Loving and Hating New York 补充测试题.doc

精品文档，仅供学习与交流，如有侵权请联系网站删除Loving and Hating New York 补充练习题/testLoving and Hating New YorkⅠ. Reading comprehension1. Many Europeans take New York as their favorite city, because ________.    A. 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 city3. The signs of how the New York fallen cannot be seen from ________.    A. New York never boasted its greatness.    B. Many advertising campaigns publicly praise 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 itself.    A. The last sentence of paragraph 5.    B. The first sentence of paragraph 6.    C. From paragraph 1-5.     D. The whole essay.5. Which of the following cities is located in New York?    A. Jersey    B. Soho     C. Nashville    D. Beverly HillsⅡ. Determine whether the following statements are true or false. Put “T”, if the statement is true and put an “F”, if false.1. According to the author, New York is no longer the leading city is the United States. 2. New York is a city that resists the prevailing trends of America and it is a place where people can escape from uniformity and uncommonness. 3. Europeans take to New York because they feel reassured when they see so many jewelers, shoes stores and designer shops bearing familiar international names on Madison and Fifth avenues. 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 New York. 6. It is the good living conditions that draw those young people to New York. 7. The sentence “ All have their sovereignties” means all the different ethnic groups have their own little areas which they control. 8. New York is not longer the banking and communications headquarters for America. 9. The newcomers to New York are never fully assimilated. 10. New York regards the United Nations as an unworkable, impractical and hypocritical institution. Ⅲ. Point out what figure of speech is used in each of the following sentences:1. While sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, pre-empt the air waves form California2. Tin Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and Hollywood.3. New York was never Mecca to me.4. Nature constantly yields to man in New York: witness those fragile sidewalk trees gamely struggling against encroaching cement and petrol fumes.5. So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that shut out the world.6. “So what else is new?”7. The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town.8. Characteristically, the city swallows up the United Nations and refuses to take it seriously, regarding it as an unworkable mixture of the idealistic, the impractical, and the hypocritical.treaties forced upon her by foreign invaders.Ⅳ.Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.1. He fought back at his tormentors with ________ of a corner red rat.    A. dejection    B. depression    C. desperation    D. despair2. He monopolized the conversation by ________ of his own prowess at hunting and fishing.    A. boasting    B. bragging    C. crowing    D. vaunting3. It was alleged that he was present at the scene of the crime, but he ________ that he was in Europe at the time.    A. asserted    B. maintained     C. affirmed    D. testified4. It has become the ________ for royalty to appears as democratic and “ folksy” as the average politician.    A. fashion    B. trend    C. vogue    D. style5. The ________ between Guelphs and Ghibellines in medieval Italy passed from controversy over papal authority to petty was between city states.    A. contention    B. friction    C. conflict    D. strife6. He was too nervous to speak and had to be ________ .    A. prompted    B. motivated    C. stimulated    D. propelled7. A short cut through the mountain is extremely ________ in winter.    A. distant    B. inaccessible    C. remote    D. dessert8. Australia ________ the Treaty of Peace with Japan on 10th April, 1952; New Zealand on 29th April, 1952.    A. confirmed    B. sanctioned    C. ratified    D. approved9. He is a poet with ________ imagination.    A. luxurious    B. luxuriant    C. luscious    D. lustrous10. ________ 。