高级英语 上 习题
经贸局-青春励志诗歌朗诵稿
Exercises for Lesson one
I. Multiple-
choice
1. It grows louder and more _____ until
you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing
flashes,
as the burnished copper catches the
light of _____ lamps and braziers.
A.
distinct, innumerable B. clear, countless
C.
distinct, numerable D. clear, innumerable
2.
If he does guess correctly, he will price the item
high, and __ little in the bargaining.
A.
produce B. resign C. surrender D. yield
3. The
seller makes a point ______ protesting that the
price he is charging is depriving him
______
all profit.
A. of…from B. from…of C. of…of D.
from…from
4. The shop-keepers speak in slow,
measured tones, and the buyers ______.
A.
follow suit B. take suit C. follow suits D. take
suits
5. Motors and bicycles threaded their
way among the ______ of the people entering and
leaving
the market.
A. crowd B. throngs C.
crowd D. crowds
6. As you approach it, a
tinkling and banging and clashing begins to
impinge______ your ear.
A. on B. to C. at D.
against
7. Little donkeys with harmoniously
tinkling bells ______ among the throngs of people.
A. threads their way B. thread their way
C. threads their ways D. thread their ways
8. The tin of the stall-holders crying their
wares, …and of ______ purchasers arguing and
bargaining is continuous and makes you dizzy.
A. would-be B. will-be C. shall-be D. could-be
9. The shop-owner instructs, and sometimes
______ with a hammer himself.
A. takes a hand
B. takes hands C. takes hand D. takes two hands
10. The pole is attached ______ the one end
______ an upright post, and ______ the other end
______ a blind-folded camel.
A. at…at,
at…at B. to…at, to…at C. at…to, at…to D. to…at,
to… at
11. Every here and there, a doorway
gives ______ a sunlit courtyard.
A. a glance
of B. a glimpse of C. a stare of D. a survey of
12. The boss asked me if I would ____ to take
the new mission.
A. consider B. accept C.
approve D. agree
13. He was asked to account
_____ the loss of the market in Shanghai.
A.
for B. of C. on D. about
14. We always _____
our success to our parents, teachers and
colleagues.
A. oblige B. contribute C.
delicate D. attribute
15. In most public
places, smoking is not ____.
A. let B. legal
C. allowed D. promised
II. Point out the
figures of speech used in each sentence.
1. It
is a vast, somber cavern of a room. ( )
2. The
pen is mightier than the sword. ( )
3. As you
approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing
begins to impinge on your ear. ( )
4. The din
of the stall-holders crying their wares, of
donkey-boys and porters clearing a way for
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themselves by shouting
vigorously, and of would-be purchasers arguing and
bargaining is
continuous and makes you dizzy.(
)
5. Then there is the spice-market, with its
pungent and exotic smells; and the food-market,
where
you can by everything you need for the
most sumptuous dinner, or sit in a tiny restaurant
with
porters and apprentices and eat your
humble bread and cheese. ( )
6. You pass from
the heat and glare of a big, open square into a
cool, dark cavern which extends as
far as the
eye can see, losing itself in the shadowy
distance.( )
III. Proofreading
1. The
roadway is narrowed every a few yards by little
stalls.______
2. Shopkeepers dealing with the
same kind of goods do not scatter themselves over
the
bazaar.__________
3. Desks in the
classroom are arranged at interval of 10 feet.
_______
4. College students could be well
prepared for independent thinking should be less
emphasis on
grades in high school.
5. He
believes that his nation should commit itself to
achieve the goal, before the decade is out, of
landing a man on the moon.
IV. Translate
the following sentences into English.
1.
他会尽力帮助你。（as far as）
2.
一些小毛驴正穿行于熙熙攘攘的人群中。（thread one’s way）
3.
现代大城市各种形状的建筑物应有尽有。（conceivable）
4.
欢呼声在远处渐渐消失了。（fade away）
5.
去北京的旅游者认为有必要参观长城。（make a point of doing sth）
6. 如果店主猜到你想那样东西，他就会漫天要价。（price，v.)
Exercises for Lesson 2
I. Multiple-choice
1． As the offender _______ his crime, he was
dealt with leniently.
A. had admitted B. had
confessed C. had recognized D. had realized
2. I was again crushed by the thought that I
stood on the ____ of the first atomic bombardment.
A. spot B. site C. place D. area
3. The
few Americans and Germans seemed just as _____ as
I was.
A. constrained B. curbed C. inhibited
D. withhold
4. They would also like to _____
the atomic museum.
A. demolish B. destroy C.
ruin D. smash
5. Little girls and elderly
ladies in kimonos ___teenagers and women in
western dress.
A. rubbed the shoulder with B.
rubbed shoulders with
C. rubbed the shoulder
with D. rubbed the shoulders with
6. At last
this intermezzo _____, and I found myself in front
of the gigantic City Hall.
A. came to an end
B. came to the end
C. came to end D. came to
ending
7. The taxi driver _______ at me in the
rear-view mirror when I got on the car.
A.
smile B. laughed C. grinned D. stared
8. I
treaded cautiously______ the tatami matting.
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A. on B. in C. down D. out
9.
He reverted_______ this theme
A. into B. on C.
onto D. to
10. But later my hair began to
fall_______, and my belly turned to water.
A.
over B. through C. out D. away
11. I now stood
on the site where thousands upon thousands of
others had lingered on to die ____
slow agony.
