高级英语

《高级英语》辅导纲要高级英语（一）Lesson 1 Four Choices for Young People主要内容:I. Synonymsbucolic: pastoralantecedent: predecessor, ancestorpresumably: probably;barricade: blockadeinaugurate: launch, initiateaffluent: richformidable: fearfulskepticism: doubtfulness,misgiving: skepticismholocaust: massacre2. Antonymsdwindle: increaseunprecedented: usualtedious: excitingaffluent, wealthy : impoverishedunsullied: spoiledparasitic: independentpastoral, rustic : urbaninevitable: avoidableBrutal: humane3. Definitionguise: an outer appearance 伪装重点掌握:1. Meaning of words in contextSo Jim Binns’ generation has a formidable(frightening) job on its hands.formidable: fearful, terrifying, dreadful, threatening, menacing, terrific, alarming 可怕的，令人生畏的2. Explanation1) This strategy also has ancient antecedents. (Para. 5)2) … except for the polar regions, the frontiers are gone. (Para. 6)KEY1) Except for the poplar regions, very few areas on earth remain unsettled.2) But in general farmers are moving in large numbers to the cities.Lesson 2 Rock Superstars:What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society?主要内容:1. Synonymsradical: extremeramble: wanderreverence: respectpiety: devotion, loyaltyadulation: flattery2. Antonymsreverence: disrespect3. Definitionpilgrim: person who travels (esp．a long way) to a holy place as an act of religious love and respect朝拜圣地者；香客pilgrimage :a journey to some sacred place to show respect to Godbequeath: hand down, give or pass to others after death重点掌握:1. Meaning of words in contextHow do you feel about all this adulation (praise) and hero worship? adulation: the giving of too much praise or respect, esp. to win favor; praise more than necessary or deserved (to win favor) 谄媚；奉承2. The figures of speechHorowita sees the rock music arena as a sort of debating forum, a place where ideas clash and crash onomatopoeia/ alliteration3. Explanation1)By a man’s heroes ye shall know him. (Epigraph 2)2)The rock music arena is a place where ideas clash and crash. (Para. 3)3)These rock musicians mirror feelings and beliefs.KEY1)You’ll find out wh at kind of person someone is if you know who his or her heroes are.2)The rock music arena is a place where different ideas come into violent conflict.3)These rock musicians reflect the kind of emotions and outlook that…Lesson 3 A Most Forgiving Ape (part one)主要内容:1.Synonymsintrepid: insistentreprisal: revengeelusive: puzzling2. AntonymsBelligerence: friendlinessverify: di sproveIntrepid, dauntless: cowardlyhostile: friendly3. Definitionstereotyped: typed, categorized, fixed, established in form; used and repeated without change 定型的；反复使用而不便的；固定的safari: trip through wild country (in east and central Africa); people, vehicles and animals of such a trip; the people, vehicles, animals, etc. making such a trip （尤指在东非和中非的）重点掌握:1. Meaning of words in contextIt is this “human-ness” of the gorrila which is so beguiling(enchanting ). beguiling: deceiving, cheating, leading astray; charming; amusing 欺骗的；吸引人的；有意思的2. Explanation1) He is the stereotyped monster of horror f ilms…2) … is no more than shadow boxing as a general rule. (L3)KEY1)The gorilla always appears in horror films and adventure books as a monster in fixed form _half-man, half-gorilla.2)The gorilla is merely acting out gestures of aggressiveness to warn the enemy away. All thisis simply a showLesson 4 A Most Forgiving Ape (Part Two)主要内容:1. Synonymsbewilderment: puzzlementsweltering : hotlurk: hidepalpable: obviousgratify: satisfyenunciate: articulate, pronouncedilemma: quandaryamnesia: forgetfulnessscramble: climbbizarre: strange, peculiar,alternative :option2. Antonymsgroggily: steadilyimpenetrable: passableuncompromising: flexibleoutlandish: normal3. Definitionaccelerate: speed up, pick up speed, quicken , space up 加速fatigue: great tirednessamnesia: forgetfulness; loss of memory, either in part or completelyprophet: a religious person who claims to be able to explain God’s will and telllurk: hide, lie concealed, lie in ambush, sneak, prowl 潜伏；埋伏blister: small bag-like swelling under the skin, filled with liquid (caused by rubbing,burning, etc.) 