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A:She smiled that slow dragging smile.
B:Children these days would bust out of sheetmetal clothes.
C:Momma hadn’t thought that taking off my dress in front of Mrs. Flowers would kill me stone dead.
D:What on earth did one put on to go to Mrs. Flowers’ house?
Simile is applied in ________.
A:In politics, a reformer may have just as strong a love of power as a despot.
B:And is it not, perhaps, a drug which—like opium—has to be taken in continually stronger doses to produce the desired effect?
C:When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates, acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire…
D:What he thought was, “I must have a Navy as good as Grandmamma’s.”
Which sentences use the rhetorical device of irony?
A:The American dream promised older people that if they worked hard enough all their lives, things would turn out well for them.
B:But what are an individual’s chances for a “good” old age in America, with satisfying final years and a dignified death?
C:And though I’m as leery of certain polls as anyone, this margin of credulity is too wide to be discounted.
D:He stands there, his feet braced, his head high from the soaring mountain of his huge neck, and he wonders where he is.
Simile is used in ________.
A:Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool?
B:Much of it is what has been aptly described as “machine gunning with scraps.”
C:For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible.
D:Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus.
Shirly Chisholm (the author) loves teaching and is waiting anxiously to go back to her job in school.
A:错误
B:正确
The Watts riots gave rise to a flourishing of ghetto literature and art.
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
(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
(I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto) The Watts riots give rise to a flourishing of ghetto literature and art.
A:错误
B:正确
(Four Choices for Young People) Few unspoiled places remain in our world where the escapists can practice plain-living and high thinking.
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
News on TV is read very fast and made too brief and incoherent to be comprehensible.
A:错误
B:正确
Marguerite met Mrs. Flowers in the town of Stamps where the Blacks and whites were equal.
A:错误
B:正确
Eveline‘s mother died a mad woman.
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 real world is beset with social problems which, instead of being solved once for all, often lead to others.
A:错误
B:正确
Momma, in this autobiographical account, was Marguerite’s mother.
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
Mrs. Flowers was from an aristocratic family and enjoyed respect of both the white and black folks in the town.
A:错误
B:正确
While at Wittier college, Sanders (the author of "I‘ll Never Escape the Ghetto") felt ashamed of telling people that he was from "
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
(The Spanish Bullfight) Successful matadors are even more idolized than film stars.
A:错误
B:正确
(On Human Nature and Politics) The sons of a sultan fought because they were by different mothers.
A:错误
B:正确
The whole article convinces us that these animals are largely a gentle and kind species.
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
Priestley thinks he will become more famous if people know what is in his mind when he is sleepless.
A:错误
B:正确
The eighth volcano, located on the Congo side, has just recently erupted out of an expense of flat land.
A:错误
B:正确
Orwell believes that talented people have individual ambition which is a motive to drive them on.
A:错误
B:正确
Clara had a peculiar taste of the physical world around her.
A:错误
B:正确
Many elderly Americans do not enjoy a satisfying late life because the society itself is too harsh for them to live in.
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
(On Getting Off to Sleep) Priestly doesn’t think he has an iron will, and he is not sorry about it.
A:错误
B:正确
Sociologists and psychologists point out that Americans begin losing their ideas of liberty and individualism in the home.
A:错误
B:正确
The language in his later works is more flowery and less precise.
A:错误
B:正确
American food is tasteless and innutritious.
A:错误
B:正确
Alice Cooper took his own life at the end of a rock concert in order to shock and thrill the audience.
A:错误
B:正确
Television is more dependent on advertising than newspapers.
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
Mrs. Flowers understood Marguerite’s feelings better than Momma did.
A:错误
B:正确
(Vivisection) The author praises the victory of vivisection as a great advance in the triumph of utilitarianism.
A:错误
B:正确
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