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浙江工商大学2020年考研真题：615综合英语

适用专业：英语语言文学 050201、外国语言学及应用语言学 050211

I. Vocabulary & Structure (30%)

Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one that best completes or is best defined by the sentence or explains the capitalized part in the sentence . Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET:

1. Our OUTLETS are located throughout Alabama.

A.stores

B. supermarkets

C. warehouses

D. banks

2.I have been feeling _____ all week, worrying about all my problems that are overwhelming me.

A. challenged

B. morose

C. bored

D. grouchy

3. A widely held and simplified view point or idea about a particular thing or type of person.

A. idea

B. falsehood

C. stereotype

D. simplification

4. Many of the students attitudes are considered too CYNICAL for publication.

A. deprived

B. sarcastic

C. encouraging

D. enthusiastic

5. Nuclear physicists study the _____ of atomic nuclei.

A. segmentation

B. collision

C. removal

D. understanding

6. The Earth Day committee leader placed large garbage bins in the park to _____ Saturday's cleanup.

A. integrate

B. facilitate

C. confound

D. pacify

7. The disobedient children REFUSED TO OBEY their teacher.

A. reject

B. ignored

C. confronted

D. defied

8. I prefer walking to work; _____ when it is cold, I ride the bus.

A. nevertheless

B. also

C. in addition

D. and

9. To try hard to do or achieve something.

A. to endeavour to do something

B. to embark on something

C. to start something

D. to enjoy doing something

10. It is cold outside; _____ , it is raining: Let's not walk the dog.

A. therefore

B. notwithstanding

C. however

D. furthermore

11. The stock market crash of 1929 was a, _____ event that changed the course of U.S. history.

A. memorable

B. happy

C. forgotten

D. catastrophic

12. Pregnant women who suffer from anemia _____ supplements to raise the level of iron in their blood.

A. must have given

B. must give

C. must have been given

D. must be given

13. After he stopped exercising, his mental and physical health _____. His doctor was worried about him.

A. declined

B. alleviated

C. stabilized

D. improved

14. He screamed when he saw he spider as he had a FEAR of them.

A. horror

B. mania

C. phobia

D. nightmare

15. To decrease pollution, cars must have an annual _____ inspection.

A. model

B. gas

C. emission

D. tire

16. The action of imitating someone or something, usually to entertain or to ridicule someone.

A. teasing

B. mockery

C. mimicry

D. copying

17. He found the smell of the lotus blossom REPUGNANT, and asked for a different type of flower.

A. enjoyable

B. delightful

C. disgusting

D. problematic

18. To accept, approve of, excuse or overlook behaviour that is generally considered wrong.

A. to condone

B. to be kind

C. to be generous

D.to forgive

19. Her rapport with everyone in the office _____ the kind of interpersonal skills that all of the employees appreciated.

A. varied

B. prevailed

C. exemplified

D. diverged

20. There was a huge CHOICE of food at the breakfast buffet.

A. spread

B. alternative

C. platter

D. variety

21. The MEDICAL PRACTITIONER SPECIALISING IN CHILDREN checked the newborn child for his general health.

A. obstetrician

B. ophthalmologist

C. paediatrician

D. gynecologist

22. The company only hires employees with excellent ATTRIBUTES.

A. references

B. qualification

C. experience

D. qualities

23. The phrase,“ _____ of the fittest," is related to the theory of natural selection.

A. revival

B. survival

C. reviving

D. surviving

24. A large and very destructive fire. A damaging war or conflict.

A. confluence

B. conflagration

C. dispute

D. deputation

25. To _____ your concentration, turn off the TV so that you are not distracted.

A. contextualize

B. realize

C. maximize

D. minimize

26. If it hadn't rained, we_____for a walk.

A. will have been going

B. would have gone

C. would go

D. would be going

27. His being, _____ a warmonger is unfair.

A .spoken

B. denied

C. labeled

D. denounced

28. One should be _____ when faced with changed circumstances.

A. indefatigable

B. rigid

C. adoptable

D. adaptable

29. He won an _____ for his military service in Afghanistan.

A. attainment

B. accolade

C. achievement

D. accomplishment

30. His formerly loving wife became his _____ during their difficult divorce.

A. opponent

B. competitor

C. friend

D. adversary

II. Reading Comprehension (50%)

Directions: Read the following 5 passages carefully, and choose the best answer to each question from the four choices given. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