泡，水泡重点掌握:1. Meaning of words in context1) That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still strikes nearly all men asbizarre(strange).bizarre: strange, peculiar, odd, as if having terrible dream 奇异的2) I rose groggily (unsteadily) to my feet and faced the impossible once more. groggily: unsteadily; weakly, likely to collapse or fall 支持不住地；软弱地Lesson 5 A Lesson in Living (Part One)主要内容:1. Synonyms:swirl: whirlwiry: thinbenign: benevolent, kind-heartefamiliarity: intimacy2. AntonymsInedible: eatable重点掌握:Explanation1) She didn’t encourage familiarity. (Para. 3)2) … and according to the Good Book, it goeth before a fall.”KEY1) She didn’t encourage ot hers to be on too intimate terms with her.2) Pride goes before a fall. ( One is bound to fail if he gets too conceited).Lesson 6 A Lesson in Living (Part Two)主要内容:1. Synonymscouch: expressaura: atmosphere2. Definitionsophistication: various experience of the yearsubsidize: to support with money重点掌握:1. The figures of speechI wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoyit hyperbole2. Explanation1) She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. (Para.16)2) I have tried often to search behind the sophistication of years for the enchantment I so easily found in those gifts. (Para. 23)3) The essence escapes but its aura remains. (Para. 23)KEY1) Ignor ance is something to be ashamed of and one must never slacken one’s efforts in seekingknowledge, yet one should by no means have any contempt for those who are unable to read and write.2) After I grew up, I have become more mature, and have a better and more complex understandingof the world, still I tried to seek the reason…why I enjoyed reading the books Mrs. Flowers offered me.3) The essential points of the poem’s content escape me, but the beautiful reading (or the deepimpression) remains in my memory (or its impact on my life can still be felt).Lesson 7 I’d Rather Be Black Than Female主要内容:1. Synonymsprejudice: biaseliminate: discardhandicap: obstaclebizarre: strange, peculiar2. AntonymsSkeptical: credulouseliminate : addhostility: amitymasculine: feminineSkeptical: credulous, trustingIncredulous: gullibleSuspicious, skeptical: credulousinvariably: changeablyunrewarding: worthy3. Definitionempathy: the power to enter into the feelings or spirit of othersboycott: to join with others in refusing to have any dealings with (some other individual or group) 联合抵制（某个人或团体）stereotype: fixed pattern or type of things or persons 定型；定型模式empathy: the power and state of imagining oneself to be another person, and so of sharing his ideas and feelings 移情作用hardware: machinery used in war; armaments重点掌握:1. Explanation1) Women have not even reached the level of tokenism that blacks are reaching. (Para. 11)(Womenhave not achieved even the minimal, symbolic equality being achieved by blacks.)Lesson 8 The Trouble With Television主要内容:1. Synonymscommand: orderstimulus: activatornovelty: originality, newness, uniqueness;Stimulation: excitementcultivate: developdivert: distract2. Antonymscasual: seriousaptly: unlikelywholesale: retailperpetual: temporaryaptly: unlikely3. DefinitionDivert: distract, amuse, entertain; turn from serious thought, draw off to a different subject.kaleidoscopic:(of scenes, colours or patterns)changing quicklynarcotic: taking away pain and causing sleep; painkiller,tolerance: Willingness to accept behavior and beliefs that are different from your own fatigue: great tiredness重点掌握:1. Meaning of words in contextIn short, a lot of television usurps(encroaches) one of the most precious of all human gifts,the ability to focus your attention yourself, rather than just passively surrender it. Usurp: seize illegally, take unlawfully, steal, grab, encroach upon, infringe upon? Give up;surrender, yield, relinquish,2. Explanation1) Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus.( The various entertainment offeredby television drugs viewers rather than providing them with food for thought.)2) I think this society is being force-fed with trivial fare. (This society is being forced toaccept things of little worth.)Lesson 9 On Getting Off to Sleep主要内容:1. Synonymspervade: spread , imbuedefy: challengesycophantic: flatteringcallous: hardened, heartless, indifferentstupendous: remarkable2. Antonymseventful: unimportant3. Definitionvexation: a feeling of distress, trouble, worriness, torment, harassnesinsomnia: a state of being unable to sleepstupendous: surprisingly great, remarkablelegion: great in number, very manysycophantic: flattering, of or like parasite, flatterer, puppet 拍马的；谄媚的重点掌握:1. Meaning of words in context1).The artificial ways of inducing sleep are legion( numerous), and are only alike in theirineffectuality.2). To me, there is something inhuman, something callous(Indifferent)and almost bovine, in the practice.callous: hardened, heartless, indifferent; uncaring 麻木的；无情的3. Explanation… when it is time to close the five ports of knowledge, … (Para. 3) (when it is time to fallasleep)Lesson 10 Why I Write?