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1. frustration
2. disillusioned
3. faith
4. taboo-ridden
5. cultural crisis
6. cynical
7. atrocities
8. gap
9. waste
10. dissolution
11. hegemony
12. progrress
13. certain
14. views
15. concepts

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topic of the reading passage: psyche

main points: id, ego and superego; the psyche is affected by the subconscious 

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Exercise 2 

1. he was born in Eastwood, in Nottinghamshire
2. his parents belonged to a low social class, his dad was a miner
3. he studied hard, instead going to the mine
4. she gave him an education 
5. he met Frieda von Richthofen
6. they were accepted, but some of the were censore in England and the USA

Exercise 3

1. \
2. they are divided in the industrialism, but linked by love
3. the romantic bondage is explored
4. he uses a third person narrator and a good balance between showing and telling

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Exercise 1

Monet's painting reminds positiveness, happiness and a good fragrance in the air, like the roses' one, So h d lawrence's poem could probably be something similar, so something comforting and happy.

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Exercise 3

1. C
2. B
3. A
4. D/A
5. A
6. B
7. same time
8. developements
9. Arnold Schoenberg
10. distorted
11. not given
12. yes
13. no
14. no

Exercise 4

the spirit of the modernism was the breaking with established forms and subjects. they distorted shapes, broke down limitations of time and space, they wathced the world with different eyes, with a different perception, they used language in particular manners, they made isights into the nature of things, they privileged unconscious, they reflected the complexity of modern urban life and rejected elaborate aesthetics