自考高级英语上下全册课后答案

高级英语课后练习答案(上下全册）

Rock Superstars

What Do They Tell Us About OurSelves and Our Society?

课后练习(Exercises on the text)

A.Answer the following questions on the text:

1.They emphasize the theme of the article and they are appropriate.

2.The author attempts to illustrate that there are completely

different ideas about Rock Music between the young people and the adult.

3.Rock music can express its times. He sees it as a debating forum

where American society struggles to define and redefine its

feelings and beliefs.

4.Elvis managed to embody the frustrated teenage spirit of the

1950s.

5.Bob Dylan spoke of civil rights, the Beatles urged peace and

piety, and the Rolling Stones demanded revolution.

6.Apart from politics, the rock music also deals with feelings.

7.They got applause, praise and money.

8.No, he hasn’t. He wants the readers to think it carefully.

B.Translate the following into Chinese:

1.他说：“贾格尔拿着装有半加仑水的罐子沿着舞台前沿跑动，把水洒到

前几排狂热的观众身上。

2.你如何看待这种赞美和英雄崇拜？

3.你是不是莫名其妙地被这个怪异的小丑所吸引，因为他表现出你最疯狂的幻想。

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些什么，你的社会在想些什么。换句话说，就是可以说明你和社会的态度。

5.只不过是艾尔维斯设法体现了50年代青少年那种失落的精神风貌。

6.感情，作为任何音乐形式的一个组成部分，是个永恒的主题。

7.这一乡村气息，赫罗威次感到，帮助听众表达了一种“逃避现实”，“重归往昔”的愿望。

8.在1972年进行的一次全国性民意调查中，有10％以上的高中男生和20％以上的女生把摇滚巨星视为自己的偶像。

C.Fill in the blanks in each sentence with the best word or expression

from the box below, changing its for when necessary.

1. embodied

2. act out

3. sprinkled

4. sweltering

5. idle

6. rejected

7. rather than

8. Reverence

D.Choose the right word or expression in the brackets to complete each of the following sentences

1. debating

2. proud

3. mix, blend

4. conceive

5. were dressed

6. idealistic

7. admiration

8. rumbling

E.Explain the underlined words in English

1. disgusting,

2. The editor wrote against him.

3. the confusion of the old people

4. stress on peace and piety

5. the poems praise the simple joys of life

6. reflect feelings and benefits

7. a place where various ideas are confronted and noisily debated

8. other successful rock stars recently

F.Translate the following into English

Rock music began in America in the late 1950' s. It was not only

a new musical form,but a debating 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 arid

peace, the disaffection of their society, and a range of emotions

between love and hate. All in 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 Beatles, the Rolling Stones and so on. They

were the culture heroes whom the young people worshipped.

G.Write a short passage

I agree that rock is the music of the teenage rebellion. First,

rock music turns out to be a great attraction mainly to the teenagers rather than to the adults. The super rock star, Elvis

Presley was praised and applauded by the younger generation, while he was criticized by editorials, banned by TV networks and refused by the older generation. Second, the rock music was adored and even worshiped mainly by the teenagers rather than by adults. Alice Cooper's ending of his act by pretending to end his life with a guillotine