高级英语Lesson_15__No_Signposts_in_the_Sea_课后
练习及答案
EXERCISES 15 Ⅰ. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:
1 What pleasure does Edmund Carr get by obrving Laura without her
knowing it? What compliment does he pay her?
2 Does Carr appreciate natural beauty? Was he always like that?
3 What effect does the moon and the cool water of the swimming pool
have on him?
4 What kind of coastline does he like? Why?
5 Who is in charge of the lighthou? Does he like his job?
6 Why does Edmund Carr like islands?
7 Why does he say: "God, is there no escape from suffering and sin?妈妈课堂
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8 What is the 'green flash'?
Ⅱ. Paraphra:
1 The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire builder, sometimes
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2 Or maybe Laura's unwitting influence has called it out.
3 Dismissive as a Pharie, I regarded as moonlings all tho who
life was lived on a less practical plane.
4 And now e how I stand, as ntimental and nsitive as any old
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5 I want my fill of beauty before I go.
6 Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleand on leaving the
confessional after the solemnity of absolution.
7 there is a touch of rough poetry about him
8 I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from
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9 I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the
Colonel's otherwi not very interesting mind.
10 This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.
Ⅲ.Translate the following into Chine:
1 What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibiliti
es, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high alti tudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recess of Laura's character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the
venturesome.
2 In all this renity of ocean it is ldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themlves, 'the Flying Fish, who has a part with the birds, ' and doubtless are glad to e the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight. Our wake clos up and we might never have
been. But it does happen from time to time that an island appears on the horizon, nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine mountain range , lonely, unblemished, re mote. Does one like islands becau one unconsciously appropriates them, a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell why it should give me suck a queer nsation to reflect that that island has always been there unless indeed it be no more than the work of the patient coral and will be there still, should I return to find it waiting for me.
IV. Look up the dictionary for the following loan words. Try to find out from what languages they are borrowed and then put them into Chine.
Model: creme de menthe-- 法薄荷酒
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1 ad hoe
2 blitzkrieg
3 skoal
4 charg6 d'affairs
5 concerto
6 coup d'dtat
7 d6eor 8 detente朝的笔顺
9 hors d oeurves 10 intermezzo
11 kimono 12 kowtow
13 kulak 14 macho
15 smorgasbord 16 status quo
17 fiesta 18 rajah
19 emir 20 eureka
Ⅴ.Make ntences with the following words using the parts of speech
indicated in the brackets:
1 fill v. n. 6 range n. v.
2 ripple n. v. 7 beach n. v.
3 marble n. v. 8 catch v. n.
4 pile n. v. 9 hump n. v.
5 touch v. n. 10 obscure adj. v.
Ⅵ.pick out from the text all the words and phras describing colours.
Ⅶ.Replace the italicized words with simple, everyday words or
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1 and thus beguile ourlves for an hour or so after dinner
2 prefacing his remarks by 'Of cour it's not for me to suggest to
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3 I regarded as moonlings all tho whos
