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A:It sells us instant gratification. It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain.
B:Consider the casual assumptions that television tends to cultivate: that complexity must be avoided, that visual stimulation is a substitute for thought, that verbal precisio is an anachronism.
C:Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus.
D:Everything about this nation – the structure of the society, its forms of family organization, its economy, its place in the world – has become more complex, not less.
Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of metaphor?
A:They were interrupted from time to time by giggles that must have come from Mrs. Flowers.
B:One summer afternoon, sweet-milk fresh in my memory, she stopped at the Store to buy provisions.
C:The chifforobe was a maze.
D:Children these days would bust out of sheetmetal clothes.
Parallelism is used in ________.
A:It is women who can bring empathy, tolerance, insight, patience, and persistence to government …
B:The women of a nation mold its moral, its religions, and its politics by the lives they live.
C:Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
D:“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done …”
Onomatopoeia is NOT used in ________.
A:Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
B:It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning make the prize light.”
C:Between chime and chime of the clock …
D:Discussing the question, … sleep drew the curtain.
The language in his later works is more flowery and less precise.
A:错误
B:正确
(Science Has Spoiled My Supper) The most notable device of style in this essay is hyperbole, deliberate exaggeration for effect.
A:错误
B:正确
To amuse herself and to tease her teachers, Clara pretended to waver between Arts and Science.
A:错误
B:正确
Besides political issues, rock music also deals with the emotional life of the American people.
A:错误
B:正确
It is irrational either to defend or oppose vivisection by appealing to the emotion of pity.
A:错误
B:正确
The main duty of the monosabios in the bullring is to help the picadors.
A:错误
B:正确
(On Human Nature and Politics) The condemned murderer is displeased with those newspapers that make a big noise about his trial.
A:错误
B:正确
Ernest, Harry and Little Keogh were all Eveline‘s brothers.
A:错误
B:正确
Every Saturday night Eveline‘s father got angry because she was such a wasteful girl.
A:错误
B:正确
(On Human Nature and Politics) Even gods love to be praised.
A:错误
B:正确
Medicare covers most late-life illnesses, and therefore eradicates the financial burdens for the old.
A:错误
B:正确
Priestly doesn’t like Lamb’s letters.
A:错误
B:正确
Priestley doesn’t think he has an iron will, and he is not sorry about it.
A:错误
B:正确
The American public is not well aware of the adverse effects of television.
A:错误
B:正确
Primitive men, due to lack of such entertainments as modern men have, easily got bored.
A:错误
B:正确
(What to Listen for in Music) It is a bad habit of listening to try to connect what one is listening with something concrete.
A:错误
B:正确
(The Trouble with Television) News on TV is read very fast and made too brief and incoherent to be comprehensive.
A:错误
B:正确
(Why I Write) For fifteen years or more, Orwell wrote a story about himself.
A:错误
B:正确
Eveline was not respected at the shop she worked, nor was she at home, though she was a hard-working girl.
A:错误
B:正确
Before Sanders enrolled in Yale Law School, Watts was already a topic for discussion on the campus.
A:错误
B:正确
She thinks, however, that most white Americans are now truly aware of prejudice against the black Americans.
A:错误
B:正确
(Jerusalem the Golden) From the absence of male teachers and students in the excerpt we can conclude that it was not a co-educated school.
A:错误
B:正确
Clara had a peculiar taste of the physical world around her.
A:错误
B:正确
Once talented young blacks have left Watts, they are not expected to return home and actually no one has done so.
A:错误
B:正确
All Spaniards are interested in bullfight.
A:错误
B:正确
(Eveline) What made Eveline pluck up her courage and leave for the station was that she didn’t want to live her mother.
A:错误
B:正确
(What’s Wrong with Our Press?) Documentaries on TV help the audience to digest the news and come to its own conclusions.
A:错误
B:正确
Modern men also have primitive impulse.
A:错误
B:正确
A rational discussion of vivisection can only be based on the assumption that pain is an evil.
A:错误
B:正确
(A Most Forgiving Ape) When the author and his party se out that morning, he was quite certain that he would meet the gorillas.
A:错误
B:正确
(I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto) Racial climate in England, especially at Oxford, remained relaxed until the author wrote this article.
A:错误
B:正确
(I’d Rather Be Black Than Female) It was difficult for the author to win the election due not so much to her racial background as to her sex.
A:错误
B:正确
According to Mr. Roper’s survey, radio ranks third among the major forms of mass media in terms of popularity.
A:错误
B:正确
(The Trouble with Television) The American public is not well aware of the adverse effects of television.
A:错误
B:正确
Marguerite was a sensitive girl and was upset by Momma’s behavior towards Mrs. Flowers.
A:错误
B:正确
(A Lesson in Living) Mrs. Flowers was an intimate friend of the family who frequently came to chat with Momma.
A:错误
B:正确
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