Lesson 14 Loving and Hating New York
Ⅰ. Reading comprehension
1. Many Europeans take New York as their favorite city, because ________.
A. They are reassured by the sight of the fashion avenues of
Madison and Fifth.
B. There are many familiar international names in New York. C. New York’s charged nervous atmosphere and vulgar dynamism. D. New York city is a cosmopolitan city.
2. In author’s eyes, New York is ________.
A. a sacred place B. a mongrel city
C. an international metropolis D. a conventional city
3. The signs of how the New York fallen cannot be seen from ________.
A. New York never boasted its greatness.
B. Many advertising campaigns publicly praise New York. C. Many New Yorkers wear T-shirts with a heart design and the
words “I love New York” printed on it.
D. New York is trying desperately to regain her lost privileged
status.
4. From where the author begins to give an actual description of New York itself.
A. The last sentence of paragraph 5. B. The first sentence of paragraph 6. C. From paragraph 1-5. D. The whole essay.
5. Which of the following cities is located in New York?
A. Jersey B. Soho C. Nashville D. Beverly Hills
Ⅱ. Determine whether the following statements are true or false. Put “T”, if the statement is true and put an “F”, if false.
1. According to the author, New York is no longer the leading city is the United States.
2. New York is a city that resists the prevailing trends of America and it is a place where people can escape from uniformity and uncommonness.
3. Europeans take to New York because they feel reassured when they see so many jewelers, shoes stores and designer shops bearing familiar international names on Madison and Fifth avenues.
4. The rhetorical device employed in “ Nature constantly yields to
man …” is personification. 5. It is the fascinating charm of New York as well as the opportunity to be a journalist that attracts the author to New York. 6. It is the good living conditions that draw those young people to New York. 7. The sentence “All have their sovereignties” means all the different ethnic groups have their own little areas which they control. 8. New York is not longer the banking and communications headquarters for America. 9. The newcomers to New York are never fully assimilated. 10. New York regards the United Nations as an unworkable, impractical and hypocritical institution. Ⅲ. Point out what figure of speech is used in each of the following sentences: 1. While sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, pre-empt the airways form California2. Tin Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and Hollywood.3. New York was never Mecca to me. 4. Nature constantly yields to man in New York: witness those fragile sidewalk trees gamely struggling against encroaching cement and petrol fumes. 5. So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that shut out the world.6. “So what else is new?” 7. The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town. 8. Characteristically, the city swallows up the United Nations and refuses to take it seriously, regarding it as an unworkable mixture of the idealistic, the impractical, and the hypocritical. Ⅳ.Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. 1. He fought back at his tormentors with ________ of a corner red rat. A. dejection B. depression C. desperation D. despair 2. He monopolized the conversation by ________ of his own prowess at hunting and fishing. A. boasting B. bragging C. crowing D. vaunting 3. It was alleged that he was present at the scene of the crime, but he ________ that he was in Europe at the time. A. asserted
B. maintained C. affirmed D. testified
4. It has become the ________ for royalty to appears as democratic and “ folksy” as the average politician.
A. fashion B. trend C. vogue D. style
5. The ________ between Guelphs and Ghibellines in medieval Italy passed from controversy over papal authority to petty was between city states.
A. contention B. friction C. conflict D. strife
6. He was too nervous to speak and had to be ________ .
A. prompted B. motivated C. stimulated D. propelled
7. A short cut through the mountain is extremely ________ in winter.
A. distant B. inaccessible C. remote D. dessert
8. Australia ________ the Treaty of Peace with Japan on 10th April, 1952; New Zealand on 29th April, 1952.
A. confirmed B. sanctioned C. ratified D. approved
9. He is a poet with ________ imagination.
A. luxurious B. luxuriant C. luscious D. lustrous
10. ________ clod hoppers guffawed at seeing male ballet dancers wearing tights.
A. naive B. unaffected C. unsophisticated D. provincial
11. He felt listless until the sea breeze ________ him and steadied his
nerves.
A. cheered B. encouraged C. exhilarated D. excited
12. She endured her illness with great __________
A. fortitude B. forbearance C. persistence D. resolution
13. Mary is no long willing to meet her husband’s bullying with docile ________.
A. patience B. sufferance C. tolerance D. forbearance
14. The actress was becoming extremely _________ with all the questions they were asking by the uncalled-for innuendo in the reporter’s question.
A. outraged B. aggravated C. exasperated
D. insulted
15. It would be ________ of me to have a church wedding when I don’t believe in God.
A. hypocritical B. hypercritical C. hysterical D. hypothetical
16. He balanced the glass ________ on the arm of the chair.
A. precociously B. precariously C. precautionary D. precipitously
17. You can rest ______ that the talented young secretary has been able to confirm what he said in the original report.
A. assured B. ensured C. insured D. reassured
18. The leader’s speech in defense of the policy didn’t carry much ________.
A. conviction B. belief
C. confidence D. concern
19. American revolutionaries who rejected England’s claim of ________ over the colonies.
A. sovereignty B. authority C. power D. right
20. The public is very _____ about the governor's plans for a tax cut.
A. susceptible B. dubious C. suspicious D. deliberate
21. The two countries will _____ full diplomatic relations now that they have settled their long standing border dispute.
