高级英语Lesson-2-(BooK-2)-Marrakech-课后练习级答案

EXERCISES 2

Ⅰ. Write short notes on: Marrakech and Morocco.

Suggested Reference Books [SRB]

1. any standard gazetteer

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica

Ⅱ.Questions on content:

1.

Instead

of

telling

the

reader

that

the

natives

are

poor,

Orwell

shows poverty in at least five ways. Identify them.

2. How are people buried in Marrakech?

3. Explain the sentence,

founded upon that fact.

4. What do you think medieval ghettoes were like?

5. Why does the writer say,

6.

What

kind

of

people,

according

to

Orwell,

are

partly

invisible?

Why does he stress this point?

7. How was land cultivated in Morocco?

8. Why was the old woman surprised when the writer gave her a

five-sou piece?

9.

What

did

every

white

man

think

when

he

saw

a

black

army

marching

past?

Ⅲ. Questions on appreciation:

1. The things of value, Orwell says in

political. Is this essay political? Has the writer said anything of

value?

2.

Orwell

describes

human

suffering

and

misery

rather

objectively.

How then

can you

tell that

he is outraged

at the spectacle of misery?

3. Why does the writer reveal his feelings about the donkeys but

conceal

his

feelings

about

the

people?

,What

effect

does

this

contrast

have on the reader?

4. Could paras 4-7 just as well come after 8-15 as before? Could

other groups of paragraphs be rearranged? What does this indicate

about the organization? What gives the essay coherence?

5. Does this essay give readers a new insight into imperialism?

Has the writer succeeded in showing that imperialism is an

thing

6. Comment on Orwell's lucid style and fine attention to

significant descriptive details.

Ⅳ. Paraphrase:

1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth,

like a derelict building-lot. (para 2)

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2.

All

colonial

empires

are

in

reality

founded

upon

that

fact.

(para

3)

3.

They

rise

out

Of

the

earth,

they

sweat

and

starve

for

a

few

years,

and

then

they

sink

back

into

the

nameless

mounds

of

the

graveyard

(para

3)

4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning

chair-legs at lightning speed. (para 9)

5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied

rush of Jews (para 10)

6. every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less

impossible luxury (para 10)

7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. (para 16)

8. In a tropical landscape one's eye takes in everything except

the human beings. (para 16)

9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed

Areas. (para 17)

10.

for

nine- tenths

of

the

people

the

reality

of

life

is

an

endless,

backbreaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil

(para 17)

11. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a

beast of burden. (para 19)

12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible. (para 21)

13. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki

uniforms (para 23)

14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?

(para 25)

15.

Every

white

man

there

had

this

thought

stowed

somewhere

or

other

in his mind. (para 26)

Ⅴ. Translate paras 20 and 21 into Chinese.

Ⅵ.

Look

up

the

dictionary

and

explain

the

meaning

of

the

itali

-cized

words:

1. wailing a short chant over and over again (para 2)

2. an Arab navvy working on the path nearby (para 6)

3. he stowed it gratefully (para 7)

4. his left leg is warped out of shape (para 9)

5. as the Jews live in a self-contained community (para 11)

6. the plough is a wretched wooden thing (para 18)

7. all of them are mummified with age and the sun (para 19)

8. their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki

uniforms (para 23)

9. so had the officers on their sweating chargers (para 26)

Ⅶ. Discriminate the followi

ng groups of synonyms:

1. wail, cry, weep, sob, whimper, moan

2. frenzy, mania, delirium, hysteria

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3. glisten, glitter, flash, shimmer, sparkle

Suggested Reference Books [ SRB ]

1. Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language

2. Webs

ter’s New Dictionary of Synonyms

3. Reader's Digest, Use the Right Word

Ⅷ.

Study

the

formation

of

the

following

compound

nouns

and

list

5

-10

examples of each:

1. burying-ground

2. gravestone

3. mid-air

4. overcrowding

5. nine- tenths

Suggested Reference Books [ SRB ]

1. any standard dictionary

2. any book on lexicology or word building

IX. In this essay, the writer makes effective use of specific verbs.

List 10 specific verbs you consider used most effectively and give

your reasons.

Ⅹ.Each

of

the

following

sentences

may

be

made

more

compact

by

proper

subordination.

Rewrite

them,

using

subordinate

clauses,

appositives,

prepositional or verbal phrases:

1.

The

British

army

had

lost

all

its

equipment

at

Dunkirk,

and

there

was only a single armored division left to protect the home island.

dry prairie land will drift away in dust storms, but it is

still being plowed for profitless wheat farming.

educational

program

may

succeed,

but

it

has

to

have

more

than

mere financial support from the government.

have wasted their natural resources, but they should have

protected and conserved them.

Caldwell family opened the first rough trail and soon other

settlers were coming.

6. The

Smithsonian Institution

is constantly working for

a

better

understanding of nature for man's benefit, and it gets little or no

publicity.

7.

Queen

Mary

was

easily

shaken

by

passions.

They

were

both

passions

of love and passion of hatred and revenge.

