blackmail课后作业答案
Ⅰ. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible-
1) Did Ogilvie deliberatedly delay his call at the Croydons' suite? Why?
2) Why did the Duchess nd her maid and cretary out?
3) Why do you think Ogilvie was being deliberately offensive to the Croydons in the beginning?
4) How did the Duchess know where the Duke had gone the night the accident occurred?
5) How did Ogilvie come to suspect the Croydons of the hit-' n run crime?
6) what is a 'brush trace'?
7) What made the Duchess jump to the conclusion that Ogilvie had come to blackmail them?
8) Why didn't the police come immediately to the hotel to check the cars?
9) Why couldn't the Duchess get her car repaired discreetly in New Orleans?
10) Why did the Duchess decide to make the detective drive their car north?
11) Why did the Duchess offer Ogilvie twenty-five thousand dollars instead of the ten thousand the detective asked for?
12) Did Ogilvie accept the Duchess’offer?
Ⅱ. Paraphra:
1) The hou detective's piggy eyes surveyed her sardonically from his gross jowled face.
2) Pretty neat t-up you folks got.
3) The obe body shook in an appreciative chuckle.
4) He lowered the level of his incongruous faltto voice.
5) The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all preten of blandness gone.
6) The Duchess of Corydon –three centuries and a half of in-bred arrogance behind her -- did not yield easily.
7) "It is no go, old girl. I'm afraid. It was a good try."
8) "That's more like it," Ogilvie said. He lit the fresh cigar, "Now we're getting somewhere."
9) his eyes sardonically on the Duchess as if challenging her objection.
10) The hou detective clucked his tongue reprovingly.
Ⅲ. Translate the following into Chine:
1) "I'll tell you, Duke -- I've been in this town and this hotel a long time. I got friends all over.
I oblige them; they do the same for me, like letting me know what gives, an' where. There ain't much, out of the way, which people who stay in this hotel do, I don’t get to hear about. Most of 'em never know I know, or know me. They think they got their little cret tucked away, and so they have –except like now."
2) "Well now, there's no call for being hasty," The incongruous faltto voice took on a musing note. "What's done's been done. Rushin' any place ain't gonna bring back the kid nor its mother neither. Besides, what they' d do to you across at the headquarters, Duke, you wouldn’t' t like. No sir, you wouldn't like it at all."
3) The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind. It was esntial, she knew, that her thinking remain calm and reasoned. In the last few minutes the conversation had become as emingly casual as if the discussion were of some minor domestic matter and not survival itlf. She intended to keep it that way. Once more, she was aware; the role of leadership had fallen to her, her husband now a ten but passive spectator of the exchange between the evil fat man and herlf. No matter. What was ine
vitable must be accepted. The important thing was to consider all eventualities. A thought occurred to her.
Ⅳ. Write out the full words for the following shortenings:
Models: 1) lab -- laboratory
2) Paper -- newspaper
1) ad11) mod
2) bra12) perm
3) doc13) polio
4) fridge14) pop-song
5) gym15) prep
6) hi-fi16) prof
7) intercom17) sis
8) lib18) telly
9) memo19) vet
10) mike20) zoo
Ⅴ. Put the following phras into English, using adv. + past participle compound adjectives: Model: 抽了一半的雪茄——a half-burned cigar
1) 写了一半的信
2) 半开的窗子
3) 烤得半生不熟得面包
4) 半转过来的身子
5）设备完善的旅馆
6）有礼貌的小学生
7）恰当的用词
8）营养充足的儿童
9）消息灵通人士
10）夸张的语言
Ⅵ. Make ntences with the following words, using the parts of speech indicated in the brackets:
1) sound (v. ) 2) figure (v. )
3) go (n. ) 4) try ( n. )
5) dust (v. ) 6) square (v. )
7) good (n. ) 8) head ( v. )
9) make (n. ) 10) reason (v. )
Ⅶ. Replace the italicized words with more formal words or expressions:
1) This is for real ( )
2) It’s no go. ( )
3) Now we are getting somewhere .( )
4) I’ll spell it out. ( )
5) They do the same for me, like letting me know what gives,an' where. ( )
6) How'd you figure where he was? ( )
