东北师范大学《高级英语》期末考试必备题集

奥鹏期末考核

8148–东北师范大学《高级英语》奥鹏期末考试题库合集

单选题:
(1)I held the paper sack with his cookies in my arms ________ by the poems.
A.trailed
B.mead
C.essence
D.shieled
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(2)It takes the human voice to ________ them with the shades of deeper meaning.
A.refuse
B.confuse
C.infuse
D.refusing
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(3)I have tried to search behind the sophistication of years for the ________ I so easily found in those gifts.
A.enchant
B.enchantment
C.enchanting
D.enchanted
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(4)It is true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to ________ one’s own personality.
A.efface
B.ound
C.betray
D.ruin
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(5)I wanted to ________ the room entire and take it to Bailey.
A.gobble up
B.take up
C.give up
D.dress up
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(6)It was difficult for the police to ________ the angry crowd.
A.hesitate
B.pacify
C.satisfy
D.spectacle
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(7)I‘m usually ____________ by beggars and drunks as I walk to the station.
A.battered
B.ragged
C.accosted
D.terraced
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(8)The Hungarian uprising in 1956 was ________ by the Soviet Union.
A.surfaced
B.contained
C.suppressed
D.supported
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(9)But then fatigue created a kind of mental ________.
A.anaesthetic
B.paralyzed
C.subside
D.exhaustion
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(10)It seemed at times that we were climbing almost ________.
A.perpendicularly
B.resolutely
C.unpromising
D.splendidly
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(11)I ________ to the view that peace can be achieved.
A.incline
B.pail
C.credit
D.free
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(12)Most of the papers give ________ to the same story this morning.
A.dimension
B.influence
C.syndicate
D.prominence
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(13)Is it ________ its duty to diversity by printing snippets of opinion from unqualified readers?
A.preceding
B.discharging
C.charging
D.opposite
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(14)All at one time it can be brave, pitiful, ________, heroic, messy, and obscene.
A.squalid
B.saint
C.isolate
D.romance
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(15)He has nothing to defend himself with except the grace of his courage and only a piece of red cloth with which he hopes to ________ the bull to keep his head low.
A.hypnotize
B.caress
C.flourish
D.attend
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(16)I had this sudden ______ to shout out "Rubbish!" in the middle of her speech.
A.nonosabio
B.trot
C.impulse
D.trumpet
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(17)Since everyone we knew could sew ________, praise was rarely handed out for the commonly practiced craft.
A.competently
B.competent
C.stitch
D.apronlike
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(18)I looked at one of the guides ________.
A.sheer
B.void
C.interrogatively
D.profoundly
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(19)I heard except for the noise created by my own beastly ________ in the thickets.
A.wallowing
B.willows
C.wallowed
D.willowed
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(20)I could detect ________ variances in fragrance as we strolled through the garden.
A.beginning
B.subtle
C.substitute
D.sacred
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(21)When a local paper has a monopoly in a region, as most of them do, why is it necessary to aim at the lowest common ________?
A.service
B.feature
C.denominator
D.dispatch
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(22)We won‘t go unless you _____ soon.
A.coming
B.will come
C.comes
D.come
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(23)My wife___.
A.has forever criticized me
B.forever criticizes me
C.does forever criticize me
D.is forever criticizing me
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(24)Going to Mrs. Flowers’ house was ________ to attending church.
A.same
B.identical
C.equivalent
D.assimilated
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(25)It seemed she had a private breeze which ________ around, cooling her.
A.swirling
B.swirl
C.swirls
D.swirled
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(26)Even when it is downright ________ it contains much that a full-time politician would consider irrelevant.
A.world-view
B.propaganda
C.construction
D.detachment
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(27)Sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing ________ and for ever demanding to be wooed.
A.inconsistency
B.inconsistent
C.consistency
D.consistent
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(28)If it‘s of any ____________ to you, you‘re not the only one he was rude to.
A.music
B.agent
C.ideal
D.consolation
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(29)One turns on the radio while doing something else and ____________ bathes in the sound.
A.engendered
B.absentmindedly
C.appealing
D.mere
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(30)Do you think it‘s within his ___________ to (= Do you think he‘ll be able to) do the job without making a mess of it?