A. at B. from C. of D. in
12. Hiroshima,
as you know, is a city familiar ______ everyone.
A. with B. to C. for D. by
13. I am a
fisherman ______.
A. by trade B. for trade C.
on trade D. of trade
14. If you bear any
visible scars of atomic burns, your children will
encounter prejudice ______
those who do not.
A. on the side of B. at the side of C. on the
part of D. at the part of
15. The tall
building of the martyred city flashed by as we
lurched from side to side ______ the
driver’s
sharp twists of the wheel.
A. in response to
B. as response to C. in response of D. as response
of
16. After a week at sea, the sailors saw
______ .
A. land B. earth C. ground D. soil
you familiar _____ these technical terms?
A. with B. to C. for D. as
doctor gave
the old man a _____ examination and congratulated
him on his speedy
recovery.
A. cautious B.
cautiously C. careful D. careful
II. Fill in
each of the blanks with one of the following words
or expressions in its proper form.
Each word
or expression is to be used only once.
to have
a lump in one's throat, spare, spectacle, on the
part of,
rub shoulders with, humiliate,
shiver, sink in, in response, fold
1.
Obviously my warning failed to_______ , and he got
into trouble as a consequence.
2. The children
at play among the flowers made quite a
fine________________.
3. There is no
objection_____________________________ the land
owner.
4. Twice I made the request to him, but
he said nothing___________________.
5. All
during her mother's funeral,
Alice__________________________.
6. You should
disdain____________________________ such a person
like him.
7. ____________ a piece of paper
round the flowers so that they'll be easier to
carry.
8. China will never forget the________
treaties forced upon her by foreign invaders.
9. The victorious enemy__________ neither
young nor old.
10. Judging from
the____________ of the children it must be cold
outside.
III. Please identify the figures of
speech used in the following sentences.
1. Was
I not at the scene of the crime? ( )
2. I felt
sick, and ever since then they have been testing
and treating me.( )
3. Seldom has a city
gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy
to welcome you to
Hiroshima, a town known
throughout the world for its-oysters.( )
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4. The rather arresting spectacle
of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete
skyscrapers is the
very symbol of the
incessant struggle between the kimono and the
miniskirt. ( )
5. No one talks about it any
more, and no one wants to, especially, the people
who were born here
or who lived through it. (
)
6. Each day of suffering that helps to free
me from earthly cares, I make a new paper bird and
add
it to the others. ( )
7. At last this
intermezzo came to an end, and I found myself in
front of the Hall.
( )
IV. Translation
1. 在教授的葬礼上他喉咙哽咽。
2. 凡是值得做的，就得好好做。
3.
把我的钱拿走，饶我一命吧。( spare )
4.
这个房间有一股不新鲜的啤酒味。（smell of）
5. 我正准备点头,
可就在这时，我突然听明白了这句话的含义。（sink in）
Keys to the
Exercises for Lesson 2
I.
1. B 2. B 3. C
4. A 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. B 9. D 10. C
11. D 12.
B 13. A 14. C 15. A 16. A 17. A 18. C.
II.
1. sink in 2. spectacle 3. on the part of 4.
in response 5. had a lump in her throat
6. to
rub shoulders with 7. Fold 8. humiliating 9.
:spared 10. shivering
III.
1. rhetorical
question 2. alliteration 3. anti-climax 4.
symbolism 5. climax
6. metaphor 7. metaphor
IV.
Part A :
1. At the professor’s
funeral he had a lump in his throat.
2. What
is worth doing is worth doing well.
3. Take
my money but spare my life.
4. The room smelt
of stale beer.
5. I was just about to make my
little bow of assent, when the meaning of these
last words sank in.
Exercises for Lesson
5
Ⅰ. Multiple-choice
1. He said that
everyone should turn their backs _____ a craving
for fame and prestige.
A. for B. down C. up D.
on
2. Hitler was however wrong and we should
______ to help Russia.
A. make all out B. make
out all C. go all out D. go out all
3. In June
1941 Hitler suddenly ______ an attack on Russia.
A. launched B. exerted C. developed D. created
4. I see the Russian soldiers standing on the
________ of their native land, guarding the
fields.
A. threshold B. frontiers C. entrance
D. gate
5. The subjugation of the western
Hemisphere______ his will…
A. to B. in C.
according to D. against
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6.
When I awoke on the morning of Sunday, the news
was brought ______ me ______Hitler’s
invasion
of Russia.
A. for…of B. to…on C. to… of D.
for… on
7. Hitler was wrong and we should
______ to help Russia.
A. go out all B. go all
out C. make out all D. make all out
8. Winant
said the same would be true ______the U.S.A.
A. with B. of C. for D. to
9. The Nazi
regime is devoid ______ all theme and principle
except appetite and racial domination.
A. of
B. away C. from D. for
10. We shall ______ all
our friends and allies in every part of the world
to take the same course
and pursue it.
A.
appeal to B. appeal for C. appeal with D. appeal
of
11. This is no time to moralize ______ the
follies of countries which have allowed themselves
to
be struck down one by one.
A. to B. on
C. by D. in
12. In June 1941 Hitler suddenly
launched an attack ______ Russia.
A. for B. to
C. on D. against
II. Proof-reading
1. I
suppose they will be rounded out in hordes.
2.
We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by
sea, we shall fight him on the air.
3. The
Iraqis are counting in enlisting the support of
the world.
4. On the contrary, we shall be
fortified and encouraged in our efforts to rescue
mankind of his
tyranny.
