高级英语（第二册） Lesson 10 The Sad Young Men (Rod W. Horton and Herbert W. Edwards)
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, precipitate … into, see… in perspective, sober up, susceptible to, to a man, whip up, write off as,
1. Thank you, I have had
2. She would gladly have been converted to Vida's satisfaction in and mopping the floor 3. Farm folk seem to place less emphasis than city folk on spending upon 4. The border incident the two countries into war.
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 \
13. She had been_______a failure at the age of eleven. 14.12 is_____of 1/4 and 1/3 .
15. ________John?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
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高级英语（第二册） Lesson 10 The Sad Young Men (Rod W. Horton and Herbert W. Edwards)
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
Ⅴ. Write T for a true statement and F for a false statement, according to the text.
1) The slightest mention of the decade after the First World War brings nostalgic recollections to both the middle-age and the young.
2) After the First World War, the United States was no longer isolated in either politics or tradition. 3) When the war was over, the young people turned their energies in both Europe and America to the destruction of an obsolescent 19th century society.
4) In the Twenties the young people could enjoy alcohol legally.
5) In 1916—1917, military service was considered a romantic occupation because the young men of college age at that time knew nothing of modern warfare.
6) After the young people returned home, they developed a sudden bewildering world-weariness their relatives understood.
7) Greenwich Village set the pattern by having intellectuals flock there to pour out their new-found creative strength, to tear down the old world, to flout the morality of their grandfathers and to give all to art, love, and sensation.
8) “Bohemian” living became a fad and welcomed by everyone.
9) The true intellectuals left for Europe forever because they were not satisfied with their native country
10) The “lost generation” was actually never lost.
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…
第二册第10课练习答案
1-1: / 答案:A 1-2: / 答案:C
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高级英语（第二册） Lesson 10 The Sad Young Men (Rod W. Horton and Herbert W. Edwards)
1-3: / 答案:A 1-4: / 答案:B 1-5: / 答案: 1-6: / 答案:C 1-7: / 答案:D 1-8: / 答案:A 1-9: / 答案:C 1-10: / 答案:A 1-11: / 答案:D 1-12: / 答案:B 1-13: / 答案:C 1-14: / 答案:C 1-15: / 答案:D 1-16: / 答案:B 1-17: / 答案:A 1-18: / 答案:C 1-19: / 答案:B 1-20: / 答案:D 2-1: /
答案: degeneration 2-2: /
答案:speakeasy 2-3: /
答案:sheik 2-4: /
答案:corporate 2-5: /
答案:bustle 2-6: /
答案:vagaries 2-7: /
答案:recruitment 2-8: /
答案:strenuous 2-9: /
答案:belligerent 2-10: /
答案:conventionality 2-11: /
答案: dissipated 2-12: /
答案:Stalemate 2-13: /
答案:diatribe
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高级英语（第二册） Lesson 10 The Sad Young Men (Rod W. Horton and Herbert W. Edwards)
2-14: /
答案:conflagration 2-15: /
答案:jingoism 2-16: /
答案:Iconoclastic 2-17: /
答案:flayed 2-18: /
答案:residence 2-19: /
答案:perversion 2-20: /
答案:fatigue 3-1: /
答案:more than enough 3-2: /
答案:Gopher Prairie 3-3: /
答案:keeping up with the Joneses 3-4: /
答案:precipitated 3-5: /
答案: whipped up 3-6: /
答案:sees in perspective 3-7: /
答案: sober up 3-8: /
答案:confined to 3-9: /
答案:bear no relationship to 3-10: /
答案: a catalytic agent 3-11: /
答案:avid for 3-12: /
答案:fsusceptible to 3-13: /
答案:written off as 3-14: /
答案:a common denominator 3-15: /
答案:To a man
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高级英语（第二册） Lesson 10 The Sad Young Men (Rod W. Horton and Herbert W. Edwards)
4-1: / 答案:D 4-2: / 答案:C 4-3: / 答案:A 4-4: / 答案:B 4-5: / 答案:C 5-1: / 答案:F 5-2: / 答案:T 5-3: / 答案:T 5-4: / 答案:F 5-5: / 答案:T 5-6: / 答案:F 5-7: / 答案:T 5-8: / 答案:F 5-9: / 答案F 5-10: / 答案:T 6-1: /
答案:transferred epithets 6-2: /
答案:metaphor 6-3: /
答案:metaphors 6-4: /
答案:metonymy 6-5: /
答案:personification
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