高级英语第十二课习题和答案
高级英语Lesson 12 The Loons词汇补充练习
Lesson 12 The Loons词汇补充练习Ⅰ. Word explanation1. dwellingA. residenceB. dwarfC. lingeringD. inhibit2. strandA. threadB. twistC. swingD. warp3. putA. setB. stateC. offerD. all the above4. oddA. addB. irregularC. oddsD. index5. vagueA. apparentB. flagrantC. equivocalD. conspicuous6. distressA. distractB. desperateC. agonyD. annoyance7. miraculousA. irresponsibleB. astonishingC. wildD. reckless8. scornA. disdainB. reverenceC. contemptD. a and c9. swearA. curseB. swelterC. voteD. utter10. awarenessA. obliviousnessB. realizationC. franknessD. ware11. sullenA. light-heartedB. cheerfulC. optimisticD. gloomy12. perseveranceA. penetrationB. persecutionC. persistenceD. preserve13. flickerA. sparkB. freshC. shatterD. smash14. plaintiveA. bareB. lamentableC. clearD. painstaking15. appealA. disgustB. repelC. appalD. charm16. odourA. ordealB. smellC. drearyD. perm17. ramshackleA. shackB. youngC. ramD. rickety18. obscenityA. vulgarismB. abominationC. filthinessD. all the above19. brawlA. disputeB. wailC. moanD. battle20. negligibleA. inconsequentialB. oversightC. carelessnessD. forgetfulⅡ. Give the full spelling of the words according to the context.1. Something that is d__________ contains a lot of things or people in a small area.2. A c_________ is a small area of grass or bare ground which is surrounded by a much larger area of trees and other large plants.3. Your t_________ are the top parts of your legs, between your knees and your hips.4. R_______ is money, food, or clothing that is provided, often from public funds, for people who are very poor or hungry.5. Something that is e__________ makes you feel shy, ashamed, or guilty.6. If you describe someone or something as p_________, you mean that they are strange, often in an unpleasant way.7. If you tell someone to b_______ or to behave themselves, you are telling them that they should act in a way that people think is correct and proper.8. When someone a________ you, they get nearer to you.9. If you s ________ somewhere, you walk there quickly and noisily because your are angry about something.10. Someone who is d_________11. If you are d__________, you show aggression or independence by refusing to obey someone or refusing to behave in the expected way.12. If you w_________ something, you see it happen. This is a fairly formal word.13. If you p__________ something, you own or have it.14. If something c________ , it stops happening or existing.Ⅲ. Fill in each of the blanks with one of the following words or expressions in its proper form. Each word or expression is to be used only once.add to, anyhow, at that, catch, fail, ill at ease, intend, scope, set about, strike1.What do you___________ to do today?2. The movie itself was marvellous, and the music___________ our enjoyment.3. I thought I could depend on him for help, but he __________ me.4. v___________ of current physical theory.5. "Five thousand yuan for a second hand 20-inch TV! And with the remote missing_______!You nuts or something?"6. As soon as she arrived she_________ tidying up the room.7. It__________ me that we ought to make a new plan.8. She__________ me smoking a cigarette.9. The boy felt__________ when the headmaster spoke to him.10. Do you want me to do this in any particular way or with special care, or can I do it________?第一册第12课练习答案1-1: / 答案:A 1-2: /答案:A 1-3: / 答案:D 1-4: / 答案:B 1-5: /答案:C1-6: / 答案:C 1-7: /答案:B1-8: /答案:D1-9: / 答案:A1-10: /答案:B1-11: /答案:D1-12: /答案:C1-13: /答案:A1-14: 答案:B1-15: /答案:D1-16: /答案:B1-17: /答案:D1-18: /答案:D1-19: /答案:A1-20: /答案:A2-1: /答案:dense 2-2: /答案:clearing 2-3: /答案:thighs 2-4: /答案:Relief2-5: /答案:embarrassing 2-6: /答案:peculiar 2-7: /答案:behave 2-8: /答案:approaches2-9: /答案:stamp 2-10: / 答案:devoted2-11: / 答案:defiant 2-12: /答案:witness up2-13: /答案:possess 2-14: /答案:ceases3-1: /答案:intend 3-2: /答案:added to 3-3: /答案:failed 3-4: /答案:scope 3-5: /答案:at that3-6: /答案:set about 3-7: /答案:struck3-8: /答案:caught 3-9: /答案:ill at ease3-10: /。
高级英语第十二课习题和答案
Lesson12II.Look up the italicized words in the dictionary and explain:1)a small square cabin chinked with mudChinked: the sound of coins, glasses or mental objects when you chink them2)was a chaos of lean-tosLean- tos: a small house which is inclined3)the Tonnerres were half breeds…Half breeds: mixed blood people4)working at odd jobs or as section handsOdd: strange or unusualSection: a separate group within a larger group of people5)they lived on reliefRelief: people live by money given by government6)but she had failed several gradesGrades: times7)had to get back to his practicePractice: a things that is done regularly8)how the coyote reared her youngReared: the back part of sth.9)If you walk just around the point therePoint: one of the marks of direction10)her hair was cut short and frizzly permedPermed: a way of changing the style of your hair by using chemicals to create curls that last for several monthsI. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:1)Were the Tonnerres rich or poor? Substantiate your answer with facts.They are poor and live in a small square cabin made of poplarpoles and chinked with mud.2)What would happen sometimes to old Jules or his son Lazarus on Saturday nights? They would hit out at whoever was nearest or howl drunkenly among the offended shoppers on Main Street.3)Why did the doctor propose taking Piquette to Diamond Lake for the summer? Because she had had tuberculosis of the bone, it is good for her recover to go to Diamond Lake. If she stayed at home, she will be busying working.4)Why did the narrator's mother first object and then agree to take Piquette along? She first objected because she thought her hair had nits, then she agreed because she preferred Piquette to her mother-in-law.5)What was the cottage on the lake called? What was the scenery there like?It is called Macleod. The scenery was the filigree of the spruce trees, the water glistening greenly as the sun caught it, and all kinds of plants and animals.6)Why did the narrator ask Piquette respectfully. "I bet you know a lot about the woods and all that, eh. "?Because she knew Piquette was an Indian descendant, she thought Piquette might know the woods quite well and would like to tell her stories about the woods.7)Why was the narrator startled and her feelings hurt by Piquette's rude answers to her questions?Because she didn’t expect the Piquette should take her questioning as showing contempt for her Indian ancestors.8)Why did the narrator say that all that summer Piquette remained as both a reproach and a mystery to her?She felt guilty because she didn’t develop a good relationship with Piquetee, she had failed her father, and she also felt Piquette was strange.9)What does the narrator mean when she says:"For the merest instant, then, I saw her."?She means at a very brief moment, Piquetee was unguarded and unmasked, so that the author could perceive her inner mind.10)What is the full name of the narrator of the story?Her full name is Vanessa Macleod.11)How is the disappearance of the loons related to the theme of this story?The loons had gone away because more and more people and buildings instead of them. They disappeared because they c ouldn’t finds their position. In a similar way, Piquetee is a representative.Ⅱ. Paraphrase?1)with a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughterA person who is too serious to laugh2)Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawlSometimes, old Jules and his son would be drunk and get involved in a rough, noisy quarrel or fight on a Saturday night3)her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible She was often absent from classes and had little interest in schoolwork.4)she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presenceShe would always made me embarrassed.5)She dwelt and moved somewhere within my scope of visionShe lived and moved somewhere I can see6)If it came to a choice between Grandmother MacLeod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not.Between Grandmother and Piquette, my mother would choose Piquette, no matter Piquette’s hair had nits or not.7)Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope.There was an expression of challenge on her face, which became unguarded and unmasked for a brief moment. And in her eyes there waqs a kind of hope which was so intense that is is filled people with terror.8)she looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern,dressed any old howShe look very untidy, dressed in a very careless way9)She was up in court a couple of times -- drunk and disorderly, of course.She was brought in court several tomes, because she took too much liquor and was noisy and violent in public.IV. All the following words are adjectives with different suffixes. Give further examples of adjectives with the same suffixes:1)contagious --- serious, rebellious, obvious2)negligible --- sensible, visible, possible3)enviable --- enable, reliable, acceptable4)friendly --- smoothly, deadly, importantly5)plaintive --- creative, positive, decisive6)tuneful --- woeful, beautiful, careful7)expressionless --- careless, useless, worthless8)wavy --- heavy, dirty, friendly9)conventional --- traditional, personal, national10)tubercular --- particular, similar, familiarV. The following phrases are taken from the text, all with a participle as an adjective. Explain why a present or past participle is used in each case and then translate the phrases into Chinese:1) limping walk: walk in a limping unsteady way 一瘸一拐地走2) embarrassing presence: presence that is embarrassing 令人尴尬的人或事物3) unsmiling eye: eyes that are very strict and don’t smile 没有笑意的眼睛4) ululating sound: a sound that roars and is like wailing 哀鸣5) chilling mockery: mockery that makes people feel chilly 令人后脊背发冷的嘲笑6) burning birch log: a birch log that is warped 正在燃烧的白桦树7) terrifying hope: hope that fills people with horror 令人生畏的希望8) flourishing resort: a resort that is prosperous 繁华的旅游胜地9) penetrating odours: very intense smell 强烈的气味10) warped lumber: lumber that is cooked 弯曲的木材11) discarded car tyres: car tyres that are abandon 被丢弃的汽车轮胎12) tangled strands of barbed wire: strands of barbed wire that aretangled together 缠在一起的铁丝网13) bruised wild strawberries: wild strawberries that have beendamage in the skin 破了皮的草莓14) fallen tree trunk: a thick main stem of a tree that has beenfallen 砍到的树干15) offended shoppers: shoppers are displeased 被冒犯的顾客16) long-drawn call: call that lasts for a long time 拖长音的叫声Ⅶ. Replace the italicized colloquial or slangy words with more for- mal words or expressions:1) Sometimes Old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl. (a rough and noisy quarrel or fight )2) I hate like the dickens to send her home again. ( very much )3) "I'll bet anything "she has nits in her hair. (I'm absolutely sure )4) "So what? "Her voice was distant. ( Why is that important?)5) "Your dad said I ain' t supposed to do no more walking than I got to. "(1 don’twant to walk unless it is necessary )6) "I bet you know a lot about the woods and all that, eh?" ( things like that)7) "I don't know what the hell you' re talk in about," she replied(what ‘s exactly )8) " You nuts or somethin'? If you mean where my old man, and me and all themlive,you better shut up, by Jesus, you know?"(Are you crazy or what?)( My father and I and the others )9) "Got this classy name. Alvin Gerald Cummings—some handle, eh?"(first—class) (good name )10) "Gee, Piquette--that's swell."( perfect)Ⅷ. Replace the italicized words with specific words that appear in the text:1) The man standing behind me took away my purse suddenly and ran off like a rabbit. (grabbed )2) The new policies were made in order to attract more foreign investment. ( lure)3) The smoke from the burning building made breathing very difficult for the fire-men. (stifled )4) I didn't get a wink of sleep last night because the wind was blowing hard and noisily all the time. ( howling)5) The hammock moved backward and forward with regular movements between the two trees. (swung )6) The patient moved about in bed wildly and almost violently in unbearable pain. (thrashed )7) She felt a sudden dizziness and walked unsteadily before she reached a tree and leaned against it. ( teetered)8) The parrot was unusually quiet this morning, not uttering a single loud and harsh cry. (squawking even once )9) Some of the berries at the bottom of the pail were pressed into a soft mass. ( squashed)10) To get rid of the policemen, he ran into the forest and then crawled hurriedly up the hill. (scrambled )11) The candle shone unsteadily as a breeze swept into the room. ( flickered) IX. 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). In a clearing at the centre of the thicket stood the Tonnerre family’s sha ck. (home) Shack: a living place with simple facilities and is build carelesslyHome: living in for a long or short time, emphasizing personal emotion2). Their English was broken and full of obscenities. (bad words)Bad words: the words are said by uneducated peopleObscenities: disgusting bad language3)Piquette was with us and Grandmother Macleod, miraculously, was not.(strange enough)Miraculously: marvelouslyStrange enough: emphasizing the level of strange4). My father would only be staying at the cottage for a couple of weeks.(villa) Cottage: village or a traveling houseVilla: luxurious department in the village5). Roderick sat on the car rug in the sunshine and examined a brown spruce cone, meticulously, turning it round and round in his small and curious hand. (carefully, strange-looking)Meticulously: over-careCarefully: avoiding mistake by careful actions6). She looked at me sullenly, without speaking.(unhappily)Sullen: mumpishUnhappy: displeased7). I bet you know a lot about the woods and all that, eh? I began respectfully. (respectably)Respectfully: esteemRespectably: be worth of respect8). I ignored her rebuff. (refusal)Rebuff: refuse sb. DecisivelyRefusal: sometimes refuse sb in a rude way9). At night the lake was like black glass with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon.(reflection)Path: here is a reflex moonlightReflection: an image is refected in the mirror or water10). Neither of us suspected that this would be last time we would ever sit here together on the shore, listening. (doubted)Suspect: sth. possible exist or happenDoubt: do not believe11). But I did not know...why she would not or could not respond when I suggested exploring the woods or playing house.(reply)Respond: by not only in words but also take actionsReply: by verbal, written or action to make formal respond12). I stared at her, astounded that anyone could have changed so much.(surprised) Astounded: extraordinary shockedSurprised: shocked13). As I mouthed the conventional phrases, I could only guess hoe great her need must have been, that she had been forced to seek the very things she so bitterly rejected.(traditional, resented)Conventional: be coincided with formal norms and principlesTraditional: be consisted to traditional14). The one store had become several dozen, and the settlement had all the attributes of a flourishing resort-hotels, a dance-hall, cafes with neon signs, the penetrating odours of potato chips and hot dogs. (place, smell)Settlement: a small living placePlace: can replace any words of placeSmell: refer all kinds of smellOdour: a kind of perceivable smell。
完整版高级英语第一册修订本第12课Lesson12TheLoons原文和翻译
The LoonsMargarel Laurence1、Just below Manawaka, where the Wachakwa River ran brown and noisyover the pebbles , the scrub oak and grey-green willow and chokecherry bushes grew in a dense thicket . In a clearing at the centre of the thicket stood the Tonnerre family's shack. The basis at this dwelling was a small square cabin made of poplar poles and chinked with mud, which had been built by Jules Tonnerre some fifty years before, when he came back from Batoche with abullet in his thigh, the year that Riel was hung and the voices of the Metis entered their long silence. Jules had only intended to stay the winter in the Wachakwa Valley, but the family was still there in the thirties, when I was a child. As the Tonnerres had increased, their settlement had been added to, until the clearing at the foot of the town hill was a chaos of lean-tos, wooden packing cases, warped lumber, discarded car types, ramshackle chicken coops , tangled strands of barbed wire and rusty tin cans.2、The Tonnerres were French half breeds, and among themselves theyspoke a patois that was neither Cree nor French. Their English was broken and full of obscenities. They did not belong among the Cree of the Galloping Mountain reservation, further north, and they did not belong among theScots-Irish and Ukrainians of Manawaka, either. They were, as my Grandmother MacLeod would have put it, neither flesh, fowl, nor good salt herring . When their men were not working at odd jobs or as section hands on1the C.P. R. they lived on relief. In the summers, one of the Tonnerre youngsters, with a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter, would knock at the doors of the town's brick houses and offer for sale a lard -pail full of bruised wild strawberries, and if he got as much as a quarter he would grab the coin and run before the customer had time to change her mind. Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl , and would hit outat whoever was nearest or howl drunkenly among the offended shoppers on Main Street, and then the Mountie would put them for the night in the barred cell underneath the Court House, and the next morning they would be quiet again. 