5. If you do not
commit the crime, you don’t have to go all out to
concealing the evidence.
III. Please identify
the figures of speech used in the following
sentences.
1. After the failure of his last
novel his reputation stands on slippery grounds.
______
2. I see also the Hun soldiery plodding
on like a swarm of crawling locusts. ______
3.
Let us learn the lesson already taught by such
cruel experience. __________
4. But can you
doubt what our policy will be? _____________
5. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight
him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until,
...
______________
6. We have but one aim
and one single, irrevocable purpose. __________
7. …with its clanking, heel-clicking,
dandified Prussian officers…__________
IV.
Fill in each of the blanks with one of the
following words or expressions in its proper form.
Each word or expression is to be used only
once.
be true of, count on, devoid of, fresh
from, in due course,
issue, round up,
thereby, to that effect
1. The
great___________________ today is whether there
will be war or peace.
2. The
sheepdog____________________ the sheep and drove
them through the gate.
3. Our team is
________________________ you to win the match,
Joe.
4. As _____________________
5. He
finished first in the race, _________ winning the
championship for his school.
6. She called him
a villain or words_________________________.
7. Sound waves can not travel through a
space_____________________ air.
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8. These are eggs______________________
the hen, not preserved ones.
9. I will answer
all your questions______________________.
V.
Translation
1. Chinese to English Translation.
1) 他真是个好人，经常在我妈妈面前说我的好话。(reference)
2)
过去的一切——我们曾经的承诺，曾有过的快乐，都烟消云散了。(flash)
3)
我记不得他是怎么说的，但我肯定他讲话的大意是那样的。(effect)
Keys to the
Exercises for Lesson 5
1. D 2. C 3 A 4A 5. A
6.C 7. B
8 B 9 A 10 A 11. B 12. C
1.
out→up 2. on→in →on --from ling→conceal
1.
metaphor 2. simile ration ical question 5.
parallelism
6. repetition 7. onomatopoeia
1. issue 2. rounded up 3. counting on 4. is
true of 5. thereby
9. 6. to that effect of
8. fresh from due course
1) He is so kind
that he always make favorable references to my
mother.
2) The past, with our promises and our
happiness, flashes away.
3) I don’t remember
his exact words, but I am sure he did say
something to that effect.
Exercises
for Lesson 6
I. Vocabulary. Match the words or
phrases with similar meaning in the two columns.
( ) 1. cryptic a. hide
( ) 2. dispatch b.
hesitation
( ) 3. sardonic c. careful; secret
( ) 4. conceal d. surround; encircle
( )
5. blink e. send out, usually on a specific errand
( ) 6. imperious f. wink (the eye) rapidly
( ) 7. respite g. not ambiguous
( ) 8.
sullen h. face
( ) 9. vacillation i. lacking
harmony
( ) 10. grotesque j. mysterious
(
) 11. discreet k. ironic or sarcastic
( ) 12.
countenance l. delay; a temporary rest
( ) 13.
encompass m. arrogant; masterful
( ) 14.
unequivocal n. ridiculous; fantastic
( ) 15.
incongruous o. bad-tempered or gloomy; dismal
II. Multiple choice
1. The humble bell-boy
______ his tongue reprovingly in front of the
princess.
A. flipped B. chuckled C. clucked D.
flickered
2. The family were having dinner
when the ______ buzzer of the door sounded.
A.
quiet B. muted C. silent D. low
3. It ______
to keep calm when confronted with dangers.
A.
pays B. takes C. costs D. deserves
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4. Please ______ you cigar before
entering this building.
A. put down B. put up
C. put off D. put out
5. There were plenty of
places to ______ the highway and be unobserved.
A. pull off B. pull out C. pull up D. pull
down
6. The big shot ______ several government
officials in the past years.
A. buy out B. buy
up C. buy off D. buy down
7. He gambled ______
being able to buy a ticket at the last minute.
A. about B. on C. in D. with
8. The duke
interjected, “What you accuse us ______ is true. I
am to blame.”
A. with B. about C. D. of
9. It was essential that her thinking ______
calm and reasoned.
A. remained B. remain C.
had remained D. would remain
10. The young man
______ the charm of his new collegue, a blonde
from England.
A. took a chance B. threw a book
at
C. fell victim to C. comply with
III.
Fill in the blanks with prep.
1. The frankness
of the students took the governess ___________
surprise.
2. Her eyes took ________ a hurt
expression.
3. Earlier her boss sent her
________ an errand into the town.
4. The
public should be on the lookout ________ symdroms
of this disease.
5. The Duchess must do so in
such a way as to place the outcome ________any
doubt.
6. Ogilvie paused to puff again
________ the cigar as his listeners waited
silently.
7. The Duchess had seated herself
______ a straight-backed chair.
8. The problem
lay ______ deciding when to intervene.
IV.
Translation.
1. 她说她很难过，但她的眼神却流露出喜悦。(betray)
2. 你的意思是我在说谎吗？(suggest)
3．我们俩谁也不善于计算数字。(adept)
4．他企图尽一切办法掩盖事实的真相。(conceal)
Keys to
the Exercises Lesson 6
I. Vocabulary.
1. j
2. e 3. k 4. a 5. f 6. m 7. l 8. o 9. b 10. n 11.
c 12. h 13. d 14. g 15.i
II. CBADA CBDBC
III. 2. on 3. on 4. for 6. at 7. in 8. in
Translation.
1. She said she was sad, but
her eyes betrayed her delight.
you suggesting
that I am telling a lie?
