答案 unit 2 文学

Unit Two

Section A

Text One

The Tell-Tale Heart

I.

Fill

in

the

blanks

with

the

words

and

expressions

provided,

making

some change when necessary.

1. well up

2. refrain

3. look in upon

4. conceive

5. rid…of

6. dismembered

7. by instinct

8.

at ease

9. depute

10. at … length

11. by degrees

12. chuckle

13. cut off

14. spring up

15. foul play

II.

Use

the

appropriate

form

of

the

words

given

in

the

brackets

to

fill

in

the

blanks

1. dissimulate

2. vexing

3. hearty

4. conceal

5. cunningly

6. distraction

7. precautious

8. pulsating

9. healthily

10. causeless

IV

. Test your general knowledge

1.

A

2.

B

3.

C

4.

A

5.

B

6. C

7. D

8. A

9. B

10. D

11. A

12. D

13. C

14. B

15. C

V

. Proofreading the following passage

There is at present a high degree of uncertainty about the role

of literature in a school foreign- language course. Changes in educational

and social conditions have shaken the once

unquestioning

status of

1. unquestioned

literary study amongst our educational goals, and it also plays an ever

∧

problematic role in a new pattern of language teaching which aims

2.

more

primarily to impart practical communicative skills. Recent discussions

in

advanced courses in schools have generally advocated less emphasis

3. about

on literature in favor of language, and a revision of the principles governing

the selection of texts in order to include

great

consideration of pupil’s

4. greater

actual ability, experience, and interests.

Nevertheless, there is still

comparative

little clarity about what 5. comparatively

role these texts should perform, and it is not uncommon to find a situation

that

the teacher translates passages and dictates notes, in an examination 6. where

-centered approach which largely ignores the deeper insights or skills

that pupils might gain from their confrontation with literature. On the

other hand, it is clearly not possibly to think in

the

terms of one singe role

7. the

which literature should perform. A group of pupils aiming at a functional

command of a language may read a modern novel because of its linguistic

content,

unless

a group of future academic specialists may discuss the

8. while

basic human issues portrayed in a classical play. These are the two different

activities in two different situations, each equally justifiable in its

∧

9.

own

context but not to be confused: different pupil’s aims require literature to

serve different functions, which is best performed by different literary

10. are

work.

Section A

Text Two

Colonel Cathcart

I.

Fill

in

the

blanks with

the

words

and

expressions

provided,

making some

change when necessary

1. backfire

2.

furious

3. get on ---

nerves

4. insulate against

5. vicissitudes

6.

indebted

to

7.

embellish

8.

aptitude

for

9.

take

command

of

10.

impervious

to

11.

on

the

alert

12.

contaminate

13.

indispensable

14.

enliven

15. apprehension

II.

Use

the

appropriate

form

of

the

words

given

in

the

brackets

to

fill

in

the

blanks

1.

administrative

2. unappeasable

3. adroitly

4. unswerving

5. infallible

6. pathetically

7. overwhelming

8. ingeniously 9. affluence

10. displeasure

III. Translate the short paragraph paragraphs into Chinese

卡思卡 特上校聪明圆滑，事业一帆风顺，但却衣着邋遢，满腹忧愁。他三十六

岁，走起路来步伐 沉重，一心想当将军。他有股子冲劲，但又容易泄气；他处

事泰然自若，但又时常懊恼； 他自鸣得意，但对自己的前程又没有把握；他无

所顾忌地采用各种行政计谋以博取上级的 青睐，

但又害怕自己的计谋会弄巧成

拙。他长相不错，但缺乏魁 力；他强壮如牛，但又有些虚张声势，而且还很自

负。他已经开始发胖，为此他时常感到 担忧，想挥也挥不去，所以，长期以来

他一直受着它的折磨。卡思卡特上校很自负，因为 他才三十六岁就成了一名带

领一支战斗部队的上校军官；但他又感到沮丧，因为他虽然已 经三十六岁了还

只不过是个上校。

V

. Proofread the following passage

Although important events often reflect themselves quickly

in the literature of a country, the effect of World

War I

with

American writing was delayed. The War promptly

1.

on

produced some mediocre prose and poetry,

and

distinguished

2.

but

work

—

mainly in the form of novels

—

appeared only some

years later. The best came from Ernest Hemingway. He had

already written some very good short stories and one first-class

novel,

The Sun Also Rises

, but he did not publish a novel fully

involved

in

the war till 1929. It proved worth waiting for.

A

3. with

Farewell to Arms

, the moving story of the love affair of a wounded

American lieutenant and an English nurse,

∧

outstanding among

4. is

literary works

relating

to World War I. Hemingway had served

5.

related

with an ambulance group in France and then transferred to the