A. recover B. restore C. renovate D. replace
22. Everyone in the auditorium was weeping by the time he finished the _____ tale, though it was fabricated obviously.
A. pessimistic
B. pathetic C. patriotic D. melancholy Ⅴ.Put the following words and phrases into the appropriate blanks in the following sentences. measure up against cut off … from in terms of be reckoned with look up to out of phase with yield to beckon to out of step with swallow up 1. They were already a political force to 2. The school is widely 3. The new building is 4. I . for its excellent teaching. its surroundings. temptation and had a chocolate bar. salary, but it has its disadvantages. 5. The job is great 6. He ________ himself ________ all human and lived alone in a remote area. those of our competitors. by the 7. The figures are not very good when 8. I watched her walk down the road until she was darkness. 9. He 10. She was woman. the waiter to bring the bill. her colleagues and regarded as an eccentric Ⅵ.Fill in each blank with a suitable verb from the lists below in the proper form. decline decrease diminish drop dwindle lessen reduce 1. I hope to obtain your forgiveness, to your ill opinion. . 2. His sense of personal initiative is cultivated instead of being 3. The number of nations allied with Germany continued. 4. The incidence of malaria eradication of malarial mosquitoes. 5. Certain medicines are said to be effective in 6. It is said that her vitality and creativity are 7. Classes dramatically because of the as the war people’s weight. with age. as more and more students played truant. quickly. 8. Owing to the strike, coal supplies are 9. I hope the number of mistakes you make in the exercises will as time goes on. 10. After years of illness he was 11. My aunt has decided to spend her shanghai. 12. Mr. Smith’s hopes ____ as his fortune ____ away to nothing. 13. The price of the new products has been owing to a twenty to a skeleton. years in the suburbs of per cent rise in productivity. 14. Their funds ill-management. border edge fringe margin rim verge 15. The proposal was carried by a very narrow 16. Be careful! The of your glass is cracked. of the stove. of the precipice; you may stumble and . because of their extravagance and 17. I hurt my knee against the 18. Don’t go near the topple over. 19. The ridge. between the two countries runs along the mountain 20. He pushed the leftovers of the food on the of the plate. 21. When writing the composition, be sure to write in every other line and leave a . 22. When the toy was taken away, the girl found herself on the of tears. 23. Professor Hill always writes his comments in the students’ papers. 24. Caracas, a modern city on the dominated by a profusion of motor traffic. 25. The bond issue, proposed as a way of financing a centennial of the Orinoco wilderness, is of his celebration, failed by a narrow 26. The thin detective with the horn the garden. . glasses wandered through 27. Owing to the poor management, this firm was nearly on the of bankruptcy. 28. At the wedding, though the in-laws on the outer didn’t enjoy themselves as much as “the privileged group”, the atmosphere was, on the whole, genial and harmonious. 29. These recruits are going to be sent to guard the farm on the Chinese side of the with Burma, 30. Many young graduates like to work in the publishing house now not because of the benefits it offers, but because of the pleasant working environment it provides for all. Ⅶ.For each blank in the following passage, choose the most suitable word from the list of words provided below. Each work can be used once only. Write your choice of words in its proper form in the corresponding blanks in the passage. grudge In the light of willingly freedom knowledge philosophers spiritual comfort measure passers-by measure the only exception in terms of is fully aware of estimate steal occasionally nothing in the open envious of the world of nature beggars sacrifice is free from be paid for human dignity with ease Nothing to Sell and Nothing to Buy It has been said that everyone lives by selling something. ( 1 )( 3 ) this statement, teachers live by selling ( 2 ) by selling wisdom and priests by selling ( 4 ), . Though it may be possible to ( 5 )( 6 ) the value of material goods the true money, it is extremely difficult to ( 7 )value of the services which people perform for us. There are times when we would ( 8 )we might ( 9 ) give everything we possess to save our lives, yet paying a surgeon a high fee for offering us precisely this service. The conditions of society are such that skills have to ( 10 )in the same way that goods are paid for at a shop. to Everyone has something to sell. Tramps seem to be ( 11 )this general rule. Beggars almost sell themselves as human beings to arouse the pity of ( 12 ). But real tramps are not ( 13 ) from others. In . A tramp him. . They have nothing to sell and require ( 14 )seeking independence, they do not sacrifice their ( 15 )may ask you for money, but he will never ask you to ( 16 )He has deliberately chosen to lead the life he leads and ( 17 )the consequences. He may never be sure where the next meal is coming from, but he ( 18 )the thousands of anxieties which afflict other people. His few material possessions make it possible for him to move from place to place ( 19 )gets far closer to ( 21 )beg, or ( 22 ). By having to sleep ( 20 ), he than most of us ever do. He may hunt, to keep himself alive; he may even, in times real his freedom. We need, do a little work; but he will never ( 23 )often speak of tramps with contempt and put them in the same class as beggars, but how many of us can honestly say that we have not felt a little ( 24 )care? Ⅷ.Translation The Flight of Youth There are gains for all our losses. There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again. We are stronger, and are better, Under manhood’s sterner reign: their simple way of life and their ( 25 ) from Still we feel that something sweet Followed youth, with flying feet, And will never come again.