8. I dreaded opening the door of his office, but it was only for

a few days.

9. It was early morning and there was a fog and so I crawled out

and made my way to the beach.

10. I left the door of the safe unlocked and took the leather bag

of coins and walked down the street toward the bank.

Ⅺ

.Read the following paragraphs and then answer the questions: 1)

What is the topic sentence? 2) Has the writer succeeded in achieving

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unity? Give your reasons.

1. Life on the farm is an eternal battle against nature. There is

always the rush to harvest the crops and to get next year' s grain

planted before the fall rains start. To get this accomplished the

farmer must be out at work by daybreak. Fruits and vegetables have

to be gathered before the early frost; hence everyone is bustling

around from morning till night. Fall is beautiful when the leaves on

the trees change color and then fall off. Winter sends its warming

cover over the froze ground. This causes the animals to hunt for

something to eat. There is nothing, so the farmer has to feed them.

After

his

day's

work

is

done,

the

farmer

puts

on

his

slippers,

reclines

on the davenport in front of the fireplace, and spends a peaceful

evening

reading.

Within

a

few

months

spring

begins

with

its

beautiful

flowers and green grass. The cows give more milk so the farmer has

more work to do. After the first spring rain, the corn must be

cultivated.

As

summer

ap- proaches

the

farmer

begins

to

worry

for

fear

that the sun will come up and cook the grain before it is fully

developed, or maybe a thunderstorm will come up thus causing his hay

crop to rot.

2. There are three reasons why I like Japanese food. When I was

growing

up

I

never

ate

Japanese

food,

since

we

lived

in

a

part

of

Texas

where there were no Orentals, but now I really like it. One of the

best

things

about

Japanese

food

is

that

it

consists

primarily

of

meat

and vegetables, so that it's not at all fattening. However, most

Japanese

love

rice.

One

of

my

Japanese

friends

has

at

least

two

bowls

of

rice

at

every

meal.

Another

reason

for

liking

Japanese

food

is

that

it's always beautifully served, even at lower-priced restaurants.

Every dish is a work of art: the chicken yakitori is presented on a

gleaming platter crisscrossed with skewers of meat and vegetables,

and the shrimp tempura comes on a lovely little bamboo tray. For the

American who wants to serve Japanese food like this, these platters

and trays may be purchased at a local import store. My final reason

for liking Japanese food is its exotic flavor. There is nothing in

American or European cuisine quite like the flavor of sashimi (raw

fish dipped in soy sauce and horseradish) or shabu-shabu, a meat and

vegetable dish that you cook right at your own table by swishing the

bite- sized pieces in a pan of seasoned boiling water. Also, from the

male point of view, Japanese restaurants are attractive for another

reason--

the

beautiful

little

doll-like

waitresses,

who

bow

and

smile

shyly as they serve your food. With all this, is there any wonder

Japanese food appeals to me?

Ⅻ. Choose the right word from the list

below for each blank:

fell

come

did

fired

pulled

feel

sagged

collapse

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goes

altered

slobbered

climbed

went

paralysed

settled

drooping

jolt

seemed

imagined

knock

falling

tower

reaching

trumpeted

shake

came

When I ________the trigger I did not hear the bang or

____________the kick -- one never does when a shot ___________ home

-- but I heard the devilish roar of glee that _________ up from the

crowd. In that instant, in too short a time, one would have thought,

even for the bullet to get there, a mysterious, terrible change had

________over the elephant. He neither stirred nor_______, but every

line of his body had________ He looked suddenly stricken, shrunken,

immensely old, as though the frightful impact of the bullet had

_________

him

without

knocking

him

down.

At

last,

after

what

_________

a long time -- it might have been five seconds, I dare say

–

he

_______flabbily to his knees. His mouth _______An enormous senility

seemed to have ______ upon him. One could have ______him thousands

of years old. I _______again into the same spot. At the second shot

he did not_______ but ______with desperate slowness to his feet and

stood weakly upright, with legs sagging and head _______ . I fired

a third time. That was the shot that _______for him. You could see

the agony of it _____his whole body and ________ the last remnant of

strength from

his legs.

But in

______ he

seemed for a

moment to rise,

for

as

his

hind

legs

collapsed

beneath

him

he

seemed

to_______

upward

like a huge rock toppling, his trunk _______skywards like a tree.

He________, for the first and only time. And then down he ________,

his

belly

towards

me,

with

a

crash

that

seemed

to

_________

the

ground

even where I lay.

XIII. Topics for oral work:

1. What can you infer about the author's political attitude from

this essay?

2. Do you like Orwell' s style? Give examples to support your

XIV. Write a short composition describing objectively the suffering

and poverty of pre-liberation China or of any city. Try to maintain

an objective tone, but your real feelings should be ev- ident to the

reader.

习题全解

Ⅰ . Marrakech: in west central Morocco, at the Northern foot of the

high

Atlas,

130

miles

south

of

Casablanca,

the

chief

seaport.

The

city

renowned

for

leather

goods,

is

one

of

the

principal

commercial

centers

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