主要内容:1. Synonymsbias: prejudicepicturesquely: vivid2. Antonymsundervalued: overvaluedegoism: altruismdominant: recessive3. Definitionmeticulous: careful about small things or about minute details, often to extremesaesthetics: the study and science of the philosophy of beautysubsidize: to support with moneyimpulse: a sudden will to do something; inclination, wish, tendence 冲动重点掌握:1. Meaning of words in contextI will only say that of late years I have tried to write less picturesquely( vividly) and moreexactly.picturesquely: colorful, striking, distinctive, attractive, charming, imaginative; (of language) making a picture for the mind; having great force; vivid （指语言）生动的；有力的；栩栩如生的高级英语（二）Unit 1 What’s wrong with our press?主要内容I. SynonymsII. Complete the WordsIII. True or FalseIV. Rhetorical DevicesV. ExplanationVI. Reading Comprehension重点掌握True or False1. According to the Mr. Roper’s survey, newspaper ranks second among the major forms of mass media in terms of popularity. (T)2. Partisanship or rabid bias in network newscasts or network commentaries is not as intense as that in newspapers. (T)3. When the author of Lesson One mentions that newspapers have two great advantages over television, she really means it. (F)4. In Lesson One, the author doesn’t point out any problem of TV. In her opinion, TV does better in every aspect compared with newspapers. (F)5. The author of Lesson One criticizes all American newspapers in this text. (F)6. Newspapers encourage people to hate whatever is different. (T)7. Both TV and newspapers provide opinions of two sides. (F)Rhetorical Devices1. Rouse the Rabble by Routing Reason. (alliteration)2. Fortunately for the American public, television does not tolerate the kind of distortion of fact, the kind of partisan virulence and personal peeve.( parallelism)3. Is it discharging its duty to diversity by printing snippets of opinion from unqualified readers?(rhetorical question)4. When Mr. Roper asked his guinea pigs which of these media they would be least inclined to believe, the newspapers topped the list. (metaphor)5. For if you degrade and cheapen the word too long, the people will turn to the picture.(metonymy)6. It is easier to let the ads dictate the format than develop a format that elevates news above dogfood. (personification)7. Change means trouble, change means work, change means cost. (repetition)8. What is there for them in the paper, usually the only paper, of their own? (rhetorical question)Explanation1. Television lives on advertising to an even greater extent than newspaper…(Television is more dependent on advertising than newspaper...)Unit 2 What to Listen for in Music主要内容I. SynonymsII. Complete the WordsIII. True or FalseIV. Rhetorical DevicesV. ExplanationVI. Reading Comprehension重点掌握VocabularyTrue or False1. People hold different ideas about the expressive plane of listening to music.(T)2. The value of music is equal to its sensuous appeal.(F)3. As listeners, we should pay as much attention to the sheerly musical plane as the professional musicians. (F)4. The process of listening to music can be divided on three hypothetical planes: the sensuous plane, the expressive plane and the sheerly musical plane. (T)Rhetorical Devices1. Is it pessimistically sad or resignedly sad; is it fatefully sad or smilingly sad? (oxymoron)2. Music expresses, at different moments, serenity or exuberance, regret or triumph, fury or delight. (antithesis )3. Simple-minded souls will never be satisfied with the answer to the second of these questions. (synecdoche )Explanation1. There is no need to digress further on the sensuous plane. (So far it’s enough for me to talk about the sensuous plane / I don’t need to talk too much about the sensuous plane.)Unit 3 Eveline主要内容I. SynonymsII. Complete the WordsIII. True or FalseIV. Rhetorical DevicesV. ExplanationVI. Reading Comprehension重点掌握VocabularyTrue or False1. Eveline gave up the chance to escape with Frank. Part of the reasons was that the unknown future frightened her. (T)2. Eveline was sure of her love of Frank. (F)3. Eveline had a comparatively happy childhood. (T)4. Eveline was treated well by Miss Gavan at the store. (F)5. Eveline’s father was a brutal man and often beat his children including his daughter. (T)Rhetorical Devices1. