高英lesson 10 练习

Ⅰ. Choose the best words to complete the sentences. 1. revolt

A. rebellion

B. amour

C. memory

D. recollection

2. nostalgic

A. sensational

B. romantic

C. homesick

D. fashionable

3. stature

A. status

B. statue

C. station

D. stuff

4. provincial

A. gigantic

B. narrow

C. novel

D. moral

5. mores

A.customs

B. drugs

C. adventurousness

D. sergeants

6. orgy

A. bombast

B. binary

C. compatible

D. digitized

7. transitory

A. curious

B. idealistic

C. tremendous

D. short-lived

8. contingent

A. corps

B. distinction

C. notion

D. morality

9. obsolescent

A. unabated

B. smug

C. outmoded

D. sodden

10. strife

A. struggle

B. patriotism

C. recession

D. factor

11. obliquely

A. sexually

B. reluctantly

C. internationally

D. indirectly

12. harass

A. plead

B. worry

C. fan

D. flout

13. fad

A. feature

B. imitator

C. craze

D. pulpit

14. hectic

A. affluent

B. acute

C. exciting

D. naughty

15. intellectual

A. flapper

B. sheik

C. citizen

D. intellect

16. crook

A. cook

B. cheat

C. cowboy

D. writer

17. curb

A. control

B. shock

C. escape

D. drift

18. sterile

A. cynical

B. B. sensitive

C. unproductive

D. sophisticated

19. illicit

A. legal

B. illegal

C. resistible

D. irresistible

20. aftermath

A. search

B. investigation

C. experiment

D. consequence

Ⅱ. Spell out the words according to the meaning and the first letter of the word is given. 1) This disease causes physical and mental deterioration. d

2) This shop used to be a place for going to buy and drink alcohol illegally in the 1920s and 1930s. s

3) Do you think of him as a man supposed to be irresistibly attractive to romantic young women ? s

4) This bank has both individual and company customers. c 5) I enjoy the hustle and busy activity of life in a big city. b

6) This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the strange act and idea of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama. v

7) Find your ideal online UK jobsite or employing agency by name, location or industry. r

8) He made great attempts to stop her. s

9) The warlike nations refused to have peace talks b

10) Bridgman does not see this scheme as contradicting the custom thesis. c 11) The breeze dispelled the fog d

12) The two sides reached a deadlock in their negotiations. S 13) Tell us what you think of this speech attack. d

14) Though now we talk about lots of smaller wars, what's to prevent a really big fire? c 15) Patriotism can turn into chauvinistic patriotism and intolerance very quickly. j 16) Very few early Byzantine icons survived the icon-destroying period I 17) The newspapers severely criticised him. f

18) His office is in town, but his dwelling place is in the suburbs. r 19) A tendency to eat sand is a strange act of appetite. p

20) My weariness was great after looking unsuccessfully for a job all day. f Ⅲ. Fill in the blank with the following phrases and make changes if necessary.

a common denominator, a catalytic agent, avid for, bear no / some relationship to, confine to, Gopher Prairie, keep up with the Joneses, more than enough, precipitate … into, see… in perspective, sober up, susceptible to, to a man, whip up, write off as,1. Thank you, I have had and mopping the floor 2. She would gladly have been converted to Vida's satisfaction in 3. Farm folk seem to place less emphasis than city folk on spending upon 4. The border incident

the two countries into war. 5. The speaker soon______the crowd______ until they were ready to march. 6. He _____things_______their right______ 7. I hope this coffee may_______him ______ 8. A bad cold_______him_______his bed

. . 9. Patient expectations are realistically different between studies in ways that_______ the experience of active psychotherapy patients.

10. What this means is_____ is added to the lacquer to make it dry into a more durable finish.

11. Every child here is_____ attention.

12. National Cancer Institute researchers found that some women may be more genetically _____cancer from \

13. She had been_______a failure at the age of eleven. 14.12 is_____of 1/4 and 1/3

. 15. ________John’s friends stood by him in his trouble. Ⅳ. Text comprehension:

1) No aspect of life in the Twenties has been more commented upon and sensationally romanticized than _________.

A. the na?ve Fourth-of-July bombast

B. the rejection of Victorian gentility

D. The so-called Revolt of the Younger

C. the expatriation of the true intellectuals Generation

2) The young men began to enlist for ________.

A. fun in the war

B. the war before it was too late

D. the Victorian gentility after the war

C. the democracy before the war ended

3) “The Sad Young Men” actually refers to _________.

A. the lost generation C. Beat generation

B. the angry young men D. the war profiteers

4) The Sad Young Men included a group of young intellectuals except ________.

A. Hemingway and Dos Passos

B. Rod W. Horton and Herbert W. Edwards

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Eugene O’Neill D. Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings

5) Which of the following did the Sad Young Men enjoy ?

A. the Babbitts

B. Victorian gentility

C. Bohemianism and eccentricity

D. The hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition

Ⅵ. Point out the right rhetorical device for the following used in the text.

1) The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollectionsto the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young.

2) …we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans.

3) And like most escapist sprees, this one lasted until the money ran out, until the crash of the world economic structure at the end of the decade called the party to a halt and forced the revelers to sober up and face the problems of the new age.

4) … our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.

5) …the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar…

Ⅶ. Name the figures of speech in the following sentences. 1. An awed hush fell upon the bystanders.

2. The obervances of the Church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept since the rich keeps the feasts and the poor the fasts.

3. The ignorant simply preached that Negroes were not human and not the “child of God.”

4. He was on his feet, flinging his arms, his rhetoric and his control to the winds, abusing Ernest for his youth and demagogurey,, and savagely attacking the working class, elaborating its inefficiency and worthlessness.

5. He has undoubtedly the best stable in the country.

6. Postwar rich living and the automobile all but took away the country’s breath and legs.

7. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content t obegin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

8. Martin ordered another glass of punch, which they drank between them, and which had no effect of making them less conversational than before.

9. Falstaff: I was beaten myself into all the colours of rainbow… 10. And, it being low water, he went out with the tide.

11. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year. (John Milton)

12. I had no outlook, but an uplook rather. My place in society was at the bottom.

13. It was not only writers, you know, it was a thoroughly representative gathering---science, politics, business, art, the world.

14. Harris never “weeps, he know not why.” If Harris’s eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because harris has been eating raw onions.

15. I’m afraid she can’t act that part—she is a little on the plump side.

16. He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

17. All the plants in this cold country become green in the smiling year.

18. He finds himself projected into a hall fall of people humming with anticipation.

19. His nose was particularly white and his large nostrils, correspondingly dark, reminds me of an oboe when they dilated.

20. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information and uncertain temper.

1. In our country we have three unspeakably precious things:freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

2. Chivalry:going about releasing beautiful maidens from other men’s castle, and taking them to your own castle.

3. Speaking silence, dumb confession, Passioin’s birth, and infant’s play.

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