高级英语（二）客观题答案.doc

高级英语（二）客观题答案 Unit 1 Text A Future Shlock IV. Test your general knowledge 1. B 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. D V. Proofread the following passage In the three short decades between now and the twenty-first century, millions of ordinary, psychologically normal people will face an abrupt collision with the future. Citizens of the world’s richest and most technological advanced nations, many of them will find it increasingly painful to keep up with the incessant demand for change that characterizes our time. For them, the future will have arrived too soon. Western society for the past 300 years has caught up in a fire storm of change. This storm, far from abating, now appears to be gathering force. Change sweeps through the highly industrialized countries with waves of ever accelerating speed and unprecedented impact. It spawns in it’s wake all sorts of curious social flora—from psychedelic churches and “free universities” to science cities in the Arctic and wife-swap clubs in California. It breeds odd personalities, too: children who at twelve are no longer childlike; adults who at fifty are children with twelve. There are rich men who playact poverty, computer programmers who turn on with LSD. There are anarchists who, beneath their dirty denim shirts, are outrageous conformity, and conformists who, beneath their button-down collars, are outrageous anarchists. There are married priests and atheist ministers and Jewish Zen Buddhists. There are Playboy Clubs and homosexual movie theater ... amphetamines and tranquilizers ... anger, affluence, and oblivion. Much oblivion. Is there some way to explain so strange scene without recourse to the jargon of psychoanalysis or the murky clichés of existentialism? A strange new society is apparently erupting in our midst. Is there a way to understand it, to shape its development? How can we come terms with it? Much that now strikes us as incomprehensible would be far less so if we took a fresh look at the racing rate of change tha