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高级英语(上)英语专业(本科段)-全国高等教育自学考试
指定教材王家湘
课后题及答案
Lesson one Rock Superstars : What Do
They Tell Us About Ourselves
and Our Society ?
Exercises
A. Answer the following
questions on the text:
1. what is the
function of the two quotations ? Are they
appropriate ?
2. What does the author
attempt to illustrate with the three
examples
at the beginning of the article?
3. According
to Irving Horowitz , what is the sociological
significance of rock music ?
4. In what
sense did Elvis Presley prove what Horowitz and
Rundgren
believed ?
5. How did Bob Dylan
, the Beatles , and the Rolling Stones differ
from each other politically ?
6. What
other major subjects did rock music deal with
apart from
politics ?
7. What rewards did
rock superstars get ?
8. Has the author given
a complete answer to question he raises in
the
title? Why do you think the
author ends the
article the way he does ?
Key A
1. The author uses the two quotations
to introduce his ideas . Yes ,
they are .
2. The author uses the three examples to show
that the young people
worship the rock
superstars
very much , but the adults find
they are sick , The examples show
that young
people and adults have a
totally different
attitudes towards rock music .
3. Rock music
can express its times . He sees it as a debating
forum
where American society
struggles to
define and redefine its feeling and beliefs .
4. When he appeared on the Ed . Sullivan
Sunday night variety show ,
a debate took
place . The old
people frowned while the
young viewers applauded.
5. Bob Dylan touched
a nerve of disaffection. The Beatles urged
peace and piety . The Rolling
Stones
demanded revolution .
6. Apart from politics
, the rock music dealt with feelings and
emotions.
7. The rock superstars got
applause , praise and money .
8. No , he
hasn‘t . He want s to leave the question to the
readers
and let them think .
B Translate
the following into Chinese :
1. ―Jagger,‖ he
said , ―grabs a half –gallon jug of water and
runs along the front platform , sprinkling
its contents over the first few rows of
sweltering listeners .
2. How do you feel
about all this adulation and hero worship ?
3. Or are you drawn somehow to this strange
clown , perhaps because
he acts out your
wildest
fantasies ?
4. Some sociologists
say that your answers to them could explain a
lot about what you are thinking
and about
what your society is thinking –in other words ,
where you
and your society are .
5. It‘s
just that Elvis managed to embody the frustrated
teenage
spirit of the 1950s .
6. Feelings
always a part of any musical statement were a
major
subject .
7. This country element ,
Horowitz feels , helped its audience
express
an urge to ―get away from it
all , ― to ―go
back to the old days .‖
8. In one 1972
national opinion poll , more than 10 percent of
the
high school boys and 20 percent of
the girls said their hero was a rock
superstar.
KeyB
1他描述道:‖贾格尔拿着半加仑水,
顺着舞台前沿,边跑边把水洒向前排汗流
浃背的歌迷身上.‖
2.
你如何看待这种赞美和英雄崇拜?
3.
还是由于他把你狂热的幻想用行动表现出来,你神不知鬼不觉地被这个不可
思议的小丑所
吸引?
4.
一些社会学家认为你对这些问题的回答,很能说明你在想什么,社会在想什
么..换句话说,
可以说明你和社会的态度.
5.
只不过艾尔维斯的演唱表现了50年代青少年那种沮丧的精神状态.
6.
感情总是任何音乐表达的必要成分,也是一个重要议题.
7.
霍罗威茨认为这种结合表达了听众欲‖摆脱现实一切‖‖重归昔日‖的强
烈愿望.
9.
在1972年的一次全国民意测验中,
10%以上的高中男生,20%的女生表示他
们心目中的英雄是超摇滚歌星.
C.
Fill in the blank in each sentence with the best
word or
expression from the box below,changing
its form when necessary :
Sprinkle
swelter in other words lazy rather than reject act
out idle
worship reverence drive embody
9. His paintings embody the spirit of the
modern era .
10. How do you act out your
frustrations , by throwing glasses or
something ?
11. The peddler sprinkled
some water over his vegetables to make
them
fresher and heavier.
12. In such heated air
,the sweltering students could hardly keep
their minds on their lessons .
13. That‘s
idle gossip . Don‘t listen to it .
14.
She sent in her application for the job , but was
rejected as
unqualified . 15. The salesman
considered it safe to go along with the
boss
rather than to contradict him . 8. Everybody
should have a sincere
reverence worship for
the laws of his country .
D. Choose the right
word or expression in the brackets to complete
each of the following sentences : 1. The whole
nation watched the two
candidates (arguing ,
debating ) the issue of raising taxes on
TV .
2. It was a (proud , arrogant ) moment for my
cousin when she shook
hands with the President
. 3. Even if you (mix , blend ) oil and water ,
they will not (mix , blend ). 4. Some people
watch television so much
that they cannot
(conceive , imagine ) of living without it . 5. As
it
was an informal dinner , most people (wore
,were dressed ) in their
comfortable clothes .
6. Do you think those young people are
(idealistic ,ideal ) or pragmatic ? 7. Filled
with great (adulation ,
admiration ) for their
integrity and courage , he was determined to be
a man like them .
8. Deep at night , they
could still hear gun-fire (rambling ,
rumbling
) in the distance . E. Explain the underlined
words in English :
1. ―They think he is sick
, sick , sick , ― Mike said .
2. Newspaper
editorialized against him .
3. He poke of
change and of the bewilderment of an older
generation .
4. The Beatles … urged peace and
piety …
5. His most notable songs
…while the lyrics celebrate the simple
joy …
6. … these rock musicians mirror feelings and
benefits ….
7. Horowitz sees the rock music
arena as …a place where ideas clash
and crash
. 8. What does he ---or any other current rock
success ---tell
us about his fans ? Key E
1. disgusting
2. Editors ? articles
attacked and criticized him
3. the confusions
of the old people
4. had a strong desire for
peace and piety
5. The words of the song
praise the natural happiness of the old
days .
6. reflect emotions and outlooks
7. a
place where ideas come into opposition and
contradict to each
other
8. other
successful rock stars at present
F .
Translate the following into English :
摇滚乐于20世纪50年代末举起于美国.
它不仅是一种新型的音乐形式,更是
美国的青年人表达他们对世界和人生看法的论坛. 在这个论坛上,
歌星们唱出了青
年人对民权战争与和平的态度,
唱出了他们对社会的不满,也唱出了爱与恨之间的各种情感. 总之, 在这个论
坛上,
青年人把他们对美国社会的信仰及情感给以全新的解释.
早期的摇滚乐的主
要代表人物有艾尔维斯.普雷斯利,
歌星加诗人鲍勃.狄伦
甲壳虫乐队以及滚石乐队等等.他们都是青年人崇拜的
文化英雄.
Key F
Rock music began in America in the late 1950‘s
. It was not only a
new musical form , but a
forum
for the American youth to express their
ideas of the world and life .
In this forum ,
the stars sang out the
attitudes of the youth
towards civil rights , war and peace ,the
disaffection of their society , and a range
of emotions between love and hate . Allin all
, in this forum , the
American youth redefined
the beliefs
and feelings of their society .
The typical representatives of the
early rock
music were Elvis Presley ,
singer and poet
Bob Dylan , the Bealtles , the rolling Stones and
so
on . They were the culture heroes
whom
the young people worshipped .
G. Write a
short passage of 150—200words in English on the
topic
―Do you Agree that Rock Is the
Music of Teenage Rebellion ?:‖
You should
cover the following points :
1 A general
statement of your position
2 Two or three
arguments with a supporting example for each .
Key G
Do You Agree that Rock Is the Music
of Teenage Rebellion ?
Rock music
began in America in the late 1950‘s . It was not
only a
new musical form , but a forum
for
the American youth to express their ideas of the
world and life .
Music expressed its times .
Rock music was a sociological expression
rather than a musical force . It
embodied
the frustrated teenage spirit of the 1950s. At
that time
young people might be dissatisfied
with
the society or they had some hatred
toward the adult world , but
they could not
protest it openly . So
they would use music
as an outlet . Then they could get some balance
in their minds .
Another aspect is that
the young people could make their ideas and
beliefs known to the world
through music
. By music , they could show their felling and
dreams .
So all in all , young people
combined invention and exaggeration ,reason
and motion , word and
sound , music and
politics as a
whole .
Lesson Two Four
Choices for Young People
A. Answer the
following questions on the text :
1. How do
American young people look at the adult world in
general ?
2. What does ―drop out ― mean ? Why
does the author say that the
dropouts lead a
parasitic
way of life ?
3. In
What way are those who flee different from the
dropouts ?
4. Why is this solution no longer
practical on a large scale ?
5. What kind of
young people tend to follow the strategy of armed
revolution ?
6. Why does the author say
that the most unfortunate are those whose
revolutions have
succeeded ?
7. What
are some of the new problems faced by the young
people ?
8. What is the fourth alternative ?
Why does the author favor this
alternative ?
Key A
1. They view the adult world with
great skeptism .
They think their world is in
pretty much of a mess , full of
injustice
,poverty and war .
2. ―Drop out ―means its
practioners escape the traditional way of
life
, refuse to take any
responsibility and live
a parasitic life . Because its practioners
batten on the society which they
scorn
and in which they refuse to take any
responsibility .
3. Those who flee are not
are willing to support
themselves and to
contribute
something to the general community
.
4. Because our planet is running out of
noble savages and unsullied
landscapes ,
except for the
polar regions , the
frontiers are gone .
5. The young people who
have no patience with the tedious workings
of
the democratic
process or who believe that
basic institutions can only be changed
by
force tend to follow this
strategy .
6.
Because they live in bitter disillusionment to see
the
establishment they have overthrown
replaced by a new one , just as hard –faced
and stuffy .
7. The unprecedent problems of
an affluent society , of racial
justice , of
keeping our cities
from becoming
uninhabitable, of coping with war in unfamiliar
guises , and of population
explosion .
8. The fourth alternative is to try to change
the world
gradually .Because it offers a
better
chance for remedying some of the world
?s outrages than any other
available strategy
.
.B. Translate the following into Chinese :
1. Apparently he speaks for a lot of his
contemporaries .
2. During the last few years
, I have listened to scores of young
people
,in college and out ,
who were just as
nervous about the grown –up world .
3.
They are willing to support themselves and to
contribute
something to the general
community , but they simply don‘t like the
environment of
civilization that is ,the city
, with all its ugliness and tension .
4. A
few gentleman farmers with plenty of money can
still escape to
the bucolic life .
5. To
them it offers a romantic appeal ,usually
symbolized by some
dashing and charismatic
figure.
6. For at best their victory
never dawns on the shining new world
they had
dreamed of ,
cleansed of all human meanness .
7. The revolutionary state , under whatever
political label , has to
be run –not by
violent
romantics –but by experts in
marketing , sanitary engineering , and
the
management of
bureaucracies.
8. About
all that can be said for it is that it sometimes
works –
that in this particular time and place
it offers a better chance for
remedying some
of the world ?s outrages than any other
available strategy .
Key B
1.
很显然他所说的代表了许多同龄人的想法.
2. 在过去的几年中,
我听到过许多大学内外的年轻人的谈话, 对于成人世界,
他们也有同感.
3.
他们愿意自食其力,并对社会大众做些贡献.他们不喜欢文明的环境,也就是
说,
不喜欢那种丑恶紧张的城市生活.
4. 一些极富有的乡绅可以回到农村的田园生活.
5. 对他们来说,这有一种浪漫传奇的色彩,通常是以某个有闯劲魅力超凡的
人物为代表的.
6. 即使革命成功,胜利的曙光也不会照在光灿灿的梦想的消除了人类一切自
私的新世界上.
7. 革命的机器,无论贴上什么样的政治标签,还得由市场销售卫生工程官僚
机构的行家们来
操作,而不是由那些极端的浪漫主义者们去操作.
8. 这种方法的惟一优点是,
它有时真的有效,--在一个特定的时间和地点,
与
其它可选的方法相比,它可以更好地改善世界上的倒行逆施行为.
C. Fill in
the blank in each sentence with the best word or
expression from the box below ,
changing
its form when necessary :
Strike run out of
cleanse disappoint insoluble unprecedent satisfy
virtual contribute available
symbolize
vehement
1. For many Americans , it is their
lifelong dream to buy a
satisfying
satisfactory two-storied house with a garden .
