高级英语试卷5.DOCVIP

高级英语试题（五） Explaining the italicized words in the following sentences. (20%) Bargaining is the order of the day, and veiled women move at a leisurely pace from shop to shop, selecting, pricing and doing a little preliminary bargaining… The din of the stall-holders crying their wares, … is continuous and makes you dizzy. The Middle Eastern bazaar takes you back hundreds?even thousands?of years. … shopkeepers dealing in the same kind of goods… collect in the same area. Little donkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way among the throngs of people entering and leaving the bazaar. Serious looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them, and bobbed up and down repeatedly in little bows, as they exchanged the ritual formula of gratitude and respect. The very act of stepping on this soil, in breathing this air of Hiroshima, was for me a far greater adventure than any trip or any reportorial assignment I’d previously taken. Where there should have been gentle blue-green waves lapping against the side of the ship, there was nothing but hot dry sand--- as far as I could see in all directions. The other ships of the fleet were also at rest in the sand, scattered in the dunes that stretched all the way to the horizon. Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car, sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him? Presently General Dill, who had hastened down from London, came into my bedroom with detailed news. The Germans had invaded Russia on an enormous front, had surprised a large portion of the Soviet Air Force grounded on the airfields, and seemed to be driving forward with great rapidity and violence. His gaze moved on to sweep the spacious, well-appointed room, encompassing the Duke who faced them uncertainly, his back to a window. The house detective’s piggy eyes surveyed her sardonically from his gross jowled face. The TV set blinks on with the day’