高级英语quiz9答案
Unit 1
1.…as Camille lashed northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico.
A.strike violently
B.pass by
C.move slowly
D. stride
2.…gray clouds scudded in from the Gulf on the rising wind
A.go smoothly
B. go straight and fast
C. goup and down
D. go violently
3.…lifted the entire roof off the hou and skimmed it 40 feet through the air.
A.hit violently
B. move lightly over
C.go fast and quietly
D. move gradually away
4.One wall began crumbling on the marooned group.
A. stay brave and along
B. leave hopeful
C.stay helpless
D. leave helpless and alone
5. ...and 709 small business were demolished or verely damaged.
A.destroy
B.reduce
C.increa
D.beat
6.Richelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fistand 26 people perished
A.incanate
B.dic
C.increa
D.submit
7.Debris flew as the living-room fireplace and its chimney collapd.
A. small individual parts
B.completely good places
C.well prerved pieces
D.scattered broken pieces
8.With two walls in their bedroom sanctuary beginning
A.a warm place
B.shelter
C.a clean place
D.a harm place
9. Pop Koshak raged silently, frustrated at not being able to do anything.….
A.discourage
B.bring about good result
C.come out fruitfully
D.worry about the resul
10.We can prop it up with our heads and shoulders!
A.support
B. place
C. suspend
D. propo
Unit 2
1.However intricate the ways in which animals communicate with each other,they do not indulge in anything that derves the name of conversation.
A.difficult
B.complicated
C.invalid
D.simple
2. Suddenly they e the moment for one of their best anecdotes,but in a flash the conversation
has moved on and the opportunity is lost.
A.short amusing story
B. long tedious talk
C.uninteresting writing
D.exciting information
3.The conversation had swung from Australian convicts of the 19th century to the English peasants of the 12th century
A.criminal
B.aggressor
C. captain
D. captor
4. Perhaps it is worth trying to speak it,but it should not be laid down as an edict and made
immune to change from below.
A.cure
B. impure
C.odorous
D.revival
5. The phra has always been ud a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower class.
A.sharp
B.distasteful
C.contemptuous
D. penetrating
6.The King’s English is a model-a rich and instructive one--but it ought not to be an ultima
tum
A.the general opinion about the characterqualities,etc B.state of being in demand
C.something that provokes or annoys
D.final statement of conditions to be accepted
7.It was an Australian who had given her such a definition ofthe King's English,”which produced some rather tart remarks about what one could expect from the descendants of convicts.
A. different
B,sarcastic
C,loaded
D, special
8.One could have expected that it would be about then that the phra would be coined.
A.happen
B.coincide
C.comfort
D.invent
9.After five centuries of growth,of tussling with the French of the Normans and the Angevins and
the Plantagenets and at last absorbing it,the conquered in the end conquering the conqueror.
A.have a hard struggle or fight
B. rai to a higher grade
C.come to a lower level or state
D. make the greatest possible u of
10.When E.M.Forster writes of“the sinister corridor of our age"we sit up at the vividness of
the phra, the force and even terror in the image.
