UnitThe Story of an Eyewitness習題答案綜合教程四

1、Unit 11 The Story of an EyewitnessKey to the ExercisesText comprehensionI.Decide which of the following best states the author's purpose of writing.BII.Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.1.T (Refer to Paragraph 1: The earthquake brought about a loss

2、of thousands of dollars worth of housing while the conflagration burned up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property.)2.T (Refer to Paragraph 1, in which it is said that "There is no estimating within hundreds of millions the actual damage wrought," meaning that it is impossible to

3、 estimate the actual damage within hundreds of millions of dollars.)3.F (Refer to Paragraph 6, where it is indicated that the purpose of man's dynamiting the city was to prevent the advancement of the furious fire rather than maliciously destroy the city.)4.F (Refer to Paragraph 6, where it is s

4、hown that organized firefighters made efforts to combat the flames.)5.F (Refer to Paragraphs 11?2, which tell us that the men broke their heart over their trunks because they were compelled to abandon their trunks, which contained their family treasures and which they had been dragging along with gr

5、eat difficulty for a dozen hours.)6.T (Refer to Paragraphs 13?4, which show that twenty hours after the earthquake, miles and miles of magnificent buildings and skyscrapers still stood intact.)III. Answer the following questions.1.Refer to Paragraph 4. They refer to the shrewd man-made conveniences

6、of life and safeguards in San Francisco such as the streets, the steel rails, the telephone and telegraph systems.2.Refer to Paragraph 5. No. Away from the burning city, it was dead calm. Inside it, however, the flames were becoming more and more rampant and the heated air became lighter and lighter

7、 and rose continuously. Thus a discrepancy of air pressure was formed. Consequently, under the higher pressure from outside, air was pouring in upon the city where the atmospheric pressure was lower.3.Refer to Paragraph 6. It was very hard or even impossible for man to halt the advancement of the fl

8、ames. His efforts to combat the conflagration turned out to be useless.4.Refer to Paragraph 7. As the author sees it, it will be impossible to know the exact number of the victims of the earthquake because all their traces have been erased by the flames.5.Refer to Paragraph 11, which tells us that o

9、ne of the tasks of the soldiers was to keep the trunk-pullers moving so as to reduce the loss of lives in the disaster. 6.Refer to Paragraph 16. Man had tried his best to fight against the flames, and yet the conflagration was getting all the more rampant. Moreover, water and dynamite, with which th

10、e firemen fought against the flames, were exhausted. So they had no choice but to admit defeat.IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences.1.Except for some dwelling houses on its outskirts, San Francisco has almost completely disappeared from the world and only remains in people's mem

11、ories.2.Nothing could stop the forceful advancement of the flames.3.The courageous and brave deeds in the firefighting would fill up a library if related in writing and exhaust the Carnegie medal fund if rewarded.4.Sometimes all members of a family fastened themselves with straps to a carriage or de

12、livery wagon that was heavily loaded with their possessions. 5.Two United States soldiers sat astride on their horses and calmly watched the conflagration, their shapes contrasting sharply with the wall of flame behind them. Structural analysis of the textThe topic sentence is "There is no esti

13、mating within hundreds of millions the actual damage wrought," in Paragraph 1. It is developed in the following paragraphs by a chronological description of the destruction caused by the earthquake and the subsequent conflagrations as witnessed by the author. Furthermore, the author describes t

14、he physical destruction of the city first and then the quiet and calm reactions of the city dwellers.Rhetorical features of the textIn Paragraphs 8 and 14 there are similar structures:"I saw not one woman who wept, not one man who was excited, not one person who was in the slightest degree pani

15、c-stricken." / "There were no firemen, no fire-engines, no men fighting with dynamite."These parallel sentences help to illustrate the destructive power of the earthquake and conflagrations.Vocabulary exercisesI.Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.1.moved sl

16、owly back and forth2.ingenious devices and protective measures3.resisting4.fill with a supply5.polite or considerate in manner6.threatII.Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase from the box in its appropriate form.1.was weighted down2.out of gear3.wipe out4.burdened with5.crumbled6.

17、played out7.to sweep down8.a flicker ofIII.Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.1.withdrawal2.adjust3.enumerate4.hysterically5.courteous6.devastation7.disruption8.vacancyIV.Choose the word that can replace the underlined part in each sentence without changing its original

18、 meaning.1. C 2. D 3. A 4. D5. B 6. A 7. C 8. BV.Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.1.Synonym: invention (creation, innovation)2.Synonym: enormous (immense, mammoth)3.Antonym: economically (thriftily, frugally, sparingly)4.Antonym: smooth (le

19、vel, even)5.Synonym: plod (drudge, labor)6.Antonym: unsociable (discourteous, ill-mannered)7.Synonym: plot (patch)8.Synonym: edge (boundary, margin)VI.Explain the meaning of the underlined part in each sentence.1. way 2. controlled3. for example 4. finished5. be able to deal with it6. makingGrammar

20、exercisesI.Identify the subject and the predicate verb in the following sentences.1.subject: the earthquakepredicate verb: came2.subject: the suckpredicate verb: was3.subject: her peoplepredicate verb: were4.subject: trunkspredicate verb: were5.subject: picket lines of soldierspredicate verb: were f

21、lung6.subject: no firepredicate verb: was7.subject: two United States cavalrymenpredicate verb: were8.subject: the tottering walls of the Examiner Building, the burned-out Call Building, the smouldering ruins of Grand Hotel, and the gutted, devastated, dynamited Palace Hotel predicate verb: stoodII.

