高级英语Lesson 6 (Book 2) Disappearing Through the Skylight 课后练习

Lesson 6 Disappearing Through the Skylight

课后练习题/EXERCISES

Ⅰ. Write short notes on the following: Lysenko and Leonardo (da Vinci).[SRB] any standard encyclopedia

Ⅱ. Questions on content:

1. How does the writer substantiate his statement that science is committed to the

universal?

2. How does technology exhibit this universalizing tendency?

3. How does the automobile illustrate this universalizing tendency?

4. How has man become cosmopolitan?

5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a cosmopolitan?

6. What does Madame Gabrille Buffet-Picabia say about "machine aesthetic"?

7. What is the "real world" according to the writer?

8. How is the playfulness of modern aesthetic displayed?

9. Why do the banks appear to be disappearing through their own skylights?

Ⅲ. Questions on appreciation:

1. Sum up the main views of the writer and comment on how they are organized and presented.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/5813467569.html,ment on the use of topic sentences.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/5813467569.html,ment on the use of the present tense and universal statements.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/5813467569.html,ment on the use of some figurative language. Cite examples.

5.What stylistic features of scientific English are to be found in this piece.9 Cite examples.

IV. Paraphrase:

1. Science is committed to the universal. (para 1)

2. The Fiesta appears to have sunk without a trace. (para 5)

3. It was the automotive equivalent of the International Style. (para 5 )

4. As in architecture, so in automaking. (para 6)

5. No longer quite an individual, no longer quite the product of a unique geography and culture (para 7)

6. The price he pays is that he no longer has a home in the traditional sense of the

word. (para 7)

7. The benefit is that he begins to suspect home in the traditional sense is another

name for limitations (para 7)

8. The universalization imperative of technology is irresistable. (para 8)

9. when every artist thought he owed it to himself to turn his back on the Eiffel Tower, as a protest against the architectural blasphemy (para 9)

10. a mobile, extra human plasticity which was absolutely new (para 9)

11. It has thus undermined an article of faith: the thingliness of things. (para 10)

12. That, perhaps, establishes the logical limit of the modern aesthetic. (para 19)

V. Translate paras 13 and 14 into Chinese.

Ⅵ. Give the Chinese equivalents of the following terms:

1. thermodynamics

2. Genetics

3. stress

4. genetic mutation

5. streamlining

6. all-welded body

7. cylinder block 8. Carburetor

9. transmission 10. Cells

11. molecules 12. Galaxies

13. particles 14. black hole

15. genes 16. high-tension lines

17. circuit 18. geodesic dome

19. terminal 20. magnetic tapes

21. computer

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

1. makes the world look ever more homogeneous (para 2)

2. experience it as a sameness rather than a diversity (para 2)

3. but if it is important to the efficiency or economics of automobiles (para 3)

4. but universally regarded as an asset (para 3)

5. he begins to suspect home in the traditional sense (para 7)

6. Barring the catastrophe of nuclear war (para 8)

7. as a protest against the architectural blashphemy (para 9)

8．machines soon generated propositions which evaded all tradition (para 9)

9. a mobile, extra human plasticity which was absolutely new (para 9)

10. it has produced images of orders of reality (para 10)

11. Produced images that are pure artifacts (para 10)

12. the lacy weavings of circuits etched on silicon (para 14)

13. the Tinkertoy complications of trusses and geodesic domes and lunar landers (para

14)

Ⅷ. Study the meaning of the prefixes or combining forms of the following words and give 5 examples of each:

1. universal

2. Thermodynamics

3. disappear

4. Technology

5. homogeneous

6. Automobile

7. transmission 8. Cosmopolitan

9. postmodernism 10. Neomodernism

Ⅸ. Rewrite the following instructions in the form of impersonal descriptions, using the passive voice:

Model: Depress the clutch pedal and engage the next gear. The clutch pedal is depressed and the next gear is engaged.

1. Build the piers. Then erect the towers on the piers. Run the cables from one side of the river to the other and anchor them. Attach the suspenders to the cables. Finally, raise the deck.

2. Remove the slide from your microscope and replace it by a transparent ruler with 1 mm graduations. Now measure the width of the field or view of the microscope. Convert the diameter of the field from millimeters to microns, then measure the width of field (in microns) for each objective lens you require.

X . Express the following more concisely by using noun modifiers:

Model: structure of marble or granite--marble or granite structure

1. a turbine operated by steam

2. an outlet for air

3. noise caused by aircraft

4. research done in a laboratory

5. a laboratory used for research

6. a thermometer using mercury

7. a plant for the production of power by nuclear means

Ⅺ. Shorten the sentences, omitting repeated words, helping verbs, etc.

Model: The liquid is cooled, and then it is passed through this tube.

The liquid is cooled and then passed through this tube.

1.The theories we use in meteorology are complicated and they do not cover all aspects of the weather.

2. The raw materials are weighed, then they are mixed automatically in the correct proportions and then they are fed into the granulator.

3. When they are thoroughly mixed with the suspension, these substances separate the virus particles from the rest of the suspension.

4. The plastic material is fed into a hopper and then it is heated.

5.Local calls, long-distance calls and intercontinental calls are connected

automatically in this exchange.

6. Many signals are transmitted directly from this centre, while a few signals are

passed on to the next relay station. When the signals have been grouped together, they are transmitted as composite signals.

7. The steel is heated. Then it is quenched rapidly in water. It is heated again and this time it is cooled slowly.

Ⅻ. Choose the right word from the list below for each blank:

disappeared surface produce group

mathematical reflecting before own

similarities traditional faded happened

administrative nature beyond work

hamburger Pepsi-Cola policies facet

invisible offers clarity cases

disappearance century moment process

identities mouth and bridge

objectifies close turn gorge

it never whether global

In the nineteenth century, science presented nature as a ______of objects set comfortably and solidly in the middle Distance__________ the eyes of the beholder. In the ________ of D'Arcy Thompson, published around the ________of the century, nature has_________. It has become a set of geometric and_______ relations that lie under the ________of the visible. Today ,_______________has slipped, perhaps finally ,__________our field of vision. We can imitate ______________in mathematics—we can even __________convincing images of it –but we can________ know it. We can know only our ______ creations.

Because of its _________alliance with technology, architecture _______the forms of modern culture with great _________.Since the turn of the ________, a global architectural style __________the state of art at the _________of design has

begun to replace local and _______styles. thus a suspension _________has the same form whether over a _________in the Himalayas or the _______of San Francisco Bay.

A Hiton Hotel _______essentially the same accommodations ___________in Tokyo or Denver, and the visible __________are objective manifestations of ________ similarities in, for example ,_________structures and accounting and financial _________.By the same token, a McDonald’s _________is the same in New York and Rome, and ____________ produces the same bubbles in Vladivostok ____________Grand Rapids. In all of these __________,the effect of change has been the ____________ of regional and Parochial _________and the emergence of a _______consciousness.

The universalizing _________of technology has touched every __________of culture. As this has __________the sense of individuality has inevitably___________. XIII. Topics for oral work:

1. Is history really in the process of disappearing?

2. Is the world becoming more uniform or more diverse?

XIV. Write a short composition on the following topic:

The Impact of Science and Technology on Our Society