3、Piquette Tonnerre, the daughter of Lazarus, was in my class at school.She was older than I, but she had failed several grades, perhaps because her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible . Part of the reason she had missed a lot of school was that she had had tuberculosis of the bone, and had once spent many months in hospital. I knew this because my father was the doctor who had looked after her. Her sickness was almost the only thing I knew about her, however. Otherwise, she existedfor me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence, with her hoarse voice and her clumsy limping walk and her grimy cotton dresses that were always miles too long. I was neither friendly nor unfriendly towards her. She dwelt and movedsomewhere within my scope of vision, but I did not actually notice her very much until that peculiar summer when I was eleven.24、I don't know what to do about that kid. my father said at dinner one evening. Piquette Tonnerre, I mean. The damn bone's flared up again. I've had her in hospital for quite a while now, and it's under control all right, but I hate like the dickens to send her home again.5、Couldn't you explain to her mother that she has to rest a lot? my mother said.6、The mother's not there my father replied. She took off a few years back.Can't say I blame her. Piquette cooks for them, and she says Lazarus would never do anything for himself as long as she's there. Anyway, I don't think she'd take much care of herself, once she got back. She's only thirteen, after all. Beth, I was thinking—What about taking her up to Diamond Lake with us this summer?A couple of months rest would give that bone a much better chance.7、My mother looked stunned.8、But Ewen -- what about Roddie and Vanessa?9、She's not contagious , my father said. And it would be company for Vanessa.10、Oh dear, my mother said in distress, I'll bet anything she has nits inher hair.311、For Pete's sake, my father said crossly, do you think Matron would lether stay in the hospital for all this time like that? Don't be silly, Beth.12、Grandmother MacLeod, her delicately featured face as rigid as a cameo , now brought her mauve -veined hands together as though she were about to begin prayer.13、Ewen, if that half breed youngster comes along to Diamond Lake, I'mnot going, she announced. I'll go to Morag's for the summer.14、I had trouble in stifling my urge to laugh, for my mother brightenedvisibly and quickly tried to hide it. If it came to a choice between Grandmother MacLeod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not.15、It might be quite nice for you, at that, she mused. You haven't seenMorag for over a year, and you might enjoy being in the city for a while. Well, Ewen dear, you do what you think best. If you think it would do Piquette some good, then we' II be glad to have her, as long as she behaves herself.16、So it happened that several weeks later, when we all piled into myfather's old Nash, surrounded by suitcases and boxes of provisions and toys for my ten-month-old brother, Piquette was with us and Grandmother MacLeod, miraculously, was not. My father would only be staying at the cottage for a couple of weeks, for he had to get back to his practice, but the rest of us would stay at Diamond Lake until the end of August.417、Our cottage was not named, as many were, Dew Drop Inn orBide-a-Wee, or Bonnie Doon”. The sign on the roadway bore in austereletters only our name, MacLeod. It was not a large cottage, but it was on the lakefront. You could look out the windows and see, through the filigree of the spruce trees, the water glistening greenly as the sun caught it. All around the cottage were ferns, and sharp-branched raspberrybushes, and moss that had grown over fallen tree trunks, If you looked carefully among the weeds and grass, you could find wild strawberry plants which were in white flower now and in another month would bear fruit, the fragrant globes hanging like miniaturescarlet lanterns on the thin hairy stems. The two grey squirrels were still there, gossiping at us from the tall spruce beside the cottage, and by the end of the summer they would again be tame enough to take pieces of crust from my hands. The broad mooseantlers that hung above the back door were a little more bleached and fissured after the winter, but otherwise everything was the same. I raced joyfully around my kingdom, greeting all the places I had not seen for a year. My brother, Roderick, who had not been born when we were here last summer, sat on the car rug in the sunshine and examined a brown spruce cone, meticulously turning it round and round in his small and curious hands. My mother and father toted the luggage from car to cottage, exclaiming over how well the place had wintered, no broken windows, thank goodness, no apparent damage from storm felled branches or snow.518、Only after I had finished looking around did I notice Piquette. She was sitting on the swing her lame leg held stiffly out, and her other foot scuffing the ground as she swung slowly back and forth. Her long hair hung black and straight around her shoulders, and her broad coarse-featured face bore no expression -- it was blank, as though she no longer dwelt within her own skull, as though she had gone elsewhere.I approached her very hesitantly.19、Want to come and play?20、Piquette looked at me with a sudden flash of scorn.21、I ain't a kid, she said.22、Wounded, I stamped angrily away, swearing I would not speak to her for the rest of the summer. In the days that followed, however, Piquette began to interest me, and l began to want to interest her. My reasons did not appear bizarre to me. Unlikely as it may seem, I had only just realised that the Tonnerre family, whom I had always heard Called half breeds, were actually Indians, or as near as made no difference. My acquaintance with Indians was not expensive. I did not remember ever having seen a real Indian, and my new awareness that Piquette sprang from the people of Big Bear and Poundmaker, of Tecumseh, of the Iroquois who had eaten Father Brébeuf's heart--all this gave her an instant attraction in my eyes. I was devoted reader of Pauline Johnson at this age, andsometimes would orate aloud and in an exalted voice, West Wind, blow from6your prairie nest, Blow from the mountains, blow from the west--and so on. It seemed to me that Piquette must be in some way a daughter of the forest, a kind of junior prophetess of the wilds, who might impart to me, if I took the right approach, some of the secrets which she undoubtedly knew --where the whippoorwill made her nest, how the coyote reared her young, or whatever it was that it said in Hiawatha.23、I set about gaining Piquette's trust. She was not allowed to go swimming, with her bad leg, but I managed to lure her down to the beach-- or rather, she came because there was nothing else to do. The water was always icy, for the lake was fed by springs, but I swam like a dog, thrashing my arms and legs around at such speed and with such an output of energy that I never grew cold. Finally, when I had enough, I came out and sat beside Piquette on the sand. When she saw me approaching, her hands squashed flat the sand castle she had been building, and she looked at me sullenly, without speaking.24、Do you like this place? I asked, after a while, intending to lead on from there into the question of forest lore .25、Piquette shrugged. It's okay. Good as anywhere.26、I love it, said. We come here every summer.27、So what? Her voice was distant, and I glanced at her uncertainly, wondering what I could have said wrong.728、Do you want to come for a walk? I asked her. We wouldn't need to gofar. If you walk just around the point there, you come to a bay where great big reeds grow in the water, and all kinds of fish hang around there. Want to? Come on.29、She shook her head.30、Your dad said I ain't supposed to do no more walking than I got to. Itried another line.31、I bet you know a lot about the woods and all that, eh? I began respectfully.32、Piquette looked at me from her large dark unsmiling eyes.33、I don't know what in hell you're talkin' about, she replied. You nuts or somethin'? If you mean where my old man, and me, and all them live, you better shut up, by Jesus, you hear?34、I was startled and my feelings were hurt, but I had a kind of dogged perseverance. I ignored her rebuff.35、You know something, Piquette? There's loons here, on this lake. Youcan see their nests just up the shore there, behind those logs. At night, you can hear them even from the cottage, but it's better to listen from the beach. My dad says we should listen and try to remember how they sound, because in a fewyears when more cottages are built at Diamond Lake and more people come in, the loons will go away.36、Piquette was picking up stones and snail shells and then dropping them again.37、Who gives a good goddamn? she said.38、It became increasingly obvious that, as an Indian, Piquette was a dead loss. That evening I went out by myself, scrambling through the bushes that overhung the steep path, my feet slipping on the fallen spruce needles that covered the ground. When I reached the shore, I walked along the firm damp sand to the small pier that my father had built, and sat down there. I heard someone else crashing through the undergrowth and the bracken, and for a moment I thought Piquette had changed her mind, but it turned out to be my father. He sat beside me on the pier and we waited, without speaking.38、At night the lake was like black glass with a streak of amber which wasthe path of the moon. All around, the spruce trees grew tall and close-set, branches blackly sharp against the sky, which was lightened by a cold flickering of stars. Then the loons began their calling. They rose like phantom birds from the nests on the shore, and flew out onto the dark still surface of the water. 40、No one can ever describe that ululating sound, the crying of the loons,and no one who has heard it can ever forget it. Plaintive , and yet with a quality 9of chilling mockery , those voices belonged to a world separated by aeon from our neat world of summer cottages and the lighted lamps of home.41、They must have sounded just like that, my father remarked, eforeany person ever set foot here. Then he laughed. You could say the same, of course, about sparrows or chipmunk, but somehow it only strikes you that way with the loons.42、I know, I said.43、Neither of us suspected that this would be the last time we would eversit here together on the shore, listening. We stayed for perhaps half an hour, and then we went back to the cottage. My mother was reading beside the fireplace. Piquette was looking at the burning birch log, and not doing anything.44、You should have come along, I said, although in fact I was glad shehad not.45、Not me, Piquette said. You wouldn' catch me walkin' way down therejus' for a bunch of squawkin' birds.46、Piquette and I remained ill at ease with one another. felt I had somehow failed my father, but I did not know what was the matter, nor why she Would not or could not respond when I suggested exploring the woods or Playing house. I thought it was probably her slow and difficult walking that held her back. She10stayed most of the time in the cottage with my mother, helping her with the dishes or with Roddie, but hardly ever talking. Then the Duncans arrived at their cottage, and I spent my days with Mavis, who was my best friend. I could not reach Piquette at all, and I soon lost interest in trying. But all that summer she remained as both a reproach and a mystery to me.47、That winter my father died of pneumonia, after less than a week's illness. For some time I saw nothing around me, being completely immersed in my own pain and my mother's. When I looked outward once more, I scarcely noticed that Piquette Tonnerre was no longer at school. I do not remember seeing her at all until four years later, one Saturday night when Mavis and I were having Cokes in the Regal Café. The jukebox was booming like tuneful thunder, and beside it, leaning lightly on its chrome and its rainbow glass, was a girl.48、Piquette must have been seventeen then, although she looked about twenty. I stared at her, astounded that anyone could have changed so much. Her face, so stolidand expressionless before, was animated now with a gaiety that was almost violent. She laughed and talked very loudly with the boys around her. Her lipstick was bright carmine, and her hair was cut Short and frizzily permed . She had not been pretty as a child, and she was not pretty now, for her features were still heavy and blunt. But her dark and slightly slanted eyes were beautiful, and her skin-tight skirt and orange sweater displayed to enviable advantage a soft and slender body.1149、She saw me, and walked over. She teetered a little, but it was not dueto her once-tubercular leg, for her limp was almost gone.50、Hi, Vanessa, Her voice still had the same hoarseness . Long time nosee, eh?51、Hi, I said Where've you been keeping yourself, Piquette?52、Oh, I been around, she said. I been away almost two years now. Beenall over the place--Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon. Jesus, what I could tell you! I come back this summer, but I ain't stayin'. You kids go in to the dance?53、No, I said abruptly, for this was a sore point with me. I was fifteen, and thought I was old enough to go to the Saturday-night dances at the Flamingo. My mother, however, thought otherwise.54、Y'oughta come, Piquette said. I never miss one. It's just about theon'y thing in this jerkwater55、town that's any fun. Boy, you couldn' catch me stayin' here. I don' givea shit about this place. It stinks.56、She sat down beside me, and I caught the harsh over-sweetness of her perfume.1257、Listen, you wanna know something, Vanessa? she confided , her voiceonly slightly blurred. Your dad was the only person in Manawaka that ever done anything good to me.58、I nodded speechlessly. I was certain she was speaking the truth. I knewa little more than I had that summer at Diamond Lake, but I could not reach her now any more than I had then, I was ashamed, ashamed of my own timidity, the frightened tendency to look the other way. Yet I felt no real warmth towards her-- I only felt that I ought to, because of that distant summer and because my father had hoped she would be company for me, or perhaps that I would be for her, but it had not happened that way. At this moment, meeting her again, I had to admit that she repelled and embarrassed me, and I could not help despising the self-pity in her voice. I wished she would go away. I did not want to see her did not know what to say to her. It seemed that we had nothing to say to one another.59、I'll tell you something else, Piquette went on. All the old bitches an'biddies in this town will sure be surprised. I'm gettin' married this fall -- my boy friend, he's an English fella, works in the stockyards in the city there, a very tall guy, got blond wavy hair. Gee, is he ever handsome. Got this real Hiroshima name. Alvin Gerald Cummings--some handle, eh? They call him Al.60、For the merest instant, then I saw her. I really did see her, for the firstand only time in all the years we had both lived in the same town. Her defiant13face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope.61、Gee, Piquette -- I burst out awkwardly, hat's swell. That's really wonderful. Congratulations—good luck--I hope you'll be happy--62、As l mouthed the conventional phrases, I could only guess how great her need must have been, that she had been forced to seek the very things she so bitterly rejected.63、When I was eighteen, I left Manawaka and went away to college. At the end of my first year, I came back home for the summer. I spent the first few days in talking non-stop with my mother, as we exchanged all the news that somehow had not found its way into letters-- what had happened in my life and what had happened here in Manawaka while I was away. My mother searched her memory for events that concerned people I knew.64、Did I ever write you about Piquette Tonnerre, Vanessa? she asked one morning.65、No, I don't think so, I replied. Last I heard of her, she was going tomarry some guy in the city. Is she still there?1466、My mother looked Hiroshima , and it was a moment before she spoke,as though she did not know how to express what she had to tell and wished she did not need to try.67、She's dead, she said at last. Then, as I stared at her, Oh, Vanessa,when it happened, I couldn't help thinking of her as she was that summer--so sullen and gauche and badly dressed. I couldn't help wondering if we could have done something more at that time--but what could we do? She used to be around in the cottage there with me all day, and honestly it was all I could do to get a word out of her. She didn't even talk to your father very much, althoughI think she liked him in her way.68、What happened? I asked.69、Either her husband left her, or she left him, my mother said. I don'tknow which. Anyway, she came back here with two youngsters, both only babies--they must have been born very close together. She kept house, I guess, for Lazarus and her brothers, down in the valley there, in the old Tonnerre place.I used to see her on the street sometimes, but she never spoke to me. She'd put on an awful lot of weight, and she looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern , dressed any old how. She was up in court a couple of times--drunk and disorderly, of course. One Saturday night last winter, during the coldest weather, Piquette was alone in the shack with the children. The Tonnerres made home brew all the time, so I've heard, and Lazarus said later she'd been15drinking most of the day when he and the boys went out that evening. They had an old woodstove there--you know the kind, with exposed pipes. The shack caught fire. Piquette didn't get out, and neither did the children.70、I did not say anything. As so often with Piquette, there did not seem tobe anything to say. There was a kind of silence around the image in my mind of the fire and the snow, and I wished I could put from my memory the look thatI had seen once in Piquette's eyes.71、I went up to Diamond Lake for a few days that summer, with Mavis andher family. The MacLeod cottage had been sold after my father's death, and Idid not even go to look at it, not wanting to witness my long-ago kingdom possessed now by strangers. But one evening I went clown to the shore by myself.72、The small pier which my father had built was gone, and in its place there was a large and solid pier built by the government, for Galloping Mountain was now a national park, and Diamond Lake had been re-named Lake Wapakata, for it was felt that an Indian name would have a greater appeal to tourists. The one store had become several dozen, and the settlement had all the attributes of a flourishing resort--hotels, a dance-hall, cafes with neon signs, the penetrating odoursof potato chips and hot dogs.1673、I sat on the government pier and looked out across the water. At nightthe lake at least was the same as it had always been, darkly shining and bearing within its black glass the streak of amber that was the path of the moon. Therewas no wind that evening, and everything was quiet all around me. It seemedtoo quiet, and then I realized that the loons were no longer here. I listened for some time, to make sure, but never once did I hear that long-drawn call, half mocking and half plaintive, spearing through the stillness across the lake.74、I did not know what had happened to the birds. Perhaps they had goneaway to some far place of belonging. Perhaps they had been unable to find sucha place, and had simply died out, having ceased to care any longer whether they lived or not.75、I remembered how Piquette had scorned to come along, when my fatherand I sat there and listened to the lake birds. It seemed to me now that in some unconscious and totally unrecognized way, Piquette might have been the only one, after all, who had heard the crying of the loons.17第十二课潜水鸟玛格丽特劳伦斯马纳瓦卡山下有一条小河，叫瓦恰科瓦河，浑浊的河水沿着布满鹅卵石的河床哗哗地流淌着，河边谷地上长着无数的矮橡树、灰绿色柳树和野樱桃树，形成一片茂密的丛林。
高级英语-第三版-12课-原文-Ships-in-the-Desert资料讲解