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses. (onomatopoeia)2. He took her to see The Bohemian Girl and she felt elated as she sat in an unaccustomed part of the theatre with him. (transferred epithet)3. It was hard work—a hard life—but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life. (litotes)Explanation1. She had hard work to keep the house together…(She had to try very hard to make the family members stay together/not to go their different ways.)Unit 4 The Tragedy of Old Age in America主要内容I. SynonymsII. Complete the WordsIII. True or FalseIV. Rhetorical DevicesV. ExplanationVI. Reading Comprehension重点掌握VocabularyTrue or False1. The authors of Lesson Four agree with neither of the two discrepant views on old age.(T)2. The quality of late life is determined by a combination of many elements. (T)3. The mental problems of the old are untreatable.(F)4. Old women fare worse than old men simply because they have a longer life expectancy. (T)5. Old people who are poor have been poor all their lives. (F)6. Many elderly Americans do not enjoy a satisfying late life because the society itself is too harsh for them to live in. (T)Rhetorical Devices1. The American dream promised older people that if they worked hard enough all their lives, things would turn out well for them.( personification )2. For the most part the elderly struggle to exist in an inhospitable world. (understatement)3. But what are an individual’s chances for a “good” old age in America, with satisfying final years and a dignified death? (irony )4. Death is a dramatic,…a bittersweet coming to terms with one’s own personality and one’s life.( oxymoron)5. Voluntary hospitals are well known for dumping the “Medicare patient”into municipal hospitals…(euphemism)Explanation1.…while old age is…a bittersweet coming to terms with one’s own personality and one’s life. (Old age involves adaptation to a changed self and one’s life with mixed feelings.)Unit 5 The Spanish Bullfight主要内容I. SynonymsII. Complete the WordsIII. True or FalseIV. Rhetorical DevicesV. ExplanationVI. Reading Comprehension重点掌握VocabularyTrue or False1. All Spaniards are interested in bullfight. (F)2. Successful matadors are ever more idolized than film stars. (F)3. Far from being a sport, the bullfight has a religious origin. (T )4. There are many symbolic acts in a bullfight. (T)5. The main duty of the monosabios in the bullring is to help the picadors. (T)6. Far from being a sport, the bullfight has a religious origin. (T)Rhetorical Devices1. They look like figures representing gluttony in a medieval morality play, and you expect ladies in wimples to appear and clowns dressed like monkeys. (simile)2. There are also big block letters laid out on sand like formations of gymnasts at a Soviet youth rally. (simile)3. It is a morality play, that isolates, and sets against each other…(metaphor)Explanation1. …so that you can debunk it to your own satisfaction(Argue about it and criticize it )2.begin to compose themselves on their little cushions…(sit comfortably)Unit 6 Jerusalem the Golden (Excerpt)主要内容I. SynonymsII. Complete the WordsIII. True or FalseIV. Rhetorical DevicesV. ExplanationVI. Reading Comprehension重点掌握VocabularyTrue or False1. Clara had a peculiar taste of the physical world around her. (T )2. Clara was not sure whether her favorable position in the school would impress her parents. (T)3. The girls adored Miss Haines merely for her fashions. (F)4.The teachers of the school were equally respected and loved by their students. ( F) Rhetorical Devices1. Clara did not mind the cold, for she liked anything that was not small and cramped and heartlessly cosy…(oxymoron)2. Her blackboard technique was also extremely idiosyncratic; she would write up equations, get them wrong, mumble to herself, rub them out, look them up in a book, …(parallelism)3. She handled her apparatus with the efficient familiarity with which other women handle their baking boards and rolling pins…(simile )4. Mrs. Hill took a fancy to Clara. Clara, when she became aware of it, was not displeased. (litotes )5. It was a pleasant summer afternoon, and the rows and rows of houses looked unusually brightand gay in the sun…(personification )Explanation1. …years of housework had left their mark on her. (It was clear that she was used to doing housework. )2. The girls respected her because she had nerve and a good front of confidence…(She is courageous and good-looking, confident. )3. But her great quality was a capacity for being genuinely impervious to inattention. (Her real ability not to be affected when the students paid no attention to her)Unit 7 Science Has Spoiled My Supper主要内容I. SynonymsII. Complete the WordsIII. True or FalseIV. Rhetorical DevicesV. ExplanationVI. Reading Comprehension重点掌握VocabularyTrue or False1. American food is tasteless and innutritious. (F)2. Hatred is the