华中师范大学读写译教程1答案.doc

Unit One Text A II. Vocabulary A. 1. were bulging with 2. multitude 3. crave 4. indulge in 5. abandon themselves 6. fastidious 7. mused on 8. soothing B. 1. faculty 2. besiege 3. stick to 4. laborious 5. profusion 6. file out 7. judicious 8. decipher 9. poignant 10. by degrees III. Grammar Structure A. In Naturalist fiction people are often caught within forces of nature or society that are within their understanding or control. For instance, the hero of Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” is crushed by the overwhelm force of the Arctic cold. Tim Haskins, a farmer in Hamlin Garland’s “Under the Lion’s Paw,” is suffered beneath an economic force that he is not equipped to fight. In The Red Badge of Courage Henry Fleming, the young soldier, usually must act under the shadow of larger forces that he can ∧ know or understand; in Theodore Dreiser’s novels the characters’ actions are determined by controllable social and physical factors. Naturalist writing uses a facts-only approach, a style made of detail observation of the “truth” of human experiences. Romantic illusions, Sentiments, and idealistic solutions ∧ problems are all absent from Naturalistic writing. Poets as well as novelists participated in this movement: Edwin Arlington Robinson, for example, showed his characters in the harsh light of day, unromanticized, often unhappy and unfulfilled. Although Naturalist literature described the world with sometimes brutal Realism, it sometimes also aimed at better the world through social reform. For example, Frank Norris and Hamlin Garland, in portraying the plight of the western and mid-western farmer, hoped to bring a desperate situation to the eye of the American public and so to improve it. This combination of grim reality and desire for improve is typical of America as it moved into the twentieth century. 1. beyond 2. overwhelming 3. suffers 4. not 5. uncontrollable 6. detailed 7. to____ 8. bet