Quiz Two Name _____________ Score ____________ I. Explain the following words, phrases and sentences with plain words. 1. immortal: 2. supple: 3. slovenly: 4. senior citizen: 5. kick the bucket: 6. coma: 7. …would be too much like shooting sitting birds. 8. Many people cannot write them without having a slight feeling of guilt. 9. Some euphemisms are sufficiently offbeat to be funny. 10. It is the height of naivety to go round with a single yardstick. II. Fill in the blanks according to the texts of Unit 2. A ___________ knowledge of several styles may be worse than useless if we do not know the type of occasion on which each is _____________, or if we do not know when we are ____________ from one to another. Euphemisms are considered overly _________ and affected by ___________ writers. But it would be equally _____________ to _________ the judgment just as flatly. I am an old cripple, drawing an old-age ________, working hard to raise vast __________ of vegetables on an allotment. 5. All this effort to avoid unpleasantness is certain to fail, because the euphemism quickly _________ the stigma of the word it ____________. III. Translate the following Chinese into English, or English into Chinese. 1. bloody-minded: 2. senior citizen: 3. meat engineer: 4. Encyclopedia Sinica: 5. overstatement: 6. 去世： 7. 慈祥的笑容: 8. 对…产生影响: 9. 称呼她的方式: 10. 令人厌恶的陈词滥调: IV. Make a sentence with each given phrase. Your sentence should have no less than 12 words. no more…than: nothing but: appeal to tire of do away with: