第一章 单元测试
1、单选题：What is not the purposes of using rhetorical devices?
A:
To reduce clarity
B:
To increase vividness of language
C:
To heighten effect
D:
To lend force to an idea
正确答案:【
To reduce clarity
】
2、单选题：What are style and stylistics not about?
A:
Style
B:
A taste of Stylistics
C:
Rhetoric
D:
Knowledge on how to find out stylistic features at different levels of text language
正确答案:【
Rhetoric
】
3、单选题：Please compare the following three sentences and point out the stylistic effect of “(3) No spitting”. (1) Expectoration is forbidden.(2) Please do not spit!(3) No spitting.
A:
concise and conspicuous (obvious)
B:
colloquial
C:
slangy
D:
formal
正确答案:【
concise and conspicuous (obvious)
】
4、单选题：About style, which description is not right?
A:
From the perspective of the ways of expression used, style is saying the same thing in the same ways.
B:
From the perspective of the function of the text, style is the functions of texts for different purposes.
C:
From the perspective of the users of language, style is different speakers using language in different ways (to different group of people).
D:From the perspective of the content, the events and activities described, style is saying different things in different contexts in different ways.
正确答案:【
From the perspective of the ways of expression used, style is saying the same thing in the same ways.
】
5、单选题：Style is a result of in the uses of language; and in the users of language, those who come from different places, from different social backgrounds, from different races, from different historical periods, etc.
A:
identical
B:
sameness
C:
differences
D:
similarities
正确答案:【
differences
】
第二章 单元测试
1、单选题：The rhetorical figure used in the sentence “He is as poor as a church mouse, and a church mouse like him eats like a horse.” is , which produces a humorous effect.
A:synecdoche
B:simile
C:metaphor
D:metonymy
正确答案:【simile】
2、单选题：The sentence by Lord Acton “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ” takes the rhetorical figure of .
A:polyptoton
B:alliteration
C:parallelism
D:homeoteleuton
正确答案:【polyptoton 】
3、单选题：In the example “I am a draper mad with love. I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world. [Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood]”, the rhetorical series of the names of cloth are employed to stress his tremendous amount of abstract love for his lover.
A:
abstract
B:
strange
C:
difficult
D:
concrete
正确答案:【
concrete
】
4、单选题：The following two examples present the different stylistic effects produced by different selection of words.(1) Hiroshima: a city (pop. 542 000) of Honshu, Japan. It was largely destroyed by an American atomic bomb (6 Aug. 1945), the first used in warfare. After reconstruction the city became an active port, with paper and canning industries.(2) HiroshimaMy spoon was lifted when the bomb came downThat left no face, no hand, no spoon to hold.Two hundred thousand died in my hometown,This came to pass before my soup was cold.In terms of ( ) example (1) objectively presents information about a place, and example (2) affectively exposes certain evil action with subdued anger towards the action.
A:tenor
B:
mode
C:field
D:genre
正确答案:【tenor 】
5、单选题：The coinage of a new word such as unchilding, unfathering is an example showing how to achieve certain stylistic effect by taking the method.
A:
quantitative deviation or deflection
B:
qualitative deviation or incongruity
C:
quantitative deviation or incongruity
D:
qualitative deviation or deflection
正确答案:【
qualitative deviation or incongruity
】
第三章 单元测试
1、单选题：The typical type of sentences in news reports, science and technology, narration, expository writing, etc. is sentence as its function is to provide information which serves the purpose of the texts.
A:
subjunctive
B:
declarative
C:
interrogative
D:
imperative
正确答案:【
declarative
】
2、单选题：The rhetorical device used in the passage “United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.” is __________.
A:
chiasmus
B:
repetition
C:
parallelism
D:
antithesis
正确答案:【
antithesis
】
3、单选题：The rhetorical device used in the following poem attributed to Benjamin Franklin and others is , which achieves not only an emphatic effect but also a humorous effect.For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.”
A:syntactic anaphora
B:ploce
C:symploce
D:syntactic epiphora
正确答案:【symploce 】
4、单选题：The sentence “Out of his other property, out of the things he had collected, his silver, his pictures, his houses, his investments, he got a secret and intimate feeling: out of her he got none. [J. Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property, Ch.V]” is a , which creates an ironic effect.
A:loose sentence
B:periodic sentence
C:subordinate clause
D:main clause
正确答案:【periodic sentence】
5、单选题： is an example of violation of grammatical rules. It often takes local and dialectal style with non-standard pronunciation, colloquial expressions, elliptical sentences, which show the speaker’s low social status.
A:Poetry
B:
Modern English
C:Black English
D:Old English
正确答案:【Black English】
第四章 单元测试
1、单选题：Which one is not the type of reference?
A:
demonstrative reference
B:
personal reference
C:
comparative reference
D:
cohesive reference
正确答案:【
cohesive reference
】
2、单选题：Which one of the following is not the kind of reiteration?
A:
synonymy
B:
hyponymy
C:
metonymy
D:
meronymy
正确答案:【
metonymy
】
3、单选题：Which one of the following is not the feature of argumentation?
A:
descriptions of settings
B:
complicated reasoning
C:
logical relations
D:
complicated relationships
正确答案:【
descriptions of settings
】
4、单选题：Which one of the following is not the feature of genre?
