高英复习重点

选词填空段落如下：Lesson oneThese aren’t idle questions. Some sociologists say that your answers to them could explain a lot about what you are thinking and about what your society is thinking – in other words, about where you and your society are.―Music expressed its times,‖ says sociologist Irving Horowitz. Horowitz sees the rock music arena as a sort of debating forum, a place where ideas clash and crash. He sees it as a place where American society struggles to define and redefine its feelings and beli efs.―The redefinition,‖ Horowitz says, ―is a task uniquely performed by the young. It is they alone who combine invention and exaggeration, reason and motion, word and sound, music and politics.‖这些并不是闲谈。

有些社会学家认为对这些问题的回答可以充分说明你在想些什么以及社会在想些什么——也就是说，有关你和社会的态度。

社会学家欧文?霍洛威茨说：―音乐表现其时代。

‖霍洛威茨把摇滚乐的舞台视为某种辩论的论坛，一个各种思想交锋的场所。

他把它看作是一个美国社会努力为自己的感情及信仰不断重新进行解释的地方。

他说：―重新解释是一项只有青年人才能执行的任务。

只有他们才把创造与夸张、理性与运动、言语与声音、音乐与政治融为一体。

‖Between Elvis and Alice, rock critics say, a number of rock stars have helped our society define its beliefs and attitudes.Bob Dylan touched a nerve of disaffection. He spoke of civil rights, nuclear fallout, and loneliness.He spoke of change and of the bewilderment of an older generation. ―Something’s happening here,‖ he sang. ―You don’t know what it is, do you, Mr.Jones?‖摇滚乐评论家们说，从埃尔维斯到艾利丝，许多歌星帮助我们的社会解说其信仰与态度。

鲍勃?狄伦触动了对现状不满的神经，他唱到民权、核散落物以及孤独。

他唱到变革和老一代人的迷茫，他在歌声中唱道：―这儿正发生着什么事，你不知道是什么事，对吗，琼斯先生？‖Today’s heroes – some of them, anyway – tell us they enjoy their rewards―And I laughed to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never conceived of us billion-dollar babies.‖ The particular ―culture hero‖ who sings that is Alice cooper. . 今天的英雄们——至少其中一部分人——告诉我们，他们很喜欢所得到的报偿。

―我暗自嘲笑这些先生们和女士们,他们从没想到过我们会成为金娃娃。

‖演唱这支歌曲的是―文化英雄‖艾利丝?库珀。

Lesson two1）Drop OutThis is one of the oldest expedients, and it can be practiced anywhere, at any age, and with or without the use of hallucinogens. It always has been the strategy of choice for people who find the world too brutal or too complex to be endured. By definition, this way of life is parasitic. In one way or another, its practitioners batten on the society which they scorn and in which they refuse to take any responsibility. Some of us find this distasteful – an undignified kind of life. But for the poor in spirit, with low levels of both energy and pride, it may be the least intolerable choice available.1)脱离传统社会这是最古老的方法之一，任何年龄的人无论在任何地方，也无论是否使用迷幻剂都可以采用。

那些认为这个世界残酷、复杂得令人难以忍受的人通常会选择这个办法。

实质上，这是一种寄生式的生活方式，采取此策略的人通过这样或那样的方式寄生于这个他们蔑视的社会，并且拒绝对这个社会承担责任我们中的一些人对此很厌恶——认为这种生活方式很不光彩。

但对于那些卑微、懒惰又缺乏自尊的人来说，这也许是可行的最可以忍受的选择了。

The trouble with this solution is that it no longer is practical on a large scale.Our planet, unfortunately, is running out of noble savages and unsullied landscaped; except for the polar regions, the frontiers are gone.A few gentleman farmers with plenty of money can still escape to the bucolic life –but in general the stream of migration is flowing the other way.这种方法的问题在于无法大规模地进行实践。

不幸的是，在我们的地球上，高尚的野蛮人和未被破坏的自然景色已越来越少；除了两极地区以外已经没有未开发的土地了。

少数富有的乡绅还可以逃避现实去过田园生活——但总的说来，迁移的潮流是向相反的方向流动。

So at least the historical evidence seems to suggest.When I was graduating from college, my generation also found the world in a mess.The economic machinery had broken down almost everywhere: In this country nearly a quarter of the population was out of work. A major was seemed all too likely. As a college newspaper editor at that time, I protested against this just as vehemently as student activists are protesting today.至少历史事实似乎证明了这一点。

我大学毕业的时候，我们这一代人也发现世界乱得一团糟。

几乎所有地方的经济机构都已崩溃，在美国几乎四分之一的人口失业。

一场大战似乎在所难免。

当时作为校报编辑，对这些我曾经猛烈地抗议过，像今天的学生积极分子一样。

Lesson fiveIf I said that being black is a greater handicap than being a woman, probably no one would question me. Why? Because ―we all know‖ there is prejudice against b lack people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still strikes nearly all men – and, I am afraid, most women – as bizarre.如果我说做黑人比做妇女更糟糕，也许没有人会对我的说法提出质疑。

为什么呢？因为―众所周知‖，美国存在着对黑人的歧视。

说美国存在着对妇女的歧视对于几乎所有男人——还有大多数女人来说——却是不可思议的。

How much harder will it be to eliminate the prejudice against women? I am sure it will be a longer struggle. art of the problem is that women in America are much more brainwashed and content with their roles as second – class citizens than blacks ever were.消除对妇女的歧视的困难有多大？我确信这将会是一场更持久的斗争。

部分问题在于比起黑人来美国妇女被洗脑的程度更深，且更满足于她们次等公民的角色。

Women have not even reached the level of tokenism that blacks are reaching. No women sit on the Supreme Court. Only two have held Cabinet rank, and none do at present. Only two women hold ambassadorial rank.But women predominate in the lower-paying, menial, unrewarding, dead-end jobs, and when they do reach better positions, they are invariably paid less than a man for the same job.妇女甚至还没有达到黑人所达到的象征性的平等水平。