Unit10TheIdiocyofUrbanLife习题答案综合教程四.docVIP

Unit 10 The Idiocy of Urban Life Key to the Exercises Text comprehension I . Decide which of the following best states the authors purpose of writing. B II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. 1. F (Refer to Paragraph 2. It is human beings who bring the rat race into human society.) 2. F (Refer to Paragraph 2. It tells us that the opposite is true. Urban life today is aggressively individualistic and atomized. Cities are not social places.) 3. T (Refer to Paragraph 4. ... they have created a little Manhattan-by-the-Sea around the Hamptons, spreading over the Long Island potato fields whose earlier solitude was presumably the reason why they first went there.) 4. T (Refer to Paragraph 4. The main streets of Americas small towns ?are now strips of boutiques. Old-fashioned barbers become unisex hairdressing salons.) 5. F (Refer to Paragraphs 5 and 6. According to the author, work in the rural areas is meaningful whereas the frenzy of the urban work hours is pointless. When the farmer walks to his farm in the morning, he is doing something significant. By contrast, the city worker is starting the first idiocy of his day when he is getting ready for his journey to work at this time of the day.) 6. T (Refer to Paragraph 7. The windows in the modern office buildings are perhaps the most symbolic lunacy of all. Even on the fairest spring or fall day the workers cannot put their heads outside.) III. Answer the following questions. 1. Refer to Paragraph 1. The author mentions rats at the beginning of the article for the purpose of contrasting rats with human beings. In a sense, both rats and human beings are city dwellers, but there are differences between them in terms of life in the city. As natural inhabitants of the city, rats are social creatures and lead a stable urban life. By contrast, most human dwellers do not enjoy the urban life but try to live outside the city boundaries; and they live an individualistic