Lesson 3 Ships in the DesertShips in the DesertAL Gore1. I was standing in the sun on the hot steel deck of a fishing ship capableof processing a fifty-ton catch on a good day. But it wasn' t a good day. We were anchored in what used to be the most productive fishing site in all of central Asia, but as I looked out over the bow , the prospects of a good catch looked bleak. Where there should have been gentle blue-green waves lapping against the side of the ship, there was nothing but hot dry sand – as far as I could see in all directions. The other ships of the fleet were also at rest in the sand, scattered in the dunes that stretched all the way to the horizon . Ten year s ago the Aral was the fourth-largest inland sea in the world, comparable to the largest of North America's Great Lakes. Now it is disappearing because the water that used to feed it has been diverted in an ill-considered irrigation scheme to grow cotton In the user t. The new shoreline was almost forty kilometers across the sand from where the fishing fleet was now permanently docked. Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Muynak the people were still canning fish – brought not from the Aral Sea but shipped by rail through Siberia from the Pacific Ocean, more than a thousand miles away.2. My search for the underlying causes of the environmental crisis has led me to travel around the world to examine and study many of these images of destruction. At the very bottom of the earth, high in the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, with the sun glaring at midnight through a hole in the sky, I stood in the unbelievable coldness and talked with a scientist in the late tall of 1988 about the tunnel he was digging through time. Slipping his parka back to reveal a badly burned face that was cracked and peeling, he pointed to the annual layers of ice in a core sample dug from the glacier on which we were standing. He moved his finger back in time to the ice of two decades ago. "Here's where the U. S Congress passed the Clean Air Act, ” he said. At the bottom of the world, two continents away from Washington, D. C., even a small reduction in one country's emissions had changed the amount of pollution found in the remotest end least accessible place on earth.3. But the most significant change thus far in the earth' s atmosphere is the one that began with the industrial r evolution early in the last century and has picked up speed ever since. Industry meant coal, and later oil, and we began to burn lots of it –bringing rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) , with its ability to trap more heat in the atmosphere and slowly warm the earth. Fewer than a hundred yards from the South Pole, upwind from the ice runway where the ski plane lands and keeps its engines running to prevent the metal parts from freeze-locking together, scientists monitor the air sever al times ever y day to chart the course of that inexorable change. During my visit, I watched one scientist draw the results of that day's measurements, pushing the end of a steep line still higher on the graph. He told me how easy it is –there at the end of the earth –to see that this enormous change in the global atmosphere is still picking up speed.4. Two and a half years later I slept under the midnight sun at the other end of our planet, in a small tent pitched on a twelve-toot-thick slab of ice floating in the frigid Arctic Ocean. After a hearty breakfast, my companions and I traveled by snowmobiles a few miles farther north to a rendezvous point where the ice was thinner – only three and a half feet thick –and a nuclear submarine hovered in the water below. After it crashed through the ice, took on its new passengers, and resubmerged, I talked with scientists who were trying to measure more accurately the thickness of the polar ice cap, which many believe is thinning as a re-suit of global warming. I had just negotiated an agreement between ice scientists and the U. S. Navy to secure the re-lease of previously top secret data from submarine sonar tracks, data that could help them learn what is happening to the north polar cap. Now, I wanted to see the pole it-self, and some eight hours after we met the submarine, we were crashing through that ice, surfacing, and then I was standing in an eerily beautiful snowcape, windswept and sparkling white, with the horizon defined by little hummocks, or "pressure ridges " of ice that are pushed up like tiny mountain ranges when separate sheets collide. But here too, CD, levels are rising just as rapidly, and ultimately temperature will rise with them –indeed, global warming is expected to push temperatures up much more rapidly in the polar regions than in the rest of the world. As the polar air warms, the ice her e will thin; and since the polar cap plays such a crucial role in the world's weather system, the consequences of a thinning cap could be disastrous.5. Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise. Six months after I returned from the North Pole, a team of scientists reported dramatic changes in the pattern of ice distribution in the Arctic, and a second team reported a still controversialclaim (which a variety of data now suggest) that, over all, the north polar cap has thinned by 2 per cent in just the last decade. Moreover, scientists established several years ago that in many land areas north of the Arctic Circle, the spring snowmelt now comes earlier every year, and deep in the tundra below, the temperature e of the earth is steadily rising.6. As it happens, some of the most disturbing images of environmental destruction can be found exactly halfway between the North and South poles –precisely at the equator in Brazil –where billowing clouds of smoke regularly black-en the sky above the immense but now threatened Amazon rain forest. Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef; as I learned when I went there in early 1989, the fires are set earlier and earlier in the dry season now, with more than one Tennessee's worth of rain forest being slashed and burned each year. According to our guide, the biologist Tom Lovejoy, there are more different species of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than exist in all of North America –which means we are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard.7. But one doesn't have to travel around the world to wit-ness humankind's assault on the earth. Images that signal the distress of our global environment are nowcommonly seen almost anywhere. On some nights, in high northern latitudes, the sky itself offers another ghostly image that signals the loss of ecological balance now in progress. If the sky is clear after sunset -- and it you are watching from a place where pollution hasn't blotted out the night sky altogether -- you can sometimes see a strange kind of cloud high in the sky. This "noctilucent cloud" occasionally appears when the earth is first cloaked in the evening dark-ness; shimmering above us with a translucent whiteness, these clouds seem quite unnatural. And they should: noctilucent clouds have begun to appear more often because of a huge buildup of methane gas in the atmosphere. (Also called natural gas, methane is released from landfills , from coal mines and rice paddies, from billions of termites that swarm through the freshly cut forestland, from the burning of biomass and from a variety of other human activities. ) Even though noctilucent clouds were sometimes seen in the past., all this extra methane carries more water vapor into the upper atmosphere, where it condenses at much higher altitudes to form more clouds that the sun's rays still strike long after sunset has brought the beginning of night to the surface far beneath them.8. What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky? Simple wonder or the mix of emotions we feel at the zoo? Perhaps we should feel awe for our own power: just as me n "ear tusks from elephants’ heads in such quantity as to threaten the beast with extinction, we are ripping matter from its place in the earth in such volume as to upset the balance between daylight and darkness. In the process, we are once again adding to the threat of global warming, be-cause methane has been one of the fastest-growing green-house gases, and is third only to carbon dioxide and water vapor in total volume, changing the chemistry of the upper atmosphere. But, without even considering that threat, shouldn't it startle us that we have now put these clouds in the evening sky which glisten with a spectral light? Or have our eyes adjusted so completely to the bright lights of civilization that we can't see these clouds for what they are – a physical manifestation of the violent collision between human civilization and the earth?9. Even though it is sometimes hard to see their meaning, we have by now all witnessed surprising experiences that signal the damage from our assault on the environment --whether it's the new frequency of days when the temperature exceeds 100 degrees, the new speed with which the -un burns our skin, or the new constancy of public debate over what to do with growing mountains of waste. But our response to these signals is puzzling. Why haven't we launched a massive effort to save our environment? To come at the question another way' Why do some images startle us into immediate action and focus our attention or ways to respond effectively? And why do other images, though sometimes equally dramatic, produce instead a Kin. of paralysis, focusing our attention not on ways to respond but rather on some convenient, less painful distraction?10. Still, there are so many distressing images of environ-mental destruction that sometimes it seems impossible to know how to absorb or comprehend them. Before considering the threats themselves, it may be helpful to classify them and thus begin to organize our thoughts and feelings so that we may be able to respond appropriately.11. A useful system comes from the military, which frequently places a conflictin one of three different categories, according to the theater in which it takes place. There are "local" skirmishes, "regional" battles, and "strategic" conflicts. This third category is reserved for struggles that can threaten a nation's survival and must be under stood in a global context.12. Environmental threats can be considered in the same way. For example, most instances of water pollution, air pollution, and illegal waste dumping are essentially local in nature. Problems like acid rain, the contamination of under-ground aquifers, and large oil spills are fundamentally regional. In both of these categories, there may be so many similar instances of particular local and regional problems occurring simultaneously all over the world that the patter n appears to be global, but the problems themselves are still not truly strategic because the operation of- the global environment is not affected and the survival of civilization is not at stake.13. However, a new class of environmental problems does affect the global ecological system, and these threats are fundamentally strategic. The 600 percent increase in the amount of chlorine in the atmosphere during the last forty years has taken place not just in those countries producing the chlorofluorocarbons responsible but in the air above every country, above Antarctica, above the North Pole and the Pacific Ocean – all the way from the surface of the earth to the top of the sky. The increased levels of chlorine disrupt the global process by which the earth regulates the amount of ultraviolet radiation from the sun that is allowed through the atmosphere to the surface; and it we let chlorine levels continue to increase, the radiation levels will al-so increase – to the point that all animal and plant life will face a new threat to their survival.14. Global warming is also a strategic threat. The concentration of carbon dioxide and other heat-absorbing molecules has increased by almost 25 per cent since World War II, posing a worldwide threat to the earth's ability to regulate the amount of heat from the sun retained in the atmosphere. This increase in heat seriously threatens the global climate equilibrium that determines the pattern of winds, rainfall, surface temperatures, ocean currents, and sea level. These in turn determine the distribution of vegetative and animal life on land and sea and have a great effect on the location and pattern of human societies.15. In other words, the entire relationship between humankind and the earth has been transformed because our civilization is suddenly capable of affecting the entire global environment, not just a particular area. All of us know that human civilization has usually had a large impact on the environment; to mention just one example, there is evidence that even in prehistoric times, vast areas were sometimes intentionally burned by people in their search for food. And in our own time we have reshaped a large part of the earth's surface with concrete in our cities and carefully tended rice paddies, pastures, wheat fields, and other croplands in the countryside. But these changes, while sometimes appearing to be pervasive , have, until recently, been relatively trivial factors in the global ecological sys-tem. Indeed, until our lifetime, it was always safe to assume that nothing we did or could do would have any lasting effect on the global environment. But it is precisely that assumption which must now be discarded so that we can think strategically about our new relationship to theenvironment.16. Human civilization is now the dominant cause of change in the global environment. Yet we resist this truth and find it hard to imagine that our effect on the earth must now be measured by the same yardstick used to calculate the strength of the moon's pull on the oceans or the force of the wind against the mountains. And it we are now capable of changing something so basic as the relationship between the earth and the sun, surely we must acknowledge a new responsibility to use that power wisely and with appropriate restraint. So far, however, We seem oblivious of the fragility of the earth's natural systems.17. This century has witnessed dramatic changes in two key factors that define the physical reality of our relation-ship to the earth: a sudden and startling surge in human population, with the addition of one China's worth of people every ten years, and a sudden acceleration of the scientific and technological revolution, which has allowed an almost unimaginable magnification of our power to affect the world around us by burning, cutting, digging, moving, and trans-forming the physical matter that makes up the earth.18. The surge in population is both a cause of the changed relationship and one of the clearest illustrations of how startling the change has been, especially when viewed in a historical context. From the emergence of modern humans 200 000 years ago until Julius Caesar's time, fewer than 250 million people walked on the face of the earth. When Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World 1500 years later, there were approximately 500 million people on earth. By the time Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the number had doubled again, to 1 billion. By midway through this century, at the end of World War II, the number had risen to just above 2 billion people.19. In other words, from the beginning of humanity's appearance on earth to 1945, it took more than ten thousand generations to reach a world population of 2 billion people. Now, in the course of one human lifetime -- mine -- the world population will increase from 2 to more than 9 million, and it is already more than halfway there.20. Like the population explosion, the scientific and technological revolution began to pick up speed slowly during the eighteenth century. And this ongoing revolution has also suddenly accelerated exponentially. For example, it is now an axiom in many fields of science that more new and important discoveries have taken place in the last ten years that. in the entire previous history of science. While no single discover y has had the kind of effect on our relationship to the earth that unclear weapons have had on our relationship to warfare, it is nevertheless true that taken together, they have completely transformed our cumulative ability to exploit the earth for sustenance -- making the consequences, of unrestrained exploitation every bit as unthinkable as the consequences of unrestrained nuclear war.21. Now that our relationship to the earth has changed so utterly, we have to see that change and understand its implications. Our challenge is to recognize that thestartling images of environmental destruction now occurring all over the world have much more in common than their ability to shock and awaken us. They are symptoms of an underlying problem broader in scope and more serious than any we have ever faced. Global warming, ozone depletion, the loss of living species, deforestation -- they all have a common cause: the new relationship between human civilization and the earth's natural balance.22. There are actually two aspects to this challenge. The first is to realize that our power to harm the earth can in-deed have global and even permanent effects. The second is to realize that the only way to understand our new role as a co-architect of nature is to see ourselves as part of a complex system that does not operate according to the same simple rules of cause and effect we are used to. The problem is not our effect on the environment so much as our relationship with the environment. As a result, any solution to the problem will require a careful assessment of that relationship as well as the complex interrelationship among factors within civilization and between them and the major natural components of the earth's ecological system.23. The strategic nature of the threat now posed by human civilization to the global environment and the strategic nature of the threat to human civilization now posed by changes in the global environment present us with a similar set of challenges and false hopes. Some argue that a new ultimate technology, whether nuclear power or genetic engineering, will solve the problem. Others hold that only a drastic reduction of our reliance on technology can improve the conditions of life -- a simplistic notion at best. But the real solution will be found in reinventing and finally healing the relationship between civilization and the earth. This can only be accomplished by undertaking a careful reassessment of all the factors that led to the relatively recent dramatic change in the relationship. The transformation of the way we relate to the earth will of course involve new technologies, but the key changes will involve new ways of thinking about the relationship itself.。
高级英语1第三版lesson12课后答案
高级英语1第三版lesson12课后答案1、I have worked all day. I'm so tired that I need _____ . [单选题] *A. a night restB. rest of nightC. a night's rest(正确答案)D. a rest of night2、The commander said that two _____ would be sent to the Iraqi front line the next day. [单选题] *A. women's doctorB. women doctorsC. women's doctorsD. women doctor(正确答案)3、The book is _______. You’d better buy it. [单选题] *A. useful(正确答案)B. uselessC. useD. careful4、90．—I want to go to different places, but I don’t know the ________. —A map is helpful, I think. [单选题] *A．price(正确答案)B．timeC．wayD．ticket5、This kind of work _______ skills and speed. [单选题] *A. looks forB. waits forC. calls for(正确答案)D. cares for6、She _______ love cats, but one attacked her and she doesn’t like them anymore. [单选题]*A. got used toB. was used toC. was used forD. used to(正确答案)7、Mrs. Black is on her way to England. She will _______ in London on Sunday afternoon. [单选题] *A. reachB. attendC. arrive(正确答案)D. get8、I arrived _____ the city _____ 9:00 am _______ April [单选题] *A. at, in, atB. to, on, atC. in, or, atD. in, at, on(正确答案)9、What he said sounds _______. [单选题] *A. pleasantlyB. nicelyC. friendly(正确答案)D. wonderfully10、—Tony, it’s cold outside. ______ wear a jacket?—OK, mom.（）[单选题] *A. Why not(正确答案)B. Why don’tC. Why did youD. Why do you11、—Where are you going, Tom? —To Bill's workshop. The engine of my car needs _____. [单选题] *A. repairing(正确答案)B. repairedC. repairD. to repair12、Kate has a cat _______ Mimi. [单选题] *A. called(正确答案)B. callC. to callD. calling13、Many people prefer the bowls made of steel to the _____ made of plastic. [单选题] *A. itB. ones(正确答案)C. oneD. them14、There are many_____desks in the room. [单选题] *rge old brown(正确答案)B.old large brownrge brown oldD.brown old large15、--Whose _______ are these?? ? ? --I think they are John·s. [单选题] *A. keyB. keyesC. keys(正确答案)D. keies16、Chinese people spend _____ money on travelling today as they did ten years ago. [单选题] *A. more than twiceB. as twice muchC. twice as much(正确答案)D. twice more than17、67．—What can I do for you?—I'm looking at that dress.It looks nice.May I ________？[单选题] *A．hold it onB．try it on(正确答案)C．take it offD．get it off18、--I can’t watch TV after school.--I can’t, _______. [单选题] *A. alsoB. tooC. either(正确答案)D. so19、—When are you going to Hainan Island for a holiday? —______ the morning of 1st May.（）[单选题] *A. InB. AtC. On(正确答案)D. For20、--It is Sunday tomorrow, I have no idea what to do.--What about _______? [单选题] *A. play computer gamesB. go fishingC. climbing the mountain(正确答案)D. see a film21、She talks too much; you’ll be glad when you’re free of her. [单选题] *A. 与她自由交谈B. 离开她(正确答案)C. 受她的控制D. 与她在一起22、31．A key ring is used __________ holding the keys. [单选题] *A．toB．inC．for (正确答案)D．with23、--All of you have passed the test!--_______ pleasant news you have told us! [单选题] *A. HowB. How aC. What(正确答案)D. What a24、The firm attributed the accident to（）fog, and no casualties have been reported until now. [单选题] *A. minimumB. scarceC. dense(正确答案)D. seldom25、Amy and her best friend often ______ books together.（）[单选题] *A. read(正确答案)B. readsC. is readingD. to read26、--Why are you late for school today?--I’m sorry. I didn’t catch the early bus and I had to _______ the next one. [单选题] *A. wait for(正确答案)B. ask forC. care forD. stand for27、Li Jing often helps me ______ my geography.（）[单选题] *A. atB. inC. ofD. with(正确答案)28、______ pocket money did you get when you were a child? （）[单选题] *A. WhatB. HowC. How manyD. How much(正确答案)29、The children were all looking forward to giving the old people a happy day. [单选题]*A. 寻找B. 期盼(正确答案)C. 看望D. 继续30、She _______ be here. [单选题] *A. is gladB. is so glad to(正确答案)C. am gladD. is to。
高级英语(第三版)第一册第十二课 Ships in the Desert
action.
