奥鹏教育东北师范大学高级英语在线作业一

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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.
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Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of simile?
A:Cake mixes, too, come ready-prepared—like cement and not much better-tasting compared with true cake.
B:Vegetables with crisp and crackling texture emerge as mush, slippery and stringy as hair nets simmered in Vaseline.
C:Everything, pretty much, tastes like the mosses of tundra, dug up in mid-winter.
D:Handsome comestibles you put down in the summer come out looking very much like the corpses of woolly mammoths recovered from the last Ice Age.
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Analogy is used in ________.
A:The viewer is on a perpetual guided tour; 30 minutes at the museum, 30 at the cathedral, 30 for a drink, then back on the bus to the next attraction – except on television, …
B:The women of a nation mold its moral, its religions, and its politics by the lives they live.
C: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奥鹏教育东北师范大学在线作业 for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
D:Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
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Synecdoche is NOT used in ________.
A:But there is a man in my office, a Mr. H., who proses it away from morning to night, …
B:Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
C:It would be worse than beating an anvil with a sledge-hammer.
D: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.”
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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
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(Why I Write) When writing Homage to Catalonia, Orwell’s first concern is political.
A:错误
B:正确
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British high school students wore uniforms provided by the government.
A:错误
B:正确
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(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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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The Watts riots gave rise to a flourishing of ghetto literature and art.
A:错误
B:正确
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(A Most Forgiving Ape) The author found the area very disturbing because the equator sun was beating down him mercilessly.
A:错误
B:正确
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(On Human Nature and Politics) Some criminals enjoy seeing public accounts of their worst acts.
A:错误
B:正确
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Madrid is now the only city where you can see a bullfight.
A:错误
B:正确
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To become a rock star seems to be the fastest way to fortune and fame.
A:错误
B:正确
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The more lovely a musical piece sounds, the more value it has.
A:错误
B:正确
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Young people doubt that the older generation are capable rulers and should, therefore, be their teacher.
A:错误
B:正确
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Eveline‘s mother died a mad woman.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Jerusalem the Golden) This excerpt shows the author’s interest in feminine psychology.
A:错误
B:正确
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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
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(Eveline) 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
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One of the African guides could tell that these nests had been abandoned by the gorillas long before.
A:错误
B:正确
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The whole article convinces us that these animals are largely a gentle and kind species.
A:错误
B:正确
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(On Human Nature and Politics) The sons of a sultan fought because they were by different mothers.
A:错误
B:正确
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According to one rock music critic, the teenagers express their rebellious attitudes through rock music.
A:错误
B:正确
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(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
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(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
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(What to Listen for in Music) “The fateful hammer of life” is a precise description of the first main theme of the Ninth Symphony.
A:错误
B:正确
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Marguerite met Mrs. Flowers in the town of Stamps where the Blacks and whites were equal.
A:错误
B:正确
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The main duty of the monosabios in the bullring is to help the picadors.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Eveline) Eveline was more attracted to Frank by his wide experience than by his person.
A:错误
B:正确
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Mr. H. does not have very interesting ideas.
A:错误
B:正确
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News on TV is read very fast and made too brief and incoherent to be comprehensible.
A:错误
B:正确
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(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
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She is not satisfied with the present status of women in the American political world because she despises the tedious and specific jobs.
A:错误
B:正确
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(A Most Forgiving Ape) The mountain gorilla lives in an area up on the volcanoes seldom visited by the local African tribesmen.
A:错误
B:正确
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Priestley doesn’t think he has an iron will, and he is not sorry about it.
A:错误
B:正确
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