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《 高 级 英 语》 第二册模拟试题 （四） 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. personification I. metonymy J. sarcasm We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. These defects would disappear if only creative art were allowed to show the way to better things, but since the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar. None of these people, I suppose, works less than twelve hours a day, and every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury. They are like the Musketeers of Dumas who although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings. Out of the melting pot emerges a race that hates beauty as it hates truth. 厖e and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. The charm of the conversation is that it does not really start from anywhere, and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills. 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. From East Liber