Para. 11 The military system: “local” skirmishes, “regional” battles, and “strategic” conflicts
Paras. 21-26: Solution
• A. Recognizing the starling images of destruction
• B. Understanding the two aspects • C. Changing the view of the
relationship-Educate people
Para.10 The importance of organizing our thoughts
it may be helpful to classify them and thus begin to organize our thoughts and feelings so that we may be able to respond appropriately:
• What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky:
• What should our attitude be toward these noctilucent clouds in the sky?
Para 9. Human’s puzzling response
environment • To be able to talk about environmental
高级英语第12课
Lesson 12: Why I WriteFrom a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer.Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.=During the age of 15 to 24, I attempted to give up this idea, but when I was doing so, I felt that it was ruining my essential quality and that I would engage in writing sooner or later.I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight- For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays.=Among the three kids, I was the middle with the gap of five years to the rest of them. [ I was five years younger than my elder brother and five years older than my younger brother. ] Before I was eight, I seldom saw my father. I thus felt lonely for this and perhaps other unknown reasons. Hence, I was not agreeable to people due to my personality, which resulted in my unpopularity in schooldays. mannerism=A distinctive behavioral trait;习性：明显的行为特征；习性Somewhat=To some extent or degree; rather.相当：达到某种范围或程度；相当Develop=To bring into being gradually:逐渐形成：I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued.=Like every other child who felt lonely all the time, I enjoyed invented stories and talked to people that didn’t exist. From the very beginning, I suppose, my aspiration for writing was closely connected with the felling of being lonely and being slighted.I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure=I was aware that I was capable of commanding words[ I had the natural ability to use words easily and well.] and confronting the dark sides of the reality, which, I assume, constructed a private space for me in which I could make up for my failure.. . As a very small child I used to imagine that I was, say, Robin Hood, and picture myself as the hero of thrilling adventures, but quite soon my "story" ceased to be narcissistic 【Excessive love or admiration of oneself.】in a crude 【Not carefully or completely made; rough. 】way and became more and more a mere description of what I was doing and the things I saw.=When I was very little, I always imagined me being the hero of exciting and horrifying adventures, such as Robin Hood, but before long, I stop such simpleself-admiration and began to put what I saw and what I was doing into my story.一连几分钟，我脑子里常会有类似这样的描述：“他推开门，走进屋，一缕黄昏的阳光，透过薄纱窗帘，斜照在桌上。
高级英语练习题含答案(第二册)_(12)
Lesson TwelveThe Discovery of What It Means to Be an AmericanⅣ.Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.1. There was a great deal of ________ about the decision of that semi-barbaric king’s daughter.A predictionB aspirationC contemplationD hesitation2. The twin brothers showed great ________ to their elder sister, who had acted as sole parent to them since their parents died during the American Civil War.A allegianceB devotionC complianceD admiration3. The town maintains very many Chinese tradition which are among the highest achievements of those who created the ________ we now enjoy.A heritageB inheritanceC geneticsD estate4. It’s impossible to _______ these two points of view because they are too different.A compromiseB uniteC reconcileD combine5. Many countries in the suburban areas have now succeeded in ________ malarial mosquitoes.A effacingB abolishingC eradicating D. alternative6. The surly insolence of the waiters drove him into a _____, and he flung her serviette to the floor and stalked out of the restaurantA rageB furyC indignantD anger7. Night patrols were sent out to engage the enemy in a series of small _______.A battleB fightC skirmishD clash8. Robert Smith’s reputation was established with the publication of his first poem in 1938 and was ______ by his splendid short stories for children.A reinforcedB revivedC obscuredD enhanced9. By then the 4-2-1 ________, i.e., the type of family made up of four helpless grandparents, two demanding parents and one frustrated child, will have become commonplace.A symptomB synchronizationC syndromeD symbiosis10. During the Romantic period it was fashionable in literature to have a ______ outlook on the world and to turn one’s back on liveliness and joyA depressedB disconsolateC lugubriousD melancholy11. The exiled lived for years in a ________ state of fear and never reveal their real identity to the public.A lastingB permanentC perpetualD durable12. Arguing world only give further ________ to his allegationsA substanceB sustenanceC subsistenceD surveillance13. The old building has an ________ air of sadness about it.A insurmountableB insuperableC intangibleD insufferable14. His lecture was readily ________ to all the students.A intellectualB intelligentC integratedD intelligible15.Her husband is an ________ gambler and stay outside all day long.A incorrigibleB inconceivableC incompatibleD incongruous16. The old man’s _________ will contribute a lot to his final victory in fighting against the sea.A inescapableB inexorableC inevitableD inextricable17. Arriving early gave him the ________ of an unhurried dinner.A rightB libertyC privilegeD freedom18. He is a teacher of high ________ but of little ________ among his colleagues.A position, rankB rank, statusC status, positionD rank, position19. Louisa May Alcott based the ______ characters of her book Little Women on her sisters and herself.A principalB complexC originalD many20. Is a woman to be more highly ________ for her talent or for her beauty?A estimatedB evaluatedC esteemedD reckoned. Put the following words and phrases into the appropriate blanks in the following Ⅴsentences.be isolated from ，at home ，cling to ，in flight ，in sharp relief ，flex one’s muscles ，borne in on ，at odds with ，in opposition to ，wed …with ，fury of ，cut across，1. There was no shelter from the storm.fury of2. Simon feels very at home on a horse.3. After her mother’s death, Sara clung to her aunt more than ever.4. The main character is a journalist from a failed marriage in fight.5. The snow-capped mountain stood out in sharp relief against the blue sky.6. He stood on the side of the pool, flexing his muscles.7. Opinion on this issue cuts across traditional political boundaries.8. These findings are at odds with what is going on in the rest of the country.9. It was gradually borne on me that defeat was inevitable.10. Protest marchers were held in opposition to the proposed law11. They have successfully wed the old with the new in this building.12. He was immediately isolated from the other prisoners for he was prone to attack everyone.1.Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception. It is up to the American writer to find out what these laws and assumptions are. In a society much given to smashing taboos without thereby managing to be liberated from them, it will be no easy matter.每个社会其实都是由一些潜在的规律，由一些人们没有说出来但却深深感觉到并看作是理所当然的事物所支配的，我们的社会也不例外。
高级英语unit12词汇,翻译,课后习题
Unit 12 The Loonspebble ( n.) : a small stone worn smooth and round，as by the action of water卵石；细砾rub (adj. ) :short，stunted矮小的；瘦小的chokecherry ( n.) :a North American wild cherry tree美洲稠李thicket ( n.) :a thick growth of shrubs，underbrush or small trees灌木丛，植丛shack ( n.) :[Am．]a small house or cabin that is crudely built and furnished；shanty[美]简陋的小屋；棚屋chink ( v．) :close up the chinks in堵塞(裂缝、缝隙)thigh ( n.) :part of the leg in man and other vertebrates between the knee and the hip；region of the thighbone，or femur股，大腿chaos ( n.) :extreme confusion or disorder纷乱，混乱(状态)，无秩序lean—to ( n.) :a shed with a one—slope roof，the upper end of the rafters resting against an external support，such as trees or the wall of a building披屋，warp ( v.) :bend, curve，or twist out of shape；distort使翘strand ( n.) :any of the bundles of thread，fiber，wire，etc．that are twisted together to form a length of string，rope，or cable(线、绳等的)股barbed wire ( n.) : [Am.]strands of wire twisted together。
高级英语第一册修订本第12课Lesson12 The Loons原文和翻译
高级英语第一册(修订本)第12课Lesson12-The-Loons原文和翻译．The Loons Margarel Laurence1、Just below Manawaka, wherethe Wachakwa River ran brown and noisy over the pebbles , the scrub oak and grey-green willow and chokecherry bushes grew in a dense thicket . In a clearing at the centre of the thicket stood the Tonnerrefamily's shack. The basis at this dwelling was a small square cabin made of poplar poles and chinkedwith mud, which had been built by Jules Tonnerre some fifty years before, when he came back from Batoche with a bullet in his thigh, the year that Riel was hung and the voices of the Metis entered their long silence. Jules had only intended to stay the winter in the Wachakwa Valley, but the family was still there in the thirties, when I was a child. As 2the Tonnerres had increased, their settlement had been added to, until the clearing at the foot of the townhill was a chaos of lean-tos, wooden packing cases, warped lumber, discarded car types, ramshackle chicken coops , tangled strands of barbed wire and rusty tin cans.2、The Tonnerres were French half breeds, and among themselves they spoke a patois that was neither Cree nor French. Their English was brokenand full of obscenities. They did not belong among the Cree of the Galloping Mountain reservation, further north, and they did not belong among the Scots-Irish and Ukrainians of Manawaka, either. They were, as my Grandmother MacLeod would have put it, neither flesh, fowl, nor good salt herring .3When their men were not working at odd jobs or as section hands on the C.P. R. they lived on relief. In thesummers, one of the Tonnerre youngsters, with a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter, would knock at the doors of the town's brick houses and offer for sale a lard -pail full of bruised wild strawberries, and if he got as much as a quarter he would grab the coin and run before the customer hadtime to change her mind. Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl , and would hit out at whoever was nearest or howl drunkenly among the offended shoppers on Main Street, and then the Mountie would put them for the night in the barred cell underneath the Court4House, and the next morning they would be quiet again.3、Piquette Tonnerre, thedaughter of Lazarus, was in my class at school. She was older than I, but she had failed several grades, perhaps because her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible . Part of the reason she had missed a lot of school was that she had had tuberculosis of the bone, and hadonce spent many months in hospital.I knew this because my father was the doctor who had looked after her. Her sickness was almost the only thing I knew about her, however. Otherwise, she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence, with her hoarse voice and her clumsy limping walk and her grimy cotton5dresses that were always miles too long. I was neither friendly nor unfriendly towards her. She dweltand moved somewhere within my scope of vision, but I did not actually notice her very much until that peculiar summer when I was eleven.4、I don't know what to do about that kid. my father said at dinner one evening. Piquette Tonnerre, I mean. The damn bone's flared up again. I've had her in hospital forquite a while now, and it's under control all right, but I hate like the dickens to send her home again.5、Couldn't you explain to her mother that she has to rest a lot? my mother said.6、The mother's not there myfather replied. She took off a few years back. Can't say I blame her.6Piquette cooks for them, and she says Lazarus would never do anything for himself as long as she'sthere. Anyway, I don't think she'd take much care of herself, once she got back. She's only thirteen, after all. Beth, I was thinking—What about taking her up to Diamond Lake with us this summer? A couple of months rest would give that bone a much better chance.7、My mother looked stunned.8、But Ewen -- what aboutRoddie and Vanessa?9、She's not contagious , myfather said. And it would be company for Vanessa.10、Oh dear, my mother said in distress, I'll bet anything she has nits in her hair.711、For Pete's sake, my fathersaid crossly, do you think Matron would let her stay in the hospital forall this time like that? Don't be silly, Beth.12、Grandmother MacLeod, her delicately featured face as rigid as a cameo , now brought her mauve-veined hands together as though she were about to begin prayer. 13、Ewen, if that half breed youngster comes along to DiamondLake, I'm not going, she announced. I'll go to Morag's for the summer. 14、I had trouble in stifling my urge to laugh, for my mother brightened visibly and quickly tried to hide it. If it came to a choice between Grandmother MacLeod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not.815、It might be quite nice for you, at that, she mused. You haven't seen Morag for over a year, and youmight enjoy being in the city for a while. Well, Ewen dear, you do what you think best. If you think it would do Piquette some good, then we' II be glad to have her, as long as she behaves herself.16、So it happened that several weeks later, when we all piled into my father's old Nash, surrounded bysuitcases and boxes of provisions and toys for my ten-month-old brother, Piquette was with us and Grandmother MacLeod, miraculously, was not. My father would only be staying at the cottage for a couple of weeks, for he had to get back to his practice, but the rest of us would stay 9at Diamond Lake until the end of August.17、Our cottage was not named,as many were, Dew Drop Inn or Bide-a-Wee, or Bonnie Doon”. The sign on the roadway bore in austere letters only our name, MacLeod. It was not a large cottage, but it was on the lakefront. You could look out the windows and see, through the filigree of the spruce trees, the water glistening greenly as the sun caughtit. All around the cottage were ferns, and sharp-branched raspberrybushes, and moss that had grown over fallen tree trunks, If you looked carefully among the weeds and grass, you could find wild strawberry plants which were in white flower now and in another month would bear fruit, the fragrant 10globes hanging like miniaturescarlet lanterns on the thin hairy stems. The two grey squirrels were still there,gossiping at us from the tall spruce beside the cottage, and by the end of the summer they would again be tame enough to take pieces of crust from my hands. The broad mooseantlers that hung above the back door were a little more bleached and fissured after the winter, but otherwise everything was the same.I raced joyfully around my kingdom, greeting all the places I had not seen for a year. My brother, Roderick, who had not been born when we were here last summer, sat on the car rug in the sunshine and examined a brown spruce cone, meticulously turning it round and round in his small and curious hands. My mother and father toted the luggage from car 11to cottage, exclaiming over how well the place had wintered, no broken windows, thank goodness, noapparent damage from storm felled branches or snow.18、Only after I had finished looking around did I notice Piquette. She was sitting on the swing her lame leg held stiffly out, and her other foot scuffing the ground as she swung slowly back and forth. Her long hair hung black and straightaround her shoulders, and her broad coarse-featured face bore no expression -- it was blank, as though she no longer dwelt within her own skull, as though she had gone elsewhere.I approached her very hesitantly.19、Want to come and play?1220、Piquette looked at me with a sudden flash of scorn.21、I ain't a kid, she said.22、Wounded, I stamped angrily away, swearing I would not speak to her for the rest of the summer. In the days that followed, however, Piquette began to interest me, and l began to want to interest her. My reasons did not appear bizarre to me. Unlikely as it may seem, I had only just realised that the Tonnerre family,whom I had always heard Called half breeds, were actually Indians, or as near as made no difference. My acquaintance with Indians was not expensive. I did not remember ever having seen a real Indian, and my new awareness that Piquette sprang from the people of Big Bear and Poundmaker, of Tecumseh, of the13Iroquois who had eaten FatherBrébeuf's heart--all this gave her an instant attraction in my eyes. I wasdevoted reader of Pauline Johnson at this age, and sometimes would orate aloud and in an exalted voice, West Wind, blow from your prairie nest, Blow from the mountains, blow from the west--and so on. It seemed to me that Piquette must be in some way a daughter of the forest, a kind of junior prophetess of the wilds, whomight impart to me, if I took the right approach, some of the secrets which she undoubtedly knew --where the whippoorwill made her nest, how the coyote reared her young, or whatever it was that it said in Hiawatha.23、I set about gaining Piquette's trust. She was not allowed to go14swimming, with her bad leg, but I managed to lure her down to the beach-- or rather, she came becausethere was nothing else to do. The water was always icy, for the lake was fed by springs, but I swam like a dog, thrashing my arms and legs around at such speed and with such an output of energy that I never grew cold. Finally, when I had enough, I came out and sat beside Piquette on the sand. When she saw meapproaching, her hands squashed flat the sand castle she had been building, and she looked at me sullenly, without speaking.24、Do you like this place? I asked, after a while, intending to lead on from there into the question of forest lore .1525、Piquette shrugged. It's okay. Good as anywhere.26、I love it, said. We comehere every summer.27、So what? Her voice was distant, and I glanced at her uncertainly, wondering what I could have said wrong.28、Do you want to come for a walk? I asked her. We wouldn'tneed to go far. If you walk just around the point there, you come to abay where great big reeds grow in the water, and all kinds of fish hang around there. Want to? Come on.29、She shook her head.30、Your dad said I ain'tsupposed to do no more walking thanI got to. I tried another line.1631、I bet you know a lot aboutthe woods and all that, eh? I began respectfully.32、Piquette looked at me from her large dark unsmiling eyes. 33、I don't know what in hellyou're talkin' about, she replied. You nuts or somethin'? If you mean where my old man, and me, and all them live, you better shut up, by Jesus, you hear?34、I was startled and my feelingswere hurt, but I had a kind of dogged perseverance. I ignored her rebuff. 