（engulf）10. 他一再強(qiáng)調(diào)需要進(jìn)行公眾調(diào)查。（hammer away）IV. Name the figures of speech used in the following sentences. (one in each sentence) (10%)1. Blowndown power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads.2. This is no small acplishment. 3. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.4. But I was not one to let my heart rule my head. 5. On their low sides these abominable houses bury themselves swinishly in the mud. 6. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space. 7. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middleaged and curious questionings by the young. 8. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. 9. Have you any coppers?10. He is all fire and fight. 高級(jí)英語第二冊(cè)試卷庫參考答案及評(píng)分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)（卷4）I. Vocabulary (30%) (1分1題)Section 11. preposterous2. swath3. precariously4. raked5. pitched6. cretin7. unleashed8. unfathomable9. adjunct10. crooks11. put down12. unabated13. immune14. split asunder15. flashSection 21. criticism 2. illegal 3. sadness 4. condition 5. line6. peak7. narrowminded8. in dispute9. sheltered10. scorn 11. unfashionable12. hurt 13. deposing14. troubled15. abandonedII． Paraphrase （20%） （2分1題）32. Everybody went out through the back door and ran to the cars!33. The conversation suddenly became spirited and exciting