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东北师范大学-高级英语20秋在线作业2
1. Simile is NOT used in ________. 【选项】:
A Good prose is like a window pane.
B A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.
C Writers share this characteristic … in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. D It can be seen how these various impulses must war against one another, and how …
【答案】:B|C|D
2. Metaphor is used in ________. 【选项】:
A To be allowed, no, invited, into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
B “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done …”
C Part of the problem is that women in America are much more brainwashed and content with their roles as second-class citizens than blacks ever were.
D I have done the work -- … while man reaped the rewards, which is almost invariably the lot of women in politics.
【答案】:A|C
3. Metaphor is used in ________. 【选项】:
A … had bequeathed to us tablets of stone commanding that nothing in television shall ever require more than a few moments’ concentration.
B Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool?
C … force feeding on trivial fare is not itself a trivial matter.
D … and I fear that … and our appetite for complexity are only dimly perceived.
【答案】:B|C|D
4. Allusion is applied in ________. 【选项】:
A It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles. B It was there, ironically enough, that the Odyssey turned homeward.
C I bear the same mark as a son of Watts now that I did during that oratorical contest in high school.
D But when he took to agriculture, …and to dream of the life hereafter in which he would perpetually hunt the wild boar of Valhalla.
【答案】:B|D
5. (A Most Forgiving Ape) The author found the area very disturbing because the equator sun was beating down him mercilessly. 【选项】: A 错误 B 正确
【答案】:A
6. (The Spanish Bullfight) A priest prays for the matadors before the fight. 【选项】: A 错误 B 正确
【答案】:A
7. (The Tragedy of Old Age in America) The author agrees with neither of the two discrepant views on old age. 【选项】: A 错误 B 正确
【答案】:B
8. (On Human Nature and Politics) The condemned murderer is displeased with those newspapers that make a big noise about his trial. 【选项】: A 错误 B 正确
【答案】:A
9. Musical listening is actually done on the three planes simultaneously. 【选项】: A 错误 B 正确
【答案】:B