测绘工程专业英语Unit7

1、 The Sunrise on the VeldVeld: a vast grassy land with sparse bushes and almost no trees - a prolific British woman writer, novelist, her novels touch upon a lot of issues, like racial discrimination, womans liberation movement, warGrowing up on a farm in Africa, Lessing had an explorative childhood.

2、 Allowed to go into the veld alone, she often carried a rifle to shoot game for the familys food. Lessing has claimed that her real education came from observing nature on the veld, which became the setting for many of her stories. Most of Lessings works are autobiographical and stress the complexit

3、y of life and death with humanitys struggle to understand the world. VeldSunrise 1. A 2. F 3.C 4. A 5. F6. D 7. A 8. B 9. C 10. BDescriptionThe main character in A Sunrise on the Veld feels_ and _ just before finding the dying buck?a. contemplative, serene b. omnipotent, unstoppablec. joyous, freed.

4、 tired, aloneInitiation storyThe boys age is important in the story because he feels he is on the brink of adulthood and feels all powerful. He springs out of bed “like a fish leaping from water.” He creeps abroad “alert as an animal,” seeking the “animal trails.” He leaps “like a duiker.” He answer

5、s the call of the “guinea fowl.” Shouting that he is fifteen, he experiences a kind of ecstasy, seeming to merge with “soil . . water . . . air.”With youths usual obliviousness to the idea of death, the protagonist leaves behind the “cultivated part” of the farm and recklessly runs through the veld,

6、 “not carefully . . .but madly, like a wild thing.” The narrator emphasizes the fact that the boy is “wild.” He is “yelling wild, unrecognizable noises.” That “he could break his ankle at any moment” does not occur to him.In the beginning, the boy felt in control of himself in every way, and came to

7、 feel in control of the world in which he lived. He feels omnipotent, invulnerable, and he insists that the world answer him back in kind. He learned that his joy was precarious and fragile and could be taken away at any given time. He described bitter odors after encountering the dying animal, and

8、the atmosphere became depressing. There was suffering, sickness and anger. There was a sense of the shortness of time and the character realized that he too was mortal. “the knowledge of fatality.” The character suffered and felt anger, but also he was satisfied with what he realized about the cruel

9、ty of nature and life. 2. He lives in a Darwinian world where only the fittest survive the struggle for existence. He realizes he has come across a conflict that nature is struggling against nature. His proud boast, “There is nothing . . I cant do,” becomes “There is nothing I can do.” 3. He accepte

10、d the fact that there was nothing he could do to help and that some things were beyond his ability to control. He came to an awareness of his own limitations and accepted the inevitable. He crushes ants as easily as they have crushed the buck, even finding some grim satisfaction in his “new stoicism

11、.”Through the exposure of a new reality and truth of which he was not previously aware, the boy painfully learned that this initiation was beyond his control. The new found awareness was so powerful that it changed the boys entire outlook and he began to see the world in a different and more realist

12、ic way. The sunrise described in this story is a metaphorical dawning.a literal and metaphorical journeySetting Setting is the place and time of the story. To set the scene and suggest a mood or atmosphere for the events to follow, the writer attempts to create in the readers visual imagination the

13、illusion of a solid world in which the story takes palce. In an effective story, setting may figure as more than mere background or underpinning. It can make things happen. It can prompt characters to act, bring them to realizations, or cause them to reveal their inmost natures.Setting: an open, gra

14、ssy areas or an actual veld; an early winter morning, approximately two hours before sunrise. The air smelled new and fresh, it was the beginning of a new day. What type of imagery does Lessing use in order to describe the African landscape? the wall of trees; the grass described as tall; a river ar

15、ound him The narrator described the beauty and variety of nature. The atmosphere suggested life and energy. The lushness of the veld parallels with the boys emotional state. Images and Setting in Sharp ContrastPara 7 his low and small homeIt projected mans insignificance compared to the vastness of nature. the vastness of the veldPara 6 the warmth of the bedthe coldness of the dark morningthe “chilled” earth, the “icy” steel, fingers “numbed”