大一英语口语考试(课后问答)

课后问答

Unit 1

1.In India. Shortly before the First World War. It may not be a true story.

2.A colonial official and his wife. Officers and their wives, and a visiting American

naturalist.

3.Their spacious dinning room has a bare marble floor, open rafters and wide glass doors

opening onto a veranda.

4.Whether women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era.

5.The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests. He sees a

strange expression come over the face of the hostess. Because a cobra was crawling across her foot, she felt nervous.

6.Because in india, milk in a bowl means only one thing – bait for a snake. He realizes

there must be a cobra in the room.

7.His first impulse is to jump back and warn the others. He says he will count three

hundred – that is five minutes – and not one of you is to move a muscle. Those who move will forfeit 50 rupees. Yes he is successful.

8.Five minutes later, the cobra emerged and made for the bowl of milk. . The cobra did

not strike because the 20 people sat like stone images.

9.He has just shown us an example of perfect self-control.

10.B ecause the cobra has left the room and the people are all safe. She felt delighted. Her

self-control proved that women had outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era.

Unit 2

1.Because he wrote the Declaration of Independence.

2.In the work. When his colleagues sat and studied papers on the subject, Jefferson got

into a canoe and made on-the-spot observations..

3.He was kind to the humble origins and he went out of his way to talk with gardeners,

servants, and waiters.

4.Because he felt that the people “may safely be trusted to hear everything ture and false,

and to form a correct judgement

5.There are two sides to every question. If you take one side with decision and act on it

with effect, those who take the other side will of course resent your actions.

6.In agriculture, archeology, and medicine.

7.Because he was above all a good and tireless writer. His complete works, now being

published for the first time, will fill more than fifty volumes.

8.Becauce he left his countrymen a rich legacy of ideas and examples and he believed

that only a nation of educated people could remain free.

Unit 3

1.Being very short of money and wanting to do someing useful.

2.My chances of getting the job were slim, becauce I had no degree and no experience

in teaching .

3.He felt too depressed to feel nervous because it proved an awkward journey: a train to

Croydon station; a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile.

4.The school is old, shabby and has a very bad environment.