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高级英语第二册第八课课后题

高级英语第二册第八课课后题
高级英语第二册第八课课后题

Lesson 8

Exercises

I.Write a short note on Peter F.Dructer.

[SRB]

1.Who’s who (1972)

2.The International Who’s who (1976-1979)

II. Questions on content:

1.Why is man defined as “ the animal that produces”?

2.How does work liberate man from nature and make him a social and

independent being?

3.Why, according to Fromm, was work meaningful in the thirteenth and

fourteenth centuries in the Western countries?

4.How did the meaning of work change after the collapse of the medieval social

structure? How did people’s sense of insecurity influence their work? What part did religion play?

5.What two views of work were common during the first centuries of the modern

era? How did different classes view work differently? How, according to Fromm, did these views emerge?

6.How has the industrial worker’s role changed? What is his relationship to the

machine?

7.What, according to Peter Drucker, is the meaning of a job in the automobile

industry? Why is this meaning inadequate for the worker?

8.What has most concerned researchers in industrial psychology? How has the

comparision of worker to a machine influenced these investigations?

9.What two reactions has the alienated nature of work today resulted in,

according to Fromm?

III. Questions on appreciation:

1.How do the ideas presented in paragraph 1 prepare the reader for paragraph 2?

2.How does paragraph 2 provide the definition of an ideal kind of work?

3.Are the first two paragraphs important? What role do they play in the whole

essay?

4.How do the quotations from C.W. MILLS and P.Drucker support and develop

Fromm’s point? Are quotations more effective than a paraphrase or a summary?

5.Why are industrial psychologists concerned with “human relations,” according

to Fromm? What are Fromm’s reactions to their endeavors? How does he make his reactions clear to his readers?

6.Review the ways in which Fromm demonstrates that work “has become

alienated” from people. When did this alienation begin? What caused it? What have been its effects?

7.The method of causal analysis is used in the writing of this essay. Explain how

Fromm’s survey of the history of people’s attitude toward work is essential to the development of his causal analysis.

8.Do you have any comments or criticism to make on some of the points or views

put forward by Fromm? Give your reas ons/

IV. Paraphrase:

1.…by the very fact of production, he has risen above the animal

kingdom…(para1)

2.Work is also his liberator from nature, his creator as a social and independent

being.(para1)

3.…all are expressions of the creative transformation of nature by man’s reason

and skill.(para 1)

4.There is no split of work and play, or work and culture.(para2)

5.Work becomes the chief factor in a system of “innerworldly ascetcism,”an

answer to man’s sense of aloneness and isolation. (para3)

6.Work has become alienated from the working person.(para5)

7.Work is a means of getting money, not in itself a meaningful human

activity.(para7)

8.…a pay check is not enough to base one’s self respect on. (para7)

9.…most industrial psychologists are mainly concerned with the manipulation of

worker’s psyche. (para9)

10.It is going to pay off in cold dollars and cents to management, … (para9)

11.But this usefulness often serves only as a rationalization for the appeal to

complete passivity and receptivity. (para11)

12.…he has a feeling of fraudulency about his product and a secret contempt for it.

(para13)

V. Translate paragraph 9 into Chinese.

VI.Look up the dictionary and explain the meaning of the italicized words:

1.he has risen above the animal kingdom (para1)

2.as a social and independent being (para1)

3.develop his capacities and skills in its prosecution (para2)

4.he was among the “chosen” ones (para4)

5.Work has become alienated from the working person. (para5)

6.the whole product in its physical aspects (para6)

7.rather than its master as an active agent (para6)

8.this puts a premium on slovenly work (para7)

9.how he can made to work with less friction (para9)

10.with the manipulation of the worker’s psyche (para9)

11.It is going to pay off in cold dollars and cents to management … (para9)

12.There are, of course, many useful and labor saving gadgets. (para11)

VII. Give ten synonymous and/or related words of the word creator (meaning producer). Give words of the same part of speech.

