Lesson1
logmein1.What, according to the writer,makes good conversation?what spoils it?
A good conversation does not really start from anywhere, and no one has any idea where it will go. A good conversation is not for making a point. Argument may often be a part of it, but the purpo of the argument is not to convince. When people become rious and talk as if they have something very important to say, when they argue to convince or to win their point, the conversation is spoilt.
2. Why does the writer like “bar conversation” so much?
The writer likes bar conversation very much becau he has spent a lot of time in pubs and is ud to this kind of conversation. Bar friends are companions, not intimates. They are friends but not intimate enough to be curious about each other's private life and thoughts.
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3.Does a good conversation need a focal subject?
No. Conversation does not need a focus. But when a focal subject appears in the natural flow of conversation, the conversation becomes vivid, lively and more interesting.
4. Why did people in the pub talk about Australia?Why did the conversation turn to Norman England?
The people talked about Australia becau the speaker who introduced the subject mentioned incidentally that it was an Australian who had given her such a definition of "the King's English. " When the people talked about the resistance in the lower class to any attempt by an upper class to lay down rules for "English as it should be spoken", the conversation moved to Norman England becau at that time a language barrier existed between the Saxon peasants and the Norman conquerors.
5. How does the u of words show class distinction?
bedriddenThe Saxon peasants and their Norman conquerors ud different words for the same thing. For examples e paragraph 9.
filter是什么6. When was “the King’s English” regarded as a form of racial discrimination in England?
The King’s English” was regarded as a form 0f racial discrimination during the Norman rule in England about 1154—1399．
7.What is the attitude of the writer towards “the King’s English”?dominate
The writer thinks “the King’s English” is a class reprentation of reality．1t is worth trying to speak “the King’s English”，but it should not be 1aid down as an edict，and made immune to change from below．The King’s English is a model a rich and instructive one- but it ought not to be an ultimatum．
battlefield8.What does the writer mean when he says, “the King’s English,like the Anglo-Fren
广州电脑维修培训ch of the Normans,is a class reprentation of reality?
During the Norman period，the ruling class spoke Anglo— French while the peasants spoke their native Saxon language． Language bears the stamp of the class that us it．The King’s English today refers to the language ud by the upper，educated class in England．
Lesson2
1 Like other good writers,Orwll is good at showing rather than telling what details or examples does the writer u to show how poor the natives in Marrakech were.
Beyond choice of words and imagery ,Orwell successfully depicts the poverty of the inhabitants of Marrakech by describing objectively the various aspects of their life. His vivid objective descriptions give the reader a clear picture of the poverty of the people.
Here are five things he describes to show poverty- (a) the burial of the poor inhabitants (b)an Arab Navvy, an employee of the municipality, begging for a piece of bread (c)the mi
rable lives of the Jews in the ghettoes~ (d)cultivation of the poor soil; (e) the old women carrying firewood. 撒播
2. What’s the main idea of paragraphs 1-2？How were people buried in Marrakech? What does this show?
In the two paragraphs, Orwell tells us how people are buried in Marrakech—the crowd of mourners wailing a chant, corps wrapped in a piece of rag, carried on a rough wooden bier, friends hacking a shallow hole, throwing the body in it, flinging some dried—up earth over it, no grave stone. All the show a vivid picture of the poverty of the place.
3. What was the Jewish quarter like in Marrakech? How were the Jew treated in this country?
领略什么Under the rulers of the Moorish empire, Jews in Marrakech were only allowed to own land in certain areas. As a result, the streets are very narrow, hous overcrowded and completely without windows. The people have been made to live in such crowded places
look look lookfor so 1ong that they have become ud to this kind of overcrowding; since they can expect nothing better, they no longer bother about it. The Jews was an oppresd minority in this colonial country. Their fate was even wor than that of the natives.
