高级英语第二册LESSON3课后答案

Questions on appreciation:

1. Speeches are generally highly rhetorical. Point out some of the different rhetorical devices Kennedy employs to make his inaugural address as forceful and impressive as possible.

2. Is the address well organized? Comment on the order in which he addressed the different groups of nations and people.

3. Cite examples to show that Kennedy is very particular and careful in his choice and use of words.

4. Is his tone and message suited to the different groups he ad-dresses? Give your reasons.

5. This inaugural address is regarded by many in the United States as a classical speech, and many passages are often , quoted. Could you pick out some passages likely to be quoted by Americans? Give reasons for your choice.

6. Is Kennedy's argument and persuasion based mainly on facts and logic or on an appeal to emotions? Would this type of speech be successful on all occasions?

III. Paraphrase：

1. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe (para 2)

2．This much we pledge --- and more. (para 5)

3．United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. (para 5)

4．…our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace (para 10)

5．…to enlarge the area In which its writ may run (para 10) 6．…before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity In planned or accidental self-destruction (para 11)

7．…yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war (para 13)

8．So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness (para 14)

9．Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. (para 17)

10. …each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty (para 21 )

11. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love (para 27)

V. Translate paras 23-26 into Chinese.

IV. Practice with Words and Expressions (P.56-58)

A. Look up the dictionary and explain the meaning of the itali-cized

words:

1. …the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago

(para 1)

2. for man holds in his mortal hands the power (para 2)

3. …disciplined by a hard and bitter peace (para 3)

4. …to witness or permit the slow undoing of these human rights (para 3)

5. …we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder (para 6)

6. …to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny ( para 7 )

7. struggling to break the bonds of mass misery (para 8)

8. …to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective…(para 10)

9. …to enlarge the area in which its writ may run (para10)

10. …that stays the hand of mankind's final war (para 13)

11. …tap the ocean depths… (para 17)

14. …not as a call to bear arms... but a call to bear the burden ' of a long twilight struggle…

(para 22)

B. Discriminate the following groups of synonyms:

1. mortal, fatal, deadly, lethal

2. faithful, loyal, constant, staunch, resolute