超星 - Unit 4 The Ambitious Violet - 查题吧

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There was a beautiful and fragrant violet that lived placidlyamongst her friends... In this sentence, the word placidly means.

A. lonley
B. calmly and peacefully
C. happily
D. plainly

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Nature has fashioned me to be short and poor... In this sentence, the underlined word means.

A. popularized
B. manner
C. made
D. style

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Cast aside your thoughts and be contended, and remember that he who humbles himself will be exalted, and he who exalts himself will be crushed. In this sentence, the underlined word means.

A. praised
B. scolded
C. learned
D. promoted

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You are consoling me because you have that I craved.Which is the closestsynonymfor the underlined word?

A. laughing at
B. criticising
C. comforting
D. deceiving

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You seek to embitter me with the meaning that you are great…The underlined word means .

A. make sb feel sad and angry
B. laugh at sb
C. mock at sb
D. make sb feel excited

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...and the raging elements disturbed the silence of existence with thunder, and commencedto attack the garden.The underlined word means.

A. commented
B. commended
C. started
D. wanted

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That solitary garden suffered greatly from the belligerent skies.Which is the closestsynonymfor the underlined word?

A. angry
B. threatening
C. aggressive
D. scary

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And a third one added, “Because we are poor in height the tempest is unable to subdue us.”Which is the closestsynonymfor the underlined word?

A. break
B. defeat
C. kill
D. destroy

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At that moment the queen of violets saw by her side the converted violet, hurled to earth by the storm and distortedupon the wet grass like a limp soldier in a battlefield. The underlined word means.

A. weary, exhausted
B. weak and timid
C. dead
D. injured

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And the dying rose moved and gathered the remnants of her strength.

A. courage
B. an unsold or unused end of piece goods
C. small parts of sth that are left over
D. a small piece of cloth

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