2024年3月24日发(作者：门奇致)
Lesson Three
Pub Talk and the King’s English
I. Choose the one which best explains the word given blow:
1. intricate
A. difficult B. complicated
C. invalid D. simple
2. anecdote
A. short amusing story B. long tedious talk
C. uninteresting writing D. exciting information
3. affirmation
A. negative conversation B. possibility
C. positive statement D. affection
4. churl
A. soldier B. bishop
C. naturalist D. peasant
5. convict
A. criminal B. aggressor C. captain D. captor
6. intercept
A. stop between starting-point and destination
B. arrive at the conclusion
C. write words expressing respect
D. prevent from being seen
7. denial
A. piece of open land B. accepting an invitation
C. refusing a request D. teaching good behaviour
8. delve
A. give oneself up B. clasp carefully
C. search carefully and deeply D. look down upon
9. immune
A. secure B. impure C. odorous D. revival
10. facetious
A. unimportant B. very superficial
C. hideous D. not serious
11. sinister
A. not pretended B. suggesting evil
C. happening in the same time D. giving orders
12. pejorative
A. sharp B. distasteful C. contemptuous D. penetrating
13. ultimatum
A. the general opinion about the character, qualities etc.
B. state of being in demand
C. sth. that provokes or annoys
D. final statement of conditions to be accepted
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14. tussle
A. have a hard struggle or fight
B. raise to a higher grade
C. come to a lower level or state
D. make the greatest possible use of
15. scamper
A. move onward smoothly B. drop down directly
C. run quickly and playfully D. walk forward and backward
16. edict
A. order B. article C. painting D. newspaper
17. tart
A. different B. sarcastic C. loaded D. special
18. coin
A. happen B. coincide C. comfort D. invent
19. dominance
A. ruling class B. manageable domain
C. controlling power D. religious establishment
20. salon
A. a regular held fashionable gathering
B. a big luxurious car
C. a grand comfortable hotel
D. a large public drinking place
21. sociable
A. gregarious B. collective
C. common D. ordinary
22. deserve
A. to take away B. to last long
C. to help with D. to be worthy of
23. sparkle
A. strike. B. glitter
C. climb D. flow
24. opportunity
A. an opposing force B. a favourable place
C. a chance for advancement D. a difficult situation
25. indulged
A. gratify B. involve
C. interrupt D. gratitude
26. gossip
A. glory B. rumor
C. private fact D. personal things
27. prose
a. imitation B. copying
C. writing D. drawing
28. punctuate
2
A. insert occasionally B. not to emphasize
C. act instantly D. interrupt periodically
29. recess
A. accepted quantity B. the act of receiving
C. secluded place D. secrete news
30. pressing
A. urgent B. immediate
C. refusing D. interacting
.
II. Complete the word according to the definition, the first letter of the word
is given:
1. ordinary
commonplace
2. jumping from one thing to another d
esultory
3. soldier armed with a musket m
usketeer
4. very close friend or associate i
ntimate
_
5. flow slowly, turning here and there m
eander
_
6. using or involving two languages b
ilingual
_
7. farmyard birds of any kind, such as hens, ducks, etc. p
oultry
8. person in an unimportant position working for sb. else u
nderlings
9. magical or mysterious power or process of transforming one thing into another
a
lchemy
10. state, quality of being snobbish s
nobbery
_
11. person with the legal right to receive a title, property, when the owner dies
h
eir
12. mocking remark j
eer
_
13. greatest in power, authority, or rank; paramount or dominant supreme
14. to object to, especially in a formal statement protest
15. a person, an animal, or a plant whose descent can be traced to a particular
individual or group. descendant
16. a force that tends to oppose or retard motion resistance
17. an enclosure for swine sty
18. the meat of a calf veal
19. a narrow fissure in rock or a break in friendly relations rift
20. something that separates or holds apart barrier
21. to attempt to overthrow the authority of the state or rebel revolt
22. to use wrongly or improperly; misuse abuse
23. treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual
merit; partiality or prejudice discrimination
24. physical or mental strength, energy, or force vigor
25. to declare free of blame; absolve. justify
III. Put the following words and phrases into the appropriate blanks in the following sentences.
(Filling in the grid is optional.)
__________________________________________________________________
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in a flash upbringing be in one’s shoes indulge in come in one’s own
bind on the rocks get out of bed on the wrong side confirmation
recesses turn up one’s nose at out of snobbery accept concept
deceptive exception inception intercept misconception perceptive
receptive susceptible
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
He said he loved her in the inner most recesses of his heart.
