unit2新标准大学英语综合教程4答案(含Unit-text)
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Mo Yan's recent novel Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a bizarre fantasy of a rich landlord and his family set against 50 years of social change in rural China. This fascinating novel is translated into English in 2008. The landlord Ximen Nao is executed early in the Chinese Revolution. In hell, he refuses to admit his wrongdoing, and Yama, the King of Hell, allows him to return reincarnated in the successive forms of five animals—a donkey, an ox, a pig, a dog and a monkey—so that he can find out his guilt. The animals, each connected to Ximen's family, see the changes in rural China over 1950–2000, but cannot help the family. One strength is how Mo Yan creates exaggerated and absurd scenes which are vivid and humorous, and gives a tragic insight into past situations: When pigs get ill and die villagers try many methods to get rid of the bodies and finally put
them in the river. When the donkey dies in the great famine, it is instantly turned into pieces of meat; in more recent times, the monkey has a short life while people ride in luxury cars and wear Rolex watches. This scene shows typical humour: \farmer's wife had a miscarriage, a pig ran headlong into a wall and knocked itself out, a whole roost of laying hens took to the air, and local dogs barked themselves hoarse.\ The main characters are hard-working, stubborn, human and independent; other characters are shown through satire. Ximen's final reincarnation is as a big-headed boy with an unusual memory and a gift for
language—possibly an ironic reference to the writer who has appeared in a mocking manner in several scenes in the novel. Unit text
1. Can we the formalities and get right down to business?
Your answer neglect
Correct answer forego
2. The actress spoke in such a heavy northern that I could barely understand her.
Your answer dialect
Correct answer dialect
3. There's nothing left to do now but the results.
Your answer await
Correct answer await
4. I love going on vacation, but I always in a sea of work when I return.
Your answer cited
Correct answer drown
5. After three huge successes, George became one of the most people in Hollywood.
Your answer influential
Correct answer influential
6. There have been far too many
disappearances in this town for my taste.
Your answer mysterious
Correct answer mysterious
7. It drives me crazy that Steve can sit around and be when there's so much work to do!
Your answer drowned
Correct answer idle
8. His shifty eyes and smarmy personality do little to a trustworthy character.
Your answer foster
Correct answer foster
9. She brings her lunch to work, but today she decided to eat out.
Your answer normally
Correct answer normally
10. The of alcohol as an illegal drug will only make the problem worse.
Your answer obstacle
Correct answer classification
11. \ you.\
Your answer Correct answer
unit2新标准大学英语综合教程4答案(含Unit-text)
