大学MOOC 高级英语（1）(江南大学)1003537030 最新慕课完整章节测试答案

VocabularyandRhetoricalDevices

1、单选题：
‌What rhetorical device is applied in the sentence "...the prospects of a good catch looked bleak. It was not at all possible to catch a large amount of fish"?‍
选项：
A: simile
B: understatement
C: metaphor
D: hyperbole
答案: 【 understatement】

2、单选题：
‎‎What
rhetorical device is applied in the sentence "On some nights, in high
northern latitudes, the sky itself offers another ghostly image that signals
the loss of ecological balance now in progress"?‎‎ ‎‎‎ ‎
选项：
A: hyperbole ‍
B: simile
C: metaphor
D: personification
答案: 【 metaphor】

3、单选题：
​The
quantity of chemical pollutants has increased __________.​​​
选项：
A: invisible
B: exponentially
C: slow
D: slight
答案: 【 exponentially】

4、单选题：
‎Globalization
is a/an __________ trend to the world development.‎‎‎
选项：
A: avoidable
B: giant
C: powerful
D: inexorable
答案: 【 inexorable】

5、单选题：
‍The
future of this firm will be very ________ indeed if we keep losing money.‌‍‌
选项：
A: promising
B: bright
C: bleak
D: bad
答案: 【 bleak】

Multiple-choicequestions

1、单选题：
‏Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in＿.‏
选项：
A: 1945
B: 1963
C:  1953
D: 1956
答案: 【  1953】

2、单选题：
‍Hitler invaded＿＿as a military power on June 22nd 1940.‍
选项：
A: France
B: the Soviet Union
C: the United Kingdom
D: the United States
答案: 【 the Soviet Union】

3、单选题：
‏What rhetorical device is applied in the sentence “Life is the lust of a lamp for the light”?‍
选项：
A: alliteration
B: repetition
C:  pun
D: personification
答案: 【 alliteration】

4、单选题：
‍ What rhetorical device is applied in the sentence “You want your pound of flesh, don’t you?”‏
选项：
A: metaphor
B: allusion
C: oxymoron
D: exaggeration
答案: 【 allusion】

5、单选题：
‎The Nazi régime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination. The underlined word means ____________. ​
选项：
A: lacking
B: wanting
C: attracting
D: completing
答案: 【 lacking】

6、单选题：
‍What rhetorical device is applied in the sentence “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man”?‏
选项：
A: repetition
B: alliteration
C: climax
D: parallelism
答案: 【 parallelism】

7、单选题：
‎“O dear! O dear! What shall I do? I have lost my beau and lipstick too.” What rhetorical devices is applied in the above sentences? ​‎​
选项：
A: euphemism
B: alliteration 
C: anticlimax
D: hyperbole
答案: 【 anticlimax】

8、单选题：
‎I suppose that they will be rounded __________ in hordes.‌
选项：
A: at
B: up
C: on
D: in
答案: 【 up】

9、单选题：
‎What rhetorical device is applied in the sentence “Eat our corn, you’ll smile from ear to ear”? ​
选项：
A: oxymoron
B: allusion
C: metaphor
D: pun
答案: 【 pun】

10、单选题：
‏What rhetorical device is employed in the sentence “We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air---”?‎
选项：
A: anaphora
B: inversion
C: oxymoron
D: smile
答案: 【 anaphora】

Hurricane

1、填空题：
‏Depending on where they occur, tropical
storms are labeled _______, _______ and _____.​‏​
答案: 【 hurricane; typhoon; tropical cyclone】

2、填空题：
‏ Currently, there are ___ lists of male and female
names in ___ order used alternatively for hurricanes.‌
答案: 【 six; alphabetical】

Narration

1、填空题：
‎‎The_______, or the turning point of a
narration, occurs when the conflicts reach the summit, and the most exciting
action or highest tension occurs.‎‎‎
答案: 【 climax】

2、填空题：
‌In general, there are four basic conflicts
in a narration: man against man, _____, _____and man against society.‌‌‌
答案: 【 man against nature; man against himself】

3、填空题：
‍‎The main character of a literary work,
around whom the events of the narration revolve, is    called the ______. Against him/her is the
______, a character or an institution that represents the opposition.‎‍‎
答案: 【 protagonist; antagonist】

Textcomprehension

1、单选题：
​ The theme of “Face to face with Hurricane Camille”
is _____.‎
选项：
A: Human
being is more important than anything else in the world.
B: John
has learnt a lesson from his own experience.
C: People
suffered from such a devastating hurricane.
D: Hurricane
Camille is the greatest storm ever to hit the United States.
答案: 【 Human
being is more important than anything else in the world.】

2、单选题：
‎How
many people are there in the house to fight against the hurricane?‏
选项：
A: 11
B: 13
C: 10
D: 15
答案: 【 15】

3、单选题：
‏ How many onslaughts did hurricane hit the
Koshak’s house?​
选项：
A: three
times
B: four
times
C: once
D: many times
答案: 【 four
times】

4、单选题：
‏When
the sea water reached the house and destroyed the staircase, the Koshak’s
family had to retreat to ______.‍
选项：
A: the
landing ‍
B: the
outside
C: the TV room‍
D: the
bedroom
答案: 【 the
bedroom】

5、单选题：
‏The
antagonist in the story is _____.‍
选项：
A: John
Koshak‍
B: Charlie
Hill
C: the
hurricane
D: the
neighbour
答案: 【 the
hurricane 】

6、单选题：
‏Why did John Koshak decide to stay and face
the dev