Passage A

For Phillip Rouse and his girlfriend, Martelle, both immigrants from Australia, home is a three-bedroom flat in south London. It is shared with two other people. That is not ideal, says Mr Rouse, who is 32.“When we were in Australia we lived by ourselves," he says. When sharing, “you're never quite grounded in your own space." But ultimately the couple decided they had little choice. Their monthly rent and bills come to about 30% of their, joint income. If they rented their own flat, it would be twice that. “That is too many lifestyle changes we would have to make," Mr Rouse says.

In recent years, Britain's housing shortage has seemed to relent. After a deep post-recession slump, construction has climbed back up towards previous highs. Homeownership rates, which had been steadily falling, have stabilised since 2014. Yet there is a huge generational imbalance. Older people are occupying ever more space. Indeed, there is a boom in older people living on their own. For most younger people, however, affordable housing remains scarce. They crowd into shared flats in the most expensive parts of the country.

Last year the number of people living alone crossed 8m. But the increase has been entirely among those aged over 45. Between 2008 and 2018 their number rose by 810,000, or 14%. The number under that age fell by 340,000, or 18%. Some 746,000 homes were overcrowded last year, meaning that there were not enough bedrooms for each single adult, couple or pair of children to have one to themselves. That was a 14% increase on a decade before. Meanwhile the number of homes that were underoccupied, meaning that they had at least two spare bedrooms, also increased, by 10%, to 8.6m.

What is driving this? Some of it is simply growing life expectancy: people are most likely to live alone when they are in their twilight years. But divorce also plays a part. The number of marriages breaking up has fallen drastically in the past few decades, probably because fewer people are getting hitched in the first place. But the number of over-50s divorcing has increased sharply. Those newly single people need more space.

Britain's tax system encourages people to “consume as much housing as they can afford", says Rose Grayston of Shelter, a charity. Property taxes are lower, proportionately, on bigger houses. Stamp duty, a tax on buying property, can make downsizing expensive. Recently older buyers' spending power has risen relative to that of younger people. In real terms, earnings have fallen since 2008 across the board, but most of all for the young. Rents have also fallen, but not by as much as interest rates or wages.

One consequence of this is that more and more young adults live with their parents. A quarter of those aged 20-34 are still at home, up from around one-fifth a decade ago. But not everyone has a family to live with. And the poorest young people are particularly exposed. In the parts of London where it is legal, there is a booming business in converting offices into tiny bedsits cheap enough for people on housing benefit. Someone under the age of 35 on welfare only gets enough to rent a room in a shared home, notes Ann Berrington of the University of Southampton.

Some housing wonks now think that Britain is building enough homes to go around. Projections of the growth in the number of households have been cut back, so that from now on the government expects demand to undershoot construction, for the first time in years. But even a surplus of homes may not be enough to stop the young and poor from having to play sardines, if the old and rich are incentivised to spread out.

31. Which statement concerning British housing situation is CORRECT?

A. British's housing shortage seems to be less serious now.

B. The rate of owning houses is still on the decrease.

C. There is a boom in young people living on their own.

D. The increase of the number of people living alone has been entirely among those aged over 55.

32. Which is NOT one of the causes leading to the current housing problem in Britain?

A. People are most likely to live alone when they get older.

B. The increased number of over-50s divorcing is one of the causes.

C. The young and poor have to play sardines though there is a surplus of homes.

D. Stamp duty makes small houses expensive.

33. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A. More and more young adults aged 20-34 still live with their parents at home.

