奥鹏-东北师范大学高级英语（二）18秋在线作业1-3
BD 2、BCD 3、BD C 作业试题参考答案CD
一、多选题共20题，60分
1、Parallelism is used in ________.
AIt sells us instant gratification. It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain.
BConsider the casual assumptions that television tends to cultivate: that complexity must be avoided, that visual stimulation is a substitute for thought, that verbal precisio is an anachronism.
CTelevision’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus.
DEverything about this nation – the structure of the society, its forms of family organization, its economy, its place in the world – has become more complex, not less.
【答案】本题选择：ABD
2、Which of the following sentences apply the rhetorical device of personification? AI had overlooked the necessity of having an “iron will,” … this peculiar metallic quality.
BIt is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, …
CI have herded imaginary sheep until they insisted on turning themselves into white bears or blue pigs, …
DDiscussing the question, … sleep drew the curtain.
【答案】本题选择：BCD
3、Which sentences use the rhetorical device of understatement?
Afading fast, over the hill, out to pasture, down the drain, finished, out of date. BFor the most part the elderly struggle to exist in an inhospitable world. CVoluntary hospitals are well known for dumping the “Medicare patient” into municipal hospitals…
DThis feature objectivity is not hing less than the editor’s abdication of responsibility and is just as dangerous as the long and subtle processing of fact to fit a policy that characterizes certain weekly magazines.
【答案】本题选择：BD
nalogy is used in ________.
AThe viewer is on a perpetual guided tour; 30 minutes at the museum, 30 at the cathedral, 30 for a drink, then back on the bus to the next attraction –except on television, …BThe women of a nation mold its moral, its religions, and its politics by the lives they live.
CTo 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.
DWhy are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
【答案】本题选择：AC
5、Synecdoche is NOT used in ________.
ABut there is a man in my office, a Mr. H., who proses it away from morning to night, …。