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Lesson 7
课后习题参考答案
I. Henry Louis Mencken(1880--1956)was the first
American to be widely read as a critic. He was born in
Baltimore, Md, on Sept. 12, 1880, and privately
educated there. After graduating from Baltimore
Polytechnic Institute at the age of 16, he became a
reporter on the Baltimore Herald. He rose rapidly, soon
he was the Herald,s city editor and then editor. In 1906
Mencken joined the organization known as the Sun
paper, which he served in a variety of ways until his
retirement. Mencken s journalistic skill became his chief
handicap as a critic. He had also carried out a fruitful
study of the American Language, with some
comprehensive works pub-lished in this field. By the
time of his death on Jan. 29. 1956. in his beloved
Baltimore, recognition of his service to the language was
everywhere admitted
The writer is referring to
industrial production which is the
most lucrative and characteristic
activity in the United States
2. All the noble aspirations of a
man for a better. fuller and more
beautiful life here on earth
3. All the houses were ugly. The houses look like
bricks set on end. They were made of
clapboards, with narrow, low-pitched roofs And
the whole house is set upon thin brick piers. All
the houses are streaked with grime and many of
them are not even perpendicular but they lean
this way and that. The writer suggests a chalet
type house for the hill sides. a chalet with high
pitched roof to throw off the
leavy winter snows, but still essentially a low
and clinging building wider than it was tall
4. According to the writer, the
house has the most loathsome
color. The color of a fried egg
when and after some time they
take on the color of uremic yellow
5. Strictly speaking, no. Most of
them were most probably U.s
citizens of European origin with
perhaps a few recent immigrants
from Europe
6. Mencken doesnt believe that mere
ignorance was the reason for such
ugliness. He believes on certain
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