荨麻属LovingandHatingNewYork补充测试题

2021年1月21日发(作者：pachinko)
Loving and Hating New York
补充练习题
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Loving and Hating New York


Ⅰ
. Reading comprehension

1. Many Europeans take New York as their favorite city,
because ________.








A. They are reassured by the sight of the fashion
B. There are many familiar international names in

C. New York’s charged nervous atmosphere and
D. New York city is a cosmopolitan city.
A. a sacred place
B. a mongrel city
C. a international metropolis
D. a conventional city
avenues of Madison and Fifth.
New York.
vulgar dynamism.
2. In author’s eyes, New York is ________.

3. 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
C. Many New Yorkers wear T-shirts with a heart
D. New York is trying desperately to regain her lost
New York.
design and the words: “ I love New York” printed on it.

privileged status.
4. From where the author begins to give an actual
description of New York itself.









Ⅱ
. Determine whether the following statements are true
or false. Put “T”, if the statement is true and put an “F”,
if false.

A. The last sentence of paragraph 5.
B. The first sentence of paragraph 6.
C. From paragraph 1-5.
D. The whole essay.
A. Jersey
B. Soho
C. Nashville
D. Beverly Hills
5. Which of the following cities is located in New York?
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.
yields to man …” is personification.


4. The rhetorical device emp
loyed in “ Nature constantly

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 California
Hollywood.

2. Tin Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and


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?”
the wrong side of town.
7. The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on

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.
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. despair
treaties forced upon her by foreign
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 present at the scene of the
crime, but he ________ that he was in Europe at the time.




A. asserted
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 passed from controversy over papal
authority to petty was between city states.







A. contention
B. friction
C. conflict
D. strife
A. prompted
B. motivated
C. stimulated
6. He was too nervous to speak and had to be ________ .

D. propelled
7. A short cut through the mountain is extremely
________ in winter.




A. distant
B. inaccessible
C. remote
D. dessert
8. Australia ________ the Treaty of Peace with Japan on
10th April, 1952; New Zealand on 29th April, 1952.








A. confirmed
B. sanctioned
C. ratified
D. approved
A. luxurious
B. luxuriant
C. luscious
D. lustrous
9. He is a poet with ________ imagination.
10. ________ clod hoppers guffawed at seeing male
ballet dancers wearing tights.


A. naive
B. unaffected


C. unsophisticated
D. provincial
11. He felt listless until the sea breeze ________ him and
steadied his nerves.








A. cheered
B. encouraged
C. exhilarated
D. excited
A. fortitude
B. forbearance
C. persistence
D. resolution
12. She endured her illness with great __________
13. Mary is no long
willing to meet her husband’s
bullying with docile ________.




A. patience
B. sufferance
C. tolerance
D. forbearance
14. The actress was becoming extremely _________ with
all the questions they were asking by the uncalled-for
innuendo in the reporter’s question.





A. outraged
B. aggravated
C. exasperated
D. insulted
15. It would be ________ of me to have a church
wedding when I don’t believe in God.





A. hypocritical
B. hypercritical
C. hysterical
D. hypothetical
16. He balanced the glass ________ on the arm of the
chair.




A. precociously
B. precariously
C. precautionary
D. precipitously
17. You can rest ______ that the talented young secretary
has been able to confirm what he said in the original
report.



A. assured
B. ensured
C. insured

D. reassured
18. The leader’s speech in defense of the policy didn’t
carry much ________.




A. conviction
B. belief
C. confidence
D. concern
19. American revolutionaries who rejected England’s
claim of ________ over the colonies.




A. sovereignty
B. authority
C. power
D. right
20. The public is very _____ about the governor's plans
for a tax cut.




A. susceptible
B. dubious
C. suspicious
D. deliberate
21. The two countries will _____ full diplomatic
relations now that they have settled their long standing
border dispute.




A. recove
B. restore
C. renovate
D. replace
22. Everyone in the auditorium was weeping by the time
he finished the _____ tale, though it was fabricated
obviously.





Ⅴ
.Put the following words and phrases into the
appropriate blanks in the following sentences.


measure up against


cut off … from


in terms of


be reckoned
with


look up to


out of phase with


yield to


beckon to


out of step with


swallow up

1. They were already a political force to
A. pessimistic
B. pathetic
C. patriotic
D. melancholy
.
for its excellent
its surroundings.
2. The school is widely
teaching.
3. The new building is
4. I
temptation and had a chocolate bar.
5. The job is great
disadvantages.
salary, but it has its
6. He ________ himself ________ all human
and lived alone in a remote area.
7. The figures are not very good
when
was
9. He
those of our competitors.
by the darkness.
the waiter to bring the bill.
her colleagues and regarded
8. I watched her walk down the road until she

10. She was

as an eccentric woman.
Ⅵ
.Fill in each blank with a suitable verb from
the lists below in the proper form.
decline

decrease

diminish

drop

dwindle

lessen

reduce
1. I hope to obtain your forgiveness,
to
your ill opinion.
.
2. His sense of personal initiative is cultivated
instead of being
3. The number of nations allied with