Unit 2 Poems grammar课时作业

Ⅰ. 阅读理解

Pygmalion is a drama in which Shaw has made sentiments one of the principle themes of discussion. The Greek sculptor Pygmalion carved a statue and fell in love with it. Aphrodite (the goddess of love) turned the statue into a living woman named Galatea，who then became Pygmalion's wife.

The Shavian Pygmalion is Henry Higgins，a professor of phonetics，who picks up a flower girl，Eliza Doolittle，teaches her to speak as educated people do，and then successfully passes_her_off_as a duchess. But she is a human being and cannot be treated as a machine. In the course of all his experiments and exhibitions，the professor only thinks of his own skill success and failure，but never stops to consider how the girl feels. When the experiment is over，he has a profound sense of relief that he has achieved triumph and has won his bet. Even now，the sentiment of the girl is of no account. The girl naturally protests against this dehumanized relationship between her and her teacher. She hurls the professor's slippers at him when he wants them and then leaves his place. But evidently，she has begun to feel for the professor and wants also to be felt for.

Now the question is what is the nature of Eliza's feelings for the professor with whom she has lived in close association for so long？In the last act，the girl says she would not marry him even if he had proposed (求婚) to her. The professor，curiously ineffectual (无效的) to sexual emotions，does not love any girl because he finds them to be rivals (对手) to his own mother. He wonders，if Eliza does not want to marry him，then what does she want from him？Old Mrs. Higgins，who knows much about a woman says that it would have been better if he had thanked her and petted her and told her how wonderful she had been. Then perhaps she would not have fought with him. Every girl loves to be loved. Eliza herself says that she loves Freddy and he also loves her. Professor Higgins，however，remains as ever，an old bachelor.

1．What does the underlined phrase "pass her off as" in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Let her pretend to be.

B．Dress her up as.