A.capacity
B.terminology
C.bath
D.term
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(31)Mr. H never gets beyond corporal and material ________.
A.verities
B.value
C.profit
D.benefit
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(32)I ________ any reasonable man to fall asleep while mustering a herd of cerulean swine.
A.deny
B.defy
C.delete
D.detour
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(33)New problems took their place – the unprecedented problems of an ________ society.
A.affluence
B.affluent
C.dogged
D.sanitary
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(34)For at best their victory never ________ on the shinning new world they had dreamed of.
A.cleans
B.dawns
C.cleansed
D.dawn
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(35)In fact it was this silence that ________ all the last moments of our climb.
A.dominating
B.dominated
C.dominates
D.dominate
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(36)She knew it was that that had given her the ___________________.
A.palpitations
B.shillings
C.clacking
D.cretonne
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(37)His _______________ at the outcome of the court case was very clear.
A.experiment
B.novelis
C.anguish
D.frenzy
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(38)An excited group of children ______________ out of school.
A.left
B.squandered
C.tumbled
D.courted
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(39)The soldiers had __________ barricades to protect themselves.
A.erected
B.amplified
C.conformed
D.ordained
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(40)We may fail to see how a ___________ Deity could wish us to draw such conclusions from the hierarchical order He has created.
A.objective
B.benevolent
C.sentiment
D.scruple
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(41)We see that freight railroads make good profits while __________ excellent service.
A.recompensing
B.immortal
C.parting
D.rendering
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(42)I wouldn‘t dream of _____________ such a lack of judgment to you.
A.committing
B.attributing
C.springing
D.reviewing
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(43)Do you share Chris Singer’s almost religious ________ for Bob Dylan?
A.reverence
B.reverent
C.kindness
D.act
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(44)Elvis managed to embody the ________ teenage spirit of the 1950s.
A.frustrating
B.frustrate
C.frustrated
D.frustration
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(45)My aunt never married because her father wouldn‘t _____________ to her marriage.
A.consented
B.consent
C.elbowed
D.elbow
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(46)Her distress awoke a nausea in her body and she kept moving her lips in silent ______
A.fervent
B.mazed
C.shed
D.inhaling
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(47)A man was not stamped as a ___________ for protesting against vivisection.
A.iron
B.triumph
C.crank
D.imbecile
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(48)We were hoping to ___________ these difficult decisions until September.
A.set off
B.stave off
C.take off
D.give off
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(49)"Just look at that waterfall! Isn‘t it amazing?" she ___________.
A.marvelled
B.illicit
C.resented
D.suspected
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(50)She liked its huge, barnlike, inhuman ___________, its corridors shoulder-high in dark green, shoulder-to-ceiling in pale peppermint.
A.bleakness
B.accessibility
C.beret
D.frizzy
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(51)The vocabulary and grammatical differences between British and American English are so trivial and few as hardly___.
A.noticed
B.to be noticed
C.being noticed
D.to notice
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(52)Domesticity appalled her, and she nourished in it, dispite a _________ for the comfortless grand.
A.encasing
B.yearning
C.cramping
D.emerging
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(53)Horowitz sees the rock music ________ as a sort of debating forum.
A.arena
B.exaggeration
C.motion
D.society
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(54)They ________ to follow him, eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops.
A.tune
B.react
C.rebel
D.surge
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(55)They lived, in bitter ________, to see the establishment they had overthrown replaced by a new one.
A.illusion
B.disillusion
C.disillusionment
D.illusions
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(56)The are prime victims of dishonest door-to-door salesman and __________ advertising, and buy defective hearing aids, dance lessons, useless "Medicare insurance supplements".
A.diagnostic
B.fraudulent
C.adversity
D.penalize
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(57)After the recent scandal, the priest is expected to do the ________ thing and resign from his position.
A.decent
B.celebrated
C.wilted
D.bland
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(58)A teaspoonful of my mother-in-law‘s wild strawberry jam will not just provide a gastronome‘s _________: it will entirely satisfy your desire.
A.cascade
B.leftover
C.ecstasy
D.texture
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(59)While the television ________ ignored me, they were not aware of a very important statistic.
