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2012年硕士研究生入学考试初试试题（

科目代码： 613 科目名称： 基础英语 满分： 150 分 注意: ①认真阅读答题纸上的注意事项；②上均无效；③本试题纸须随答题纸一起装入试题袋中交回！ I. Identify the rhetoric devices. (10 points)

Instruction: Identify the rhetorical devices or the figures of speech in the following sentences. Choose the terminology in the box that best describes the rhetorical category of the sentence to fill in the blanks (one terminology for each sentence).

You must write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.

simile metaphor metonymy synecdoche personification transferred epithet

alliteration irony repetition oxymoron analogy hyperbole

1． This concept of how things get written throws very little light on Lincoln but a great deal on Life.

2. No one anticipated that the case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U.S. history. 3. Darrow had whispered, throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder.

4. “Ralph, if you’re gonna be a phony, you might as well be a real phony.

5. At three weeks, Paul Bunyan got his family into a bit of trouble kicking around his little tootsies and

knocking down something like four miles of standing timber.

II. Paraphrase the following sentences. (10 points)

1. Serious looking man spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them.

2. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain.

3. Modern art opens on a whole world whose reality is not “out there” in nature defined as things seen

from a middle distance, but “in here” in the soul or the mind.

4. I feel unequipped by education for problems that lie outside the cloistered, literary domain in which

I am competent and at home.

5. A key factor in explaining the sad state of American education can be found in over-bureaucratization,

which is seen in the compulsion to consolidate our public schools into massive factories and to increase to mammoth size our universities even in under-populated states.

III. Vocabulary and General Knowledge. (20 points)

1. Two occasions of ______ declining activity were registered in the years of 1929 and 1987.

A. disastrous B. disastrously C. disaster D. devastating

2. Only the initials of the companies and the price of their shares ______ on the billboard.

A. are flashed B. is flashed C. flash D. flashes

3. The island is maintained as a ______for endangered species.

A. wetlands B. sanctuary C. mire D. heath

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