1单选题Neither his vanity nor his purse is any concern of the dictionary. A. synecdoche B. simile
2单选题Their curiously sensitive black faces __________ with sweat. A. were shimmering B. were glistening C. were glittering D. were gleaming
3结构推理Even if out menus were not written in French out of snobbery, the English we used in them would still be Norman English. What all this tells us is of a deep class rift in the culture.
4结构推理事实上在人际交往中，最受欢迎的是那些善于倾听的人和不是善于倾诉的人。
5结构推理I have only one purpose, the destruction of Hitler, and my life is much simplified thereby. If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.
6单选题Tony really has a __________ for playing cyber games. A. mania B. frenzy C. hysteria D. craze
7单选题When Tom insulted the referee, he _____ by ordering him off the field. A. replied B. retorted C. resolved D. responded
8单选题Our intention was to __________ the theory with some incisive comments. A. demolish B. destroy C. raze D. annihilate
9结构推理Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by.
10结构推理It is rendering the meaning of a text into another language in the way that the author intended the text. Common sense tells us that this ought to be simple, as one ought to be able to say something as well in one language as in another. On the other hand, you may see it as complicated, artificial and fraudulent, since by using another language you are pretending to be someone you are not. The translation cannot simply reproduce, or be, the original. And since this is so, the first business of the translator is to translate. (Peter Newmark)
11单选题Rumours are everywhere, spreading fear, damaging reputations, and turning calm situations into ______ ones. A. turbulent B. tragic C. vulnerable D. suspicious
12单选题Mark Twain became obsessed with the frailties of the human race and saw clearly ahead a black wall of the night. A) metonymy B) simile C) metaphor D) synecdoche
13结构推理The difference between the much-touted Second International and the much-clouted Third International is not like the difference between yearly models of automobiles.
14单选题He came to inspect the house ___ buying it. A. in the event of B. with a view to C. in case of D. with regard to
15结构推理One evening my sister was sleeping in her bedroom upstairs while her eight-year-old son, Jason, was in his room on the first floor. Suddenly she was wakened by a loud crash. A van has run off the road, smacked into the side of the house and come to a stop in the living room. Her first thought was of her son. “Jason!” she yelled out—and from downstairs her son yelled back, “I didnt do it, Ma!”
16单选题In a clearing at the centre of the thicket stood the Tonnerre familys ____. A. home B. resident C. shack D. dwell
17结构推理I award this championship of ugliness to Westmoreland only after laborious research and incessant prayer.
18结构推理Look at Petey-a knothead, a jitterbug, a guy wholl never know where his next meal is coming from.
19结构推理emotional stress can causes physical changes that lead ______
20单选题But if so, he has walked into one of lexicographys biggest booby traps. A) metaphor B) hyperbole C) personification D) metonymy