They indulged in eating and drinking in the party the other evening.
One's upbringing largely determines success in life.
In a flash he realized that they were presents from his patients.
By the time I’ve paid all the bills I owe I shall be on the rocks.
What’s wrong with him? He is in such a bad temper. He must have got out of
bed on the wrong side.
7. I wish my students wouldn’t turn up their noses at doing their schoolwork.
8. I wouldn’t be in your shoes for all the wealth in the world.
9. We are waiting for confirmation of the news.
10. You must bind the gangster to the seat with rope lest he should escape
11. He was always trying to get to know members of the nobility out of snobbery.
12. it was not until he mid-twentieth century that psychology really came into its
own.
13. Because Matt is
susceptible
to bronchial infections, his mother badgered him to
get a flu shot.
14. Laura agreed to
accept
Tom's gift on condition that he allow here to treat him
to a movie.
15. A
perceptive
child knows immediately when a parent is distraught or upset.
16. Hank has no
concept
_ of how difficult it is to operate a farm these days.
17. The actress was
receptive
to the director's suggestions for portraying the role of
Lady Macbeth.
18. The performances in this production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard are
first-rate, with only one
exception
.
19. Macbeth's expression was
deceptive
, for as he smiled, he plotted King
Duncan's death.
20. This antiballistic missile is designed to locate and
intercept
enemy ballistic
missiles.
21. Since its
inception
eight years ago, the program has been a huge success.
22. Alex claims he got a poor grade in English because his teacher doesn't like
him, but that is a
misconception
on his part.
IV. Reading Comprehension:
1. The real thesis of this piece of exposition is _______
A. Pub talk and the King’s English
B. Conversation is the most sociable of all human activities.
C. Bar conversation has a charm of its own.
D. The King’s English
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2.
3.
4.
5.
This piece of exposition is _____ in style.
A. formal B. informal
C. sarcastic D. serious
One of the reasons for him to like bar conversation is that ______.
A. He was a sociable person and enjoyed talking with others.
B. He was brought up in the English pubs.
C. He was deeply involved in bar-goers’ lives.
D. He was a frequenter of the English pubs.
“The King’s English ” came into being in ______
A. 16
th
century B. 17
th
century
C. 15
th
century D. 18
th
century
The worst conversationalist is the person who ______
A. is not making a point.
B. is prepared to loose
C. is trying to talk sense.
D. slips and slides in conversation
V. Determine whether the following statements are true or false. Put a “T”, if the
statement is true and put a “F”, if false.
1. The Norman lords turned up their noses at rabbit, because the rabbit was not
changed into lapin. (F)
2. A good conversation has no focus at all. (F)
3. The rulers of the Angevins and the Plantagenets spoke French. (T)
4. The author agrees to what Auden said that all a writer needs is a pen, plenty of
paper and “the best dictionaries he can afford.” (F)
5. Even the most educated and the most literate people do not use the King’s
English all the time in conversation. (T)
6. The author is in favour of bilingual education. (T)
7. There exists in the working people, different from the Saxon peasants, a spirit
of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class. (F)
8. Looking up the dictionary in the middle of a conversation will settle the
argument in the conversation, which will make the conversation goes freely.
(F)
9. People who ruin the conversation by talking sense are just like chimpanzees,
who are not able to have conversation. (T)
10. The language of Dr. Caius should be more vigorous, direct and straightforward.
(F)
VI. Comment on the rhetorical devices of the following sentences:
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1. Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here
and there.
metaphor
2.
Other people may celebrate the lofty conversations in which the great minds
are supposed to have indulged in the great salons of 18th Century Paris,...
metonymy
3.
I have an unending love affair with dictionaries…
metaphor
4.
.., the King's English slips and slides in conversation.
alliteration/metaphor
5. Is the phrase in Shakespeare?
metonymy
6. ... and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and
sparkles or just glows.
mixed metaphor
7. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied,
and floated to the ends of the earth.
extended simile
8. One would not have been engaged by interest in the musketeer who raised the
subject, wondering more about her.
metonymy
9. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, …… the recesses of their
thoughts and feelings.
simile/ allustion
10. Who was right, who was wrong, did not matter. The conversation was on
wings.
