中国大学MOOC 高级英语-南阳理工学院 测验与作业答案

Chapter One: Mark Twain — Mirror of America

1 ________ is studied in the American schools today as the Declaration of Independence.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
喵查答案：The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Cop and Anthem
The Gilded Age

2 Mark Twain wrote _________ books.
喵查答案：28
38
40
18

3 Which of the following is not Mark Twain’s works？ 
The Prince and the Pauper
The Gilded Age
The Innocents Abroad
喵查答案：Jane Eyre

4 Mark Twain’s father died when he was ________.
16
喵查答案：12
20
14

5 Mark Twain is a mirror of America because he reflects American experience.
喵查答案：正确
错误

1 Mark Twain did not do some jobs , such as a tramp printer, river pilot, confederate guerrilla and prospector.
正确
喵查答案：错误

2  Mark Twain and Lu Xun produced lots of outstanding works which influenced on the readers in the entire world from the generation to the generation.
喵查答案：正确
错误

3 When did Qing government have to sign unequal treaty of Shimonoseki? 
喵查答案：after the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895

4 What time did the Eight-Nation Alliance invade China ?
喵查答案：1900

5  Who is the father of American literature?
喵查答案：Mark Twain

1 Which one was not included in Mark Twain’s works? 
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 
喵查答案：The Golden Age
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

2 Which one was not included in Lu Xun’s works? 
Kong Yiji
Medicine
喵查答案：Camel Xiangzi
The True Story of Ah Q

3 Mark Twain was the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
喵查答案：正确
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4 Lu Xun was the penname of Zhou Shureng.
正确
喵查答案：错误

5 Both of Lu Xun and Mark Twain are masters of writing in              .
喵查答案：satire

1 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shows the possibility of making genuine _______changes in the world.
spirit
dream
money
喵查答案：moral 

2 The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn was published in ______in 1885.
The Great Britian
喵查答案：America
Japan
France 

3 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in the Great Britian in __________.
1887
1873
喵查答案：1884
1883

4 Ernest Hemingway evaluated that all modern American literature comes from______ written by Mark Twain.
The Prince and the Pauper
喵查答案：The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Innocents Abroad

5 Mark Twain used realistic language in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
喵查答案：正确
错误

1 The Puritans fled from England ____.
to make a fortune
喵查答案：to avoid the religious persecution
to gain more land
for adventure

2 In 1620, the Puritans sailed for Virginia aboard, and the ship was called ____.
喵查答案：Mayflower
Diamond
Euro Star
Princess

3 ____ discovered the New World in ____.
Christopher Robin, 1492
Christine Columbus, 1492
Thomas Columbus, 1492
喵查答案：Christopher Columbus, 1492

4 The War of Independence came to an end in 1774 with the victory of North Americans.
正确
喵查答案：错误

5 The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Congress on July 4, 1776.
喵查答案：正确
错误

1 The country consists of ____ states with a total area of about ____ million square kilometers.
51, 9.4
喵查答案：50, 9.4
50, 8.4
51, 8.4

2 The United States shares land borders with ____ and ____.
Russia and Canada
Canada and Cuba
喵查答案：Canada and Mexico
Canada and the Bahamas

3 America is situated in the ____ of North America.
喵查答案：south
east
west
north

4 Owing to large size and varied landforms, there are 6 types of climate in different areas.
喵查答案：正确
错误

5 One of the states is separated from the continental United States(Alaska).
正确
喵查答案：错误

Chapter Two: Everyday Use

1 ____ was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
喵查答案：Dr. Martin Luther King
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington

2 The US Congress passed the ____ to stop discrimination in all public places.
Black Rights Act
喵查答案：Civil Rights Act
Black Rights Law
Civil Rights Law

3 The Civil Rights Movement took place in the ____.
1920s and 1930s
1930s and 1940s
1940s and 1950s
喵查答案：1950s and 1960s

4 Hip-hop first emerged among young urban blacks in New York City during the late 1970’s/early 1980’s.
喵查答案：正确
错误

5 By the late 1980’s Hip-hop had become more popular than rock music in America.
正确
喵查答案：错误

1 Alice Walker employs ________ to connect the story from the present to the past, and then from the past to the present. 
the place
the place
喵查答案：the flashback
the characters

2 The writer sets ____________ as the background.
喵查答案：the yard 
the house
the grassland
the village

3 Everyday Use indicates the black culture and life value orientation.
喵查答案：正确
错误

4 There are three methods to reflect the flashback.
喵查答案：正确
错误

5 Flashback is to change the plots in the story, and to arouse the intense curiosity.
正确
喵查答案：错误

1 Which of the following sentences is an elliptical sentence?
Have you seen my gloves anywhere?
喵查答案：You ready yet?
I’m ready now. 
I’m sorry to keep you waiting.

