高级英语Lesson6(Book2)DisappearingThroughtheSkylight课后练习.doc

Lesson 6 Disappearing Through the Skylight课后练习题/EXERCISES. Write short notes on the following: Lysenko and Leonardo (da Vinci).SRBany standard encyclopedia. Questions on content:1. How does the writer substantiate his statement that science is committed to the universal?2. How does technology exhibit this universalizing tendency?3. How does the automobile illustrate this universalizing tendency?4. How has man become cosmopolitan?5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a cosmopolitan?6. What does Madame Gabrille Buffet-Picabia say about machine aesthetic?7. What is the real world according to the writer?8. How is the playfulness of modern aesthetic displayed?9. Why do the banks appear to be disappearing through their own skylights?. Questions on appreciation:1. Sum up the main views of the writer and comment on how they are organized and presented.2.Comment on the use of topic sentences.3.Comment on the use of the present tense and universal statements.4.Comment on the use of some figurative language. Cite examples.5.What stylistic features of scientific English are to be found in this piece.9 Cite examples.IV. Paraphrase:1. Science is committed to the universal. (para 1)2. The Fiesta appears to have sunk without a trace. (para 5)3. It was the automotive equivalent of the International Style. (para 5 )4. As in architecture, so in automaking. (para 6)5. No longer quite an individual, no longer quite the product of a unique geography and culture (para 7)6. The price he pays is that he no longer has a home in the traditional sense of the word. (para 7)7. The benefit is that he begins to suspect home in the traditional sense is another name for limitations (para 7)8. The universalization imperative of technology is irresistable. (para 8)9. when every artist thought he owed it to himself to turn his back on the Eiffel Tower, as a protest against the architectural blasphemy (para 9)10. a mobile, extra human plasticity which was absolutely new (para 9)11. It has thus undermined an article of faith: the thingliness of things. (para 10)12. That, perhaps, establishes the logical limit of the modern aesthetic. (para 19)V. Translate paras 13 and 14 into Chinese. Give the Chinese equivalents of the following terms:1. thermodynamics 2. Genetics3. stress 4. genetic mutation5. streamlining 6. all-welded body7. cylinder block 8. Carburetor9. transmission 10. Cells11. molecules 12. Galaxies13. particles 14. black hole15. genes 16. high-tension lines17. circuit 18. geodesic dome19. terminal 20. magnetic tapes21. computer. Look up the dictionary and explain the meaning of the italicized words:1. makes the world look ever more homogeneous (para 2)2. experience it as a sameness rather than a diversity (para 2)3. but if it is important to the efficiency or economics of automobiles (para 3)4. but universally regarded as an asset (para 3)5. he begins to suspect home in the traditional sense (para 7)6. Barring the catastrophe of nuclear war (para 8)7. as a protest against the architectural blashphemy (para 9)8machines soon generated propositions which evaded all tradition (para 9)9. a mobile, extra human plasticity which was absolutely new (para 9)10. it has produced images of orders of reality (para 10)11. Produced images that are pure artifacts (para 10)12. the lacy weavings of circuits etched on silicon (para 14)13. the Tinkertoy complications of trusses and geodesic domes and lunar landers (para 14). Study the meaning of the prefixes or combining forms of the following words and give 5 examples of each:1. universal 2. Thermodynamics3. disappear 4. Technology5. homogeneous 6. Automobile7. transmission 8. Cosmopolitan9. postmodernism 10. Neomodernism. Rewrite the following instructions in the form of impersonal descriptions, using the passive voice:Model: Depress the clutch pedal and engage the next gear. The clutch pedal is depressed and the next gear is engaged.1. Build the piers. Then erect the towers on the piers. Run the cables from one side of the river to the other and anchor them. Attach the suspenders to the cables. Finally, raise the deck.2. Remove the slide from your microscope and replace it by a transparent ruler with 1 mm graduations. Now measure the width of the field or view of the microscope. Convert the diameter of the field from millimeters to microns, then measure the width of field (in microns) for each objective lens you require.X . Express the following more concisely by using noun modifiers:Model: structure of marble or granite-marble or granite structure1. a turbine operated by steam2. an outlet for air3. noise caused by aircraft4. research done in a laboratory5. a laboratory used for research6. a thermometer using mercury7. a plant for the production of power by nuclear means. Shorten the sentences, omitting repeated words, helping verbs, etc.Model: The liquid is cooled, and then it is passed through this tube.The liquid is cooled and then passed through this tube.1.The theories we use in meteorology are complicated and they do not cover all aspects of the weather.2. The raw materials are weighed, then they are mixed automatically in the correct proportions and then they are fed into the granulator.3. When they are thoroughly mixed with the suspension, these substances separate the virus particles from the rest of the suspension.4. The plastic material is fed into a hopper and then it is heated.5.Local calls, long-distance calls and intercontinental calls are connected automatically in this exchange.6. Many signals are transmitted directly from this centre, while a few signals are passed on to the next relay station. When the signals have been grouped together, they are transmitted as composite signals.7. The steel is heated. Then it is quenched rapidly in water. It is heated again and this time it is cooled slowly. Choose the right word from the list below for each blank:disappeared surface produce groupmathematical reflecting before ownsimilarities traditional faded happenedadministrative nature beyond workhamburger Pepsi-Cola policies facetinvisible offers clarity casesdisappearance century moment processidentities mouth and bridgeobjectifies close turn gorgeit never whether globalIn the nineteenth century, science presented nature as a _of objects set comfortably and solidly in the middle Distance_ the eyes of the beholder. In the _ of DArcy Thompson, published around the _of the century, nature has_. It has become a set of geometric and_ relations that lie under the _of the visible. Today ,_has slipped, perhaps finally ,_our field of vision. We can imitate _in mathematicswe can even _convincing images of it but we can_ know it. We can know only our _ creations.Because of its _alliance with technology, architecture _the forms of modern culture with great _.Since the turn of the _, a global architectural style _the state of art at the _of design has begun to replace local and _styles. thus a suspension _has the same form whether over a _in the Himalayas or the _of San Francisco Bay. A Hiton Hotel _essent