B. Older buyers' spending power has risen to the level of the younger people's.

C. Interest rates or wages have fallen much more than rents.

D. Converting offices into tiny and cheap bedsits is a thriving business.

34. Which of the following can best replace the word “undershoot" in the last paragraph?

A. aim at

B. match exactly

C. exceed

D. fall short of

35. What is implied in the last paragraph?

A. There won't be any growth in the number of households.

B. In light of government expectation, there will be more demand for houses than supply.

C. Enough homes have been built for both the young and the old, the rich and the poor.

D. The trend of young people sharing houses will still continue.

Passage B

As one of the biggest parcel carriers in America, FedEx ought to benefit from uninterrupted GDP growth. Yet since 2009, when America began its longest economic expansion on record, the company has underperformed the S&P 500 by almost 100 percentage points. This year it has suffered from the Sino-American trade war, growing competition from Amazon and problems integrating Europe's TNT Express, which it bought in 2016 for $4.4bn. Such squalls are not good for its financial health, yet FedEx has been investing more than $5bn a year since 2017 to keep deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and the e-commerce giant's Chinese counterpart, Alibaba, out of its delivery business. This is a game of chance that Mr Smith (its founder) is not guaranteed to win.

The biggest stakes are at home. FedEx built its name as a highend business-to-business firm, offering guaranteed time slots for delivering parcels and factory goods along the supply chain. But ecommerce is raising the importance of delivery to homes, at faster speeds and lower costs. FedEx has responded by expanding its trucking service, which will soon reach most American homes seven days a week. But that clobbers margins. Meanwhile, Amazon is spending heavily on same-day delivery. It is also building an aircraft fleet that, though still a midget compared with FedEx's, will amount to 70 aircraft by 2021. According to Satish Jindel, a logistics consultant, Amazon has leapfrogged its rivals to become the biggest firm in the world at organising warehousing and transport for other companies' goods (as well as its own). Only a few years ago Mr Smith mocked the idea of competition from the likes of Amazon as “fantastical". But in the past two months FedEx has severed its (albeit tiny) remaining ties with Amazon to focus on building its relationship with retailers like Walmart and Target instead. Its main rival, UPS, is sticking with Amazon. This sets the stage for a potentially bruising price war that could further crimp profits.

Its second big challenge is overseas. Besides having to fix TNT, FedEx has found itself in the awkward position of being on the wrong side of both adversaries in the trans-Pacific trade war. In recent months it was forced to apologise to China for diverting packages belonging to Huawei. FedEx said that this was owing to an error. Nonetheless the Chinese government is reportedly threatening to put FedEx on its own blacklist. And the company has also sued its own government, saying it should not be deputised to “police the contents" of any packages it sends to check that they do not violate export bans.

Besides the ugly geopolitics, global competition is also rising for FedEx. One of the biggest threats comes from Cainiao, a Chinese rival backed by Alibaba that in 2017 pledged to invest $15bn in cross-border logistics. FedEx claims that its own vast network, extending to 220 countries, safeguards it from such incursions. But it is not used to having tanks the size of Amazon's and Alibaba's on its lawn; their troves of data on customers may give them an edge in the delivery wars.

36. FedEx has been influenced by and suffered from the following EXCEPT

A. Sino-American trade war

B. fight between shareholders

C. competition from Amazon

D. problems of TNT Express

37. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about Amazon?

