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1、Unit 10 The New ImmoralityConsolidation ActivitiesI. Text Comprehension1. Decide which of the following best states the authors purpose.A. To condemn the absurdity of a paradox.B. To argue that humanity is a matter of the private morality, a sense of purely personal honor, honesty, and integrity.C.
2、To reveal the academic corruption on university campus in the USA.D.To review the data of a questionnaire distributed to some undergraduates.Key: B 2. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.1). Too many scandals violently strike the world of popular entertai
3、nment, and also the academic world. T 2). The bureaucrat and disk jockey think their decisions are still just despite the fact that they accept presents. T 3). The author absolutely blames sociology for the paradox, for it has tended to lay exclusive stress upon social morality, and tended too often
4、 to define good and evil as merely the socially useful. F 4). What social morality and social conscience advocate is the so-called socially desirable conduct, but what they should be concerned with most is the significant concept of mans honor self-esteem and self-dignity. T 5). That playing the gam
5、e as the gentleman was supposed to play it was a sound argument among early twentieth-century reformers. T 6). A good society is composed of men with honor. T 7). The author thinks that as man of the future will lose many of the virtues that he still has now, humanity will finally collapse. F II. Wr
6、iting StrategiesThis text is a piece of argumentative writing. With facts as well as opinions, the writer not only expresses what he thinks but also tries to persuade the reader to share his opinion and quite possibly to do something about the status quo. Clearly, various writing strategies are empl
7、oyed in the text. First of all, typical examples are supplied to exhibit a paradox of our age, thus presenting the problem or argument. Secondly, some questions are raised in places so as to draw the readers attention to some important ideas. Thirdly, comparisons and contrasts are frequently used to
8、 highlight some major points. Fourthly, the writer analyses the psychological support underlying mentality of the new immorality and destroys the defenses given by the dishonest in a step-by-step, in-depth manner. Finally, the writer defines the most important qualities an honest and useful man shou
9、ld possess, no matter how demoralized the world may become. The style of the writing is formal, and the tone is critical.The following two questions are to be answered:(1) Which sentences in the text involve a comparison?The following sentences obviously involve a comparison:1) Yet most of these fiv
10、e, like most of the college cheaters, would probably profess a strong social consciousness. 2) Is there really any evidence that personal dishonesty is more prevalent than it always was? 3) Perhaps these things are not actually more prevalent. 4) It is my conviction that though men may be no more wi
11、cked than they always have been, they seem less likely to be ashamed.5) Even so, I still insist that for the individual himself nothing is more important than this personal, interior sense of right and wrong and his determination to follow that rather than to be guided by what everybody does or mere
12、ly the criterion of social usefulness.“(2) Which sentences in the text display a contrast or a paradox?The following sentences clearly show a contrast or a paradox:1) They may cheat, but they vote for foreign aid and for enlightened social measures. 2) our seemingly great growth in social morality h
13、as oddly enough taken place in a world where private morality - a sense of the supreme importance of purely personal honor, honesty, and integrity - seems to be declining.3) Beneficent and benevolent social institutions are administered by men who all too frequently turn out to be accepting gifts. 4
14、) The world of popular entertainment is rocked by scandal. 5) College students, put on their honor, cheat on examination. 6) I have never been surprised to find men wicked, but I have often been surprised to find them not ashamed. 7) And persona, as opposed to social decency, doesnt count for much.
15、8) Sociology has tended to lay exclusive stress upon social morality, and tended too often to define good and evil as merely the socially useful or its reverse. 9) What social morality and social conscience leave out is the narrower but very significant concept of honor - as opposed to what is somet
16、imes called merely socially desirable conduct. 10) It is impossible for me to imagine a good society composed of men without honor. 11) Even cooperation, to give this thing its most favorable designation, is no more important than the ability to stand alone when the choice must be made between the sacrifice of
