(0063)综合英语六复习思考题(2)

41. 政府组织遭受水灾地区的人民重建家园。(poverty-stricken) 42. 43. 44. 45.

他在宗教的环境里感到不自在。(setting)

中国人和美国人打招呼的方式有什么不同之处？(differ) 雪莱和济慈是同时代人。(contemporary)

这个悲剧发生地点是一个西班牙的村庄。(setting)

46. 船经受住了飓风，没有人受伤。(endure)

47. 由于他的病是致命的，医生已不抱任何希望。(hold out) 48. 连年的战争耗尽了这个国家的资源。(exhaust) 49. 有的作家文体晦涩难懂。(style)

50. 工厂的生产突飞猛进。(by leaps and bounds) 51. 许多人滥用上帝的名义。(take one’s name in vain) 52. 我代表中国人民向你表示热烈欢迎。(on behalf of)

53. 他的演讲不断被一阵阵掌声所打断。(interrupt)

54. 当他不能证明自己的身份时，银行暂时停止了付款. (suspend) 55. 警察从指纹上认定了罪犯。(identify) 56. 他显出吃惊的神色. (assume)

IV. Reading comprehension. Read the following poem and interpret (understand and explain) it in your own words. (20)

What happens to a dream deferred?

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load.

Or does it explode

(The poem was written by Langston Hughes. It is about dream and what would happen if a dream has no chance of being realized. More specifically, the poem is about the dream of the American blacks for equality, freedom, and other human rights. The poet encourages the blacks to hold their dreams, for it is what gives meaning and generates hope to a life of misery and suffering. The poem also sounds a warning: if nothing is done to help the blacks, and if the blacks cannot fulfill their dream, then it would be “fire” next time. Their dream is going to “explode,” destroying

everything in the American society. The poem is in the convention of free verse. It contains a number of questions, which is very unique. And simile is the most conspicuous figure of speech in it.)

Lament Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats

I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants.

There'll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank;

Anne shall have the keys To make a pretty noise with. Life must go on,

And the dead be forgotten; Life must go on,

Though good men die; Anne, eat your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine; Life must go on; I forget just why.

(This poem is a lament over the death of the father, the bread-winner of the family. As can be seen from the poem, the family has been poverty-stricken in the past years. And the untimely death of the father has plunged it into deeper misery. The mother, though grief-stricken, is a strong-minded woman. She assumes the whole responsibility of looking after the children. Life must go on, though it is difficult. The poem is written in the tradition of free verse. Parallelism is the major figure of speech.)