LovingandHatingNewYork补充测试题Loving and Hating New York 补充练习题/test
Loving and Hating New York
Ⅰ. Reading comprehensionpamam
1. Many Europeans take New York as their favorite city, becau ________.
raining sunshineA. They are reassured by the sight of the fashion
avenues of Madison and Fifth.
B. There are many familiar international names in
New York.
C. New York’s charged nervous atmosphere and
vulgar dynamism.
D. New York city is a cosmopolitan city.
2. In author’s eyes, New York is ________.
A. a sacred place
B. a mongrel city
C. a international metropolis
D. a conventional city
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3. The signs of how the New York fallen cannot be en from ________.
A. New York never boasted its greatness.
B. Many advertising campaigns publicly prai
New York.
C. Many New Yorkers wear T-shirts with a heart
design and the words: “ I love New York” printed on it.
D. New York is trying desperately to regain her lost
privileged status.
4. From where the author begins to give an actual description of New York itlf.
A. The last ntence of paragraph 5.
B. The first ntence of paragraph 6.
C. From paragraph 1-5.
D. The whole essay.
5. Which of the following cities is located in New York?
A. Jery
B. Soho
C. Nashville
D. Beverly Hills
Ⅱ. Determine whether the following statements are true or fal. Put “T”, if the statement is true and put an “F”, if fal. 1. According to the author, New York is no longer the
bequest
2. New York is a city that resists the prevailing trends of America and it is a place where people can escape from
3. Europeans take to New York becau they feel reassured when they e so many jewelers, shoes stores and designer shops bearing familiar international names
4. The rhetorical device employed in “ Nature constantly
yields to man …” is personification.
5. It is the fascination charm of New York as well as the opportunity to be a journalist that attracts the author to
6. It is the good living conditions that draw tho young
7. The ntence “ All have their sovereignties” means all the different ethnic groups have their own little areas
8. New York is not longer the banking and
9. The newcomers to New York are never fully
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10. New York regards the United Nations as an unworkable, impractical and hypocritical
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Ⅲ. Point out what figure of speech is ud in each of the following ntences:
1. While sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, pre-empt the air waves
2. Tin Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and
4. Nature constantly yields to man in New York: witness tho fragile sidewalk trees gamely struggling against
5. So much of well-to-do America now lives antiptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that
7. The defeated are not hidden away somewhere el on
8. Characteristically, the city swallows up the United Nations and refus to take it riously, regarding it as an unworkable mixture of the idealistic, the impractical, and
foreign invaders.
Ⅳ.Choo the word or phra which best completes each ntence.
1. He fought back at his tormentors with ________ of a corner red rat.
A. dejection
B. depression
C. desperation
surname什么意思D. despair
2. He monopolized the conversation by ________ of his own prowess at hunting and fishing.
A. boasting
B. bragging
C. crowing
D. vaunting
3. It was alleged that he was prent at the scene of the crime, but he ________ that he was in Europe at the time.
A. asrted
B. maintained
C. affirmed
D. testified
4. It has become the ________ for royalty to appears as democratic and “ folksy” as the average politician.
A. fashion
B. trend
C. vogue
D. style
5. The ________ between Guelphs and Ghibellines in medieval Italy pasd from controversy over papal authority to petty was between city states.
A. contention
B. friction
C. conflict
D. strife
6. He was too nervous to speak and had to be ________ .
A. prompted
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D. propelled
7. A short cut through the mountain is extremely
________ in winter.
A. distant
B. inaccessible
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D. desrt
8. Australia ________ the Treaty of Peace with Japan on 10th April, 1952; New Zealand on 29th April, 1952.
A. confirmed
B. sanctioned
C. ratified
dc什么意思D. approved
9. He is a poet with ________ imagination.
A. luxurious
B. luxuriant
C. luscious
D. lustrous
10. ________ clod hoppers guffawed at eing male ballet dancers wearing tights.
A. naive
C. unsophisticated
D. provincial
11. He felt listless until the a breeze ________ him and steadied his nerves.
A. cheered
B. encouraged