A:
goal-oriented
B:
staged
C:
educational
D:
purposeful
正确答案:【
educational
】
5、单选题：Which one of the following can not describe the purpose of generic structure potential?
A:
to learn how to interact in it
B:
all the activity types appropriate in one culture
C:
to predict how each situation is likely to unfold
D:
all the activity types recognized as correct in grammar
正确答案:【
all the activity types recognized as correct in grammar
】
第五章 单元测试
1、判断题：Some implications are best represented by special sound features (eg.rising tone), not by syntactic features.
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【对】
2、多选题：Spoken and written language: each has its own functions and characteristics. Of the following the choices, which are characteristics of spoken language?
A:Homophonescan be used for special stylistic effects, such as pun.
B:It is generally speaking not as formal as the written language.
C:It permitserrors in the process of production.
D:It can directly be accompanied byother non-linguistic means as the aid.
正确答案:【Homophonescan be used for special stylistic effects, such as pun.;It is generally speaking not as formal as the written language.;It permitserrors in the process of production.;It can directly be accompanied byother non-linguistic means as the aid.】
3、判断题：Sound features can represent the features of regional dialect or social dialect.
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【对】
4、单选题：Which one of the following is not included in the sound pattern?
A:assonance
B:alliteraion
C:consonance
D:enjambment
正确答案:【enjambment】
5、判断题：Suprasegmental features is difficult to be represented in writing, but sometimes it is more effective than phonemes, words and clauses.
A:对
B:错
正确答案:【对】
6、多选题：Spoken and written language: each has its own functions and characteristics. Of the following the choices, which are characteristics of spoken language?
A:It can directly be accompanied byother non-linguistic means as the aid.
B:It permitserrors in the process of production.
C:It is generally speaking not as formal as the written language.
D:Homophonescan be used for special stylistic effects, such as pun.
正确答案:【It can directly be accompanied byother non-linguistic means as the aid.;It permitserrors in the process of production.;It is generally speaking not as formal as the written language.;Homophonescan be used for special stylistic effects, such as pun.】
7、多选题：Spoken and written language: each has its own functions and characteristics. Of the following the choices, which are characteristics of spoken language?
A:Homophonescan be used for special stylistic effects, such as pun.
B:It permitserrors in the process of production.
C:It can directly be accompanied byother non-linguistic means as the aid.
D:It is generally speaking not as formal as the written language.
正确答案:【Homophonescan be used for special stylistic effects, such as pun.;It permitserrors in the process of production.;It can directly be accompanied byother non-linguistic means as the aid.;It is generally speaking not as formal as the written language.】
8、多选题：Spoken and written language: each has its own functions and characteristics. Of the following the choices, which are characteristics of spoken language?
A:It permitserrors in the process of production.
B:It is generally speaking not as formal as the written language.
C:It can directly be accompanied byother non-linguistic means as the aid.
D:Homophonescan be used for special stylistic effects, such as pun.
正确答案:【It permitserrors in the process of production.;It is generally speaking not as formal as the written language.;It can directly be accompanied byother non-linguistic means as the aid.;Homophonescan be used for special stylistic effects, such as pun.】
第六章 单元测试
1、判断题：News report refers to a general variety of language, which sends out hot news, news of important events, and interesting events to all parts of the country or region by mass media.
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【对】
2、判断题：For news, in written medium, as time is limited, the speaker has to select the most important information, and drop the details and unimportant parts.
A:对
B:错
正确答案:【错】
3、判断题：All of the headlines are elliptical sentences.
A:对
B:错
正确答案:【错】
4、判断题：Generally speaking, guide consists of six elements: location, character, event, mode, time, and cause, in which event and character are two obligatory elements.
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【对】
5、单选题：One feature of news report is meaning contraction, that is, using the least amount of form to encode the most amount of meaning. Of the following choices, which one does not belong to meaning contraction?
A:
Big noun phrases and complex modification
B:
Sound elision
C:
The nominalization of the processes (verbs)
D:
Pre-modifiers come from separate clauses, thus highly contracted
正确答案:【
Sound elision
】
第七章 单元测试
1、判断题：All public speeches share a lot of things in common as they are different in mode and in purposes.
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【错】
2、判断题：For the features of words used in the public speech, big words are often used in complex structures, and there are also unfamiliar words, nominalized words, abstract words, etc.
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【对】
3、单选题：There are many types of oral genres. Of the following choices, which does not belong to oral genres?
A:
essay
B:
speech
C:
conversation
D:
lecture
正确答案:【
essay
】
4、判断题：In mode of spontaneous commentary, they may be about different activities, such as different types of sports, parades and rallies, the launching of a rocket, etc.
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【错】
5、判断题：The connections between the elements or clauses in the text are loose and the train of thought is often interrupted. This is because, in the development of the events, any new scenes, climax, novel happenings may occur, and the commentator has to capture all of these aspects in order to attract people’s attention and interest always to his side.
A:错
B:对
正确答案:【对】
第八章 单元测试
1、判断题：Business English is a general name for a variety which consists of many subcategories. In terms of mode, it includes business letters, business reports, business contracts, business advertisements, etc.
A:对
B:错
正确答案:【错】
2、单选题：Which is not Cliché?
A:
for the purpose of
B:
如有任何疑问请及时联系QQ 50895809反馈