3. Neither of us is
adept at figures.
4. He tried every means to
conceal the truth.
Exercises for Lesson
9
I. Multiple-choice
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1．Most Americans remember Mark Twain as
the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through
_______ boyhood.
A. endlessly B. permanent
C. eternal D. eternally
2. Mark Twain had
become a very _______ man during his later life,
which was reflected in his
writings. He
believed that the world was wrong, where people
achieved nothing.
A. sarcastic B. ironic C.
cynical D. sentimental
3. Bitterness
fed_______ the man who had made the world laugh.
A. back B. to C. up D. on
4. Steamboat
decks teemed not only______ the main current of
pioneering humanity, but is
flotsam of
hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well.
A. up
B. of C. on D. with
5. Mark Twain digested the
New American experience before sharing it with the
world ______
writer and lecturer.
A. by B.
for C. like D. as
6. Mark Twain began ______
his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter
and humorist.
A. seeking B. picking C. digging
D. making
8. He accepted a job as reporter
______ the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.
A. for B. with C. at D. by
9. When
railroad began drying up the ____ for steamboat
pilots and the Civil War halted
commence, Mark
Twain left the river country.
A. need B.
demand C. requirement D. request
10. All ____
resurface in his books, together with the colorful
language that he soaked up with a
memory that
seemed phonographic.
A. will B. may C. would
D. might
II. Word explanation
1. range
A. to launch B. to wander C. to seek D. to
wonder
2. cruise
A. voyage B. crowd C.
cloud D. boat
3. profound
A. perfect B.
deep C. proud D. desirable
4. frailty
A.
weakness B. stiffness C. frugality D. fracture
5. core
A. centre B. thread C. edge D.
front
6. obsess
A. to process B. to
observe C. to occupy D. to absorb
7. attest
A. to prove B. to arrest C. to attend D. to
progress
8. cosmos
A. custom B. system C.
universe D. course
9. slum
A. a piece of
ground going up or down
B. B. a city area of
dirty, poor living condition
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C. C. an area of soft wet land
D.
the entire tract of country drained by a river
10. perception
A. understanding B.
conception C. entrance D. percentage
11.
rebuff
A. to puff B. to oppose C. to refuse D.
to reprove
12. debunk
A. to retell B. to
expose C. to impress D. to describe
13. flirt
A. to fling over B. to play with C. to throw
away D. to point at
14. ingenuity
A.
stupidity B. reality C. cleverness D. truth
15. deplore
A. to look for B. to ask for
C. to be in lack of D. to be sorry about
16.
long and tiring
A. scathing B. cynical C.
tedious D. abundant
17. good, strong, quick at
understanding
A. keen B. revered C. earnest D.
puritanical
18. the state of intellectually
deceived or misled
A. vanish B. ambition C.
illusion D. dreary
19. importance with respect
to power to produce an effect
A. consequence
B. sultan C. clamor D. providence
20. a
prevailing tendency or inclination
A. epidemic
B. trend C. gratitude D. climax
IV.
Proofreading
We all know the computer is
coming into our home and work environments.
But how many of us thought it would effect our
marriages? One of my _______1
friends reports
that at her evening computer course, more than a
third of the people there came
only because
their spouse had purchased a home computer. It can
certainly be the third party that
upsets the
delicate balance of a marriage.
In connecting
to our national economy, it is important now not
to get _____2
depressed about the latest
gloomy business statistics, which they are
strictly____3
industrial-based measures of
economic well-being. The information economy and
the other
sunrise sectors are going well. They
are the ones to invest now. ______4
Small
sunrise stocks versus large sunset stocks; buying
Computer Software, Inc., selling U.S.
Steel.
If, as predicted, electronics replaces the
automobile like ____5
the most important
industry in our economy, will we have to buy a
home computer before buying
a car?
We
need cars now because we organized our society
around it. Fifty _____6
years ago when we
decided that since the economy was going to be
built cars,__ 7
everyone from age sixteen up
should want and need one. But what did the
automobile ever
contribute to society besides
transportation? Without it, would we have moved so
far apart and
created such poor public
transportation? Of course, we need cars. But who
live in cities? In
addition to transportation,
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the automobile has brought
us air pollution, a average of 50,000 ______8
highway dyings each year, automobile
insurance, and parking _____9
tickets. So far
the computer looks relatively modest. The whole
orientation of the
computer are getting you to
expand your brainpower through growth, _______10
education, and learning.
Keys to the
Exercises for Lesson 9
I. Multiple-choice
1. C 2. C 3. D 4. D 5. D 6. C 8. B 9. B 10. C
II. Word explanation
1. B 2. A 3. B 4. A
5. A 6. C 7. A 8. C 9. B 10. A
11. C 12. B 13.
B 14. C 15. D 16. C 17. A 18. C 19. A 20. B
B.
1. effectàaffect 2. In connecting toàIn connection
with 3. theyà (delete)
4. investà invest (in)
5. likeà as 6. ità them 7. builtà built (on)
8. Furthermoreà But 9. dyingsà deaths 10. areà
is
VII. Translation
1. His wife left him
and he would die in a stormy night.
2. Most of
his works remain in print.
3. This nation’s
best-loved author was every bit as adventurous,
patriotic, romantic and humorous
as anyone has
ever imagined.
4. Steamboat decks teemed not
only with the main current of pioneering humanity,
but its flotsam
of hustlers, gamblers, and
thugs as well.
