第二课第二课
冰的词语Part ⅠV ocabulary
Directions: Complete the following ntences with the best words given in the brackets.
1. You could buy a hou with almost no money _____.
A. down
B. off
C. up
D. of
2. The instructor of the beauty training school had to lop ____ the soggy clumps to make my hair even
again.
A. down
B. of
C. off
D. / 3. I was ______ stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air.
A. Pandora
B. Cinderella
C. Athena
D. Cleopatra
4. She emed _______ by the music, a little frenzied piano piece.
A. entranced
B. to entrance
C. entered
D. enter
5. It fell about her, rippling and shining like a cascade of brown water.
A. water
B. fall
C. cascade
D. stream
6. she can't boil potatoes, _______ cook a meal
A. let go of
B. let alone
分配工资会计分录C. let off
D. let D. let’’s say
7. You are a very nice, but an_______ boy.
A. grateful
B. ungrateful
C. happy
D. unhappy
8. My parents invited all the couples from the Joy Luck Club to _____ my debut.
A. look
B. e
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C. witness
观察日记小乌龟D. watch
9. The hors________ in the circus ring.
A. pranced
B. jumped
C. leaped
D. hopped
10. A chill started at the top of my head and began to _____ down.
A. trickle
B. drop
C. drip
D. flow 11. Pride and some strange n of honor must have ____ my parents to their chairs.
A. anchored
B. ated
C. stopped
D. fastened
12. I _____ mylf more tightly in front of the TV 12. I _____ mylf more tightly in front of the TV. .
A. wedged
B. narrowed
C. moved
D. spoke
13. Her arms went ____, and she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless.
A. loo
B. soft
C. strong
D. slack
14. My mother can 14. My mother can’’t get ____ becau she has rheumatism(风湿病)。
A. about
B. on
C. through
D. in
15. This is an illness that can result in total blindness ____ left untreated.
耳垂有褶皱A. after
B. if
C. since
D. unless 16. She emed entranced by the music, a little frenzied piano piece with this mesmerizing quality.
A. memorable
B. attractive
C. exciting
D. moving 17. They recited simple nurry rhymes, squawked out tunes on miniature violins, twirled Hula Hoops, pranced in pink ballet tutus.
A. turned quickly round
B. moved quickly round
C. twisted扯面的做法
D. played 18. Our coach shouted at us, 18. Our coach shouted at us, ““attention, girls! Listen to the music. You must learn to keep time, and prance!”
A. keep up with the others
B. follow the time
C. keep the rhythm
D. save time 19. ______(1770-1827), German compor, was one of music music’’s greatest genius. He was known for his nine symphonies, piano concertos and sonatas.
A. Mozart
B. Beethoven
C. Shumann
D. Franz Liszt
20. I would e Shirley tapping her feet, or singing a sailor song, or _____ her lips into a very round O while saying, saying, ““Oh, my goodness.Oh, my goodness.””
A. poking
B. squaring
C. pursing
D. knitting Direction: Complete the following ntences with the words or phras given below and change their forms if necessary.
snap off heave up and down pick on squabble over penetrating
in unison dawdle over let go of it reams of sulky
21. So we have _______ publications on governance, structures and strategies.
22. I was _______ to announce the bad news.
23. If somebody hurt you, ______, relea them.
24. We had grown up together and shared all the cloness of two sisters _______crayons and dolls.
25. Don't _______ your makeup, we don't want to be late for the concert. 26. When they bowed or curtsied, the audience would sign _______.
27. I saw her chest was _________ in an angry way.
28. Suddenly the branch that he is stand on ________.
29. I looked out over the audience, at my mother mother’’s blank face, my father father’’s yawn, Waverley Waverley’’s _____ expression.
30. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as preci as a chemist 30. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as preci as a chemist’’s scales, as ____ as a scalpel.
Part Two
Point out the rhetorical devices ud in the following ntences and some background knowledge of the literature work in the texts in Book 5.
1. It was like a stiff embraceless dance between her and the TV t.
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. alliteration
D. synecdoche 2. Chinatown 2. Chinatown’’s Littlest Chine Chess Champion.西班牙男足
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. alliteration
D. biblical allusion 3. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions. But I was not one to let my heart rule my head.
A. metonymy
B. alliteration
C. metaphor
D. euphemism 4. You already know how. Don ’t need talent for crying!
A. synecdoche
B. hyperbole
C. irony
D. metaphor 5. You are lucky you don ’t have too many trophies.
A. metaphor
B. hyperbole
红黑带C. irony
D. simile 6. Which of the following statements about Two Kinds is not true?
A. The short story Two Kinds vividly reveals the bitter relationship between the mothers and the daughters.
B. The mother’s American Dream and her inherited traditional Chine values that exist side by side
impo exceptionally great demands on her daughter.
C. Apart from revealing the relationship between the mothers and the daughters, this short story also
stress the way to realize American Dream and the importance of hard working..
D. The author places and intensifies the generation conflicts in a context of cultural clashes.
Part Three: Cloze Two or three months had gone by without any ___1____of my ___2___ a prodigy. And then one day my mother was watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV mother was watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. The TV was old and the sound kept ___3___. Every time . The TV was old and the sound kept ___3___. Every time my mother got halfway up from the sofa to ___4___ the t, the sound would come back on and Sullivan would be talking. ___5____ she sat down, Sullivan would go silent again. She got up, the TV ____6___ loud piano music. She sat down, silence. Up and down, back and forth, ____7___. It was like a stiff, ___8____ dance between her and the TV t. Finally, she stood by the t with her hand on the ___9_____. She emed
___10____ by the music, a ____11____ little piano piece with a ____12____ quality, which alternated between quick, playful passages and teasing, lilting ones. “Ni kan,” my mother said, calling me over with hurried hand gestures. “Look here.” I could e why my mother was ____13____ by the music. It was being ___14____ by a little Chine girl, about nine years old, with a Peter Pan haircut. The girl had the __15_____ of a Shirley Temple. She was proudly modest, like a proper Chine Child. And she also did a fancy sweep of a curtsy, so that the fluffy skirt of her white dress cascaded to the floor like petals of a large
carnation.
Part Four: paraphra and translation
Paraphra
1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.
I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thought filled with lots of won’ts.
2. 2. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thought filled with lots of won’ts.
3. The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.
4. The lid to the piano was clod, shutting out the dust, my miry, and her dreams.
Translation
1. Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz.
2. She checked to e if that was possibly one way to pronounce "Helsinki" before showing me the answer.
3. She emed entranced by the music, a little frenzied piano piece with this mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passage and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts.
4. If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be famous now.
5. The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot out, touch the ro on the carpet with a
pointed foot, sweep to the side, bend left leg, look up, and smile.
6. A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down. Yet I couldn’t stop playing, as though my hands were bewitched. I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themlves back, like a train switching to the right track.
7. And for the first time, or so it emed, I notice the piece one the right-hand side. It was called “Perfectly Contented””. I tried to play this one as well. It had a lighter melody but the same flowing rhythm and turned Contented
out to be quite easy. “Pleading Child
was shorter but slower; ““Perfectly Contented
Perfectly Contented”” was longer, but faster.
Pleading Child”” was shorter but slower;
And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
Part Five：Text Appreciation
Who do you sympathize with, the mother or the daughter in Two Kind? Why?
