1."Columbus is the capital of the United States." is an example of:
A:syllogism
B:factual error
C:logical fallacy
D:nonsense
答案:AI参考:答案：B\n推理过程：\nColumbus is the capital of the United States.这个句子中，Columbus被错误地用作美国的首都，这是事实上的错误。syllogism是三段论，逻辑谬误是"因为所有苹果都是水果，所以所有苹果树都是水果"，而这个句子并没有任何逻辑推理或谬误。D选项中的“nonsense”这个词用在这里不太准确，因为句子中确实有某种意义，尽管这个意义是错误的。所以答案是B:事实上的错误。'
2.Some characters do not change in a story: these characters are called _________. The characters that change or grow are called ____________.
A:flat; round
B:round; flat
C:antagonist; protagonist
D:protagonist; antagonist
答案:flat; round
3.“The sun follows a long course in the day, and the sky is immense beyond all comparison ” and “The skyline in all directions is close at hand”. The above two sentences form a ______.
A:transition
B:contrast
C:emphasis
D:comparison
答案:contrast
4." I once met a professor at Harvard who was very cold and arrogant. Therefore, all professors at Harvard are cold and arrogant." This statement commits the fallacy of:
A:Hasty Generalization
B:Dicto Simplicitor
C:Poisoning the Well
D:Post Hoc
答案:Hasty Generalization
5.Peter Pan is a fictional character in Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up (1902) created by ________ novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie.
A:American
B:Italian
C:French
D:Scottish
答案:Scottish
6.“ You have won rooms of your own in the house hither to exclusively owned by men….But this freedom is only a beginning, the room is your own, but it is still bare. It has to be furnished, it has to be decorated , it has to be shared.”---by Virginia Woolf In this sentence, which figure of speech has been used?
A:Metonymy
B:Metaphor
C:Synecdoche
答案:Metaphor
7.“If Madame Curie had not happened to leave a photographic plate in a drawer with a chunk of pitchblende, the world today would not know about radium." The statement commits the fallacy of:
A:Post Hoc
B:Hasty Generalization
C:False Analogy
D:Hypothesis Contrary to the Fact
答案:Hypothesis Contrary to the Fact
8.Auden’s Dirac-like lucidity, the sheer wonder of the language, and the sense of fun about serious things….
A:logic
B:clarity
C:reason
D:wisdom
答案:clarity
9.10.The attitude of the people toward globalization is to a great extent determined by whether they are in the _____ or not and whether they are among the haves and have-nots.
A:developed countries
B:European countries
C:A.developing countries
D:Asian countries
答案:developed countries
10.Which is not the portrayal of the brown girl?
A:These sugar-brown girls are from better-off families.
B:They have same right and background with those white girls.
C:They marry successfully, and live in their own inviolable world in quiet and black neighborhoods.
D:They go to land-grant colleges and learn how to do the white mam’s work with refinement.
答案:They have same right and background with those white girls
11.The pen is mightier than the sword. In this sentence, which figure of speech has been used?
A:Metaphor
B:Synecdoche
C:Metonymy
A:Chinese American B:British C:Italian D:Canadian 13.Changes in the life of ordinary people can be seen in the amount of money spent on food, on clothes and in money spent on new items, such as_____.
A:draw B:sing C:travel D:study 14.In fact, it got so bad that Oppenheimer’s fellow students in the seminar petitioned Born to put a stop to it.
A:punish B:make a request C:forbid D:repeat 15.With the publication of the following books Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves , Woolf established herself as one of the leading writers of_____.
A:romanticism B:modernism C:realism 16.…driving across the entire state of New Jersey to deliver a lecture was repellent.
A:sad B:repel C:sullen D:unattractive 17.At the beginning of the excerpt, the author mentioned several places like Marietta, Meridian and so on, which of the following statement is not true?
A:The author gives a general picture of who these girls are, what they are like and how they live. B:There is no special meaning about those places. C:They are all towns in Deep South. D:The descriptions show that those girls are thoroughly assimilated into the white, middle-class way of life. 18.What is the meaning of "down" in the sentence,"You could buy a house with almost no money down".
A:into a weaker, smaller, or quieter state B:from top to bottom C:in cash when bought D:at or towards a lower level 19.The instructor of the beauty school had to lop _________ these soggy clumps.
A:out B:off C:down D:to 20.T. D. Lee is an American-_________ physicist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize together with Frank Yang.
A:Black B:Indian C:Chinese D:Jewish 21.Geraldine’s life in the excerpt indicates that__
A:they detest blackness, and project their hatred and contempt for it onto Negroes with darker skins. B:they are superior to those darker people. C:they are able to establish healthy relationships with their own people. D:they blindly believe in the mainstream white cultural values and imitate the white middle class in every possible way. 22."Senator X just divorced his wife. How can his proposal be any good?" is an instance of:
A:Post Hoc B:Poisoning the Well C:Hasty Generalization D:Hypothesis Contrary to the Fact 23."We should hire Mr. Brown; after all, he has a crippled mother, a retarded son, and his wife just died." is an instance of:
A:Appeal to Authority B:Appeal to Pity C:Post Hoc D:Poisoning the Well 24.Wishing to remain as_____ as possible so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the imagination, the author is thrown into a state of the most acute and difficult distress by the conflict between her own approach to art and the conventional approach which male critics expect her to take.
