奥鹏作业网《高级英语》考前练兵
1.[单选题] I held the paper sack with his cookies in my arms ________ by the poems.
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A.trailed
B.mead
C.essence
D.shieled
答:——D——
2.[单选题] It takes the human voice to ________ them with the shades of deeper meaning.
A.refuse
B.confuse
C.infuse
D.refusing
答:——C——
3.[单选题] It is his job, no doubt, to discipline his temperament and avoid getting stuck at some immature stage, or in some ________ mood.
A.shivers
B.association
C.perverse
D.projected
答:——C——
4.[单选题] It is true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to ________ one’s own personality.
A.efface
B.ound
C.betray
D.ruin
答:————
5.[单选题] My imagination ________ at the punishment I would deserve if in fact I did abuse a book.
A.boggled
B.googled
C.giggled
D.joggled
答:————
6.[单选题] It was difficult for the police to ________ the angry crowd.
A.hesitate
B.pacify
C.satisfy
D.spectacle
答:————
7.[单选题] Demon is simply the same ________ that makes a baby squall for attention.
A.pane
B.readable
C.instinct
D.spirit
答:————
8.[单选题] The Hungarian uprising in 1956 was ________ by the Soviet Union.
A.surfaced
B.contained
C.suppressed
D.supported
答:————
9.[单选题] But then fatigue created a kind of mental ________.
A.anaesthetic
B.paralyzed
C.subside
D.exhaustion
答:————
10.[单选题] It seemed at times that we were climbing almost ________.
A.perpendicularly
B.resolutely
C.unpromising
D.splendidly
答:————
11.[单选题] Most of the papers give ________ to the same story this morning.
A.dimension
B.influence
C.syndicate
D.prominence
答:————
12.[单选题] I had this sudden ______ to shout out “Rubbish!” in the middle of her speech.
A.nonosabio
B.trot
C.impulse
D.trumpet
答:————
13.[单选题] Since everyone we knew could sew ________, praise was rarely handed out for the commonly practiced craft.
A.competently
B.competent
C.stitch
D.apronlike
答:————
14.[单选题] I heard except for the noise created by my own beastly ________ in the thickets.
A.wallowing
B.willows
C.wallowed
D.willowed
答:————
15.[单选题] I could detect ________ variances in fragrance as we strolled through the garden.
A.beginning
B.subtle
C.substitute
D.sacred
答:————
16.[单选题] When a local paper has a monopoly in a region, as most of them do, why is it necessary to aim at the lowest common ________?
A.service
B.feature
C.denominator
D.dispatch
答:————
17.[单选题] We won‘t go unless you _____ soon.
A.coming
B.will come
C.comes
D.come
答:————
18.[单选题] My wife___.
A.has forever criticized me
B.forever criticizes me
C.does forever criticize me
D.is forever criticizing me
答:————
19.[单选题] Children these days would ________ out of sheetmetal clothes.
A.burst
B.bust
C.break
D.burnt
答:————
20.[单选题] It seemed she had a private breeze which ________ around, cooling her.
A.swirling
B.swirl
C.swirls
D.swirled
答:————
21.[单选题] If you fit the ________ averages, by the age of 20 you will have been exposed to at least 20000 hours of television.
A.statistical
B.statistics
C.statistic
D.statistically
答:————
22.[单选题] Television sells us instant ________.
A.gratify
B.gratitude
C.gratification
D.grate
答:————
23.[单选题] Typically the spans ________ are on the order of minutes or seconds.
A.allocation
B.allocate
C.allocating
D.allotted
答:————
24.[单选题] I stare at the ________ blank paper until sights and sounds become dim and confused. 奥鹏大工答案点击 ap5u.com
A.reproach
B.approach
C.reproachfully
D.approachfully
答:————
25.[单选题] If it‘s of any ____________ to you, you‘re not the only one he was rude to.
A.music
B.agent
C.ideal
D.consolation
答:————
26.[单选题] One turns on the radio while doing something else and ____________ bathes in the sound.
A.engendered
B.absentmindedly
C.appealing
D.mere
答:————
27.[单选题] I ________ any reasonable man to fall asleep while mustering a herd of cerulean swine.
