英语专业课本及练习电子版The Wedding Story
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B2U14 The Wedding Story
Text
comprehension
I. Decide which of the
following beat states the purpose of the play.
_____
A. To show what a perfect wedding in
a fairy tale is like.
B. To tell how far apart
the true courting experience of a young
couple
and a idealized love story in a fairy tale can be.
C. To tell the audience what ups and downs a
young couple's love
undergoes.
II. Judge,
according to the text, whether the following
statements are
true or false.
1. The
original purpose of the storytellers is to tell
children a nice
bedtime story.
2. The
storyteller intends to tell the children a love
story exactly the
same as what a young couple
have experienced.
3. The woman accuses the man
of being a racist.
4. The young couple do not
have a good understanding about each
other.
5. The storyteller's second version of the
love story is a miserable
one, which is
interrupted by the young man and the women.
III. Answer the following questions.
1.
How is the setting of the ideal love story
described?
2. How do young couple feel
about the first version of the wedding
story?
Pick up some sentences to support your answer.
3. What evidence suggests that the couple's
relationship is far from
the flawless fairy
tale the storyteller describes?
4. According
to the bride, what are weddings and marriages like
for
ordinary people?
5. Why does the
storyteller give the second version of the wedding
story? How does it differ from his fairy tale?
IV. Explain in your own words the following
sentences.
1. How many of those kids will live
up to your version of the story?
None! They
can't. It's too much pressure. It's like why
Catholic
women are all messed up. You can't be
a virgin AND be a
mother.(lines 125-127)
2. She's got a point there. You're opening
yourself up for multiple
class-action
suits...(lines 144-145)
Vocabulary
I.
Explain the underlined part in each sentence in
your own words.
1. Good night, sleep tight,
don't let the bedbugs bite.
2. A young man
stood by her side, smart as a whip and handsome as
a polo horse.
3. Now, before I was
interrupted for the umpteenth time, boys and
girls, I was saying that...
4. Well
far be it from me to give little souls something
to which to
aspire.
To stay deep in the
dark closet, the man proposed to the woman, and
since she's 35 and, let's face it, not getting
any younger...
II. Fill in the blank in each
sentence with a word or phrase taken
from the
box in its appropriate form.
Hang out end up
impressionable prototype racist set in
ad-lib major
1. The other actors were
thrown into confusion when she started
_____
her final speech.
2. Soon after the business
started, a long economic downturn
_______.
3. The senator was accused of being a ______
after refusing to allow
a black journalist
into his mansion in Georgia.
4. Funds for
continued testing of the ________ran out last
week.
5. It's wrong that _______young minds
should be subject to this sort
of propaganda
in school.
6. Students _____ in a foreign
language often take time out to live in
the
country where the languages is spoken.
7.
Forbes _____ in prison for not paying his taxes.
8. You'll probably find Murphy in that bar----
he often _____ there.
III. Fill in the blanks
with the appropriate forms of the given words.
1. The _______ of new ideas and
dissident views only led to greater
distrust
of the government. (suppress)
2. China has
been the _____ for a new and distinct ideological
growth in the West.(inspire)
3. _______ is
just as important as romantic life.(compatible)
4. There seems to have been a disturbing
growth in ______ among
young people in the new
European states. (racist)
5. All ____ teachers
in the state must learn about sex
discrimination.(aspire)
6.
7. She
threw a kiss as a ______.(salute)
8. She
rocked the baby _____ in her arms until he fell
asleep.(soothing)
IV. Choose the words or
phrase that can replace the underlined part
in
each sentence without changing its original
meaning.
1. I love listening to Bach's music--
I find it very soothing, especially
when I've
had a hard day at work.
ng ting
2. Her resignation will do little to inspire
confidence in a company
that is already
struggling for survival.
e te
3.
He stood in the doorway and yelled out,
top of his voice.
ed d
ed
4. At their best, arranged marriages are
about matching people who
are compatible.
a soft spot for each other fond of each other
intended for each other D. Are well
suited
didn't appear to remember our
encounter last year and nodded
when we were
introduced.
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6. We
found a small dog sitting outside the back door
looking
pathetic.
l
7.
He tried hard to suppress his anger and
resentment, but finally he
lost his temper and
told them what he thought.
back s se
8. If I ever find out you've been cheating on
me, I'll leaver you
straight away.
ying
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V. Give a synonym or
an antonym of the word underlined in each
sentence in the sense it is used.
1.
Lights up on BRIDE and GROOM in traditional garb
standing on
top of a wedding cake.
Synonym:
2. A young man stood by
her side, smart as a whip and handsome as
a
polo horse.
Synonym:
3. with the blessings
of their compatible families, the young man and
woman were to be Bride and Groom.
Antonym:
4. You need to base your arrangement on a more
substantial bloom,
like a lily or an orchid.
Synonym:
5. Oh come on, how many straight
male floral designers do you
know?
Antonym:
6. MOST people cheat on their
spouses or end up in counseling or
sell
everything they own to get into a lousy nursing
home.
Synonym:
7. ....and a young,slightly
effeminate man who took it up the ass
once
when he was 17 and drunk on Kahua, he still
considered
himself straight.
Synonym:
8. I bid you good night and sweet dreams,
children. The End.
Synonym:
VI.
Write in each space one word that has the same
prefix as
underlined in each given word.
1. Uniform ____
2. Monopoly ______
3.
Bicycle _____
4. Multilateral _______
5.
Homophone _____
6. Panacea _____
7. Amoral
_____
8. Express ____
Grammar
I.