A. Amazon is spending heavily on same-day delivery.

B. It is building an aircraft fleet that will amount to 70 aircraft by 2021.

C. Amazon is still sticking with FedEx and its rival UPS.

D. Amazon has become the biggest firm in the world at organising warehousing and transport for companies' goods.

38. Which understanding of “a potentially bruising price war that could further crimp profits”(Para. 2) is NOT right?

A. “Bruising” indicates the fierceness of the price war.

B. “Crimp profits" means vey limited profits.

C. The price war has not broken out yet.

D. The upcoming fierce price war will further reduce profits.

39. Which is INCORRECT about FedEx's overseas challenge?

A. It has to fix TNT problem overseas.

B. It gets trouble due to the wrong position it takes in the Sino-American trade war.

C. It has to contend with Amazon for delivery speed.

D. It is faced with fierce global competition, with Cainiao being one of its biggest threats.

40. Which understanding of the metaphor in the last sentence (Para. 4) is correct?

A. FedEx doesn't expect Amazon and Alibaba to snatch up its own market share.

B. FedEx doesn't wish Amazon and Alibaba to send their tanks to tread on its grass.

C. FedEx will lose its dominance and be pushed to the edge in the delivery wars.

D. FedEx won't get much help from their valuable customer data in the delivery competition.

Passage C

“From nine till five, I have to spend my time at work," warbled Martha and the Muffins back in 1980. “My job is very boring, I'm an office clerk." Many of the hundreds of millions of people who trek into an office will feel as despondent at the prospect as Martha did. The office needs a revamp. But the crisis at We Work, a trendy office-rental firm whose boss, Adam Neumann, stepped down after its attempt to float its shares turned into a debacle, shows that businesses are still struggling to come up with a new format.

The large office, like the factory, is an invention of the past two centuries. The factory arose because of powered machinery, which required workers to be gathered in one place. Big offices grew from the need to process lots of paperwork, and for managers to instruct clerks on what to do. But now the internet, personal computing and handheld devices mean that transactions can be dealt with on-screen and managers can instantly communicate with their workers, wherever they are. The need for staff to be in one place has been dramatically reduced.

A new model may take time to emerge--electric power was first harnessed in the 1880s but it was not until the 1920s that factories changed their layouts to make full use of it. The new model will have to balance three factors: the desire of many workers for a flexible schedule; the high cost for firms of maintaining office space; and the countervailing desire to gather skilled workers in one place, in the hope that this enhances collaboration.

People who work at home or in a Starbucks have no need for a stressful commute and can adjust their hours to suit their way of life. In turn, that flexibility lets companies cut down on space. Our analysis of 75 large listed services firms in America and Britain shows that annual rental costs per employee have dropped by 15% over the past 15 years, to $5,000. Many firms operate a hot-desking system where workers find a new seat every day. At the London offices of Deloitte, a consultancy, 12,500 people have access to the building but only 5,500 desks are available.

But hot-desking can be alienating. Every night, workers must erase all trace of their existence, hiding away their possessions. When crammed into desks sited close together, workers wear headphones to shut out noisy neighbours . Studies suggests this leads to more emails and less face-to-face communication. So much for collaboration and camaraderie.

High-skilled workers can be repelled by these conditions. So the hot-desking drive has been accompanied by a countervailing trend, in which this elite get better facilities. Those who need to concentrate have quiet spaces. Better lighting and air conditioning aim to keep employees healthy. Apple's new headquarters has parks, a meadow and a 1,000-person auditorium. The hope is that when workers mingle or relax, that will spark ideas.

All this looks like a shift towards an airline-style world of work, with economy seating for the drones and business-class luxury for skilled workers, who enjoy some of the benefits once reserved for senior executives. But this is a hard trade-off to get right.

We Work offers a “premium economy” service in which a wider range of workers can get a few perks. But fears that its rental income may be insufficient to offset its $47bn of lease liabilities were one reason its IPO was delayed.

The office is bound to change further. Some firms may ask if it makes sense to have offices in city centres. In an era of remote collaboration, software and documents sit in the cloud and offices could disperse to cheaper places. Mr Neumann's business plan is in tatters. But one of his insights is surely right: the office of the mid-21st century will be as different from today's as the high-tech factory is from the Victorian mill.