2. To make Beijing our worthy capital , we
must get it cleansed of
polluted air , among
other things .
a lot of cultures , red roses
are used to symbolize love .
unately ,
their car ran out of fuel , just ten miles short
of Chicago .
5. An unprecedented event in
history took place in 1969 , when two
American
astronauts
landed for the first time on the
Moon .
6. The detective finally gave up ,
declaring the mystery insoluble .
7. Though
high-sounding , his speech struck everyone at the
meeting
as totally irrelevant to
what was
discussed .
9. If you travel by plane ,
Beijing and Guangzhou are virtually
neighboring cities . D. Choose the right word
or expression in the
brackets to complete each
of the following
sentences :
1. The
professor looked over our papers with a hasty
(sight ,
glance ). 2. Before ordering their
dinner , they considered the
(relevant ,
relative ) merits of chicken and
roast beef .
3. The little boy‘s constant noise
(exhilarated , exasperated ) his
father , who
was busy writing
a paper for a symposium .
4. Isn‘t it (wholesome, noisome )to live in a
city with so many
vehicles passing day and
night ?
5. He was born in a small
town (lived , inhabited ) by about 500
people
. 6. Her desk was all (jumbled , cluttered ) with
old papers ,
strings , and other odds and ends
. 7. He thinks they are extremely
(idealistic
, ideal ) , for all their pragmatism . 8. She made
one last
(attraction , appeal ) to her father
for permission to go to the party .
E. Explain
the underlined words in English :
1….who were
just as nervous about the grown-up world .
2.
Unlike the dropouts , they are not parasites .
3. This strategy also has ancient antecedents
.
4. …that is , the city , with all its
ugliness and tension .
5. For at best their
victory never dawns on the shining new world
they had dreamed of …. 6. At first glance ,
this course is far from
inviting .
7. …it
offers a better chance for remedying some of the
world ?s
outrages than any other
available strategy .
8. …another one
looms just ahead .
Key E
1. They are
doubtful and critical about the way the older
generation
is running the world . 2. They
don‘t batten on the society . They
support
themselves .
3. This strategy is not new . We
had similar ones in the old times .
4. The
city is ugly and full of pressures .
5. Their
success doesn‘t bring about a new world .
6. This strategy is not attractive .
7. Compared with other strategies , it can
change the world for the
better . It can stop
some of
the world ?s violence or crulty .
8. Another problem appears before them .
F. Translate the following into English :
60年代的美国青年是反叛的一代.
他们看到美国这个富裕社会充满了贫困不
平等和虚伪.他们不再相信这个不属于他们的成人社会,
拒绝信奉它的信仰和价值
观. 很多青年人积极投入到反对贫困反对种族歧视和反对越南战争的斗争中去
,
有些青年人甚至试图以武装革命的方式推翻这个社会.
还有很多青年人以消极的方
式表示他们的不满. 他们吸毒,过着不承担任何社会责任的寄生生活,
或者跑到未
开垦的乡村去, 过着原始公社式的生活.
Key F
The
American young people in 1960‘s were a generation
of rebellion .
They found that the
affluent American society was filled with
poverty , injustice and
gypocrisy . They
didn‘t trust the
adult world that didn‘t
belong to them and refused to take their
beliefs and values . Many young
people
took active part in the struggle which protested
against
poverty , racial discrimination and
Vietnam War . Some young people even tried to
overthrow this world
by armed revolution. Many
other young took passive ways to show
their disaffections . They
took drugs ,
refused to take any
responsibilities and
lived a parasitic way of life . Or they escaped
to the frontiers and lived a
primitive
way of life .
G. Write a short passage of
150-200 words in English on the topic
―My
Comment on the
Fourth Choice .‖You should
cover the following points :
!.what the
fourth choice is
you agree on with the
author and reasons for your agreement
you
disagree on with the author , if any , and your
explanation .
My Comment on the Fourth
Choice
The fourth comment is to change the
world gradually , one clod at a
time . Maybe
at the first
glance it is not inviting . It
lacks glamour . It has no quick
result . It
demands patience . It depends
on the
exasperating and uncertain instruments of
persuasion and
democratic decision making .
I think the author is right . Reforming the
world is a little like
fighting a military
campaign in the Apennines , as soon as
you
capture one mountain range, another one looms just
ahead . The
problems are the same , too. Once
some problems
are brought under some
kind of rough control , new problems take
place . So we can‘t solve all the problems at
a time .
We have to deal with one problem
each time and change the world
gradually and
steadily . So problems can be handled
in the
same way that hard problems have been coped with
before –
piecemeal , pragmatically ,by the
dogged efforts of many people . so I
think in
this particular time and place the fourth choice
offers a
better chance for remedying some of
the world ?s outrages than any other available
starategy .
Lesson Three The Use of Force
By William Carlos Williams
A. Answer the
following questions on the text :
1. why
wasn‘t the sick child in bed ?
2. why were
the girl‘s parents eyeing the doctor up and down
distrustfully ?
3. What made the girl
refuse to open her mouth to the doctor ?
4.
Why did the doctor insist on examining her throat
?
5. Why was the doctor not able to see her
throat since he already
had the wooden
tongue depressor into her mouth ?
6. How
did the doctor finally get see the girl‘s throat ?
7. Did the girl‘s physical beauty have
anything to do with the
outcome of the
incident ?Explain .
8. Can you
find any fault with the doctor‘s behavior?
Key A,
1. Because it was damp there .
2. Because they were the new patients to him
and they were nervous .
3. She didn‘t want
others to know that her tonsils were covered
with membrane.
4. Because the doctor took
a trial shot that the girl might have
diphtheria.
5. Because she gripped the
wooden blade between her molars and
didn‘t
open her mouth to let the doctor have a look .
6. The doctor overpowered the child‘s neck and
jaws , forced the
heavy silver
spoon back
of her teeth and down her throat till she gagged .
7. Yes , it did . Because she was very
beautiful and didn‘t want
others to know her
shortcomings . She thought tonsils covered with
membrane were ugly .
8. Yes . The doctor
grasped the child‘s head and tried to get the
wooden tongue
depressor between her teeth
. He had grown furious at the child . He
could
have torn
the child apart and enjoyed it .
B. Translate the following into Chinese :
1. When I arrived I was met by the mother , a
big startled looking
woman , very
clean and apologetic who merely said ,
Is this the doctor?And let me
in .
2. He
tried to get up , but I motioned for him not to
bother , took
off my overcoat
and started
to look things over .
3. As often , in such
cases , they weren‘t telling me more than
they
had to , it was
up to me to tell them .
4. I smiled in my best professional manner and
asking for the
child‘s first name I said ,
come on , Mathilda, …
5. At that I ground my
teeth in disgust . If only they wouldn‘t use
the word ―hurt
―I might be able to get
somewhere .
6. In the ensuing struggle they
grew more and more abject , crushed ,
exhausted
while she surely rose to
magnificent heights of insane fury of
effort
bred of her terror
of me .
7. …she
opened up for an instant but before I could see
any thing
she came down
again and gripped
the wooden blade between her molars she reduced it
to splinters
before I could get it out
again .
8. The damned little brat must
be protected against her own idiocy ,
one says
to
one‘s self at such times .
Key B
1. 我到她家时先遇到她的母亲, 她一副惊讶害怕的表情. 她穿着很干净,
只
是礼貌地说, 您是医生吗?就让我进去 了.
2. 他试图站起来,
我示意他不要麻烦,脱去外套, 开始检查.
3. 像往常一样, 在这种情况下,
他们不会告诉我更多的情况, 而是理应由我
来告诉他们.
4.
我尽量露出我的职业微笑,询问小女孩的名字.我说,过来,玛蒂尔…
5.
此时我已厌恶地咬牙切齿,要不是他们使用‖伤害‖这个词,我可能早就采
取行动了.
6.
在接下来的斗争中,他们变得越来越可怜,被制服,甚至精疲力竭,而小女孩
由于害怕我而产生的狂怒却
达到了顶点.
7. 她的嘴张开了一下, 我还没有来的及看清楚,她又闭上了嘴.,紧紧地用臼齿
咬住木刃.我还没有来的及将它拔出,,她已把它咬成了碎片.
8.
那个可恶的小家伙很愚蠢,但我应当保护她, 此时我对自己这样说.
B. Fill in
the blank in each sentence with the best word or
expression from the box
below , changing
its form when necessary :
Apologetic motion
apprehension distrustful profusion admonish
terrifying coax
contemptible ensue desist
overpower
1. They heard of the traffic
accident and immediately rushed to the
hospital , full
of apprehensions about
the safety of the passengers .
2. The
terrifying explosion occurred early in the morning
.
3. As he entered the newly decorated
building , an overpowering
smell of paint made
him feel quite sick .
4. The old man yelled
over and over again ―stop thief ,stop
thief !‖
But nobody did
anything . The indifference of
the onlookers was really
contemptible .
5. The police motioned for the crowd to move
on to the next street .
6. In Kunming ,
flowers grow in great profusion all the year round
.
7. The fans shouted and clapped so loudly
that in the ensuing
confusion nobody could
hear a thing .
8. The boys were frightened ,
but the police managed to coax them
into
telling him what they had seen that night .
A. Choose the right word or expression in the
brackets to complete
each of the following
sentences :
1. The girl looked at the
doctor (terrifyingly , terrified ).
2. ―If
you finish all the homework tonight , we‘ll go for
a picnic
tomorrow , ― he
(admonished
,coaxed).
3. He thought their behavior
was (contemptuous ,contemptible ),but
he
didn‘t say anything in front of the host .
4.
Summoned by the boss , he approached his office
full of
(apprehension ,distrust ).
5. He
was sincerely sorry for what happened at the party
, so people
accepted his
(excuse ,apology
).
6. They were walking in the forest when
they heard a
(terrifying ,terrific )roar which
made their blood freeze .
7. Obviously they
were getting nowhere with the meeting , so he
decided to (desist ,resist )
from making
a final decision that afternoon .
8. ―How can
you say that you don‘t want to see your
grandmother ?‖the father
(admonished
,coaxed ).
E. Explain the underlined words in
English :
1…very clean and apologetic…
2…it was up to me to tell them …
there‘s been a lot of sickness around .
g
doing .
5.I‘m here to look at her throat on
the chance that she might have
diphtheria …
‘re going through with this .
7…I too had
got beyond reason.
face was burning
with it .
Key E
1. polite
2. It was
my duty …
There has been a lot of sick people
near our home .
4. She did nothing . There
was no action .
3.5. probably , possibly
6. We‘ll continue to the end .
7. became
unreasonable
8. pleasure and enjoyment
ate the following into English :
玛蒂尔达病了三天了,母亲给她吃了药也不见好, 只好请来了医生.由于玛蒂尔
达的学校里有
学生患白喉,而且已经有两个孩子死去,医生到奥尔逊家后首先要检查
玛蒂尔达的喉咙.
但是无论怎么劝,她就是不肯张开嘴,于是医生只得用压舌板伸进她的嘴里. 然
而玛蒂尔达竟
然把压舌板咬碎了.为了保护玛蒂尔达本人及其他的儿童,医生必须弄
清玛蒂尔达是否患了白喉,以便给
予及时的治疗.于是他让玛蒂尔达的父亲抓紧她的
手腕,自己用力掰开了玛蒂尔达的嘴,发现她果然得了
白喉.这个故事使我们想到这
样一个问题,生活中有的事不能全靠自愿,
在有的情况下,
一定的强迫似乎是必要的.
Key F.
Mathilda had been
ill for three days . Her mother had given her some
medicine, but it didn‘t
do any
good . So they had to ask the doctor to come .
There had been
a number of cases of
diphtheria in Mathilda‘s school and two of
them had been dead .
When the doctor arrived
at Olson‘s home , he wanted to examine
Mthilda‘s throat first . But no matter how he
coaxed ,,She
wouldn‘t open her mouth . So the
doctor had to get the tongue
depressor into
her mouth . But
Mathilda reduced it to
splinters . In order to protect Mathilda
herself and other children , the
doctor
had to make sure whether she had diphtheria or not
, so that
he could treat her in time .
