超星 - Pre-reading questions

单选题

The young men began to enlist for ________.

A. fun in the war
B. the war before it was too late
C. the democracy before the war ended
D. the Victorian gentility after the war

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单选题

“The Sad Young Men” actually refers to _________.

A. the lost generation
B. the angry young men
C. Beat generation
D. the war profiteers

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The Sad Young Men included a group of young intellectuals except ________.

A. Hemingway and Dos Passos
B. Rod Horton and Herbert Edwards
C. Scott Fitzgerald and Eugene O’Neill
D. Ezra Pound, Eliot and Cummings

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Which of the following did the Sad Young Men enjoy ?

A. the Babbitts
B. Victorian gentility
C. Bohemianism and eccentricity
D. The hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition

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No aspect of life in the Twenties has been more commented upon and sensationally romanticized than _________.

A. the naive Fourth-of-July bombast
B. the rejection of Victorian gentility
C. the expatriation of the true intellectuals
D. The so-called Revolt of the Younger Generation

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The writer wants to tell us that ______.Ø

A. Love is a mistake, a deception and an emotion that followsthe principles in logic
B. Love is an error and it has deceptive quality that does not follow the principles of logic
C. Love is not a dry branch of learning and it is like a humanbeing full of beauty and passion.Ø
D. Love is a dry and learned discipline and girls do want brilliant, gifted or educated husbands.

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