Test 3-5星火讲座

Test 3
Culture Shock
I. Culture shock
People have difficulty in (1) ______ to a new culture completely different from their own.
The shock consists of distinct phases.
1)Honeymoon Phase
a. Romantic, wonderful and new
b. Full of (2) ______ and new discoveries
2)(3) ______ Phase
a. Cultural differences become apparent and create (4) ______
b. Feelings of frustration and anger
c. Disappointment and depression
3)Adjustment Phase
a. Accustomed to the new culture and developing (5) ______
b. Accepting the new culture positively
c. Adaptation and constructive response to culture shock
4)Mastery Phase
a. Fully and completely participating the host culture
b. Often referred to as (6) ______ stage
II. (7) ______ Culture Shock
1)also called “re-entry shock” or “own culture shock”;
2)When returning to one’s home culture, one finds it more difficult to (8) ______
III. Transition Shock
1)Transition shock is a state of loss and (9) ______.
2)The symptoms are various.
3)(10) ______:
---Don’t sleep excessively;
---Write home, spend time with people；
---Adjust yourself to the new culture.
Test 4
The English Renaissance
The English Renaissance dates from the late 15th and early 16th centuries to the early 17th century. The beginning is often taken as 1485, when the Wars of the Roses ended.
The Elizabeth period in the second half of the 16th century is the (1) ______ of the English Renaissance.
I. Literature
1.English literature increased as the (2) ______ became common
2.Drama and Poetry: Elizabeth literature
3.Theater: for the court, nobility and (3) ______
---Giant figures: Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Elizabeth
II. Visual arts
1.England was (4) ______ to produce Renaissance style visual arts, and the artists were mainly imported until after the end of the Renaissance.
2.The English Reformation produced a huge program of iconoclasm that destroyed the (5)
______ art.
3.English art was to be dominated by (6) ______, and then later landscape art.
III. Architecture
---a true Renaissance style emerged until the Elizabethan times
---the Elizabethan architecture was influenced more by (7) ______ than Italy
---the buildings are large show houses constructed for courtiers
---church architecture continued in a late (8) ______ style until the Reformation
IV. Criticism on the Renaissance
---The word “Renaissance” was considered as an unnecessarily loaded word that implies an unambiguously positive “(9) ______” from the supposedly more primitive Middle Ages.
---Instead they prefer to use the term “early modern”that (10) ______ the period as a transitional one that led to the modern world.
Test 5
American Literature
I. The beginning of the American literature
---Colonists came to the New World to find religious (1) ______ and prosperity.
---No spirit of (2) ______: English legends, ballads, poems and the richness of the English language.
---The history of American literature is short.
---A mirror reflecting the social life and the (3) ______ of the development of the American society.
II. (4) ______
---American Renaissance: the period of 1850-1855
---Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s masterpiece (5) ______.
---American (6) ______.
---Realism: a reaction against “the lie” of Romanticism and Sentimentalism.
---American Naturalism: a somber and dark picture; the general tone is (7) ______.
---Imagism: a reaction to the traditional English poetic principle in the 1920s.
III. Characteristics of the American (8) ______ literature
---The (9) ______ is broad.
---The meaning is deeper and more complex.
---Modern writing is technically sophisticated.
---The language is simpler.
---There is more (10) ______.。