(完整版)Unit8TheDiscusThrower习题答案综合教程四
激荡三十年-乒乓球赛策划书
Unit 8 The Discus Thrower
Key to
the Exercises
Text comprehension
I .
Decide which of the following best states the
author's purpose of writing.
II.
Judge, according to the text, whether the
following statements are true or false.
1. F
(Refer to Paragraph 1.)
2. F (Refer to
Paragraph 2. Here it is stated that the patient's
skin is not brown from the
sun, though it
looks deeply tanned from a distance. Rather, his
skin becomes reddish
because he was in his
last stage of life, that is, he was approaching
death.)
3. F (Refer to Paragraph 7. When the
doctor offered his help, the patient remained
silent for a long time, and then in real
earnest he asked for a pair of shoes, hoping
against
hope that the doctor would make him a
whole being again.)
4. T (Refer to Paragraph
7.)
III. Answer the following questions.
1. Refer to Paragraph 1. No, he doesn't.
Instead, he finds the activity justifiable. For
one
thing, he thinks the activity is well-
meant, i.e. he wants to collect more pathological
evidence in order to give the patients more
effective treatment. For another, his activity is
not spying in the true sense, for the act is
far from furtive.
2. Refer to Paragraph 2.
The fact that there are no get-well cards, no
small, private
caches of food and day-old
flowers shows that he has been abandoned by his
family and
friends.
3. Refer to
Paragraph 7. As a blind man, he is restrained in
activity. Now without legs
he is completely
confined to bed. Like a caged bird, he longs for
freedom and dreams of
going back to his
career. Thus it is understandable why he
repeatedly asks for shoes.
4. Refer to
Paragraphs 9?0. This is the way he expresses his
wrath with the unfair fate.
He is deprived of
sight and now his legs. Deserted by society, he is
left with very little.
Indignant as he is, he
can avenge himself upon nobody. What he can do is
only to crash
his plate against the wall to
vent his anger and despair. Moreover, he would
rather die in
a stroke like the plate than
linger in agony.
5. Refer to Paragraph 11.
The laughter is unique as is indicated in
Paragraph 11. It
comes both from the pleasure
after revenge by crashing the plate and the hope
to
extricate himself from his agony by means
of an abrupt death like the plate. Since
freedom in this material world is impossible
to him, he wishes to have it in the other
world.
C
IV. Explain
in your own words the following sentences.
1.
but metaphorically that his physical condition
is going from bad to worse.
2. The wild,
relaxed laughter is a totally new sound in the
world that nobody has ever
heard. The joyful
laughter could even give a promising future to
cancer patients.
3. The aide looks across at
me, shaking her head to express her frustration
and pursing
her lips to signal her annoyance.
Structural analysis of the text
This
text can be divided into three parts. Part 1, i.e.
Paragraph 1, serves as an introduction
to the
background of the story. Part 2, i.e. Paragraphs
2?3, describes the strange
behaviour of a
particular patient dubbed discus throwerand his
conflict with the
health workers. Part 3, i.e.
Paragraphs 14?5, tells the reader about the death
of the patient.
Here are the suggested
headlines for the three parts: Part 1: Spying on
Patients: a Habit
of Mine; Part 2: Encounters
with a Particular Patient; Part 3: The Death of
the Patient.
Rhetorical features of the
text
1. The questions he asks himself:
Ought not a doctor to observe
his patients by any means and from any stance,
that he
Is he mute as well as blind?
What
is he thinking behind those lids that do not
blink? Is he remembering a time
These
questions call for no answer but they reveal the
inner thoughts of the narrator.
might the more
fully assemble evidence?
when he was whole?
Does he dream of feet? Or when his body was not a
rotting log?
He seems to be trying to place
himself in the position of the patient for a
better
understanding of the patient's
psychology.
2. The questions he asks in his
dialogue with the patient:
Vocabulary exercises
I. Explain the
underlined part in each sentence in your own
words.
1. reddish brown
2. low-growing
3. almost unbearable degree
These questions help to show that the narrator
is very patient with and responsible
for his
patient.
4. brings the spoon
into light contact with
5. visit the patients
II. Fill in the blank in each sentence
with a word from the box in its appropriate form.
1. accomplice 2. probing
3. furtive 4.
solid
5. pruned 6. acknowledging
7.
hefted 8. unwrapped
III. Fill in the
blanks with the appropriate forms of the given
words.
1. peculiar 2. impression
delivery
assembly
awkwardly
3.
dwellings 4.
5. disinfectants 6.
7. probings
IV. Choose the word or
phrase that can replace the underlined part in
each sentence
without changing its original
meaning.
1. B 2. A 3. A 4. C
5. D 6. C
7. A 8. A
V. Give a synonym or an
antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in
the sense
it is used.