Letting Mathilda ?s father hold her wrists he
tried his best to open
her mouth and found she
really
had diphtheria. This story made us can
think such a question that
something in life
can‘t only
depend on self willingness . Under
some circumstances , certain
force seems
necessary .
G. Write a short passage of
150-200words in English on the topic
―Comment
on the Doctor‘s Behavior . ―You should covre the
following
points :
1.
Why he wanted
to examine the girl‘s throat
2. how he
tried to coax her to open her mouth
3. what
made him decide to use force to see her throat
your opinion of the doctor‘s behavior .
Key G.
t on the Doctor‘s Behavior
After the doctor arrived at the girl‘s home ,
he wanted to see her
throat . As there had
been a
number of cases of diphtheria in the
school to which the girl went
during that
month , the doctor
also thought that of the
girl . So he smiled to the girl and asked
her
to open her mouth and let him
have a look at
her throat . No matter how the doctor coaxed , the
girl shut her mouth firmly .
Thinking
that the girl might have diphtheria and possibly
die of it ,
the doctor decided to use
force to open her mouth . He had seen at least
two children lying
dead in bed of neglect in
such
cases . He felt that he must get a
diagnosis now . So he grasped the
girl‘s head
with his left hand
and tried to get the
wooden tongue depressor between her teeth . But
when the doctor got the
wooden spatula
behind her last teeth . She gripped the blade
between
her molars and reduced it to
splinters . In the final unreasoning assault
the doctor outerpowered
the girl . He forced
the heavy
silver spoon back of her
teeth and down her throat till she gagged .
Her both tonsils were covered
with
membrane.
From that the doctor had done , I
thought he was a responsible
person . In order
to save the lives of the patients ,
especially those children who did not know how
to co-operate with
the doctor ,he had to take
some measure .
Otherwise a good or suitable
time of treatment would be missed .
Lesson
Four Die as You Choose
the following
questions on the text :
1. Is euthanasia
openly practiced in Holland ?
2. Why did the
doctors in the mes secretly practice
euthanasia without
consulting the dying
patients ?
3. What is the difference between
passive euthanasia and active
euthanasia ?Do
you think they make any difference ?
4.
What is a ―living-will ―?
5. Did Hippocrates
prohibit euthanasia ?Did most ancient Greek
doctors and
thinkers agree with his ban
?What did the author want to tell the
reader
by presenting
this historical fact ?
6.
What is the danger involved if euthanasia is
legalized ?
7. Why did the author say
that West Germany will not be able to
legalize
any form
of euthanasia for a long time to
come ?
8. What is the author‘s view on
euthanasia ?
Key A
1. Yes, it is .
2. Because they could rarely discuss
euthanasia openly with patients
and voluntary
euthanasia was taboo , the doctor had to make
the decision himself .
3. Passive euthanasia
means the doctor lets the patient die without
giving him any
treatment on his own
request . Active euthanasia means the doctor
kill the patient by
giving him an
injection or enough painkillers . No, I don‘t
think
they make any
difference.
4.
―Living will ―is a will made by a person when he
is living that
he does not want
life
prolonged when he is dying .
5. Yes , he did
.
No, they didn‘t .
The author wanted to
explain that when in ancient Greece doctors and
thinkers
had the courage to
disagree with Hippocrates , we should support
euthanasia today .
6. It may pose dangers
for society by setting a precedent for
killing
.
7. West Germany will not legalize any form
of euthanasia for a long
time because
of
the shadow of the past .
8. The author has an
appositive attitude towards euthanasia . He
supports it .
A. Translate the following
into Chinese:
1. The need for laws on
euthanasia cannot be dodged for much longer .
2. In Holland mercy-killing is accepted by the
medical establishment
and openly
practiced a few thousand times each year .
3. The debate on euthanasia will rumble on
into the autumn, when
Californians
may
vote on a proposed law legalizing euthanasia .
4. Many people accept that it is sad ,
undignified and gruesome to
prolong the
throes of death with all the might of medical
technology .
5. How long can the distinction
between killing and letting die hold
out ?
6. Is he then necessarily wrong if he
administers enough painkillers
to kill ?Does
the fact that the doctor performed an
action, rather than an
omission , condemn him
?
7. It is probably no coincidence that it
was Dutch doctors who most
heroically
resisted pressure to join in the Nazi medical
atrocities .
8. Countries with an
uninterrupted recent libertarian tradition have
less to fear
from setting some limited
rules for voluntary euthanasia .
Key B.
1. 现在迫切需要制定有关安乐死的法律.
2.
在荷兰,安乐死已经被医疗机构所接受,并于每年公开实施数千次.
3.
这场有关安乐死的辩论将持续到秋天,直到加利福尼亚人投票表决了一项
提议,使安乐死合法化为止.
4. 许多人认为用所能使用的医疗科技来延长死亡前的痛苦是悲哀的不高尚的
可怕的.
5. 这种主动实施与被动使用安乐死的区别还能维持多长时间呢?
6.
如果他使用足够数量的止痛片来为其实施安乐死就有错了吗?医生采取行动,
就应受到遣责吗?
7. 这不是一种巧合,当时荷兰医生就英勇地反抗用人体做医学试验.
8.
不间断提倡思想和行动自由的国家对主动实施安乐死进行限制性规定,就没
有什么可担心的了.
B. Fill in the blank in each sentence with the
best word or
expression from the box
below , changing its form when necessary :
Dodge drown intrude legalize oath
withhold precedent rumble taboo
credible
arguable usher
1. She skillfully dodged
the questions about her private life .
2. It
was very rude of him to intrude on my privacy .
3. The schools decided to withhold payment
until they had completed
the
construction
of the building .
4. Reform and Open-door
policy has ushered in a new ear of economic
development .
5. They started a campaign
to legalize abortion.
6. If you let the boy
go without punishment , he will use it as a
precedent for doing wrong again .
7.
After the exposure of his lies the Congressman is
no longer a
credible politician.
8. It is
arguable that primary school students should pay
any
tuition .
C. Choose the right word or
expression in the brackets to complete
each of
the
following sentences :
1. The warrior
managed to (evade, dodge )the arrow that came
flying
through the
air .
2.
The speaker‘s last few words were (drowned out ,
stopped ) by
the audience ?s thunderous
applause .
3. Would I be (intruding ,
invading ) if I joined in your
discussion ?
4. The ( omission , exclusion ) of a full stop
at the end of the
sentence is a
deliberate act by the writer .
5. The
newly –recruited soldiers swore an (oath, promise
) of
loyalty to their
country .
6.
The suspect was accused of ( preventing
,withholding ) some
important evidence from
the court .
7. Whether or not he is the best
person for the promotion is
( debatable ,
arguable ).
8. He has established himself as
a (credible , believable )
businessman .
E. Explain the underlined words in English :
1. The need for laws on euthanasia cannot be
dodged for much longer .
2. The letter was
probably written for polemical impact .
3.
Thus , because voluntary euthanasia is taboo…
4. …with all the might of medical technology…
5. …by setting a precedent for killing
6.
…only squeamishness demands a firm difference
between…
7. Active euthanasia-killing
–remains controversial .
8. Yet if a
patient‘s philosophical views embrace euthanasia…
Key E
1. mercifully easy and painless
death for persons suffering from an
incurable
and painful
disease , esp. the doctor let the
patients die on their own request .
2.
resulting in arguments
3. something that
religion or custom regards as forbidden
4.
everything could be used or done
5. creating
an earlier example of killing
6. those who
are too modest and scrupulous
7. polemical
,arguable
8. support , be in favour of
ate the following into English :
现在迫切需要制定
有关安乐死的法律.大多数国家禁止安乐死.在这些国家医生
只能偷偷地给病人实施安乐死.但是,也有
的国家公开实施安乐死,例如荷兰.越来越
多的国家目前正在就安乐死的合法性展开辩论.
当一个病人长期遭受疾病的折磨而又无治愈的希望时, 为什么要让他继续痛苦
下去呢?
为什么不能用安乐死来结束他的痛苦?
但是,如果安乐死合法化,也存在一种危险
------有人会利用安乐死进行谋杀.
总之,安乐死
是一个不能回避的问题.
Key F
The need for laws on
euthanasia can‘t be dodged for much longer .
Euthanasia is a taboo in
most countries .
In these countries doctors can only practise it
secretly . But it is openly practiced
in
some countries , such as Holland . Right now more
and more
countries are going over the
When a patient suffers from illness for a long
time and there is no
hope of curing it , why
do
arguments about legalizing euthanasia .
we let him polong the throes ?Why can‘t we
practise euthanasia to
stop the throes ?
But if we legalize euthanasia , there will be
a danger Someone may
use it for killing . All
in
all , euthanasia is question we can‘t
dodge .
G .Write a short passage of 150-200
words in English on the topic
―How Is
Euthanasia
Handled in Different Countries ?:‖
You should cover the following
points :
1. How euthanasia is practiced in Holland
2. the situation in America , Britain and many
other countries
3. what the biggest worry
is if euthanasia is legalized .
Key G
How Is Euthanasia Handled in Different
Countries ?
In Holland , mercy-killing
is accepted by the medical establishment
and
openly practiced a
few thousand times each
year . The government has rules for
euthanasia
and so doctors can police
it effectively .
But in America , Britain and many other
countries , euthanasia is
condemned by the
medical
establishment , secretly practiced
many times more often , and
almost never comes
to light . Now
it is going over the arguments
about euthanasia once again . The
doctors in
America can rarely
discuss euthanasia openly
with patients ----even when those patients
beg
them for it ----doctors
tend to kill only
when the dying are too far gone to consent . The
doctors have to make decision
themselves
. That is one price of keeping euthanasia secnet .
Fortunately most American states
have
―living-will‖ legislation that proteets doctors
from
prosecution it they do not try to save
someone who has said he does not want life
prolonged .
Some people suggest legalizing
euthanasia . But other people worry
that if
government permit the doctors to comply
with
a dying man‘s request in prescribed set of
circumstances , it
might pose dangers for
society by setting a precedent
for
killing . But if the government set up some rules
, there will
be no problems . In Holland , the
tenacious respect for
individual liberty stop
them killing healthy people but lets them
help
dying people .
Lesson Five I‘d Rather Be
Black than Female
By Shirley Chisholm
A
. Answer the following questions on the text :
1. In what sense is the author quite an
extraordinary person in the
United States ?
2. Why does the author say it is a still
harder and longer struggle
to eliminate
prejudice against women ?
3. In what way
are women prejudiced against in politics ?
4.
What helped her defeat her male opponent in the
local election ?
5. How are women
discriminated against economically ?
6. What
are the occupations usually taken by American
women ?
7. What are some of the problems the
author is determined to help to
solve ?
8. What fine qualities do wonen have that men
don‘t have according
to the author ?Explain
why you agree or disagree with her.
Key A
1. She is the first black woman elected to
congress .
2. Because the men don‘t realize
the prejudice against women and
the women are
much more brainwashed and content with
their roles as second-class
citizens .
3.
The women only do the tedious work , such as
stuffing envelopes ,
organizing
card-
party , making difference between victory and
defeat on
election day , but they
are not
allowed to run for offices .
4. The women who
registered to vote in her district helped her
defeat her male
opponent .
5. The
women are paid less than men even when they do the
same job .
6. The American women predominate
in the lowerpaying , menial,
unrewarding ,
dead-end jobs , such as secretaries ,
librarians , teachers and so
on .
7. The
problems are (1)the children going to bed hungry
(2)There is
not a good
school for every
child (3)spend wealth on hardware to murder people
(4)prejudice
against minorities (5)unfair
housing and employment .
8. The good
qualities that women have a empathy ,
tolerance ,insight , patience
and
persistence . Yes , I agree with the author . The
women
naturally have these
qualities .
A. Translate the
following sentences into Chinese :
1.I was
the first to overcome both handicaps at once .
will take years for whites –including those
who think of
themselves as liberals
–to
discover and eliminate the racist attitudes they
all actually
have .
such a job , she
gets a number of free trips to state and
sometimes national
meetings and
conventions , where her role is supposed to be to
vote
the way her male
chairman votes .
1. When a bright young woman graduate starts
looking for a job ,why
is the first
question always :‖Can you type ?‖
2.
Plenty of others have advised me , every time I
tried to take
another upward
step , that
I should go back to teaching , a woman‘s vocation
, and
leave politics to the
men .