22、Rewrite the following sentences. Begin with the words given.1.Under no circumstances will we tolerate that.2.So absurd was his manner that everybody stared.3.Only with full agreement of everyone can we hope to succeed.4.Here is the book you want.5.Down sprang the cat.6.Sitting at the kitchen table w

23、as the misbehaving child.7.Hidden in the cellar were several barrels of wine.8.Never have I seen such a mess.III.Choose the appropriate clause or sentence to complete the passage.1. B 2. A 3. B4. B 5. AIV.Put the words in brackets in the right order.1.All our many2.The other ten3.the few next4.Few s

24、uch5.all these five6.These next two7.all these last few8.His manyV.Make corrections or improvements to the following sentences.1.Tom spends much of ( a lot of) his time listening to music, and he spends too many ( much) time playing computer games. 2.There were so much ( many) people at the last par

25、ty that I didn't get a chance to talk to many ( many of) my friends. 3.I don't drink a lot of ( much) German wine, and I think much ( a lot of) English wine is too sweet.4.He's putting on much ( a lot of) weight. He's always eating many of ( a lot of) biscuits and crisps.5.She was bo

26、rn in Poland, and wrote much ( many) of her early novels there.6.A lot of ( Many) people have observed the concentration of butterflies in this area, and a lot of ( many / a large number of) suggestions have been put forward to explain the phenomenon.7.The last decade has witnessed improved living s

27、tandards in many of ( many) Asian countries. A lot ( Much / A great deal) has been done to change.8.In recent years the relationship between diet and heart disease has received a lot of ( much / a great deal of) attention in the scientific community. VI.Make sentences of your own after the sentences

28、 given below, keeping the underlined structures in your sentences.(Reference version)1.There is no telling what he'll do.2.a)Partial inversionNot for one minute do I think I have any hope of getting promoted.Visit our stores. Nowhere else will you find such magnificent bargains.b)Full inversionS

29、o dangerous were the avalanches that skiing had to be stopped.From the valley came a tinkling sound, a soothing moo, the lull of a alien voices.Translation exercisesI.Translate the following sentences into Chinese. 1.人類所有聰明的發(fā)明創(chuàng)造和保護措施，在地殼震動30秒鐘后便完全失效了。2.這死一般的沉寂從白天持續(xù)到黑夜，可是在大火周圍，由于上升的熱空氣形成強大吸力, 風力經(jīng)常接近狂

30、風。3.要記錄被燒毀的建筑那將是整個舊金山的所有在冊房屋，而要記錄沒有被燒毀的建筑可能只需要一行字加幾個地址。如果記下所有英勇的事跡，肯定會塞滿整個圖書館，耗盡全部卡內(nèi)基獎章基金。死亡人數(shù)的記錄則將永遠無法獲得。4.這些精疲力竭的人，在刺刀的威脅下，不得不又站起身來，在陡峭的路面上繼續(xù)掙扎，可是每走五到十英尺又累得停下腳步。II.Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and phrases given in brackets.1.My whole morning's work has been p

31、ut out of gear by that mishap.2.By hiding himself among the bushes, he at last flung off his pursuers.3.We must make every effort to wipe out the injustice in the system.4.The soldiers held on to that isolated position until reinforcements arrived.5.In front of all the facts, he was compelled to adm

32、it that he had stolen that confidential document.6.His inability to speak English puts him at a disadvantage when he attends international conferences.7.Here there was no one in sight for miles, which made me feel very lonely.8.At the beginning of May 1945, it was clear even to the most zealous of H

33、itler's followers that his "Thousand-Year Reich" was doomed.III.Translate the following passage into Chinese.19世紀，南達科他州戴德伍德鎮(zhèn)發(fā)現(xiàn)黃金，吸引了許多心地善良或心懷叵測、但都一心想發(fā)財?shù)娜?，進而使它被稱作是“膽小鬼決不敢動身前往，不中用的則死于途中”的地方。但是在戴德伍德鎮(zhèn)，最出名的歹徒一直是一樣東西：火災。小鎮(zhèn)建筑在峻峭的山坡上，下面深谷蜿蜒。假如發(fā)生火災，這山谷就成了個煙囪，把火焰一直吸上房屋。在我們這個時代，大火再一次威脅過這個小鎮(zhèn)。有一些廢紙在山谷腳下燒著了，然后大火就熊熊而起，不到一小時，火焰就穿過樹頂。大風在深林中呼嘯而過，幾乎把火焰引到了小鎮(zhèn)的邊緣。受到驚嚇的居民們準備離開，他們盡量多帶一些財物，街頭到處都是衣服堆得高高的卡車。風向在變化，卡車也不斷被迫改變撤退的路線。消防隊員奮不顧身地與火搏斗了24小時，最后飛