拓展教材Unit3 A答案

Answer KeysUnit 3Text A In-class ReadingExercisesA.Statement Identification1.F (The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has noi ntellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man’s emotional needs.)2.I (Christian culture was essentially a sacramental culture which embodied religious truth invisible and palpable forms.)3.L (Thus we have a double task, first to recover our own cultural inheritance and secondly tocommunicate it to a sub-religious or neo-pagan world. )4.B (Unfortunately, while universal secular education is an infallible instrument for thesecularization of culture, the existence of a free system of religious primary education is not sufficient to produce a Christian culture. )5.H (By losing sight of this world, modern secular culture has become more grievouslyimpoverished than even the non-Christian cultures, because many of those non-Christian cultures agreed in recognizing the existence of a higher supernatural or divine world on which human life was dependent. )6.K (Thus Christian culture is a very rich and wide culture: richer than modern secular culture,because it has a greater spiritual depth and is not confined to a single level of reality.)7.O (At the most it is possible to study one of the first two parts of these triads in isolation fromthe rest, while the third cannot be studied at all. The result of this situation is that we tend to view Christian culture exclusively in one of its phases only.)8.Q (Nevertheless there is a kind of Catholic Puritanism which separates itself as far as possiblefrom secular culture and adopts an attitude of withdrawal and intransigency. Now this attitude of withdrawal is perfectly justified on Catholic principles.)9.N ( It seems to me that the time has come when the universities should consider whether it isnot possible to do more for Christian studies. )10.S (first on the ground of economy of effort, because a comparatively small expenditure oftime and money is likely to produce more decisive results than a much greater expenditure at a lower level.)B. Reading Analysis1. C (paragraph B: We know only too well how little effect the Catholic school has on modernsecular culture and how easily the latter can assimilate and absorb the products of our educational system. The modern Leviathan is such a formidable monster that he can swallow religious schools whole without suffering from indigestion.)2. A (paragraph D: The trouble is that our modern secular culture is sub-literary as well assub-religious. The forces that affect it are in the West the great commercialized amusement industries and in the East the forces of political propaganda.)3. D (paragraph H: By losing sight of this world, modern secular culture has become moregrievously impoverished than even the non-Christian cultures, for those cultures agreed in recognizing the existence of a higher supernatural or divine world on which human life was dependent.)4. C (paragraph J: It is the task of Christian education to recover these lost contacts and to restorecontact between religion and modern society — between the world of spiritual reality and the world of social experience.)5. D (paragraph L: I do not believe the second of these is as difficult as it appears at first sight,because people are becoming more and more aware that something is lacking in their culture;and there are many who are still far from positive religious belief but who possess a good deal of intellectual curiosity about religion which may become the seed of something more.)6. D (paragraph M: On the one hand we have the highly specialized studies of the ecclesiasticalseminary; on the other a wide range of university studies in which isolated scraps of Christian culture can be acquired through history and literature gives no opportunity for any general inclusive or synthetic study of Christian culture as such. )7.C(paragraph P: But the same may be said more or less of any great culture —such asHellenism7 or Islam or the civilization of China — yet in those cases any specialized study of the past must be accompanied by a general study of the whole. )8. A (paragraph Q: There are many, especially among the Protestants and the sectarians, who lookon Christianity and culture as alien from one another and who regard the world of culture as part of “this world.”)9. C (paragraph R: if Christians cannot assert their right to exist in the sphere of higher education,they will eventually be pushed, not only out of modern culture, but out of physical existence.)10. B (paragraph S: because the social changes of the last half-century have extinguished the oldtradition of independent private scholarship to which historical studies owed so much in the past.)C. Vocabulary BuildingPart One1. (a)2. (a)3. (b)4. (a)5. (b)Part Two1. accident2.palpable3. intransigent4. irreconcilable5. esoteric6. estranged7. deprived of8. precarious9. confined 10. far fromD. Critical Thinking1. Paragraph 3: The only part of Leviathan that is vulnerable is his brain, which is small incomparison with his vast and armored bulk. If we could develop Christian higher education toa point at which it meets the attention of the average educated man in every field of thoughtand life, the situation would be radically changed.2. Paragraph 6: The difference is that today the intellectual factor has become more vital than itever was in the past. The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may b e good for morals and satisfying to man’s emotional needs, but that there is no such thing as religious knowledge. The only true knowledge is concerned with material things and with the concrete realities of social and economic life.3. Open.。