Unit 1 Women of achievement Language points课时作业

Ⅰ.阅读理解

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　　In George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the storyline centers around three main characters: Eliza Doolittle, Professor Henry Higgins, and Colonel Pickering.Eliza Doolittle is a flower girl who is under the instruction of Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering to learn proper grammar and phonetics.Eliza can be characterized as a very sensitive and emotional person.She seeks to be treated like a duchess by men.Her personality clashes (冲突) with the personality of Professor Higgins in an extreme way.Professor Higgins is an arrogant (傲慢的), work­obsessed expert in phonetics who views Eliza simply as an experiment.He is a bachelor who has never found a place for women in his life due to his obsession (痴迷) with language.Colonel Pickering is a gentleman from India who is also an expert in language.He is gentler than Higgins and treats Eliza with respect while maintaining a professional interest in her.These three characters make up the main action of the play as Eliza learns speech of the upper class from them.She manages to pass herself off as a Hungarian princess at a formal party.This achievement makes Eliza give_credence_to_the efforts of Higgins and Pickering.After experiencing life in the upper class, Eliza settles for a lower­class life with a man who loves her for who she is and wants to marry her.After some small and unimportant disputes.Eliza and Higgins remain friends later.Other memorable characters include Mrs.Higgins who maintains an authoritative (权威的) figure over her grown son and Mr.Doolittle who rises from a dustman to a respected speaker in the community.

　　I think that this is a good book because it shows that happiness can be achieved without wealth and fame.I highly recommend it due to its emphasis on grammatical and phonetic correctness.

语篇解读：本文作者分析了《卖花女》中各人物之间的关系，谈到了自己阅读这本书的体会，并向读者推荐这本书。

　　1．Eliza learns speech of the upper class because ________.

　　A．she wants to do an experiment

　　B．she wants to marry a gentleman

　　C．she has to play a princess at a party

　　D．she wants to be treated respectfully

解析：选D　细节理解题。根据第一段"She seeks to be treated like a duchess by men.