A.deny
B.defy
C.delete
D.detour
答:————
28.[单选题] I imagined the picture on the wall without difficulty, and gave it a few ________ touches.
A.plumb
B.monotony
C.avail
D.deft
答:————
29.[单选题] Is it pessimistically sad or _____________ sad; is it fatefully sad or smilingly sad?
A.novices
B.exuberance
C.resignedly
D.conception
答:————
30.[单选题] You are moved to pity, excitement, or ______________.
A.gaiety
B.costume
C.simultaneously
D.engrossed
答:————
31.[单选题] I worked so late in the office last night that I hardly had time ___the last bus.
A.to have caught
B.to catch
C.catching
D.having caught
答:————
32.[单选题] New problems took their place – the unprecedented problems of an ________ society.
A.affluence
B.affluent
C.dogged
D.sanitary
答:————
33.[单选题] Our planet unfortunately, is running out of noble savages and ________ landscapes.
A.unsullied
B.sullied
C.tension
D.pastoral
答:————
34.[单选题] It closed around one with a thick ________ drug-like heaviness.
A.palpable
B.palpably
C.adjured
D.adjure
答:————
35.[单选题] She knew it was that that had given her the ___________________.
A.palpitations
B.shillings
C.clacking
D.cretonne
答:————
36.[单选题] His _______________ at the outcome of the court case was very clear.
A.experiment
B.novelis
C.anguish
D.frenzy
答:————
37.[单选题] We may fail to see how a ___________ Deity could wish us to draw such conclusions from the hierarchical order He has created.
A.objective
B.benevolent
C.sentiment
D.scruple
答:————
38.[单选题] We see that freight railroads make good profits while __________ excellent service.
A.recompensing
B.immortal
C.parting
D.rendering
答:————
39.[单选题] It was the only thing that I could do – I don‘t have to __________ myself to anyone.
A.justify
B.consist
C.brush
D.dram
答:————
40.[单选题] I wouldn‘t dream of _____________ such a lack of judgment to you.
A.committing
B.attributing
C.springing
D.reviewing
答:————
41.[单选题] Newspapers ________ against him, and TV networks banned him.
A.edit
B.editor
C.editorial
D.editorialized
答:————
42.[单选题] Elvis managed to embody the ________ teenage spirit of the 1950s.
A.frustrating
B.frustrate
C.frustrated
D.frustration
答:————
43.[单选题] A man was not stamped as a ___________ for protesting against vivisection.
A.iron
B.triumph
C.crank
D.imbecile
答:————
44.[单选题] This gifted woman‘s daughter (my wife) was taught her mother‘s __________ skills.
A.material
B.alleged
C.gruesome
D.venerable
答:————
45.[单选题] “Just look at that waterfall! Isn‘t it amazing?” she ___________.
A.marvelled
B.illicit
C.resented
D.suspected
答:————
46.[单选题] She liked its huge, barnlike, inhuman ___________, its corridors shoulder-high in dark green, shoulder-to-ceiling in pale peppermint.
A.bleakness
B.accessibility
C.beret
D.frizzy
答:————
47.[单选题] The vocabulary and grammatical differences between British and American English are so trivial and few as hardly___.
A.noticed
B.to be noticed
C.being noticed
D.to notice
答:————
48.[单选题] Domesticity appalled her, and she nourished in it, dispite a _________ for the comfortless grand.
A.encasing
B.yearning
C.cramping
D.emerging
答:————
49.[单选题] Horowitz sees the rock music ________ as a sort of debating forum.
A.arena
B.exaggeration
C.motion
D.society
答:————
50.[单选题] Jim Binns wrote me about some of his __________.
A.skepticism
B.misgiving
C.misgivings
D.contemporaries
答:————
51.[单选题] Medicare has ________ the population into reassuring itself that the once terrible financial burdens of late-life illnesses are now eradicated.
A.morbid
B.eaped
C.toiled
D.lulled
答:————
52.[单选题] The are prime victims of dishonest door-to-door salesman and __________ advertising, and buy defective hearing aids, dance lessons, useless “Medicare insurance supplements”.
A.diagnostic
B.fraudulent
C.adversity
D.penalize
答:————
53.[单选题] There were food shortages and other _______________ during the Civil War.
