(I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto) The Watts riots were a massive action led by a few
civil rights leaders.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：错误
(The Tragedy of Old Age in America) Old people who are poor have been poor all
their lives.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：错误
(Eveline) Elveline’s father was a brute man and often beat his children including his
daughter.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：错误
(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
答案是：错误
(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
答案是：错误
(Jerusalem the Golden) From the absence of male teachers and students in the
excerpt we can conclude that it was not a co-educated school.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：正确
(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
答案是：错误
(The Spanish Bullfight) Successful matadors are even more idolized than film stars.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：错误
(Science Has Spoiled My Supper) The author hates frozen foods in spite of their
seeming advantages.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：正确
(Eveline) Eveline was more attracted to Frank by his wide experience than by his
person.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：正确
(Vivisection) Protest against vivisection used to be strong, but today no one dare
show any opposition.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：错误
(What to Listen for in Music) Musical listening is actually done on the three planes
simultaneously.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：正确
(Eveline) Ernest, Harry and Little Keogh were all Eveline’s brothers.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：错误
(Eveline) What made Eveline pluck up her courage and leave for the station was that
she didn’t want to live her mother.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：正确
(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
答案是：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
答案是：错误
(A Lesson in Living) Marguerite wanted to behave like a nice little lady in front of Mrs.
Flowers.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：正确
(The Trouble with Television) The only thing Americans do when they are at leisure is
to watch television.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：错误
(I’d Rather Be Black Than Female) The author spent twenty years doing all the
routine work only to get her male colleagues elected to important positions.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：错误
(Why I Write) When writing Homage to Catalonia, Orwell’s first concern is political.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：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
答案是：正确
(Why I Write) According to Orwell, all writers, even writers of railway guides, have
aesthetic considerations.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：错误
(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
答案是：错误
(Rock Superstars) To become a rock star seems to be the fastest way to fortune and
fame.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：正确
(On Getting Off to Sleep) The author says that when he is in bed, he feels like
writing, so he puts pens, ink and paper near him.
A 错误
B 正确
答案是：错误
Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of zoosemy?
A They look like figures representing gluttony in a medieval morality play, and you
expect ladies in wimples to appear and clowns dressed like monkeys.
B All at one time it can be brave, pitiful, squalid, heroic, messy, chivalrous, and
obscene.
C She set her white face to him, passive like a helpless animal.
D They lift the letters and carry them off like stretchers.
答案是： They look like figures representing gluttony in a medieval morality play, and
you expect ladies in wimples to appear and clowns dressed like monkeys.||She set
her white face to him, passive like a helpless animal.
Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of rhetorical question?
A A slice of my mother-in-law’s apple pie will satiate you far better than a whole
bakery pie.
B But who eats with his eyes?
C What matters if such peas taste like boiled paper wads?
D Yet, if people don’t eat onions because they taste like onions, what in the name of
Luther Burbank do they eat them for?
答案是： But who eats with his eyes?||What matters if such peas taste like boiled
paper wads?||Yet, if people don’t eat onions because they taste like onions, what in
the name of Luther Burbank do they eat them for?
Which of the sentences below apply the rhetorical device of metonymy?
A That is why they always find Tschaikovsky easier to “understand” than Beethoven.
B Is it pessimistically sad or resignedly sad; is it fatefully sad or smilingly sad?
C Whether you listen to Mozart or Duke Ellington, you can deepen your
understanding of musi
答案是： That is why they always find Tschaikovsky easier to “understand” than
Beethoven.||Whether you listen to Mozart or Duke Ellington, you can deepen your
understanding of musi
Which of the sentences below use the rhetorical device of repetition?
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.
答案是： Among the leading commentators on television, you find no Pegler, no
Winchell, no Fulton Lewis, Jr..||Change means trouble, change means work, change
means cost.
Which sentences use the rhetorical device of understatement?
A fading fast, over the hill, out to pasture, down the drain, finished, out of date.
B For the most part the elderly struggle to exist in an inhospitable world.
C Voluntary hospitals are well known for dumping the “Medicare patient” into
municipal hospitals…
D This feature objectivity is nothing less than the editor’s abdication of responsibility
and is just as dangerous as the long and subtle processing of fact to fit a policy that
characterizes certain weekly magazines.
答案是： For the most part the elderly struggle to exist in an inhospitable world.||This
feature objectivity is nothing less than the editor’s abdication of responsibility and is
just as dangerous as the long and subtle processing of fact to fit a policy that
characterizes certain weekly magazines.
Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of simile?
A Clara did not mind the cold, for she liked anything that was not small and cramped
and heartlessly cosy…
B She handled her apparatus with the efficient familiarity with which other women
handle their baking boards and rolling pins…
C Personally, I don’t care if they hybridize onions till they are as big as your head and
come up through the snow…
D What matters if such peas taste like boiled paper wads?
答案是： She handled her apparatus with the efficient familiarity with which other
women handle their baking boards and rolling pins…||Personally, I don’t care if they
