1、单选题：
What is not the purposes of using rhetorical devices? 
选项：
A:

To increase vividness of language

B:

To reduce clarity

C:

To heighten effect

D:

To lend force to an idea

答案: 【

To reduce clarity

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2、单选题：
What are style and stylistics about? 
选项：
A:

A taste of Stylistics

B:

Knowledge on how to find out stylistic features at different levels of text language

C:

Style

D:

Rhetoric

答案: 【

Rhetoric

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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.
选项：
A:

concise and conspicuous (obvious)

B:

formal

C:

slangy

D:

colloquial

答案: 【

concise and conspicuous (obvious)

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4、单选题：
About style, which description is not right?    
选项：
A:From the perspective of the content, the events and activities described, style is saying different things in different contexts in different ways. 
B:

From the perspective of the users of language, style is different speakers using language in different ways (to different group of people).

C:

From the perspective of the function of the text, style is the functions of texts for different purposes.

D:

From the perspective of the ways of expression used, style is saying the same thing in the same ways.

答案: 【

From the perspective of the ways of expression used, style is saying the same thing in the same ways.

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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. 
选项：
A:

differences

B:

similarities

C:

identical

D:

sameness

答案: 【

differences

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