35、You know something, Piquette? There's loons here, on this lake. You can see their nests just up the shore there, behind those logs. At night, you can hear them even from the cottage, but it's better to listen17from the beach. My dad says we should listen and try to remember how they sound, because in a fewyears when more cottages are built at Diamond Lake and more people come in, the loons will go away. 36、Piquette was picking up stones and snail shells and then dropping them again.37、Who gives a good goddamn? she said.38、It became increasinglyobvious that, as an Indian, Piquette was a dead loss. That evening I went out by myself, scrambling through the bushes that overhung the steep path, my feet slipping on the fallen spruce needles that covered the ground. When I reached the shore, I walked along the firm damp sand to the small pier that my father had18built, and sat down there. I heard someone else crashing through the undergrowth and the bracken, andfor a moment I thought Piquette had changed her mind, but it turned out to be my father. He sat beside me on the pier and we waited, without speaking.38、At night the lake was likeblack glass with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon. All around, the spruce trees grew talland close-set, branches blackly sharp against the sky, which was lightened by a cold flickering of stars. Then the loons began their calling. They rose like phantom birds from the nests on the shore, and flew out onto the dark still surface of the water.1940、No one can ever describe that ululating sound, the crying of the loons, and no one who has heard itcan ever forget it. Plaintive , and yet with a quality of chilling mockery , those voices belonged to a world separated by aeon from our neat world of summer cottages and the lighted lamps of home.41、They must have sounded just like that, my father remarked,efore any person ever set foothere. Then he laughed. You could say the same, of course, about sparrows or chipmunk, but somehow it only strikes you that way with the loons.42、I know, I said.43、Neither of us suspected that this would be the last time we would ever sit here together on the shore, 20listening. We stayed for perhaps half an hour, and then we went back to the cottage. My mother was readingbeside the fireplace. Piquette was looking at the burning birch log, and not doing anything.44、You should have comealong, I said, although in fact I was glad she had not.45、Not me, Piquette said. You wouldn' catch me walkin' way down there jus' for a bunch of squawkin'birds.46、Piquette and I remained ill at ease with one another. felt I had somehow failed my father, but I did not know what was the matter, nor why she Would not or could not respond when I suggested exploring the woods or Playing house. I thought it was probably her slow and 21difficult walking that held her back. She stayed most of the time in the cottage with my mother, helping herwith the dishes or with Roddie, but hardly ever talking. Then the Duncans arrived at their cottage, and I spent my days with Mavis, who was my best friend. I could not reach Piquette at all, and I soon lost interest in trying. But all that summer she remained as both a reproach and a mystery to me.47、That winter my father died of pneumonia, after less than a week's illness. For some time I saw nothing around me, being completely immersed in my own pain and my mother's. When I looked outward once more, I scarcely noticed that Piquette Tonnerre was no longer at school. I do not remember seeing her 22at all until four years later, one Saturday night when Mavis and I were having Cokes in the Regal Café.The jukebox was booming like tuneful thunder, and beside it, leaning lightly on its chrome and its rainbow glass, was a girl.48、Piquette must have been seventeen then, although she looked about twenty. I stared at her, astounded that anyone could have changed so much. Her face, sostolidand expressionless before, was animated now with a gaiety that was almost violent. She laughed and talked very loudly with the boys around her. Her lipstick was bright carmine, and her hair was cut Short and frizzily permed . She had not been pretty as a child, and she was not pretty now, for her features were 23still heavy and blunt. But her dark and slightly slanted eyes were beautiful, and her skin-tight skirt andorange sweater displayed to enviable advantage a soft and slender body.49、She saw me, and walked over. She teetered a little, but it was not due to her once-tubercular leg, for her limp was almost gone.50、Hi, Vanessa, Her voice stillhad the same hoarseness . Long time no see, eh?51、Hi, I said Where've youbeen keeping yourself, Piquette?52、Oh, I been around, she said.I been away almost two years now. Been all over the place--Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon. Jesus, what I could tell you! I come back this24summer, but I ain't stayin'. You kids go in to the dance?53、No, I said abruptly, for thiswas a sore point with me. I was fifteen, and thought I was old enough to go to the Saturday-night dances at the Flamingo. My mother, however, thought otherwise.54、Y'oughta come, Piquettesaid. I never miss one. It's just about the on'y thing in this jerkwater 55、town that's any fun. Boy, youcouldn' catch me stayin' here. I don' give a shit about this place. It stinks.56、She sat down beside me, andI caught the harsh over-sweetness of her perfume.57、Listen, you wanna know something, Vanessa? she confided , 25her voice only slightly blurred. Your dad was the only person in Manawaka that ever done anythinggood to me.58、I nodded speechlessly. I was certain she was speaking the truth. I knew a little more than I had that summer at Diamond Lake, but I could not reach her now any more than I had then, I was ashamed, ashamed of my own timidity, the frightened tendency to look the other way. Yet I。
高级英语(第三版)第一册第十二课 Ships in the Desert
Para. 2 Thesis statement
Para.1 typical example of environmental destruction
The Aral sea
•The Aral Sea:
*located in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan *historically a saline lake *In 1960 the world’s fourth largest lake, the size of the entirety of Southern California *in the center of a large, flat desert basin •a prime example of a dynamic environment
2. Detailed study of the text
• Questions
What’s the meaning of the title? What does the author try to tell us through his article? Why did the writer go to the Aral Sea? What did he see there?
America’s Great Lakes
* the group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, between the United States and Canada,
高级英语第一册(修订本)第12课Lesson12-The-Loons原文和翻译
The LoonsMargarel Laurence1、Just below Manawaka, where the Wachakwa River ran brown and noisy over the pebbles , the scrub oak and grey-green willow and chokecherry bushes grew in a dense thicket . In a clearing at the centre of the thicket stood the Tonnerre family's shack. The basis at this dwelling was a small square cabin made of poplar poles and chinked with mud, which had been built by Jules Tonnerre some fifty years before, when he came back from Batoche with a bullet in his thigh, the year that Riel was hung and the voices of the Metis entered their long silence. Jules had only intended to stay the winter in the Wachakwa Valley, but the family was still there in the thirties, when I was a child. As the Tonnerres had increased, their settlement had been added to, until the clearing at the foot of the town hill was a chaos of lean-tos, wooden packing cases, warped lumber, discarded car types, ramshackle chicken coops , tangled strands of barbed wire and rusty tin cans.2、The Tonnerres were French half breeds, and among themselves they spoke a patois that was neither Cree nor French. Their English was broken and full of obscenities. They did not belong among the Cree of the Galloping Mountain reservation, further north, and they did not belong among the Scots-Irish and Ukrainians of Manawaka, either. They were, as my Grandmother MacLeod would have put it, neither flesh, fowl, nor good salt herring . When their men were not working at odd jobs or as section hands on the C.P. R. they lived on relief. In the summers, one of the Tonnerre youngsters, with a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter, would knockat the doors of the town's brick houses and offer for sale a lard -pail full of bruised wild strawberries, and if he got as much as a quarter he would grab the coin and run before the customer had time to change her mind. Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl , and would hit out at whoever was nearest or howl drunkenly among the offended shoppers on Main Street, and then the Mountie would put them for the night in the barred cell underneath the Court House, and the next morning they would be quiet again.3、Piquette Tonnerre, the daughter of Lazarus, was in my class at school. She was older than I, but she had failed several grades, perhaps because her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible . Part of the reason she had missed a lot of school was that she had had tuberculosis of the bone, and had once spent many months in hospital. I knew this because my father was the doctor who had looked after her. Her sickness was almost the only thing I knew about her, however. Otherwise, she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence, with her hoarse voice and her clumsy limping walk and her grimy cotton dresses that were always miles too long. I was neither friendly nor unfriendly towards her. She dwelt and moved somewhere within my scope of vision, but I did not actually notice her very much until that peculiar summer when I was eleven.4、"I don't know what to do about that kid." my father said at dinner one evening. "Piquette Tonnerre, I mean. The damn bone's flared up again. I've had her in hospitalfor quite a while now, and it's under control all right, but I hate like the dickens to send her home again."5、"Couldn't you explain to her mother that she has to rest a lot?" my mother said.6、"The mother's not there" my father replied. "She took off a few years back. Can't say I blame her. Piquette cooks for them, and she says Lazarus would never do anything for himself as long as she's there. Anyway, I don't think she'd take much care of herself, once she got back. She's only thirteen, after all. Beth, I was thinking—What about taking her up to Diamond Lake with us this summer? A couple of months rest would give that bone a much better chance."7、My mother looked stunned.8、"But Ewen -- what about Roddie and Vanessa?"9、"She's not contagious ," my father said. "And it would be company for Vanessa."10、"Oh dear," my mother said in distress, "I'll bet anything she has nits in her hair."11、"For Pete's sake," my father said crossly, "do you think Matron would let her stay in the hospital for all this time like that? Don't be silly, Beth. "12、Grandmother MacLeod, her delicately featured face as rigid as a cameo , now brought her mauve -veined hands together as though she were about to begin prayer.13、"Ewen, if that half breed youngster comes along to Diamond Lake, I'm not going," she announced. "I'll go to Morag's for the summer."14、I had trouble in stifling my urge to laugh, for my mother brightened visibly and quickly tried to hide it. If it came to a choice between Grandmother MacLeod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not.15、"It might be quite nice for you, at that," she mused. "You haven't seen Morag for over a year, and you might enjoy being in the city for a while. Well, Ewen dear, you do what you think best. If you think it would do Piquette some good, then we' II be glad to have her, as long as she behaves herself."16、So it happened that several weeks later, when we all piled into my father's old Nash, surrounded by suitcases and boxes of provisions and toys for myten-month-old brother, Piquette was with us and Grandmother MacLeod, miraculously, was not. My father would only be staying at the cottage for a couple of weeks, for he had to get back to his practice, but the rest of us would stay at Diamond Lake until the end of August.17、Our cottage was not named, as many were, "Dew Drop Inn" or "Bide-a-Wee," or "Bonnie Doon”. The sign on the roadway bore in austere letters only our name, MacLeod. It was not a large cottage, but it was on the lakefront. You could lookout the windows and see, through the filigree of the spruce trees, the water glistening greenly as the sun caught it. All around the cottage were ferns, and sharp-branched raspberrybushes, and moss that had grown over fallen tree trunks, If you looked carefully among the weeds and grass, you could find wild strawberry plants which were in white flower now and in another month would bear fruit, the fragrant globes hanging like miniaturescarlet lanterns on the thin hairy stems. The two grey squirrels were still there, gossiping at us from the tall spruce beside the cottage, and by the end of the summer they would again be tame enough to take pieces of crust from my hands. The broad mooseantlers that hung above the back door were a little more bleached and fissured after the winter, but otherwise everything was the same. I raced joyfully around my kingdom, greeting all the places I had not seen for a year. My brother, Roderick, who had not been born when we were here last summer, sat on the car rug in the sunshine and examined a brown spruce cone, meticulously turning it round and round in his small and curious hands. My mother and father toted the luggage from car to cottage, exclaiming over how well the place had wintered, no broken windows, thank goodness, no apparent damage from storm felled branches or snow.18、Only after I had finished looking around did I notice Piquette. She was sitting on the swing her lame leg held stiffly out, and her other foot scuffing the ground as she swung slowly back and forth. Her long hair hung black and straight around her shoulders, and her broad coarse-featured face bore no expression -- itwas blank, as though she no longer dwelt within her own skull, as though she had gone elsewhere.I approached her very hesitantly.19、"Want to come and play?"20、Piquette looked at me with a sudden flash of scorn.21、"I ain't a kid," she said.22、Wounded, I stamped angrily away, swearing I would not speak to her for the rest of the summer. In the days that followed, however, Piquette began to interest me, and l began to want to interest her. My reasons did not appear bizarre to me. Unlikely as it may seem, I had only just realised that the Tonnerre family, whom I had always heard Called half breeds, were actually Indians, or as near as made no difference. My acquaintance with Indians was not expensive. I did not remember ever having seen a real Indian, and my new awareness that Piquette sprang from the people of Big Bear and Poundmaker, of Tecumseh, of the Iroquois who had eaten Father Brébeuf's heart--all this gave her an instant attraction in my eyes. I was devoted reader of Pauline Johnson at this age, and sometimes would orate aloud and in an exalted voice, West Wind, blow from your prairie nest, Blow from the mountains, blow from the west--and so on. It seemed to me that Piquette must be in some way a daughter of the forest, a kind of junior prophetess of the wilds, who might impart to me, if I took the right approach, some of the secrets which she undoubtedly knew --wherethe whippoorwill made her nest, how the coyote reared her young, or whatever it was that it said in Hiawatha.23、I set about gaining Piquette's trust. She was not allowed to go swimming, with her bad leg, but I managed to lure her down to the beach-- or rather, she came because there was nothing else to do. The water was always icy, for the lake was fed by springs, but I swam like a dog, thrashing my arms and legs around at such speed and with such an output of energy that I never grew cold. Finally, when I had enough, I came out and sat beside Piquette on the sand. When she saw me approaching, her hands squashed flat the sand castle she had been building, and she looked at me sullenly, without speaking.24、"Do you like this place?" I asked, after a while, intending to lead on from there into the question of forest lore .25、Piquette shrugged. "It's okay. Good as anywhere."26、"I love it, "1 said. "We come here every summer."27、"So what?" Her voice was distant, and I glanced at her uncertainly, wondering what I could have said wrong.28、"Do you want to come for a walk?" I asked her. "We wouldn't need to go far. If you walk just around the point there, you come to a bay where great big reeds grow in the water, and all kinds of fish hang around there. Want to? Come on."29、She shook her head.30、"Your dad said I ain't supposed to do no more walking than I got to." I tried another line.31、"I bet you know a lot about the woods and all that, eh?" I began respectfully.32、Piquette looked at me from her large dark unsmiling eyes.33、"I don't know what in hell you're talkin' about," she replied. "You nuts or somethin'? If you mean where my old man, and me, and all them live, you better shut up, by Jesus, you hear?"34、I was startled and my feelings were hurt, but I had a kind of dogged perseverance. I ignored her rebuff.35、"You know something, Piquette? There's loons here, on this lake. You can see their nests just up the shore there, behind those logs. At night, you can hear them even from the cottage, but it's better to listen from the beach. My dad says we should listen and try to remember how they sound, because in a few years when more cottages are built at Diamond Lake and more people come in, the loons will go away."36、Piquette was picking up stones and snail shells and then dropping them again.37、"Who gives a good goddamn?" she said.38、It became increasingly obvious that, as an Indian, Piquette was a dead loss. That evening I went out by myself, scrambling through the bushes that overhung the steep path, my feet slipping on the fallen spruce needles that covered the ground. When I reached the shore, I walked along the firm damp sand to the small pier that my father had built, and sat down there. I heard someone else crashing through the undergrowth and the bracken, and for a moment I thought Piquette had changed her mind, but it turned out to be my father. He sat beside me on the pier and we waited, without speaking.38、At night the lake was like black glass with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon. All around, the spruce trees grew tall and close-set, branches blackly sharp against the sky, which was lightened by a cold flickering of stars. Then the loons began their calling. They rose like phantom birds from the nests on the shore, and flew out onto the dark still surface of the water.40、No one can ever describe that ululating sound, the crying of the loons, and no one who has heard it can ever forget it. Plaintive , and yet with a quality of chilling mockery , those voices belonged to a world separated by aeon from our neat world of summer cottages and the lighted lamps of home.41、"They must have sounded just like that," my father remarked, "before any person ever set foot here." Then he laughed. "You could say the same, of course, about sparrows or chipmunk, but somehow it only strikes you that way with the loons."42、"I know," I said.43、Neither of us suspected that this would be the last time we would ever sit here together on the shore, listening. We stayed for perhaps half an hour, and then we went back to the cottage. My mother was reading beside the fireplace. Piquette was looking at the burning birch log, and not doing anything.44、"You should have come along," I said, although in fact I was glad she had not.45、"Not me", Piquette said. "You wouldn’ catch me walkin' way down there jus' for a bunch of squawkin' birds."46、Piquette and I remained ill at ease with one another. felt I had somehow failed my father, but I did not know what was the matter, nor why she Would not or could not respond when I suggested exploring