张汉熙高级英语试题及答案 第二册模拟试题3.docVIP

I. Choose the rhetorical or figurative device from the list below that best describes the underlined words. All of the devices listed are used once. Mark your answer with capital letters like A, B, C, …or J . (10%) Model: The difference, for example, between the much-touted Second International and the much-clouted Third International is not like the difference between the horse and buggy and the automobile. Answer: D List of devices: A. understatement B. simile C. metaphor D. antithesis E. repetition F. transferred epithet G. hyperbole H. sarcasm I. metonymy J. personification They lean this way and that, hanging on to their bases precariously, and one and all they are streaked in grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping though the streaks. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your county. 厖; and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. The headquarters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at another forlorn town, a steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somewhere further down the line. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills. Here was the wealth beyond computation, even beyond imagination— and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. And this is true, whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernable mops of hair. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young. But in the American village and small town the pull is always toward ugliness, and in that Westmoreland valley it has been yielded to with an eagerness bordering upon passion. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. II. Determine whether the following s