A.dashikis
B.dashiki
C.crews
D.crew
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(60)Unfair employment practices are enforced instead of ________.
A.evaded
B.evade
C.invaded
D.invade
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(61)Prejudice against black was ________ to most white Americans for many years.
A.visible
B.invisible
C.tangible
D.intangible
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(62)But women ________ in the lower-paying, menial, unrewarding, dead-end jobs.
A.dominated
B.predominate
C.rank
D.homemaker
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(63)I have done the work – all the ________ details that make the difference between victory and defeat on election day.
A.tedious
B.liberal
C.invariable
D.handicapped
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(64)He had the dignity and ________ of prophets.
A.crouching
B.pillar
C.glaring
D.majesty
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(65)The beast you feel is savage, ________ hostile, basically a murderer.
A.intrinsic
B.abrupt
C.intrinsically
D.abruptly
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(66)When she didn‘t answer the telephone, I __________ to standing outside her window and calling up to her.
A.identified
B.resorted
C.unsettled
D.contrived
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(67)We were only able to make a __________ connection between the two robberies.
A.hailed
B.initiative
C.throes
D.tenuous
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(68)I was handed full manuscripts of unpublished books by __________ writers and asked to criticize them.
A.intellectual
B.indigenous
C.bastard
D.spate
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(69)It only took me an hour to pick up the __________ of skiing.
A.populace
B.stalking
C.omnipotence
D.rudiments
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(70)In the story, a __________ witch put a curse on the princess for 100 years.
A.wicked
B.harmless
C.securing
D.deceiving
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(71)_________ efforts were made throughout the war to disguise the scale of civilian casualties.
A.Strenuous
B.Indifferent
C.Inhaling
D.Insatiable
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(72)They had minor breakthroughs but real success ________ them
A.applauded
B.decried
C.eluded
D.brute
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(73)By ordinary standards these are __________ enough to qualify one as coming from Watts.
A.credentials
B.oratorical
C.stigma
D.designation
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(74)Their disagreement _________ from a misunderstanding.
A.simplified
B.manifested
C.stemmed
D.watershed
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(75)They had minor breakthroughs but real success ________ them.
A.applauded
B.decried
C.eluded
D.brute
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多选题:
(1)Which of the following sentences do not use the rhetorical device of transferred epithet?
A.Like women in English novels who walk the moors with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful distance.
B.… I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and melting.
C.… and my image of her would have been shattered like the unmendable Humpty-Dumpty.
D.Through the cloth film, I saw the shadow approach.
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(2)Which sentences use the rhetorical device of irony?
A.The American dream promised older people that if they worked hard enough all their lives, things would turn out well for them.
B.But what are an individual’s chances for a “good” old age in America, with satisfying final years and a dignified death?
C.And though I’m as leery of certain polls as anyone, this margin of credulity is too wide to be discounted.
D.He stands there, his feet braced, his head high from the soaring mountain of his huge neck, and he wonders where he is.
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(3)Which of the sentences below apply the rhetorical device of metaphor?
A.She felt her cheek pale and cold and, out of a maze of distress, …
B.He would drown her.
C.She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
D.The boat blew a long mournful whistle into the mist.
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(4)Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of hyperbole?
A.She smiled that slow dragging smile.
B.Children these days would bust out of sheetmetal clothes.
C.Momma hadn’t thought that taking off my dress in front of Mrs. Flowers would kill me stone dead.
D.What on earth did one put on to go to Mrs. Flowers’ house?
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(5)Which of the sentences below apply the rhetorical device of parallelism?
A.…and her place would be filled up by an advertisement.
B.Of course she had to work hard, both in the house and at business.
C.One was to Harry; the other was to her father.
D.He was awfully fond of music and song a little.
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(6)Which of the sentences below apply the rhetorical device of rhetorical question?
A.Was that wise?
B.What would they say of her in the Stores when they found out that she had run away with a fellow?
C.Why should she be unhappy?
D.He took her to see The Bohemian Girl and she felt elated as she sat in an unaccustomed part of the theatre with him.
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(7)Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of personification?
A.Death would be too kind and brief.
B.I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
C.The sweet scent of vanilla had met us as she opened the door.
D.Browned photographs leered or threatened from the walls and …
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(8)Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of hyperbole?
