高级英语Lesson15NoSignpostsintheSea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?
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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?
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8) What is the 'green flash'?
Ⅱ. Paraphra:
1) The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs
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 maid doing water-colours of sunts!
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 time to time without insistence
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 possibilities, 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
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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
1) ad hoe 2) blitzkrieg
3) skoal 4) charg6 d'affairs
5) concerto 6) coup d'dtat
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on my way什么意思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
interestrateⅤ.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. )
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Ⅵ.pick out from the text all the words and phras describing colours.
Ⅶ.Replace t he italicized words with simple, everyday words or expressions"
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 you' ( )
3) I regarded as moonlings all tho who life was lived on a less practical plane. ( )
4) I once flattered mylf that I was an adult man. ( )
5) or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach ( )
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affective6) So do I let my imagination play over the recess of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground ( )
7) Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent gleam of a lighthou on a solitary promontory. ( )
8) which he imparts from time to time without insistence ( )
9) and it is not a nsation I could expect anyone save Laura to understand ( )
10) We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a hill ( ) ( )
