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. Give brief answers to the following
questions, using your own words as much as
possible:
1)
Why
was
it
considered
a
joke
when
the
President
said
never
heard
'My
Country'
Tis
of
Thee' played
better”?
2) Why did Henry think he went from
peace to war when he passed from the Augusta to
the Prince
of Wales?
3) Why was Pug sent over to
the Prince of Wales?
4) What was
Hopkins'
estimate of the situation on the
Eastern front? What did the Soviet
Union
need most? What was Hopkins'
stand on the problem of assistance to the Soviet
Union?
5)
On the problem of aid to Russia, did
Churchill and Roosevelt see eye to eye?
In what way did
their opinions differ?
6) Who was
after all Number One Man, according to the author?
7)
What
problems
came
up
after
Henry
and
other
planners got down
to
work?
What came
first?
Why did the planners
give top priority to this plan?
8) What was Britain’ s
immediate need? Why did the author consider this
need pathetic?
9) Why did Burne-Wilke invite
Henry into his cabins What was the
request from the British? How
was the
request put to Henry? What do you think of the way
the request was put forward?
10)
On
the
last
day of
the
conference,
Admiral
King
called
Henry
in.
He
informed
him
of
three
important things. Say what they were.
11) What was
the atmosphere on board the Prince of Wales when
it left Argentia Bay? Why?
12) When
Churchill
inquired about Henry’ s bomber ride
over Berlin, what
was the answer?
Did
Henry accept Churchill's
invitation for further flights? Why?
13) Did Henry fully enjoy
the film?
14) For the A
merican guest,
it was a bad half hour. Why was it a bad half hour
for Henry?
15)
Why did the part about free trade and independence
for all peoples mean the end of the British
Empire?
16)
What
was
the
reaction
to
Attlee's
broadcast?
What
were
some
of
the
questions
put
to
victor
Henry? What was his explanation?
II . Paraphrase:
1)
King's
spick-and-span
flagship
belonged
to
a
different
world
than
the
storm-whipped
British
vessel
2) droves of blue jackets were doing an
animated scrub-down 3) Hopkins had travelled to
London
and Moscow in a blaze of
worldwide attention.
4) He's having the time of his life,
sir.
5) The
Russians will hold. But it'll be a near thing.
6) Hopkins held
out one wasted hand and ticked off the points on
skeletal fingers.
7) But it softens the ground for the
second demand
8) Their empire is mighty rickety at
this point.
9)
They'll
also
try,
subtly
but
hard,
for
an
understanding
that
in
getting American
aid
they
come
ahead of Russia.
10) They prolonged the
clasp for the photographers, exchanging smiling
words.
11) By a
shade of a shade, Roosevelt looked like Number
One.
12) The erect front-page President
became the cripple more familiar to Pug
13) Through all
the talk of grand hypothetical plans
14) If
Russia collapsed, Hitler
might try to wrap up the war with a
Crete-like
invasion of England
from the air.
15) Rather sporting of the British
Prime Minister, don't you think, to give the Hun a
fair shot at him
on the open sea.
16) But it
might be prudent not to overwork those good
angels, what?
17) We're stretched thin for escorts.
18) Admiral
Pound would be happier with six.
19) Victor Henry could
sense the subtle gloom hanging over the ship.
20) The
predicament of England seemed soaked in their
bones.
21) But
vague hope, rather than real confidence, was the
note in their conversation.
22) There is an awful
unfolding picture.
23) We may have some sport for you yet.
24) A gay but
inconsequent entertainment
25) For the A
merican guest,
it was a bad half hour.
26) The high-flown language bespoke not
a shred of increased American
commitment.
27) Abuse of Nazi tyranny, yes; more
combat help for the British, flat
zero.
28) I'd venture
there was more to it than that.
29) Pug saw no virtue in
equivocating.
30) Lend-Lease is no sweat, it just
means more jobs and money for everybody.
III. Translate the
following into Chinese:
1) The staffs got right to business and
conferred all day. Victor Henry worked with the
planners, on
the level below the chiefs
of staff and
their
deputies
where
Burne-Wilke
operated,
and of
course
far
below
the summit of the President, the Prime Minister,
and their advisers. Familiar prob
lems
came up
at once: excessive and
contradictory requests from the British services,
unreal plans, unfilled contracts,
jumbled
priorities,
fouled
communications.