A.Death would be too kind and brief.
B.I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
C.With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for childhood’s lifelong diet.
D.I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really heard, heard to understand, a single word.
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(9)Simile is applied in ________.
A.In politics, a reformer may have just as strong a love of power as a despot.
B.And is it not, perhaps, a drug which—like opium—has to be taken in continually stronger doses to produce the desired effect?
C.When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates, acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire…
D.What he thought was, “I must have a Navy as good as Grandmamma’s.”
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(10)Parallelism is used in ________.
A.It is women who can bring empathy, tolerance, insight, patience, and persistence to government …
B.The women of a nation mold its moral, its religions, and its politics by the lives they live.
C.Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
D.“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done …”
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(11)Sarcasm is applied in ________.
A.When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.
B.When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates, acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire and dwelt in palaces of almost unbelievable luxury, they did not, on that account, become inactive.
C.When London crowds assemble in Trafalgar Square to cheer to the echo an announcement that the government has decided to have them killed, they would not do so if they had walked 25 mile that day.
D.Any persons found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.
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(12)Personification is applied in ________.
A.When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.
B.One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on.
C.Civilized life has grown altogether too tame, …
D.Any persons found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.
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(13)Hyperbole is applied in ________.
A.What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor, which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion, for a few brief moments, that it is better to be alive than dead; on a few dates in paradise.
B.And when excitement by means of nicotine failed, a patriotic orator would stir them up to attack a neighbouring tribe, which would give them all the enjoyment that we (according to our temperament) derive from a horse race or a General Election.
C.But when he took to agriculture, …and to dream of the life hereafter in which he would perpetually hunt the wild boar of Valhalla.
D.It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles.
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(14)Metaphor is applied in ________.
A.…satiety is a dream which will always elude you.
B.When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.
C.Dance halls, cinemas, this age of jazz are all, if we may believe our ears, gateway to Hell, and we should be better employed sitting at home contemplating our sins.
D.It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles.
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(15)Allusion is applied in ________.
A.It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles.
B.It was there, ironically enough, that the Odyssey turned homeward.
C.I bear the same mark as a son of Watts now that I did during that oratorical contest in high school.
D.But when he took to agriculture, …and to dream of the life hereafter in which he would perpetually hunt the wild boar of Valhalla.
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(16)Antithesis is not used in ________.
A.Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
B.She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
C.But they talked, and from the side of the building where I waited for the ground to open up and swallow me, I heard …
D.Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
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(17)Metaphor is used in ________.
A.To be allowed, no, invited, into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
B.“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done …”
C.Part of the problem is that women in America are much more brainwashed and content with their roles as second-class citizens than blacks ever were.
D.I have done the work — … while man reaped the rewards, which is almost invariably the lot of women in politics.
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(18)Metaphor is NOT used in ________.
A.Good prose is like a window pane.
B.A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.
C.Writers share this characteristic … in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
D.I cannot say with certainty which of my motives are the strongest, but I know which of them deserve to be followed.
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(19)Antithesis is used in ________.
A.She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
B.… I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and melting.
C.The sweet scent of vanilla had met us as she opened the door.
D.I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
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(20)Hyperbole is NOT used in ________.
A.Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
B.I must confess that I always … those “as soon as my head touches the pillow” fellows.
C.I used to read, … thanks to their “iron wills,” could lie down and plunge themselves immediately into deep sleep, …
D.I had overlooked the necessity of having an “iron will,” … this peculiar metallic quality.
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(21)Analogy is NOT used in ________.
A.Good prose is like a window pane.
B.It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning make the prize light.”
C.Who would want to remonstrate and argue with them?
D.I stare at the reproachfully blank paper until sights and sounds become dim and confused, …
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(22)Antithesis is applied in ________.
A.If a mere sentiment justifies cruelty, why stop at a sentiment for the whole human race?
B.It is so deep a need that it will find harmful outlets of this kind unless innocent outlets are at hand.
C.If it is not defended on the ground that it reduces human suffering, on what ground can it be defended?
D.If we find a man giving pleasure it is for us to prove (if we criticize him) that his action is wrong. But if we find a man inflicting pain it is for him to prove that his action is right.
