高级英语综合教程5 keys to Unit 3 练习答案

高级英语1 Book 5 练习答案
KEY TO EXERCISES of Unit 3
Text Comprehension
I. Decide which of the following best states the author's purpose.
B
II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.
1. T. Refer to Paragraph 1.
2. T. Refer to Paragraph
3.
3. F. Refer to the passage. Only one prisoner was to be hanged.
4. F. Refer to Paragraph 10. The prisoner began crying out to his god. It was a high, reiterated cry of "Ram! Ram! Ram! Ram!" not urgent and fearful like a prayer or a cry for help, but steady, and rhythmical, almost like the tolling of a bell.
5. T. Refer to Paragraph 11.
6. T. Refer to Paragraph 13.
7. F. Refer to Paragraph 16. The executed prisoner must have been a man of no courage since he pissed on the floor when he heard his appeal had been rejected.
III. Answer the following questions.
1. Refer to Paragraphs 2 and 7. The warders appeared quite tense gripping him by arm and shoulder to make sure he was right there, whereas he stood quite unresisting with his arms
limply in the ropes, and later walked quite steadily towards the gallows.
2. Refer to Paragraph 4. He was the leader of jailers, a fat Dravidian in a white drill suit and gold glasses, conducting the hanging.
3. It insinuates that the prisoner to be hanged seemed composed, unruffled, and imperturbable.
4. Refer to Paragraphs 7 and 8. It is implied that the prisoner was alive like anyone else, with his brain reasoning quite effectively.
5. Refer to Paragraphs 10 and 11. He did so, perhaps in order to embolden himself facing death.
6. Refer to Paragraph 14. He blew out deep breath, and the moody look had gone suddenly out of his face, and he felt completely relieved from the tension.
7. Refer to Paragraph 15. Everything seemed to have returned to normal. The warders unfixed their bayonets, and two of them got ready to ladle out rice, and the convicts were getting their breakfast in a homely, jolly atmosphere, in which singing, or sniggering, or chattering was waiting at any moment to start.
8. Refer to Paragraph 18. He was extremely satisfied with the job done that day because the hanged prisoner had died instantaneously without any disagreeable trouble left.
IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences taken from the text.
1. We were waiting outside the cells, where prisoners under the death sentence were jailed.
2. We, government officials and inspectors, walked behind the warders and the prisoner.
3. I found the inexplicable injustice that was being done in putting to an end a prisoner's life, which was still in its prime.
4. The prisoner, who belonged to us now, would be promptly put to death.
5. People had a strong desire to sing, to run and to snigger (after the hanging was over).
6. You can hardly believe that it took as many as six warders to remove him from the cage bars.
Writing strategies
1. Yes, I do. The story is so full of dynamic verbs that more than 90% of the sentences contain one or two, or even more action verbs. Obvious examples are found in Paragraphs 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15.
2. Flashbacks are found in Paragraphs 16, 18, and 20.
3. The employment of the first person narration renders the events described or the plots narrated
more vivid, objective and believable, and makes it possible and convenient for the narrator to express or demonstrate his own thoughts or psychological activities in the process of narration.
4. Both the beginning and the conclusion of the narrative story touch on or briefly describe the hard life and tragic fate of the condemned prisoners.
Language work
I. Explain the italicized part in each sentence in your own words.
1. who were scheduled to be hanged
2. who was a small, thin, and weak man
3. holding him firmly and continuously in a careful manner
4. carrying rifles that tilted over their shoulders
5. his muscles appeared to be functioning normally
6. we will lose a man who can also think and reason like us, and who is also a unique individual like each of us
II. Fill in each blank with one of the two words from each pair in their appropriate forms and note the difference of meaning between them.
vibrate oscillate
1. oscillate
2. vibrate
3. oscillated
4. vibrating
motion movement
1. motion
2. motion
3. movement
4. movement
inspect examine
1. inspect
2. examine
3. inspect; inspected
4. examine; examine
dangle suspend
1. suspended
2. dangled
3. suspend
4. dangled
IV. Make a sentence of your own for each of the given words with meanings other than those used in the text. You may change the part of speech of these words.
V. Put the words in the parentheses into their appropriate tenses and aspects.
1. opened
2. saw
3. had been listening
4. wondered
5. had heard
6. asked
7. had been doing/was doing
8. said
9. had dropped 10. had been looking 11. didn't see 12. found 13. had dropped 14. opened 15. had been taking 16. were 17. turned
18. asked 19. pulled 20. ran 21. recovered 22. had disappeared 23. moved 24. found 25. had been standing 26. had been telling
Note: Both tenses and aspects are verb forms. In spite of the controversy among grammarians over these concepts, many agree that in the English language, there are two tenses, i.e. present and past, and three aspects, i.e. simple, perfect and progressive or continuous.
VI. Put a word in each blank that is appropriate for the context.
1. forms
2. victim
3. especially
4. alone
5. dark
6. contribute
7. population
8. unsolved
9. combat 10. effective
Translation
I. Translate each of the following sentences into English, using the words or expressions given
in the brackets.
1. My daughter started jumping up and down with rage when she heard that children under
the age of 12 were denied admission into the cinema.
( Hearing that children under 12 were not admitted to the film, my daughter started
jumping up and down with rage. )
2. The party was in full tide when the police burst in.
3. The kid fell all by accident, for she was just reaching out for a doll on the shelf.
4. Parents are more tolerant of their children in public places than at home.
5. The discussion threw up a lot of interesting ideas.
6. It isn't polite to poke fun at your colleagues in public.
7. This room could do with a good cleaning for distinguished guests.
8. The fashion festival passed off peacefully, despite all sorts of fears the local government
had.
II. Translate the following into Chinese.
每天下午都有一批年迈的妇女在我家门前的马路上鱼贯走过，每个人都背着一捆柴火。

因为上了年纪再加之常年日晒，她们骨瘦如柴，而且全都长得很矮小。

有一天，一个可怜的老年妇女蹒跚着从我身旁走过，她身高不足四英尺，背着一大捆柴火。

我叫住她，在她手里塞了一枚五苏的硬币。

对此，她发出一种犀利的尖叫算作回应，部分是出于感激，但主要是因为惊讶。

我以为，在她的眼光里，我对她的关注似乎差不多是在触犯一条自然的法则。

她心甘情愿地接受一个老妈子的地位，也就是说当一个身背重负的牲口。

经常可以看到一家人外出旅行，父亲和长大成人的儿子骑着毛驴走在前面，而一个老妇人步行跟在后面，肩上扛着行李。

Keys to Text II
I.Answer the following multiple-choice questions:
1. D
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. A。