文档介绍:Lesson One Rock Superstars:What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society?
一、综合题。
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I. Answer the following questions in English.
1. According to Irving Horowitz, what is the sociological significance of rock music?
2. What other major subjects did rock music deal with apart from politics?
3. What rewards did the rock stars get?
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II. Translate the following English into Chinese.
1. They surge to follow him, eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops.
2. Are you drawn somehow to this strange clown, perhaps because he acts out your wildest fantasies?
3. It is they alone bine invention and exaggeration, reason and motion, word and sound, music and politics.
4. Rock music is really a sociological expression rather than a musical force.
5. Newspapers editorialized against him, and works banned him.
6. Bob Dylan touched a nerve of disaffection.
7. In one 1972 national opinion poll, more than 10 percent of the high school boys and 20 percent of the girls said their hero was a rock superstar.
8. I laughed to myself at the men and the ladies, who never conceive of us billion-dollar babies.
. Translate the following Chinese into English.
1. 你如何看待所有这一切赞美和英雄崇拜。
2. 只不过埃尔维斯成功地体现了二十世纪五十年代青少年悲观失望的精神状态。
3. 美国的青年人视摇滚乐队为论坛,在这里他们把对美国社会的信仰及情感给以全新的解释。
4. 大多数中老年观众皱眉反对甲壳虫乐队,而多数年轻人却鼓掌欢呼。
答案部分
一、综合题。
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【正确答案】 
1. Music can mirror its time. He sees the rock m