very feeling the author of Lesson Seven has about what science has done to food. (T)3. What the author calls “cheese foods” used to be hand-made in small factories. (F)4. Scientists have changed the original taste of vegetables through breeding them. That is the sole reason why American vegetables are tasteless. ( F)5. As Americans are eating second-rate foods of more or less the same kind, they are actually eating the way hogs used to be fed by their ancestors. (T)Rhetorical Devices1. What matters if such peas taste like boiled paper wads? (simile)2. But, of the average tinned or glass-packed strawberry jam, you need half a cupful to get the idea of what you’re eating. (hyperbole)3. That is why, when error is committed in the name of Science, I feel the way a man would if his favorite uncle had taken to drink. (analogy)4. Everything, pretty much, tastes like the mosses of tundra, dug up in mid-winter. (simile) Explanation1. …the diet of most of us is well-balanced.(What most of us eat and drink contains the right amount and kind of food and drink necessary for health. )Unit 8 I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto主要内容I. SynonymsII. Complete the WordsIII. True or FalseIV. Rhetorical DevicesV. ExplanationVI. Reading Comprehension重点掌握True or False1. Once talented young blacks have left watts, they are not expected to return home and actually no one has done so.(F)2. When the author left Watts for higher education, he had already made up his mind to return home and make a career there. (T)3. Before the author enrolled in Yale Law School, Watts was already a topic for discussion on the campus. (T)Rhetorical Devices1. It was there, ironically enough, that the Odyssey turned homeward.(metaphor )2. My scholarship to college was a ticket. (metaphor)3. I adopted the language of escape. (metaphor)4. The parallel between a single individual’s success and the bootstrap effort of th e mass of ghetto youth is and remains too tenuous to comport with reality. (antithesis )Explanation1.There are no retractions or future deliverances.( One cannot change his mind and return hometo be saved. (“future deliverances” has a biblical connotation: as is said in the Old Testament, God rescued the people of Israel by bringing there back to the Promised Land.))Unit 9 Vivisection主要内容I. SynonymsII. Complete the WordsIII. True or FalseIV. Rhetorical DevicesV. ExplanationVI. Reading Comprehension重点掌握VocabularyTrue or False1. It is irrational either to defend or oppose vivisection by appealing to the emotion of pity.( T)2. Though the infliction of pain in itself is an evil act, it requires no justification if it can be done for a good purpose. ( F)3. The author of Lesson Nine doesn’t think the victory of vivisectionists is final. (T)4. The sentiment that justifies cruelty to beasts leads to persecution of men of other race, class or religion. (T )5. Protest against vivisection used to be strong, but today no one dare show any opposition. (F)6. While accusing anti-vivisectionists of “sentimentality”, the naturalists fail to see that their loyalty to our own species is also a sentiment. (T)Rhetorical Devices1. If we find a man giving pleasure it is for us to prove (if we criticize him) that his action is wrong. But if we find a man inflicting pain it is for him to prove that his action is right. (antithesis)2. And if pain is not an evil, why should human suffering be reduced? (rhetorical question )3. The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law;…(sarcasm)1. But the other side lies open to exactly the same charge. (Those who approve of vivisection aresubject to the same charge of “sentimentality”)Unit 10 On Human Nature and Politics主要内容I. SynonymsII. Complete the WordsIII. True or FalseIV. Rhetorical DevicesV. ExplanationVI. Reading Comprehension重点掌握VocabularyTrue or False1. Modern men also have primitive impulse.(T )2. To walk 25 miles a day is the best outlet for man’s surplus physical energy. ( F)Rhetorical Devices1.When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates, acquired the riches ofthe Eastern Roman Empire…(understatement)2.I found myself unable to be in entire agreement with the grave men who utter these warnings.(pun)Explanation1. One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. (One grows more vainif one is encouraged in one’s vanity.)2.I never heard of a war that proceeded from dance halls. (Dancing can never lead to a war.)