metaphor
VII. Translation:
1. 给我1000元钱，我也不愿处于你的地位。
2. 随着T型福特汽车的成功，汽车工业受到了应有的重视。
3. 我们把访问时间缩短了一周。
4. 他把他的成功归功于父母在早年给他的良好教育。
5. 我讨厌人们那种对爵士乐不屑一顾的文人般的势利作风。
6. 我们应该鼓励大学生服务于农业，能源，水利，交通，电力，通讯，教育
和国防等重要行业和部门。
7. 国家教育部敦促：政府各部门，研究机构，企业及其他单位尽可能为求
职的大学生创造更多的就业机会和更好的工作条件。
8. 祖国统一，台湾和平回归的八点提议体现了邓小平同志“一国两制”的思
想。而且提议还体现了中国共产党和中国政府对解决台湾问题，以及实现
祖国统一所作的努力。
9. 我国政府在揭露和驳斥台湾当局分裂主义言行的同时继续保持和促进海
峡两岸的经济，贸易和文化交流。香港在促进海峡两岸的交流中起了积极
作用。
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10. 近几年来，粮食丰收及农村经济的全面发展在保证农业产品的充分供给，
控制通货膨胀，改善经济条件以及促进国民经济的顺利发展等方面起了重
要作用。
Key to Lesson Three
Translation:
1. I wouldn't be in your shoes for a thousand yuan.
2. With the success of the Model T Ford, the automobile industry came into its own.
3. We clipped our visit by a week.
4. He owed his success to the good upbringing his parents had given him.
5. I'm bored with the intellectual snobbery of people who turn up their noses at jazz.
6. We must encourage university students to serve in important sectors and departments:
agriculture, energy, water conservancy, transportation, electric power, telecommunication,
education and national defence.
7. The MOE urged government departments, institutes, enterprises and other units to try in
every possible means to create more job opportunities and better conditions for job-hunting
students.
8. The eight propositions on the reunification of China and peaceful return of Taiwan to the
motherland embodied Deng Xiaoping's concept of “One country, two systems" and also
embodied the effort made by the Chinese Communist Party and the government in solving
the issue of Taiwan for the reunification of the country.
9. Our government will continue to expose and refute the separatist words and actions of
Taiwan authorities while actually maintaining and putting forward across straits economic,
trade and cultural exchanges. Hong Kong has played a positive role in promoting
exchanges between the two sides across the straits.
10. Good grain harvests in recent years, and the all-round development of the rural economy
have played a vital role in ensuring adequate supplies of farm products, reining inflation,
improving economic conditions, and promoting sound growth of the national economy as a
whole.
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2024年3月24日发(作者：门奇致)
Lesson Three
Pub Talk and the King’s English
I. Choose the one which best explains the word given blow:
1. intricate
A. difficult B. complicated
C. invalid D. simple
2. anecdote
A. short amusing story B. long tedious talk
C. uninteresting writing D. exciting information
3. affirmation
A. negative conversation B. possibility
C. positive statement D. affection
4. churl
A. soldier B. bishop
C. naturalist D. peasant
5. convict
A. criminal B. aggressor C. captain D. captor
6. intercept
A. stop between starting-point and destination
B. arrive at the conclusion
C. write words expressing respect
D. prevent from being seen
7. denial
A. piece of open land B. accepting an invitation
C. refusing a request D. teaching good behaviour
8. delve
A. give oneself up B. clasp carefully
C. search carefully and deeply D. look down upon
9. immune
A. secure B. impure C. odorous D. revival
10. facetious
A. unimportant B. very superficial
C. hideous D. not serious
11. sinister
A. not pretended B. suggesting evil
C. happening in the same time D. giving orders
12. pejorative
A. sharp B. distasteful C. contemptuous D. penetrating
13. ultimatum
A. the general opinion about the character, qualities etc.
B. state of being in demand
C. sth. that provokes or annoys
D. final statement of conditions to be accepted
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14. tussle
A. have a hard struggle or fight
B. raise to a higher grade
C. come to a lower level or state
D. make the greatest possible use of
15. scamper
A. move onward smoothly B. drop down directly
C. run quickly and playfully D. walk forward and backward
16. edict
A. order B. article C. painting D. newspaper
17. tart
A. different B. sarcastic C. loaded D. special
18. coin
A. happen B. coincide C. comfort D. invent
19. dominance
A. ruling class B. manageable domain
C. controlling power D. religious establishment
20. salon
A. a regular held fashionable gathering
B. a big luxurious car
C. a grand comfortable hotel
D. a large public drinking place
21. sociable
A. gregarious B. collective
C. common D. ordinary
22. deserve
A. to take away B. to last long
C. to help with D. to be worthy of
23. sparkle
A. strike. B. glitter
C. climb D. flow
24. opportunity
A. an opposing force B. a favourable place
C. a chance for advancement D. a difficult situation
25. indulged
A. gratify B. involve
C. interrupt D. gratitude
26. gossip
A. glory B. rumor
C. private fact D. personal things
27. prose
a. imitation B. copying
C. writing D. drawing
28. punctuate
2
A. insert occasionally B. not to emphasize
C. act instantly D. interrupt periodically
29. recess
A. accepted quantity B. the act of receiving
C. secluded place D. secrete news
30. pressing
A. urgent B. immediate
C. refusing D. interacting
.
