第三版高级英语课后习题答案.doc

He is a nice enough young fellow, you know, but he is empty-headed. A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shows a complete lack of reason. I ought to have known that raccoon coat would come back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s, came back. All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don’t know? My brain, which is a precision instrument, began to work at high speed. Except for one thing intelligence Polly had all the other requirements. She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but I felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time. In fact, she went in the opposite direction, that is, she is not intelligent but rather stupid. If you are no longer involved with her if you stop dating her others would be free to compete to get her as a girlfriend. His head turned back and forth looking at the coat then looking away from the coat . Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly becomes weaker. To teach her to think appeared to be a rather big task. One must admit the outcome does not look very hopeful, but I decided to try one more time. There is a limit to what any human being can bear. I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but I turned out to be Frankenstein because Polly the result/product of my hard work ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan. Desperately I tried to stop the feeling of panic that was overwhelming me. I was once so completely absorbed in the important affairs of the world that I devoted all my attention, time and energy to them and only occasionally did I allow myself a little rest by reading poetry or listening to music. Or maybe my suppressed inclination has been brought out under Laura’s unintentional influence. I was as puritanical as a Pharisee and I viewed with contempt all those who lived a less practical life than my own and regarded them as creatures on the