【正文】 htened of her own henny self, she rushes to mad lengths about votes, or welfare, or sports, or business: she is marvellous, outmanning the man. But alas, it is all fundamentally disconnected. It is all an attitude, and one day the attitude will bee a weird cramp, a pain, and then it will collapse. And when it has collapsed, and she looks at the eggs she has laid, votes, or miles of typewriting, years of business efficiency— suddenly, because she is a hen and not a cock, all she has done will turn into pure nothingness to her. 5) ［ A］ If women today are cocksure, men are hensure. Men are timid, tremulous, rather soft and submissive, easy in their very henlike tremulousness. They only want to be spoken to gently. ［ B］ The girl who has got to make her way in life has got to be dauntless, and if she has a pretty, demure manner with it ,then luck girl. she kills two birds with two stones. ［ C］ conventional ideas about women seems pretty much cut and dried in the modern society. ［ D］ And yet she is never so easy, cocksure, as she used to be when she was hensure. Cocksure, she is cocksure , but uneasy. Hensure, she trembles, but is easy. ［ E］ And it is this that makes the cocksureness of women so dangerous, so devastating. It is really out of scheme, it is not in relation to the rest of things. So we have the tragedy of cocksure women. They find, so often, that instead of having laid an egg, they have laid a vote, or an emply inkbootle, or some other absolutely unhatchable object, means nothing to them. ［ F］ But the women pointed out the men had not produced anything, and the human race was pretty much starving. ［ G］ Suddenly it all falls out of relation to her basic henny self, and she realizes she has lost her life. The lovely henny surety, the hensureness which is the real bliss of every female, has been denied her: she had never had it. Having lived her life with such utmost strenuousness and cocksureness, she has missed her life altogether. Nothingness! 答案及解析 1) B。她兩方面都很成功。 2） D。 3） A。 4） E。 5） G。作者觀點明了，現(xiàn)代社會女人感受不到幸福，因為她們逆自然規(guī)律而行事， “it falls out of relation to her basic henny self” 她的業(yè)績與母雞一樣的本性毫無關(guān)系，所以 nothingness（一切毫無價值） 中心思想 作者闡述了這樣的觀點：現(xiàn)代女性并不幸福，因為她們一般要在社會中扮演和男人一樣的角色。最后，作者筆鋒一轉(zhuǎn)，從農(nóng)家雞院轉(zhuǎn)到廣闊的人類舞臺。 練習(xí)二 Directions:In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 15, choose the most suitable one from the list A— G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. One morning, a few years ago, Harvard President Neil Rudenstine overslept. 1） Only after a threemonth sabbatical — during which he read essayist Lewis Thomas, listened to Ravel and walked with his wife on a Caribbean beach— was he able to return to his post. That week, his picture was on the cover of Newsweek magazine beside the banner headline “Exhausted!” In the relentless busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between action and rest. I speak with people in business and education, doctors and daycare workers, shopkeepers and soial workers, parents and teachers, nurses and lawyers, students and therapists, munity activist and cooks. Remarkably, there is a universal refrain:“ I am so busy”. The more our life speeds up, the more we feel weary, overwhelmed and lost. 2) Instead,the whole experience of being alive begins to melt into one enormous obligation. It bees the standard greeting everywhere:I am so busy. We say this to one another with no small degree of pride. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others. To be unavailable to our friends and family, to be unable to find time for the sunset (or even to know that the sun has set at all), to whiz through our obligations without time for a single mindful breath — this has bee the model of a successful life. Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We lose the nourishment that gives us succor. We miss the quiet that gives us wisdom. Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things e only through tireless effort, we never truly rest. This is not the world we dreamed of when we were young. How did we get so terribly rushed in a world saturated with work and responsibility, yet somehow bereft of joy and delight? We have fotten the Sabbath. 3） It is time to be nourished and refreshed as we let our work, our chores and our important projects lie fallow, trusting that there are larger forces at work taking care of the world when we are at rest. If certain plant species do not lie dormant during winter, the plant begins to die off. 4） So Remember the Sabbath is more than simply a lifestyle suggestion. It is a mandment, an ethical precept as serious as prohibitions against killing, stealing and lying. Sabbath is more than the absence of work. Many of us, in our desperate drive to be successful and care for our many responsibilities, feel terrible guilt when we take time to rest. But the Sabbath has proven its wisdom over the ages. Many of us still recall when not long ago, shops and offices where closed on Sundays. Those quiet Sunday afternoons are embedded in our cultural memory. Much of modern life is specifically designed to seduce our attention away from rest. When we are in the world with our eyes wide open, the seductions are ） For those of us with children, there are endless soccer practices, baseball games, homework, laundry, housecleaning, errands. Every responsibility, every stimulus petes for our attention: Buy me .Do me. Watch me. Try me. Drink me. It is as if we have inadvertently stumbled into some horrific wonderland. ［ A］ Rest is not just a psychological convenience。 phones with multiple lines and callwaiting. begging us to talk to more than one person at a time。 billboards。 newspap