II. Complete the word according to the definition, the first letter of the word
is given:
1. ordinary
commonplace
2. jumping from one thing to another d
esultory
3. soldier armed with a musket m
usketeer
4. very close friend or associate i
ntimate
_
5. flow slowly, turning here and there m
eander
_
6. using or involving two languages b
ilingual
_
7. farmyard birds of any kind, such as hens, ducks, etc. p
oultry
8. person in an unimportant position working for sb. else u
nderlings
9. magical or mysterious power or process of transforming one thing into another
a
lchemy
10. state, quality of being snobbish s
nobbery
_
11. person with the legal right to receive a title, property, when the owner dies
h
eir
12. mocking remark j
eer
_
13. greatest in power, authority, or rank; paramount or dominant supreme
14. to object to, especially in a formal statement protest
15. a person, an animal, or a plant whose descent can be traced to a particular
individual or group. descendant
16. a force that tends to oppose or retard motion resistance
17. an enclosure for swine sty
18. the meat of a calf veal
19. a narrow fissure in rock or a break in friendly relations rift
20. something that separates or holds apart barrier
21. to attempt to overthrow the authority of the state or rebel revolt
22. to use wrongly or improperly; misuse abuse
23. treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual
merit; partiality or prejudice discrimination
24. physical or mental strength, energy, or force vigor
25. to declare free of blame; absolve. justify
III. Put the following words and phrases into the appropriate blanks in the following sentences.
(Filling in the grid is optional.)
__________________________________________________________________
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in a flash upbringing be in one’s shoes indulge in come in one’s own
bind on the rocks get out of bed on the wrong side confirmation
recesses turn up one’s nose at out of snobbery accept concept
deceptive exception inception intercept misconception perceptive
receptive susceptible
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
He said he loved her in the inner most recesses of his heart.
They indulged in eating and drinking in the party the other evening.
One's upbringing largely determines success in life.
In a flash he realized that they were presents from his patients.
By the time I’ve paid all the bills I owe I shall be on the rocks.
What’s wrong with him? He is in such a bad temper. He must have got out of
bed on the wrong side.
7. I wish my students wouldn’t turn up their noses at doing their schoolwork.
8. I wouldn’t be in your shoes for all the wealth in the world.
9. We are waiting for confirmation of the news.
10. You must bind the gangster to the seat with rope lest he should escape
11. He was always trying to get to know members of the nobility out of snobbery.
12. it was not until he mid-twentieth century that psychology really came into its
own.
13. Because Matt is
susceptible
to bronchial infections, his mother badgered him to
get a flu shot.
14. Laura agreed to
accept
Tom's gift on condition that he allow here to treat him
to a movie.
15. A
perceptive
child knows immediately when a parent is distraught or upset.
16. Hank has no
concept
_ of how difficult it is to operate a farm these days.
17. The actress was
receptive
to the director's suggestions for portraying the role of
Lady Macbeth.
18. The performances in this production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard are
first-rate, with only one
exception
.
19. Macbeth's expression was
deceptive
, for as he smiled, he plotted King
Duncan's death.
20. This antiballistic missile is designed to locate and
intercept
enemy ballistic
missiles.
21. Since its
inception
eight years ago, the program has been a huge success.
22. Alex claims he got a poor grade in English because his teacher doesn't like
him, but that is a
misconception
on his part.
IV. Reading Comprehension:
1. The real thesis of this piece of exposition is _______
A. Pub talk and the King’s English
B. Conversation is the most sociable of all human activities.
C. Bar conversation has a charm of its own.
D. The King’s English
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2.
3.
4.
5.
This piece of exposition is _____ in style.
A. formal B. informal
C. sarcastic D. serious
One of the reasons for him to like bar conversation is that ______.
A. He was a sociable person and enjoyed talking with others.
B. He was brought up in the English pubs.
C. He was deeply involved in bar-goers’ lives.
D. He was a frequenter of the English pubs.
“The King’s English ” came into being in ______
A. 16
th
century B. 17
th
century
C. 15
th
century D. 18
th
century
The worst conversationalist is the person who ______
A. is not making a point.
B. is prepared to loose
C. is trying to talk sense.
D. slips and slides in conversation
V. Determine whether the following statements are true or false. Put a “T”, if the
statement is true and put a “F”, if false.
