We should stick to the principles and be ____as well.

Political leaders have reached a tentative agreement to hold a preparatory ____next month.

Choose the rhetorical device used in the following statement.I'm proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its– oysters. (Para. 17)

A. climax
B. anti-climax
C. irony

Choose the rhetorical device used in the following statement.…where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second, where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered on to die in slow agony. (Para. 9)

A. parallelism
B. metaphor
C. simile

Choose the rhetorical device used in the following statement.…the people who were born here or who lived through it. (Para 23)

A. metaphor
B. anti-climax
C. climax

Decide whether the following statement is true or false.The writer suffered from a strong feeling of shame when he thought of the prospect of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima in his socks.

A. 对
B. 错

Decide whether the following statement is true or false.What the mayor talked about was exactly the same as the writerthought.

A. 对
B. 错

Decide whether the following statement is true or false.Even staying a long time in Japan a foreigner is hard to get quite used to bowing to people as a ritual in greeting and to show gratitude.

A. 对
B. 错

Decide whether the following statement is true or false.The mayor talked about oysters probably because he did not want to embarrass the foreigners by talking about the disaster and he wanted people to forget the tragic past.

A. 对
B. 错

Decide whether the following statement is true or false.The writer admitted that it never occurred to him that he would hear the mayor of Hiroshima talk about oysters, which shocked him a lot.

A. 对
B. 错