A.discrepant
B.multitude
C.deprivations
D.accumulation
答:————
54.[单选题] I could see at once that the lock had been __________ with.
A.tampered
B.satiated
C.backed
D.unfrosted
答:————
55.[单选题] After the recent scandal, the priest is expected to do the ________ thing and resign from his position.
A.decent
B.celebrated
C.wilted
D.bland
答:————
56.[单选题] While the television ________ ignored me, they were not aware of a very important statistic.
A.dashikis
B.dashiki
C.crews
D.crew
答:————
57.[单选题] Unfair employment practices are enforced instead of ________.
A.evaded
B.evade
C.invaded
D.invade
答:————
58.[单选题] I have done the work – all the ________ details that make the difference between victory and defeat on election day.
A.tedious
B.liberal
C.invariable
D.handicapped
答:————
59.[单选题] He had the dignity and ________ of prophets.
A.crouching
B.pillar
C.glaring
D.majesty
答:————
60.[单选题] The beast you feel is savage, ________ hostile, basically a murderer.
A.intrinsic
B.abrupt
C.intrinsically
D.abruptly
答:————
61.[单选题] We were only able to make a __________ connection between the two robberies.
A.hailed
B.initiative
C.throes
D.tenuous
答:————
62.[单选题] I was handed full manuscripts of unpublished books by __________ writers and asked to criticize them.
A.intellectual
B.indigenous
C.bastard
D.spate
答:————
63.[单选题] It only took me an hour to pick up the __________ of skiing.
A.populace
B.stalking
C.omnipotence
D.rudiments
答:————
64.[单选题] In the story, a __________ witch put a curse on the princess for 100 years.
A.wicked
B.harmless
C.securing
D.deceiving
答:————
65.[单选题] _________ efforts were made throughout the war to disguise the scale of civilian casualties.
A.Strenuous
B.Indifferent
C.Inhaling
D.Insatiable
答:————
66.[单选题] They had minor breakthroughs but real success ________ them
A.applauded
B.decried
C.eluded
D.brute
答:————
67.[单选题] Their disagreement _________ from a misunderstanding.
A.simplified
B.manifested
C.stemmed
D.watershed
答:————
68.[单选题] Employers rarely make ____________ for the possible physical limitations of otherwise valuable older employees, and instead they are fired, retired or forced to resign.
A.concessions
B.subsistence
C.confrontation
D.humiliation
答:————
69.[单选题] Independent sources say that the death __________ from the earthquake runs into thousands.
A.toll
B.funnel
C.quack
D.impair
答:————
70.[多选题] Which of the following sentences do not use the rhetorical device of transferred epithet?
A.Like women in English novels who walk the moors with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful distance.
B.… I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and melting.
C.… and my image of her would have been shattered like the unmendable Humpty-Dumpty.
D.Through the cloth film, I saw the shadow approach.
答:————
71.[多选题] Which sentences use the rhetorical device of irony?
A.The American dream promised older people that if they worked hard enough all their lives, things would turn out well for them.
B.But what are an individual’s chances for a “good” old age in America, with satisfying final years and a dignified death?
C.And though I’m as leery of certain polls as anyone, this margin of credulity is too wide to be discounted.
D.He stands there, his feet braced, his head high from the soaring mountain of his huge neck, and he wonders where he is.
答:————
72.[多选题] Which sentences use the rhetorical device of simile?
A.They look like figures representing gluttony in a medieval morality play, and you expect ladies in wimples to appear and clowns dressed like monkeys.
B.There are also big block letters laid out on sand like formations of gymnasts at a Soviet youth rally.
C.He breathes hard. He looks around.
D.Maybe he hesitates, or looks around, or gives up.
答:————
73.[多选题] Which of the sentences below apply the rhetorical device of metaphor?
A.She felt her cheek pale and cold and, out of a maze of distress, …
B.He would drown her.
C.She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
D.The boat blew a long mournful whistle into the mist.
答:————
74.[多选题] Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of metaphor?
A.They were interrupted from time to time by giggles that must have come from Mrs. Flowers.
B.One summer afternoon, sweet-milk fresh in my memory, she stopped at the Store to buy provisions.
C.The chifforobe was a maze.
D.Children these days would bust out of sheetmetal clothes.
