高级英语第二册LESSON5课后答案.pdfVIP

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Ⅱ . 1.The younger generation of the 1920s were thought to be wild because they visited speakeasies, denounced Puritan morality, etc. (See para. 1). 2. Yes and no Yes because the business of growing up is always accompanied by a Younger Generation Problem, no because all their actions can now be seen in perspective as being something considerably less sensational than the degeneration of jazz mad youth. 3. Yes. Youth was faced with the challenge of changing the standards of social behavior, of rejecting Victorian gentility. But in America the young people tried to escape their responsibilities and retreat behind and air of naughty alcoholic sophistication and a pose of Bohemian immorality. 4. The revolt was logical and inevitable because of the conditions in the age. First of all, the rebellion affected the entire Western world. Second, people in the United States realized their country was no longer isolated in either politics or tradition and that they could no longer take refuge in isolationism. 5. All the activities mentioned above were means to help the young people to escape their more serious responsibilities of changing society and most young people went in for these activities. It became a general pattern of behavior. 6. The war whipped up their energies but destroyed their naivette. It made them cynical. They could not fit themselves into postwar society so they rebelled and tried to overthrow completely the genteel standards of behavior. 7. Intellectuals and non-intellectuals began to imitate the pattern of life set by those living in Greenwich Village. These people lived a Bohemian and eccentric life. They defied the law and flouted all social conventions. They attacked the war, Babbittry, and Puritanical gentility. 8. These young intellectuals wanted America to become more

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