EXERCISES 2
Ⅰ. Write short notes on: Marrakech and Morocco. Suggested Reference Books [SRB] 1. any standard gazetteer 2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Ⅱ.Questions on content:
1. Instead of telling the reader that the natives are poor, Orwell shows poverty in at least five ways. Identify them. 2. How are people buried in Marrakech?
3. Explain the sentence, \founded upon that fact.\
4. What do you think medieval ghettoes were like?
5. Why does the writer say, \ 6. What kind of people, according to Orwell, are partly invisible? Why does he stress this point?
7. How was land cultivated in Morocco?
8. Why was the old woman surprised when the writer gave her a five-sou piece?
9. What did every white man think when he saw a black army marching past?
Ⅲ. Questions on appreciation:
1. The things of value, Orwell says in \political. Is this essay political? Has the writer said anything of value?
2. Orwell describes human suffering and misery rather objectively. How then can you tell that he is outraged at the spectacle of misery? 3. Why does the writer reveal his feelings about the donkeys but conceal his feelings about the people? ,What effect does this contrast have on the reader?
4. Could paras 4-7 just as well come after 8-15 as before? Could other groups of paragraphs be rearranged? What does this indicate about the organization? What gives the essay coherence?
5. Does this essay give readers a new insight into imperialism? Has the writer succeeded in showing that imperialism is an \thing\
6. Comment on Orwell's lucid style and fine attention to significant descriptive details. Ⅳ. Paraphrase:
1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. (para 2)
2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. (para 3) 3. They rise out Of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard (para 3)
4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed. (para 9)
5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews (para 10)
6. every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury (para 10)
7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. (para 16) 8. In a tropical landscape one's eye takes in everything except the human beings. (para 16)
9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas. (para 17) 10. for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, backbreaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil (para 17)
11. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden. (para 19)
12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible. (para 21) 13. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms (para 23)
14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction? (para 25) 15. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind. (para 26)
Ⅴ. Translate paras 20 and 21 into Chinese.
Ⅵ. Look up the dictionary and explain the meaning of the itali-cized words:
1. wailing a short chant over and over again (para 2) 2. an Arab navvy working on the path nearby (para 6) 3. he stowed it gratefully (para 7)
4. his left leg is warped out of shape (para 9)
5. as the Jews live in a self-contained community (para 11) 6. the plough is a wretched wooden thing (para 18)
7. all of them are mummified with age and the sun (para 19) 8. their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms (para 23)
9. so had the officers on their sweating chargers (para 26) Ⅶ. Discriminate the following groups of synonyms: 1. wail, cry, weep, sob, whimper, moan 2. frenzy, mania, delirium, hysteria
3. glisten, glitter, flash, shimmer, sparkle Suggested Reference Books [ SRB ]
1. Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language 2. Webster’s New Dictionary of Synonyms 3. Reader's Digest, Use the Right Word
Ⅷ. Study the formation of the following compound nouns and list 5-10 examples of each: 1. burying-ground 2. gravestone 3. mid-air
4. overcrowding 5. nine-tenths
Suggested Reference Books [ SRB ] 1. any standard dictionary
2. any book on lexicology or word building
IX. In this essay, the writer makes effective use of specific verbs. List 10 specific verbs you consider used most effectively and give your reasons.
Ⅹ.Each of the following sentences may be made more compact by proper subordination. Rewrite them, using subordinate clauses, appositives, prepositional or verbal phrases: 1. The British army had lost all its equipment at Dunkirk, and there was only a single armored division left to protect the home island. dry prairie land will drift away in dust storms, but it is still being plowed for profitless wheat farming.
educational program may succeed, but it has to have more than mere financial support from the government.
have wasted their natural resources, but they should have protected and conserved them.
Caldwell family opened the first rough trail and soon other settlers were coming.
6. The Smithsonian Institution is constantly working for a better understanding of nature for man's benefit, and it gets little or no publicity. 7. Queen Mary was easily shaken by passions. They were both passions of love and passion of hatred and revenge.
8. I dreaded opening the door of his office, but it was only for a few days.
9. It was early morning and there was a fog and so I crawled out and made my way to the beach.
10. I left the door of the safe unlocked and took the leather bag of coins and walked down the street toward the bank.
Ⅺ .Read the following paragraphs and then answer the questions: 1) What is the topic sentence? 2) Has the writer succeeded in achieving
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