2. What job did she have ? Did she find it pleasant ?
3. What work did she do at home ?
4. How did her father treat her ?
5. Who was Frank ?
6. Why should Eveline’s father forbid her to see Frank ?
7. What did frank ask her to do ?
8. Why was she in two minds about leaving home ?
9. What made her suddenly decide to go to the boat station ?
10. How do you feel after reading through the story ?
Key A.
1. There had been seven people in her family . There were five now . Her mother and brother Ernest died.
2. She worked in the store as a shop –assistant . She didn’t find it pleasant .
3. She did all the housework and tried to keep the home together .
4. Her father didn’t treat her very well and she lived in danger of her father ‘s violence .
5. Frank was her lover , and he was a sailor .
6. Eveline’s father distrusted Frank and thought Frank was a kind of person who fooled around with girls at every port of call .
7. Frank asked her to go away with him and set up a family in Buenos Ayres .
8. On one hand , she was not satisfied with her life at home and her work in the store , and she wanted to have a happy life with Frank ; on the other hand , she had no courage to abandon the life with which she was familiar and she didn’t want to break the promise to her mother .
9. She didn’t want to spend a miserable life as what her mother did before .
10. I feel sympathy for the difficult situation of Eveline and sad to see that Eveline had no courage to go away and build up new life .
B. Translate the following into Chinese :
1. Her head was leaned against the window curtains , and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne.
2. Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick ….
3. Perhaps she would never see again those familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided .
4. …and Harry , who was in the church decorating business , was nearly always down somewhere in the country .
5. He was standing at the gate , his peaked cap pushed back on his head and his hair tumbled forward over a face of bronze .
6. ….she was again in the close , dark room at the other side of the hall and outside she heard a melancholy air of Italy .
7. Through the wide doors of the sheds she caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat … with illumined portholes.
8. She set her white face to him , passive , like a helpless animal .
Key B
1. 她的头靠在窗帘上, 鼻孔里是提花窗帘布上的尘土气.
2. 她的父亲常用他那根黑刺李木棍到地里把他们赶出来。
3. 也许她再也不看不到她做梦都不想过要与之分开的一切熟悉的东西了。
4. 教堂干装修的哈里几乎总是在乡下什么地方。
5. 他站在大门口， 尖顶帽推在后脑勺上， 头发向前散乱垂在晒得黧黑的脸上。
6. 她好像又一次回到客厅另一侧的那间闷热的阴暗的房间中， 听见外面在奏着一首忧伤
的意大利曲子。
7. 从棚子的大宽门看出去她瞥见了黑糊糊的船体，。。。。。舷窗亮着灯光。
8. 她苍白的面孔对着他， 像个无助的动物那样迟钝被动。
C. Fill in the blank in each sentence with the best word or expression from the box below , changing its form when necessary :
Spell where on earth tumble invariable inhale go for unaccustomed be laid up anguish melancholy squabble undesirable
1. The children were playing in the park , chasing each other , tumbling on the lawn , laughing and shouting all the time .
2. At first she was so unaccustomed to the cockney accent that she understood nothing of what the taxi drivers said .
3. Where on earth can we find the money to pay the hospital bills ?
4. The performance was over , the audience remained motionless , completely under the spell of the music .
5. He left the crowded room , walked on to the balcony and inhaled the fresh night air .
6. When the pickpocket was cornered in the bus , he took out a knife and went for the conductor .
7. He missed the exam as he had been laid up with pneumonia for a whole month .
8. The parents have lived in anguish ever since the boy went missing .
D. Circle the right word or expression in the brackets in each of the following sentences :
1.(Invariably , Unchangeably)strict with himself , he went over the accounts yet another time .
2.Many people are worried by what they think is ( unaccustomed ,undesirable ) scenes on TV for the children .
3. It is impossible to sort out all the (squabbles , debates ) among the children .Sometimes one just has to ignore them .
1. It is such a ( pitiful , sympathetic ) sight to see the elderly people sitting on park benches , lonely and expressionless .
2. The party over , the guests gone , she looked at the empty rooms and sank into (anguish ,melancholy ) .
3. He ( stumbled , tumbled ) on the pavement and twisted his ankle .
4. What happened to them on the trip was a nightmare , which left them ( unspeakably , pitifully ) furious for weeks .
5. The vulgar commercial which followed broke the ( spell , appeal ) of the film .
E. Explain the underlined words in English :
1. She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue .
2. …and her place would be filled up by advertisement .
3. “ Look lively ,Miss Hill ,please .”
4. ….Harry always sent up what he could ….
5. The she had to rush out as quickly as she could and do her marketing ….
6. He used to call her Poppens out of fun .
7. Her time was running out …
8. …that life of commonplace sacrifices closing in final craziness .
Key E
1. The evening fall upon the avenue .
2. According to the advertisement on the newspaper , somebody else would come to do the job that she did before .
3. Look more cheerful , or show more energy .
4. Harry always sent back home money as much as possible .
5. go shopping
6. jokingly
7. Her time was using up , and it was time to go away .
8. She spent an ordinary life and died as a mad woman .
F. Translate the following into English :
伊芙林同意和住在布宜诺斯艾利斯的爱尔兰水手弗兰克结婚。他们是在弗兰克回都柏林度假之初认识的。 他们要在那晚一起乘船到布宜诺斯艾利斯去。 还有几个小时船就要开了，但她仍在怀疑和弗兰克一起到这样遥远的国家去是否明智。 尽管她不喜欢在商店的工作，父亲对她也不好， 但毕竟这是她惟一熟悉的生活。再说，在母亲去世前伊芙林也答应她，要尽一切可能不让这个家散掉。但是，回忆起母亲的悲惨生活使她感到恐怖。她要和弗兰克幸福地生活在一起！
可是临上船前她又动摇了。船载着弗兰克开走了。人人都梦想过美好生活，但是梦想的实现是需要勇气的。
自考高级英语课后练习题及答案 下册