VIII. Give corresponding nouns for the following adjectives or verbs:

1.appropriate 11. English

2.precise 12. ambiguous

3.subtle 13. amass

4.prefer 14. disappoint

5.accept 15. disallow

6.assemble 16. physiological

7.absent-minded 17. provoke

8.sincere 18. judge

9.carry 19. understand

10.inherit 20. extend

IX. Add the suffix-ship or –dom or –hood to the following words:

1.false 11. guardian

2.official 12. seaman

3.bachelor 13. knight

4.woman 14. duke

5.lord 15. marksman

6.dean 16. prince

7.priest 17. town

8.king 18. censor

9.brother 19. serf

10.trustee 20.citizen

X.Explain how the meaning of the following sentences is affected when the italicized words are replaced with the words in brackets. Pay attention to the shades of meaning of the words:

1. However primitive and simple his method of work may be, by the very fact of

production, he has risen above the animal kingdom; rightly has he been defined as “the animal that produces.” (backward) (correctly)

2. The more his work develops, the more his individuality develops. (individualism)

3. Work was not only a useful activity, but one which carried with it a profound

satisfaction. (action)

4. There is no split of work and play, or work and culture. (difference between)

5. The outcome of this activity, success or failure, decided his salvation, indicating

whether he was among the saved or the lost souls. (consequence)

6. The first centuries of the modern era find the meaning or work divided into that

of duty among the middle class and that of forced labor among those without property. (wealth)

7. P.Drucker, observing workers in the automobile industry, expresses this idea very

succinctly. (briefly)

8. Most investigations in the field of industrial psychology are concerned with the

question of how the productivity of the individual worker can be increased (products)

9. most industrial psychologists are mainly concerned with the manipulation of the

worker’s psyche (psychology)

10. One speaks of “human relation”and one means the most inhuman relations

(humane)

Ⅺ.For each of the following, give another word or expression with similar meaning found in the text:

1. be detached from 6. act

2. mode 7. gadget

3. duty 8. riches

4. role 9. passivity

5. feature 10. longing

XII.Read the following paragraphs and prepare to discuss: 1) What is the central idea of the paragraph? 2) What method is used in developing the central idea? 1.I love my lawyer. My lawyer is not an ordinary person. My lawyer is a rebel, a

revolutionary who is alienated fundamental from the status quo, probably with as great an intensity, conviction, and irretrievability as I am alienated from it - and probably with more intelligence, compassion, and humanity. If you read the papers, you are no doubt aware of my lawyer’s incessant involvement in agitation against all intervention in the internal affairs of the Vietnamese people or the invasion of the Dominican Republic by U.S. Marines. And my lawyer defends civil rights demonstrators, sit –inners, and the Free Speech students who rebelled against the Kerr – Strong machine at the University of California.

My love for my lawyer is due, in part, to these activities and involvements, because we are always on the same side of the issues.

2.Of all the forces which have temted us to lose our sense of history, none has

been more potent than television. While, of course, television levels distance –puts us closer and more vividly present in Washington than we are in our state capital and takes us all instantly to the moon – it has had a less noticeable but equally potent effect on our sense of time. Because television enables us to b there, anywhere, instantly, precisely because it fills the instant present moment with experience so engrossing and overwhelming, it dulls our sense of the past.

If it had not been possible for us all to accompany Scott and Irwin on their voyage of exploration on the moon, we would have had to wait to be engrossed in retrospect by the vivid chronicle of some Francis Parkman or Samuel Eliot Morison, and there would then have been no possible doubt that the moon journey was part of the stream of our history. But with television we saw that historic event –as we now see more and more of whatever goes on in our country – as only another vivid item in the present.

XIII. Topics for oral work:

1.Do you agree with all the views of the writer? What criticisms have you to

make?

2.Do we have any problems in the management of our industry? How should

we solve them?

XIV. Write a short expository composition on:

Workers in Socialist China.

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The electrical systems in the cars had been destroyed by water. 7、John watched the water lap at the steps,and felt a crushing guilt. As John watched the water inch its way up the steps,he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself for endangering the family by making the wrong decision not to flee inland. 8、Get us through this mess,will You? Oh,God,please help us to get through this dangerous situation. 9、She carried on alone for a few bars;then her voice trailed away. She sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and stopped. 10、Janis had just one delayed reaction. Janis didn’t show any fear on the spot during the storm,but she revealed her feelings caused by the storm a few nights after the hurricane by getting up in the middle of the night and crying softly. 英译汉: 1、But,like thousands of others in the coastal communities,John was reluctant to abandon his home unless the family----his wife,Janis,and their seven children,aged 3 to 11---was clearly endangered.

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