group. Many of these intellectuals lived abroad, especially in Paris, as expatriates, but most of them later re-turned to the United States voluntarily. These intellectuals were called \Young Men\or \Lost Generation\because they were critical and rebellious. However, they were never lost because they were also very creative and productive and as this essay says \writing in its literary experience\
The structural organization of this essay is clear and simple. The essay divides logically into paragraphs with particular functions: to introduce the subject (introduction) in paragraph 1, to support and develop the thesis (the body or the middle)in paragraphs 2 through 9, to bring the discussion to an end (conclusion) in paragraphs 10 and 11.
In \the essay: \called them, cursed their luck but didn't die; escaped butvoluntarily returned; flayed the Babbits but loved their country, and in so doing gave the nation the liveliest, freishest, most stimulating writing in its literary experience.
补充练习
《高级英语》第二册练习
Lesson 10 The Sad Young Men
Ⅰ. Choose the best words to complete the sentences.
1. revolt
A. rebellion B. amour C. memory
D. recollection 2. nostalgic
A. sensational B. romantic C. homesick D. fashionable 3. stature A. status B. statue C. station D. stuff
4. provincial A. gigantic B. narrow C. novel D. moral 5. mores
A.customs B. drugs
C. adventurousness D. sergeants 6. orgy
A. bombast B. binary C. compatible D. digitized 7. transitory A. curious B. idealistic C. tremendous D. short-lived 8. contingent A. corps
B. distinction C. notion D. morality 9. obsolescent A. unabated B. smug C. outmoded D. sodden 10. strife A. struggle B. patriotism C. recession D. factor 11. obliquely A. sexually B. reluctantly
C. internationally D. indirectly 12. harass A. plead B. worry C. fan
D. flout 13. fad
A. feature B. imitator C. craze D. pulpit 14. hectic A. affluent B. acute C. exciting D. naughty 15. intellectual A. flapper B. sheik C. citizen D. intellect 16. crook A. cook B. cheat C. cowboy D. writer 17. curb
A. control B. shock C. escape D. drift 18. sterile A. cynical
B. B. sensitive C. unproductive D. sophisticated 19. illicit A. legal B. illegal C. resistible D. irresistible 20. aftermath A. search
B. investigation C. experiment D. consequence
Ⅱ. Spell out the words according to the meaning and the first letter of the word is given.
1) This disease causes physical and mental deterioration. d
2) This shop used to be a place for going to buy and drink alcohol illegally in the 1920s and 1930s. s
3) Do you think of him as a man supposed to be irresistibly attractive to romantic young women ? s
4) This bank has both individual and company customers. c
5) I enjoy the hustle and busy activity of life in a big city. b
6) This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the strange act and idea of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama. v 7) Find your ideal online UK jobsite or employing agency by name, location or industry. r
8) He made great attempts to stop her. s
9) The warlike nations refused to have peace talks b
10) Bridgman does not see this scheme as contradicting the custom thesis. c 11) The breeze dispelled the fog d
12) The two sides reached a deadlock in their negotiations. S 13) Tell us what you think of this speech attack. d
14) Though now we talk about lots of smaller wars, what's to prevent a really big fire? c
15) Patriotism can turn into chauvinistic patriotism and intolerance very quickly. j
16) Very few early Byzantine icons survived the icon-destroying period I 17) The newspapers severely criticised him. f
18) His office is in town, but his dwelling place is in the suburbs. r 19) A tendency to eat sand is a strange act of appetite. p
20) My weariness was great after looking unsuccessfully for a job all day. f
Ⅲ. Fill in the blank with the following phrases and make changes if necessary.
a common denominator, a catalytic agent, avid for, bear no / some relationship to, confine to, Gopher Prairie, keep up with the Joneses, more than enough, precipitate ? into, see? in perspective, sober up, susceptible to, to a man, whip up, write off as,
1. Thank you, I have had
2. She would gladly have been converted to Vida's satisfaction in and mopping the floor
3. Farm folk seem to place less emphasis than city folk on spending upon 4. The border incident the two countries into war.
5. The speaker soon______the crowd______ until they were ready to march. 6. He _____things_______their right______ 7. I hope this coffee may_______him ______ .
8. A bad cold_______him_______his bed .
9. Patient expectations are realistically different between studies in ways that_______ the experience of active psychotherapy patients.
10. What this means is_____ is added to the lacquer to make it dry into a more durable finish.
11. Every child here is_____ attention.
12. National Cancer Institute researchers found that some women may be more genetically _____cancer from \13. She had been_______a failure at the age of eleven. 14.12 is_____of 1/4 and 1/3 .
15. ________John’s friends stood by him in his trouble.
Ⅳ. Text comprehension:
1) No aspect of life in the Twenties has been more commented upon and sensationally romanticized than _________.
A. the na?ve Fourth-of-July bombast B. the rejection of Victorian gentility
C. the expatriation of the true intellectuals D. The so-called Revolt of the Younger Generation 2) The young men began to enlist for ________. A. fun in the war
B. the war before it was too late
C. the democracy before the war ended D. the Victorian gentility after the war
3) “The Sad Young Men” actually refers to _________. A. the lost generation B. the angry young men C. Beat generation D. the war profiteers
4) The Sad Young Men included a group of young intellectuals except ________. A. Hemingway and Dos Passos
B. Rod W. Horton and Herbert W. Edwards C. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Eugene O’Neill D. Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings
5) Which of the following did the Sad Young Men enjoy ? A. the Babbitts
B. Victorian gentility
C. Bohemianism and eccentricity
D. The hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition
Ⅴ. Write T for a true statement and F for a false statement, according to the text.
1) The slightest mention of the decade after the First World War brings nostalgic