高级英语第十二课习题和答案

Lesson12

II.Look up the italicized words in the dictionary and explain:

1) a small square cabin chinked with mud

Chinked: the sound of coins, glasses or mental objects when you chink them

2) was a chaos of lean-tos Lean- tos: a small house which is inclined

3) the Tonnerres were half breeds…

Half breeds: mixed blood people

4) working at odd jobs or as section hands

Odd: strange or unusual

Section: a separate group within a larger group of people

5) they lived on relief Relief: people live by money given by government

6) but she had failed several grades Grades: times

7) had to get back to his practice Practice: a things that is done regularly

8) how the coyote reared her young

Reared: the back part of sth.

9) If you walk just around the point there

Point: one of the marks of direction

10) her hair was cut short and frizzly permed Permed: a way of changing the style of your hair by using chemicals to create curls that last for several months

I. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:

1) Were the Tonnerres rich or poor? Substantiate your answer with facts.

They are poor and live in a small square cabin made of poplarpoles and chinked with mud.

2) What would happen sometimes to old Jules or his son Lazarus on Saturday nights?

They would hit out at whoever was nearest or howl drunkenly among the offended shoppers on Main Street.

3) Why did the doctor propose taking Piquette to Diamond Lake for the summer?

Because she had had tuberculosis of the bone, it is good for her recover to go to Diamond Lake. If she stayed at home, she will be busying working.

4) Why did the narrator's mother first object and then agree to take Piquette along?

She first objected because she thought her hair had nits, then she agreed because she preferred Piquette to her mother-in-law.

5) What was the cottage on the lake called? What was the scenery there like?

It is called Macleod. The scenery was the filigree of the spruce trees, the water glistening greenly as the sun caught it, and all kinds of plants and animals.

6) Why did the narrator ask Piquette respectfully. \"I bet you know a lot about the woods and all that, eh. \"?

Because she knew Piquette was an Indian descendant, she thought Piquette might know the woods quite well and would like to tell her stories about the woods.

7) Why was the narrator startled and her feelings hurt by Piquette's rude answers to her questions?

Because she didn’t expect the Piquette should take her questioning as showing contempt for her Indian ancestors.

8) Why did the narrator say that all that summer Piquette remained as both a reproach and a mystery to her?

She felt guilty because she didn’t develop a good relationship with Piquetee, she had failed her father, and she also felt Piquette was strange.

9) What does the narrator mean when she says:\"For the merest instant, then, I saw her.\"?

She means at a very brief moment, Piquetee was unguarded and unmasked, so that the author could perceive her inner mind.

10) What is the full name of the narrator of the story?

Her full name is Vanessa Macleod.

11) How is the disappearance of the loons related to the theme of this story?

The loons had gone away because more and more people and buildings instead of them. They disappeared because they couldn’t finds their position. In a similar way, Piquetee is a representative.

Ⅱ. Paraphrase?

1) with a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter

A person who is too serious to laugh

2) Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl

Sometimes, old Jules and his son would be drunk and get involved in a rough, noisy quarrel or fight on a Saturday night

3) her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible

She was often absent from classes and had little interest in schoolwork.

4) she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence

She would always made me embarrassed.

5) She dwelt and moved somewhere within my scope of vision

She lived and moved somewhere I can see

6) If it came to a choice between Grandmother MacLeod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not.

Between Grandmother and Piquette, my mother would choose Piquette, no matter Piquette’s hair had nits or not.

7) Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope.

There was an expression of challenge on her face, which became unguarded and unmasked for a brief moment. And in her eyes there waqs a kind of hope which was so intense that is is filled people with terror.

8) she looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern,dressed any old how

She look very untidy, dressed in a very careless way

9) She was up in court a couple of times -- drunk and disorderly, of course.

She was brought in court several tomes, because she took too much liquor and was noisy and violent in public.

IV. All the following words are adjectives with different suffixes. Give further examples of adjectives with the same suffixes:

1)contagious --- serious, rebellious, obvious

2)negligible --- sensible, visible, possible

3)enviable --- enable, reliable, acceptable

4)friendly --- smoothly, deadly, importantly

5)plaintive --- creative, positive, decisive

6)tuneful --- woeful, beautiful, careful

7)expressionless --- careless, useless, worthless

8)wavy --- heavy, dirty, friendly

9)conventional --- traditional, personal, national

10)tubercular --- particular, similar, familiar

V. The following phrases are taken from the text, all with a participle as an adjective. Explain why a present or past participle is used in each case and then translate the phrases into Chinese:

