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Unit
1
Key to exercises
Text comprehension
Ⅰ
. Decide which of the
following best states the author’s
purpose.
A
Ⅱ
. Judge, according to the
text, whether the following statements are true or
false.
1.
T.
Refer to Paragraph 1.
2.
F. Refer to
Paragraph 1. What the author stated in the
paragraph is that her sister
graduated
from high school.
3.
F. Refer to Paragraph 3. They took a
railroad train during the day.
4.
F. Refer to
Paragraph 5. The conditions of the dining car
might not be like what
the
author
’
s mother had told
them. She said so for fear that her kids could
have
been
hurt
by
the
fact
that
Black
people
were
not
allowed
into
railroad
dining
cars.
5.
F. Refer to Paragraph 6. She simply did
not go with the other girls in the class
because, as the nuns had told her, they
would be staying in a hotel which would
not rent rooms to blacks.
6.
T. Refer to
Paragraph 12.
7.
T. Refer to Paragraph 17.
8.
F. Refer to
Paragraph 18. Her father only promised she could
type it out on the
office typewriter,
but whether she managed to send the letter to the
president was
not mentioned.
Ⅲ
.Answer the
following questions.
1.
Refer to Paragraph 1. Washington D.C.
is known to all for its special position, as
capital
of
the
nation.
The
author,
like
many
children
who
had
never
been
to
Washington D.C. before, could have only
learned about it through story telling,
as if it were a place existing in
fables.
2.
Refer
to Paragraph 3 and 4. A mobile feast implies a
large quantity and variety of
food in a
box including two roasted chickens, packed slices
of brown bread and
butter, green pepper
and carrot sticks, a spice bun and rock-cakes,
iced cakes and
tea, sweet pickles, dill
pickles, and peaches, which were prepared by their
mother
for them to eat on their way to
Washington, .
3.
Refer
to
Paragraph
3,
4,
and
5.
She
must
be
kind,
prudent,
responsible,
considerate and caring for her family.
4.
Refer to
Paragraph 7. They lodged in one large room with
two double beds, in a
black-street
hotel that belonged to a friend of her
father
’
s who was in real
estate.
5.
Refer
to
Paragraph
8
and
9.
She
had
long
before
realized
the
national
day
celebration in her country was nothing
but mockery for the Black people.
As a
black
girl,
she
was
in
that
silent
agony
that
characterized
all
of
her
childhood
summers. Apparently she hated the
Fourth of July, but in essence, what agonized
her was the racial discrimination and
segregation.
6.
Refer to Paragraph 16. The waitress
dropped her eyes looking very embarrassed.
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7.
Refer
to
Paragraph
17
and
18.
Discrimination
against
the
blacks
had
been
a
long-established,
deep-rooted
and
widespread
practice
in
the
country.
Being
black simply meant
mistreatment. Therefore, the unfair treatment they
received
at
Breyer
’
s was not surprising
at all; as blacks they should have expected this
and
had no reason to feel shocked and
indignant.
8.
Refer
to
Paragraph
19.
We
can
perceive
the
author
’
s
antagonism
from
such
descriptions as the
white waitress, the white counter, the white ice
cream, and the
white pavement, the
white stone monuments, and the white heat in
Washington
D.C., all of which made her
sick to her stomach for the whole rest of that
trip. In
a word, it was the racial
discrimination suggested by the dazzling color,
white,
that drove the author mad.
Ⅳ
.Explain in
your own words the following sentences taken from
the text.
1.
Mother meant to deliberately overlook
whatever she did not like and could not
change.
2.
From June to the end of July school
closed for the summer vacation.
3.
Literarily,
the
writer
was
unable
to
open
wide
her
eyes
due
to
the
dazzling
summer sunlight as
well as her eyes defect.
Figuratively,
the freedom, equality
and
democracy
all
American
citizens
were
allegedly
entitled
to
were
simply
distorted images in
the author
’
s eye.
4.
Mother
was
bright
and
father
brown,
and
the
three
of
us
girls
represented
gradations from
bright to brown.
5.
Inside the
Breyer
’
s, the soda fountain
was so dim and the air so cool that the pain
of my eyes was wonderfully lessened.
6.
My
forceful question got no response from my family;
they remained silent as if
they had
done something wrong and shameful walking into
Breyer
’
s.
7.
My
anger
was
not
going
to
be
noticed
or
sympathized
with
by
my
family
members who were similarly angry,
though.
Writing strategies
1.
Beside
Paragraph 2, Paragraph 6, 8 and 9 contain or
involve flashbacks.
2.
Here
’
s
one
more
example
of
symbolism:
“
The
waitress
was
white,
and
the
counter was white, and
the ice cream I never ate in Washington ., that
summer I
left
childhood
was
white,
and
the
white
heat
and
the
white
pavement
and
the
white
stone
monuments
of
my
first
Washington
summer
made
me
sick
to
my
stomach for the whole rest of that trip
and it wasn
’
t much of a
graduation present
after
all.
