“华约”自主招生入学考试模拟试卷一.pdf

精锐教育学科教师辅导讲义 年 级： 高三 辅导科目：英语 课时数： 3 课 题 “华约”自主招生入学考试模拟试卷一 教学目的 掌握高考自主招生考试中的解题技巧 教学内容 Section I Cloze Choose the most suitable answer to fit into the missing parts. Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking 1 of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature from Hawthorne and Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway -- one finds a tragic depth that 2 the surface thinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination. the great writers 3 problems which the culture in action is 4 to face the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back -and-forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking 5 of death in Greek times, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Age. the 6 celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life. Whether through fear of the emotional depths, or because of a drying up of the sluices of religious intensity, the American avoids 7 death or even coming to terms with it; he finds it morbid and recoils from it, surrounding it with word 8 (Americans never die they pass away) and various taboos of speech and practice. A funeral parlor is 9 to took like a bank; everything in a funeral ceremony is done in hushed 10