Compete the sentences with the verbs in proper
forms,
1. We used to have a regular county
fair out there. There _____(be)
pie baking
contests for the ladies, and animal judging
contests for
the man. People ______(bring)
picnic lunches, and _____(sit) under
the trees
down by the river to eat them. And of course,
there
_____(be) all the carnival stuff too ---
fun for young and old.
2. Surprisingly, the
pound _____(not fall) since the dollar
________(devalue) last month.
3. I love
flowers, so I ______(enjoy) working in my garden.
The
work from the previous year ______(show)
in March and April,
when the bulbs I
_____(plant) in the fall start to blossom.
Crocuses
______(bloom) before the snow
_____(go); daffodils and tulips
_____ (follow)
them. I ______(plant) new bulbs every autumn;and
every other year I ____(thin) out the bulbs
that I ______(already
plant), so that they
will have more space to grow.
4. I don't
think that I ever _____(have) such an embarrassing
adventure as when I ____(lose) my suitcase at
Milan airport. I
_____(be) in a hurry to catch
a train to Istanbul where I _____(meet)
some
friends, so I ______(snatch) what I ____(think)
______(be)
my suitcase from the conveyor belt
and _____(dash) into the Ladies'
room for a
wash and brush up. Imagine my horror when I _____
(open) the suitcase and ___(find) it full of
rather expensive
middle-aged clothes, instead
of my jeans. I _____(make) my way to
the
enquiry desk and _____(explain) my predicament to
the clerk.
He _____(take) one look at the
contents of the case and then
_____(send)
another clerk over to an old lady who ____(sit) on
a
bench. I never _____(be) so thankful as when
I _____(discover) that
she _____(have) my
suitcase.
II. Complete the following sentences
using the subjunctive forms.
1. The coat
looked as if it ______(hold) itself up.
2. If
I _____(be) there right now, I would picture
myself walking
through the doors wearing my
wonderful, magical coat.
3. Suppose he
______(ask) for the money back at once.
4. If he ______(be) here now, what
would you say to him?
5. He wished that it
____(be) Tuesday already.
6. If I _____(be)
you, I would report the loss to the police right
away.
7. He speaks as if he ___(be) the
boss here.
8. He is my beat friend ___ my
second self, as it ____(be).
III. Change the
underlined part in each following sentence into a
that-clause.
1. The director ordered the
general cargo to be shipped in three lots.
2.
Just imagine the horse's being beaten in the race.
3. Some suggested the hearing's being
postponed until March 13.
4. I demand one of
the them to stay here until tomorrow.
5. We
wish it to be possible to change the merchandise,
but state
laws prohibit us from doing this.
6. The public insisted on the criminal's being
being sentenced to
death.
7. I prefer
Susan to type the letters.
8. I think it
advisable for a secretary to be appointed at once.
IV. Change the sentences to avoid unnecessary
repetition.
1. I like biscuits, especially
chocolate biscuits.
2. If you want to read
novels. I've got some novels.
3. My sister
prefers tea to coffee but I like tea and coffee.
4. A number of people were involved in
the accident but none of the
people were hurt.
5. I find Chekhov and Dostoevsk interesting
writers but of course
the most interesting
writer of all is Tolstoy.
6. My husband
sometimes drivers but I rarely drive.
7. She
picked up the book and she started to read.
8.
Look, you don't have to help me if you really
don't want to help
me.
V. Correct the
errors, where found, in the following sentences.
1. British Columbia is a Canadian province
with beautiful cities.
Such as Vancouver and
Victioria.
2. On a sunny day, the views around
Vancouver are beautiful.
Because you can see
the mountains.
3. If you ever have the chance
to go to western Canada. You should
try to
visit British Columbia.
4. Very few scientists
come up with complete new answers to the
world's problems.
5. Did you take my car's
key by mistake?
6. The leading runner was two
miles further ahead.
7. Payment of all
accounts should make in cash within ten days.
8. He must have something serous, for he's
being in hospital for five
weeks.
VI. Make sentences of you own after the
sentences given below,
keeping the parts in
italics in your sentences.
1. And Brad, I
probably shouldn't have married you to begin with.
2. By all means. Don't let anything silly like
our issues get in your
way.
Translation
I. Translate the following sentences into
Chinese.
1. You certainly didn't waste any
time running into the arms of the
first guy
who had an accent.
2. It's like why Catholic
women are all messed up. You can't be
virgin
AND be a mother.
3. Since the woman felt
guilty about the one-night stand, she felt she
needed to make legitimate relationship out of
the encounter to justify
the sex, even though
she really prefers black men.
4. ...since
she's 35 and, let's face it, not getting any
younger, she
accepted his pathetic offer
because it was a real ego boost to have
snagged a hot stud eleven years younger than
she, even if he does
have the occasional
problem having sex with her because he's really
gay.
II. Translate the following sentences
into English, using the words
and phrases give
in brackets.
1. 他的女友跟他吹了，我们正在试图安慰他。(break off,
console)
2. 这位年轻人的成就令大家自愧不如。(put sb. To
shame)
3.
那个非洲国家的战争已经失控，联合国对和平解决已不抱幻
想，所以决定采取维和行动。(out of
hand, disillusioned)
4.
那天晚上他爽约了，没有露面，结果我们的聚会弄得一团糟。
(show up, mess up)
5. 他们有太多的理由应该离婚：首先，他们根本就合不来。(to
begin
with, compatible)
6.
许多年轻人都渴望当电影明星，但绝大多数人最后还是干普通
的工作。(aspire, end
up)
7.
你失去了很多，这也许是你父母的过错，但这并不能成为你对
他们如此粗暴的理由。(justify)
8. 这个地区的雨季通常始于六月中旬，这时候天气通常比较凉
快。(set in)