Ch. 3 Blackmail (Excerpts)

Rhetorical Devices

1、单选题:
As a result the nerves of both the Duke and Duchess were excessively frayed when the muted buzzer of the outer door eventually sounded. (Para. 1)​
选项:
A: personification
B: metaphor
C: alliteration
D: synecdoche
答案: 【 metaphor

2、单选题:
 You drove there in your fancy Jaguar and you took a lady friend. (Para. 24)​
选项:
A: alliteration
B: euphemism
C: metonymy
D: parallelism
答案: 【 euphemism

3、单选题:
The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle. (Para. 7)‏
选项:
A: metaphor
B: synecdoche
C: climax
D: onomatopoeia
答案: 【 onomatopoeia

4、单选题:
Her voice was a whiplash. Eyes bored into him. Swallowing, sullenly, he complied. (Para. 99)‎
选项:
A: metaphor
B: oxymoron
C: ironical
D: metonymy
答案: 【 metaphor

5、单选题:
The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind. (Para. 75)​
选项:
A: ironical
B: metaphor
C: metonymy
D: synecdoche
答案: 【 metaphor

Text Comprehension

1、单选题:
How did Arthur Hailey prepare for his novel Hotel?​
选项:
A: By reading other people’s novels.
B: By reading many books on hotel industry and living in hotels.
C: By discussing with other people on how to write a story.
D: By staying at home and thinking deeply.
答案: 【 By reading many books on hotel industry and living in hotels.

2、单选题:
What crime did the Duke commit? Was it a serious crime?​
选项:
A: Hit and run and it is a very serious crime.
B: Gambling and it is a very serious crime.
C: Running a few red lights and it is not very serious.
D: Quarrelling with the policeman and it is not very serious.
答案: 【 Hit and run and it is a very serious crime.

3、单选题:
What kind of writing Blackmail is?‎
选项:
A: A column for newspaper.
B: A journalistic feature.
C: A piece of narrative fiction.
D: A “Celebrity” or “People” journalism.
答案: 【 A piece of narrative fiction.

4、单选题:
The following are the ways of portraying a character in the story EXCEPT______.‌
选项:
A: By directly naming the trait
B: By describing the external appearance of a character
C: By describing the habitual actions of a character
D: By interviewing and surveying
答案: 【 By interviewing and surveying

5、单选题:
5. The following are the symbol of the Croydons’ luxurious and extravagant life in the text, EXCEPT ______.‎
选项:
A: driving fancy Jaguar
B: smoking cigar
C: having maid and secretary
D: having an ornamental fireplace in the room
答案: 【 smoking cigar

Words and Expressions

1、单选题:
The music reverted to old, familiar favorites. No drums, no guitars, just a piano and a ______ trumpet loping and leaning, ducking and bobbing. ‎
选项:
A: mute 
B: muted
C: mutate     
D: murmur
答案: 【 muted

2、单选题:
The excited voices of children, however, didn’t need any ______. They came intermittently into town from the river, where they swam and played games, chasing after one another, their school uniforms strewn on the grasses at the riverbank.‏
选项:
A: perpetrate
B: despite
C: respite
D: aspirate
答案: 【 respite

3、单选题:
If you see comments that you find ______, please use the “Flag as Inappropriate” feature by hovering over the right side of the post, and pulling down on the arrow that appears. ‍
选项:
A: offending
B: offish
C: offensive
D: offspring
答案: 【 offensive

4、单选题:
Or do they fear that the people in ______ of designing them are making the wrong choices about how to design them in the first place? ‏
选项:
A: charge
B: accuse
C: blame
D: complain
答案: 【 charge

5、单选题:
“Faculty meeting today... what time?” “The usual time,” she replied. “Two?” he asked, wrinkling his nose in ______. “But it’s almost one already.”‌
选项:
A: testify
B: distate
C: attest
D: detest
答案: 【 distate

Ch. 4 The Trial That Rocked the World

Rhetorical Devices

1、单选题:
Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted in his prosecution by his son, also a lawyer, and Tennessee’s brilliant young attorney general, Tom Stewart. (Para. 11)‍
选项:
A: sarcasm
B: metaphor
C: alliteration
D: synecdoche
答案: 【 sarcasm

2、单选题:
The trial that rocked the world. (Title)   ‎
选项:
A: alliteration
B: hyperbole
C: metonymy
D: parallelism
答案: 【 hyperbole

3、单选题:
“Don’t worry, son, we’ll show them a few tricks,” Darrow had whispered, throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as ... (Para. 2)​
选项:
A: metaphor
B: transferred epithet
C: climax
D: onomatopoeia
答案: 【 transferred epithet

4、单选题:
The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must come from the below. (Para. 20)​
选项:
A: metaphor
B: oxymoron
C: ironical
D: antithesis
答案: 【 antithesis

5、单选题:
 ... when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to.... (Para. 14)​   ​
选项:
A: ironical
B: assonance
C: metonymy
D: oxymoron
答案: 【 assonance

Text Comprehension

1、单选题:
Why was there a cla

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