#2008.6期末考题_.docVIP

2005级高级英语试题 I．Paraphrase: (30%) 1. The microelectronic revolution promises to ease, enhance and simplify life in ways undreamed of even by the utopians. 2. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied – a cosmos. 3. All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic. 4. Shipping conferences make it harder to make a big killing in good times. 5. The estuaries of the world became jammed with the steadily increasing numbers of moth-ball tankers. 6. As an Indian, Piquette was a dead loss. 7. Her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible. 8. It cannot be described in terms of any other language, or even in terms of its own past. 9. Lexicography, like God, is no respecter of persons. 10. Modern linguistics gets its charter from Leonard Bloomfield’s Language . II. Please identify the figures of speech used in the following sentences. (10%) But for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax. Mark Twain is considered as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood. There was a short, thoughtful silence. She read the long-awaited letter with a tearful smile. 5. This time fate was smiling to him. 6. Or what of those sheets and jets of air that are now being used, in place of old-fashioned oak and hinges… 7. Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted. 8. “ The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.” 9. Then the court broke into a storm of applause that surpassed that for Bryan. 10 He commented with a crushing sense of despair on man’s final release from earthly struggle. III. Replace the underlined words and phrases with the following words or expressions: (10%) Example: Indeed, this nation’s best-loved author was entirely as adventurous as anyone had ever imagined. ( H ) In the end, the pres