unit2练习

BOOK TWO Test ThreeI. Vocabulary (30%)Section 1: From the list of words at the top, select the correct word or phrase for each blank space. Use each word or phrase only once (15%).skin and bones sit out indulge in susceptible toerectness hamlets sanctuary slashingagonizing unabated doused blastsmarooned dogmatic unfathomable1.The children huddled in the ________ rain within the circle of adults.2.They came to ________ the storm with the Koshaks.3.With two walls in their bedroom _________ beginning to disintegrate, Johnordered everyone to leave.4.The generator was _________, and the lights were out.5.Then for the first time I noticed the poor old bodies reduced to ________.6.The enlistment craze continued _________.7.One wall began crumbling on the _________ group.8.What they had wanted was an America more sensitive to art and less_______________standardization.9.Many other novelists, dramatists, poets, and critics directed sad and bitter_______ at their native land.10.She had an _________ of carriage, an ease of bearing.11.However intricate they ways in which animals communicate with each other, theydo not ___________ anything that deserves the name of conversation.12.I have whirled through the malarious tidewater ________ of Goergia.13.The taste for them is as enigmatical and yet as common as the taste for___________ theology.14.What I allude to is the unbroken and __________ ugliness15.They meet, in some _____________ ways, its obscure and unintelligible demands.Section 2: From the list of words at the top, select the correct synonym for the underlined words or phrase in each sentence (15%)depression systematically begged supportedcondition criticized according to narrowdisappeared unbearable decaying set downtroubled fiendish ignored1.The plight condition of the human beings makes one’s blood boil.2.The men methodically systematically prepared for the hurricane.3.Grandmother Koshak implored, begged“Children, let’s sing”.4.Business was suffering a recession depression that prevented the opening up ofnew jobs.5.We can prop up supported that mattress with our heads and shoulders.6.The novelists flayed criticized the Babbitts but loved their country.7.It arises and flourishes in obedience to according to biological laws.8.So tremendous was the storming of recruitment centers that harassed troubledsergeants actually pleased with volunteers to go home.9.The spirit of carnival and the enthusiasm for high military adventure were soondissipated.disappeared10.We had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us fromretreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial narrow morality.11.The innumerable artists could never be written off ignored as sterile.12.They made the stadium perfect in their own sight by putting a completelyimpossible unbearable penthouse, painted a starring yellow.13.The same solemn oath our forebears prescribed set down nearly a century andthree-quarters ago.14.I have seen the mill towns of decomposing decaying New England and the desertof Utah.15.They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical.fiendishII. Paraphrase the following sentences. (20%)1.We can batten down and ride it out.2.Still, a white skin is always fully conspicuous.3.Suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place.4.But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.5.In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.6.They have taken as their model a brick on end7.Each tow n had its “fast” set which prided itself on itsunconventionality.8.This they have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a narrow,low-pitched roof.9.Boy and man, I had been through it often before.10.People with brown skins are next door to invisible.III. Translate the following sentences (using the expressions given in the brackets. (20%)1.In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger endedup inside.2.The rebellion of the lower class against a cultural dominance of the ruling class isstill there.3.Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring thoseproblems that divide us.4.The King’s English is no more than a class representation of reality.5.Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination – and here werehuman habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.6.受到这样的待遇经过了好几个世纪后，他们已经不再为拥挤不堪而烦恼了。