the woods or Playing house. I thought it was probably her slow and difficult walking that held her back. She stayed most of the time in the cottage with my mother, helping her with the dishes or with Roddie, but hardly ever talking. Then the Duncans arrived at their cottage, and I spent my days with Mavis, who was my best friend. I could not reach Piquette at all, and I soon lost interest in trying. But all that summer she remained as both a reproach and a mystery to me.47、That winter my father died of pneumonia, after less than a week's illness. For some time I saw nothing around me, being completely immersed in my own pain andmy mother's. When I looked outward once more, I scarcely noticed that Piquette Tonnerre was no longer at school. I do not remember seeing her at all until four years later, one Saturday night when Mavis and I were having Cokes in the Regal Café. The jukebox was booming like tuneful thunder, and beside it, leaning lightly on its chrome and its rainbow glass, was a girl.48、Piquette must have been seventeen then, although she looked about twenty.I stared at her, astounded that anyone could have changed so much. Her face, so stolidand expressionless before, was animated now with a gaiety that was almost violent. She laughed and talked very loudly with the boys around her. Her lipstick was bright carmine, and her hair was cut Short and frizzily permed . She had not been pretty as a child, and she was not pretty now, for her features were still heavy and blunt. But her dark and slightly slanted eyes were beautiful, and her skin-tight skirt and orange sweater displayed to enviable advantage a soft and slender body.49、She saw me, and walked over. She teetered a little, but it was not due to her once-tubercular leg, for her limp was almost gone.50、"Hi, Vanessa," Her voice still had the same hoarseness . "Long time no see, eh?"51、"Hi," I said "Where've you been keeping yourself, Piquette?"52、"Oh, I been around," she said. "I been away almost two years now. Been all over the place--Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon. Jesus, what I could tell you! I come back this summer, but I ain't stayin'. You kids go in to the dance?"53、"No," I said abruptly, for this was a sore point with me. I was fifteen, and thought I was old enough to go to the Saturday-night dances at the Flamingo. My mother, however, thought otherwise.54、"Y'oughta come," Piquette said. "I never miss one. It's just about the on'y thing in this jerkwater55、town that's any fun. Boy, you couldn' catch me stayin' here. I don' givea shit about this place. It stinks."56、She sat down beside me, and I caught the harsh over-sweetness of her perfume.57、"Listen, you wanna know something, Vanessa?" she confided , her voice only slightly blurred. "Your dad was the only person in Manawaka that ever done anything good to me."58、I nodded speechlessly. I was certain she was speaking the truth. I knew a little more than I had that summer at Diamond Lake, but I could not reach her now any more than I had then, I was ashamed, ashamed of my own timidity, the frightened tendency to look the other way. Yet I felt no real warmth towards her-- I only felt that I ought to, because of that distant summer and because my father had hoped shewould be company for me, or perhaps that I would be for her, but it had not happened that way. At this moment, meeting her again, I had to admit that she repelled and embarrassed me, and I could not help despising the self-pity in her voice. I wished she would go away. I did not want to see her did not know what to say to her. It seemed that we had nothing to say to one another.59、"I'll tell you something else," Piquette went on. "All the old bitches an' biddies in this town will sure be surprised. I'm gettin' married this fall -- my boy friend, he's an English fella, works in the stockyards in the city there, a very tall guy, got blond wavy hair. Gee, is he ever handsome. Got this real Hiroshima name. Alvin Gerald Cummings--some handle, eh? They call him Al."60、For the merest instant, then I saw her. I really did see her, for the first and only time in all the years we had both lived in the same town. Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope.61、"Gee, Piquette --" I burst out awkwardly, "that's swell. That's really wonderful. Congratulations—good luck--I hope you'll be happy--"62、As l mouthed the conventional phrases, I could only guess how great her need must have been, that she had been forced to seek the very things she so bitterly rejected.63、When I was eighteen, I left Manawaka and went away to college. At the end of my first year, I came back home for the summer. I spent the first few days in talking non-stop with my mother, as we exchanged all the news that somehow had not found its way into letters-- what had happened in my life and what had happened here in Manawaka while I was away. My mother searched her memory for events that concerned people I knew.64、"Did I ever write you about Piquette Tonnerre, Vanessa?" she asked one morning.65、"No, I don't think so," I replied. "Last I heard of her, she was going to marry some guy in the city. Is she still there?"66、My mother looked Hiroshima , and it was a moment before she spoke, as though she did not know how to express what she had to tell and wished she did not need to try.67、"She's dead," she said at last. Then, as I stared at her, "Oh, Vanessa, when it happened, I couldn't help thinking of her as she was that summer--so sullen and gauche and badly dressed. I couldn't help wondering if we could have done something more at that time--but what could we do? She used to be around in the cottage there with me all day, and honestly it was all I could do to get a word out of her. She didn't even talk to your father very much, although I think she liked him in her way."68、"What happened?" I asked.69、"Either her husband left her, or she left him," my mother said. "I don't know which. Anyway, she came back here with two youngsters, both only babies--they must have been born very close together. She kept house, I guess, for Lazarus and her brothers, down in the valley there, in the old Tonnerre place. I used to see her on the street sometimes, but she never spoke to me. She'd put on an awful lot of weight, and she looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern , dressed any old how. She was up in court a couple of times--drunk and disorderly, of course. One Saturday night last winter, during the coldest weather, Piquette was alone in the shack with the children. The Tonnerres made home brew all the time, so I've heard, and Lazarus said later she'd been drinking most of the day when he and the boys went out that evening. They had an old woodstove there--you know the kind, with exposed pipes. The shack caught fire. Piquette didn't get out, and neither did the children."70、I did not say anything. As so often with Piquette, there did not seem to be anything to say. There was a kind of silence around the image in my mind of the fire and the snow, and I wished I could put from my memory the look that I had seen once in Piquette's eyes.71、I went up to Diamond Lake for a few days that summer, with Mavis and her family. The MacLeod cottage had been sold after my father's death, and I did not even go to look at it, not wanting to witness my long-ago kingdom possessed now by strangers. But one evening I went clown to the shore by myself.72、The small pier which my father had built was gone, and in its place there was a large and solid pier built by the government, for Galloping Mountain was now a national park, and Diamond Lake had been re-named Lake Wapakata, for it was felt that an Indian name would have a greater appeal to tourists. The one store had become several dozen, and the settlement had all the attributes of a flourishingresort--hotels, a dance-hall, cafes with neon signs, the penetrating odoursof potato chips and hot dogs.73、I sat on the government pier and looked out across the water. At night the lake at least was the same as it had always been, darkly shining and bearing within its black glass the streak of amber that was the path of the moon. There was no wind that evening, and everything was quiet all around me. It seemed too quiet, and then I realized that the loons were no longer here. I listened for some time, to make sure, but never once did I hear that long-drawn call, half mocking and half plaintive, spearing through the stillness across the lake.74、I did not know what had happened to the birds. Perhaps they had gone away to some far place of belonging. Perhaps they had been unable to find such a place, and had simply died out, having ceased to care any longer whether they lived or not.75、I remembered how Piquette had scorned to come along, when my father and I sat there and listened to the lake birds. It seemed to me now that in some unconscious and totally unrecognized way, Piquette might have been the only one, after all, who had heard the crying of the loons.第十二课潜水鸟玛格丽特劳伦斯马纳瓦卡山下有一条小河，叫瓦恰科瓦河，浑浊的河水沿着布满鹅卵石的河床哗哗地流淌着，河边谷地上长着无数的矮橡树、灰绿色柳树和野樱桃树，形成一片茂密的丛林。
高级英语-第三版-12课-原文-Ships-in-the-Desert
Lesson 3 Ships in the DesertShips in the DesertAL Gore1. I was standing in the sun on the hot steel deck of a fishing ship capableof processing a fifty-ton catch on a good day. But it wasn' t a good day. We were anchored in what used to be the most productive fishing site in all of central Asia, but as I looked out over the bow , the prospects of a good catch looked bleak. Where there should have been gentle blue-green waves lapping against the side of the ship, there was nothing but hot dry sand – as far as I could see in all directions. The other ships of the fleet were also at rest in the sand, scattered in the dunes that stretched all the way to the horizon . Ten year s ago the Aral was the fourth-largest inland sea in the world, comparable to the largest of North America's Great Lakes. Now it is disappearing because the water that used to feed it has been diverted in an ill-considered irrigation scheme to grow cotton In the user t. The new shoreline was almost forty kilometers across the sand from where the fishing fleet was now permanently docked. Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Muynak the people were still canning fish – brought not from the Aral Sea but shipped by rail through Siberia from the Pacific Ocean, more than a thousand miles away.2. My search for the underlying causes of the environmental crisis has led me to travel around the world to examine and study many of these images of destruction. At the very bottom of the earth, high in the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, with the sun glaring at midnight through a hole in the sky, I stood in the unbelievable coldness and talked with a scientist in the late tall of 1988 about the tunnel he was digging through time. Slipping his parka back to reveal a badly burned face that was cracked and peeling, he pointed to the annual layers of ice in a core sample dug from the glacier on which we were standing. He moved his finger back in time to the ice of two decades ago. "Here's where the U. S Congress passed the Clean Air Act, ” he sa id. At the bottom of the world, two continents away from Washington, D. C., even a small reduction in one country's emissions had changed the amount of pollution found in the remotest end least accessible place on earth.3. But the most significant change thus far in the earth' s atmosphere is the one that began with the industrial r evolution early in the last century and has picked up speed ever since. Industry meant coal, and later oil, and we began to burn lots of it –bringing rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) , with its ability to trap more heat in the atmosphere and slowly warm the earth. Fewer than a hundred yards from the South Pole, upwind from the ice runway where the ski plane lands and keeps its engines running to prevent the metal parts from freeze-locking together, scientists monitor the air sever al times ever y day to chart the course of that inexorable change. During my visit, I watched one scientist draw the results of that day's measurements, pushing the end of a steep line still higher on the graph. He told me how easy it is –there at the end of the earth –to see that this enormous change in the global atmosphere is still picking up speed.4. Two and a half years later I slept under the midnight sun at the other end ofour planet, in a small tent pitched on a twelve-toot-thick slab of ice floating in the frigid Arctic Ocean. After a hearty breakfast, my companions and I traveled by snowmobiles a few miles farther north to a rendezvous point where the ice was thinner – only three and a half feet thick –and a nuclear submarine hovered in the water below. After it crashed through the ice, took on its new passengers, and resubmerged, I talked with scientists who were trying to measure more accurately the thickness of the polar ice cap, which many believe is thinning as a re-suit of global warming. I had just negotiated an agreement between ice scientists and the U. S. Navy to secure the re-lease of previously top secret data from submarine sonar tracks, data that could help them learn what is happening to the north polar cap. Now, I wanted to see the pole it-self, and some eight hours after we met the submarine, we were crashing through that ice, surfacing, and then I was standing in an eerily beautiful snowcape, windswept and sparkling white, with the horizon defined by little hummocks, or "pressure ridges " of ice that are pushed up like tiny mountain ranges when separate sheets collide. But here too, CD, levels are rising just as rapidly, and ultimately temperature will rise with them –indeed, global warming is expected to push temperatures up much more rapidly in the polar regions than in the rest of the world. As the polar air warms, the ice her e will thin; and since the polar cap plays such a crucial role in the world's weather system, the consequences of a thinning cap could be disastrous.5. Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise. Six months after I returned from the North Pole, a team of scientists reported dramatic changes in the pattern of ice distribution in the Arctic, and a second team reported a still controversialclaim (which a variety of data now suggest) that, over all, the north polar cap has thinned by 2 per cent in just the last decade. Moreover, scientists established several years ago that in many land areas north of the Arctic Circle, the spring snowmelt now comes earlier every year, and deep in the tundra below, the temperature e of the earth is steadily rising.6. As it happens, some of the most disturbing images of environmental destruction can be found exactly halfway between the North and South poles –precisely at the equator in Brazil –where billowing clouds of smoke regularly black-en the sky above the immense but now threatened Amazon rain forest. Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef; as I learned when I went there in early 1989, the fires are set earlier and earlier in the dry season now, with more than one Tennessee's worth of rain forest being slashed and burned each year. According to our guide, the biologist Tom Lovejoy, there are more different species of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than exist in all of North America –which means we are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard.7. But one doesn't have to travel around the world to wit-ness humankind's assault on the earth. Images that signal the distress of our global environment are now commonly seen almost anywhere. On some nights, in high northern latitudes, the sky itself offers another ghostly image that signals the loss of ecological balance now in progress. If the sky is clear after sunset -- and it you are watching from a place wherepollution hasn't blotted out the night sky altogether -- you can sometimes see a strange kind of cloud high in the sky. This "noctilucent cloud" occasionally appears when the earth is first cloaked in the evening dark-ness; shimmering above us with a translucent whiteness, these clouds seem quite unnatural. And they should: noctilucent clouds have begun to appear more often because of a huge buildup of methane gas in the atmosphere. (Also called natural gas, methane is released from landfills , from coal mines and rice paddies, from billions of termites that swarm through the freshly cut forestland, from the burning of biomass and from a variety of other human activities. ) Even though noctilucent clouds were sometimes seen in the past., all this extra methane carries more water vapor into the upper atmosphere, where it condenses at much higher altitudes to form more clouds that the sun's rays still strike long after sunset has brought the beginning of night to the surface far beneath them.8. What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky? Simple wonder or the mix of emotions we feel at the zoo? Perhaps we should feel awe for our own power: just as men "ear tusks from elephants’ heads in such quantity as to threaten the beast with extinction, we are ripping matter from its place in the earth in such volume as to upset the balance between daylight and darkness. In the process, we are once again adding to the threat of global warming, be-cause methane has been one of the fastest-growing green-house gases, and is third only to carbon dioxide and water vapor in total volume, changing the chemistry of the upper atmosphere. But, without even considering that threat, shouldn't it startle us that we have now put these clouds in the evening sky which glisten with a spectral light? Or have our eyes adjusted so completely to the bright lights of civilization that we can't see these clouds for what they are – a physical manifestation of the violent collision between human civilization and the earth?9. Even though it is sometimes hard to see their meaning, we have by now all witnessed surprising experiences that signal the damage from our assault on the environment --whether it's the new frequency of days when the temperature exceeds 100 degrees, the new speed with which the -un burns our skin, or the new constancy of public debate over what to do with growing mountains of waste. But our response to these signals is puzzling. Why haven't we launched a massive effort to save our environment? To come at the question another way' Why do some images startle us into immediate action and focus our attention or ways to respond effectively? And why do other images, though sometimes equally dramatic, produce instead a Kin. of paralysis, focusing our attention not on ways to respond but rather on some convenient, less painful distraction?10. Still, there are so many distressing images of environ-mental destruction that sometimes it seems impossible to know how to absorb or comprehend them. Before considering the threats themselves, it may be helpful to classify them and thus begin to organize our thoughts and feelings so that we may be able to respond appropriately.11. A useful system comes from the military, which frequently places a conflict in one of three different categories, according to the theater in which it takes place. There are "local" skirmishes, "regional" battles, and "strategic" conflicts. This third category is reserved for struggles that can threaten a nation's survival and must beunder stood in a global context.12. Environmental