张汉熙高级英语试题及答案 第二册模拟试题3 .pdfVIP

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. Markyour 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. understatementB. simileC. metaphor D. antithesisE. repetitionF. transferred epithet G. hyperboleH. sarcasmI. metonymy J. personification 1. 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. 第 1 页 2. And so, my fellow Americansask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your county. 3. …… and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. 4. 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. 5. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills. 6. 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. 7. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. 8. And this is true, whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernable mops