1.What make it beneficial to Hitler’s rise in popularity as the German chancellor in 1933?
A:worsenning economy in Germany
B:Non-agression Pact between Russia and Germany
C:Great Depression
D:Versailles Treaty Harsh terms
答案:Versailles Treaty Harsh terms###worsenning economy in Germany###Great Depression
2.Which of the following expressions are right about the rhetorical device "simile"?
A:Similes can emphasize certain characteristics.
B:Similes can stir up associated emotions.
C:Similes can make language more creative, descriptive, and entertaining.
D:Similes can create new connections in the mind.
答案:Similes can make language more creative, descriptive, and entertaining###Similes can stir up associated emotions###Similes can create new connections in the mind###Similes can emphasize certain characteristics
3.Which of the following description is right about the dynamic and static characters?
A:The features of the dynamic characters can be summarized in one sentence.
B:The static characters does not change themselves.
C:The features of the static characters can be summarized in one sentence.
D:The dynamic characters change themselves in different surroundings.
答案:The static characters does not change themselves###The dynamic characters change themselves in different surroundings
4.What historical events of America were associated with Mark Twain's life experiences?
A:The Gold Rush
B:The Westward Expansion
C:The WWI
D:The Civil War
答案:The Civil War###The Gold Rush###The Westward Expansion
5.Which of the following descriptions are correct about the literary term "style" ?
A:Style functions as an aid to the creation of setting and atmosphere
B:A unique literary style can have great impact on the piece in which it is used, and on the readers.
C:Style functions as an aid to characterization
D:Style functions as a means of reinforcing the theme
答案:Style functions as an aid to characterization###Style functions as an aid to the creation of setting and atmosphere###Style functions as a means of reinforcing the theme###A unique literary style can have great impact on the piece in which it is used, and on the readers
6.The feature story depends on and .
A:subjectivity
B:originality
C:creativity
D:objectivity
答案:creativity###subjectivity
7.What do verbs like"drawl", "walk slowly", and "twirl" show about the characteristics of Clarence Darrow?
A:shrew
B:confident
C:calm
D:passionate
答案:calm###confident###shrew
8.The conflicts between Mortenson and Haji Ali include _____.
A:Mortenson thought the construction progressed too slowly while Haji Ali considered Mortenson was pushing people too hard.
B:Haji Ali thought Mortenson didn't provide enough money for them to build the school.
C:Mortenson wanted to get the school finished while Haji Ali was in no hurry.
D:Mortenson thought the villagers are not working hard to build the school.
答案:Mortenson thought the construction progressed too slowly while Haji Ali considered Mortenson was pushing people too hard###Mortenson wanted to get the school finished while Haji Ali was in no hurry
9.The narrator in Everyday Use, mama, acts as the black working woman, and she is ______.
A:hard-working
B:uneducated
C:strong and independent
D:beautiful
答案:hard-working###strong and independent###uneducated
10.Which two rhetorical devices are used in "The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied — a cosmos"?
A:Assonance
B:Metaphor
C:Simile
D:Alliteration
答案:Metaphor###Alliteration
11.Which of the following description about Al Gore are correct?
A:Earth in the Balance is Al Gore’s first book.
B:Gore was part of many initiatives such as the GLOBE program.
C:He fightsfor a greener planet.
D:He was a strong advocate for the passage of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997.
A:The choices made during crisis will push the plot to its climax. B:Crisis usually comes when the protagonist faces a choice. C:Crisis refers to a moment of high tension in the plot which may be momentarily resolved. D:Crisis usually comes when the protagonist faces a choice between two terrible ones or between two irreconcilable ones. 13.Which of the following techniques Momaday uses when he describes his grandmother, Aho?
A:free hand method B:carving method C:montage D:close-up 14.What does the Old World consist of?
A:Asia B:Europe C:Africa D:America 15.In "The Trial that Rocked the World",what can be shown about William Jennings Bryan from the sentence "Resolutely he strode to the stand, carrying a palm fan like a sword to repel his enemies"?
A:ridiculous B:intelligent C:foolish D:stubborn in his religious belief 16.In "Ships in the Desert", in order to search for the underlying causes of the environmental crisis, the author has been to ____________.
A:the South pole B:the equator C:the North pole D:the Pacific Ocean 17.In English literature,_________ and__________ are the two best-known novelists of the “stream of consciousness” school.
A:James Joyce B:Ezra Pound C:T.S. Eliot D:Virginia Woolf 18.What are the writing techniques employed in the story "The Trial that Rocked the World"?
