Unit 7 The Monster习题答案综合教程四

Unit 7 The Monster

Key to the Exercises

Text comprehension

I. Decide which of the following best states the author's purpose of writing.

II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.

1. T (Refer to Paragraphs 2?.)

2. F (Refer to Paragraph 5, which suggests he was emotionally unstable.)

3. F (Refer to Paragraph 7, which states he was responsible for large sums of debt.)

4. T (Refer to Paragraph 8. A lot of women came into his life as a result of his pursuit, and were abandoned by him in the end.)

5. T (Refer to Paragraph 12.)

III. Answer the following questions.

1. Refer to Paragraph 1. He had a short stature with a disproportionately large head. And he had skin diseases.

2. Refer to Paragraph 2. He believed he was one of the greatest men in the world, a great composer, a great thinker and a great dramatist combined into one. A man of such arrogance cannot help but take himself to be the center of conversations.

3. Refer to Paragraph 3. If anyone showed slight disagreement with him, he would make a lengthy and aggressive speech for hours to prove himself to be in the right. This would force his dazed and deafened hearer to surrender.

4. Refer to Paragraph 5. He was emotionally capricious like a child. Rapture in him could easily turn into extreme melancholy. He was heartless and callous to a frightening degree on some occasions. Moreover, his emotional states always found outward expression.

5. Refer to Paragraphs 11 and 12. The author says that Wagner was among the greatest dramatists, the greatest thinkers and the most tremendous musical geniuses in our world. His immortal works far exceeded in value the tortures his arrogance inflicted upon others and the debts he owed.

6. Refer to Paragraph 13. The tremendous creative power, which propelled him to produce so many memorable works in his lifetime, could have crushed his poor brain and body. However, he miraculously survived and made all the immortal accomplishments. In this sense he was a monster rather than a human being.

IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences. C

1. He almost had no sense of responsibility.

2. He wrote large numbers of letters begging for money. In some letters he was servile without shame, and in other letters he loftily offered his targeted benefactor the privilege of contributing to his support. If the recipient refused to accept his offer, i.e. refused to lend him money, he would fly into a rage.

3. He would use his influence on as many people as possible in order to meet some admirer of his who was only too glad to offer him his help.

4. Since Wagner was driven by such tremendous forces, it is no surprise that he didn't behave like a normal human being.

Structural analysis of the text

In the first 10 paragraphs, we can find the following words and expressions used to describe Richard Wagner as a monster of conceit: delusions of grandeur / a monster of conceit / believed himself to be one of the greatest dramatists in the world, one of the greatest thinkers, and one of the greatest composers / the most exhausting conversationalist / proved himself right in so many ways / had theories about almost any subject under the sun / almost innocent of any sense of responsibility / an endless procession of women.

In the remaining paragraphs, we can find the following words and expressions used to describe him as a great genius: right all the time / one of the world's greatest dramatists / a great thinker / one of the most stupendous musical geniuses / owe him a living.

Rhetorical features of the text

The repetitive use of the third person pronoun he creates suspense in the reader's mind. This is one of the effective ways to hold the reader's attention and make him read on.

Vocabulary exercises

I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

1. person with extremely excessive self-pride

2. with all their talents combined in him

3. in a bad temper; unwell or annoyed

4. without

5. use as much influence of his as possible (from behind the scenes)

6. make concession

II. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a phrase from the box in its appropriate form.

1. pulled wires

2. be content with 3. rolled into one

4. between the lines of

5. sink into

6. innocent of

7. out of sorts

8. lay my hands on

III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.

1. callousness 2. tormentor

6. tragedy 3. inconceivable 4. arrogantly 5. gloomy

IV. Choose the word that can replace the underlined part in each sentence without changing its original meaning.

1. A 2. B 3. C 4. A

5. C 6. B 7. A 8. D

V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.

1. Antonym: humbleness (modesty)

2. Synonym: amazing (stunning, miraculous)

3. Synonym: cold-blooded (inhumane, merciless)

4. Synonym: void

5. Antonym: ethical (moral, principled, scrupulous)

6. Synonym: parody (caricature)

7. Antonym: exhilaration (bliss, ecstasy)

8. Synonym: proudly (self-importantly)

VI. Explain the meaning of the underlined part in each sentence.

1. company 2. controlled

3. imprecise 4. out of fashion

5. immediately

Grammar exercises

I. Complete the following sentences with prepositions.

1. at 2. on

6. of 3. to 4. at 5. from

7. in, for, at 8. on, of, of 6. cover 7. delusion 8. lofty

9. over

10. on, under, out of

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