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, p recipitate … into, see… in perspective, sober up, susceptible to, to a man, whip up, write off as,
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
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 "secondhand" tobacco smoke
13. She had been_______a failure at the age of eleven.
14.12 is_____of 1/4 and 1/3
15. ________J ohn’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
C. the expatriation of the true intellectuals
D. The so-called Revolt of the Younger Generation
2) The young men began to enlist for ________.
A. fun in the war
B. the war before it was too late
C. the democracy before the war ended
D. the Victorian gentility after the war
3) “The Sad Young Men” actually refers to _________.
A. the lost generation
B. the angry young men
C. Beat generation
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 re leasing 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.
4. A money lender serves you in the present tense, lends you money in the conditional mood, keeps you in the subjuncitve and ruins you in the future.
5. Therefore it is better to be a guest of the law, which, though conducted by rules, does not meddle unduly with a gentleman’s private affairs.
6. A motorcar went past the window. Ugly great lumbering thing, making all that racket. But there it was, the country rattling to the dogs.
7. His eyes came out of his head like a prawn’s and once more his moustache foamed up against his break-water of a nose.
8. The crowd hissed the speaker when he said taxies should be increased.
9. Large factories in China wish to be given a free hand in the right to hire and fire.
10. Two of the largest and most powerful nations of the world have since 1950 lived in insolated ignorance of one another and mutual fear and hate.
11. She was dressed in a maid’s cap, a pinafore, and in a bright smile.
12. If we try to implement these harebrained ideas(That English should be replaced by Hindi and the 15 recognized state languages), India will become a Tower of Babel.
13. At length with love and wine at once oppressed
The vanquished victor sunk upon her breast.
14. During last year’s Central Park bicycle Race, five of the racers were attacked and had their bikes stolen while the race was in progress. This is something of a handicap in a bicycle race.
15. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
16. Let us have faith that right makes might and dare to do our duty as we understand it.
17. He has the microwave smile that warms another person without heat.
18. All that week at lake it rained: sometimes it was big, shlow, single drops, making countless pockmarks on the surface of the water. Sometimes it was driving sheets of rain, racking across the beach in graceful waves. Sometimes it was a straight-down Niagara torrent so thick it blotted out everything but itself.
19. One of the greatest pleasures in life is simply to be treated as an individual. To speak and be heard; to ask and be helped.
20. On seeing him, the miserable creature fell upon his shoulder, sobbing and crying, and pointing to the fountain, where some women were stooping over the motionless bundle and moving gently about it.
21. “We would like very much to have you for dinner,” as the canibal said to the captured missionary.
22. What! Carelessly playing billiards when your father is dying? It’s fiddling while Rome is burning.
23.It is the concise portaint of an entire nation, high and low, old and young, male and female, lay and clerical, learned and ignorant, land and sea, town and coutnry, but without extremes.
24.There is also poverty, convincingly etcedin the statistics, and etched too, in the lives of people like Hortensia Cabrera, mother of 14, widow.
“Money,” she says, “is kind of tight. But I manage.”
25. Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work..
26. She is an ageing opera singer who has retired from the stage to teach.
27.A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
28. What would houses and horses be to me without him.
29. Indeed, there are moments today-amid out-law litter, tax cheating, illicit noise and motorized
anarchy-when it seems as though the scoffow represents the wave of the future.
30. On one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
31. Some persons can be everywhere at home; others can sit musingly at home and can be everywhere.
32. Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
33. He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
34. A drop of ink may make a million think.
35. Liquor talks mighty loud when it get loose from the jug.
36. It is a pity that there is more ignorance than knowledge in the country.
37. The man who cannot be trusted to society what a bit of rotten timber is to a house.
38. Fasting comes after feasting.
39. The dock can accommodate the largest vessel.
40.His designs were strictly honourable, that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
41. A policeman said to a criminal, “You reckon your Dodge would help you up to all these dodges again.”.
42. It is much better to have a patched jacket than to have a patched character.
43.We find ourselves rich in good, but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling raucous discord on earth.
44. He is so mean, he won’t l et his little baby have more than one measle at a time.
45. Red Star over Hong Kong. (-----Time, Jyly 14, 1997.)
46. And as he pluck’s the cursed steel away,
Mark how the blood of Caesar followed.
47. The drunken driver drove bang into the store window.
48. From saving comes having.
49. He is preparing a paper on World Population for our next meeting.
50. Looking at Ruth Abbot, her husband, and Danny Ryon, he had the feeling that he had known them for a time that could not be measured in terms of minutes, our hours, or days or years, for those were standards that did not apply.
51.The most important lesson of all is that political wil matters even more than military skill.。