3.
But until that happens –and we all know it will no
be this year
or next –what we
need is
more women in politics because we have a very
special
contribution to make .
4.
It is women who can bring empathy , tolerance ,
insight ,
patience , and
persistence to
government ---the qualities we naturally have or
have
had to develop
because of our
suppression by men .
5. At present , our
country needs women‘s idealism and
determination , perhaps
more in politics
than anywhere else .
Key B
1.
我是第一个克服这两个不利因素的人.
2. 美国白人-----包括那些自认为开明的自由主义者
------需要很多年的时间
来发现, 并消除他们所有的种族主义态度.
3.
在这样的职位中, 她们可能会获得几次免费参加州或全国会议,
或民主党
和共和党各自召开的全国代表大会.她们所做的也只是按照男主席的方式投一样
的票.
4. 当一位聪明的女大学生毕业后开始找工作时,
为什么第一个问题总是::‖
你会打字吗?‖
5. 每一次我试图再上一个新台阶时,
许多人会劝我回到妇女的职业, 做一名
教师, 把政治留给男人.
6. 但直到这些发生
-----我们知道这不是今年或明年的事------因此我们所要
做的是要更多的妇女进入政界,
因为我们对此有特殊贡献.
7. 妇女善解人意宽容,具有很强的洞察力耐心和毅力------
这些都是我们与
生俱来或由于受男人的压制而形成的品质, 女人能把这些品质带到政府中来.
8. 目前, 我们的国家也许在政治上比其它任何领域更需要女人的理想主义和
决心.
B. Fill in the blank in each
sentence with the best word or
expression from
the box
below , changing its form when
necessary :
Rather than register think of
aware of predominate instead of lie
behind
prejudice
menial separate make the difference
phenomenon
1. Don‘t overlook the job of a
secretary . It makes the difference
between
failure and success for the company .
2. The
newly –launched satellite is expected to obtain
data on
solar radiation , sky
brightness
and other important phenomena.
3. How can you
be content to do such menial tasks as washing
dishes
here in the
States ?
4. A
prejudice is a judgement formed before examining
the evidence .
5. We all listen to music
according to our separate capacities .
6.
Knowledge will always predominate over ignorance .
7. When this corporation entered the Chinese
market 8 years ago ,it
aimed to
occupy a
larger market share rather than to make profit in
the short
run .
8. Of all the animals ,
the ape is thought of as the most forgiving
animal .
C. Choose the right word
or expression in the brackets to complete
each
of the
following sentences :
1. His
story of having discovered the treasure buried by
some
pirates seemed
(incredible,
incredulous ) to everyone .
2. ―But the piano
is out of ( tone, tune ) , ―she said in a
disappointed ( tone, tune).
3. Her
friends expressed great (sympathy , empathy ) to
her when her
mother
died .
4. They
are now enjoying a short (vocation , vacation ) at
the
seashore .
5. A (content , contented
) person is one who is happy with what he
has
.
6. All the streets will be ( eliminated ,
illuminated )tomorrow
evening for the
celebration .
7. Her ( perseverance ,
persistence ) in wearing that old-fashioned
hat surprised
her husband .
8. The
effect of the officer‘s speech was such that the
army
recovered its (moral ,
morale ) at
once .
D. Explain the underlined words
in English :
1. Of the two handicaps , being
black is much less of a drawback
than being
female .
2. part of the problem is that
women in America are much more
brainwashed .
..
3. …which is invariably the lot of women
in politics .
4. It is still women ----about
three million volunteers ---who do
most of
this
work …..
5. When I tried to break
out of that role in 1963….
6. ….I faced the
undisguised hostility because of my sex .
7.
A few years ago , I was talking …about a promising
young women
as a candidate.
8. …when the
law .. was enforced instead of evaded …
Key E
1. Being a woman is a greater obstacle than
being black .
2. American women have been
continuously told to accept certain
ideas for
a long
time.
3. fortune , fate or
destiny
4. women who offer to work in
politics
5. when I didn‘t want to work as a
district or county vice-chairman
6. Many
people showed their enmities to me without
concealing them .
7. I recommended the
bright young woman to the political leader to
let her run for
office .
8. when
they put the law into practice rather than keep it
out of
the way .
F Translate the
following into English :
美国妇女对美国的发展做出了重要贡献,
但她们却一直受到各种形式的性别
歧视.政治上,她们做的是那些乏味却又决定决定选举胜败的琐碎事,
很少有机
会升到高层职位, 得到好处的是男人. 经济上, 大部分妇女做的是那些工资低和没
有前途的工作, 她们的工资也永远低于做同样工作的男人.
很多美国人不承认
这是歧视妇女,说这只是 社会分工的不同.很多妇女甚至也满足于自己作为次等公
民的角色. 所以作者说, 妇女要获得真正的平等将是一场长期而艰巨的斗争.
Key
F
The American women made great contributions
to the nation‘s
development , but
they
received different forms of prejudices because of
their sex .
In politics , they did
all
the tedious details that made the differene
between victory and
defeat on election
day and seldom had the chance to reach a
better position , while the
men reaped the
rewards . In economy , most women did the
lower-paying and dead –
end jobs and they were
paid less than the men for the same job . Many
American people didn‘t
admit it
was prejudice against women . They said it was
only a
different division of
labour in
society . Even many women were content with their
roles as
second-class
citizens . So the
author said it was a long painful struggle for the
women to get real
equality .
G.
Write a short passage of 150—200words in English
on the topic
―Why Does
the Author Say
that America Needs More Women in Politics ?‖ You
should cover the
following points :
1. Problems that need to be solved in the
U.S.;
2. women‘s special qualities that the
country needs .
Why Does the Author Say that
America Needs More Women in Politics ?
The
author is the first black woman elected to
Congress . In her
opinion , being
black
is much less of a drawback than being female .
Very Few woman
works in
political World
in American .Most women predominate in the lower
---
paying ,
menial , unrewarding , dead
----end jobs .
The author thinks more women
are needed in politics . There are many
problems
that need women to solve.
In this rich nation there are many
children
going to be
hungry .There is not enough good
schools for every child . The
government spend
the
wealth on hardware to murder people . The
people have prejudice
against
minorities
..And there are unfair housing and unfair
employment
practices in
America . These
are the problems that need to be solved in this
country .
So the author thinks the
American political world needs more women
because
women can make special
contributions . Women can bring empathy ,
tolerance ,insight , patience and persistence
to government . The
women of a nation
mold its morals , its religion , and its
politics by the lives they
live . So the
country
needs women‘s idealism and
determination .
Lesson Six A Good Chance
By Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
A. Answer the
following questions on the text :
1. who is
the person ―I ― in the story ?
2. Why did she
want to find Magpie?
3. What happened
to Magpie during the years when the narrator and
Magpie were
out of touch with each other
?
4. Did Amelia think that Magpie would
accept the offer of the
university ? Why
(not )?
5. What made Salina agree to help
the narrator find Magpie ?
6. What do you
think was the police car doing there ?
7. Did
Elgie think that Magpie might want to accept the
scholarship ?What made
him think so ?
8. What does the ending of the story tell you
?
Key A
1.‖I ― is a woman who knows
Magpie and brings the good news for
him .
wanted to talk to him about the good news and
let him fill out
some papers.
1. He took
part in the protest at Custer and was arrested and
sent
in prison .
He was on parole at this
time.
2. No, Amelia thought he would not
accept the offer of the
university .Because
she
thought Magpie was happy now . He was in
good spirits , handsome ,
free and strong .
She would not like to be afraid for him
now .
3. What the narrator had said persuaded
her to think Magpie had a
right to know
the whole thing and made the decision himself
.
4. The police car was there watching and
checking up Magpie.
5. Yes, he did. Because
he knew Magpie wanted to get freedom , but
he
couldn‘ t get it here when the parole officers
watched him all the
time . He thought Magpie
needed some relief from his constant
surveillance , constant
checking up .
6.
From the end of the story we know the American
Indians were
cruelly treated .
They could
not get freedom , human rights and equality in
American
society .
B. Translate the
following into Chinese :
1. When he was
saying all those things against the government and
against the
council , he became more and
more ugly and embittered and I used to
be
afraid for
him .
2. Well, you can think
what you want ,but have you talked to him
lately ? Do you
know him as he is now ?
3. If he is Indian as you say ,
whatever that means , and if he is
back here
to stay
this time and if he tells me that
himself , I‘ll let it go .
4. A police car
moved slowly to the corner where we were parked
and
the
patrolmen looked at the three of
us intently and we pretended not to
notice .
5. I think it‘s good that you‘ve come, because
Magpie needs some
relief from this
constant surveillance , constant checking up .
6. ―There are things about this though ,
―Elgie said . ―Magpie
shouldn‘t have been
there , see , because it‘s a part of the
condition of his parole
that he stays away
from
friends and relatives and ex-convicts
and just about everybody ..‖
7. But the
silence which hung about the place filled me with
apprehension , and
when we walked in the
back door which hung open , we saw people
standing in the
kitchen .
8. I held
the poems tightly in my hands , pressing my thumbs
, first
one and then
the other , against
the smoothness of the cardboard folder .
Answer B
1. 在他反对反对政府,反对美国印第安人委员会时,
他变得越来越可怕,充满
怨恨,我也为他担心.
2. 好吧,
你愿意怎么想就怎么想吧, 但你最近和他谈过吗?你知道他现在的状
况吗?
3.
如果像你所说的他是一名印第安人, 不管这是什么意思,
如果他亲口对我
说他这次只是回来呆在这儿, 我也不再劝他了.
4.
一辆警车缓慢地驶向我们停车的拐角处, 假释监督官目不转睛地盯着我们
三个人,
我们假装没注意到.
5. 我想你来的正好, 因为在这种不间断的监视检查之下,
喜鹊需要一些宽慰.
6. ―还有一件事‖,埃尔吉继续说, ―喜鹊不应该在那儿,明白吗?因为
假释的
条件之一就是他应该远离他的朋友亲戚和以前的同谋罪犯,甚至不能见任何人.
7.
但是一片寂静笼罩着整座房子,
我感到有些忧虑.当我们走进敞开着的后门
时,看到许多人站在厨房里.
8.
我用手紧紧握着他的诗, 两个拇指使劲按压平滑的纸板文件夹.
C. Fill in the
blank in each sentence with the best word or
expression from the box
below , changing
its form when necessary :
Whereabouts
segregate click noncommittal scoff embitter
hesitant
reformatory
tentative agitate
incredulous intent
1. His wife is in very
poor health , so he is rather hesitant about
telling her the bad news .
2. He is a
very busy person and has so many engagements that
only
his secretary
knows of his
whereabouts .
3. In some areas , in order to
provide education to girls , they
have
segregated classes in schools .
4. As they
didn‘t have enough time to discuss the plan fully
, they
could only draw
a few tentative
conclusions .
5. The old man heard the click
of the lock and knew that the son‘s
family had
left
and he would be alone again .
6.
―Can I go swimming on Sunday , Dad ?‖ ―We‘ll see ,
―he said
noncommittally .
7. The children
were so noisy that she had to listen very intently
in order to catch the conversation .
8.
The new created a lot of agitations in the
community .
A. Choose the right word or
expression to complete the brackets in
each of
the following
sentences .
1. South
Africa used to be a country where black people and
white
people were
( separated ,segregated
).
2. The letter from her sister so (
embittered , agitated ) her that
she stayed
awake half the
3. ―You haven‘t seen him for
over a year ?‖he sounded
( incredible ,
incredulous ).
night , trying to think
of a way to get back at her .
4. No matter
what he said , the response he got from him was a
(noncommittal , tentative ) ―I
see‖.
5. That plan was too ( unture , unrealistic )
to be adopted .
6. When people looked at him
too ( intently , tentatively ), he felt
very
uncomfortable . 7. Since she didn‘t know anybody
in that city ,
she was rather ( hesitant ,
tentative ) when
accepting the job offer .
8. ―Do you really think he will give up the
position ?‖he
( scoffed , scolded ) . B.
Explain the underlined words in English :
1.
He‘s gone from me now .
2. …he became more
and more ugly and embittered . ..
3. You see
that ,don‘t you ?
4. ―…but you‘ll see…‖
5. …and she became agitated as she talked .
