泽熙美文Section 1 Vocabulary and Grammar
Error Correction
Directions: In each of the following statements there is an underlined part that is indicated as an error. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part so that the error is corrected.
The humanities is 1 a form of knowledge. Like other knowledge, this deals with a 2 man’s life in nature and society, but it is required 3 through the study of man’s spiritual creations—language, art, history, philosophy, or 4 religion. This filtering of the subject, man, through the medium of mind have 5 the effect of keeping always in the foreground the element of novelness 6 , of uniqueness, of astonishing unpredictability. Whereas the study of nature assumes and finds of its uniforms 7 , and whereas the scientific study of society tries too 8 to grasp what is regular and inevitable, the study of nature and man through 9 humanities dwells on what is individual and alike 10 and anarchic. It finds what does not conform with 11 rule, what has no counterpart, what does not “behave”, and 12 simply is or acts—this is the splendid and refreshed 13 spectacle of the humanities. It is the Antigone of Sophocles, who 14 describes the unique woman and is no other drama; the Athenian plague in Thucydides, which is at once unknown, vividly present, and forever 15 past. (Excerpt from Science vs. the Humanities)
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is→rare
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去掉a
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required→acquired
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or→and
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have→has
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novelness→novelty
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uniforms→uniformities
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too→also
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加the
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alike→unlike
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with→to
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and→but
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refreshed→refreshing
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who→which
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加the
Section 2 Cloze Test
Directions: In the following passage, there are 15 blanks representing the words that are missing from the contexts. You are to read the passage through before providing the missing word of each blank to complete the passage.
Tone Morrison’s First Novel Since Her Nobel Prize
by David Gates
When longtime Tone Morrison fan see that her new novel, the first since she won the Nobel Prize in 1993, is called Paradise, they’ll fill in the Lost automatically. Like the classic white American writers she’s lovingly, though warily, adopted as ancestral spirits. Morrison is obsessed with vanished or tainted Edens and failed visions of community. In 1992’s Jazz, it was 1920s Harlem. In 1987’s Beloved, it was a deceptively lovely plantation with the hellishly inapt name of Sweet Home. In 1977’s Song of Solomon, it was an idyllic post-Civil War farm significantly called Lincoln’s Heaven. Now, in Paradise, it’s the all-black Oklahoma town of Ruby in 1970s. Ruby’s built around a huge communal Oven (always reverently capitalized) and blessedly 1 from contamination by whites, whether in Klansmen’s hoods, policemen’s 2 or bankers’ tweeds. It’s literally a garden spot: “Iris, phlox, rose and peonies 3 up more and more time new butterflies journeyed 4 to brood in Ruby.” With the very best intentions, the good townsfolk trash this Eden all by. 5 .
Critics have long recognized the influence of Faulkner on the passionate, 6 Morrison, but it’s Hawthorne who seems to brood over Paradise, 7 his mixed blessing of resonant archetypes and risible artificiality. 8 in The Blithedale Romance (based on Concord’s Brook Farm), a utopian experiment unravels; as in The Maypole of Merry Mount, puritanical elders squash a 9 community of dionysiac cultists. Ruby, it turns out, is run by “8-rocks”—men with skin the color of 10 from deep in the mines, suspicious of those with lighter skin and 11 to do violence against any manifestation of “impurity” and “immorality.” In the slam-bang opening 12 of Paradise, the men go gunning for houseful of women up the road whose only 13 in being witchy and matriarchal. But the pace picks up again. The novel’s overcrowding makes it feel 14 than it is: it slowly circles back to tell each of the women’s stories, and to show how 15 proud, principled, churchonging men could neither keep the outside world from disrupting their community nor keep themselves from behaving eerily like their own nightmares of racist vigilantism.
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isolated
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uniforms
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took
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miles
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themselves
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