、多选题（共 4 道试题，共 10 分。） 得分：1.25
1. Which of the following sentences do not use the rhetorical device of metonymy?
A. Like women in English novels who walk the moors with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful distance.
B. … I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and melting.
C. … and my image of her would have been shattered like the unmendable Humpty-Dumpty.
D. Through the cloth film, I saw the shadow approach.
正确答案：ABC 得分：1.25
2. Which of the sentences below use the rhetorical device of synecdoche?
A. What’s Wrong with Our Press?
B. Television may not have a Lippmann or a Reston, but then, what papers in America can claim an Eric Sevareid, a Walter Cronkite, a Huntley or a Brinkley, or―although he is invisible―an Edward Morgan?
C. Among the leading commentators on television, you find no Pegler, no Winchell, no Fulton Lewis, Jr..
D. Change means trouble, change means work, change means cost.
正确答案：AB
3. Parallelism is NOT used in ________.
A. A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.
B. Who would want to remonstrate and argue with them?
C. 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.”
D. … for even after the most eventful day, there is no comparing notes with them, no midnight confidence, no casting up the balance of the day’s pleasure and pain.
正确答案：ABC
4. Which of the following sentences apply the rhetorical device of metaphor?
A. A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.
B. Writers share this characteristic … in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
C. It can be seen how these various impulses must war against one another, and how …
D. Who would want to remonstrate and argue with them?
正确答案：ABC
二、判断题（共 36 道试题，共 90 分。）
1. (The Spanish Bullfight) Successful matadors are even more idolized than film stars.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
2. (Science Has Spoiled My Supper) The author hates frozen foods in spite of their seeming advantages.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
3. (I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto) While at Wittier College, the author felt ashamed of telling people that he was from “South Los Angeles”.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
4. (I’d Rather Be Black Than Female) The author is the first Congresswoman in the history of the United States.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
5. (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
正确答案：B
6. (Four Choices for Young People) To deal with such problems, the young should draw on the experiences of the old rather than reject them altogether.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
7. (Eveline) Eveline was more attracted to Frank by his wide experience than by his person.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
8. (What’s Wrong with Our Press?) The author thinks that one of TV’s advantage over papers is its wide range of entertainment for the public.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
9. (A Lesson in Living) Mrs. Flowers’ approval told Marguerite that she had made the right choice of her dress.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
10. (The Trouble with Television) The author is against using the same technique in other programs as in advertising to capture the viewers’ attentions.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
11. (Four Choices for Young People) The author tries to prove with his own experience that people are likely to be radical reformers when young.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
12. (On Getting Off to Sleep) It seems to the author that most people he knows have no difficulty in getting off to sleep.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
13. (What to Listen for in Music) Musical listening is actually done on the three planes simultaneously.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
14. (Science Has Spoiled My Supper) What the author calls “cheese foods” used to be hand-made in small factories.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
15. (Rock Superstars) Some sociologists believe that on effective way to know people and the society is to ask questions about rock music.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
16. (A Lesson in Living) Mrs. Flowers took special care of Marguerite only because she liked her.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
17. (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
正确答案：B
18. (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
正确答案：A
19. (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
正确答案：B
20. (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
正确答案：A
21. (On Human Nature and Politics) Even gods love to be praised.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
22. (A Most Forgiving Ape) The author was sure that he would stand firm to gaze at the gorilla when he met one because he was brave.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
23. (The Spanish Bullfight) The author is a bullfight fan.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
24. (Why I Write) According to Orwell, all writers, even writers of railway guides, have aesthetic considerations.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
25. (Vivisection) The author praises the victory of vivisection as a great advance in the triumph of utilitarianism.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
26. (What to Listen for in Music) It is a bad habit of listening to try to connect what one is listening with something concrete.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
27. (A Most Forgiving Ape) Though the number of gorillas is small, the local tribesmen ignore the law and kill some of them.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
28. (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
正确答案：B
29. (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
正确答案：A
30. (Science Has Spoiled My Supper) The author thinks it wrong to cut costs by mass-producing “standardized” cheese.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
31. (A Lesson in Living) Mrs. Flowers has the manner of a rich lady: refined, gentle and gracious.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
32. (A Most Forgiving Ape) When he saw the gorilla, the author was so fascinated by its charming appearance that he forgot to use his binoculars.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
33. (Vivisection) The author dismisses the question of how much cruelty there is in laboratories because it is not important at all.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
34. (On Getting Off to Sleep) To the author, the best thing that shows how a man is full of contradiction is the matter of sleep.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
35. (The Tragedy of Old Age in America) The author implies that it is only natural for employers to practice job discrimination against the old.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：A
36. (A Most Forgiving Ape) Gorillas have far greater physical strength than human beings.
A. 错误
B. 正确
正确答案：B
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