简答题At the height of her fame during the Second World War, she was one of the world's most influential women. But in later years, a gaunt relic of her former ______, she was a forlorn propagandist for her husband's ostracized and diminished regime. A. reputation B. celerity C. background D. celebrity简答题The room was __________ of furniture. ( )简答题The rhetorical device used in the following sentence “The war acted merely as acatalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure… (Para. 3)” issimile. ( )多选题I thought somehow I had been spared. A. spend B. afford C. be left over D. remain简答题Hiroshima -- the “Liveliest” City in Japan. Which rhetorical device is used in this sentence? ( )简答题Once we receive your order, we will __________ goods to your door in twenty-four hours. ( )简答题Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Prime Minister in Britain? ( )简答题“ ‘Listen,’ he said, clutching my arm eagerly.” The closest meaning to the underlined word is ( ).简答题“The King’s English is a model—a rich and instructive one--but it ought not to be an ultimatum.” The closest meaning to the underlined word is ( ).简答题The rhetorical device used in the underlined part in “I am not commenting,merely pointing to a fact. (Para. 21)” is exaggeration. ( )简答题“It was an Australian who had given her such a definition of “the King’s English,” which produced some rather tart remarks about what one could expect from the descendants of convicts.” The closest meaning to the underlined word is ( ).简答题“The conversation had swung from Australian convicts of the 19th century to the English peasants of the 12th century.” The closest meaning to the underlined word is ( ).简答题The rhetorical device used in the underlined part in “If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If there is an immovable object, there can be noIrresistible force. (Para. 91)” is antithesis. ( )简答题In New York City the steamship “Quaker City” prepared to sail on a pleasure cruise to Europe and the Holy Land. A、voyage B、crowd C、cloud D、boat简答题“ ‘Right!’ I cried exultantly, ‘One hundred percent right.’ ” The closest meaning to the underlined word is ( ).简答题The rhetorical device used in the underlined words in “But I was not one to let myheart rule my head. (Para. 20)” is metonymy. ( )简答题The geographic core, in Twain’s early years, was the great valley of the Mississippi River, main artery of transportation in the young nation’s heart. Which rhetorical device is used in this sentence? ( )简答题“We offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.” The closest meaning to the underlined word is ( ).简答题Several of the advertising hoardings had been __________ by anti-racist slogans. ( )简答题I just have a few household __________ to cope with and then I’ll be free to come out with you. ( )