6. The patrol car inched down the empty street
…
7. Always tentative about letting you know
…
8. …that freak that‘s his parole officer is
some mean watch-dog .
Key E
1. has left
me
2. frightened and full of hatred
3.
understand
4. find
5. turned
anxious and worried
6. moved slowy along
7. making a trial about
8. just like a
dog kept to protect a house
C. Translate the
following into English :
当我得知喜鹊获得了加利福尼亚一所大学的奖学金, 可以到大学的艺术学院去
学习的时
候, 我为他感到十分高兴.我知道他一直想成为一名诗人, 我也知道他很有才
能.
对他来说,
这个机会太好了.
因此我回到鸦溪,要把好消息告诉他,让他填一些表格.我在
他家里没有找到他.
他的妻子说他们已经分居了, 只听说他在钱柏林. 于是我又去
找赛利娜,
让她帮我找到喜鹊.赛利娜说喜鹊在被捕入狱后有了很大的变化,
她认
为他对上白人的大学已经不感兴趣
了. 但我说喜鹊应该知道这个消息,
由他自己决定是否去上大学. 她同意了,
带我去找他的
When I knew
Magpie got a scholarship of a California
University and
could go to the Fine 好朋友埃尔吉.
但当我终于就要见到喜鹊时, 他已被警察
开枪打死了. Arts School to study
, I was very pleased for him . I knew
he
wanted to become a poet all the time.
I also
knew he had a good talent . It was a very good
chance for
him . So I went back to Crow
Creek to tell him about the good news and let
him fill out some
papers . But I didn‘t find
him at
his home . His wife said they
had not been together for a while and
only
heard he was in
Chamberlain . Then I went for
Salina and asked her to help me find
Magpie .
Salina said Magpie
had changed a lot since he
was taken into prison . She thought he
was not
interested in going to
the university of
white people . But I said Magpie had a right to
know this news and make the
decision
whether to go or not by himself . She agreed and
took me to
his good friend , Elgie . But
when I could really see Magpie at last , he
had been shot by the
police .
D. Write a
short passage of 150-200words in English on the
topic
―What do the people in the story think
of Magpie‘s opportunity of
going to study in
the university ?Why ?‖ You should cover
the
following people‘s points :
1. Amelia
2.
salina
3. Elgie;
4. the narrator.
What do the People in the Story Think of
Magpie ?s Opportunity of
Study in the
University ?Why ?
The narrator has got some
good news for Magpie . He has his poems
and a
letter of
acceptance from a university
in California where they want him to
come and
participate in the
Fine Arts Program they
have started for Indians .
So first the
narrator goes to Magpie‘s wife . She thinks Magpie
would not go to California
because he is
happy now and he is in good spirits , handsome and
free and strong . She thinks he
no longer
needs the things that people like the narrator
want him to
need.
Then the narrator goes
to Salina . She doesn‘t think he has those
worthless , shitty dreams anymore .. After the
narrator
insists Magpie have the right to
know , she leads him to see
Magpie‘s best
friend Elgie . At first Elgie doesn‘t think
Magpie would go . But the narrator insists
that it be a chance for
him to study , to
write and that should be a satisfying
isolation . Then Elgie changes his mind . He
also thinks it is good
for Magpie because he
needs some relief from this
constant
surveillance , constant checking up . So he admits
to let
the narrator see Magpie . But before
the narrator sees
Magpie , he has been shot .
Lesson Seven Miss Bill
By Katherine
Mansfield
A. Answer the following questions
on the text :
1. What was the day like
when Miss Brill went to the public park
that
Sunday ?
2. How did she feel about her fur
?Explain .
3. Why did Miss Brill think the
band sounded louder and gayer ?
4. Why was
the disappointed when she found that the old
couple
sitting beside her
was silent?
5. How did she feel towards those sitting on
the beches and green
chairs ?Who
were
those people ?
6. What kind of woman do you
think the ermine toque was ? What makes
you
think so ?
7. What did Miss Brill
discover from the scene around her that made
her so
joyous ?
8. What work did
Miss Brill do to make a living ?
9. Why did
she go straight home that Sunday afternoon ?
10. How did she feel when she put the necklet
back to its box ?
Key A
1. it was
brilliantly fine ---- the blue sky powdered with
gold and
the great spots of
light
splashed over the park . The air was motionless
and it was a
faint chill .
2. She
liked her fur very much . She thought it was very
nice to
feel it . She had
put it in the
box . Only this afternoon she had taken it out of
its
box, shaken out the
moth ---powder
and given it a good brush .
3. Because the
season had begun .she had a good spirit and a very
happy feeling
that afternoon .
4.
Because she was always looking forward to the
conversation .
5. She thought they were
nearly always the same and there was
something
funny
about nearly all of them . They were
old , odd and silent . She
thought they were
coming from dark little rooms. Those people
were the same as her who
came to the
park
on Sundays .
6. She was kind of woman who
wanted to attract and lure the man .
When the
man
breathed a deep puff into her face and
walked on while she still
talked and laughed .
When she was alone , she smiled more brightly
than ever . Soon she
turned to a much
nicer person .
7. She found that
the funny old man with long whiskers hobbled along
in time to
the quick music and was nearly
knocked over by four girls walking
abreast .
She
found it was like a play . Everybody was
not only audience , but
also had a part and
was acting .
8. She made a living by
teaching English pupils and reading
newspaper
four
afternoons a week to an old man .
9. Because she heard the boy and the girl said
she was silly and
stupid and her
favourite fur was like a fried whiting .
10. When she put the necklet back to its box
she heard something
crying .
B. Translate
the following into Chinese :
1. Although it
was so brilliantly fine –the blue sky powdered
with
gold and the
great spots of light
like white wine splashed over the Jardins
Publiques –Miss Brill was glad that she had
decided on her fur .
2. It was like someone
playing with only the family to listen; it
didn‘t care how it
played if there
weren‘t any strangers present .
3. And
sometimes a tiny staggerer came suddenly rocking
into the
open from
under the trees ,
stopped stared , as suddenly sat down ―flop ,‖
until its small high
–stepping mother ,
like a young hen , rushed scolding to its
rescue..
4. But even the band seemed to
know what she was feeling and played
more
softly , played tenderly , and the drum beat
―the Brute !The
Brute!‖ over and over .
5. The old head lifted two points of light
quivered in the old
eyes .
6. And then
she too ,she too , and the others on the benches
---they
would come in
with a kind of
accompaniment ----something low, that scarcely
rose
or fell ,
something so beautiful
---moving.
7. If there was an almond it was
like carrying home a tiny present -
--a
surprise
---something that might very well
not have been there .
8. She hurried on the
almond Sundays and struck the match for the
kettle in quite a
dashing way .
Key
B.
1. 天气很好,阳光明媚-----蓝色的天空金光灿烂,
犹如白葡萄酒的巨大的光
点
照在公共花园---布里尔小姐很高兴她决定围这条毛皮围巾.
2. 就像一个人只为家人演出, 而没有其他人在场, 是不会在乎演出的.
3.
有时一个蹒跚学步的小孩突然从树底下摇摇晃晃地走出来,停下看看,突然
‖扑通‖一声坐在地上,
其娇小的妈妈高抬脚步,像只老母鸡一样跑过来, 一边责
备他,一边将他扶起.
4.
但是乐队好像知道她的感受, 演奏的更轻松更柔和,鼓声一遍又一遍地敲
出‖这个畜牲!这个畜牲!‖
5. 他抬起衰老的头, 一双老眼中闪出两个光点.
6. 她也会加入.
那些坐在长凳上的其他人----他们也会加入进来, 一起合唱-
---低声唱,音调平缓,很好听的
-----很动人的.
7. 如果有杏仁, 就像带回家一件小礼物----- 一份惊奇
------一件本来可能
不在那儿的东西.
8. 有杏仁的星期日,
她精神抖擞地跑回家, 迅速地划根火柴, 准备烧开水.
C. Fill in the
blank in each sentence with the best word or
expression from the box
below , changing
its form when necessary :
Clasp rescue splash
get used to flap drift make a point of doing dab
scrape share
stroke swoop
1. She
gently dabbed the dust from the vase before she
put it back
on the shelf .
2. The
students stood on the top of the hill , enjoying
the
beautiful view below,
their coats
flapping in the wind .
3. It was very hot and
the kids were all happily splashing in the
pool .
4. He scraped the mud from his
boots before he entered the room .
5. They
moved to the south three years ago , still they
can‘t get
used to the humid summer .
6. I
don‘t think it is safe to stroke the monkeys .
7. She sat in the moonlight, her thoughts
drifting back to the last
Autumn Festival
she spent with her parents.
8. the
firemen rescued all the people from the burning
building .
D. Choose the right word or
expression in the brackets in each of
the
following
sentences :
1. She told the
children about her life on the farm all those
years
ago, how she
( got used to , used
to )get up at four every morning to milk the
cows .
2. The teacher told the boys first
to (pour , splash ) some water on
the floor
before
mopping it .
3. When he
was discovered ,the pick-pocket (waved , flapped)
a knife
to threaten the people around him .
4. The eagle suddenly (drifted , swooped )
down and snatched the
piece of meat .
5.
With the help of the specially trained dogs , they
were able to
(rescue ,save ) ten
people
buried in the snow .
6. His feet were numb
with cold , as soon as he got into the room he
started
( rubbing , stroking ) them
vigorously .
7. The kitchen floor has to be (
scrubbed scraped ) every other day .
8. Every
night before he went to bed , he ( made a point ,
made a
plan ) of checking all the doors and
windows .
E. Explain the underlined words in
English :
1. Miss brill was glad she had
dicided on her fur .
2. And she‘d gone on the
whole time about how she ought to wear
spectacles .
3. The funny old man hobbled
along in time to the music and was
nearly
knocked
over by four girls walking abreast .
4. And yet it explained why she made such a
point of starting from
home at just
the
same time each week …
5. Why doesn‘t she keep
her silly old mug at home ?
6. It was
her Sunday treat .
7. She hurried on the
almond Sundays ..
8. But today she passed the
baker‘s by .
Key E
1. She had made the
decision to wear the fur .
2. She talked all
the time .
3. He walked to the music and was
almost run down by four girls who
walked side
by side .
4. She insisted on leaving her
home .
5. Why doesn‘t the stupid woman stay
at home ?
6. A special dinner for Sunday .
7. Sundays which she had almond .
8. She
walked past the baker‘s without going into it .
A. Translate the following into English:
布里尔小姐是一个生活在法国海滨城市的英国人. 她年老而贫穷. 每个星期日
下午她都
到公园去. 她总是坐在同一张凳子上, 听周围的人谈天,
或看展现在她眼前的
别人的生活.
那个星期日下午她突然产生了一种感觉,
觉得自己是这个集体中的一部分, 觉
得生活犹如一部戏剧, 她在其中也扮演着自己的角色. 这时,
孤独感开始离开了她.
然而正在此时她听到
一对年轻人以轻蔑的口气谈论她.
男青年甚至低声叫她走开. 短暂的幸福感消
失了. 她怀着
Key F
一颗破碎的心回到家中.
Miss Brill was an English who
lived in a coastal city in France .
She was
old and poor . She
would go to the park on
every Sunday afternoon . She always sat on
the
same bench , listening
people around her talk
, or watching other people‘s lives in front
of
her . She suddenly had a
feeling on that
Sunday afternoon . She felt the life was like a
play
and she was one part of the
community . She had a part in the performance
. At this time , the
feeling of loneliness
began to
escape her .
But just at this
time she heard a couple of young people talk about
her with contempt . Even
the young man
asked her to leave in a low voice . The short
feeling
of happiness disappeared . she
went home with a broken heart .
B. Write
a short passage of 150-200 words in English on the
topic ―
A Description of Miss
Brill . ―
you should cover the following points :
1.
How she made a living
2. What she enjoyed
doing in the park on Sunday afternoons;
3.
the special feeling she had that particular Sunday
afternoon
4. the blow to her
A
Description of Miss Brill
Miss Brill taught
some English pupils an Sunday afternoons . She
also read the newspaper for
an old man
four afternoons a week while he slept in the
garden. She
also had a habit of going to
the park every Sunday afternoon . The band
played all the year round
on Sundays. She
liked
sitting on the bench and watching the
people around her.
