高级英语1练习答案(Unit 1)

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高级英语1第1单元练习答案

I. Text Comprehension

1. Decide which of the following best states the author's purpose.

A. To condemn with the author's own experience racial discrimination in American society as late as the 1940s.

B. To describe the author's trip with her family to Washington D.C. as a graduation present.

C. To disclose the fact that the black people were still leading a poor life in the United States. Key: [ A ]

2. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.

1. The author took her first trip to Washington D. C. at the beginning of the summer upon her graduation from the eighth grade. [ T ]

2. The author's sister graduated at the same time from the same school. [ F ]

3. They went at night on a milk train to Washington D. C. because it was cheaper. [ F ]

4. The dining car food in the 1940s always cost too much money and no one could tell whose hands had been playing all over that food, nor where those same hands had been just before. [ F ]

5. Phyllis's high school senior class trip had been to Washington D. C. before, but she didn't enjoy herself at all. [ F ]

6. The author's father, moved by the historical surroundings and the heat of early evening, decided to entertain the family again. [ T ]

7. Insulted by the waitress's words, the author and her family turned around and marched out of the store, quiet but outraged. [ T ]

8. The author wrote and typed her angry letter and managed to mail it to the president of the United States. [ F ]

II. Writing Strategies

1. Flashback:

A flashback (闪回) is a technique used by writers. It is often used in movies, television and literature. It involves a character remembering something that happened to him in the past. Activity: Besides Paragraph 2, you’re expected to find out some other paragraphs that contain this technique.

Tips: Besides Paragraph 2, Paragraphs 6, 8 and 9 contain or involve flashbacks.

Here is a movie clip from The Bourne Ultimatum, in which the technique of flashback is used.

2. Symbolism

Symbolism in art tries to show not what is real but what could stand instead of what exists. It deals with ideas that aren't physical, mostly.

e.g. Moby-Dick: representation of an unknowable God;

Scarlet Letter: The scarlet letter “A” is meant to be a symbol of shame, but instead it becomes a powerful symbol of identity to Hester.

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Activity: Find some examples of symbolism in the text.

Tips: “summer brightness” (Paragraph 8)

“corolla of dazzling whiteness” (Paragraph 9)

“white mottled marble” (Paragraph 15)

The repeated “white” in the last paragraph, and it reveals the phony democracy of the United States and the false freedom of colored people, which drove our writer mad and indignant.

III. Language Work

1. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

1) the

at the beginning of

2) before school was even over.

the whole family were already either actually busy making preparations or enjoying the ambience

3) a large enjoyable meal on the train

4)

as if we had never been mistreated for being black.

5) it. had partially caused

6) was not going to be openly sympathized with by people displaying a similar anger

2. 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: 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) 2) 3) 4)

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. Soak 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)

2)

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3) 4)

acknowledge admit

Explanation: Acknowledge is to accept responsibility for something one makes known, and we acknowledge something embarrassing or awkward, and usually not voluntarily; more often, the acknowledgment is extracted from one more or less unwillingly. Admit is a bold acknowledgment of implication in something one has formerly tended to deny or to equivocate about.

1) but others not so readily” (Epictetus).

2) he affirmed that a shift in strategy would enhance the prospects of victory.

3)

4) He under questioning that he was in the service of a foreign power, but denied

that he was guilty of espionage.

agony anguish

Explanation 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) finally took effect.

2) they are.

3)

4) door and the chassis.

3. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box, using its appropriate form.

ensconce agony vulnerable in private dazzle avow

travesty dainty approve relieve decree flair

1) The local council that the hospitals that are not able to reach the service

standards should close.

2) 3)

4)

5) 6)

7)

8)

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