全新版大学英语第四册综合教程单词详解(10)

A) virtues B) features C) properties D) characteristics 7. By signing the lease we made a ________ to pay a rent of $ 150 a week.

A) conception B) commission C) commitment D) confinement

8. Hurricanes are killer winds, and their __________ power lies in the physical damage they can do.

A) cumulative B) destructive C) turbulent D) prevalent

9. Parents often faced the ________ between doing what they felt was good for the development of the child and what they could stand by way of undisciplined noise and destructiveness.

A) paradox B) junction C) dilemma D) premise

10.I‘m very sorry to have __________ you with so many questions on such an occasion.

A) interfered B) offended C) impressed D) bothered

11. They were ______ in their scientific research, not knowing what happened just outside their lab.

A) submerged B) drowned C) immersed D) dipped

12. Professor Taylor‘s talk has indicated that science has a very strong _________ on the

everyday life of non-scientists as well as scientists. A) motivation B) perspective C) impact D) impression 13. I have had my eyes tested and the report says that my _____ is perfect.

A) outlook B) vision C) horizon D) perspective 14. They stood gazing at the happy _______ of children playing in the park.

A) perspective B) view C) landscape D) scene

15 .These goods are ________ for export, though a few of them may be sold on the home market.

A) completely B) essentially C) necessarily D) remarkably

16. He was looking admiringly at the photograph published by Collins in _______ with the Imperial Museum. A) collection B) connection C) collaboration D) combination

17. The cultures of China and Japan have shared many features, but each has used them according to its national ____________. A) engagement B) destiny C) capacity D) temperament 18. Attempts to persuade her to stay after she felt insulted were ____________.

A) in no way B) on the contrary C) at a loss D) of no avail 19. That part of the city has long been ______ for its street violence.

A) notorious B) responsible C) historical D) illegal 20. What you have done is _______the doctor‘s orders.

A) attached to B) responsible to C) resistant to D) contrary to Key

1-10 BABCB ACBCD 11-20 CCBDB CDDAD

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Unit 5

Cruelty

一、文化背景

1. W. Somerset Maugham, or Somerset Maugham (萨默塞特。毛姆) (1874---1965)

Somerset maugham was born of English parents in Paris, France, in 1874, and lived in France---speaking only French---until he lost both of his parents when he was 11 years old. As an orphan, he was brought back to England by an uncle and attended King‘s School in Canterbury. Maugham‘s boyhood was blighted by insecurities, including a stammer that forced him to withdraw from most social interaction---this was a central motivation for Maugham to become an observer of life, and an author. He later studied in Heidelberg, Germany, with a special emphasis on philosophy and literature, and it was during this period that he discovered the homosexual side of his personality, which became still a further source of anxiety and withdrawal.

Maugham was perhaps the most respected English author of the 20th century to achieve a major presence in films; not only were many of his novels, short stories, and plays adapted into movies, but Maugham had the distinction of being portrayed on screen twice by no less a figure than. As an English author, his novels and short stories are characterized by great narrative facility, simplicity of style, and a disillusioned and ironic point of view.

2. Ernest Miller Hemingway（厄内斯特。米勒。海明威）(1899—1961)

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. After graduating from high school, he got a job at a paper called Kansas City Star. Hemingway continually tried to enter the military, but his messed up eye, hindered this task. Hemingway had managed to get a job driving an American Red Cross ambulance. During this expedition, he was injured and hospitalized. Hemingway had a crush for a particular nurse at that hospital, whose name was Agnes von Kurowsky. Hemingway continually proposed to her, and she continually denied. When Hemingway healed his injuries, he moved back to Michigan, and had wanted to write again. When he married Hadley Richardson he was working in France, as a foreign correspondent, for the Toronto Star.

In 1925, Hemingway wrote a book called In Our Time, which was marketed in New York. The next year he published a book called The Sun Also Rises, a novel where he had his first success. Hemingway, started writing short stories, among them was Men Without Women in 1927, and A Farewell to Arms in 1929. this story shows a love story within a wartime setting. Many people believe that Hemingway did his writing at this period of his life. He once confessed ―If I had not been hunting and

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fishing, I would have probably been writing.‖

Following the war in Europe, Hemingway returned to his home in Cuba. In 1953, he received a Pulitzer Prize for his book The Old Man and the Sea.

As one critic put it ―Hemingway was a cheerful, irascible, by turns generous, and selfish, expansive and egocentric. Hemingway was hedonistic and dedicated, in love with life and yet by his own admission obsessed with death.‖ By 1960, Hemingway was driven out of Cuba and moved to Finca, and then he moved to a house in Ketchum, Idaho. Hemingway was suffering from severe depression, and anxiety attacks. He had gone to the Mayo clinic in Massachusetts, to receive electro-shock therapy, but it didn‘t work out for him at all. Later that same year, Hemingway died. He killed himself because of hid depression.

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