This Sunday only two
people shared her ―special ―seat . They did
not speak. This was
disappointing , for
Miss Brill always looked forward to the
conversations. Fortunately there was
always the crowd to watch . This Sunday she
had a special feeling .
it was like a play and
they
were all on the stage . They were not
only the audience , but they
were acting . she
was part of the
performance . That was why
she started from home at just the same
time
each week so as not to be
Just at that moment
a boy and a girl came and sat down where the old
couple had been . They regarded Miss Brill as
the
late just the same time each week so as
not to be late for the
performance . stupid
old thing . They said not one wanted her silly old
mug and her fur was like a fried whiting,
although it was
carefully chose for
this Sunday . Miss Brill was very unhappy and
angry . It was a blow to her . So she returned
home .
She went into the little dark room and
sat down on the red eiderdown
for a long time
, with tears coming down her
face .
Lesson Eight A Lesson in Living
By Maya
Angelou
A. Answer the following questions on
the text :
1. Did Mrs. Flowers know what had
happened to Marguerite ?
2. Why and how did s
try to make Marguerite talk ?
3. How did Mrs.
Flowers give Marguerite her lesson in living ?
4. What did she mean when Mrs. Flowers told
Marguerite to be always
intolerant of
ignorance
but understanding of illiteracy ?
5. Was Marguerite a good student in the school
? What was her
problem in class ?
6. Was
Marguerite born a quiet girl ? Why was she so
quiet ?
7. Why did Mrs. Flowers take special
care of Marguerite ?
8. How was Mrs. Flowers
a source of enlightenment to Marguerite ?
9.
What was the image of Mrs. Flowers in the child‘s
mind ?
10. Were the blacks and whites equal
in the town of Stamps ?
Key A
1. Yes,
she did .
2. Because Mrs. Flowers
heard the teachers had trouble getting
Marguerite to talk in class .
She invited
her to her home , made cookies for her and read
her
favourite book to her and then
asked
questions to her .
3. Mrs. Flowers gave
Marguerite her lesson in living by inviting her
to her home and having a
little chat with
her .
4. She could not stand those who
wouldn‘t study , but she could
understand
those who didn‘t
have a chance to study . She
also encouraged Marguerite to learn in
every
possible way .
5. Yes, she was . But she
seldom talked in class .
6. No , she wasn‘t .
Because something unfortunate happened to her
when she was eight .
7. Because Mrs.
Flowers knew what had happened to her and wanted
to
change her life .
8. From what Mrs.
Flowers had done to her , she knew she was liked ,
which made a great
difference .
9.
Mrs. Flowers was the measure of what a human being
can be in the
child‘s mind .
10. No, they
were not .
B. Translate the following into
Chinese :
1. Her skin was a rich black
that would have peeled like a plum if
snagged
.
2. Another Negro woman of her health and
age would have been
expected to carry the
paper
sacks home in one hand.
3. Mrs.
Flowers walked in front swinging her arms and
picking her
way over the stones .
4.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper.
5. It takes the human voice to infuse words
with the shades of
deeper meaning .
6.
She suggested that I try to make a sentence sound
in as many
different ways as possible .
7. It occurred to me that she expected a
response .
8. That in those homely sayings
was couched the collective wisdom of
generations .
1. 她的皮肤黝黑,如果被尖锐的东西弄破,
就会像李子皮一样剥落下来.
2. 如果是另一位与她健康状况年龄相仿的黑人妇女,
就会自己把装好东西的
纸袋拿回
家去.
3. 弗劳尔斯夫人走在前边,
摆动双臂, 小心地躲开石头.
4. 词的含义不止写在纸上的那些.
5.
人的声音可以赋予它们更加深刻的含义.
6. 她建议我尽量用不同的方法大声朗读同一个句子.
7. 在我看来她期待我的回答.
8.
她说这些质朴无华的话语表达了一代又一代人的集体智慧. C. Fill in
the
blank in each sentence with the best word or
expression from the box
below ,
changing
its form when necessary :
Infuse the measure
of intolerant let alone memorize cascade ruffle
couch swirl single out
inclusive sop
1. The wind ruffled the surface of the lake .
2. All the children in the class did wrong ,
but David was singled
out for punishment . 3.
He can‘t even read the alphabet , let alone
speak the language . 4. His speech infused his
countrymen with
patriotism .
5. You are
expected to memorize all the transitive verbs in
the
text . 6. She is the measure of what a
college student should
accomplish . 7. He
can‘t be a good manager . He is intolerant of any
criticisms about his management .
8. When
it rained , water would cascade down the hill .
D. Choose the right word or expression in the
brackets to complete
each of the following
sentences :
1. Students of English are
required to ( remember , memorize ) the
listed
2,000 words . 2. You should not be ( intolerable ,
intolerant )
of different religious beliefs .
3. He tried to ( infuse , fill ) the
awkward
situation with humor . 4. We have a sense of
working towards a
( common , ordinary )
goal . 5. The virus can only be transmitted
through ( familiar , intimate ) contact . 6.
It suddenly ( happened ,
occurred ) to him
that he had worked for twelve hours without
eating anything . ]
7. The students
waited in ( respectable , respectful ) silence for
the Nobel Prize winner to
make his speech
.
8. The children suffer most when their
parents ( divide ,
separate ) . E . Explain
the underlined words in English :
1…..the
lady who threw me my first lifeline.
takes
the human voice to infuse them with the shades of
deeper
meaning .
followed that Mrs.
Flowers would have ice on an ordinary day…
4.I was liked , and what a difference it made
.
1. It occurred to me that she expected a
response .
2. I didn‘t question why Mrs.
Flowers had singled me out for
attention .
3. That do my heart good to see settled people
take to you all .
Key E
1. threw me the
rope to rescue me
2. produce , put
3.
showed, indicated
4. it made a great
difference
5. came into my mind
6. selected , chose
7. like
F. Translate the following into English :
人类创造了语言, 使语言成为人与人进行交流的工具.
口头语言和书面语言一
个不同之处在于口头语言能用声音表达字所具有的细微的意义差别.
弗劳尔斯朗读
<双城记>时就像是在唱歌, 好听极了。
她的朗读使我认识到语言的神奇。弗劳尔
斯太太送给我小说和诗集。
我从这些书中学到了人生的价值, 认识到了文学作品的语言是多么美。
Man
created language . It was man‘s way of
communicating with his
fellow man . The
difference between oral and written language
was that oral language
could take the human
voice to
infuse it with the shades of deeper
meaning . Flowers was nearly
singing when she
read A Tale of
Two Cities . It sounded
beautiful . Her reading made me realize the
wonder of language. Mrs.
Flowers gave me
novels and poems . I learned value of life from
these books and realized how
beautiful
the language of literature works was .
G.
Write a short passage of 150-200words in English
on the topic ―
The Lesson Mrs. Flowers
Teaches Marguerite .‖you should cover the
following points:
1. What Mrs. Flowers told
her
2. what she did to influence her
3. how she skillfully and gently guided
her out of a dead alley into
a world of
knowledge and
The Lesson Mrs. Flowers Teaches
Marguerite
enlightenment .
For nearly a
year , Marguerite stopped round the house , the
store ,
the school and the church .
But
everything changed when she met Bertha Flowers .
Mrs. Flowers
was the aristocrat of Black
Stamps . One summer afternoon , she stopped at
the store to by
provisions and then invited
Marguerite to the home . She prepared cookies
and lemonade for her
when they had a little
chat .
Mrs. Flowers appealed to Marguerite
because she was one of the few
gentlewomen and
remained the measure of what a human being
could be . She told
Marguerite that language
was
man‘s way of communicating with his
fellow man and language alone
separated him
from the lower animals . She said words might mean
more
than what was set down on paper and human
voice could infuse them with deeper meaning .
Mrs . Flowers also
read a book for her . It
was like
poetry to her . She gave her some
books and asked her to read them
aloud .
Mrs. Flowers also taught her a lesson
in living that day . She told
her she should
be intolerant
of ignorance but understanding
of illiteracy . She encouraged
Marguerite to
listen carefully about
what country people
called mother wit .
What Mrs. Flowers had
done made a big difference . For the first
time she realized she was liked and respected
. She
was happy that she was allowed and
invited into the private lives of
strangers .
When she left Mrs. Flowers‘ home , she
ran
down the hill and had the good sense to stop
running before she
reached the store.
Lesson Nine The Trouble with Television
A
prominent anchorman warns of TV’s adverse effect
on America’s
culture
By Robert MacNeil
Answer the following questions on the text :
A.
1. Why is it difficult for Americans to
escape the influence of
television?
2.
What other things could a person possibly have
done in those
hours spent on
watching TV
?
3. In what way does TV discourage
concentration ?
4. Why is the appeal to the
short attention span so important to TV
5.
What does the author think is wrong with TV news ?
6. Why does the author say TV is
decivilizing ?
7. Why does the author say
that television cannot provide right
solutions
to human
problems ?
8. What do you think
is the author‘s purpose in making this speech ?
Key A
1. Because they have spent too much
time on television . On the
average , by the
age of 20 they will have been exposed to at
least 2,000 hours of
television .
2. They
could have got their bachelor‘s degree or become
astronomers or
engineers . They could
have learned several languages fluently .
They
could have read
Homer in the original Greek
or Dostoyevsky in Russian. They could
also
have walked
around the world and written a
book about it .
3. Television encourage us to
apply no effort . It seels us instant
gratification. It
diverts us only to
divert , to make the time pass without pain .
4. Because programmers fear of losing anyone‘s
attention. They keep
everything
brief and
provide constant stimulation through variety ,
novelty ,
action and
movement in
order to not to strain the attention of anyone .
5. It results in inefficient communication .
It tends to make things
ultimately
boring
and dismissable .
6. Because TV tends to
cultivate casual assumptions that complexity
must be
avoided , that visual stimulation
is a substitute for thought , that
verbal
precision is an
anachronism .
7. Because
everything about this nation has become more
complex .
But TV sells
neat resolutions
to human problems that usually have no neat
resolutions .
8. The author finds a lot
of TV‘s adverse effects on America‘s
culture .
He
suggests us to spend less time on TV and
do some important and
constructive things
in this period of time.
B . Translate the
following into Chinese :
1. The only things
Americans do more than watch television are work
and sleep .
2. Almost anything
interesting and rewarding in life requires some
constructive ,
consistently applied
effort .
3. The dullest , the least
gifted of us can achieve things that seem
miraculous to
those who never concentrate
on anything.
4. It has become fashionable to
think that , like fast food , fast
ideas are
the way to
get to a fast –moving , impatient
public .
5. It may be old –fashioned , but I
was taught that thought is
words , arranged in
grammatically precise ways .
6. And ,
while I would not be so simplistic as to suggest
that
television is the
cause , I believe
it contributes and is an influence.
7. Where
before has virtually an entire nation surrendered
itself
wholesale to a
medium for selling
?
8. if I am wrong , we will have done no
harm to look at the issue
skeptically and
critically , to consider how we should be
resisting it .
Key B
1. 美国人所做的,
比看电视花费更长时间的只是工作和睡觉.
2.
几乎所有生活中有趣的和有益的事都需要建设性的和不懈的努力。
3.
我们当中最笨的最没有天赋的人所能做成的事情,
在那些从不集中精神
做任何事情的人看来简直就是奇迹。
4.
它已成为一种很时髦的想法, 就像快餐一样, 速成观念正是走入高速活
动的急躁不安的公众的方法。
5. 这可能有些过时, 但我所受的教育是, 思想是准确语法排列的语言。
6.
尽管我还不会简单到认为电视是造成这一现象的主要原因, 但我认为它起
了一定的作用,
有一定的影响。
7. 以前什么时候把整个国家都交给新闻媒体了呢
8.
如果我错了,用怀疑和批判的眼光来看这件事, 考虑如何抵制它, 也不
会有什么害处。
C.Fill in the blank in each sentence with the
best word or
expression from the box
below , changing its form when necessary :
The least gifted divert statistically speaking
in place stimulus
novelty skeptical
anachronism evade expose grammatical assume
1. If discovered , the soldiers hiding down in
the valley would be
exposed to the
enemy
?s fire .
2. Listening to music diverts her
after a hard day‘s work .
3. The suspect
tried to evade an important question by saying he
could not
remember .
