5. Which sentences use the rhetorical device of antithesis? A. Our popular attitudes could be summed up as a combination of wishful thinking and stark terror. B. Aging is the neglected stepchild of the human life cycle. C. A second them...

8. (On Getting Off to Sleep) The author says that when he is in bed, he feels like writing, so he puts pens, ink and paper near him. A. 错误 B. 正确 ...

16. 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....

8. 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....

2. If alarmed, all gorillas show their fear or anger by beating on their chests. A. 错误 B. 正确 ...

5. I rose ________ to my feet and faced the impossible once more. A. accelerated B. accelerate C. groggy D. groggily ...

10. 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. A. 错误 B. 正确 ...

14. Since everyone we knew could sew ________, praise was rarely handed out for the commonly practiced craft. A. competently B. competent C. stitch D. apronlike ...

4. 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 ...

15. Clara was not sure whether her favourable position in the school would impress her parents. A. 错误 B. 正确 ...