高级英语20秋在线作业1-0002

高级英语19春在线作业1-0002

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.

答案：B,C

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.

答案：A,B,C,D

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 tele vision, …

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 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?

答案：A,C

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.”

答案：B,C,D

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

答案：B