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《高级英语》第二册练习 Lesson 11 The Future of The English Ⅰ.Questions on content: 1.What role, according to Priestly, does instinctive feeling play in the behavior of an Englishman? 2. How does Priestly come to the conclusion that there are fewer fanatical believers in England? 3. What does the writer mean when he says, ―Some cancer in their character has eaten away their Englishness‖? Whom is he referring to? (Para. 2) 4. How, according to the writer, are the real English people different? 5. What is the conflict between Admass and Englishness? What importance does the writer attach to the outcome of this conflict? 6. What force may play a decisive role in this battle between Admass and Englishness? How? 7. Who are those people who have rejected Admass? What important role can they play? 8. What does Priestly think about the young in England? 9. What does he say about the ―sloppy people‖? 10. Why is there widespread boredom in heavily industrialized societies? How does boredom affect the English? 11. What other elements apart from boredom have brought about dishonesty and vicious criminality in England? 12. Does the writer consider politics important? Why? Ⅱ. Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false according to the text. 1. The English who have inherited Englishness cannot feel at home in the contemporary world. 2. The demand for bigness and efficiency is alien to ―Admass‖. 3. The production and consumption of goods is central to ‗Englishness‘ 4. America has been the chief advocate of ‗Admass‘ for many years. 5. ‗Englishness‘ is not hospitable to change and is suspicious of change for change‘s sake, rejecting the idea that we are now co itted to some inevitable mechanical progress. 6. ‗Englishness‘ is not as strong as it was 30 years ago. 7. People who are fascinated by ‗Admass‘ can be found among workers in smallish