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1.Hurricane Betsy haddemolishedhis former home.destroy
2.She carried on alone for a few bars; then her voice trailed away.变弱 fade away
3.Thev did not delve into each other\'s lives.Investigate
4.The Norman lords of course turned up their noses at it.Look down onpan
5.The torch has been paed to a new generation of Americans, tempered by war.trained
6.Together let us eradicate disease! Root out
7.Here was a scene so dreadful kideous, so intolerable bleak and forlorn.terrible
8.I award this championship only after laborious research and inceant prayer.endle
9.One cannot imagine mere human beings concocting such dreadful things.Trump up
10.Memories of the deliciously illicit thrill of the first visit to a speakeasy.illegal
11.The end of the decade forced the revelers to sober up.Wake up
12.They seem altogether out of scale in England.Out of proportion
l3.I will announce what the future of the English hangs upon, keeping clear of econoratcs.
excluding
14.Where is this \"Good life\" in sweating your guts out...?Spending a lot of efforts
15.The stubbornly divided minority, only agreeing in being myopic and entirely self interested.Short sight
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16.The Sun Also Rises was written by_
A) Dos Paosg) T.S.laiot
C) Ernest HemingwayD) William Faulkner
17.The following descriptions about the Cold War are correct except.
A) It was the period of protracted conflict and competition between the United
States and the Soviet Union and their allies.
B) It lasted from the late 1940s until the late 1980s.
C) During the time there were repeated crises that threatened to escalate into world war.
D) The rivalry between the two superpowers was played out only in military coalitions.
18.Among the following American presidents, ___had a Catholic religious background.
A) Dwight David EisenhowerB)John Fitzgerald KenndyC) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
D) Abraham Lincoln
19.Ingo is a fictional character in William Shakespeare’s _____
A) OthelloB) King LearC) HamletD) Macbeth
20.Among the following American cities, ___ bears the nickname “the Big Apple”.
A) Los AnglesB) ChicagoC) PhiladelphiaD) New York
21.The Norman conquest of England was the invasion of the Kingdom of England by William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy).In the year of ____ at the Battle of Hastings the English King was defeated and England was conquered by the Normans.
A) 1406B) 1066C) 1604D) 1266
22.In 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast of Australia which he named Now South Wales and claimed for Britain.The expedition’s discoveris provided impetus for the establishment of a(n)_____ there.
A) port of tranhipmentB) enclaveC) penal colonyD) caal state
23.The British House of Commons, a part of British Parliament, is a(n) ____ aembly.
A) legislativeB) executiveC) juridicalD) military
24.U.S.Independence Day, _____, has been celebrated to commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1766.
A) June 4B) July 4C) July 14D January 20
25.Which of the following is not an American publication? ____.
A) The Atlantic Monthly (magazine)B) The Guardian (newspaper)C) Fortune (magezine)
D) Time (magezine)
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26.New York was never Mecca to me.
A) simileB) metonymyC) personificationD) euphemism
27.As it is they are like a hippopotamus blundering in and out of a pet’s tea party.
A) antithesisB) ironyC) metaphorD) simile
28.The country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar.
A) PersonificationB) ridiculeC) synecdocheD) sarcasm
29.It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror.
A) simileB) metonymyC) irony and sarcasmD) synecdoche
30.If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.A} alliterationB) antithesisC) simileD) personification
31.The glow of the conversation burst into flame.
A) metaphorB) sarcasmC) paradoxD) antithesis
32.America has shown us too many desperately worried executives dropping into early graves.
A) ironyB) oxymoronC) transferred epithetD) ridicule
33.Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah to “undo the heavy burdens...(and) let the oppreed go free\"
A) aonanceB) consonanceC) alliterationD) biblical quotation
34.Belinda smiled.and all the world was gay.
A) parallelismB) repetition .C) hyperboleD) climax
35.Both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war.
A) oxymoronB) transferred epithetC) synecdocheD) personification
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36.In both these roles it ratifies more than it creates.
In both these roles of banking and communications headquarters, new York creates very few things but approves many things started by people on other parts of the country.
37.We were both searching for our separate identities.
We were all trying to find our own special individualities
38.To put cars and motorways before houses seems to Englishne a communal imbecility.
To regard cars and motorways as more important than houses seem to Englishne a public stupidity
39.They wanted to get into the fun before the whole thing turned belly up.
The young man wanted to take part in the glorious adventure before the whole war ended
40.The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endle mills.
The country itself is a pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread by the innumerable mills in this region.
五 省略
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Section A
56.全世界公民，不要问美国能为你们做什么，而应问我们一起能为人类的自由做些什么。 My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
57.让我们双方探究达成共识的问题，而不要在引起分歧的问题上虚耗心力。
Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which devide us
58.新的统治阶级用法语来对抗撒克逊农民自己的语言，从而在他们周围树起了一道文化障碍。
The new ruling cla had built a cultural barrier against the saxon peasant by building their French against peasants’ own language
59.我们可以用头和肩膀把垫子撑起来。
We can prop it up with our heads and shoulders
60，只要稍稍提起这个年代，就会勾起中年人怀旧的回忆。
The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged
Section B
61.To make your first encounter a positive one, start with a firm handshake.If the interrliewer doesn\'t initiate the gesture, offer your hand first.Whenever you have a choice of seats, select a chair beside his or her desk, as opposed to one acro from it.That way there are no barriers between the two of you and the effect is somewhat le confrontational.If you must sit facing the desk, shift your chair slightly as you sit down, or angle your body in the chair so you\'re not directly in front of your interviewer.
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Henry David Thoreau wrote, \"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.\"
Directions: In a well thought out eay, examine the accuracy of this ophorism (格言) in modern society.Concentrate on examples from your observations, reading, and experiences to develop your ideas
You are asked to write an eay of about 250 words on relevant topic (you should suggest a proper title of the eay).
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammat and appropriacy.
Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a lo of marks.