A:rhetorical devices B:flash-back C:first-person narrative D:main-plot and sub-plot 19.According to the lecturer, what makes the arguments more persuasive may include___________.
A:diction B:repetition C:Logical structure D:storytelling 20.“Ships in the Desert” is taken from Al Gore's first book _________.
A:Al Gore: Fighting for a Greener Planet B:An Inconvenient Truth C:An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power D:Earth in the Balance 21.What is the method of characterization in the sentence "the Duchess looked pointedly at the half-burned cigar in the fat man’s mouth"?
A:Others' opinions B:Speech C:The writer's direct statement D:Physical description 22.Which of the following is NOT right about the function of dialogues in "Argentia Bay"?
A:Dialogues help for the transition from one part to the next part. B:Dialogues help for the cohesion of plot. C:Dialogues help for the characterization. D:Dialogues help for the recording of the details of the high-profile meeting. 23.The Gold Rush was one of the most significant events in ______. It brought people from all over the United States and the world in search for gold.
A:Connecticut B:Florida C:California D:Mississipi 24.Which of the ships is selected as the flagship for American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Atlantic Conference?
A:Tirpitz B:Prince of Wales C:Augusta D:Bismarck 25.Darrow his spectacles as he pursued the questioning.
A:twirl B:roll C:spin D:turn 26.Anti-climax is a rhetorical device that can be defined as a/an situation, or a sudden transition in discourse from an important idea to a trivial one.
A:happy B:unexpected C:excited D:disappointing 27.Which of the following is not one of the stylistic features of political speech?
A:lexical feature B:textual feature C:stylistic feature D:syntactical feature 28.According to the author, _______ is the worst among the following problems.
A:the contamination of underground aquifers B:large oil spills C:acid rain D:global warming 29.In "Mark Twain—Mirror of America", what was missing in American ambition according to Mark Twain?
A:Health B:Thought C:Knowledge D:Energy 30.The towns in _______ are rich and ugly, according to the writer, Mencken.
A:Arizona B:Pittsburgh C:Utah D:Pennsylvania 31."A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air." What kind of rhetorical device is used in the above sentence?
A:personification B:metaphor C:simile D:parallelism 32." I feel sure it is a decision in which the great Dominions will in due concur." What does "concur" mean?
A:defer B:confer C:agree D:refer 33.Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person. The underlined word "lame" can be replaced by ______.
A:plight B:crippled C:derelict D:delude 34.The racial stalemate begins from paragraph ______.
A:Para. 37 B:Para. 4 C:Para.7 D:Para. 27 35.In "Ships in the Desert", Gore writes “A useful system comes from the military, which frequently places a conflict in one of three different categories, according to the theater in which it takes place. There are 'local' skirmishes, 'regional' battles, and 'strategic' conflicts." Which expository techniques does the author use in the above sentences?
A:comparison B:explanation C:definition D:analogy 36.Casually he debunked revered artists and art treasures, and took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land.
A:retell B:unveil C:diminish D:describe 37."Here was a scene so dreadfully hideous, so intolerabley bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke." Which of the following words can fully express the meaning of "hideous"?
A:secret B:concealed C:ugly D:outstanding 38.A novel is a fictional narrative prose with ____ words
A:20,000 to 40,000 B:more than 100,000 C:more than 40,000 D:500 to 15,000 39.The antagonist in the story is _____.
A:John Koshak B:the neighbor C:Charlie Hill D:the hurricane 40.Twelve state legislatures sent 55 delegates to meet at a convention in during the sultry summer of 1787.
A:San Francisco B:Washington C:Philadelphia D:Chicago 41."The human habitations were so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats." Which of the following expressions can fully express the meaning of "disgrace"?
A:have responsibility to B:bring shame on C:commit to fulfill D:take the grandeur away from 42.Mark Twain is a typical representative of ______.
A:Romanticism B:Local colorism C:Naturalism D:Transcendentalism 43."This 'noctilucent cloud' occasionally appears when the earth is first cloaked in the evening darkness; shimmering above us with a translucent whiteness, these clouds seem quite unnatural." Which of the following words can fully express the meaning of "shimmer"?
A:blot B:beam C:trap D:glimmer 44."The past, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies, flashes away." This sentence uses__(rhetorical device).
A:alliteration B:simile C:synecdoche D:parallelism 45.Hitler was __enlisting capitalist and Right Wing sympathies in this country and the U. S. A.
A:to count on B:counted on C:count on D:counting on 46.V. Sackwille-West is a prolific writer. Which is her last novel in the following works?
