美国文学选读第三版课后习题答案陶洁(部分)
Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin
Questions
1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography?
Franklin says that becau his son may wish to know about
his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has
enjoyed his life and would like to repeat it
2.What made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom
he had been apprenticed?
古今幽恨几时平
His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to him through
his whole life .After a brush with the law, Franklin left美女性感图
his brother.
3.How did he arrive in Philadephia?
脚趾抽筋怎么办First he t out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him
off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next day he reached Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a boat which was going towards Philadelphia, he arrived there about eight
or nine o’clock, on the Sunday morning and landed at the Market Street wharf.
4.What features do you find in the style of the above lection?
It is the pattern of Puritan simplicity, directness, and
concision(言简意赅). The narrative is lucid(易懂的), the structure is simple, the imagery is homely(朴素的).
Unit 2 Edgar Allen Poe
放射性同位素1.Who is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress? Montresor.
Fortunato, one of wine experts insulted him, so he wanted
to murder him.
2.What is the pretext he us to lure Fortunato to his wine cellar?
He baits Fortunato by telling him he has obtained what he
believes to be a cask of Amontillado a rare and valuable
sherry wine.
Fortunato is anxious to determine whether or not it is truly Amontillado, so he goes to the vault with Montresor.
车前子的功效与作用3.What happens to Fortunato in the end?
He was walled up alive behind bricks in a wine cellar.
4.Describe briefly how Poe characterizes Montresor and
灰色关联
Fortunato as contrasts?
Poe us color imagery to characterize them. Montresor face is covered in a black silk mask, In contrast, Fortunato
dress the motley-colored costume of the court fool, who
gets literally and tragically fooled by Montresor's masked motives.
The color schemes here reprent the irony of Fortunato's
death ntence.
Through the acts, words, and thoughts of??Fortunato,we
know He is greedy, he was lured into the dark and somber
vaults just becau a cask of Amontillado.
This is also due to his bad habit of bibulosity(酗酒）. He lost himlf on hearing the wine.
At the same time, he was cheated by his enemy, which reflected his ignorance.
When he heard the pretended compliment from Montresor, he became very boastful and arrogant.
He was easily confud by the superficial phenomena and
failed to watch out for others. He couldn’t tolerate that others were stronger than him.
For example, Montresor always stimulated him with Luchresi who was good at connoisur（鉴赏） in wine.
Under the i mpul of vanity, he fell into Montresor’s terrible trap.
In fact, he was careless and foolish and didn’t find that the danger was approaching him.
He looked down upon Montresor and others.
He didn’t realize his foolishness until the death was
coming.
Talking from the appearance, Monstresor was a well-educated and “kind” businessman.
He enjoyed the honor and respect in the city. But in fact,
he was an evil and awful person.
His inner feelings were so cruel that they even made p eople tremble.
Under his rich appearance was the dirty soul and despicable character.
We c ouldn’t e any glorious virtues in his mind. Instead, his heart was cold and dark.
It was the revenge that threw Montresor into the deep evil valley.
unit 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne转笔刀
1.Why is the prison the tting of Chapter 1 ?
骨牌效应No matter how optimistic the founders of new colonies may
be, they are quick to establish a prison and a cemetery in their “Utopia,” for they know that misbehavior, evil, and death are unavoidable.
