Unit 10 The Idiocy of Urban Life
Text comprehension
I. B
II.Judge
1. F
2. F
3.T
4.T
5. F
6.T
III.
IV. Explain
1.Rats make city life courteous and refined when they dominate the city deep at night.
2.City dwellers create all kinds of city vogues in the country, for they will not live without
the fashionable things.
3.The windows are disgraceful becau they put the lives of office workers in danger if a
fire should occur.
4. A lawn in the backyard and a few spindle-shaped trees struggling for life are not enough
to give the dweller any true n of the ason changes.
Vocabulary
I.
1. doing propaganda work \ printing lies on paper
现在2. fierce competition among people
3. foolishness \ stupidity
4. nless turmoil
5. something disgraceful
6. people with bent shoulders
II.
1.knowledge
2.simulation
3.insolence
4.urban
5.scurry
attend过去式
8.rat race
III.
1.idiotic
第82届奥斯卡
2.urbanity
3.solitary
5.insolent
7.lunatic
brava8.habitat
IV.
1. B
2. C
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. A
8. B
V.
1. bearing \ stance
2. impolite \ rude, ill-mannered
3. friendly \ social \sociable
4. modestly \ timidly \ gently
5. smelly \ stinking \foul \malodorous
6. thin \ lanky
7. accept \respect
8. strangely
VI.
1.somewhere away from a studio, office, library or laboratory where practical work is done
or data is collected
2.support
4.unconscious
5.very happy
6.ask for
Vocabulary
I.
1. It was Harry who told the police
2. It was I who told him the news.
3. It was Susan who would like to read some detective stories.
It was some detective stories that Susan would like to read.
4.It is only when one is ill that one realizes the value of health.
5. It was John who painted a lovely picture.
It was a lovely picture that John painted.
6. It was Galileo who invented the telescope.
It was the Telescope that Galileo invented.
7.It was Tom’s mother who threw an egg at the minister yesterday.
It was an egg that Tom’s mother threw at the minister yesterday.
It was at the minister that Tom’s mother threw an egg yesterday.
It was yesterday that Tom’s mother threw an egg at the minister.
8.It was Bill who relead the chairman’s illness to the reporters at the party last night.
It was the chairman’s illness that Bill relead to the reporters at the party last night.
It was at the party that Bill relead the chairman’s illness to the reporters last night.
It was last night that Bill relead the chairman’s illness to the reporters at the party.
II.
1.Do be civil this time.
2.Even the victims themlves can’t explain how the accident occurred.
3.John I can comprehend; but the others speak gibberish..
earl4.Ambitious she must have been, or she wouldn’t have come.
5.His face not many admired, while his character still fewer could prai.
6.They have promid to finish the work, and finish it they will.
7.Hidden in the cellar were veral barrels of wine. \ It was veral barrels of wine that were
hidden in the cellar.
8.What he was doing was making a plan.
III.
1.No, what I said was that I wanted you to fill the boxes with the books.
2.No, what I did was to invite her to my hou instead.
3.No, what I thought was that he was going on his own.
4.No, what I did was to repair the old one.
5.No, what I did was to phone the managing director directly.
6.No, what I’d like you to work on is Exerci Two.
7.No, what I meant was that I will text-message you when I get there.
8.No, what I did was to nd them some home-made cakes.
IV.
1. People say that Byron lived on vinegar and potatoes.
2. They were towing the damaged ship into harbour when the towline broke.
3. They are lengthening the runways at all the main airports.
4. Experts have proved that this scientific theory is fal.
5. Get a builder to put in a lift and then you won’t have to climb up all the stairs.
6. Our opponents must have started this rumour.
7. The authorities put this sip into quarantine and forbade pasngers and crew to land.
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8. People say that early Egyptian and Greek soldiers ud carrier pigeons.modest
V..
1. The door won’t lock.
2. the door hasn’t been locked.
3. His new novel lls well.
4. the girl doesn’t photograph well.
5. he has not been photographed well.
6. this material doesn’t dye well.
7. The flat is to let.
8. the railway divides here into two lines.
Translation
1.Translate the following ntences into Chine.
1. 偶尔从寂静中开来一辆汽车，在闪烁的交通灯下轻巧地驶过。
2. 他们不遗余力地让城里人想象自己现在住的地方决不是城市：在较为现代化的城郊铺上几块草坪，在更为富裕的远郊，草坪的面积更大。
3. 即使城市居民在他们郊区的家外面能知道有时天气热了，有时天气冷了，但仅凭他们的后院的草坪或几棵半死不活的小树，他们是无法知道季节更迭的真正节奏的。
4. 城里人日复一日地生活在非现实之中，自命不凡，举止愚蠢，他们即使在赶路时也是步履沉重，他们从不仰视他们的建筑，更不会仰望天空。恰恰是这种生活使他们带者傲慢的神情蔑视和讥讽供养他们的乡下人的有益且有回报的生活。
II. Translate the following ntences into English, using the words or phras given in the brackets.
1. The government promis that it will spare no effort to support our environmental protection projects.
2. She had no knowledge of Chine history, geography and culture before she came to China.
3. The fire that broke out in the kindergarten endangered 23 children’s lives.
4. We tried our best to head him off the topic, becau we knew he would reveal confidential information.
5. The sonorous voice of the speaker is echoing round the hall.
6. Industry and loyalty sometimes compensate for the lack of ability.
7.As far as I know, he was one of the few people who got out of the rat race.
8.He left a few men behind to clean up the last of the enemy positions.
III. . Translate the following passage into Chine.
为什么那么多人十分急切地希望离开自己从小长大的小城镇或村庄，奔向大都市呢？他们常说自己的家乡“枯燥无味”，或是“死气沉沉”，或是做苛刻地指责他“土里吧
如果我们超越一点来研究这个问题，就象我们们远距离地审视整个国家一样，我们对到底是什么到大城市来这个问题就会有一点眉目了。大城市值得注意的主要一点就是“大”：人多，发生的事情也多。如果你真正从一个很远的距离。如夜晚航行的飞机上，俯视一座城市，你会被眼前难以置信的明亮所打动：那么多的灯光，以至于你会情不自禁地以为五彩缤纷的生活就在下面向你招手。然而，一旦你落地，失望之情便会油然而生，因为当你驱车从机场驶入市中心说，你会意识到光明不过是绵延几英里的路灯和虹招牌。他们本身并非是快乐与幸福的源泉。城市之光并不友善，仅仅只是灯光而已。事实上，其效果或许还让你感到孤独和寂寞。
I. Dictation.
In one n,/ we can trace all the problems of the American city/ back to a single starting point;/ we Americans don't like our cities very much./
That is,/ on the face of it,/ absurd. / After all,/ more than three-fourths of us now live in cities,/ and more are flocking to them every year. / We are told/ that the problems of our cities/
are receiving more attention in Washington,/ and scholarship has discovered a whole new field in urban studies. /
Nonetheless,/ it is historically true:/ in the American psychology,/ the city has been a basically suspect institution,/ filled with the corruption of Europe,/ totally lacking that n of spaciousness/ and innocence of the frontier/ and the rural landscape.语法分析器
II. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE appropriate word.
1.as
2. with
3. While
4. much
5. farming
6. still
mastermind7. for
8. rural
disappearing
