内蒙古大学招收2014年攻读硕士学位研究生自命题试题

科目代码及名称：65〗英语基础 适用专业：英语语言文学

适用专业：外国语言学及应用语言学

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I. Directions: The following sentences contain some figures of speech. Please identify them and write your answers in English on the answer sheet(l X 10=10) 1. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.( )

2. We shall be fortified and encouraged in our efforts. We shall be strengthened and not weakened in determination and resources. ( . )

3. We shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom.( )

4. The duties of a soldier are to protect his country and peel potatoes.( )

5. The house detective clucked his tongue reprovingly.( )

6. The Washington Post, in an editorial captioned "Keep Your Old Webster ’s " . ( )

7. ''Maggie's brain is like an elephant’s". Wangero said, laughing .( ) 8. The back door opens to let out the dog .The TV set blinks on with the day’s first newscast: a selective rundown...( )

9. We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any

friend, and oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.( ) 10. It is that of a Presbyterian grinning.( )

11. Translate the following sentences into Chinese. ( 2 X 10=20)

1 1 .Elsewhere there is the carpet market, with its profusion of rich colors, varied textures and regional designssome bold and simple, others unbelievably detailed and yet harmonious.

12. The Saxon peasants who tilled the land and reared the animals could not afford the meat, which went to Norman tables.

13. Thanks to his map, I was able to find a taxi driver who could take me straight to the canal embankment, where a sort of barge with a roof like one on a Japanese house was moored.