41. The word “debacle"(Para.1) means_____

A. a deterrent

B. a sound defeat

C. a sudden flood

D. a huge success

42. A new working pattern will need to balance factors EXCEPT_____

A. many workers' desire for a flexible schedule

B. The desire to avoid a stressful commute

C. the high cost to maintain office space

D. the desire to gather skilled workers together for better collaboration

43. Which is NOT the weakness of the hot-desking system?

A. Workers must erase all trace of their existence every night.

B. Workers wear headphones to avoid noisy neighbours if desks are closely placed.

C. A distant relationship is likely to be formed between workers for lack of face-to-face communication.

D. Annual rental costs per employee will have to drop.

44. Which does NOT belong to a countervailing trend that accompanies the hot-desking system?

A. Elites get better facilities.

B. Parks or auditoriums are built in every company's headquarters.

C. Quiet spaces are offered for those who need to concentrate on work.

D. Better lighting and air conditioning are provided to keep employees healthy.

45. What could the future office possibly be like?

A. Offices are established in city centers..

B. Skilled workers enjoy very limited benefits once reserved for senior executives.

C. A smaller range of workers can get a few perks.

D. Software and documents are stored in the cloud and offices are disperse to cheaper places.

Passage D

Budding engineers cluster around a table-sized model of the China Art Museum, a landmark of Shanghai, adding helipads, carrot patches and other improvements with colourful bricks. Prising a child from Lego's vast shop near People's Square can be like unsticking two stubborn bits of Lego. Li Yang, visiting for a few days from Shenzhen, has been waiting for her daughter for two hours. Zhu Yunfei, watching his son, marvels at the variety: “Coming here to play with him is making up for my childhood," he says. They drop by every week.

Lego's rise in China has been vertiginous. In 2017 it overtook Alpha Group, a local giant, to become the country's leading toy company (not including video games). In the past two years it has opened 89 stores. It wants 50 more by December, which will bring it to 30 cities. Its first Chinese factory started moulding bricks in 2016. The toy industry is growing by 9% annually in the country, but the Danish firm's Chinese arm notches up "very strong double digits", says Paul Huang, its boss.

It has done so even as the brickmaker's global business has looked shakier. In 2017 Lego cut 1,400 jobs and recorded its first drop in revenues and profits in over a decade. But last year both ticked up again, by 4% each. Lego has thus retained its status as the world's biggest toymaker, snatched from Mattel in 2014--even as its American rival last year earned its highest revenues in five years from its Barbie dolls.

Newly affluent parents in China have helped Lego recover. “We have not maxed out there, by far," says Niels Christiansen, whom Lego brought in as chief executive two years ago. As in the West, the educational merits of bricks appeal to Chinese parents. Last year 98% of those surveyed by Lego said that play was essential for their child's well-being, even more than Americans and Danes.

Lego has also astutely catered to local tastes. This year the firm launched three sets specifically for China, the first time it has done so for any country. Fans were delighted at the attention to cultural detail. One was a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner kit, with tiny red envelopes and chunlian, lucky couplets on banners pasted around doorways. A dragon boat race set included a sticky-rice dumpling, a popular festival snack. The high-quality kits are pricey, costing up to 700 yuan ($100) a piece.

46. What is implied by the sentence “Prising a child from Lego's vast shop near People's Square can be like unsticking two stubborn bits of Lego"?

A. Lego's bricks are difficult to build.

B. It takes a plenty of time to show a kid around the vast Lego shop.

C. Lego's shop near People's Square covers a large area.

D. Children are greatly intrigued by Lego bricks, once in, hard to leave.

47. What is the meaning of “vertiginous" (Para. 2)?

A. astonishing

B. veritable

C. aberrant

D. viable

48. The success of Lego lies in the following EXCEPT

A. the educational merits of bricks

3. catering to local tastes

C. attention to cultural details

D. age-appropriate attractions

49. Which statements concerning Lego is CORRECT? .

A. Branches of Lego China have mushroomed in the past two years.

B. The toy industry is growing by 9% annually in Denmark.

C. Mattel, the world's biggest toymaker, was defeated by Lego in 2014.

D. Chinese parents haven't offered much help to Lego's recovery.

50. Which of the following is NOT right regarding Lego's way of catering to local tastes?

A. Three sets of Lego bricks have been launched specifically for China.

B. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner kit is designed with tiny red envelopes and lucky couplets on banners pasted around doorways.

