brainiac高级英语1lesson9课后练习答案

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EXERCISES 9


I. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own
words as much as possible:


1) Why is Mark Twain one of America's best-loved authors?


2) Give a brief account of Mark Twain's experience before he
became a writer.


3) Why did the author adopt 'Mark Twain' as his pen name?


4) When did Mark Twain become a pilot on a steamboat? How
long did he stay there? What did he learn there? What effect did
this experience have on his writing?


5) Why did Twain leave the river country? What did he do then?


6) What story did he write that made him known as
humorist of the Pacific slope”?



7) Why did the book, the Innocents Abroad, become an instant
best-seller?


8) Why is Tom Sawyer as sure to be studied in American
schools today as is the Declaration of Independence?


9) Why did Twain become bitter late in life?

Ⅱ
. Paraphrase:


1) A man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human
race


2) Mark Twain digested the new American experience before
sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer.


3) The cast of characters set before him in his new profession
was rich and varied-- a cosmos.


4) Broke and discouraged, he accepted a job as reporter with
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the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise


5) Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a
newspaper reporter and humorist.


6)
smiles as usual, and says 'Well, that is California all over’ '



7) Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.

Ⅲ
. Translate the following into Chinese:


1) From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the
human race, of the difference between what people claim to be
and what they really are.


2) Tom's mischievous daring, ingenuity, and the sweet
innocence of his affection for Becky Thatcher are almost as sure to
be studied in American schools today as is the Declaration of
Independence.


3) Mark Twain suggested that an ingredient was missing in the
American ambition when he said:
nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on
the shelf occasionally and renew our edges.


4) In The Mysterious Stranger, he insisted that man drop his
religious illusions and depend upon himself, not Providence, to
make a better world.


5)
consequence; where they achieved nothing; where they were a
mistake and a failure and foolishness; where they have left no sign
that they had existed -- a world which will lament them a day and
forget them forever.

Ⅳ
. Pick out the compound nouns and compound adjectives fry the
text and explain their formation.
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Ⅴ
. Give the antonyms of the words listed below:


1) optimist 2) savage


3) keen 4) to rebuff


5) diligently 6) sluggish


7) to acknowledge 8) colossal


9) tedious 10) dreary

Ⅵ
. Pick out all the words and phrases connected with boats and
rivers.

VII. In this text, a lot of nouns are used as attributes. Pick them
out.


Models: 1) tramp printer







2) steamboat days

VIII. Explain how the meaning of the following sentences is
affected when the italicized words are replaced with the words in
brackets. Pay attention to the shades of meaning of the words.


1) Indeed, this nation's best-loved author was every bit as
adventurous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has
ever imagined. (sentimental) (witty)


2 ) Tramp printer, river pilot, Confederate guerrilla, prospector,
starry-eyed optimist, acid-tongued cynic(critic)


3) Lumber, corn, tobacco, wheat, and furs moved dove stream
to the delta country (timber)


4) From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the
human race, of the difference between what people claim to be
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and what they really are. (proclaim oneself)


5) When railroads began drying up the demand for steamboat
pilos and the Civil War halted commerce (need) (stop)


6) Attacks on the city government, concerning such issues as
mistreatment of Chinese, so angered officials that he fled to the
gold-fields (ill- treatment)


7) It was that population that gave to California a name for
getting up astounding enterprises... and a recklessness of cost or
consequences. (results)


8) In the dreary winter of 1864-65 in Angels Camp, he kept a
notebook. ( tedious)


9) In New York City the steamship Quaker City prepared to sail
on a pleasure cruise to Europe and the Holy Land. (pleasant)


10) Twain was assigned to accompany them, as correspondent
for a California newspaper. (reporter)


11) What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might
be (healthy)


12) he commented with a crushing sense of despair on man's
final release from earthly struggles (desperation)

IX. The italicized words are used metaphorically. Explain their
meanings in your own words and comment on t he suitability of
the metaphors in each case.


1)Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck
Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's
endless summer of freedom and adventure.


2) The geographic core, in Twain's early years was the great
valley of the Mississippi River, main artery of transportation in the
young nation's heart.


3) The cast of characters set before him in his new profession
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was rich and varied -- a cosmos


4) Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of
pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers,and
thugs as well.


5) He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic
of glod and silver fever in Nevada's Washoe region.


6) For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available
to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed.


7 ) From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain
began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter
and humorist.


8) Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing
muscles.

X. Besides metaphors and hyperboles, the writer used many other
figures of speech to make his writing more vivid and powerful.
Point out the figures used in the following sentences:


1) From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the
human race, of the difference between what people claim to be
and what they really are.


2) He tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of
Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the
enemy.


3) but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his
pickax.( )


4) “It was a splendid population –
for all the slow,
sleepy,sluggish-
brained sloths stayed at home” ( )



5)
magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or
consequences” ( )

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6) Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.( )


7) he commented with a crushing sense of despair on man's
fi-nal release from earthly struggles ( )


8) a world which will lament them a day and forget them
for-ever ( )

XI. Make sentences using the following words in a figurative
sense:


1) heart





2 ) artery





3) current


4) hotbed






5) to dry up






6) to hone

XII. In some places the author uses hyperboles (exaggerations for
effect) to emphasize his meaning. Try to pick them out.


Models: 1) eternal boyhood






2) America laughed with him.

XIII. Replace the italicized words and phrases with more formal
words or expressions:


1) Indeed, this nation's best-loved author was every bit as
adventurous... as anyone had ever imagined. ( )


2) Broke and discouraged, he accepted a job as reporter ( )


3) that gave to California a name for getting up astounding
enterprises ( )


4) and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and
daring ( )


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