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(23)Understatement is applied in ________.
A.It is the rarest thing in the world to hear a rational discussion of vivisection.
B.What he thought was, “I must have a Navy as good as Grandmamma’s.”
C.When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates, acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire…
D.When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.
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(24)Transferred epithet is NOT used in ________.
A.But there is a man in my office, a Mr. H., who proses it away from morning to night, …
B.Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
C.I stare at the reproachfully blank paper until sights and sounds become dim and confused, …
D.… and I would pass ours in tormenting sleeplessness.
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(25)Synecdoche is NOT used in ________.
A.But there is a man in my office, a Mr. H., who proses it away from morning to night, …
B.Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
C.It would be worse than beating an anvil with a sledge-hammer.
D.It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning make the prize light.”
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(26)Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of simile?
A.Cake mixes, too, come ready-prepared—like cement and not much better-tasting compared with true cake.
B.Vegetables with crisp and crackling texture emerge as mush, slippery and stringy as hair nets simmered in Vaseline.
C.Everything, pretty much, tastes like the mosses of tundra, dug up in mid-winter.
D.Handsome comestibles you put down in the summer come out looking very much like the corpses of woolly mammoths recovered from the last Ice Age.
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(27)Metaphor is used in ________.
A.… had bequeathed to us tablets of stone commanding that nothing in television shall ever require more than a few moments’ concentration.
B.Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool?
C.… force feeding on trivial fare is not itself a trivial matter.
D.… and I fear that … and our appetite for complexity are only dimly perceived.
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(28)Allusion is not used in ________.
A.Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool?
B.When before in human history has so much humanity collectively surrendered so much of its leisure to one toy, one mass deivesion?
C.When before has virtually an entire nation surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling?
D.… had bequeathed to us tablets of stone commanding that nothing in television shall ever require more than a few moments’ concentration.
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(29)Simile is used in ________.
A.Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool?
B.Much of it is what has been aptly described as “machine gunning with scraps.”
C.For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible.
D.Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus.
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判断题:
(1)Mrs. Flowers took special care of Marguerite only because she liked her.
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(2)In Marguerite’s mind, Mrs. Flowers was a god-like figure.
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(3)Before Sanders enrolled in Yale Law School, Watts was already a topic for discussion on the campus.
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(4)For fifty years or more, Orwell wrote a story about himself.
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(5)Orwell believes that talented people have individual ambition which is a motive to drive them on.
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(6)Mrs. Flowers read to Marguerite a poem from the book A Tale of Two Cities.
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(7)Mrs. Flowers said she would punish Marguerite severely if she failed to use her books properly.
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(8)Mrs. Flowers had already learned that Marguerite was a quiet girl who read a lot but did not like to talk.
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(9)The main duty of the monosabios in the bullring is to help the picadors.
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(10)Madrid is now the only city where you can see a bullfight.
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(11)Far from being a sport, the bullfight has a religious origin.
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(12)According to Orwell, all writers, even writers of railway guides, have aesthetic considerations.
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(13)The four motives do not carry the same weight in a write.
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(14)The language in his later works is more flowery and less precise.
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(15)(A Most Forgiving Ape) The author found the area very disturbing because the equator sun was beating down him mercilessly.
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(16)(A Most Forgiving Ape) The mountain gorilla lives in an area up on the volcanoes seldom visited by the local African tribesmen.
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(17)All Spaniards are interested in bullfight.
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(18)If alarmed, all gorillas show their fear or anger by beating on their chests.
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(19)(Jerusalem the Golden) This excerpt shows the author’s interest in feminine psychology.
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(20)Many newspapers are owned by one party.
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(21)Successful matadors are even more idolized than film stars.
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(22)(The Tragedy of Old Age in America) The quality of late life is determined by a combination of many elements.
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(23)(The Tragedy of Old Age in America) The author agrees with neither of the two discrepant views on old age.
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(24)Marguerite met Mrs. Flowers in the town of Stamps where the Blacks and whites were equal.
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(25)Momma, in this autobiographical account, was Marguerite’s mother.
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(26)Mrs. Flowers was from an aristocratic family and enjoyed respect of both the white and black folks in the town.
