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1.
i) Reading comprehension.
1. Read the text and answer the following questions. Give short
answers. You can use exactly the same words that appear in the
text or you can even use quotations.
1. What does he think all that stuff about family reunions on the further
shore is false?
He thinks that the human imagination has created a lot of
anthropomorphic representations of the life beyond death, which tend
to believe in a post mortem continuity of our earthly way of life,
without being really founded in the Sacred Scriptures.
2. What do people think Heaven is like?
They think about Heaven being a
3. Who says Do not mourn like those that have no hope?
The apostle St. Paul, in his first letter to the Thessalonians, chapter 4,
verse 13.
4. Why can the mother he talks about be comforted for his childs death?
Because the child has not lost the end for which it was created, and
because she is sure of not having lost a greater thing, that she may
still hope to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
5. Why does he doubt about the peaceful state of those who are
supposedly at rest?
Because he cannot withstand that the separation of lovers could be
painless.
6. What is the logical conclusion of thinking that H. doesnt exist
anymore? What philosophical argument supports this conclusion?
He concludes that If H. is not, then she never was . Hes following
the materialist thesis, and deriving a logical conclusion from it.
According to the materialist belief (I emphasize that of belief) the
matter / substance is eternal.
7. Why does he have some evidence to suggest that God is not good?
is that a reasonable thinking process?
Because it is supposed that, if God is good, His goodness is
inconsistent with hurting us; but, due to the fact that we experience
many dangers and pains in our daily life, he concludes that God is
2. Say if these statements are True (T) or False (F) according to the
text.
1. He thinks he can find consolation in religion.
T/F
T/F
T/F
T/F
T/F
10.
ii) Grammar
T/F
1. Further shore. What type of word is the underlined one? Where does it
come from?
Its the comparative form of the adjective far, in its superlative form.
2. To make negative statement we can use the word not (which goes with
the auxiliary verb) and no (which goes with a noun). Find in the text
examples of both negative structures.
[(verb) + not]
Theres not a word of it in the Bible.
Things on this side are not so different after all.
it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it
was created
[no + noun]
either God is not good or there is no God.
We have no motive for obeying Him.
even when no need compels them
3. Can you find reflexive pronouns in the text? Specify which verb or
structure they go with. Copy and translate.
- And it is a comfort to believe that she herself [] has not lost
a greater thing.
o [subject] + [emphasising pronoun]
o
4. Look at the following words (taken from the text). What is the base word?
With the suffix, what part of speech do they become? What conclusions
can you draw?
BASE WORD
SUFFI
Mother
Pain
-hood
-less
PART
OF SPEECH
TRANSLATION
Motherhood
Painless
Noun
Adjective
Maternidad
Indoloro
Happiness
Goodness
Consciousness
Meaningless
Unreasonable
ness
Senseless
Successivenes
s
Happy
Good
Conscious
Meaning
Unreasonabl
e
Sense
Successive
-ness
-ness
-ness
-less
-ness
-less
-ness
Noun
Noun
Noun
Adjective
Noun
Adjective
Noun
Felicidad
Bondad
Conciencia
Insignificante
Irrazonabilidad
Insensible
Sucesividad
CONCLUSIONS:
-
The [-hood] & [-ness] suffixes turn the base word into a noun.
The [-less] suffix turn the base word into an adjective (even
though that base word is a noun).
5. S0/such look in the text for expressions with so and such. What types of
words go after each one. Copy the examples you find in the text and
translate them.
[so (adverb)]:
[before an adjective without its noun]
- Things on this side are not so different after all
o Las cosas en este lado no son tan diferentes, despus de todo.
[before an adverb]
- apply to ourselves words so obviously addressed to our betters
o aplicarnos palabras tan obviamente dirigidas a nuestros
-
mejores
iii) Vocabulary
Look up the following words in a dictionary. Write down a definition
in English and then give an equivalent in Spanish.
//
characteristics
//
Que
tiene
8. Fallen (from the verb fall): having come or gone down quickly from a
high place or position // que ha cado o venido abajo rpidamente desde
un lugar o posicin elevada.
9. Archetype: A very typical example of a certain person or thing //
ejemplo muy tpico (prototpico) de una determinada person o cosa.
un
10.
Materialism: A tendency to consider material possessions and
physical comfort as more important than spiritual values // Tendencia a
considerar las posesiones materiales y el confort fsico como ms
importantes que los valores espirituales.
iv) Thesis
What do you think is the most important idea (or ideas) of this
excerpt. Specify in which sentence (or sentences) you think that
idea (or those ideas) are expressed.
I feel the incomprehension of St. Pauls quote to be the most remarkable fact
in this excerpt. And that disbelief appears to be the peak of an enormous
iceberg of confusion and misunderstanding mixed with grief and rebellion
of the real christian hope.
The author evidences the scandal and disagreement that the christian faith
produces to anyone which is not illuminated with the grace of faith, as the
very St. Paul said: for the preaching of the Cross is to them that perish
foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God (1Co 1, 18).
Thats why, without the light of faith, its so difficult to have an Anthropology
that exhaustively gives the whole answer to human existence in all its
extent, even to its end.
Thus, all the authors painful and desperate reasoning comes from a
sorrowful heart in which there isnt yet an answer to sorrow and death,
because the divine Light has not yet been able to spread his pure light into
these grievous issues, revealing their real meaning.