An Integrated English Cour II
Unit 6
Text 1 “ We’ve Been Hit!”
唇亡齿寒翻译Key to Exercis
Text comprehension广州动漫学院
I. Decide which of the following best states the author's purpo of writing.
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II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or fal.游戏动漫学校
1. F. Refer to the first paragraph. Storms did not cau the drawstrings to careen in the WTC. The wild careening of the drawstrings was the result of the airplane strike.
2. F. Refer to Paragraphs 10, 13 and 14. It was Mayblum who first met the heavyt ma
n on the 53rd floor (not on the transfer lobby, which was on the 78th floor). Then Ramos and Hong met the heavyt the man on the same floor.
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3. F. Refer to Paragraphs 18 to 22. They first took the elevator down to the 44th floor, then helped him down to the 36th floor.
4. T. Refer to the last paragraph, which is a clear indication of their death.
5. F. Refer to Paragraph 31. Mayblum nt the e-mail to share his experience with others.
III. Answer the following questions.
1. The answer to this question can be found in the first paragraph in which the author implies that for Mayblum, the WTC was a symbol of power becau of its height and steadiness, and the force of storms was actually nothing compared with the WTC.
2. The author means that the survival of the people inside the WTC would simply depend on their locations, i.e. where they were at that moment.
3. Refer to Paragraphs 9, 13, 19 and 29, Ramos went to help the panicked workers into a stairwell (the 78th floor), helped the heavyt man down one more flight to an elevator (the 53rd floor), helped the man toward the last bank of elevator ( the 44th floor) , and reassured the man he would be staying with him (the 36th floor).
4. They helped the heavyt man 17 floors down the building. They met him on the 53rd floor and their attempt to descend ended on the 36th floor.
5. The ntence implies that Ramos and the heavyt man were blocked on that floor. Though he endeavored to get the man out of the building, Ramos did not make it.
IV. Explain in your own words the following ntences taken from the text.
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1. Thousands of people in the WTC were thrown, all of a sudden, into a condition of extremely terrible suffering that morning. Mayblum was one of them.
2. It emed that the tremendous sound of the collap of the south tower destroyed the man's hope of climbing down the remaining stairs, and thus took away his remaining
energy.
Structural analysis of the text
The third part is mainly about how the three people (Mayblum, Ramos and Hong) endeavored to save a heavyt man with their joint efforts.
司法考试辅导班The last part describes the gathering of some of the survivors and the victims' wives. It is a most touching scene. It ems to suggest that the author has, from what is described above, reached the conclusion about the ultimate moral dilemma: "Save yourlf, or save another".
Vocabulary exercis
I. Explain the underlined part itl each ntence in your own words.
1. burning
2. something, a situation or a circumstance, that is dependent on one's location in the b
uilding
3. in an intermittent manner
4. help you
5. Things were satisfactory up to this point.
II. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.
1. panic 2. descended 3. enjoyable
4. expectation 5. immorality
III. Choo the word or phra that can replace the underlined part in each ntence without changing its original meaning.
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. D
iraqIV. Fill in the blank in each ntence with a word or phra taken from the box in its appro
imco
priate form.
1. scoffed 2. dilemma 3. collapd
4. pandemonium 5. reassuring
V. Write in each space one word that has the same prefix as underlined ill each given word'
1. pretend 2. explicit 3. recur
4. refer 5. commit 6. inject
Grammar exercis
I. Note the u of the italicized parts in the following paragraph.
Pay attention to the u of ud to and would. Ud to refers to a past state or a repeated past
栖息是什么意思 action that does not take place at prent, while would refers to a repeated past action only.
II. Complete the following ntences with would. U ud to whenever would is not possible.