5. That’s California all over.
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Exercises for Lesson
one
I. Multiple-choice
1. It grows louder
and more _____ until you round a corner and see a
fairyland of dancing flashes,
as the burnished
copper catches the light of _____ lamps and
braziers.
A. distinct, innumerable B. clear,
countless
C. distinct, numerable D. clear,
innumerable
2. If he does guess correctly, he
will price the item high, and __ little in the
bargaining.
A. produce B. resign C. surrender
D. yield
3. The seller makes a point ______
protesting that the price he is charging is
depriving him
______ all profit.
A.
of…from B. from…of C. of…of D. from…from
4.
The shop-keepers speak in slow, measured tones,
and the buyers ______.
A. follow suit B. take
suit C. follow suits D. take suits
5. Motors
and bicycles threaded their way among the ______
of the people entering and leaving
the market.
A. crowd B. throngs C. crowd D. crowds
6.
As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and
clashing begins to impinge______ your ear.
A.
on B. to C. at D. against
7. Little donkeys
with harmoniously tinkling bells ______ among the
throngs of people.
A. threads their way B.
thread their way
C. threads their ways D.
thread their ways
8. The tin of the stall-
holders crying their wares, …and of ______
purchasers arguing and
bargaining is
continuous and makes you dizzy.
A. would-be B.
will-be C. shall-be D. could-be
9. The shop-
owner instructs, and sometimes ______ with a
hammer himself.
A. takes a hand B. takes hands
C. takes hand D. takes two hands
10. The pole
is attached ______ the one end ______ an upright
post, and ______ the other end
______ a blind-
folded camel.
A. at…at, at…at B. to…at, to…at
C. at…to, at…to D. to…at, to… at
11. Every
here and there, a doorway gives ______ a sunlit
courtyard.
A. a glance of B. a glimpse of C. a
stare of D. a survey of
12. The boss asked me
if I would ____ to take the new mission.
A.
consider B. accept C. approve D. agree
13. He
was asked to account _____ the loss of the market
in Shanghai.
A. for B. of C. on D. about
14. We always _____ our success to our
parents, teachers and colleagues.
A. oblige B.
contribute C. delicate D. attribute
15. In
most public places, smoking is not ____.
A.
let B. legal C. allowed D. promised
II. Point
out the figures of speech used in each sentence.
1. It is a vast, somber cavern of a room. ( )
2. The pen is mightier than the sword. ( )
3. As you approach it, a tinkling and banging
and clashing begins to impinge on your ear. ( )
4. The din of the stall-holders crying their
wares, of donkey-boys and porters clearing a way
for
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themselves by shouting
vigorously, and of would-be purchasers arguing and
bargaining is
continuous and makes you dizzy.(
)
5. Then there is the spice-market, with its
pungent and exotic smells; and the food-market,
where
you can by everything you need for the
most sumptuous dinner, or sit in a tiny restaurant
with
porters and apprentices and eat your
humble bread and cheese. ( )
6. You pass from
the heat and glare of a big, open square into a
cool, dark cavern which extends as
far as the
eye can see, losing itself in the shadowy
distance.( )
III. Proofreading
1. The
roadway is narrowed every a few yards by little
stalls.______
2. Shopkeepers dealing with the
same kind of goods do not scatter themselves over
the
bazaar.__________
3. Desks in the
classroom are arranged at interval of 10 feet.
_______
4. College students could be well
prepared for independent thinking should be less
emphasis on
grades in high school.
5. He
believes that his nation should commit itself to
achieve the goal, before the decade is out, of
landing a man on the moon.
IV. Translate
the following sentences into English.
1.
他会尽力帮助你。（as far as）
2.
一些小毛驴正穿行于熙熙攘攘的人群中。（thread one’s way）
3.
现代大城市各种形状的建筑物应有尽有。（conceivable）
4.
欢呼声在远处渐渐消失了。（fade away）
5.
去北京的旅游者认为有必要参观长城。（make a point of doing sth）
6. 如果店主猜到你想那样东西，他就会漫天要价。（price，v.)
Exercises for Lesson 2
I. Multiple-choice
1． As the offender _______ his crime, he was
dealt with leniently.
A. had admitted B. had
confessed C. had recognized D. had realized
2. I was again crushed by the thought that I
stood on the ____ of the first atomic bombardment.
A. spot B. site C. place D. area
3. The
few Americans and Germans seemed just as _____ as
I was.
A. constrained B. curbed C. inhibited
D. withhold
4. They would also like to _____
the atomic museum.
A. demolish B. destroy C.
ruin D. smash
5. Little girls and elderly
ladies in kimonos ___teenagers and women in
western dress.
A. rubbed the shoulder with B.
rubbed shoulders with
C. rubbed the shoulder
with D. rubbed the shoulders with
6. At last
this intermezzo _____, and I found myself in front
of the gigantic City Hall.
A. came to an end
B. came to the end
C. came to end D. came to
ending
7. The taxi driver _______ at me in the
rear-view mirror when I got on the car.
A.
smile B. laughed C. grinned D. stared
8. I
treaded cautiously______ the tatami matting.
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A. on B. in C. down D. out
9.
He reverted_______ this theme
A. into B. on C.
onto D. to
10. But later my hair began to
fall_______, and my belly turned to water.
A.
over B. through C. out D. away
11. I now stood
on the site where thousands upon thousands of
others had lingered on to die ____
slow agony.
A. at B. from C. of D. in
12. Hiroshima,
as you know, is a city familiar ______ everyone.