答:————
75.[多选题] Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of hyperbole?
A.She smiled that slow dragging smile.
B.Children these days would bust out of sheetmetal clothes.
C.Momma hadn’t thought that taking off my dress in front of Mrs. Flowers would kill me stone dead.
D.What on earth did one put on to go to Mrs. Flowers’ house?
答:————
76.[多选题] Which of the sentences below apply the rhetorical device of rhetorical question?
A.Was that wise?
B.What would they say of her in the Stores when they found out that she had run away with a fellow?
C.Why should she be unhappy?
D.He took her to see The Bohemian Girl and she felt elated as she sat in an unaccustomed part of the theatre with him.
答:————
77.[多选题] Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of personification?
A.Death would be too kind and brief.
B.I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
C.The sweet scent of vanilla had met us as she opened the door.
D.Browned photographs leered or threatened from the walls and …
答:————
78.[多选题] Simile is applied in ________.
A.In politics, a reformer may have just as strong a love of power as a despot.
B.And is it not, perhaps, a drug which—like opium—has to be taken in continually stronger doses to produce the desired effect?
C.When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates, acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire…
D.What he thought was, “I must have a Navy as good as Grandmamma’s.”
答:————
79.[多选题] Sarcasm is applied in ________.
A.When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.
B.When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates, acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire and dwelt in palaces of almost unbelievable luxury, they did not, on that account, become inactive.
C.When London crowds assemble in Trafalgar Square to cheer to the echo an announcement that the government has decided to have them killed, they would not do so if they had walked 25 mile that day.
D.Any persons found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.
答:————
80.[多选题] Rhetorical question is used in ________.
A.“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done …”
B.How much harder will it be to eliminate the prejudice against women?
C.Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
D.If that is not prejudice, what would you call it?
答:————
81.[多选题] Personification is applied in ________.
A.When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.
B.One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on.
C.Civilized life has grown altogether too tame, …
D.Any persons found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.
答:————
82.[多选题] Metaphor is applied in ________.
A.…satiety is a dream which will always elude you.
B.When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.
C.Dance halls, cinemas, this age of jazz are all, if we may believe our ears, gateway to Hell, and we should be better employed sitting at home contemplating our sins.
D.It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles.
答:————
83.[多选题] Allusion is applied in ________.
A.It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles.
B.It was there, ironically enough, that the Odyssey turned homeward.
C.I bear the same mark as a son of Watts now that I did during that oratorical contest in high school.
D.But when he took to agriculture, …and to dream of the life hereafter in which he would perpetually hunt the wild boar of Valhalla.
答:————
84.[多选题] Metaphor is used in ________.
A.To be allowed, no, invited, into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
B.“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done …”
C.Part of the problem is that women in America are much more brainwashed and content with their roles as second-class citizens than blacks ever were.
D.I have done the work — … while man reaped the rewards, which is almost invariably the lot of women in politics.
答:————
85.[多选题] Simile is NOT used in ________.
A.Good prose is like a window pane.
B.A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.
C.Writers share this characteristic … in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
D.It can be seen how these various impulses must war against one another, and how …
答:————
86.[多选题] Metaphor is NOT used in ________.
A.Good prose is like a window pane.
B.A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.
C.Writers share this characteristic … in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
D.I cannot say with certainty which of my motives are the strongest, but I know which of them deserve to be followed.
答:————
87.[多选题] Antithesis is used in ________.
A.She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
B.… I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and melting.
C.The sweet scent of vanilla had met us as she opened the door.
D.I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
答:————
88.[多选题] Analogy is NOT used in ________.
A.Good prose is like a window pane.
B.It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning make the prize light.”
C.Who would want to remonstrate and argue with them?
D.I stare at the reproachfully blank paper until sights and sounds become dim and confused, …
答:————
89.[多选题] Antithesis is applied in ________.
A.If a mere sentiment justifies cruelty, why stop at a sentiment for the whole human race?
B.It is so deep a need that it will find harmful outlets of this kind unless innocent outlets are at hand.
C.If it is not defended on the ground that it reduces human suffering, on what ground can it be defended?
D.If we find a man giving pleasure it is for us to prove (if we criticize him) that his action is wrong. But if we find a man inflicting pain it is for him to prove that his action is right.
