Unit 9 what is happiness试卷

综合英语教程第二册第九单元测试卷

南昌商学院《综合英语（二）》自学单元UNIT 9测试卷

1) Advertising is one of our major industries, and advertising exists not to satisfy desires but to create them—and to create them faster than any man’s budget can satisfy them..

2. Fill in the blanks with prepositions or adverbials.

1) And at the same time the forces ____ American commercialism are ______ dedicated to making us deliberately unhappy.

2) Once past the ______ uplifting fiction and feature articles, the reader finds the other face ______ the dream in the back matter.

3) This is the harness _____ which Mother must strap herself in order to display that perfect figure. These, the chin straps she must sleep _______.

4) Yet someone is _____ trying to buy the dream ______offered and spending billions every year _____ the attempt.

3. Fill in the blank in each sentence with an appropriate form of the given word in the brackets.

1) This is the baby skin that must be hers. These, the _______ teeth. This, the perfumed breath she must exhale. (flaw)

2) I know she has many ______. We work hard in _______ of a happy life. (pursue)

3) He _____ me into paying for the fake product, He gets the money by ______. (deceive)

4) She _______ her life to teaching English. We respect her because she serves the public with _____ and

integrity. (dedicate)

5) The active discipline of heightening one’s ______ of what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high. (perceive)

6) Thoreau certainly disapproved of ______, but he would put into feeding himself only as much

effort as would keep him functioning for more important efforts. (starve)

4. Put in the, a or zero article where necessary.

1) It was only a few years ago, to cite ____ single example, that car dealers across _____ country were flying banners that read “You Auto Buy Now.”

2) There, as ______ Bernard DeVoto once pointed out, ______ advertising begins as_____ poetry in ____ front pages and ends as _____ pharmacopoeia and _____ therapy in ____ back pages..

3) ______ poetry of _____ front matter is _____ dream of ______ perfect beauty.

4) _____ Possession for its own sake or in _____ competition with _____ rest of ____ neighborhood would have been Thoreau’s idea of _____ low levels.

5. Create one sentence for each of the following phrases respectively.

1) uplifting 2) underline 3) catatonic 4) vague 5) felicity 6) flawless

1) cardinal 2) felicity 3) insatiability 4) knave

5) pharmacopoeia

6) salve

综合英语教程第二册第九单元测试卷

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5) The military schools usually ______ students strictly. In the end she ______ patience and started hitting him. Hold your breath for five seconds and then _____ slowly. The new market _____ a great many goods for sale. The Chinese people demonstrated great ______ in combating the earthquake that struck Sichuan Province

in May 2008.

6) No one had ______ the Great Depression of the thirties.

8. Analyze the functions of the underlined parts in the following sentences.

1.

2. to buy at once, with money they did

not have, automobiles they did not really need, and which they would be required to grow tired of by the time the next year’s models were released.

3. They were calling upon Americans, as an act approaching patriotism,time the next year’s models were released.

4. The idea “happiness,”5. What they might have underlined, could they have foreseen the happiness-market, is the cardinal fact that is to say, in the idea of becoming.

9. Translate the following sentences.

1.The right to pursue happiness is issued to Americans with their birth certificates, but no one seems quite sure which way it ran. It may be we are issued a hunting license but offered no game.

2.We are taught that to possess is to be happy, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want.

3. Jonathan Swift seemed to think so when he attacked the idea of happiness as “the possession of being well-deceived,” the felicity of being “a fool among knaves.” For Swift saw society as Vanity Fair, the land of false goals.

4. This is the salve that restores all, this is her laxative, these are the tablets that melt away fat, these are the hormones of perpetual youth, these are the stockings that hide varicose veins.

5. 我们先到海边，再从那里乘船去法国。（make one's way to）

6. 学生会号召全体同学为受灾地区捐款。(call upon)

7. 只要我们知道如何驾驭这股力量，那么它将永远成为我们的仆人。(harness)

8. 他笑着回答说：“不用谢，我做这件事不光是为了你，也是为了我自己。” (as much as)

10. Decide which of the following best states the author's purpose of writing. ________

A. To attempt a definition of happiness by setting some extremes to the ideas and then working in toward the middle.

B. To attack the dedicated insatiability for material possessions stirred by modern commercialism.

C. To prove the validity of Thoreau's notion about low levels and high levels of happiness.

11. Answer the following questions.

1. What’s the author’s answer to the question “What is happiness”?

2. What does the author mean when he says “The right to pursue happiness is issued to Americans with their birth certificates”?

3. What do the quoted expressions from Swift mean?

4. Why does the author say, “It is, of course, un-American to think in terms of fools and knaves”?

5. How is the car dealers’ words on the banner “You Auto Buy Now” related with patriotism in Paragraph 3?

6. Why does the author use the words “poetry” and “dream” to describe the advertisements in women’s magazines?

7. Why does the author need to say “because I am Western,” “torture to almost any Western man”?

8. How does the author differentiate the Founding Fathers’ notion of happiness from the misconception about it?