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高
级
英
语（二）
课程辅导
2
本学期内容：
Lesson Ten
On Getting Off to
Sleep
Lesson Eleven
Why I Write
Lesson Twelve
Work
Lesson
Thirteen
I Would Like to
Tell You Something
Lesson
Fifteen
The Beauty
Industry
Book VI
Lesson One
What’s Wrong with the Press?
Lesson Three
Eveline
Lesson
Four
The Tragedy of Old Age
in America
关于题型
:
I.
V
ocabulary
II.
Text Comprehension
A.
Multiple Choice
B.
True or false
III.
Fill in
blanks
IV
.
Cloze
V
.
Translation
(E-C, C-E)
VI.
Question Answer
5. According
to
the author, which of the following
will help people get off to sleep? (“On Getting
Off to Sleep”)
a. To imagine putting straight a
picture.
b. Counting sheeps
jumping over the fence.
c.
Imagining talking to those strong-willed people.
d. None of the above.
6. “The artificial ways of inducing
sleep are legion, ...” (“On Getting Off to Sleep”)
This means
that
a. nothing
can help people get off to sleep.
b.
the methods that people use to try to get to sleep
are endless.
c. people try very hard to
get to sleep.
d. it’s a hard job for
people to get to sleep.
7.
In the sentence “when it is time to close the five
ports of knowledge, most folks I know seem to
find no difficulty in plunging their
earthly parts into oblivion,” earthly parts refers
to (“On Getting
Off to
Sleep”)
a.
knowledge of the world.
b.
five parts of the body.
c.
five senses
d. state of
sleeplessness
8. What are the four
great motives for writing according to George
Orwell? (“Why I Write”)
a. one’s own experience, one’s
knowledge, one’s l
ove for literature
and politics
b. egoism,
aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse and
political purposes.
c.
memory of the past, desire to express oneself,
vanity and political attitude.
d. none of the above.
9.
Which of the following is the
organizat
ion of the essay “Why I
Write”? (“Why I Write”)
a.
The author first gives his theory about writing
and then explains it with examples.
b.
The
author
first
tells
his
own
experience
as
a
writer
and
then
gives
his
views
about
his
motives
for writing.
c. The author first
explains in general the different views about
motives for writing, and then
gives his
own views.
d.
The
author
first
gives
his
reasons
for
writing
and
then
elaborates
on
the
relationship
between
political stands and aesthetic achievements.
10.
Orwell first gives
information about his early development because
(“Why I Write”)
a. he thinks
that is a very important part of his life.
b. his views about motives for writing
were formed at that time.
c. he thinks
that one cannot evaluate a writer’s
mot
ives without such background
knowledge.
d. that was the time when he
first came into contact with writing.
Work
本课是罗素的一篇散文的节选。第二次世界大战后的
60
年代，英国开始进入福利社会，人
们关心休闲胜于工作。
一向反对资产阶级寄生观的罗素认为极有必要在这个时候重新强调
工
作的价值。
他认为人无论做什么工作都比终日无所事事要好。
除了可以防止产生无聊感，
工
作为人们
提供了成功的机会和实现抱负的可能。
人生幸福与否和是否从事建设性的工作有直
接关系。
文章语言简洁准确，论点层层展开，环环紧扣，一气呵成。
overview
The author
questions whether work brings happiness or pain.
Two roles of work:
To
prevent boredom
To provide the
possibility to fulfill oneself
What
determines the degree of satisfaction a man
receives from work. Two elements:
·
The exercise of skill
·
The constructive function of work
The analysis affords Russell an outlet
to voice his bitter hatred of war and social
violence and his
pacifist views
concerning social conflict.
About the
style:
He believes that a true writer
is obligated to express complex ideas through the
plainest common
language.
This essay is a fine specimen of what
he preaches.
Prevailing throughout the
text is an extraordinary lucidity.
Eloquent flow of well-chosen facts;
tightly-knit arguments; a plain but forceful
diction that lends
itself to smooth
rhythm; neatness with which the author spins out
his fully-developed sentences;
an
accuracy that is required only by scientific
reporting.
Wordlist
irksome
excess tedium profound positively preventive
delicious impair vigor inevitable reputation
continuity
ingredient
domesticated
outlet
hierarchy
delectable
competitive
circumstance
haphazard criterion demolition
preliminary subsequent unmask fierce contemplate
indefinitely
Collocations and phrases
to begin with
at
a loss
decide on
for the most part
have nothing to do with
build up
at
large
in this respect
apply to
a
matter of course
derive
(sth.) from
call for
without regard to
come to a dead end
Lesson Thirteen
I Would Like
To Tell You Something
by
John F. Kerry
Overview
Detroit Investigation
They were there not just to confess
their crimes so that they could rid themselves
once and for all
of guilty feelings,
but to jolt the public consciousness out of its
hypocritical dormancy.
To disclose the
insensitivity that had penetrated various aspects
of American life;
to chastize the very
nature of US government policies that had misled
the public into thinking that
the US
was the global guardian of freedom and democracy;
To cast d
oubt on American
idealism as a sound guide of one’s
conscience.
唤起美国人民的反战情绪；
指出美国政府的政策是造成战争悲剧的根源；
陈述退伍军人反对越南战争的原因及准备采取的行动。
Wordlist
veteran
discharged
testify
relive
randomly
purge
brutalization
depersonalization
prosecute
blackout
naval
rescind
accreditation
rampant
insensitivity
testimony
vicious
poster
calisthenics
sergeant
entrails
indignation
prostitute
helicopter
hypocrisy
violence
glamorize
preserve
abuse
distortion
revulsion
rancid
squander
casualty
ravage
escalate
arrogance
sue
addict
deceased
withdrawal dormant
judiciary succinctly
Collocations and
phrases
now that
on a ... basis
for fun
be
responsible for
get by one’s desk
be guilty of
demand for
be faced with
inflict sth. on
in the form of
in terms of
stand up for
be ashamed of
go beyond
from want of
pay
homage to
part and parcel
of
Lesson Fifteen
The Beauty Industry
By
Aldous Huxley
Overview
The
facts about beauty industry
not affected by depression; enormous
increase
Why?
prosperity; the diffusion of wealth
changes in the status of
women and our
attitudes