4.
Statistically speaking the number of births and
deaths rise and
fall in nearly
parallel
lines .
5. It is an anachronism to
speak of Mark Twain as satirizing people
watching
Television .
6. Under the
stimulus of praise , the students will work even
harder .
7. Staying up late on the New
Year‘s Eve was a novelty to the
children , and
they enjoyed it .
8. If Mr. Pulman were not a
successful lawyer , he would be very
much in
place as
a teacher .
the right word or
expression in the brackets to complete
each of
the
following sentences:
1. The teacher
( allotted , divided ) the children into several
small groups for the
trip to the Palace
Museum .
2. Around mid-night , she received a
( mysterious , miraculous )
phone call from
someone she did not know of .
3. Do you think
soil samples are ( obtainable , absorbable ) from
the Mars by an unmanned aircraft in the near
future ?
4. She was so dear to him that he
still kept her picture in a
( preeminent ,
prominent ) position on his desk .
5. A soft background music will (
enhance , increase ) a delicious
meal 6. He
was so disappointed when the manager said that his
plan was
completely
( dismissable ,
disposable ).
7. The baby –sitter kept the
kids ( accompanied , company ) until
we got
back from the theater.
8. will the financial
( reverse , adverse ) prevent you from taking
a holiday this
summer ?
E . Explain
the underlined words in English :
1. The
viewer is on a perpetual guided tour…
2. In
short, a lot of television usurps one of the most
precious of
human gifts … 3. The surest way to
avoid doing so is … not to strain
the
attention of anyone … 4. Consider the casual
assumptions that
television tends to cultivate
:… 5. …General Sarnoff , or one of the
other
august pioneers of videop … 6. I think the
technique fights
coherence .
7. And ,
while I wound not be so simplistic as to suggest
that
television is the cause …
8.
Literacy may not be an inalienable human right …
Key E.
1.A person guides us to different
places all the time .
ully takes one of the
most valuable talents of human being
to exert
anyone‘s all attertion
1. TV intends
to make some undersigned assumptions
2. the
majestic explorer on TV
3. the way destroys
consistency
4. I would not be simple –minded
to think
5. The ability to read and write is
not the human right that can‘t
be taken away .
F. Translate the following into English :
人们的注意力跨度很短, 因此, 为抓住观众的注意力, 电视必须通过多样
化新奇性
和动作不断地提供刺激。 这样做的结果是, 新闻过于简短,不能提供有效的
交流;很多新
闻节目就像“机关枪发射碎片”,破坏了思维的连贯性。这种迎合注意力跨度
短的做法, 还
会降低文化水平。避免了复杂性,也就牺牲了思考。 成年美国人中“功能性
文盲”人数不断
增长, 他们甚至不知道如何回答招聘广告或读懂药瓶上的说明, 电视对此起
码应负一部分
Key F 责任。
People have a short attention
span . So in order to capture the
viewer‘s
attention , television
must provide constant
stimulation through variety , novelty , action
and movement . The result of
doing so is
that news is too brief and results in inefficient
communication . Many news programs
are like ― machine –gunning with scraps
―and fight coherence of
appeal to the short
attention span will decivilize as well. To
avoid complexity means to
give up thinking .
The
― functionally illiterates ― among adult
Americans are continually
increasing . They
even do not
know how to answer the want ad.
Or understand the instructions on a
medicine
bottle . At least
television should be
responsible for part of it .
a short passage
of 150-200 words on the topic ― Do You
Think
Television Is
Decivilizing or Enlightening ?
You should cover the following
points :
1.A statement of your points
arguments;
3.a supporting example for each
argument .
Key G
Do you Think Television
Is Decivilizing or Enlightening
Television is
very popular in our daily life .
An
investigation shows that the only things Americans
do more than
watch TV are work and
sleep
. So it is very difficult to escape the influence
of
television .
Just as each coin
has two sides , the television has both advantages
and disadvantages . It
depends on how you
use it . If we don‘t use it properly , it will
have bad impact on us , such as
decivilizing people . People will have less
concentration and just
use it for a musement .
People
have calculated what can use that time
to get a bachelor‘s degree ,
or learn several
languages
fluently or walk around the world
and write a book about it .
On the other hand
, if we make good use of TV, we can benefit a lot
of from it . Some programs on TV can broaden
our
views and give us more knowledge . we can
know more things about the
world . We are
enlightened by the television .
By Graham
Greene Lesson Ten The Tenth Man
A. Answer the
following questions on the text :
1. Where
and when did the story take place ?
2. What
had happened to two German soldiers and a French
girl ? 3.
What did the Germans decide to do as
a retaliation ?
4. Did anyone volunteer to
die ?
5. What did they finally agree to do in
order to choose three men to
be killed next
moring ?
6. Who got the three death draws ?
7. How differently did they act when they got
the death draws ? 8.
What did Chavel decide to
do to save his life ?
Key A
1.
The story took place in a cell at three the next
afternoon . 2.
They were murdered .
3.
They decided to shoot three Frenchmen in the camp
as a
retaliation . 4. No, No one volunteered .
5. They agreed to draw lots to choose three
men to be killed next
morning . 6. Voisin,
Lenotre and Chavel got the three death draws . 7.
Voisin gazed at it with astonishment . He sat
down and felt for a
cigarette , but when he
got
it between his lips he forgot to light it
.
Lenotre sat down against the wall next to
Voisin and drew out a
writing pad to write
home .
Chavel threw the slip upon the ground
and cried . Then he implored
others to die for
him . He
would give a hundred thousand francs
to the person who would die for
him .
8.
He decided to implore another man to die for him
and give him a
hundred thousand francs .
B. Translate the following into Chinese :
1. He spoke abruptly so as to give the
impression of a strength he
did not possess.
2. The clerk prepared the draw , sacrificing
for it one of his
letters from home.
3. They shuffled the pieces on the
floor and then dropped them into
the shoe .
4. One couldn‘t mock the condemned man by any
sign of relief .
5. ….and a sense of
grievance nagged at his mind when the tenth man
had drawn.
6. This time chavel felt no
joy even though the elusive odds were
back
again overwhelmingly
in his favour at fifteen
to one .
7. From that point the odds seemed
to move toward Chavel with a
dreadful
inevitability .
8. He drew one out of the
shoe and then feeling certain that this
one
had been willed on him
by his companions and
contained the penciled cross he threw it back
and snatched another .
Key B.
1.
他讲话很突然,想给人一种气力很足的印象,而实际上没有丝毫气度。
2.
老职员牺牲了一封家里来信, 开始准备签。
3. 他们把这些纸条在地上混合起来, 放入鞋中。
4. 没有人用得到宽慰的任何表示来使将要被枪毙的人失望。
5. 当第十个人抽完后,
一种怨恨感困扰着他。
6. 尽管他抽到死签的可能性是15比1,
对他极为有利此时查维尔没有感到一
点儿高兴。
7.
从那时开始,死签对于查维尔来说越来越可怕,越来越不可避免。
8.
他从鞋中抽出一张, 感到这张是他的同伴的意志强加给他的, 带有铅笔
划的十叉,
又把它扔了回去, 抓了另一张。
C. Fill in the blank in each
sentence with the best word or
expression from
the box below,
changing its form when
necessary :
Delude beforehand compassionate
daunt implore legible odds overdone
shuffle
sum up undo
unfasten
1. You are deluding
yourself if you think you can change his
characterby just teaching him a
2. The
statistics show that the odds of getting killed in
a plane
crash are around a million to
lesson . one .
3. The conclusion sums up
all his investigation and arguments about
the
deplorable state of
economy in that country .
4. The captured Japanese soldier implored the
villagers to spare his
life.
5. A caring
, compassionate man , he is always ready to give
and
forgive .
6. What is done can not be
undone..
7. He was daunted by the difficult
examination questions and was at
a loss how to
answer
them .
8. Could you please
let me know your itinerary in Kunming beforehand
so that I can make necessary arrangements ?
D. Choose the right word or expression in the
brackets to complete
each of the following
sentences :
1. The ( distribution ,
allotment ) of funds to these universities
is
decided by the Ministry of
Education .
2. The employees are openly ( contemptuous ,
contemptible )of their
corrupt manager.
3. The gardener was asked to cut the bushes (
even, equal ) with the
fence .
4. His
handwriting was so tiny that it was hardly (
readable,
legible ) .
5. The ( shameful ,
shameless ) family secret was brought to light .
6. The bus came to a ( quick , abrupt ) stop ,
and some passengers
lost their balance .
7. Mary aired her ( grievances , grief ) at
not being treated fairly
by the salesperson .
8. He felt ( daunted , discouraged ) by the
enormous difficulties
involved in completing
the construction of the airport
in one year .
E. Explain the underlined words in english :
1…..while our men work and fight .
are quite indifferent as to which
three.
have responsibilities …
are
going the wrong way about all this .
1. this
is the last gamble some of us will have .
2.
It was like a constriction .
3. …and they
didn‘t at first eve attach the idea of cowardice
to
his actions .
Key E
1. our German
officers and soldiers .
2. don‘t care about
which three people.
3. burndens , duties
4. we do wrongly about the whole thing .
5. the last time to draw lots
6. a
feeling of being constricted
7. think his
behaviour as a coward
F. Translate the
following into english :
一天晚上, 两名德国军人被法国人打死。
第二天, 一名德国军官向30名法
国囚徒宣
布:“我命令你们从每10名囚徒中选出一人,
明天被处死。也就是说, 你
们这30人中明
天要有三人去死。至于哪三个人,
我们不在乎。 这由你们自己决定。”
囚徒们对谁应该去死展开了激烈的争论。有的人说,老的应该先死,这是自然
规律。有
人说未婚者应先死,
因为他们没有家庭责任。最后,大家一致同意用抽签的
办法决定哪三
个人去死。一名富有的律
师不幸抽中了死签。他说:“谁要是愿意为我去死,
我愿意支付他10万法朗。”
Key
F
One night , two German military officers
were murdered by Frenchmen .
The next day , a
German officer declared to thirty French
prisoners , ― My order is
that one man in
every ten shall
be selected and shot tomorrow
. That is to say , three of you thirty
people
will die tomorrow . We
are indifferent as to
which three . You can choose for
yourselves .‖
The prisoners had a heated discussion about
who should die. Someone
said the old people
should go first . This was the way of nature .
Some people said the
unmarried should go first
because they had no responsibilities . At last
, all consented to
drawing lots to decide
which three
went to die . A rich lawyer
unfortunately got the death draw . He
said , ―
I ?ll give a hundred
thousand francs to
anyone who will die for me . ―
G. Write a
short passage of 150-200words in English on the
topic ―
The Death Draw .‖ you
should cover the following points :
1. The orders of the German officer;
2.
the discussion of who should die;
3. the
reaction of the three men who had drawn the death
lots .
The Death Draw
It was three in
the afternoon . A German officer came into the
cell.
He said there had been
murders cast
might in the town . So three men would be shot in
this
camp . The funeral rites would
begin
at seven the next morning .
After the German
officer made the order , the people in the camp
began to discuss who should
go to die .
Some suggested volunteers . Some suggested going
by ages
----------the oldest first .
Some
thought the unmarried should go to die . At last
they all
agreed to draw lots . And everyone
must draw lots . So the clerk prepared the
draw , using one of his
letters from home .
Then he tore
it into thinty pieces . He made
a cross in pencil on three pieces.
At last
they decided to draw in
alphabetical order .
Voisin was the first to draw the death lots .
He sat down and felt
for a cigarette , but
when he got it between his lips he
forgot to light it . Then lenotre drew
the second slip . He went
over to his roll of
bedding and drew out a writing pad .
Then he
sat down next to Voisin and began to write .
Chavel was the
cast . He implored others to
die for him . He
would like to give a hundred
thousand francs to the person who was
willing
to die for him .
Lesson Eleven On Getting off
to sleep
By ley
A. Answer the following
questions on the text :
1. What does the
author think about the power of humor ?
2.
Does the author think that most people he knows
have no
difficulty in getting off to sleep ?
3. Does the author fall asleep easily ?
4. Does the author feel sorry for not having
an iron will ?
5. Does the author think it
natural for a person to fall asleep as
soon as
his head touches the
pillow ?
6. How
does the author think about the matter of sleep ?