C. The high-quality kits are made costly.

D. A dragon boat race set includes a sticky-rice dumpling, a popular festival snack.

Passage E

Countries are eliminating cash at varying speeds. But the direction of travel is clear, and in some cases the journey is nearly complete. In Sweden the number of retail cash transactions per person has fallen by 80% in the past ten years. Cash accounts for just 6% of purchases by value in Norway. Britain is probably four or six years behind the Nordic countries. America is perhaps a decade behind. Outside the rich world, cash is still king. But even there its dominance is being eroded. In China digital payments rose from 4% of all payments in 2012 to 34% in 2017.

Cash is dying out because of two forces. One is demand- younger consumers want payment systems that plug seamlessly into their digital lives. But equally important is that suppliers such as banks and tech firms (in developed markets) and telecoms companies (in emerging ones) are developing fast, easy-to-use payment technologies from which they can pull data and pocket fees. There is a high cost to running the infrastructure behind the cash economy- atms, vans carrying notes, tellers who accept coins. Most financial firms are keen to abandon it, or deter old-fashioned customers with hefty fees.

In the main the prospect of a cashless economy is excellent news. Cash is inefficient. In rich countries, minting, sorting, storing and distributing it is estimated to cost about 0.5% of GDP. But that does not begin to capture the gains. When payments dematerialize , people and shops are less vulnerable to theft. Governments can keep closer tabs on fraud or tax evasion. Digitalisation vastly expands the playground of small businesses and sole traders by enabling them to sell beyond their borders. It also creates a credit history, helping consumers borrow.

Yet set against these benefits are a bundle of worries. Electronic payment systems may be vulnerable to technical failures, power blackouts and cyberattacks-- -this week Capital One, an American bank, became the latest firm to be hacked. In a cashless economy the poor, the elderly and country folk may be left behind. And eradicating cash, an anonymous payment method, for a digital system could let governments snoop on people's shopping habits and private titans exploit their personal data.

These problems have three remedies. First, governments need to ensure that central banks' monopoly over coins and notes is not replaced by private monopolies over digital money. Rather than letting a few credit-card firms have a stranglehold on the electronic pipes for digital payments, as America may yet allow, governments must ensure the payments plumbing is open to a range of digital firms which can build services on top of it. They should urge banks to offer cheap, instant, bank-to-bank digital transfers between deposit accounts, as in Sweden and the Netherlands. Competition should keep prices low so that the poor can afford most services, and it should also mean that if one firm stumbles others can step in, making the system resilient.

Second, governments should maintain banks' obligation to keep customer information private, so that the plumbing remains anonymous. Digital firms that use this plumbing to offer services should be free to monetise transaction data, through, for example, advertising, so long as their business model is made explicit to users. Some customers will favour free services that track their purchases; others will want to pay to be left alone.

Last, the phase-out of cash should be gradual. For a period of ten years, banks should be obliged to accept and distribute cash in populated areas. This will buy governments time to help the poor open bank accounts, educate the elderly and beef up internet access in rural areas. The rush towards digital money is the result of spontaneous demand and innovation. TO pocket all the rewards, governments need to prepare for the day when crumpled bank notes change hands for the last time.

51. Cash is dying out NOT because

A. Younger consumers want payment systems plugging seamlessly into their digital lives.

B. People and shops with cash are less vulnerable to theft.

C. Suppliers are developing fast, easy-to-use payment technologies from which they can pull data and pocket fees.

D. Financial firms are keen to abandon the use of cash in order to reduce the high cost of running the infrastructure behind the cash economy.

52. Which is NOT a benefit of a cashless economy?

A. Governments can keep closer tabs on fraud or tax evasion.

B. A credit history that helps consumers borrow can be created.

C. It helps customers form good shopping habits.

D. People and shops with cash are less vulnerable to theft.

53. The cashless economy has possible problems EXCEPT_

A. Government may grasp and redirect people's shopping habits.

B. Electronic payment systems may be vulnerable to technical failures and cyber-attacks.

C. The poor, the elderly and country folk may be left behind.

D. Personal data may be leaked and exploited.

54. Which measure cannot help address drawbacks of cashless economy?

A. Banks' obligation is maintained to keep customer information private.

B. Central banks' monopoly over coins and notes is not replaced by private monopolies over digital money.

C. Take time to end the use of cash before getting ready for a cashless economy.

D. Prohibit banks to offer cheap, instand digital transfers between deposit accounts.

55. Which is the best title for the article?

A. The Cashless Economy: Problems and Remedies

B. The Future of Cash

C. Embrace the Cashless Age

D. Digitalisation and Economy

III. Rhetorical Knowledge (30%}

Directions: There are 15 sentences, each of which has a figure of speech, and there are four kinds of figure marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