答:————
90.[多选题] Transferred epithet is NOT used in ________.
A.But there is a man in my office, a Mr. H., who proses it away from morning to night, …
B.Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
C.I stare at the reproachfully blank paper until sights and sounds become dim and confused, …
D.… and I would pass ours in tormenting sleeplessness.
答:————
91.[多选题] Synecdoche is NOT used in ________.
A.But there is a man in my office, a Mr. H., who proses it away from morning to night, …
B.Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
C.It would be worse than beating an anvil with a sledge-hammer.
D.It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning make the prize light.”
答:————
92.[多选题] Allusion is not used in ________.
A.Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool?
B.When before in human history has so much humanity collectively surrendered so much of its leisure to one toy, one mass deivesion?
C.When before has virtually an entire nation surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling?
D.… had bequeathed to us tablets of stone commanding that nothing in television shall ever require more than a few moments’ concentration.
答:————
93.[多选题] Simile is used in ________.
A.Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool?
B.Much of it is what has been aptly described as “machine gunning with scraps.”
C.For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible.
D.Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus.
答:————
94.[判断题] Mrs. Flowers took special care of Marguerite only because she liked her.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
95.[判断题] Mrs. Flowers read to Marguerite a poem from the book A Tale of Two Cities.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
96.[判断题] Mrs. Flowers said she would punish Marguerite severely if she failed to use her books properly.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
97.[判断题] (A Most Forgiving Ape) The mountain gorilla lives in an area up on the volcanoes seldom visited by the local African tribesmen.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
98.[判断题] (A Most Forgiving Ape) When the author and his party se out that morning, he was quite certain that he would meet the gorillas.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
99.[判断题] (Jerusalem the Golden) From the absence of male teachers and students in the excerpt we can conclude that it was not a co-educated school.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
100.[判断题] Many newspapers are owned by one party.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
101.[判断题] Anyone can perform miracles so long as he concentrates something; but television discourages concentration.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
102.[判断题] Marguerite was a sensitive girl and was upset by Momma’s behavior towards Mrs. Flowers.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
103.[判断题] Shirly Chisholm (the author) loves teaching and is waiting anxiously to go back to her job in school.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
104.[判断题] An intelligent listener is satisfied with a general concept of what a musical piece means.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
105.[判断题] People choosing the second alternative hate human civilization and are unwilling to contribute anything to it.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
106.[判断题] Young people doubt that the older generation are capable rulers and should, therefore, be their teacher.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
107.[判断题] (The Spanish Bullfight) A priest prays for the matadors before the fight.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
108.[判断题] One of the African guides could tell that these nests had been abandoned by the gorillas long before.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
109.[判断题] Though the infliction of pain in itself is an evil act, it requires no justification if it can be done for a good purpose.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
110.[判断题] Modern men also have primitive impulse.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
111.[判断题] Primitive men, due to lack of such entertainments as modern men have, easily got bored.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
112.[判断题] (On Human Nature and Politics) The condemned murderer is displeased with those newspapers that make a big noise about his trial.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
113.[判断题] A rational discussion of vivisection can only be based on the assumption that pain is an evil.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
114.[判断题] (Eveline) Elveline’s father was a brute man and often beat his children including his daughter.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
115.[判断题] Old-fashioned cheeses can no longer be bought anywhere in the United States.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
116.[判断题] The teachers of the school were equally respected and loved by their students.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
117.[判断题] The real world is beset with social problems which, instead of being solved once for all, often lead to others.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
118.[判断题] (I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto) Racial climate in England, especially at Oxford, remained relaxed until the author wrote this article.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
119.[判断题] (Science Has Spoiled My Supper) The most notable device of style in this essay is hyperbole, deliberate exaggeration for effect.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
120.[判断题] She is not satisfied with the present status of women in the American political world because she despises the tedious and specific jobs.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
121.[判断题] The whole article convinces us that these animals are largely a gentle and kind species.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
122.[判断题] The Watts riots gave rise to a flourishing of ghetto literature and art.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
123.[判断题] The Kaiser was impressed by the British naval review and decided to build a powerful navy for himself.
A.错误
B.正确
答:————