threats can be considered in the same way. For example, most instances of water pollution, air pollution, and illegal waste dumping are essentially local in nature. Problems like acid rain, the contamination of under-ground aquifers, and large oil spills are fundamentally regional. In both of these categories, there may be so many similar instances of particular local and regional problems occurring simultaneously all over the world that the patter n appears to be global, but the problems themselves are still not truly strategic because the operation of- the global environment is not affected and the survival of civilization is not at stake.13. However, a new class of environmental problems does affect the global ecological system, and these threats are fundamentally strategic. The 600 percent increase in the amount of chlorine in the atmosphere during the last forty years has taken place not just in those countries producing the chlorofluorocarbons responsible but in the air above every country, above Antarctica, above the North Pole and the Pacific Ocean – all the way from the surface of the earth to the top of the sky. The increased levels of chlorine disrupt the global process by which the earth regulates the amount of ultraviolet radiation from the sun that is allowed through the atmosphere to the surface; and it we let chlorine levels continue to increase, the radiation levels will al-so increase – to the point that all animal and plant life will face a new threat to their survival.14. Global warming is also a strategic threat. The concentration of carbon dioxide and other heat-absorbing molecules has increased by almost 25 per cent since World War II, posing a worldwide threat to the earth's ability to regulate the amount of heat from the sun retained in the atmosphere. This increase in heat seriously threatens the global climate equilibrium that determines the pattern of winds, rainfall, surface temperatures, ocean currents, and sea level. These in turn determine the distribution of vegetative and animal life on land and sea and have a great effect on the location and pattern of human societies.15. In other words, the entire relationship between humankind and the earth has been transformed because our civilization is suddenly capable of affecting the entire global environment, not just a particular area. All of us know that human civilization has usually had a large impact on the environment; to mention just one example, there is evidence that even in prehistoric times, vast areas were sometimes intentionally burned by people in their search for food. And in our own time we have reshaped a large part of the earth's surface with concrete in our cities and carefully tended rice paddies, pastures, wheat fields, and other croplands in the countryside. But these changes, while sometimes appearing to be pervasive , have, until recently, been relatively trivial factors in the global ecological sys-tem. Indeed, until our lifetime, it was always safe to assume that nothing we did or could do would have any lasting effect on the global environment. But it is precisely that assumption which must now be discarded so that we can think strategically about our new relationship to the environment.16. Human civilization is now the dominant cause of change in the global environment. Yet we resist this truth and find it hard to imagine that our effect on theearth must now be measured by the same yardstick used to calculate the strength of the moon's pull on the oceans or the force of the wind against the mountains. And it we are now capable of changing something so basic as the relationship between the earth and the sun, surely we must acknowledge a new responsibility to use that power wisely and with appropriate restraint. So far, however, We seem oblivious of the fragility of the earth's natural systems.17. This century has witnessed dramatic changes in two key factors that define the physical reality of our relation-ship to the earth: a sudden and startling surge in human population, with the addition of one China's worth of people every ten years, and a sudden acceleration of the scientific and technological revolution, which has allowed an almost unimaginable magnification of our power to affect the world around us by burning, cutting, digging, moving, and trans-forming the physical matter that makes up the earth.18. The surge in population is both a cause of the changed relationship and one of the clearest illustrations of how startling the change has been, especially when viewed in a historical context. From the emergence of modern humans 200 000 years ago until Julius Caesar's time, fewer than 250 million people walked on the face of the earth. When Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World 1500 years later, there were approximately 500 million people on earth. By the time Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the number had doubled again, to 1 billion. By midway through this century, at the end of World War II, the number had risen to just above 2 billion people.19. In other words, from the beginning of humanity's appearance on earth to 1945, it took more than ten thousand generations to reach a world population of 2 billion people. Now, in the course of one human lifetime -- mine -- the world population will increase from 2 to more than 9 million, and it is already more than halfway there.20. Like the population explosion, the scientific and technological revolution began to pick up speed slowly during the eighteenth century. And this ongoing revolution has also suddenly accelerated exponentially. For example, it is now an axiom in many fields of science that more new and important discoveries have taken place in the last ten years that. in the entire previous history of science. While no single discover y has had the kind of effect on our relationship to the earth that unclear weapons have had on our relationship to warfare, it is nevertheless true that taken together, they have completely transformed our cumulative ability to exploit the earth for sustenance -- making the consequences, of unrestrained exploitation every bit as unthinkable as the consequences of unrestrained nuclear war.21. Now that our relationship to the earth has changed so utterly, we have to see that change and understand its implications. Our challenge is to recognize that the startling images of environmental destruction now occurring all over the world have much more in common than their ability to shock and awaken us. They are symptoms of an underlying problem broader in scope and more serious than any we have ever faced. Global warming, ozone depletion, the loss of living species, deforestation -- they all have a common cause: the new relationship between human civilization andthe earth's natural balance.22. There are actually two aspects to this challenge. The first is to realize that our power to harm the earth can in-deed have global and even permanent effects. The second is to realize that the only way to understand our new role as a co-architect of nature is to see ourselves as part of a complex system that does not operate according to the same simple rules of cause and effect we are used to. The problem is not our effect on the environment so much as our relationship with the environment. As a result, any solution to the problem will require a careful assessment of that relationship as well as the complex interrelationship among factors within civilization and between them and the major natural components of the earth's ecological system.23. The strategic nature of the threat now posed by human civilization to the global environment and the strategic nature of the threat to human civilization now posed by changes in the global environment present us with a similar set of challenges and false hopes. Some argue that a new ultimate technology, whether nuclear power or genetic engineering, will solve the problem. Others hold that only a drastic reduction of our reliance on technology can improve the conditions of life -- a simplistic notion at best. But the real solution will be found in reinventing and finally healing the relationship between civilization and the earth. This can only be accomplished by undertaking a careful reassessment of all the factors that led to the relatively recent dramatic change in the relationship. The transformation of the way we relate to the earth will of course involve new technologies, but the key changes will involve new ways of thinking about the relationship itself.。
高级英语第一册Unit12-课后练习题答案培训讲学
高级英语第一册U n i t12-课后练习题答案THE LOONS 课后习题答案/answerI .1)The Tonnerres were poor The basis of their dwelling was a small square cabin made of poles and mud, which had been built some fifty years before. As the Tonnerres had increased in number, their settlement had been added, until thc clearing at the foot of the town hill was a chaos of lean-tos, wooden packing cases, warped lumber, discarded car tyres, ramshackle chicken coops, tangled strands of barbed wire and rusty tin cans.2)Sometimes, one of them would get involved in a fight on Main Street and be put for the night in the barred cell underneath the Court House.3)Because she had had tuberculosis of the bone, and should have a couple of months rest to get better.4)Her mother first objected to take Piquette along because she was afraid that the girl would spread the disease to her children and she believed that the girl was not hygienic. She then agreed to do so because she preferred Piquette to the narrator's grandmother, who promised not to go along with the family and decided to stay in the city if the girl was taken along.5)The cottage was called Macleod, their family name. The scenery there was quite beautiful with all kinds of plants and animals at the lakeside.6)The narrator knew that maybe Piquette was an Indian descendant who knew the woods quite well, so she tried to ask Piquette to go and play in the wood and tell her stories about woods.7)Because Piquette thought the narrator was scorning and showing contempt for her Indian ancestors, which was just opposite to her original intention.8)Because the narrator felt somewhat guilty. Piquette stayed most of the time in the cottage and hardly played with the narrator. At the same time, she felt there was in Piquette something strange and unknown and unfathomable.9)That was the very rare chance she was unguarded and unmasked, so that the author could perceive her inner world.10)Her full name is Vanessa Macleod.11)Just as the narrator's father predicted, the loons would go away when more cottages were built at the lake with more people moving in. The loonsdisappeared as nature was ruined by civilization. In a similar way, Piquette and her people failed to find their position in modern society.Ⅱ.1)who looked deadly serious, never laughed2)Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get involved in a rough, noisy quarrel or fight on a Saturday night after much drinking of liquor.3)She often missed her classes and had little interest in schoolwork.4)I only knew her as a person who would make other people feel ill at ease.5)She lived and moved somewhere within my range of sight (Although I saw her, I paid little attention to her).6)If my mother had to make a choice between Grandmother Macleod and Piquette, she would certainly choose the latter without hesitation, no matter whether the latter had nits or not.7)Normally, she was a defensive person, and her face was guarded as if it was wearing a mask. But when she was saying this, there was an expression of challenge on her face, which, for a brief moment, became unguarded and unmasked. And in her eyes there was a kind of hope which was so intense that it filled people with terror.8)She looked a mess, to tell you the truth; she was a dirty, untidy woman, dressed in a very careless way.9)She was brought in court several times, because she was drunk and disorderly as one could expect.III. See the translation of the text.IV.1)-ious: religious, rebellious, furious, obvious, conscientious2)-ible: edible, eligible, visible, resistible, sensible3)-able：separable，passable， standable manageable，readable，under-4)-1y：manly，godly，deadly，motherly，monthly5)-ive：sensitive，objective，decisive，aggressive，retrospective6)-ul：beautiful，careful，lawful，handful，joyful7)-less：soundless，meaningless，merciless，restless powerless8)-y：dirty，healthy，sticky，showy，cloudy9)-al：personal，national，conventional，traditional，hysterical10)-ar：singular，polar，circular，similar，familiar．Ⅴ.1)walk in limping manner一瘸一拐地走路2)presence that causes embarrassment令人尴尬的人(或事)3)eyes that do not smile不会笑的眼睛4)a sound that ululates哀鸣5)mockery that chills令人发冷的嘲笑6)a birch log that is burning还在燃烧的白桦圆木7)hope that terrifies令人生畏的希望8)a resort that flourishes繁华的度假胜地9)odours that penetrate强烈的气味10)lumber that is warped弯曲的木材11)car tyres that are discarded被人扔掉的汽车轮胎12)strands of barbed wire that are tangled together，wire that are barbed搅成一团团的铁丝网13)wild strawberries that are bruised表皮被擦伤的野草莓14)a tree trunk that has been fallen伐倒的树干15)shoppers who are offended被得罪的顾客16)call that is drawn out for a long time拖长音的呜叫声Ⅵ．the water glistening greenly as the sun caught it；All around the cottage were ferns…on the thin hairy stems；two grey squirrels gossiping from the tall spruce beside the cottage，beach；icy water；at night the lake was like black glass with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon…：and flew out onto the dark still surface of the water：there was no wind that evening…spearing through the stillness across the lake；etc．Ⅶ．1)a rough and noisy quarrel or fight2)very much3)I'm absolutely sure4)Why is that important? Why should I care?5)1 am not supposed to walk unless it is necessary．6)things like that7)what exactly8)Are you crazy or what? My father and I and the others9)first—class，fine namelO)excellentⅧ．1)grabbed 2)lure 3)stifled 4)howling 5)swung 6) thrashed 7)teetered 8)squawking even once 9)squashedlO)scrambled 11)flickeredⅨ．1)shack指胡乱搭盖的、简陋的小屋；home尤其指一个或长或短的住处，并与此地有着感情和忠诚的紧密个人联系。
高级英语_第一册12-16课后练习答案
Lesson12 The LoonsI .1)The Tonnerres were poor The basis of their dwelling was a small square cabin made of poles and mud, which had been built some fifty years before. As the Tonnerres had increased in number, their settlement had been added, until thc clearing at the foot of the town hill was a chaos of lean-tos, wooden packing cases, warped lumber, discarded car tyres, ramshackle chicken coops, tangled strands of barbed wire and rusty tin cans.2)Sometimes, one of them would get involved in a fight on Main Street and be put for the night in the barred cell underneath the Court House.3)Because she had had tuberculosis of the bone, and should have a couple of months rest to get better.4)Her mother first objected to take Piquette along because she was afraid that the girl would spread the disease to her children and she believed that the girl was not hygienic. She then agreed to do so because she preferred Piquette to the narrator's grandmother, who promised not to go along with the family and decided to stay in the city if the girl was taken along.5)The cottage was called Macleod, their family name. The scenery there was quite beautiful with all kinds of plants and animals at the lakeside.6)The narrator knew that maybe Piquette was an Indian descendant who knew the woods quite well, so she tried to ask Piquette to go and play in the wood and tell her stories about woods.7)Because Piquette thought the narrator was scorning and showing contempt for her Indian ancestors, which was just opposite to her original intention.8)Because the narrator felt somewhat guilty. Piquette stayed most of the time in the cottage and hardly played with the narrator. At the same time, she felt there was in Piquette something strange and unknown and unfathomable.9)That was the very rare chance she was unguarded and unmasked, so that the author could perceive her inner world.10)Her full name is Vanessa Macleod.11)Just as the narrator's father predicted, the loons would go away when more cottages were built at the lake with more people moving in. The loons disappeared as nature was ruined by civilization. In a similar way, Piquette and her people failed to find their position in modern society.Ⅱ.1)who looked deadly serious, never laughed2)Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get involved in a rough, noisy quarrel or fight on a Saturday night after much drinking of liquor.3)She often missed her classes and had little interest in schoolwork.4)I only knew her as a person who would make other people feel ill at ease.5)She lived and moved somewhere within my range of sight (Although I saw her,I paid little attention to her).6)If my mother had to make a choice between Grandmother Macleod and Piquette,she would certainly choose the latter without hesitation, no matter whether the latter had nits or not.7)Normally, she was a defensive person, and her face was guarded as if it was wearing a mask. But when she was saying this, there was an expression of challenge on her face, which, for a brief moment, became unguarded and unmasked. And in her eyes there was a kind of hope which was so intense that it filled people with terror.8)She looked a mess, to tell you the truth; she was a dirty, untidy woman, dressed in a very careless way.9)She was brought in court several times, because she was drunk and disorderly as one could expect.III. See the translation of the text.IV.1)-ious: religious, rebellious, furious, obvious, conscientious2)-ible: edible, eligible, visible, resistible, sensible3)-able：separable，passable， standable manageable，readable，under-4)-1y：manly，godly，deadly，motherly，monthly5)-ive：sensitive，objective，decisive，aggressive，retrospective6)-ul：beautiful，careful，lawful，handful，joyful7)-less：soundless，meaningless，merciless，restless powerless8)-y：dirty，healthy，sticky，showy，cloudy9)-al：personal，national，conventional，traditional，hysterical10)-ar：singular，polar，circular，similar，familiar．Ⅴ.1)walk in limping manner一瘸一拐地走路2)presence that causes embarrassment令人尴尬的人(或事)3)eyes that do not smile不会笑的眼睛4)a sound that ululates哀鸣5)mockery that chills令人发冷的嘲笑6)a birch log that is burning还在燃烧的白桦圆木7)hope that terrifies令人生畏的希望8)a resort that flourishes繁华的度假胜地9)odours that penetrate强烈的气味10)lumber that is warped弯曲的木材11)car tyres that are discarded被人扔掉的汽车轮胎12)strands of barbed wire that are tangled together，wire that are barbed搅成一团团的铁丝网13)wild strawberries that are bruised表皮被擦伤的野草莓14)a tree trunk that has been fallen伐倒的树干15)shoppers who are offended被得罪的顾客16)call that is drawn out for a long time拖长音的呜叫声Ⅵ．the water glistening greenly as the sun caught it；All around the cottage were ferns…on the thin hairy stems；two grey squirrels gossiping from the tall spruce beside the cottage，beach； icy water；at night the lake was like black glass with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon…：and flew out onto the dark still surface of the water：there was no wind that eve ning…spearing through the stillness across the lake； etc．Ⅶ．1)a rough and noisy quarrel or fight2)very much3)I'm absolutely sure4)Why is that important? Why should I care?5)1 am not supposed to walk unless it is necessary．6)things like that7)what exactly8)Are you crazy or what? My father and I and the others9)first—class，fine namelO)excellentⅧ．1)grabbed 2)lure 3)stifled 4)howling 5)swung 6) thrashed 7)teetered 8)squawking even once 9)squashed lO)scrambled 11)flickeredⅨ．1)shack指胡乱搭盖的、简陋的小屋；home尤其指一个或长或短的住处，并与此地有着感情和忠诚的紧密个人联系。
