Parallelism is NOT used in ________.A、A yellow bea...

Parallelism is NOT used in ________.

A、A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.

B、Who would want to remonstrate and argue with them?

C、It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning make the prize light.”

D、… for even after the most eventful day, there is no comparing notes with them, no midnight confidence, no casting up the balance of the day’s pleasure and pain.

Antithesis is not used in ________.

A、Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?

B、She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

C、But they talked, and from the side of the building where I waited for the ground to open up and swallow me, I heard …

D、Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?

Synecdoche is NOT used in ________.

A、But there is a man in my office, a Mr. H., who proses it away from morning to night, …

B、Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.

C、It would be worse than beating an anvil with a sledge-hammer.

D、It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning make the prize light.”

According to this passage, which is not used for determining the load of a steel beam?

A．Microscopic measuring devices.

B．Machines that create large amounts of stress.

C．Machines that can measure force.

D．Analysis of the weight of the beam.

According to the report, which statement is NOT mentioned?

A．The benchmarks could be as high as 18,500 yuan per month in Hong Kong.

B．The Chinese Academy of Social Science also released its findings in 2006.

C．The benchmarks at the upper end are 8,900 yuan in Macao and 5,350 yuan in Shanghai.

D．At the lower end are 1,300 yuan in Nanning and 1,100 yuan in Yinchuan and Xi"ning.

Your vessel is not underway when ().

A.Her anchor is dragging

B.Her anchor is used in docking

C.She is dredging her anchor

D.Her anchor holds fast while she is swinging

Sea water is not directly used as a coolant for engines because of its _____.

A.low specific heat

B.corrosive action

C.high expense

D.acid property

He ______ reading silently at first.

A．used not to

B．didn't use to

C．was not used to

D．is not used

According to the passage, the present tense in English is ______.

A．not used to express one's readiness to do something in the immediate future

B．used with some verbs but not with others to express future intention

C．basically the same in English as it is in Spanish

D．not the most difficult problem for foreign students