1. Synonym: stare
(watch, look)
2. Synonym: live (reside,
inhabit, lodge, stay)
3. Synonym: sway
4.
Synonym: satire (sarcasm, derision, ridicule)
5. Antonym: tense (nervous, stressed, anxious)
6. Synonym: remarkable (extraordinary,
notable, striking)
7. Antonym: desirable
(pleasant, agreeable)
8. Synonym: stretch
(extend)
VI. Explain the meaning of the
underlined part in each sentence.
1. location
5. usually
Grammar exercises
I.
1.
Make comments on the following
situations, using the words and structures given.
you have enjoyed it
2. praises
3.
much 4. Supporting
6. bring together
8.
2. she needs a good rest
3.
you have had a good time
4. someone has had
smoked in here
5. I had run a marathon
6.
Susan isn't coming
7. he were an old man
8. the world were coming to an end
II. Complete the following sentences
according to the situations given in italics.
1. I werewas a child
2. it happened only
yesterday
3. she knew everything
4. to let
the painful memories pass
5. awakened from
some dream
6. searching for something
7.
she were the Queen
8. he were a patient
III. Match the sentences or sentence
fragments in Column A with those in Column B.
1. J 2. D
6. H 7. E
IV. Rewrite
the following sentences, putting as many words as
possible in the plural with
other necessary
changes.
1. Apes are the animals nearest to
men in appearance.
2. These articles are well
written, but there is still room for improvement.
3. Crises often occur in the best-regulated
families.
4. The passers-by stopped and put
their hands into their trouser pockets.
5.
Traffic accidents often occur at crossroads.
6. Telephones are a necessity in the modern
world.
7. The storms did great damage to the
crops.
8. We have a very high opinion of the
old professors.
V. Fill in the blanks
with is or are.
1. are 2. is
3.
are is 4. is
5. is are
7. are
8. Is
6. is are
3. B 4. A
8. F 9. I
5. G
10. C
VI. Make sentences of your own after the
sentences given below, keeping the underlined
structures in your sentences.
(Reference
version)
1. When she came in from the
rainstorm, she looked as though she had just taken
a
shower with her clothes on.
2. Diana
stood motionless at the end of the diving board,
hands at her sides, heels
slightly raised,
every muscle anticipating action.
Translation exercises
I.
1.
Translate the following sentences into
Chinese.
这让他看上去像一盘盆景，树根和树枝都被修剪掉了，一棵大树只剩下矮小的树干。
2. 他两腿的残肢，失去了腿和脚的负荷，翘在半空，露出双腿的病况。
3.
他双手端起盘子，放到右手上，移到手心里，然后把它稳住。
4.
传来盘子在他床头对面墙上撞碎的声音以及湿漉漉的炒蛋轻轻地掉到地板上的声音。
II.
Translate the following sentences into English,
using the words or phrases given in
brackets.
1. Searchlights fingered across the black
water.
2. Since a robbery happened in this
building, the night watchman has become more
careful and makes his rounds once every hour.
3. He stuck to his plan, though there was
nothing left to prop him up.
4. He is paid by
the police to spy on the activities of the
terrorists.
5. In time they will come to
accept the harsh reality.
6. That man's
behaviour looks very suspicious. He is pretending
to sleep, but now and
then he steals a furtive
glance at the passers-by.
7. The social and
economic changes that have taken place in this
country are so
sweeping that it has dwarfed
all its neighbours.
8. In the dim light of
the daybreak, I saw a dark shape looming athwart
the door.
III. Translate the following
passage into Chinese.
父亲那些浆得发硬的衬衫是个问题。他穿衬衫时，把它
套住头往下拉，两只手左右乱伸，
寻找袖子。新衬衫非常结实，经得起这样拉扯，不会撕裂，但经父亲穿
过后，很快就不那么
结实了。首先他知道，他会听到它开始撕裂的声音，这使他感到讨厌。他憎恨任何脆
弱的表
现，不管是人还是物。他愤怒时摸索袖子会比以前更加用力，接着会传来衬衫撕裂时刺耳的
噼啪声和母亲大声的抱怨。
Exercises for integrated
skills
I. Dictation
The longer I live,
the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me is
more important
than facts. It is more important than the past,
than education, than
money, than
circumstances, than failures, than successes,
than what other people
think or say or do. It
is more important than appearance, gifted ability,
or skill. It will
make or break a company, a
church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have
a choice
every day regarding the attitude we
will embrace from that day. We cannot change our
past, we cannot change the fact that people
will act in certain ways. We cannot
change
the inevitable. The only thing that we can do is
play on the one string that we
have and this
string is Attitude. I am convinced life is 10
percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how
I react to it. And so it is with you.
II. Fill in each blank in the passage below
with ONE appropriate word.
(1) on (2) under
(3) even (4) how
(5) where (6) at
(7) true (8) camps
(9) as
(10) either