高级英语2全部习题

Lesson 1 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille

Paraphrase

1)We are elevated 23 feet. (Para 3)

We' re 23 feet above sea level.

2) The place has been there since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it. (Para3)

The house has been safe since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.

3) We can batten down and ride it out. (Para 4)

We can get ourselves ready and survive the hurricane.

4) The generator was doused, and the lights went out. (Para 9)

The generator was put it out by the water and the lights were extinguished.

5). Everybody out the back door to the cars! (Para 10)

Everybody go out through the back door and goes into the cars.

6). The electrical systems had been killed by water. (Para 11)

The electrical systems had been extinguished by water.

7). John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt.(Para17) John watched the water wash against the steps, as a result, he felt a strong sense of guilt.

8). Get us through this mess, will you?(Para 17)

Oh God, please help us survive the hurricane.

9). She carried on alone for a few bars; then her voice trailed away. (Para21) Grandmother sang a few words alone and then her singing faded away.

10). Ianis had just one delayed reaction. (para34)

Janis showed rather late the psychological damage from the hurricane.

Explain words

1. since the water mains might be damaged (Para 5) :

main pipes

2.sit out the storm with the Koshaks (Para 6):

wait until the storm is over

3. another neighbor came by on his way inland (Para 6):

(A English) pay a visit

4. the French doors in an upstairs room blew in (Para 8) :

burst open

5. the generator was doused (Para 9):

put out

6.The electrical systems had been killed by water (Para 11)：

doused, put out and extinguished

7.It devastated everything in it swath (Para 19)：

sweep / track

8.She carried on a few bars (Para21 )：

a measure in music

9. make it 1ean—to against the wind (Para 25): shed

10. and he pitched in with Seabees in the worst volunteer work of all (Para33)：

short for Construction Battalion

Lesson 2 Marrakech

Paraphrase

1.The burying--ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. (para 2)

The burying-ground is just a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth, looking like a deserted construction land.

2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. (Para 3)

All colonial empires are built by exploiting the local people.

3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard. (Para 3)

They are born. Then they work hard without enough food for a few years. Finally they die and are buried in the hills graves without any mark to identify them.

4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lighting