stubborn高级英语Lesson 15 No Signposts in the Sea 课后练习及答案教程文件

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EXERCISES 15


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

1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr get by observing Laura
without her knowing it? What compliment does he pay her?

2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty? Was he always like
that?

3) What effect does the moon and the cool water of the
swimming pool have on him?

4) What kind of coastline does he like? Why?

5) Who is in charge of the lighthouse? Does he like his job?

6) Why does Edmund Carr like islands?

7) Why does he say:
and sin?

8) What is the 'green flash'?

Ⅱ. Paraphrase:


1) The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire builder,
sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs

2) Or maybe Laura's unwitting influence has called it out.

3) Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those
whose life was lived on a less practical plane.

4) And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as
any old maid doing water-colours of sunsets!

5) I want my fill of beauty before I go.

6) Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving
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the confessional after the solemnity of absolution.

7) there is a touch of rough poetry about him

8) I like also the out- of-the-way information which he imparts
from time to time without insistence

9) I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored
away in the Colonel's otherwise not very interesting mind.

10) This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.

Ⅲ.Translate the following into Chinese:


1) What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of
mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be
scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high alti
tudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let
my imagination play over the recesses of Laura's character, so
austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of
tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the
venturesome.

2) In all this serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so
much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy little
flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves, 'the Flying
Fish, who has a part with the birds, ' and doubtless are glad to
see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight.
Our wake closes up and we might never have been. But it does
happen from time to time that an island appears on the horizon,
nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine
mountain range , lonely, unblemished, re mote. Does one like
islands because one unconsciously appropriates them, a small
manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell
why it should give me suck a queer sensation to reflect that that
island has always been there (unless indeed it be no more than
the work of the patient coral) and will be there still, should I
return to find it waiting for me.

IV. Look up the dictionary for the following loan words. Try to
find out from what languages they are borrowed and then put them
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into Chinese.

Model: creme de menthe-- (
法
)
薄荷酒


1) ad hoe






2) blitzkrieg

3) skoal






4) charg6 d'affairs

5) concerto






6) coup d'dtat

7) d6eor





8) detente

9) hors d oeurves






10) intermezzo

11) kimono






12) kowtow

13) kulak





14) macho

15) smorgasbord






16) status quo

17) fiesta





18) rajah

19) emir







20)eureka

Ⅴ.Make sentences with the following words using the parts of
speech indicated in the brackets:

1) fill (v. n. )






6) range (n. v. )

2) ripple (n. v. )





7) beach (n. v. )

3) marble (n. v. )






8) catch (v. n. )

4 ) pile (n. v. )






9) hump (n. v. )

5) touch (v. n. )






10) obscure (adj. v. )

Ⅵ.pick out from the text all th
e words and phrases describing
colours.

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Ⅶ.Replace the italicized words with simple, everyday words or
expressions

1) and thus beguile ourselves for an hour or so after dinner
( )

2) prefacing his remarks by 'Of course it's not for me to
suggest to you' ( )

3) I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a
less practical plane. ( )

4) I once flattered myself that I was an adult man. ( )

5) or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach
( )

6) So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of
Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground ( )


7) Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent
gleam of a lighthouse on a solitary promontory. ( )

8) which he imparts from time to time without insistence ( )

9) and it is not a sensation I could expect anyone save Laura
to understand ( )

10) We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into
darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a
hill ( ) ( )


11) ‘ Vicious viridian’ I say,
not to be outdone. ( )

12) I would never have believed in the simplde bliss of being,
day after day, at sea. ( )

Ⅷ. Replace the italicized words or phrases with specific words
that appear in the text:

1) The teacher tends to fill us with too many facts. ( )

2) As the policemen approached on horseback, the demonstrators
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went away quickly in different directions. ( )

3) The thief moved stealthily along the corridor. ( )

4) The detective inspected the room and wrote something
hastily in his notebook. ( )

5) Prices went up rapidly when the war broke out. ( )

6) There is more and more work for me. ( )

7.)Some idlers were standing about in a lazy way at the street
corner. ( )

8) After the tide went back, the kids began to pick shells on
the shore. ( )

9) On hearing the shot, he quickly put out his hand and took
the gun lying on the table. ( )

10) She struck him on the face with the palm of her hand. ( )

Ⅸ.Point out the metaphors, similes and alliterations used in the
text.

Ⅹ.Point out the f
igures of speech used in the following
sentences:

1) in the evening she wears soft rich colours ( )

2) he says he used to read me ( )

3) I want my fill of beauty before I go. ( )

4) The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in
the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a
virgin. ( )

5) and the cool support of the water ( )

6) I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be one
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of the loneliest, most forbidding spots on earth. ( )

7) and the sky a tender palette of pink and blue ( )

8) I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South
( )

9) And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint
creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across
turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. ( )

10) but above all I love these long purposeless days in which
I shed all that I have ever been. ( )

Ⅺ. Choose the right word from the list given below for each
blank. Pay attention to the correct combinations of adverbs and
adjectives.

disappointed




simple




beautiful

conscious




close




high

obvious




inadequate




beaten

ignorant




impartial




confident

interested




clear




jealous

exaggerated

1) A referee should always try to be strictly __

2) The answer is laughably __ when you think it over.

3) The rate of income-tax in this country is astronomically

4) He was insanely __ of his brother's success. 5) The
children played on, blissfully __ of their parents' death. 6) Our
host made it painfully __ that we should leave.

7) The casualties in the war have been grossly __

8) The team played badly and were soundly __
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