56. She spoke hurriedly, as if her heart had leaped into her throat at the boys' words.

A. pun

B. simile

C. metonymy

D. metaphor

57. He embarked early on the sea of public life.

A. metaphor

B. innuendo

C. synecdoche

D. paradox

58. The gentle breeze caressed my cheeks and soothed my anger.

A. parody

B. paradox

C. allusion

D. personification

59. We are told to respect gray hairs.

A. understatement B. pun

C. metonymy

D. synecdoche

60. I did not cry. I could not. My cheeks were as hot as fire, and my very eyes burnt in my head.

A. understatement

B. euphemism

C. paradox

D. hyperbole

61. It's not unpleasant to see a good film now and then.

A. litotes

B. oxymoron

C. antithesis

D. zeugma

62. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way.

A. parody

B. schemata

C. transferred epithet

D. metaphor

63. The rain pattered all night.

A. paradox

B. metonymy

C. alliteration

D. onomatopoeia

64. It must be delightful to find oneself in a foreign country without a penny in one's pocket.

A. hyperbole

B. understatement

C. metaphor

D. irony

65. Skill and Patience will succeed where Force fails. Necessity is the Mother of Invention.

A. parody

B. hyperbole

C. oxymoron

D. irony

66. The car rolled bang into the telegraph pole.

A. rhyme

B. consonance

C. metaphor

D. onomatopoeia

67. We learned from history that we do not learn from history.

A. pun

B. syllepsis

C. paradox

D. exaggeration

68. The coats for every wear everywhere.

A. anticlimax

B. innuendo

C. parallelism

D. pun

69. The same bright face I tasted in my sleep, Smiling in the clear well.

A. alliteration

B. epiphany

C. pun

D. synaesthesia

70. Her beauty and bank account faded.

A. understatement

B. bathos

C. zeugma

D. antithesis

IV. Proofreading & Error Correction (20%)

Directions: The following passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE ERROR ONLY. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way. Copy the relevant part (a word, a phrase or a sentence where an error is) on the ANSWER SHEET at first, and for a wrong word, underline it and write the correct one; for a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "”sign and write the word you believe to be missing; for an unnecessary word, cross it with a slash“/". Then, write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

V. Cloze (20%)

Directions: In the following passage, there are 20 blanks. Choose one, from the four choices A, B, C, and D, and make the meaning complete. Write the answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

Xi begins state visit to Greece

President Xi Jinping (81)______ China and Greece to tap their civilizations (82)_____ wisdom and build a new type of international relations (83)_____ respect, justice and mutually beneficial cooperation.

He made the remark in a signed article published on Sunday (84)______the Greek newspaper Kathimerini (The Daily) as he kicked off a three-day state visit to the (85)______ country.

Xi will travel to Brazil on Tuesday (86)_____ the invitation of President Jair Bolsonaro and will(87)_____the 11th BRICS Summit on Wednesday and Thursday.

In Greece, Xi is (88)_____to have talks with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The leaders are also (89)______ to make cultural exchanges and advocate dialogue(90)_____ civilizations.

(91)_____a stopover on the Aegean island of Rhodes in 2014 (92)______ deeply impressed him, Xi wrote: “It is (93)______ great respect for civilizations and high expectations for a bright future that I will once again visit this beautiful country, (94)_____ I very much look forward to."

Great (95)_____always stand by each other, Xi said, citing the examples of Greek shipowners who broke through an international blockade to send (96)______ supplies and equipment to the People's Republic of China after (97)_____ founding, and China (98)_____assistance to (99)_____ Greek friends emerge from economic woes a decade (100)____.

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