Stuart: Introduction to the Passage
1. Type of literature: a piece of narrative writing
--protagonist/antagonists
--climax
--denouement
血气方刚的拼音 2. The main theme
3. Well chon title and words
友情句子 4. Style
--a very fast pace with a racy dialogue full of American colloquialism and slang
--employing a variety of writing techniques to make the story vivid, dramatic and colorful
III. Effective Writing Skills:
1. Employing colorful lexical spectrum, from the ultra learned terms to the infra clipped vulgar forms
2. Too much figurative language and ungrammatical inversion for specific purpos
3. The using of short ntences, elliptical ntences and dashes to maintain the speed of narration
Love is a Fallacy 课后练习题/EXERCISES
I. Write a short note on: Ruskin.
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1. Oxford Companion to English Literature
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2. any book on the history of English literature
3. any standard encyclopedia
II. Questions on content:
1. What does the writer say about his own essay? Is he rious in his remarks?
2. What, according to the writer, is the purpo of this essay? Do you agree?
3. Why does the narrator consider Petey Burch dumb as an ox?
4. Why does the narrator teach Polly Espy logic? Did he succeed?
5. Define and give an example of each of the logical fallacies discusd in this essay.
Ⅲ. Questions on appreciation:
1. Comment on the title of this essay. Is it humorous?
2. Can you find any evidence to support the view that the writer is satirizing a bright but lf-satisfied young man?
3. What is the purpo of this essay or story? What method does the writer employ?
4. Comment on the language ud by Polly. What effect does her language create?
5. Why does the narrator argue that "the things you learn in school don't have anything to do with life"? (para. 145)
6. What is the topic ntence of paragraph 50? How does the writer develop the idea expresd in the topic ntence?
7. Why does the narrator refer to Pygmalion and Frankenstein? Are the allusions chon aptly?
8. In what n is the conclusion ironic?
IV. Analyze the logical fallacy in each of the following statements:
1. Watching television is a waste of time.
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2. In the last month, fourteen students have been arrested in California for using drugs. That state is obviously filled with young addicts.
3. All his life he has read comic books. Is it any wonder he's a juvenile delinquent?
4. If I had studied harder, I would definitely have pasd that test.
5. Religion obviously weakens the political strength of a country. After all, Rome fell after the introduction of Christianity.
6. It's true that this boy killed four people. Yet think of the poverty and miry he was raid in: his parents neglected him, and he never had enough to eat.
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7.Teachers in capitalist countries are out for all the money they can get.
8. Everybody in a capitalist country is basically dishonest. Look at all the politicians who are arrested every year for taking bribes and misusing public funds.
V. Translate paras 145--154 into Chine.
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Ⅵ. Look up the dictionary and explain the meaning of the italicized words"
1. that logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline (para 3)
2. my brain was as powerful as a dynamo (para 4)
3. pausing in my flight (para 8)
4. when the Charleston came back (para 11)
官场笔记5. They shed. (para 16)
6. Don't you want to be in the swim? (para 17)
7. I would be out in practice (para 24)
8. She was not yet of pin-up proportions (para 25)
9. She already had the makings. (para 25)
树林怎么画10. She had an erectness of carriage, an ea of bearing (para 26)
11. are you going steady (para 30)
12. I deposited her at the girls' dormitory (para 97)
13. lawyers have briefs to guide them (para 105)
14. hammering away without let-up (para 123)
Ⅶ. Explain how the meaning of the following ntences is affected when the italicized words are replaced with the words in brackets. Pay attention to the shades of meaning of the words:
1. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. (fashions)
2. "Can you mean," I said incredulously, "that people ... again?" (incredibly)
3. he said passionately. (eagerly)
4. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions (feelings)
5. I threw open the suitca and revealed the huge, hairy, gamy object (showed)
