VII. Explain how the meaning of the sentences is affected when the italicized words are replaced by the words in brackets. Pay attention to the shades of meaning of the words.
1) It is like an extended living room. (large)
2) She will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs. (helplessly, embarrassed by)
3) Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. (like this one)
4) Out of a dark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. (car)
5) Furtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on washday after school. (sly) 6) Bracelets dangling and making noises when she moves her arms up to shake the folds of the dress out of her armpits. (hanging)
7) After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my bed and started rifling through it. (suitcase, searching)
8) “Imagine!” she breathed again, clutching them closely to her bosom. (breathed)
VIII. The following are rhetorical questions requiring no answers. Turn them into statements without changing the main ideas.
1) A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other? 2) Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue?
3) Who can ever imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? 4) Why don’t you do a dance around the ashes?
5) “Why don’t you take one or two of the others?” I asked.
IX. Choose the appropriate set phrase from the list below for each blank. Make changes where necessary.
to put up to bring up to bring together to crop up to keep up with to hand down out of style with a style to stick to by hand to hang to hang about to hang down to hang back to carry back
1) Serious trouble_______ when Martin thought the problem of his college education was solved.
2) The soldiers________ barricades of live wire around the whole area. 3) The work that Group A is doing is too difficult for me. I’m afraid that I won’t be able to_________ them.
4) That matter was_______ at the Committee meeting that very afternoon. 5) I’m not sure that John and Mary can be______
6) He noticed several furtive and rough-looking guys_______ the bus stop. 7) Everyone approved of the project but when we asked for volunteers they all ______
8) A colored reproduction of Raphael ____________ on the wall over the fireplace.
9) The waterfall was running down from the high cliff so smoothly that it looked like a piece of silver cloth ________from the sky.
10) These ceremonies have been __________through the centuries, and remain practically unchanged.
11) What surprised me most was the amount of work still done____ 12) You can put that frock away, for it is already_____
13) All the paintings were exquisite. It was obvious that the artist did every one of them______
14) Did the letter arrive or through the post? 15) I’ve got some glue my fingers.
16) The sound of the seagull me to my childhood holidays to the seaside. X. The narrator uses a number of images of animals in describing people or things. Point them out and then put them into Chinese.
XI. The narrator says, “I never had an education myself.” What are some of the characteristics of her use of language (such as choice of words, sentence structure and grammar) that suit this background of hers?
XII. Translate the following sentences into English, (using the following words or expressions- to look sb. in the eyes, to burn ... to the ground, to match, over, despite, to confront, to recompose, to imagine, to stick to, to trace ... to):
1)一场大火把贫民区三百多座房子夷为平地。
2)只要你为人正直，不怕失去什么，那你对任何人都不会畏惧。 3)尽管发了水灾，今年的农业生产损失并不严重。 4)这件衬衫与裙子的颜色和式样都不相配。 5)咱们一边喝咖啡一边谈这件事吧。 6)我怎么也不能想象你能做出不光彩的事来。 7)他无法想象为什么人们反对他的看法。 8)这位官员在下汽车时碰到两个恐怖分子。 9)只要我们坚持这些原则，我们就会成功。
10)这个消息使她大为震惊，但她很快就镇定了下来。 11）这段引文的来源很难查找到。
12）他们的生活方式可以追溯到一千多年前他们的祖先所开创的古老传统。
XIII. Topic for oral work: Compare the three women in the story.
XIV. Write a short composition on: My Family 习题全解 I .
1)In real life the mother was a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands.
2)Dee like her mother to have a slender figure and a fair skin, glistening hair and a quick and witty tongue.
3)When she meets a strange white man, she always avoids looking him in the eye and is ready to go away.
4)Maggie is an innocent, timid and kind-hearted girl.
5) Because they were more seriously looked down upon by white men at that time, and they were not as awaken as they are today.
6)Because Dee doesn’t like her friends to see the poor state her family is in, which she thinks is shameful. This tells us that Dee is somewhat a snob. Another instance to prove this is that she wants nice things.
7)Because it was old and stitched by hand instead of by machine. So that she could use them for decoration showing to the people she was associated with. 8)Maggie wanted the quilt because she could remember her grandma better, who taught her to do needle work.
9)Because she wanted to get some valuable heritages of the family, mainly out of her vanity.
10)At first the mother liked Dee because of her beauty, taste, and education. But with the development of the story, her love was transferred to a dislike because of Dee’s egotism, which was obviously revealed when she insisted on taking the quilts while her sister Maggie gave up keeping it willingly to satisfy her desire.
高级英语课后习题答案