A. with B. to C. for D. by
13. I am a
fisherman ______.
A. by trade B. for trade C.
on trade D. of trade
14. If you bear any
visible scars of atomic burns, your children will
encounter prejudice ______
those who do not.
A. on the side of B. at the side of C. on the
part of D. at the part of
15. The tall
building of the martyred city flashed by as we
lurched from side to side ______ the
driver’s
sharp twists of the wheel.
A. in response to
B. as response to C. in response of D. as response
of
16. After a week at sea, the sailors saw
______ .
A. land B. earth C. ground D. soil
you familiar _____ these technical terms?
A. with B. to C. for D. as
doctor gave
the old man a _____ examination and congratulated
him on his speedy
recovery.
A. cautious B.
cautiously C. careful D. careful
II. Fill in
each of the blanks with one of the following words
or expressions in its proper form.
Each word
or expression is to be used only once.
to have
a lump in one's throat, spare, spectacle, on the
part of,
rub shoulders with, humiliate,
shiver, sink in, in response, fold
1.
Obviously my warning failed to_______ , and he got
into trouble as a consequence.
2. The children
at play among the flowers made quite a
fine________________.
3. There is no
objection_____________________________ the land
owner.
4. Twice I made the request to him, but
he said nothing___________________.
5. All
during her mother's funeral,
Alice__________________________.
6. You should
disdain____________________________ such a person
like him.
7. ____________ a piece of paper
round the flowers so that they'll be easier to
carry.
8. China will never forget the________
treaties forced upon her by foreign invaders.
9. The victorious enemy__________ neither
young nor old.
10. Judging from
the____________ of the children it must be cold
outside.
III. Please identify the figures of
speech used in the following sentences.
1. Was
I not at the scene of the crime? ( )
2. I felt
sick, and ever since then they have been testing
and treating me.( )
3. Seldom has a city
gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy
to welcome you to
Hiroshima, a town known
throughout the world for its-oysters.( )
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4. The rather arresting spectacle
of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete
skyscrapers is the
very symbol of the
incessant struggle between the kimono and the
miniskirt. ( )
5. No one talks about it any
more, and no one wants to, especially, the people
who were born here
or who lived through it. (
)
6. Each day of suffering that helps to free
me from earthly cares, I make a new paper bird and
add
it to the others. ( )
7. At last this
intermezzo came to an end, and I found myself in
front of the Hall.
( )
IV. Translation
1. 在教授的葬礼上他喉咙哽咽。
2. 凡是值得做的，就得好好做。
3.
把我的钱拿走，饶我一命吧。( spare )
4.
这个房间有一股不新鲜的啤酒味。（smell of）
5. 我正准备点头,
可就在这时，我突然听明白了这句话的含义。（sink in）
Keys to the
Exercises for Lesson 2
I.
1. B 2. B 3. C
4. A 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. B 9. D 10. C
11. D 12.
B 13. A 14. C 15. A 16. A 17. A 18. C.
II.
1. sink in 2. spectacle 3. on the part of 4.
in response 5. had a lump in her throat
6. to
rub shoulders with 7. Fold 8. humiliating 9.
:spared 10. shivering
III.
1. rhetorical
question 2. alliteration 3. anti-climax 4.
symbolism 5. climax
6. metaphor 7. metaphor
IV.
Part A :
1. At the professor’s
funeral he had a lump in his throat.
2. What
is worth doing is worth doing well.
3. Take
my money but spare my life.
4. The room smelt
of stale beer.
5. I was just about to make my
little bow of assent, when the meaning of these
last words sank in.
Exercises for Lesson
5
Ⅰ. Multiple-choice
1. He said that
everyone should turn their backs _____ a craving
for fame and prestige.
A. for B. down C. up D.
on
2. Hitler was however wrong and we should
______ to help Russia.
A. make all out B. make
out all C. go all out D. go out all
3. In June
1941 Hitler suddenly ______ an attack on Russia.
A. launched B. exerted C. developed D. created
4. I see the Russian soldiers standing on the
________ of their native land, guarding the
fields.
A. threshold B. frontiers C. entrance
D. gate
5. The subjugation of the western
Hemisphere______ his will…
A. to B. in C.
according to D. against
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6.
When I awoke on the morning of Sunday, the news
was brought ______ me ______Hitler’s
invasion
of Russia.
A. for…of B. to…on C. to… of D.
for… on
7. Hitler was wrong and we should
______ to help Russia.
A. go out all B. go all
out C. make out all D. make all out
8. Winant
said the same would be true ______the U.S.A.
A. with B. of C. for D. to
9. The Nazi
regime is devoid ______ all theme and principle
except appetite and racial domination.
A. of
B. away C. from D. for
10. We shall ______ all
our friends and allies in every part of the world
to take the same course
and pursue it.
A.
appeal to B. appeal for C. appeal with D. appeal
of
11. This is no time to moralize ______ the
follies of countries which have allowed themselves
to
be struck down one by one.
A. to B. on
C. by D. in
12. In June 1941 Hitler suddenly
launched an attack ______ Russia.
A. for B. to
C. on D. against
II. Proof-reading
1. I
suppose they will be rounded out in hordes.
2.
We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by
sea, we shall fight him on the air.
3. The
Iraqis are counting in enlisting the support of
the world.
4. On the contrary, we shall be
fortified and encouraged in our efforts to rescue
mankind of his
tyranny.