7. What happens to the author when he lies
between the sheets at a
late hour ?
8.
What does the author think is the best way of
inducing sleep ?
Key A
1. The author
thinks that humor is the saving grace of human
being
and we should die of
vexation without it .
2. Yes , he
does.
3. No, he doesn‘t .
4. No, he
doesn‘t .
5. No, he doesn‘t .
6. The
author thinks those who fall asleep as soon as
their heads
touch the pillows have
something inhuman , callous and almost bovine.
He thinks only those
who are the victims of
insomnia have human sympathy or depth in a man
.
7. When he lies between the sheets at a
later hour , he can do
anything but sleep .
8. The best way of inducing sleep for the
author is to evoke the
phantom of a crushing ,
stupendous Bore .
B. Translate the
following into Chinese :
1. What a bundle of
contradictions is a man !
2. Our thoughts and
mental images are perfectly tangible things .
3. I used to read , with wonder, those
sycophantic stories of the
warlike supermen …
4. The artificial ways of inducing sleep are
legion, and are only
alike in their
ineffectuality .
5. When her mind became
disgusted with the monotony of life, sleep
drew the curtain.
6. Her favorite
device was to imagine a picture not hanging quite
plumb upon the wall , and
then to proceed
to straighten it .
7. But I have not yet
given up all hope of finding some way of
hastening the approach of
8. This very
night I will dismiss such trivial phantasies as
jumping
sheep and crooked
sleep .
pictures .
Key B
1. 人是一个矛盾的集合体!
2.
我们的思想和头脑中的意象是完全有形的东西。
3.
我过去常常怀着惊奇的心情去读那些吹棒好战的超人的故事`````` 4.
人
为的催眠方法有很多,但都不灵。
5. 当她的大脑对这种单调的生活感到厌倦时,
睡眠自然就会来。 6. 她最喜
欢的方法就是想像一幅画在墙上没挂正, 她去把它弄正。 7.
但是我还没有放弃
寻找加快睡眠的方法。
8.
今天晚上,我就要抛弃诸如数跳羊和扶歪画之类的想像。
C.Fill in the blank
in each sentence with the best word or
expression from the box below ,
changing
its form when necessary
Clench crook
eventful inhuman of no avail meditate monotony
refresh
remonstrate straighten
slumber
torment
1. He clenched his fists ready to
defend himself .
2. I felt greatly
refreshed after drinking a glass of iced water.
3. The newly –recruited soldier was asked to
straighten his hat .
4. The mother
remonstrated with her son about his behavior.
5. The villagers searched the whole area for
the missing child , but
it was of no avail .
6. 1949 is a (n) eventful year to China.
7.
The commander –in –chief has meditated for three
days before
making the final decision . 8. The
blacks suffered from inhuman racial
discrimination .
C. Choose the right word
or expression in the brackets to complete
each
of the following sentences .
1. There is a (
contrariness , contradiction ) between what he
says
and what he does . 2. It was in the (
dark , dim ) light of the early
dawn that I
saw a man moving towards me . 3. The poor , sick
man is
( abused, tormented ) by the
policeman‘s endless interrogation . 4. Too
much food ( induces , tempts ) sleepiness .
5. He ( wondered , meditated ) fro a whole
week before making that
important decision .
6. A( n ) ( literal , exact ) translation is
not always the best .
7. The author declares
that the plot and characters of the novel are
( imaginary , imaginative ) .
8. We
walked for miles along the ( twisted , crooked )
path in the
forest .
E. Explain the
underlined words in English :
1. With me ,
nothing illustrates the contrariness of things ….
2. Even then , I proceed half
–heartedly , in a kind of dream.
3. …to whom
sleep is a coy mistress , much given to a teasing
inconsistency …
4. Fascinating subjects
and noble ideas come pell-mell…
5. …and
command the immediate presence of sleep .
6.
Taking these fables to heart , I would resolve to
do likewise …
7. Who would want to
remonstrate and argue with them ?
8. But I
have not yet given up all hope of finding some way
of
hastening the approach of
sleep .
Key E
1. things that are opposite to each
other
2. went on with little interest
3.
not always the same tantalizing
4. come
quickly in a disorderly way
5. coming
6.
Remembering these stories , I decided to do the
same…
7. make a protest
8. letting the
sleep come quickly
F. Translate the following
into English :
有的人头一碰枕头就睡着,
有的人在床上躺上好几个小时也睡不着。 他越想
睡着就越睡不着。 我属于后者。
我一写文章就困的要死。 可是一上床, 除了睡
觉, 别的什么事都能干。
我能谱写出宏伟的交响乐,画出壮丽的画卷, 写出好
文章。 人为的催眠法很多,
可是,它们全都无效。 当我晚上睡不着时, 我就同
一个想像听朋友对话, 直到我大笑或睡着为止。
我发觉这是入睡的好办法。
Key F
Some people will fall
asleep as soon as their heads touch the
pillows . Some people can‘t go to
sleep
although they have been lying in bed several hours
. The more
he wants to go to sleep , the
more wakeful he is . I belong to the latter .
When I write an essay ,
I feel an overpowering
desire
for sleep . But when I go to bed , I
can do anything but sleep . I
can compose
grand symphonies ,
paint magnificent pictures
and write good essays . The artificial
ways of
inducing sleep are legion ,
but they are of
no avail . When I can‘t go to sleep at night , I
imagine a dialogue with a friend till I
either laugh or fall asleep . I find this is a
good way to go to
sleep .
G. Write a
short passage of 150-200 words in English on the
topic‖
The Humor an
Exaggeration the
Author Uses in the Essay . ―
You should cover
the following points:
1. The instances of
exaggeration and touches of humor;
2. how the
author uses sleeplessness as an example to
illustrate the
contrariness of things and
the large bundle of contradictions a
man is confronted with
3. the author‘s
belief that insomnia is a praiseworthy agony
inherent in an active and
intellectual
mind .
The Humor and Exaggeration the Author
Uses in the Essay
A man is a bundle of
contradictions . The author uses humor and
exaggeration to say nothing
illustrates
the contrariness of things better than the matter
of
sleep . When he wants to write an
essay , he feels an overpowering desire for
sleep no matter what
time of day it is . But
if let him be
between the sheets at a late
hour, he can do anything but sleep .
The
author uses humor and ironic tone to criticize the
men who fall
asleep as soon as they get into
bed ------those ― as
soon as their heads
touch the pillow‖ fellows . He thinks they are
inhuman , callous and almost bovine. There is
a lack
of human sympathy or depth in them .
He thinks that insomnia is a
praise worthy
agony . people can cast up the balance
of the
day‘s pleasure and pain after a most eventful day
.
Lesson Twelve Why I write
By George
Orwell
A. Answer the following questions on
the text .
1. what kind of books did Orwell
want to write ?
2. what are the four
great motives for writing according to George
Orwell ?
3. What was Orwell ?s political
stand ?
4. What are Orwell ?s views about the
relationship between political
content and
aesthetic from in writing ?
5. What was
the political and social environment that shaped
his
political
orientation ?
6. Did
Orwell propose to stick to one style only ?
7. What did Orwell think of purple passages ?
8. Do you agree with Orwell ?s theory of
fusing political purpose
and artistic form
into one whole ?
1. He wanted to write
enormous naturalistic novels with unhappy
endings , full of
detailed descriptions
and arresting similes , and also full of
purple passages .
2. According to George
Orwell , the four great motives for writing
are : sheer
egoism , aesthetic enthusiasm
, historical impulse and political
purpose .
3. He was against totalitarianism and for
democratic socialism .
4. He thinks
the more one is conscious of one‘s political bias
,
the more chance
one has of acting
politically without sacrificing one‘s aesthetic
and intellectual integrity .
5. He worked
in an unsuitable profession in Burma for five
years ,
which gave him
some understanding
of the nature of the imperialism . Then he
underwent poverty and
the sense of
failure , which increased his natural hatred of
authority and made him
fully aware of the
existence of the working classes . And Hitler ,
the Spanish Civil
War and other events in
1936-1937 helped him shape his political
orientation .
6. No, he didn‘t . He finds
that by the time you have perfected any
style
of writing , you have always outgrown it .
7.
He thought the words of purple passages were used
partly for the
sake of their
sound .
8. Yes, I do .
B. Translate the following
into Chinese:
1.I soon developed disagreeable
mannerisms which made me unpopular
throughout
my schooldays.
a very small child I
used to picture myself as the hero of
thrilling
adventures .
3.A yellow
beam of sunlight , filtering through the muslin
curtains ,
slanted on to
the table .
1. His subject matter will be determined by
the age he lives in .
2. I think there are
four great motives for writing , at any rate
for writing prose .
3. The opinion that
art should have nothing to do with politics is
itself a political
attitude .
4.
This increased my natural hatred of authority and
made me for the
first time
fully aware of
the existence of the working class .
5. The
Spanish war and other events in 1936-1937 turned
the scale
and thereafter I
knew where I
stood .
1. 而后形成了不讨人喜欢的癖性, 使我在整个学生生涯中都不受欢迎.
2. 作为一个小孩, 我常常想像着自己是令人激动的冒险故事的主角.
3.
一缕金黄的阳光透过平纹薄棉布窗帘, 斜射在桌子上。
4.
他写作的主题是由他生活的时代所决定的。
5. 我认为有四种写作动机, 至少写散文是这样。
6. 认为艺术应当与政治无关的观点本身就是一种政治态度。
7.
这更加深了我对当局本能的憎恨, 第一次真正意识到了工人阶级的存在。
8.
1936年至1937年发生的西班牙战争和其他一些事件改变了这种情况, 我
了解了我的立场。
C. Fill in the blank in each sentence with the
best word or
expression from the box
below , changing its form when nesseary :
Efface fluctuate outgrow outweigh perverse
readable reconcile shiver
slant
thrilling
undervalue unsuitable
1. Part of the address
on the letter has been effaced .
roof began
to slant leftward .
you imagine that the
child has outgrown his clothes in three
months
?
1. That fascist derived some kind of
perverse satisfaction from
torturing people .
2. In the teeth of the cutting north wind we
were all shivering with
cold .
3. My love
for freedom outweighs everything else .
4.
The general and the minister had quarreled but
later they were
completely
reconciled .
5. She complained that the contributions she
had made for the
company were
undervalued
.
D. Choose the right word or
expression in the brackets to complete
each of
the
following sentences:
1. We advise
girls below twenty not to marry , because they are
still emotionally
( na?ve , immature).
2. Her feelings ( fluctuated , changed )
between excitement and
fear .
3. The
police will not hesitate to use ( force ,
compulsion ) if the
bank robbers still
refuse to surrender .
4. After twenty
years of antagonism , the two countries were
finally
( reconciled , friendly ) .
5. To
call the air strikes against Yugoslavia peace-
keeping is a
( downright , thorough ) lie .
6. “As red as blood ― is a (metaphor , simile
) .
7. The sight of the snake gave me the (
trembling , shivers ) .
8. Although the
children found the fables most ( readable ,
understandable ) they sometimes missed the
messages of the stories .
E. Explain the
underlined words in English :
1….I soon
developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me
unpopular
throughout my
schooldays .
2….and holding conversations with imaginary
persons ….
3….there was the made –to
–order stuff which I produced
quickly …
4….and my initial concern is to get a hearing
.
5….with the whole top crust of humanity .
6…and store them up for the use of posterity .
7. My starting point is always a feeling of
partisanship.
8.I happened to know …that
innocent men were being falsely accused .
Key
E
1. unpleasant personality
2. people
who are imagined , not real people
3. the
usual kind of writing that I was obliged to do
4. attract listeners
5. those most
respected in society
6. collect them for the
future use by the descendants
7. the same
group , party or cause
8. knew by chance
ate the following into English :
我童年时就决心将来要做一个作家. 当我成为作家后,
我最大的愿望是把政治
色彩的写作变成艺术创造.那种认为艺术与政治不相干的论点是错误的.
写作既是
揭露谎言维护真理,
同时也是一种美感体验.
《动物庄园》一书便是我把政治目的和艺术追求融为
一体的尝试。
写作要为社会为公众服务。 这是我必须遵循的原则。
一个作家如果缺乏政
治目的,他就只会写出一些华而不实的文章, 甚至一大堆空话说废话。
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