1) limping walk: walk in a limping unsteady way 一瘸一拐地走

2) embarrassing presence: presence that is embarrassing 令人尴

尬的人或事物

3) unsmiling eye: eyes that are very strict and don’t smile 没有笑 意的眼睛

4) ululating sound: a sound that roars and is like wailing 哀鸣

5) chilling mockery: mockery that makes people feel chilly 令人后脊背发冷

的嘲笑

6) burning birch log: a birch log that is warped 正在燃烧的白桦树

7) terrifying hope: hope that fills people with horror 令人生畏的希望

8) flourishing resort: a resort that is prosperous 繁华的旅游胜地

9) penetrating odours: very intense smell 强烈的气味

10) warped lumber: lumber that is cooked 弯曲的木材

11) discarded car tyres: car tyres that are abandon 被丢弃的汽车轮胎

12) tangled strands of barbed wire: strands of barbed wire that are

tangled together 缠在一起的铁丝网

13) bruised wild strawberries: wild strawberries that have been

damage in the skin 破了皮的草莓

14) fallen tree trunk: a thick main stem of a tree that has been

fallen 砍到的树干

15) offended shoppers: shoppers are displeased 被冒犯的顾客

16) long-drawn call: call that lasts for a long time 拖长音的叫声

Ⅶ. Replace the italicized colloquial or slangy words with more for- mal words or expressions:

1) Sometimes Old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl. (a rough and noisy quarrel or fight )

2) I hate like the dickens to send her home again. ( very much )

3) \"I'll bet anything \"she has nits in her hair. (I'm absolutely sure )

4) \"So what? \"Her voice was distant. ( Why is that important?)

5) \"Your dad said I ain' t supposed to do no more walking than I got to. \"(1 don’t want to walk unless it is necessary ) 6) \"I bet you know a lot about the woods and all that, eh?\" ( things like that)

7) \"I don't know what the hell you' re talk in about,\" she replied(what ‘s exactly )

8) \" You nuts or somethin'? If you mean where my old man, and me and all them live, you better shut up, by Jesus, you know?\"(Are you crazy or what?)( My

father and I and the others )

9) \"Got this classy name. Alvin Gerald Cummings—some handle, eh?\"

(first—class) (good name )

10) \"Gee, Piquette--that's swell.\"( perfect)

Ⅷ. Replace the italicized words with specific words that appear in the text:

1) The man standing behind me took away my purse suddenly and ran off like a rabbit. (grabbed )

2) The new policies were made in order to attract more foreign investment. ( lure)

3) The smoke from the burning building made breathing very difficult for the

fire-men. (stifled )

4) I didn't get a wink of sleep last night because the wind was blowing hard and noisily all the time. ( howling)

5) The hammock moved backward and forward with regular movements between the two trees. (swung )

6) The patient moved about in bed wildly and almost violently in unbearable pain. (thrashed )

7) She felt a sudden dizziness and walked unsteadily before she reached a tree and leaned against it. ( teetered)

8) The parrot was unusually quiet this morning, not uttering a single loud and harsh cry. (squawking even once )

9) Some of the berries at the bottom of the pail were pressed into a soft mass. ( squashed)

10) To get rid of the policemen, he ran into the forest and then crawled hurriedly up the hill. (scrambled )

11) The candle shone unsteadily as a breeze swept into the room. ( flickered)

IX. Explain how the meaning of the following sentences is affected when the

italicized words are replaced with the words in brackets. Pay attention to the shades of meaning of the words.

1). In a clearing at the centre of the thicket stood the Tonnerre family’s shack. (home)

Shack: a living place with simple facilities and is build carelessly

Home: living in for a long or short time, emphasizing personal emotion

2). Their English was broken and full of obscenities. (bad words)

Bad words: the words are said by uneducated people

Obscenities: disgusting bad language

3)Piquette was with us and Grandmother Macleod, miraculously, was not.(strange enough)

Miraculously: marvelously

Strange enough: emphasizing the level of strange

4). My father would only be staying at the cottage for a couple of weeks.(villa)

Cottage: village or a traveling house

Villa: luxurious department in the village

5). Roderick sat on the car rug in the sunshine and examined a brown spruce cone, meticulously, turning it round and round in his small and curious hand. (carefully, strange-looking)

Meticulously: over-care

Carefully: avoiding mistake by careful actions

6). She looked at me sullenly, without speaking.(unhappily)

Sullen: mumpish

Unhappy: displeased

7). I bet you know a lot about the woods and all that, eh? I began respectfully. (respectably)

Respectfully: esteem

Respectably: be worth of respect

8). I ignored her rebuff. (refusal)

Rebuff: refuse sb. Decisively

Refusal: sometimes refuse sb in a rude way

9). At night the lake was like black glass with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon.(reflection)

Path: here is a reflex moonlight

Reflection: an image is refected in the mirror or water

10). Neither of us suspected that this would be last time we would ever sit here together on the shore, listening. (doubted)

Suspect: sth. possible exist or happen

Doubt: do not believe

11). But I did not know...why she would not or could not respond when I suggested exploring the woods or playing house.(reply)

Respond: by not only in words but also take actions

Reply: by verbal, written or action to make formal respond

12). I stared at her, astounded that anyone could have changed so much.(surprised)

Astounded: extraordinary shocked

Surprised: shocked

13). As I mouthed the conventional phrases, I could only guess hoe great her need must have been, that she had been forced to seek the very things she so bitterly rejected.(traditional, resented)

Conventional: be coincided with formal norms and principles

Traditional: be consisted to traditional

14). The one store had become several dozen, and the settlement had all the attributes of a flourishing resort-hotels, a dance-hall, cafes with neon signs, the penetrating odours of potato chips and hot dogs. (place, smell)

Settlement: a small living place

Place: can replace any words of place

Smell: refer all kinds of smell

Odour: a kind of perceivable smell