20060227160737综合英语期末试卷(A)2005.12.doc

2002级（外院1—6，中北8—9）高级英语 期末试卷(A) Class __________ No. __________ Name __________ Score __________ I. MULTIPLE CHOICE (25 %) George Orwell is a(n) _________ novelist and essayist whose representative book is Animal Farm. American British Australian Canadian Which of the following is not described in “Marrakech” the burial of the poor inhabitants an Arab begging for a piece of bread the miserable lives of the Italians in the ghettoes the old women carrying firewood The Three musketeers in ________’s novel were very close friends. They supported each other with their fortune and their lives, yet they showed no curiosity in nor tried to find out anything about each other’s private lives. Dickens Dumas Shaw Dreiser The English language belongs to the _________ language family A. Germanic B. Slavic C. Norman D. Celtic The Normans conquered England in ______. 650 1066 1789 1914 “The sinister corridor of our age” is an insightful ________ used by E. M. Forster to mean that in our age people are traveling along a sinister road doing all kinds of evil things. simile metaphor irony personification Memorable words have been uttered in inaugural addresses. ________ told Depression-racked Americans that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” In 1961, John F. Kennedy said, “My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.” Abraham Lincoln Ronald Reagan James Monroe Franklin D. Roosevelt John. F. Kennedy became the US President during the __________ period when the world was divided into two hostile camps. Civil War Cold War WWI WWII “United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.” The rhetorical device used in the statement is_______. antithesis irony parallelism contrast “All his life he has read comic books. Is it any wonder he’s a juvenile delinquent?” The logical fallacy in the statement i