河南大学高英1模拟试题2.doc

《高 级 英 语》 第一册 模拟试题 （二） I. Choose the rhetorical or figurative device from the list below that best describes the underlined words. All of the devices listed are used once and when necessary more than one device can be used to describe the selected words. Mark your answer with capital letters like A, B, C, …or J . (10%) Model: The difference, for example, between the much-touted Second International and the much-clouted Third International is not like the difference between the horse and buggy and the automobile. Answer: (A) 1. I see masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. 2. “...where they have left no sign that they had existed—a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.” 3. They doubted that “Lincoln could have modelled his Gettysburg Address” on it—a concept of how things get written that throws very little light on Lincoln but a great deal on Life. 4. He is here because ignorance and bigotry are rampant, and it is a mighty strong combination. 5. His industry, perseverance and determination ultimately brought him a rich harvest. 6. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open. 7. Or what of those sheets and jets of air that are now being used, in place of old-fashioned oak and hinges, to screen entrances and exists? 8. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer of adventure. 9. You are really good. You ruined everything. 10. He commented with a crushing sense of despair on man’s final release from earthly struggles. List of devices: (A) Antithesis (B) Hyperbole (C) Alliteration (D) Metaphor (E) Simile (F) Irony (G) Sarcasm (H) Euphemism (I) Synecdoche (J) Transferred Epithet  II. Determine whether the following statements are True or False. Mark them with T or F to indicate your answer. (15%) 1. “The Middle Eastern Bazaar” is an essay t