5. If you do not
commit the crime, you don’t have to go all out to
concealing the evidence.
III. Please identify
the figures of speech used in the following
sentences.
1. After the failure of his last
novel his reputation stands on slippery grounds.
______
2. I see also the Hun soldiery plodding
on like a swarm of crawling locusts. ______
3.
Let us learn the lesson already taught by such
cruel experience. __________
4. But can you
doubt what our policy will be? _____________
5. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight
him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until,
...
______________
6. We have but one aim
and one single, irrevocable purpose. __________
7. …with its clanking, heel-clicking,
dandified Prussian officers…__________
IV.
Fill in each of the blanks with one of the
following words or expressions in its proper form.
Each word or expression is to be used only
once.
be true of, count on, devoid of, fresh
from, in due course,
issue, round up,
thereby, to that effect
1. The
great___________________ today is whether there
will be war or peace.
2. The
sheepdog____________________ the sheep and drove
them through the gate.
3. Our team is
________________________ you to win the match,
Joe.
4. As _____________________
5. He
finished first in the race, _________ winning the
championship for his school.
6. She called him
a villain or words_________________________.
7. Sound waves can not travel through a
space_____________________ air.
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8. These are eggs______________________
the hen, not preserved ones.
9. I will answer
all your questions______________________.
V.
Translation
1. Chinese to English Translation.
1) 他真是个好人，经常在我妈妈面前说我的好话。(reference)
2)
过去的一切——我们曾经的承诺，曾有过的快乐，都烟消云散了。(flash)
3)
我记不得他是怎么说的，但我肯定他讲话的大意是那样的。(effect)
Keys to the
Exercises for Lesson 5
1. D 2. C 3 A 4A 5. A
6.C 7. B
8 B 9 A 10 A 11. B 12. C
1.
out→up 2. on→in →on --from ling→conceal
1.
metaphor 2. simile ration ical question 5.
parallelism
6. repetition 7. onomatopoeia
1. issue 2. rounded up 3. counting on 4. is
true of 5. thereby
9. 6. to that effect of
8. fresh from due course
1) He is so kind
that he always make favorable references to my
mother.
2) The past, with our promises and our
happiness, flashes away.
3) I don’t remember
his exact words, but I am sure he did say
something to that effect.
Exercises
for Lesson 6
I. Vocabulary. Match the words or
phrases with similar meaning in the two columns.
( ) 1. cryptic a. hide
( ) 2. dispatch b.
hesitation
( ) 3. sardonic c. careful; secret
( ) 4. conceal d. surround; encircle
( )
5. blink e. send out, usually on a specific errand
( ) 6. imperious f. wink (the eye) rapidly
( ) 7. respite g. not ambiguous
( ) 8.
sullen h. face
( ) 9. vacillation i. lacking
harmony
( ) 10. grotesque j. mysterious
(
) 11. discreet k. ironic or sarcastic
( ) 12.
countenance l. delay; a temporary rest
( ) 13.
encompass m. arrogant; masterful
( ) 14.
unequivocal n. ridiculous; fantastic
( ) 15.
incongruous o. bad-tempered or gloomy; dismal
II. Multiple choice
1. The humble bell-boy
______ his tongue reprovingly in front of the
princess.
A. flipped B. chuckled C. clucked D.
flickered
2. The family were having dinner
when the ______ buzzer of the door sounded.
A.
quiet B. muted C. silent D. low
3. It ______
to keep calm when confronted with dangers.
A.
pays B. takes C. costs D. deserves
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4. Please ______ you cigar before
entering this building.
A. put down B. put up
C. put off D. put out
5. There were plenty of
places to ______ the highway and be unobserved.
A. pull off B. pull out C. pull up D. pull
down
6. The big shot ______ several government
officials in the past years.
A. buy out B. buy
up C. buy off D. buy down
7. He gambled ______
being able to buy a ticket at the last minute.
A. about B. on C. in D. with
8. The duke
interjected, “What you accuse us ______ is true. I
am to blame.”
A. with B. about C. D. of
9. It was essential that her thinking ______
calm and reasoned.
A. remained B. remain C.
had remained D. would remain
10. The young man
______ the charm of his new collegue, a blonde
from England.
A. took a chance B. threw a book
at
C. fell victim to C. comply with
III.
Fill in the blanks with prep.
1. The frankness
of the students took the governess ___________
surprise.
2. Her eyes took ________ a hurt
expression.
3. Earlier her boss sent her
________ an errand into the town.
4. The
public should be on the lookout ________ symdroms
of this disease.
5. The Duchess must do so in
such a way as to place the outcome ________any
doubt.
6. Ogilvie paused to puff again
________ the cigar as his listeners waited
silently.
7. The Duchess had seated herself
______ a straight-backed chair.
8. The problem
lay ______ deciding when to intervene.
IV.
Translation.
1. 她说她很难过，但她的眼神却流露出喜悦。(betray)
2. 你的意思是我在说谎吗？(suggest)
3．我们俩谁也不善于计算数字。(adept)
4．他企图尽一切办法掩盖事实的真相。(conceal)
Keys to
the Exercises Lesson 6
I. Vocabulary.
1. j
2. e 3. k 4. a 5. f 6. m 7. l 8. o 9. b 10. n 11.
c 12. h 13. d 14. g 15.i
II. CBADA CBDBC
III. 2. on 3. on 4. for 6. at 7. in 8. in
Translation.
1. She said she was sad, but
her eyes betrayed her delight.
you suggesting
that I am telling a lie?