综合ClozeDirections: Fill in the missing words in the following passage:Music comes in many forms; most countries have a style of their own. _1__ the turn of the century when Jazz was born, America had no prominent _2__ of its own. No one knows exactly when jazz was __3_-, or by whom. But it began to be _4_ in the early 1900s. Jazz is America’s contribution to __5__ music. In contrast to classical music, which __6__ formal European traditions. Jazz is spontaneous and free-form. It bubbles with energy, __7__ moods, interests, and emotions of the people. In the 1920s jazz __8__ like America. And _9__ it does today.The __10__ of this music are as interesting as the music __11__, American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today were the Jazz _12__. They were brought to the Southern states __ 13_ slaves.They were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long __14_. When a Negro died his friends and relatives __15__ a procession to carry the body to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often accompanied the __16_-. On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the occasion. __17__ on the way home the mood changed. Spirits lifted. Death had removed one of their __18__, but the living were glad to be glad to be alive. The band played __19__ music, improvising on both the harmony and the melody of the melody the tunes __20__ at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form of Jazz.1. (A) By (B) At (C) In (D) On2. (A) music (B) song (C) melody (D) style3. (A) discovered (B) acted (C) invented (D) designed4. (A) noticed (B) found (C) listened (D) heard5. (A) classical (B) sacred (C) Popular (D) light6. (A) forms (B) follows (C) approaches (D) introduces7. (A) expressing (B) explaining (C) exposing (D) illustrating8. (A) appeared (B) felt (C) seemed (D) sounded9. (A) as (B) so (C) either (D) neither10. (A) origins (B)originals (C) discoveries (D) resources11. (A) concerned (B) itself (C) available (D) oneself12. (A) players (B) followers (C) fans (D) pioneers13. (A) for (B) as (C) with (D) by14. (A) months (B) weeks (C) hours (D) times15. (A) demonstrated (B) composed (C) hosted (D) formed16. (A) demonstration (B) procession (C) body (D) march17. (A) Even (B) Therefore (C) Furthermore (D) But18. (A) number (B) members (C) body (D) relations19. (A) sad (B) solemn (C) happy (D) funeral20. (A) whistled (B) sung (C) presented (D) showedReading ComprehensionPassage 1: Read the following writing and then answer the questions.In the collected body of writing we call literature, there may be distinguished two separate groupings capable of blending, but also fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly the literature of power. The function of the first is to teach; the function of the second is to move. The first is rudder, the second an oar or sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately to the higher understanding or reason, but always through the affection of pleasure and sympathy. Whenever we talk in ordinary language of seeking information or gaining knowledge, we understand the works as connected with absolute novelty. But it is the grandeur of all truth which can occupy a very high place in human interests, although it may not be absolutely novel to the meanest of minds.What do we learn from “Paradise Lost”? Nothing at all. What do we learn from a cook book?Something new, something we did not know before, in every paragraph. But would we therefore put the wretched cookbook on a higher level of estimation than the divine poem? What we owe to Milton is not any knowledge, of which a million separate items are still but a million advancing steps on the same earthly level; what we owe is power, that is, exercise and expansion of your own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where every pulse and each separate influx is a step upwards—a step ascending as upon Jacob’s ladder from earth to myst erious altitude above the earth.All the steps of knowledge, from first to last, carry us farther on the same plane, but could never raise us one foot above your ancient level on earth; whereas, the very first step of power is flight—an ascending into another element where earth is forgotten.1. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D. (10 points, 2 points each)1). The passage is written to _____________.A.differentiate between the attainment of factual knowledge and the arrival at philosophicalunderstandingB.disparage intellectual activities and the attainment of learningC.encourage mysticism as a desirable philosophical goalD.inspire writers to produce more practical books2). According to the passage, the literature of knowledge are__________.。