1. The Norman lords turned up their noses at rabbit, because the rabbit was not
changed into lapin. (F)
2. A good conversation has no focus at all. (F)
3. The rulers of the Angevins and the Plantagenets spoke French. (T)
4. The author agrees to what Auden said that all a writer needs is a pen, plenty of
paper and “the best dictionaries he can afford.” (F)
5. Even the most educated and the most literate people do not use the King’s
English all the time in conversation. (T)
6. The author is in favour of bilingual education. (T)
7. There exists in the working people, different from the Saxon peasants, a spirit
of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class. (F)
8. Looking up the dictionary in the middle of a conversation will settle the
argument in the conversation, which will make the conversation goes freely.
(F)
9. People who ruin the conversation by talking sense are just like chimpanzees,
who are not able to have conversation. (T)
10. The language of Dr. Caius should be more vigorous, direct and straightforward.
(F)
VI. Comment on the rhetorical devices of the following sentences:
5
1. Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here
and there.
metaphor
2.
Other people may celebrate the lofty conversations in which the great minds
are supposed to have indulged in the great salons of 18th Century Paris,...
metonymy
3.
I have an unending love affair with dictionaries…
metaphor
4.
.., the King's English slips and slides in conversation.
alliteration/metaphor
5. Is the phrase in Shakespeare?
metonymy
6. ... and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and
sparkles or just glows.
mixed metaphor
7. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied,
and floated to the ends of the earth.
extended simile
8. One would not have been engaged by interest in the musketeer who raised the
subject, wondering more about her.
metonymy
9. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, …… the recesses of their
thoughts and feelings.
simile/ allustion
10. Who was right, who was wrong, did not matter. The conversation was on
wings.
metaphor
VII. Translation:
1. 给我1000元钱，我也不愿处于你的地位。
2. 随着T型福特汽车的成功，汽车工业受到了应有的重视。
3. 我们把访问时间缩短了一周。
4. 他把他的成功归功于父母在早年给他的良好教育。
5. 我讨厌人们那种对爵士乐不屑一顾的文人般的势利作风。
6. 我们应该鼓励大学生服务于农业，能源，水利，交通，电力，通讯，教育
和国防等重要行业和部门。
7. 国家教育部敦促：政府各部门，研究机构，企业及其他单位尽可能为求
职的大学生创造更多的就业机会和更好的工作条件。
8. 祖国统一，台湾和平回归的八点提议体现了邓小平同志“一国两制”的思
想。而且提议还体现了中国共产党和中国政府对解决台湾问题，以及实现
祖国统一所作的努力。
9. 我国政府在揭露和驳斥台湾当局分裂主义言行的同时继续保持和促进海
峡两岸的经济，贸易和文化交流。香港在促进海峡两岸的交流中起了积极
作用。
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10. 近几年来，粮食丰收及农村经济的全面发展在保证农业产品的充分供给，
控制通货膨胀，改善经济条件以及促进国民经济的顺利发展等方面起了重
要作用。
Key to Lesson Three
Translation:
1. I wouldn't be in your shoes for a thousand yuan.
2. With the success of the Model T Ford, the automobile industry came into its own.
3. We clipped our visit by a week.
4. He owed his success to the good upbringing his parents had given him.
5. I'm bored with the intellectual snobbery of people who turn up their noses at jazz.
6. We must encourage university students to serve in important sectors and departments:
agriculture, energy, water conservancy, transportation, electric power, telecommunication,
education and national defence.
7. The MOE urged government departments, institutes, enterprises and other units to try in
every possible means to create more job opportunities and better conditions for job-hunting
students.
8. The eight propositions on the reunification of China and peaceful return of Taiwan to the
motherland embodied Deng Xiaoping's concept of “One country, two systems" and also
embodied the effort made by the Chinese Communist Party and the government in solving
the issue of Taiwan for the reunification of the country.
9. Our government will continue to expose and refute the separatist words and actions of
Taiwan authorities while actually maintaining and putting forward across straits economic,
trade and cultural exchanges. Hong Kong has played a positive role in promoting
exchanges between the two sides across the straits.
10. Good grain harvests in recent years, and the all-round development of the rural economy
have played a vital role in ensuring adequate supplies of farm products, reining inflation,
improving economic conditions, and promoting sound growth of the national economy as a
whole.
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