高级英语2 习题
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Exercise 1
I. Multiple-choice
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 7. Bitterness ______ the man who had made the world laugh. A. fed on B. fed with C. fed up D. fed for
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 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 17. good, strong, quick at understanding
A. keen B. revered C. earnest 18. the state of intellectually deceived or misled
A. vanish B. ambition C. illusion 19. importance with respect to power to produce an effect
A. consequence B. sultan C. clamor 20. a prevailing tendency or inclination
A. epidemic B. trend C. gratitude
D. abundant D. puritanical D. dreary D. providence D. climax
Exercise 2
I. Please identify the figures of speech used in the following sentences. 1. Tom Sawyer?s endless summer of freedom and adventure ( )
2. From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are. ( )
3. The instant riches of a mining strike would not be his in the reporting trade, but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax. ( )
4. It was a splendid population --- for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home... ( )
5. He tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy. ( )
6. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh. ( )
7. He commented with a crushing sense of despair on man?s final release from earthly struggles. ( )
8. A world which will lament them a day and forget them forever. ( ) 9. Mark Twain saw clearly ahead a black wall of night. ( )
10. For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed. ( )
II. Paraphrase
1. a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race.
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2. Mark Twain digested the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
3. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied—a cosmos.__________________________________________________________. 4. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.
________________________________________________________________.
5. Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist. __________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________.
III. Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with proper words.
The man who became_____① ______② was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he ranged_____③ the nation for more than a third of his life, digesting the new American experience ______④ sharing it with the world ____ ⑤ writer and lecturer. He adopted his _____ ⑥name from the cry heard in his steamboat days, signaling two fathoms (12_____⑦) of water—a navigable depth. His popularity is attested ______ ⑧ the fact that more than a score of his books remain in____ ⑨, and ______ ⑩ are still read around the world.
IV. Proofreading
1. Mark Twain soaked in the colorful language with his memory that seemed phonographic.
______
2. Tom is every bit as intelligence as the top student in his class._____ 3. He spent his summer holiday ranging the whole country.______
4. My grandfather is often obsessed about the idea that he might die at any tiem.______ 5. Personal tragedy haunted his entire life, of the deaths of loved ones._____
6. Now the gloves came off for biting satire._____
7. While it may be a number of years before we are able to send our astronauts into space, the
basic instrumentation is already in the place. _____
8. Personal service in any other area of American life is not so precious as medical care.____ 9. Mark Twain grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt
with him. _____
10. In later life Mark Twain acknowledged that the river had acquainted him for every possible
type of human race._____