”
The
repeated
description
of
whiteness
further
reveals
the
phony
democracy of the United States and the
false freedom of colored people, which
drove our writer mad and indignant.
Language work
Ⅰ
. Explain the italicized
part in each sentence in your own words.
1.
at the
beginning of
2.
The
whole
family
were
already
either
actually
busy
making
preparations
or
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3.
4.
5.
6.
enjoying the ambience.
a
large enjoyable meal on the train
as if
we had never been mistreated for being Black
had partially caused
was
not
going
to
be
noticed
or
sympathized
with
by
people
feeling
a
similar
anger.
Ⅱ
.Fill in each
blank with one of the two words from each pair in
their appropriate
forms and note the
difference of meaning between them.
bruise
scar
Explanation:
Both
verbs
pertain
to
external
physical
injury
and
other
sorts
of
damage.
Bruise
indicates an injury of the surface flesh, caused
by a blow that does
not necessarily
break the skin and that results in a marked skin;
the word can also
suggest the tendency
to turn black-and-blue from small impacts.
Scar
refers to the
forming of a mark over a healed wound
or suggests the doing of damage that will
leave a lasting mark.
1. bruise
2.
bruised
3. scarred
4. scar
dampen
soak
Explanation:
Dampen
is to make or become
somewhat wet, emphasizing the moist
condition
that
results.
In
a
figurative
sense,
the
word
means
to
depress.
Sock
means to wet thoroughly, implying
immersion. To soak something is to place it in
liquid and leave it long enough for the
liquid to act upon it.
1. soaking
2. Dampen
3.
soaked
4. dampen
acknowledge
admit
Explanation:
both
words
agree
in
meaning
to
accept
openly,
though
with
some
reluctance,
the
truth
or
existence
of
a
fact,
condition,
etc.
Admit
is
a
bold
acknowledgment of implication in
something one has formerly tended to deny or
to
equivocate
about.
Acknowledge
is
to
accept
responsibility
for
something
one
makes
known,
and
we
acknowledge
something
embarrassing
or
awkward,
and
usually not
voluntarily;
more often, the
acknowledgement is
extracted
from
one
more or less
unwillingly.
1. admit
2. acknowledged
3.
acknowledge
4.
admitted
agony
anguish
Explanation: Both words can
refer to intense suffering of the body or mind.
Agony
represents suffering,
the endurance of which calls forth every human
resource. Its
severity is
of
such extent
that
the word is
often used to
denote the
struggle and
pain
that
may
precede
death.
Anguish
points
to
the
extremity
of
grief
which
so
terrifies the spirit as to be
insupportable.
1. agony
2. anguish
3. anguish
4.
agony
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Ⅲ
.Fill in the blank in each
sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box,
using
its appropriate form.
1.
has decreed
2.
agonizing
3.
approvingly
4.
ensconced
5.
flair
6.
vulnerability
7.
relief
8.
avowed
Ⅳ
.Make
a
sentence
of
your
own
for
each
of
the
given
words
with
meanings
other
than those used in the text. You may
change the part of speech of these words.
1.
Liani
presented
me with the challenge, and I took it up.
2.
To open a
supermarket demands a large amount of
capital.
3.
Well.
It
’
s your turn to shuffle
the
pack
and deal the cards.
4.
It would be a
wise
move
to check the
market first.
5.
The results of the test ran
counter
to expectations.
6.
Is there a
drop
of tea left in the pot?
Ⅴ
.Fill in each
blank with a definite, indefinite, or zero
article.
1. The
2. /
3. a
4. A
5.
/
6. /
7. /
8.
/
9. /
10. an
11. a
12. /
13. the
14.
a
15. the
16. a
17. a
18
/
19. the
Ⅵ
. Put a word in each blank
that is appropriate for the context.
1. black
2.
behave
3.
mind
4. meant
5. mercy
6.
though
7. before
8. worse
9. what
10. experienced
Translation
Ⅰ
.Translate
each
of
the
following
sentences
in
English,
using
the
words
or
expressions given in the brackets.
1.
I
haven
’
t seen it myself, but
it is supposed to be a really good movie.
2.
The hostess
cut the cheese into bite-size pieces.
3.
No one can
function properly if they are deprived of adequate
sleep.
4.
He
carefully copied my pretense that nothing unusual
had occurred.
5.
It was scorching outside; all the
tourists escaped into the fan-cooled hut.
6.
I
’
ve come to see
his fabled footwork that people talk so much
about.
7.
I’
m
not
a
teacher
proper,
since
I
haven
’
t
been
trained,
but
I’
ve
had
a
lot
of
teaching experience.
8.
Students tend
to anticipate what questions they will be asked on
the examination.
Ⅱ
.Translate the following
into Chinese.
如果美国对此时此刻的迫切性视而不见，低估黑人的决心，那么这对美国的
命运将是休戚相关的。
自由平等、
令人心旷神怡的秋
天遥遥无期，
黑人正当愤怒
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