东北师范大学网络学院 高级英语20春在线作业2
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高级英语20春在线作业2
1. Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of hyperbole? 【选项】：
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?
【答案】：A.B.C
2. Simile is applied in ________. 【选项】：
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.”
【答案】：A.B
3. Which sentences use the rhetorical device of irony?
【选项】：
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.
【答案】：B.C
4. Simile is used in ________. 【选项】：
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.
【答案】：B.C
5. Shirly Chisholm (the author) loves teaching and is waiting anxiously to go back to her job in school. 【选项】： A 错误 B 正确
【答案】：A
6. The Watts riots gave rise to a flourishing of ghetto literature and art. 【选项】：
A 错误 B 正确
【答案】：B
7. 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. 【选项】： A 错误 B 正确
【答案】：B
8. (The Trouble with Television) News on TV is read very fast and made too brief and incoherent to be comprehensive. 【选项】： A 错误 B 正确
【答案】：B
9. (I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto) The Watts riots give rise to a flourishing of ghetto literature and art. 【选项】： A 错误 B 正确
【答案】：B
10. (Four Choices for Young People) Few unspoiled places remain in our world where the escapists can practice plain-living and high thinking. 【选项】：
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