A:conscious B:alert C:unconscious 25.To Emily Frost, it was O.K. and fun to resolve a problem by:
A:arguing with Jim B:blaming Jim C:talking to Jim D:fighting with Jim 26.What did Dobie want to do with Polly to smarten her up?
A:To teach her philosophy B:To teach her math C:To teach her logic D:To teach her music 27.… she had resigned a lucrative job with an advertising agency….
A:tedious B:profitable C:attractive D:lucky 28.What was Dobie's initial reaction toward a raccoon coat?
A:He didn't care if people were wearing it or not. B:He liked the idea of wearing a raccoon coat. C:He didn't like the idea of wearing a raccoon coat. D:He wanted to wear one, too. 29.King Lear is a tragedy of _____, _____ & _____ and it reveals the serious struggle for property and fame.
A:hypocrisy B:reputation C:vanity D:flattering 30.What are the four tragedies by William Shakespeare?
A:Macbeth B:Othello C:King Lear D:Hamlet 31.Virginia Woolf began her literary profession by writing a novel.
A:对 B:错 32.The Way to Rainy Mountain offers examples of every major traditional and modern form of Indian literature. There are descriptions of ceremonies and sacred objects like Tai-me, and ancient myths.
A:错 B:对 33.The most common deductive reasoning takes the form of syllogism.
A:对 B:错 34.To Woolf, other professions, such as science, medicine, law, are newer for women, and therefore the road is harder for them, with more experiences peculiar to them.
A:错 B:对 35.To the author, it is far more difficult to deal with a phantom than a reality.
A:对 B:错 36.Modern technology makes the connections and changes faster and more complicated.
A:错 B:对 37.The excerpt is chosen from The Bluest Eye which can be divided into three parts.
A:对 B:错 38.The author and his girlfriend enjoyed Spender’s lecture very much.
A:对 B:错 39.In The Bluest Eye, characters in the black community accept their status as the Other, which has been imposed upon them by the white community.
A:错 B:对 40.God help the child is Toni Morrison’s last novel which was published in 2016.
A:对 B:错 41.Polly finally decided to date Dobie as a token of appreciation.
A:对 B:错 42.The unconscious (or somebody’s unconscious)” is a term of psychoanalysis, referring to the sum of all thoughts, memories, impulses, desires, feelings, etc. of which the individual is not conscious but which influence the emotions and behavior; that part of one’s psyche which comprises repressed material of this nature.
A:错 B:对 43.Jade Snow Wong, writing as Sui Sin Far, was one of the first Chinese American authors to publish fiction in English
A:对 B:错 44.An argument consists of one or more premises and two conclusions.
A:对 B:错 45.The conflict is developed gradually and intensified. The crisis, also referred to as the climax, is that moment at which the plot reaches its point of greatest emotional intensity.
A:对 B:错 46.Sula examines the friendship between two black women Sula and nel, and depicts how they have grown up together but taken different roads of life in their maturity.
A:对 B:错 47.Amanda Freeman has her eyes on fusion because nowadays blending has become the trend.
A:错 B:对 48.Petey is a rational person.
A:对 B:错 49.Modernization brings beauty and convenience to the people in Shanghai.
A:错 B:对 50.The legend of Devil’s Tower shows the Kiowa people’s unique imagination.
A:对 B:错 51.“But, beautiful as it is, one might have the sense of confinement there. …There is a perfect freedom in the mountains, but it belongs to the eagle and the elk, the badger and the bear”. Here the birds and other animals enjoy themselves freely in the nature while the Kiowas had a need for space, and the expanses in the Southwest satisfied the Kiowa's spatial imagination.
A:对 B:错 52.According to Emily Frost, the way for her and Jim to solve arguments is not to carry it throught the night and talk about it later.
A:对 B:错 53.At the beginning of the story, "Two Kinds",the author gives the background information to the readers.
A:错 B:对 54.Sesame Street is popular television show in the U.S.
A:对 B:错 55.“Not yet would they veer southward to the caldron of the land that lay below…a while longer in their view” .This sentence means they would not yet change the direction southward to the land lying below which was like a large kettle. First, they must give their bodies some time to get used to the plains. Secondly, they didn’t want to move to other places since they were tired of migration.
A:错 B:对 56.The plot of a traditional short story consists of three parts: beginning, middle and end. It often moves through five stages: exposition, rising action, crisis (climax), falling action and resolution.
A:对 B:错 57.The idea that one’s fate is in one’s own hands is alien to Japanese corporate culture, but appropriate to American culture with its emphasis on individualism.
A:正确 B:错误 58.Globalization is a world movement and a movement of reformation of cultures.
A:正确 B:错误 59.W. H. Auden’s poetry is always hard to understand and difficult to imitate.
A:错误 B:正确 60.Erla Zwingle thinks that globalization means Americanization and a variety of cultures will not continue to exist.
A:错 B:对
