四、练习答案

Text I

Text Comprehension

I. Decide which of the following best states the author’s purpose of writing.

C.  A and B are only part of the story. Each relates some individual anecdotes which give part of Anne’s profile.

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

1．F

2．T

3．F

4．T

5．F

III. Answer the following questions.

1．Refer to Para.4: She fled from Germany to Belgium to escape fascism; then moved to Paris, surviving the occupation by placing German subtitles on French films.

2．Anne is an independent and honest lady.

3．Refer to Para.10: Anne assured her husband that he’d done the right thing. This means she appreciated his decision.

4．Refer to Para.8: she could endure difficulties in the hardest time but she couldn’t tolerate her husband’s complaints and feeling sorry for himself.

5．Refer to Para.12: She believes in tough love, and doesn’t let him just lie around but forces him to overcome his troubles.

IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences.

1．But I also made some effort to adjust myself.

2．…because I am sometimes too proud of myself.

Structural Analysis of the Text

Chronological account （description of the air crash） → flashback （his wife’s intuition and judgment on previous occasions） → flashback（ their romance and marriage） → chronological account （the author’s recovery from the air crash） → flashback（ his wife’s surgery） → flashback（his wife’s method to make people move on） → chronological account （the author’s concluding comments ）.

Vocabulary

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

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

III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.

IV. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part in each sentence without changing its original meaning.

1．A

2．B

3．C

4．D

5．C

6．D

7．A

8．D

V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.

VI. Write in each space one word that has the same stem as underlined in each given word.

Grammar

I. Change each sentence into a negative with the given word.

1．I hope it will not rain.

2．Seldom has she been so successful before.

3．Nowhere in Iceland will you find gold.

4．Never had Donald imagined that this strange incident would help him to find a job.

5．Scarcely had he any time to pack his suitcase.

6．In no circumstances must you tell him this secret.

7．Rarely do we get more than three consecutive days of hot weather in summer.

8．I had hardly ever worked as hard as I did yesterday.

Hardly had I ever worked as hard as I did yesterday.

II. Translate the following into Chinese.

1．无爱之人不可能真正幸福。

2．人人皆有过失。

3．闪光的并非都是金子。

4．这些都不是白做的。

5．我不明白他为什么不在这儿。

6．能不做的事她决不会做。

7．我认为他没说真话。

8．玛丽只求安宁。

III. Complete each sentence with an appropriate expression of quantity from the box below.

IV. Insert as or like as appropriate in each sentence.

1．as

2．as

3．like

4．like

5．as

6．like

7．like

8．like

9．as

10．as

VI. Make sentences of your own after the sentences given below, keeping the parts in italics in your sentences.

1．He felt sweat on his forehead, but he took the violin from the wall as calmly as if he were a welcome visitor.

2．After all, World War II was still on and atomic bomb research was a secret.

Translation

I. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.

1． 1995年我中风后情绪低落，常常有自杀的念头，她又一次救了我。

2．安妮帮助我度过了一些最困难的时刻，这可不是件容易的事，因为我有时候是个自负的演员。

3．在我刚刚摆脱死神，还沉浸在劫后痛苦中的时候，她一直安慰我，但她不能容忍我自怨自艾——她把这个看得很重。

4．她通过帮助别人——如和病友们谈心，交流她的经验，与六位癌症康复者一起建立了妇女癌症研究会——和癌症作斗争，并且彻底康复了。

II. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and phrases given in brackets.

1．The fans waited anxiously in the rain for two hours before the “super girl” finally showed up.

2．They have been in love for eight years, and they went through many agonies before they finally got married.

3．I was upset by the loss of my wallet, but I could only console myself—it could have been worse. What if I had lost my passport at the airport?

4．Given his age and inexperience / Given that he was young and inexperienced, his performance in his first movie was excellent.

5．Every time he left on business, the manager would authorize his assistant to act for him, as the business of the company couldn’t wait.

6．The poor old man did not have much to eat but he kept healthy because he believed in the benefit of doing exercise.