One
cardinal
point
the
planners
hammered
out
fast.
Building new ships to replace U-boat
sinkings came first. No war materiel could be used
against Hitler
until
it had
crossed the ocean. This plain truth, so simple
once agreed on, ran a red
line across
every
request,
every
program,
every
projection.
Steel,
aluminum,
rubber,
valves,
motors,
machine
tools,
copper
wire,
all
the
thousand
things
of
war,
would
go
first
to
ships.
This
simple
yardstick
rapidly
disclosed the
poverty of the
–
as a matter
of frightening urgency
-- a gigantic
job of building new steel mills, and plants to
turn the steel into combat machines and tools.
2)
Clement Attlee's broadcast the next day
packed the wardroom.
Every officer not
on watch, and
all
staff
officers
and
war
planners,
gathered
in
the
wardroom
around
one
singularly
ancient,
crack-voiced radio. The battleship,
plowing through a
wild storm, rolled
and pitched with slow
long
groans. For the American guest, it was
a bad half hour. He saw perplexed looks,
lengthening faces, and
headshakes, as
Attlee read off the
language bespoke
not a shred of
increased
American
commitment.
Abuse
of
Nazi
tyranny,
praise
of
dedication
to
a
future of
world peace and brotherhood, yes; more combat help
for the British, flat zero. Some sentences
about free trade and independence for
all people
meant the end of the
British Empire, if they
meant
anything.
IV
. Group together all the
navy terms that appear in the text.
V
. Give
corresponding landsmen's terms for the following
sea terms:
deck
starboard
bulkhead galley
stem (of a vessel) wardroom
stern (of a
vessel) bunk
port (as in
VI.
Give the British spelling of the following words:
1) aluminum 2)
armored 3) color
4) favored 5) gray 6) plow
7) program 8) meter 9)
labor
10)
maneuver
VII. Explain how
the meaning of the sentences is affected when the
italicized words are replaced by the
words in brackets. Pay attention to the
shades of meaning of the words.
1) Haze and mist blended
all into gray (fog)
2) Sailors and officers went about
their chores (tasks)
3)
As
it
steamed
past
the
Augusta,
a
brass
band
on
its
deck
shattered
the
hush
with
Star-Spangled
Banner.
4)
Admiral King beckoned to Pug. (called)
5) In an odd way the two
leaders diminished each other. ( belittled)
6) The erect
front-page President became the cripple
more
familiar to Pug,
hobbling a step or two
( staggering,
tottering)
7)
laboriously hitching one leg forward from the hip,
then the other. (moving)
8) One then another,
sneaked cameras from their blouses. (shirts)
9) and they
both sipped wine. (drank)
10)
Let me .start on this
now, sir.
11)
Hopkins, squinting out at the sunny water, wore a
pained expression. (painful)
12) Franklin
Roosevelt listened..., saying nothing, and
applauding heartily with the rest. (happily)
13)
Upon
returning
from
Iceland
you
will
be
detached
from
War
Plans
to
prepare
yourself
(dismissed)
14) Red secrecy
warnings blazed in the steel door that Tillet
opened. (secret)
15)
as he plodded out (commented)
(strolled)
VII. Choose the
right word in brackets for each blank. Makechanges
where necessary.
1)
A
fter
dusk,
the
Black
slaves
____home
from
the
cotton
plantation.
(totter,
plod,
walk,
stroll,
hobble)
2) They _____forty miles in
search of work. (totter, plod, walk, stroll,
hobble)
3) The cripple _____along the hospital
corridor. (totter, plod, walk, stroll,
hobble)
4)
The
little
baby
_____several
steps on the
floor
without
losing
his
balance.
(totter,
plod,
walk,
stroll, hobble)
5) In the park,
couples_____ by lazily. (totter, plod, walk,
stroll, hobble)
6)
The
income
of
the
peasants____
rapidly
while
the
'Gangof
Four'
was
in
power.
(
reduce,