高级英语1 第三版 unit12沙漠之舟课后答案
高级英语1 第三版unit12沙漠之舟课后答案1、His remarks _____me that I had made the right decision. [单选题] *A.ensuredB.insuredC.assured(正确答案)D.assumed2、You have been sitting on my hat and now it is badly out of（）. [单选题] *A. dateB. shape(正确答案)C. orderD. balance3、Some people were born with a good sense of direction. [单选题] *A. 听觉B. 方向感(正确答案)C. 辨别力D. 抽象思维4、30．It is known that ipad is _________ for the old to use. [单选题] * A．enough easyB．easy enough (正确答案)C．enough easilyD．easily enough5、She returns home every year to _______ the Spring Festival. [单选题] *A. celebrate(正确答案)B. shareC. watchD. congratulate6、_____ is not known yet. [单选题] *A. Although he is serious about itB. No matter how we will do the taskC. Whether we will go outing or not(正确答案)D. Unless they come to see us7、What about _______ there by bike? [单选题] *A. goesB. wentC. goD. going(正确答案)8、He can’t meet his friends tonight because he _______ do homework. [单选题] *A. has to(正确答案)B. needC. have toD. don’t have to9、—John, How is it going? —______.（）[单选题] *A. It’s sunnyB. Thank youC. Well doneD. Not bad(正确答案)10、Mr. Wang is coming to our school. I can’t wait to see _______. [单选题] *A. herB. him(正确答案)C. itD. them11、—Are these your sheep? [单选题] *A）on grass at the foot of the hill.(正确答案)B. feedC.is fedD. is feeding12、51．People usually ________ the prices before they buy something. [单选题] *A．receiveB．payC．spendD．compare(正确答案)13、( ) Do you have any difficulty _____ these flowers？I’d like to help you if you need.[单选题] *A in planting(正确答案)B for plantingC with plantingD to plant14、——Can you come on Monday or Tuesday? ——Im afraid（）of them is possible. [单选题] *A.neither(正确答案)B. eitherC. noneD.both15、This seat is vacant and you can take it. [单选题] *A. 干净的B. 没人的(正确答案)C. 舒适的D. 前排的16、He prefers to use the word “strange”to describe the way（）she walks. [单选题] *A. in which(正确答案)B. by whichC. in thatD. by that17、34．My mother isn't in now, but she will be back ______ ten minutes. [单选题] * A．forB．beforeC．in(正确答案)D．at18、—______ is the concert ticket?—It’s only 160 yuan.（）[单选题] *A. How manyB How much(正确答案)C. How oftenD. How long19、We need a _______ when we travel around a new place. [单选题] *A. guide(正确答案)B. touristC. painterD. teacher20、Fresh _______ is good for our health. [单选题] *A. climateB. skyC. weatherD. air(正确答案)21、We often go to the zoo _______ Saturday mornings. [单选题] *A. atB. inC. on(正确答案)D. of22、This kind of banana tastes very _______. [单选题] *A. nice(正确答案)B. wellC. nicelyD. better23、Though the _____ drama is wonderful, I guess most audiences will be tired as it is too long. [单选题] *A. four-hour(正确答案)B. four hoursC. four-hoursD. four-hour's24、When we take a trip,we usually have to _______ a hotel. [单选题] *A. takeB. stayC. book(正确答案)D. bring25、99．—Would you please show me the way _________ the bank?—Yes, go straight ahead. It’s opposite a school. [单选题] *A．inB．forC．withD．to(正确答案)26、He held his（）when the results were read out. [单选题] *A. breath(正确答案)B. voiceC. soundD. thought27、—______ —（）[单选题] *A. How long did you stay there?B. How much did you pay for the dress?C. How many flowers did you buy?(正确答案)D. How often did you visit your grandparents?28、The teacher asked him to practice playing the piano _______. [单选题] *A. often as possibleB. as often possibleC. as possible oftenD. as often as possible(正确答案)29、13．________ it rains heavily outside, Lily wants to meet her children at once. [单选题]* A．IfB．Although (正确答案)C．WhenD．Because.30、—What can I do for you? —I ______ a pair of new shoes.（）[单选题] *A. likeB. would lookC. would like(正确答案)D. take。
高级英语1unit12The Two Cultures课后答案
高级英语1unit12The Two Cultures课后答案1、—Do you like to watch Hero?—Yes. I enjoy ______ action movies. （）[单选题] *A. watchB. watching(正确答案)C. to watchD. watches2、Location is the first thing customers consider when_____to buy a house. [单选题] *A.planning(正确答案)B.plannedC.having plannedD.to plan3、My sister gave me a _______ at my birthday party. [单选题] *A. parentB. peaceC. patientD. present(正确答案)4、John Smith is _______ of the three young men. [单选题] *A. strongB. strongerC. the strongerD. the strongest(正确答案)5、Can you give her some ______ ? [单选题] *A. advice(正确答案)B. suggestionC. advicesD. suggest6、4．—Let's fly a kite when you are ________ at the weekend.—Good idea. [单选题] * A．warmB．kindC．smallD．free(正确答案)7、I don't know the man _____ you are talking about. [单选题] *A. who'sB. whose(正确答案)C. whomD. which8、92．China is a big country ________ a long history. [单选题] *A．hasB．haveC．with(正确答案)D．there is9、91．—Do you live in front of the big supermarket?—No. I live ________ the supermarket ________ the post office. [单选题] *A．across; fromB．next; toC．between; and(正确答案)D．near; to10、I _____ of her since she left school three years ago. [单选题] *A. didn’t hearB. haven’t heard(正确答案)C. was not hearingD. shall not heard11、The museum is _______ in the northeast of Changsha. [单选题] *A. sitB. located(正确答案)C. liesD. stand12、31．That's ______ interesting football game. We are all excited. [单选题] * A．aB．an(正确答案)C．theD．/13、66．—How much meat do you want?—________．[单选题] * A．Sorry, there isn't anyB．I can't give you anyC．Half a kilo, please(正确答案)D．Twelve yuan a kilo14、If you do the same thing for a long time, you'll be tired of it. [单选题] *A. 试图B. 努力C. 厌倦(正确答案)D. 熟练15、While I _____ the morning paper, a headline caught my eye.. [单选题] *A. have readB. was reading(正确答案)C. had readD. am reading16、—Can you play the violin at the art festival?—No, I ______. But I am good at playing the drums.（）[单选题] *A. canB. can’t(正确答案)C. doD. don’t17、?I am good at schoolwork. I often help my classmates _______ English. [单选题] *A. atB. toC. inD. with(正确答案)18、Mr. Brown ______ the football match next week.（）[单选题] *A. is seeingB. seesC. sawD. is going to see(正确答案)19、Nearly two thousand years have passed _____ the Chinese first invented the compass. [单选题] *A. whenB. beforeC. since(正确答案)D. after20、Don’t _______ to close the door when you leave the classroom. [单选题] *A. missB. loseC. forget(正确答案)D. remember21、The street was named _____ George Washington who led the American war for independence. [单选题] *A. fromB. withC. asD. after(正确答案)22、I’m still unable to make myself_____in the discussion, which worries me a lot. [单选题]*A.understandB.understood(正确答案)C.understandingD.to be understood23、40．Star wars is ______ adventure film and it is very interesting. [单选题] *A．aB．an (正确答案)C．theD．/24、The beautiful radio _______ me 30 dollars. [单选题] *A. spentB. paidC. cost(正确答案)D. took25、57．Next week will be Lisa's birthday. I will send her a birthday present ________ post. [单选题] *A．withB．forC．by(正确答案)D．in26、70．Would you like ________，sir? [单选题] *A．something else(正确答案)B．nothing elseC．else somethingD．else anything27、Every means _____ but it's not so effective. [单选题] *A. have been triedB. has been tried(正确答案)C. have triedD. has tried28、I always get ______ grades than he does, so maybe I should help him more.（）[单选题] *A. bestB. better(正确答案)C. goodD. well29、Tomorrow is Ann’s birthday. Her mother is going to make a _______ meal for her. [单选题] *A. commonB. quickC. special(正确答案)D. simple30、He’s so careless that he always _______ his school things at home. [单选题] *A. forgetsB. leaves(正确答案)C. putsD. buys。
高级英语 Lesson 12 The Loons
General understanding
The touching story symbolizes the plight of Piquette Tonnerre, a girl from a native Indian family. Piquette and her family were unable to exist independently in a respectable and dignified way. They found it impossible to fit into the main currents of culture and difficult to be assimilated comfortably, so they failed to find their position in modern society. The disappearance of the loons symbolized the suffering and the death of Piquette (and Indian people as well). How is the disappearance of the loons related to the theme of the story? Her death is like the disappearance of the loons on Diamond Lake. Just as the narrator’s father predicted, the loons would go away when more cottages were built at the Lake with more and more people moving in. The loons disappeared as nature was ruined by civilization. In a similar way, Piquette and her people failed to find their position in modern society.
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Lesson12II.Look up the italicized words in the dictionary and explain:1)a small square cabin chinked with mudChinked: the sound of coins, glasses or mental objects when you chink them2)was a chaos of lean-tosLean- tos: a small house which is inclined3)the Tonnerres were half breeds…Half breeds: mixed blood people4)working at odd jobs or as section handsOdd: strange or unusualSection: a separate group within a larger group of people5)they lived on reliefRelief: people live by money given by government6)but she had failed several gradesGrades: times7)had to get back to his practicePractice: a things that is done regularly8)how the coyote reared her youngReared: the back part of sth.9)If you walk just around the point therePoint: one of the marks of direction10)her hair was cut short and frizzly permedPermed: a way of changing the style of your hair by using chemicals to create curls that last for several monthsI. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:1)Were the Tonnerres rich or poor? Substantiate your answer with facts.They are poor and live in a small square cabin made of poplarpoles and chinked with mud.2)What would happen sometimes to old Jules or his son Lazarus on Saturday nights? They would hit out at whoever was nearest or howl drunkenly among the offended shoppers on Main Street.3)Why did the doctor propose taking Piquette to Diamond Lake for the summer? Because she had had tuberculosis of the bone, it is good for her recover to go to Diamond Lake. If she stayed at home, she will be busying working.4)Why did the narrator's mother first object and then agree to take Piquette along? She first objected because she thought her hair had nits, then she agreed because she preferred Piquette to her mother-in-law.5)What was the cottage on the lake called? What was the scenery there like?It is called Macleod. The scenery was the filigree of the spruce trees, the water glistening greenly as the sun caught it, and all kinds of plants and animals.6)Why did the narrator ask Piquette respectfully. "I bet you know a lot about the woods and all that, eh. "?Because she knew Piquette was an Indian descendant, she thought Piquette might know the woods quite well and would like to tell her stories about the woods.7)Why was the narrator startled and her feelings hurt by Piquette's rude answers to her questions?Because she didn’t expect the Piquette should take her questioning as showing contempt for her Indian ancestors.8)Why did the narrator say that all that summer Piquette remained as both a reproach and a mystery to her?She felt guilty because she didn’t develop a good relationship with Piquetee, she had failed her father, and she also felt Piquette was strange.9)What does the narrator mean when she says:"For the merest instant, then, I saw her."?She means at a very brief moment, Piquetee was unguarded and unmasked, so that the author could perceive her inner mind.10)What is the full name of the narrator of the story?Her full name is Vanessa Macleod.11)How is the disappearance of the loons related to the theme of this story?The loons had gone away because more and more people and buildings instead of them. They disappeared because they c ouldn’t finds their position. In a similar way, Piquetee is a representative.Ⅱ. Paraphrase?1)with a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughterA person who is too serious to laugh2)Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawlSometimes, old Jules and his son would be drunk and get involved in a rough, noisy quarrel or fight on a Saturday night3)her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible She was often absent from classes and had little interest in schoolwork.4)she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presenceShe would always made me embarrassed.5)She dwelt and moved somewhere within my scope of visionShe lived and moved somewhere I can see6)If it came to a choice between Grandmother MacLeod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not.Between Grandmother and Piquette, my mother would choose Piquette, no matter Piquette’s hair had nits or not.7)Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope.There was an expression of challenge on her face, which became unguarded and unmasked for a brief moment. And in her eyes there waqs a kind of hope which was so intense that is is filled people with terror.8)she looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern,dressed any old howShe look very untidy, dressed in a very careless way9)She was up in court a couple of times -- drunk and disorderly, of course.She was brought in court several tomes, because she took too much liquor and was noisy and violent in public.IV. All the following words are adjectives with different suffixes. Give further examples of adjectives with the same suffixes:1)contagious --- serious, rebellious, obvious2)negligible --- sensible, visible, possible3)enviable --- enable, reliable, acceptable4)friendly --- smoothly, deadly, importantly5)plaintive --- creative, positive, decisive6)tuneful --- woeful, beautiful, careful7)expressionless --- careless, useless, worthless8)wavy --- heavy, dirty, friendly9)conventional --- traditional, personal, national10)tubercular --- particular, similar, familiarV. The following phrases are taken from the text, all with a participle as an adjective. Explain why a present or past participle is used in each case and then translate the phrases into Chinese:1) limping walk: walk in a limping unsteady way 一瘸一拐地走2) embarrassing presence: presence that is embarrassing 令人尴尬的人或事物3) unsmiling eye: eyes that are very strict and don’t smile 没有笑意的眼睛4) ululating sound: a sound that roars and is like wailing 哀鸣5) chilling mockery: mockery that makes people feel chilly 令人后脊背发冷的嘲笑6) burning birch log: a birch log that is warped 正在燃烧的白桦树7) terrifying hope: hope that fills people with horror 令人生畏的希望8) flourishing resort: a resort that is prosperous 繁华的旅游胜地9) penetrating odours: very intense smell 强烈的气味10) warped lumber: lumber that is cooked 弯曲的木材11) discarded car tyres: car tyres that are abandon 被丢弃的汽车轮胎12) tangled strands of barbed wire: strands of barbed wire that aretangled together 缠在一起的铁丝网13) bruised wild strawberries: wild strawberries that have beendamage in the skin 破了皮的草莓14) fallen tree trunk: a thick main stem of a tree that has beenfallen 砍到的树干15) offended shoppers: shoppers are displeased 被冒犯的顾客16) long-drawn call: call that lasts for a long time 拖长音的叫声Ⅶ. Replace the italicized colloquial or slangy words with more for- mal words or expressions:1) Sometimes Old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl. (a rough and noisy quarrel or fight )2) I hate like the dickens to send her home again. ( very much )3) "I'll bet anything "she has nits in her hair. (I'm absolutely sure )4) "So what? "Her voice was distant. ( Why is that important?)5) "Your dad said I ain' t supposed to do no more walking than I got to. "(1 don’twant to walk unless it is necessary )6) "I bet you know a lot about the woods and all that, eh?" ( things like that)7) "I don't know what the hell you' re talk in about," she replied(what ‘s exactly )8) " You nuts or somethin'? If you mean where my old man, and me and all themlive,you better shut up, by Jesus, you know?"(Are you crazy or what?)( My father and I and the others )9) "Got this classy name. Alvin Gerald Cummings—some handle, eh?"(first—class) (good name )10) "Gee, Piquette--that's swell."( perfect)Ⅷ. Replace the italicized words with specific words that appear in the text:1) The man standing behind me took away my purse suddenly and ran off like a rabbit. (grabbed )2) The new policies were made in order to attract more foreign investment. ( lure)3) The smoke from the burning building made breathing very difficult for the fire-men. (stifled )4) I didn't get a wink of sleep last night because the wind was blowing hard and noisily all the time. ( howling)5) The hammock moved backward and forward with regular movements between the two trees. (swung )6) The patient moved about in bed wildly and almost violently in unbearable pain. (thrashed )7) She felt a sudden dizziness and walked unsteadily before she reached a tree and leaned against it. ( teetered)8) The parrot was unusually quiet this morning, not uttering a single loud and harsh cry. (squawking even once )9) Some of the berries at the bottom of the pail were pressed into a soft mass. ( squashed)10) To get rid of the policemen, he ran into the forest and then crawled hurriedly up the hill. (scrambled )11) The candle shone unsteadily as a breeze swept into the room. ( flickered) IX. 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). In a clearing at the centre of the thicket stood the Tonnerre family’s sha ck. (home) Shack: a living place with simple facilities and is build carelesslyHome: living in for a long or short time, emphasizing personal emotion2). Their English was broken and full of obscenities. (bad words)Bad words: the words are said by uneducated peopleObscenities: disgusting bad language3)Piquette was with us and Grandmother Macleod, miraculously, was not.(strange enough)Miraculously: marvelouslyStrange enough: emphasizing the level of strange4). My father would only be staying at the cottage for a couple of weeks.(villa) Cottage: village or a traveling houseVilla: luxurious department in the village5). Roderick sat on the car rug in the sunshine and examined a brown spruce cone, meticulously, turning it round and round in his small and curious hand. (carefully, strange-looking)Meticulously: over-careCarefully: avoiding mistake by careful actions6). She looked at me sullenly, without speaking.(unhappily)Sullen: mumpishUnhappy: displeased7). I bet you know a lot about the woods and all that, eh? I began respectfully. (respectably)Respectfully: esteemRespectably: be worth of respect8). I ignored her rebuff. (refusal)Rebuff: refuse sb. DecisivelyRefusal: sometimes refuse sb in a rude way9). At night the lake was like black glass with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon.(reflection)Path: here is a reflex moonlightReflection: an image is refected in the mirror or water10). Neither of us suspected that this would be last time we would ever sit here together on the shore, listening. (doubted)Suspect: sth. possible exist or happenDoubt: do not believe11). But I did not know...why she would not or could not respond when I suggested exploring the woods or playing house.(reply)Respond: by not only in words but also take actionsReply: by verbal, written or action to make formal respond12). I stared at her, astounded that anyone could have changed so much.(surprised) Astounded: extraordinary shockedSurprised: shocked13). As I mouthed the conventional phrases, I could only guess hoe great her need must have been, that she had been forced to seek the very things she so bitterly rejected.(traditional, resented)Conventional: be coincided with formal norms and principlesTraditional: be consisted to traditional14). The one store had become several dozen, and the settlement had all the attributes of a flourishing resort-hotels, a dance-hall, cafes with neon signs, the penetrating odours of potato chips and hot dogs. (place, smell)Settlement: a small living placePlace: can replace any words of placeSmell: refer all kinds of smellOdour: a kind of perceivable smell。