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 b
5) I enjoy the hustle and busy activity of life in a big city. 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 intolerance very quickly. j icon-destroying period I 15) Patriotism can turn into chauvinistic patriotism and 16) Very few early Byzantine icons survived the 17) The newspapers severely criticised him. f suburbs. r
18) His office is in town, but his dwelling place is in the 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 satisfaction in on spending upon 4. The border incident were ready to march.
. . 2. She would gladly have been converted to Vida's
and mopping the floor the two countries into war. 3. Farm folk seem to place less emphasis than city folk
5. The speaker soon______the crowd______ until they 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 naive 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 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
2) The young men began to enlist for ________.
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 ________.
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 recollections to both the middle-age and the young.
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 A. the Babbitts B. Victorian gentility
C. Bohemianism and eccentricity
D. The hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition
5) Which of the following did the Sad Young Men enjoy ?