高级英语19春在线作业2-0002

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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.

Which of  the  following sentences use the rhetorical device of hyperbole?
A:Death would be too kind and brief.
B:I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
C:With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for childhood’s lifelong diet.
D:I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really heard, heard to understand, a single word.

Which of  the  following sentences use the rhetorical device of personification?
A:Death would be too kind and brief.
B:I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
C:The sweet scent of vanilla had met us as she opened the door.
D:Browned photographs leered or threatened from the walls and …

Hyperbole is NOT used in ________.
A:Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
B:I must confess that I always … those “as soon as my head touches the pillow” fellows.
C:I used to read, … thanks to their “iron wills,” could lie down and plunge themselves immediately into deep sleep, …
D:I had overlooked the necessity of having an “iron will,” … this peculiar metallic quality.

(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

Mrs. Flowers took special care of Marguerite only because she liked her.
A:错误
B:正确

Eveline didn‘t go with Frank because she was afraid the boat would sink and she would be drowned.
A:错误
B:正确

The teachers of the school were equally respected and loved by their students.
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

The quality of late life is determined by a combination of many elements.
A:错误
B:正确

Literary men have no desire to seek publicity.
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

An American is exposed to about 10,000 hours of television each year on average.
A:错误
B:正确

(A Lesson in Living) Marguerite was a sensitive girl and was upset by Momma’s behavior towards Mrs. Flowers.
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

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

American food is tasteless and innutritious.
A:错误
B:正确

Eveline‘s mother died a mad woman.
A:错误
B:正确

As Americans are eating second-rate foods of more or less the same kind, they are actually eating the way hogs used to be fed by their ancestors.
A:错误
B:正确

According to Jim Binns, young people today are ever more conscious of the “generation gap” than young people of the past.
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

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

One of the African guides could tell that these nests had been abandoned by the gorillas long before.
A:错误
B:正确

(Why I Write) When writing Homage to Catalonia, Orwell’s first concern is political.
A:错误
B:正确

When she ran for Congress, some members of her own party even held secret meetings to discuss how to stop her.
A:错误
B:正确

(Jerusalem the Golden) This excerpt shows the author’s interest in feminine psychology.
A:错误
B:正确

(I’d Rather Be Black Than Female) The author thinks, however, that most white Americans are truly aware of prejudice against the white Americans.
A:错误
B:正确

(The Spanish Bullfight) Successful matadors are even more idolized than film stars.
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

News on TV is read very fast and made too brief and incoherent to be comprehensible.
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

For fifty years or more, Orwell wrote a story about himself.
A:错误
B:正确

People choosing the second alternative hate human civilization and are unwilling to contribute anything to it.
A:错误
B:正确

Successful matadors are even more idolized than film stars.
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

(The Tragedy of Old Age in America) The quality of late life is determined by a combination of many elements.
A:错误
B:正确

The four motives do not carry the same weight in a write.
A:错误
B:正确

To the author, the best thing that shows how a man is full of contradictions is the matter of sleep.
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

(Why I Write) Orwell believes that talented people have individual ambition which is a motive to drive them on.
A:错误
B:正确