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(27)Gorillas have far greater physical strength than human beings.
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(28)Huge clouds usually hide the peaks of these volcanoes from view.
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(29)Television gets much of its financial source from advertising and is by nature more Republican than the newspapers.
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(30)According to Mr. Roper’s survey, radio ranks third among the major forms of mass media in terms of popularity.
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(31)Television is more dependent on advertising than newspapers.
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(32)Anyone can perform miracles so long as he concentrates something; but television discourages concentration.
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(33)News on TV is read very fast and made too brief and incoherent to be comprehensible.
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(34)An American is exposed to about 10,000 hours of television each year on average.
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(35)Marguerite was a sensitive girl and was upset by Momma’s behavior towards Mrs. Flowers.
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(36)Mrs. Flowers understood Marguerite’s feelings better than Momma did.
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(37)(Vivisection) The author praises the victory of vivisection as a great advance in the triumph of utilitarianism.
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(38)The American public is not well aware of the adverse effects of television.
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(39)(What’s Wrong with Our Press?) Many newspapers are owned by one party.
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(40)(What’s Wrong with Our Press?) Documentaries on TV help the audience to digest the news and come to its own conclusions.
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(41)Priestley thinks he will become more famous if people know what is in his mind when he is sleepless.
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(42)Priestley doesn’t think he has an iron will, and he is not sorry about it.
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(43)(What to Listen for in Music) It is a bad habit of listening to try to connect what one is listening with something concrete.
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(44)(What to Listen for in Music) “The fateful hammer of life” is a precise description of the first main theme of the Ninth Symphony.
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(45)(I’d Rather Be Black Than Female) It was difficult for the author to win the election due not so much to her racial background as to her sex.
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(46)(Rock Superstars) To become a rock star seems to be the fastest way to fortune and fame.
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(47)Shirly Chisholm (the author) loves teaching and is waiting anxiously to go back to her job in school.
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(48)(A Lesson in Living) Mrs. Flowers was an intimate friend of the family who frequently came to chat with Momma.
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(49)(A Lesson in Living) Mrs. Flowers’ approval told Marguerite that she had made the right choice of her dress.
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(50)(A Lesson in Living) Marguerite was a sensitive girl and was upset by Momma’s behavior towards Mrs. Flowers.
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(51)(Vivisection) Protest against vivisection used to be strong, but today no one dare show any opposition.
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(52)The process of listening to music is scientifically divided on three separate planes.
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(53)To the author, the best thing that shows how a man is full of contradictions is the matter of sleep.
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(54)The more lovely a musical piece sounds, the more value it has.
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(55)Musical listening is actually done on the three planes simultaneously.
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(56)It takes no effort to be an ideal listener, as we can do it instinctively.
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(57)Clara had a peculiar taste of the physical world around her.
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(58)Clara was not sure whether her favourable position in the school would impress her parents.
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(59)To amuse herself and to tease her teachers, Clara pretended to waver between Arts and Science.
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(60)People choosing the second alternative hate human civilization and are unwilling to contribute anything to it.
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(61)Young people doubt that the older generation are capable rulers and should, therefore, be their teacher.
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(62)(The Spanish Bullfight) Successful matadors are even more idolized than film stars.
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(63)(The Spanish Bullfight) A priest prays for the matadors before the fight.
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(64)When the male gorilla discovered the author and his party, he suddenly rose and was ready to charge at them.
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(65)Over the hours of climbing left the author exhausted, ready to give up the search for gorillas.
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(66)One of the African guides could tell that these nests had been abandoned by the gorillas long before.
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(67)Every Saturday night Eveline‘s father got angry because she was such a wasteful girl.
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(68)Ernest, Harry and Little Keogh were all Eveline‘s brothers.
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(69)Though the infliction of pain in itself is an evil act, it requires no justification if it can be done for a good purpose.
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(70)(On Getting Off to Sleep) Priestly doesn’t think he has an iron will, and he is not sorry about it.
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(71)(Four Choices for Young People) Few unspoiled places remain in our world where the escapists can practice plain-living and high thinking.
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(72)Modern men also have primitive impulse.
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(73)Literary men have no desire to seek publicity.
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(74)Primitive men, due to lack of such entertainments as modern men have, easily got bored.
