高级英语高级英语2练习11

《高级英语》第二册练习

Lesson 11

The Future of The English

Ⅰ.Questions on content:

1.What role, according to Priestly, does instinctive feeling play in the behavior of an Englishman?

2. How does Priestly come to the conclusion that there are fewer fanatical believers in England?

3. What does the writer mean when he says, ―Some cancer in their character has eaten away their Englishness‖? Whom is he referring to? (Para. 2)

4. How, according to the writer, are the real English people different? 5. What is the conflict between Admass and Englishness? What importance does the writer attach to the outcome of this conflict? 6. What force may play a decisive role in this battle between Admass and Englishness? How?

7. Who are those people who have rejected Admass? What important role can they play?

8. What does Priestly think about the young in England? 9. What does he say about the ―sloppy people‖?

10. Why is there widespread boredom in heavily industrialized societies? How does boredom affect the English?

11. What other elements apart from boredom have brought about dishonesty and vicious criminality in England? 12. Does the writer consider politics important? Why?

Ⅱ. Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false according to the text.

1. The English who have inherited Englishness cannot feel at home in the contemporary world.

2. The demand for bigness and efficiency is alien to ―Admass‖.

3. The production and consumption of goods is central to ?Englishness‘ 4. America has been the chief advocate of ?Admass‘ for many years. 5. ?Englishness‘ is not hospitable to change and is suspicious of change for change‘s sake, rejecting the idea that we are now committed to some inevitable mechanical progress.

6. ?Englishness‘ is not as strong as it was 30 years ago.

7. People who are fascinated by ?Admass‘ can be found among workers in smallish, well-managed and honest enterprises, in which everybody still cares about the product and does not assume the customers are idiots. 8. Priestley believes that the English people still have some characteristically English quality and these qualities could be easily perceived

9. According to Priestley, the political apathy can be dangerous

10. The English people may hotly argue and abuse and quarrel with each other because there remains no natural sympathetic feeling for each other. Ⅲ. Reading Comprehension:

1. The following are statements about ?Admass‘. According to the text, which one is NOT appropriate?

A. ?Admass‘ demands higher and higher figures and larger and B. ?Admass‘ demands enormous advertising campaigns and C. ?Admass‘ offers more and more things and creates the so-called D. ?Admass‘ holds the idea that man is not simply a producer and larger profits.

brigades of razor-keen salesmen ?good-life‘. consumer.

2. The following are statements about ?Englishness‘. According to the

text, which one is NOT appropriate?

A. ?Englishness‘ depends on instinct and intuition. B. ?Englishness‘ has conquered most of the west world. C. ?Englishness‘ has deep roots in the past.

D. ?Englishness‘ belongs to the invisible inner world.

3. To explain that ?Englishness‘ is not hostile to change but is deeply suspicious, the author has used the following writing skills EXCEPT:

A. definition B. exemplification C. comparison D. contrast

4. According to the text, people who have been liberated from the harsh discipline of circumstance should move on to acquire some measure of self-discipline because:

A. a man cannot live without some measure of self-discipline in a B. a man cannot play an adequate role in a civilized society. C. a man can make more money with self-discipline. D. a man can be promoted easily with self-discipline.

A. In the modern society, there is a battle between ?Admass‘ and B. In the modern society, all the important and influential men hold C. In the modern society, people need not ?Englishness‘ to live D. In the modern society, ?Englishness‘ should not be refused civilized society.

5. According the text, what‘s the author‘s idea towards ?Englishness‘? ?Englishness‘. fast to ?Englishness‘. happily and properly.

because people need a direction and a great lift of the heart. ⅣPoint out what figure of speech is used in each of the following sentences:

1. Some cancer in their character has eaten away their Englishness.

2. Against this, at least superficially, Englishness seems a poor shadowy show – a faint pencil sketch beside a poster in full colour. asking for an overdraft tea party

3. It must have some moral capital to draw upon, and soon it may be 4. As it is they are like a hippopotamus blundering in and out of a pets‘ 5. Bewildered, they grope and mess around because they have fallen between two stools, the old harsh discipline having vanished and the essential new self – discipline either not understood or thought to be out of reach.

6. Yes, Englishness is still with us. But it needs reinforcement, extra nourishment, especially now when our public life seems ready to starve it. 7. There are English people of all ages, though far more under thirty than over sixty, who seem to regard politics as a game but not one of their games – polo, let us say.

8. Otherwise they could soon learn, in the worst way, that heavy hands can fall on the shoulders that have been shrugging away politics. 9. Englishness cannot be fed with the east wind of a narrow rationality, the latest figures of profit and loss, a constant appeal to self-interest. 10. But we do not have to go on like that, to enter a Common Market of national character.

Ⅴ. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. 1.The police were shocked by the _____ attack.

A ferocious B frivolous C fanatical D feverish