高级英语阅读练习材料.doc

高级英语阅读练习材料.doc高级英语阅读练****材料

　　高级英语学生应该能用词典和其他工具书独立解决语言和文化，背景知识方面的难点，提高自学能力，增加文化知识，尤其是所学语言国家的`背景和文化知识，更好地使语言和文化结合在一起。下面是我整理的，希望大家认真阅读!

　　Love is a Fallacy

　　Max Shulman

　　4 Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious , acuteand astute--I was all of these. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as a
scalpel. And--think of it! --I was only eighteen.

　　5 It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. Take, for example, Petey Butch, my roommate at the University of Minnesota. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. A
nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs. Emotional type. Unstable. Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. To be swept
up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender yourself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it--this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness. Not, however, to Petey.

　　6 One afternoon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face that I immediately diagnosed appendicitis. "Don't move," I said. "Don't take a laxative. I'll
get a doctor."

　　7 "Raccoon," he mumbled thickly.

　　8 "Raccoon?" I said, pausing in my flight.

　　9 "1 want a raccoon coat," he wailed.

　　10 I perceived that his trouble was not physical, but mental. "Why do you want a raccoon coat?"

　　11 "1 should have known it," he cried, pounding his temples. "1 should have known they'd come back when the Charleston came back. Like a fool I spent all my money for textbooks, and now I
can't get a raccoon coat."

　　12 "Can you mean." I said incredulously, "that people are actually wearing raccoon coats again?"

　　13 "All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where've you been?"

　　14 "In the library," I said, naming a place not frequented by Big Men on Campus

　　15 He leaped from the bed and paced the room, "I've got to have