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(75)To become a rock star seems to be the fastest way to fortune and fame.
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(76)Eveline was not respected at the shop she worked, nor was she at home, though she was a hard-working girl.
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(77)Eveline‘s mother died a mad woman.
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(78)The quality of late life is determined by a combination of many elements.
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(79)(Eveline) Eveline didn’t go with Frank because she was afraid the boat would sink and she would be drowned.
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(80)(Eveline) Eveline was more attracted to Frank by his wide experience than by his person.
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(81)(On Human Nature and Politics) Some criminals enjoy seeing public accounts of their worst acts.
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(82)(On Human Nature and Politics) Even gods love to be praised.
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(83)(On Human Nature and Politics) The condemned murderer is displeased with those newspapers that make a big noise about his trial.
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(84)(On Human Nature and Politics) The sons of a sultan fought because they were by different mothers.
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(85)Mr. H. does not have very interesting ideas.
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(86)(The Trouble with Television) The American public is not well aware of the adverse effects of television.
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(87)(The Trouble with Television) News on TV is read very fast and made too brief and incoherent to be comprehensive.
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(88)The sentiment that justifies cruelty to beasts leads to persecution of men of other race, class or religion.
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(89)A rational discussion of vivisection can only be based on the assumption that pain is an evil.
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(90)Protest against vivisection used to be strong, but today no one dare show any opposition.
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(91)(Eveline) Ernest, Harry and Little Keogh were all Eveline’s brothers.
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(92)Hatred is the very feeling the author has about what science has done to food.
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(93)Old-fashioned cheeses can no longer be bought anywhere in the United States.
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(94)The teachers of the school were equally respected and loved by their students.
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(95)(Eveline) What made Eveline pluck up her courage and leave for the station was that she didn’t want to live her mother.
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(96)Besides political issues, rock music also deals with the emotional life of the American people.
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(97)Elvis Presley’s appearance on TV set the young and old viewers quarreling with each other.
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(98)According to one rock music critic, the teenagers express their rebellious attitudes through rock music.
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(99)Some idealists can choose the fourth alternative because they are more practical, though no less determined, in changing society.
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(100)The real world is beset with social problems which, instead of being solved once for all, often lead to others.
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(101)(Why I Write) Orwell believes that talented people have individual ambition which is a motive to drive them on.
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(102)(Why I Write) When writing Homage to Catalonia, Orwell’s first concern is political.
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(103)(Why I Write) For fifteen years or more, Orwell wrote a story about himself.
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(104)(I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto) The Watts riots were a massive action led by a few civil rights leaders.
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(105)(Why I Write) According to Orwell, all writers, even writers of railway guides, have aesthetic considerations.
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(106)(I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto) Racial climate in England, especially at Oxford, remained relaxed until the author wrote this article.
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(107)(I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto) The Watts riots give rise to a flourishing of ghetto literature and art.
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(108)(Science Has Spoiled My Supper) The most notable device of style in this essay is hyperbole, deliberate exaggeration for effect.
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(109)Many elderly Americans do not enjoy a satisfying late life because the society itself is too harsh for them to live in.
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(110)Old people who are poor have been poor all their lives.
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(111)As Americans are eating second-rate foods of more or less the same kind, they are actually eating the way hogs used to be fed by their ancestors.
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(112)American food is tasteless and innutritious.
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(113)She is not satisfied with the present status of women in the American political world because she despises the tedious and specific jobs.
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(114)When she ran for Congress, some members of her own party even held secret meetings to discuss how to stop her.
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(116)The whole article convinces us that these animals are largely a gentle and kind species.
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(117)When he saw the gorilla, the author was so fascinated by its charming appearance that he forgot to use his binoculars.
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(118)The Watts riots gave rise to a flourishing of ghetto literature and art.
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(119)Once talented young blacks have left Watts, they are not expected to return home and actually no one has done so.
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(120)The condemned murderer is displeased with those newspapers that make a big noise about his trial.
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(122)The Kaiser was impressed by the British naval review and decided to build a powerful navy for himself.
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(123)The mental problems of the old are untreatable.
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(124)Medicare covers most late-life illnesses, and therefore eradicates the financial burdens for the old.
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