1-1: / 1-2: / 1-3: / 1-4: / 1-5: / 2-1: / 2-2: / 2-3: / 答案:F 2-4: / 答案:T Something beautiful is vanished, And we sigh for it in vain; We behold it everywhere, On the earth, and in the air, But it never comes again! 第二册第14课练习答案
答案:C 答案:C 答案:A 答案:A 答案:B 答案:T 答案:F
2-5: / 答案:F 2-6: / 答案:F 2-7: / 答案:T 2-8: / 答案:F 2-9: / 答案:T 2-10: / 答案:T 3-1: /
答案:alliteration/ Metaphor 3-2: /
答案:metonymy 3-3: /
答案: metonymy /metaphor 3-4: /
答案:personification 3-5: /
答案: metonymy/ metaphor
3-6: / 答案:irony 3-7: /
答案:euphemism 3-8: /
答案:personification 4-1: / 答案:C 4-2: / 答案:A 4-3: / 答案:A 4-4: / 答案:A 4-5: / 答案:C 4-6: / 答案:A 4-7: / 答案:B 4-8: / 答案:C 4-9: / 答案:B 4-10: / 答案:D 4-11: / 答案:C 4-12: / 答案:A 4-13: / 答案:D 4-14: / 答案:C 4-15: / 答案:A 4-16: / 答案:B
4-17: / 答案:A 4-15: / 答案:A 4-19: / 答案:A 4-20: / 答案:B 4-21: / 答案:B 4-22: / 答案:D 5-1: /
答案:be reckoned with 5-2: /
答案:looked up to 5-3: /
答案:out of phase with 5-4: /
答案:yielded to 5-5: /
答案:in terms of 5-6: /
答案:cut off … from 5-7: /
答案:measure up against 5-8: /
答案:swallowed up
5-9: /
答案:beckoned to 5-10: /
答案:out of step with 6-1: / 答案:lessen 6-2: /
答案:diminished 6-3: /
答案:decreased 6-4: /
答案:dropped 6-5: /
答案:reducing 6-6: /
答案:declining 6-7: /
答案:dwindled 6-8: /
答案:diminishing / decreasing 6-9: /
答案:decrease
6-10: / 答案:reduced 6-11: /
答案:declining 6-12: /
答案:diminished, dwindled 6-13: / 答案:reduced 6-14: /
答案:diminished / dwindled 6-15: / 答案:margin 6-16: / 答案:rim 6-17: / 答案:edge 6-18: / 答案:edge 6-19: / 答案:border 6-20: / 答案:edge
6-21: / 答案:margin 6-22: / 答案:verge 6-23: / 答案:margins 6-24: / 答案:fringes 6-25: / 答案:margin 6-26: / 答案:rimmed 6-27: / 答案:verge 6-28: / 答案:fringes 6-29: / 答案:border 6-30: / 答案:fringe 7-1: /
答案:In the light of
7-2: /
答案:knowledge 7-3: /
答案:philosophers 7-4: /
答案:spiritual comfort 7-5: /
答案:measure 7-6: /
答案:in terms of 7-7: /
答案:estimate 7-8: /
答案:willingly 7-9: / 答案:grudge 7-10: /
答案:be paid for 7-11: /
答案:the only exception 7-12: /
答案:passers-by
7-13: / 答案:beggars 7-14: / 答案:nothing 7-15: /
答案:human dignity 7-16: /
答案:feel sorry for 7-17: /
答案:is fully aware of 7-18: /
答案:is free from 7-19: /
答案:with ease 7-20: /
答案:in the open 7-21: /
答案:the world of nature 7-22: /
答案:steal occasionally 7-23: /
答案:sacrifice
7-24: /
答案:envious of 7-25: / 答案:freedom
8:青春的飞逝/我们失去的一切都能得到补偿/我们所有的痛苦都能得到安慰/可是梦境似的青春一旦消逝/它带走了我们心中某种美好的事物/从此一去不复返回/严峻的成年生活将我们驱使/我们变得日益刚强、更臻完美/可是依然感到某种甜美的东西/已随着青春飞逝/永不再返回/美好的东西已经消失/我们枉自为此叹息/虽然在天地之间/我们到处能看见青春的魅力/可是它永不再返回！
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