7．Of all the ancient civilizations, only that of China has endured through the ages and is still full of vitality.

8．Like many other writers, this young writer focuses on the eternal theme of love. What sets him apart from others is his keen observations of rural life in China.

Exercises for integrated skills

I. Dictation

Love means that I know the person I love. / I’m aware of/the many sides of the other person /—not just the beautiful side / but also the limitations. / I have an awareness / of the other’s feelings and thoughts. / I can see the other person / on a deeper level.

Love means / that I care about the welfare / of the person I love. / If I care about you, / I’m concerned about your growth, / and I hope you will become / all that you can be- come. /

Love means trusting the person I love. / If I love you, / I trust that you will accept my caring and my love / and that you won’t deliberately hurt me. / I trust that you will find me lovable / and that you won’t abandon me. / If we trust each other, / we are willing to be  open to each other / and reveal our true selves.

II. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE word you think appropriate.

Listening

Transcript

Fond of Flying

Section 1

You travel a great deal. Do you enjoy it?

Oh yes, I absolutely love traveling. I love going from place to place, and however much I travel I never get sick of it. I’m always excited, particularly when I get on a plane, because I very much like flying. I don’t know why, because people nowadays say that it’s a very mundane way to travel, but I don’t find it so. I think flying is very exciting indeed. You get on the plane, there’s the noises at the airport, and I’m crazy about the whole thing, when it ... the engines start, and it starts to go down the runway, and there’s a great thrill as it goes down the runway—this is the only real thrill about flying—the sense of speed as you go down a runway. And I en- joy all that enormously.

Mind you, I don’t like everything about flying. I like it once you’re in the aircraft but I don’t like sitting around airports, particularly if the plane’s delayed. I absolutely hate it then, because the airport’s crowded with people, nobody knows what’s happening, and I hate people not telling me what’s happening—so I don’t know whether I’m going to wait for an hour, I don’t know whether I’m going to wait for about four hours.

Section 2

The trouble is that today many aircrafts have got so fast that short flights are very short and you don’t really have time to even get a drink, or a meal, and all the things they do. So I much prefer going on long flights to short flights. Perhaps not too long, but long enough to enjoy it. When you get to really long flights, say 24 hours, I’m not so fond of those, because it’s very tiring and it’s difficult to get to sleep, and you get very disorientated because of the difference in time and I don’t like that very much at all. But there are things you can do to make a long flight easier to deal with, and what I like to do is, if possible, it’s easier if you can fly wherever you’re going when it’s mostly dark, because then there’s a fair chance of getting to sleep. What I like to do for my ideal long-distance flight is to have a long enough spell that you could go to sleep.

What I don’t like is the habit they have on long-distance flights of constantly waking you up, because they think that you may be bored, when of course really all you want to do is sleep. And I’m not at all fond of it—I hate it when they come along and say to me “Oh it’s time for your meal now.” or it’s “Would you like another drink?”—I just can’t stand that because all I want to do is to go to sleep.

A. Pre-listening discussion

Open to discussion

B. Listen to Section 1 carefully and answer the questions.

1．Yes. （the interviewer say so, and she obviously know a lot about flying）

2．The excitement of it, particularly the takeoff.

3．That it’s “mundane”—it’s so ordinary now that it isn’t exciting any more.

4．She doesn’t like waiting around at airports when planes are delayed, because the airports are crowded, and she doesn’t know how long she’ll have to wait.

C. Listen to Section 2 carefully and answer the questions.

1．She prefers long flights, because on short flights you don’t have time to enjoy the flight, have a meal, etc.

2．They’re tiring, it’s difficult to get to sleep, and the change in time zones makes you disorientated.

3．Travel in darkness, so she can get to sleep.

4．Because they think the passengers are bored, or because it’s time for another meal

Text II

Questions for discussion

1．The author asked her children to write thank-you notes to express their gratitude.

2．Open to discussion.

3．Open to discussion.