A:All Passion Spent B:Family History C:The Edwardians D:No Signposts in the Sea 47."Wind and rain now whipped the house." What is the rhetorical device used in the expression "whip"?
A:metonymy B:synecdoche C:metaphor D:similie 48.Who became the first sitting United States president to visit Hiroshima since the atomic bombing？
A:Donald Trump B:George W. Bush C:Jimmy Carter D:Barack Obama 49.Of Churchill's books,which one won Nobel Prize for Literature?
A:The Second World War B:The River War C:Mr. Brodrick's Army D:Young Winston's Wars 50.What rhetorical device is used in the underlined part of the sentence "Until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of sixteenth century"?
A:Oxymoron B:Sarcasm C:Metaphor D:Irony 51. means a decision reached by a jury on a question of fact in a law case.
A:Verdict B:Sentence C:Prosecution D:Cross-examination 52.I found another Twain as well — one who grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him, a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.
A:perfect B:deep C:proud D:desirable 53.On the river and especially with Huck Finn, Twain found the ultimate expression of escape from the pace he lived by and often deplored, from life’s regularities and the energy-sapping clamor for success.
A:claim B:criticize C:plead D:demand 54.Please decide which of the following basic beliefs held by a fundamentalist is NOT correct.
A:Infallibility of the Bible B:Virgin birth of Christ C:Christ's death was the atonement for sin D:Spiritual resurrection of Christ 55.The Nazi regime is __of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.
A:void B:devoid C:default D:avoid 56.Antagonist is also called _______ who may be a character or force that opposes the protagonist.
A:heroine B:antihero C:hero D:main character 57.In literature, casts away all the traditional elements and takes irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base, represented by Lawrence and James Joyce.
A:realism B:modernism C:regionalism D:naturalism 58."The Libido for the Ugly" is typical of ________ writing.
A:descriptive B:expository C:narrative D:argumentative 59.Which of the following is the subplot in the story Everyday Use?
A:the dinner B:the change of Dee's name C:the argument over quilts D:the imagined program 60.N. Scott Momaday is a recipient of the first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded to a _________ writer.
A:Asian American B:Chinese American C:Native American D:African American 61."Richelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished." Which of the following words can fully express the meaning of "perish"?
A:increase B:die C:incarnate D:submit 62.Global warming became the dominant popular term in __________.
A:1975 B:1988 C:1880 D:1978 63.For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed.
A:reprove B:refuse C:oppose D:puff 64."We can prop it up with our heads and shoulders!" Which of the following words can fully express the meaning of "prop"?
A:suspend B:support C:propose D:place 65.What caused the final eruption of the long time clash between fundamentalism and modernism?
A:Clarence Darrow serving as a lawyer for the denfese B:John Scopes Trial C:The arrival of William Jennings Bryan D:Butler Act 66.In the 1850s, before the climax of Westward Expansion, the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States.
A:cover B:feed C:inhabit D:dry up 67.Alice Walker was born into a _____.
A:poor rural family B:rich family C:white family D:urban family 68.The use of pronouns such as we, us, our, I, me, my, belongs to the features.
A:rhetorical B:textual C:lexical D:other 69.This was not bowing down in the House of __. Mr. Churchill replied, " Not at all".
A:Common B:Dominion C:Rimmon D:Lords 70."This is no class war, but a war in which the whole British Empire and Commonwealth of Nations is engaged". Which is a nation of Commonwealth?
A:Italy B:New Zealand C:France D:Swiss 71."Just as men ear tusks from elephants' hads in such quantity as to threaten the beast with extinction, we are ripping matter from its place in the earth in such volume as to upset the balance between daylight and darkness." Which of the following words can fully express the meaning of "extinction"?
A:laying out B:handing out C:putting out D:dying out 72.From the other side of the car comes a short, stocky man. The underlined word "stocky" can be replaced by ______.
A:sturdy B:evasive C:alleviate D:brackish 73.Edmund has changed from being _________ to sentimental and sensitive, from materialism to pantheism.
A:practical B:perceptive C:perspective D:perceptual 74.What attitude does Sher Takhi hold towards Mortenson's project of building a school?
A:Hatred B:Indifference C:Approval D:Opposition 75.What is the rhetorical device used in the sentence "Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assited in the prosecution by his son"?
A:sarcasm B:ridicule C:oxymoron D:irony 76.The theme of “Face to Face with Hurricane Camille” is that____.
A:hurricane Camille is the greatest storm ever to hit the United States B:John has learnt a lesson from his own experience C:human being is more important than anything else in the world D:people suffered from such a devastating hurricane
