高级英语（二） 教与学指南
Practice Tests
for
Advanced English(2)
主编 张华鸿
第五、六册
本书的主要特点： 1． 2．
前言
编写本书的目的：
目前英语专业三年级所使用的由上海外国语大学李观仪教授主编的〈新编英语教程〉
紧扣精读课文编写练习，实用性、针对性强。
对于同义词辨析的练习配以详尽的解释和相应的例句，旨在帮助学生真正弄懂
并掌握这些词的用法。
3． 设计了旨在提高学生语言运用熟练程度的系列练习，分别为：
一、 英语释义 二、 英语句型转换 三、 汉译英 四、 完形填空 五、 成段改错 4． 练习均配有参考答案。
本书由张华鸿主编。高华老师负责编写同义词辨析部分；郑艳丽老师负责编写句型转换部分；张华鸿老师负责编写英语释义、汉译英、完形填空和成段改错四部分，以及全书的编排、设计、整合与审编定稿等工作。
本书承华南师范大学外国语言文化学院领导的大力支持，以及英语系高年级教研室全体同仁的热心帮助，编者在此表示衷心的感谢。
编 者
2003年1月
于华南师范大学外文学院
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Contents
Unit One: VESUVIUS ERUPTS
Unit Two: THE FINE ART OF PUTTING THINGS OFF Unit Three: WALLS AND BARRIERS
Unit Four: THE LADY， OR THE TIGER？ Unit Five: THE LADY， OR THE TIGER？ Unit Six: DULL WORK Unit Seven: BEAUTY
Unit Eight: APPETITE
Unit Nine: A RED LIGHT FOR SCOFFLAWS
Unit Ten: STRAIGHT-A ILLITERACY
Unit Eleven: ON CONSIGNING MANUSCRIPTS TO FLOPPY DISCS AND ARCHIVES TO OBLIVION Unit Twelve: GRANT AND LEE Unit Thirteen: EUPHEMISM
Unit Fourteen: THAT ASTOUNDING CREATOR---NATURE
Unit Fifteen: TEACHING AS MOUNTAINEERING 2
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TEXT I
Unit One
VESUVIUS ERUPTS
I. Paraphrase the parts underlined in the following:
So the letter which you asked me to write on my uncle?s death has made you eager to hear about the terrors and also the hazards I had to face 1when left at Misenum, for I 2broke off at the beginning of this part of my story.
I took a bath, dined, and then dozed 3fitfully for a while. For several days past there had been earth 4tremors which were not particularly alarming because they are frequent in Campania: but that night the shocks were so violent that everything fell as if it were not only shaken but overturned.
I don?t know whether I should call this courage or 5folly on my part (I was only seventeen at the time) but I 6called for a volume of Livy and went on reading as if I had nothing else to do.
Up came a friend of my uncle?s who had just come from Spain to join him. When he saw us sitting there and me actually reading, he scolded us both —me for my 7foolhardiness and my mother for allowing it.
By now it was dawn [25 August in the year 79], but the light was still dim and 8faint. The buildings round us were already 9tottering, and the open space we were in was too small for us not to be in real and 10imminent danger if the house collapsed. This finally 11
decided us to leave the town. We were followed by a panic- stricken mob of people wanting to act on someone else?s decision 12in preference to their own (a point in which fear looks like 13prudence), who 14hurried us on our way by pressing hard behind in a dense crowd.
We also saw the sea sucked away and apparently forced back by the earthquake: at any rate it receded from the shore so that 15quantities of sea creatures were left 16stranded on dry sand. On the landward side a fearful black cloud was 17rent by forked and quivering bursts of flame, and parted to reveal great tongues of fire, like flashes of lightning magnified in size.
At this point my uncle?s friend from Spain 18spoke up still more urgently: “If your brother, if your uncle is still alive, he will want you both to be saved; if he is dead, he would want you to survive him so why put off your escape?”
Soon afterwards the cloud sank down to earth and covered the sea; it had already 19
blotted out Capri and hidden the promontory of Misenum from sight. Then my mother 20
implored, entreated, and commanded me to escape as best I could I looked round: a dense black cloud was coming up behind us, spreading over the earth like a flood. “Let us leave the road while we can still see,” I said, “or we shall be knocked down and 21trampled underfoot in the dark by the crowd behind.”
You could hear the shrieks of women, the 22wailing of infants, and the shouting of men; some were calling their parents, others their children or their wives, trying to recognize them by their voices. People 23bewailed their own fate or that of their relatives, and there were some who 24prayed for death in their terror of dying. Many 25besought the aid of the gods, but still more imagined there were no gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness forevermore. There were people, too, who 26added to the real perils by From:
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M. A. Miller, pp. 266—269