2 What is the language style of the article Everyday Use?
Formal
Fiery
喵查答案：Informal
喵查答案：Colloquial

3 The two principal types of elliptical construction are textual ellipsis and situational ellipsis.
喵查答案：正确
错误

4 Ellipsis is quite uncommon in informal conversations.
正确
喵查答案：错误

5 What is the famous theory put forward by Ernest Hemingway?
喵查答案：iceberg

1 Which of the folllowing sentence is not a suitable explanation of the elliptical sentence “Dee, though.”?
However, Dee is completely different from me.
喵查答案：But Dee would do the same thing.
Dee, however, is not like me.
But Dee would never act like me.

2 In the narration of the mother about Dee, what is the function of the three elliptical sentences?
Grammatical ellipsis.
喵查答案：Changing the object of description.
喵查答案：Leaving the readers some time to think about Dee’s personality, reaction or appearance.
Textual ellipsis.

3 In which part can you find elliptical sentences in the article Everyday Use?
In the description part.
In the introduction part.
喵查答案：In the mother’s narration part.
喵查答案：In the conversations.

4 In the conversations of Everyday Use, Dee said “Imagine” twice, which strengthens the characterization of Dee, making her later gasp and irritation reasonable when she learned that the mother didn’t plan to give her the two quits.
喵查答案：正确
错误

5 Elliptical sentences are widely adopted in Everyday Use  to shape the character of the mother and to make the conversations real.
喵查答案：正确
错误

1 Second, the colors have the connotation of ____. 
yin-yang theory
喵查答案：five elements
eight diagrams
five diagrams

2 The artistic form of Hanfu reflects the “beauty of ____”. 
喵查答案：neutrality

3 It is the cultural connotation of “the unity of ____ and man” that endows Hanfu with its unique meaning.
喵查答案：nature

4 There are mainly ____  features that make Hanfu the unique clothes and attract people to wear them again nowadays in China.
喵查答案：three, 3

5 “Han clothing” – is the traditional clothing for ____  Chinese, an ethnic group compromising more than 90 percent of the population of China. 
喵查答案：Han

Chapter Three: Ships in the Desert

1

喵查答案：正确
错误

2

正确
喵查答案：错误

3  “Moscow and Washington will hold talks  on this question.” is a metonymy.
正确
喵查答案：错误

4

喵查答案：正确
错误

5

喵查答案：正确
错误

1 My search for the underlying causes of the environmental crisis has led me to travel the world to examine and study many of ________ images of destruction.
喵查答案：these
this
that
those

2 We need a careful assessment of the relationship between human civilization and the animal world  in the ecological system. 
正确
喵查答案：错误

3 The theme in this article is to stop the war and to stop the environmental destruction by thinking about the relationship itself. 
喵查答案：正确
错误

4 “…… it ____ be helpful to classify them and thus begin to organize our thoughts……”
喵查答案：may

5 _____________ , there are so many distressing images of environmental destruction.
喵查答案：still

1 In the future,  we will  probably silence thousands of songs we have never even heard in the beautiful nature. 
喵查答案：正确
错误

2   The spring snowmelt comes early every year in many land areas north of the Arctic circle in prehistoric time.
正确
喵查答案：错误

3 We have to understand the new relationship between human civilization and the earth’s natural balance.
喵查答案：正确
错误

4 Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in  _________. 
喵查答案：1776

5  There were_________________ people walking on earth until Julius Caesar’ time.
喵查答案：fewer than 250 million people

1 Which of the following can not describe Al Gore?
Former Vice-President of America
喵查答案：Singer
Writer
Environmentalist

2 Which one is NOT considered as an environmental threat?
Global warming
喵查答案：Afforestation
Ozone depletion
Acid rain

3 The Yellow River is heavily affected by human activity.
喵查答案：正确
错误

4 The Aral Sea is now the fourth largest inland saline lake in the world.
正确
喵查答案：错误

5 President Xi Jinping pointed out that “The protection of the Yellow River is critical to the ____ of the Chinese nation and that the protection of the Yellow River is a major national strategy”.
喵查答案：great rejuvenation and sustainable development

1 Since the beginning of the 21st century, more than ____ of the increase of the world’s greenspace comes from China.
1/2
1/3
喵查答案：1/4
1/5

2 Up to 2018, carbon intensity had accumulatively decreased by ____ percent compared to 2005.
43.8
喵查答案：45.8
35.8
38.8

3 Deforestation is one of the major causes that will worsen global warming.
喵查答案：正确
错误

4 China has joined the Vienna Convention for 50 years and has been fulfilling its requirements.
正确
喵查答案：错误

5 Ozone depletion in the Antarctica has already been very serious.
喵查答案：正确
错误

1 “He is in irons.” is a synecdoche.
正确
喵查答案：错误

2 “He might be the dark horse in the swimming contest.” is a synecdoche.
正确
喵查答案：错误

3  “The world will dance at your wedding.” is a synecdoche.
喵查答案：正确
错误

4 “The poor creature could no longer endure her sufferings.” is a synecdoche.
喵查答案：正确
错误

5  “He paid workers $ 5 per head.”  is a synecdoche.
喵查答案：正确
错误