高英 lesson 7 课后习题的答案.pptVIP

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