3. Neither of us is
adept at figures.
4. He tried every means to
conceal the truth.
Exercises for Lesson
9
I. Multiple-choice
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1．Most Americans remember Mark Twain as
the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through
_______ boyhood.
A. endlessly B. permanent
C. eternal D. eternally
2. Mark Twain had
become a very _______ man during his later life,
which was reflected in his
writings. He
believed that the world was wrong, where people
achieved nothing.
A. sarcastic B. ironic C.
cynical D. sentimental
3. Bitterness
fed_______ the man who had made the world laugh.
A. back B. to C. up D. on
4. Steamboat
decks teemed not only______ the main current of
pioneering humanity, but is
flotsam of
hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well.
A. up
B. of C. on D. with
5. Mark Twain digested the
New American experience before sharing it with the
world ______
writer and lecturer.
A. by B.
for C. like D. as
6. Mark Twain began ______
his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter
and humorist.
A. seeking B. picking C. digging
D. making
8. He accepted a job as reporter
______ the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.
A. for B. with C. at D. by
9. When
railroad began drying up the ____ for steamboat
pilots and the Civil War halted
commence, Mark
Twain left the river country.
A. need B.
demand C. requirement D. request
10. All ____
resurface in his books, together with the colorful
language that he soaked up with a
memory that
seemed phonographic.
A. will B. may C. would
D. might
II. Word explanation
1. range
A. to launch B. to wander C. to seek D. to
wonder
2. cruise
A. voyage B. crowd C.
cloud D. boat
3. profound
A. perfect B.
deep C. proud D. desirable
4. frailty
A.
weakness B. stiffness C. frugality D. fracture
5. core
A. centre B. thread C. edge D.
front
6. obsess
A. to process B. to
observe C. to occupy D. to absorb
7. attest
A. to prove B. to arrest C. to attend D. to
progress
8. cosmos
A. custom B. system C.
universe D. course
9. slum
A. a piece of
ground going up or down
B. B. a city area of
dirty, poor living condition
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C. C. an area of soft wet land
D.
the entire tract of country drained by a river
10. perception
A. understanding B.
conception C. entrance D. percentage
11.
rebuff
A. to puff B. to oppose C. to refuse D.
to reprove
12. debunk
A. to retell B. to
expose C. to impress D. to describe
13. flirt
A. to fling over B. to play with C. to throw
away D. to point at
14. ingenuity
A.
stupidity B. reality C. cleverness D. truth
15. deplore
A. to look for B. to ask for
C. to be in lack of D. to be sorry about
16.
long and tiring
A. scathing B. cynical C.
tedious D. abundant
17. good, strong, quick at
understanding
A. keen B. revered C. earnest D.
puritanical
18. the state of intellectually
deceived or misled
A. vanish B. ambition C.
illusion D. dreary
19. importance with respect
to power to produce an effect
A. consequence
B. sultan C. clamor D. providence
20. a
prevailing tendency or inclination
A. epidemic
B. trend C. gratitude D. climax
IV.
Proofreading
We all know the computer is
coming into our home and work environments.
But how many of us thought it would effect our
marriages? One of my _______1
friends reports
that at her evening computer course, more than a
third of the people there came
only because
their spouse had purchased a home computer. It can
certainly be the third party that
upsets the
delicate balance of a marriage.
In connecting
to our national economy, it is important now not
to get _____2
depressed about the latest
gloomy business statistics, which they are
strictly____3
industrial-based measures of
economic well-being. The information economy and
the other
sunrise sectors are going well. They
are the ones to invest now. ______4
Small
sunrise stocks versus large sunset stocks; buying
Computer Software, Inc., selling U.S.
Steel.
If, as predicted, electronics replaces the
automobile like ____5
the most important
industry in our economy, will we have to buy a
home computer before buying
a car?
We
need cars now because we organized our society
around it. Fifty _____6
years ago when we
decided that since the economy was going to be
built cars,__ 7
everyone from age sixteen up
should want and need one. But what did the
automobile ever
contribute to society besides
transportation? Without it, would we have moved so
far apart and
created such poor public
transportation? Of course, we need cars. But who
live in cities? In
addition to transportation,
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the automobile has brought
us air pollution, a average of 50,000 ______8
highway dyings each year, automobile
insurance, and parking _____9
tickets. So far
the computer looks relatively modest. The whole
orientation of the
computer are getting you to
expand your brainpower through growth, _______10
education, and learning.
Keys to the
Exercises for Lesson 9
I. Multiple-choice
1. C 2. C 3. D 4. D 5. D 6. C 8. B 9. B 10. C
II. Word explanation
1. B 2. A 3. B 4. A
5. A 6. C 7. A 8. C 9. B 10. A
11. C 12. B 13.
B 14. C 15. D 16. C 17. A 18. C 19. A 20. B
B.
1. effectàaffect 2. In connecting toàIn connection
with 3. theyà (delete)
4. investà invest (in)
5. likeà as 6. ità them 7. builtà built (on)
8. Furthermoreà But 9. dyingsà deaths 10. areà
is
VII. Translation
1. His wife left him
and he would die in a stormy night.
2. Most of
his works remain in print.
3. This nation’s
best-loved author was every bit as adventurous,
patriotic, romantic and humorous
as anyone has
ever imagined.
4. Steamboat decks teemed not
only with the main current of pioneering humanity,
but its flotsam
of hustlers, gamblers, and
thugs as well.
5. That’s California all over.
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