Unit-11-The-Story-of-an-Eyewitness习题答案综合教程四

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Unit 11 The Story of an EyewitnessKey to the ExercisesText comprehensionI.Decide which of the following best states the authors 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

2、 a loss 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 est

3、imate the actual damage within hundreds of millions of dollars.)3.F (Refer to Paragraph 6, where it is indicated that the purpose of mans 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 shown that

4、 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 great diffi

5、culty 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 of life a

6、nd 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 and rose

7、 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 flames. His

8、 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 one of the

9、 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 the firemen

10、 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 peoples memories.2.Nothin

11、g 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 delivery wagon t

12、hat 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 estimating within hundre

13、ds 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 the physical destruction of

14、 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 panic-stricken. / There were no fire

15、men, 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 slowly back and forth2.ingenious devices and protect

16、ive 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.played out7.to sweep down8.a flicker ofIII.Fill in

17、 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 meaning.1. C 2. D 3. A 4. D5. B 6. A 7. C 8. BV.G

18、ive 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 (level, even)5.Synonym: plod (drudge, labor)6.Antonym

19、: 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 exercisesI.Identify the subject and the predicate

20、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 flung6.subject: no firepredicate verb: was7.subject

21、: 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.Rewrite the following sentences. Begin with the wo

22、rds 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 was the misbehaving child.7.Hidden in the cellar we

23、re 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 such5.all these five6.These next two7.all these las

24、t 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 party that I didnt get a chance to talk to many ( man

25、y of) my friends. 3.I dont drink a lot of ( much) German wine, and I think much ( a lot of) English wine is too sweet.4.Hes putting on much ( a lot of) weight. Hes always eating many of ( a lot of) biscuits and crisps.5.She was born in Poland, and wrote much ( many) of her early novels there.6.A lot

26、 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 standards in many of ( many) Asian countries. A lot ( Much / A great de

27、al) 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 given below, keeping the underlined structures in your sentences.(Ref

28、erence version)1.There is no telling what hell 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 inversionSo dangerous were the avalanches that skiing had to be stopped.From the vall

29、ey came a tinkling sound, a soothing moo, the lull of a alien voices.Translation exercisesI.Translate the following sentences into Chinese. 1.人类所有聪明的发明创造和保护措施，在地壳震动30秒钟后便完全失效了。2.这死一般的沉寂从白天持续到黑夜，可是在大火周围，由于上升的热空气形成强大吸力, 风力经常接近狂风。3.要记录被烧毁的建筑那将是整个旧金山的所有在册房屋，而要记录没有被烧毁的建筑可能只需要一行字加几个地址。如果记下所有英勇的事迹，肯定会塞满整个图

30、书馆，耗尽全部卡内基奖章基金。死亡人数的记录则将永远无法获得。4.这些精疲力竭的人，在刺刀的威胁下，不得不又站起身来，在陡峭的路面上继续挣扎，可是每走五到十英尺又累得停下脚步。II.Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and phrases given in brackets.1.My whole mornings work has been put out of gear by that mishap.2.By hiding himself among the bushes, he at last f

31、lung 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 admit that he had stolen that confidential document.6.His inability to speak Englis

32、h 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 Hitlers followers that his Thousand-Year Reich was doomed.III.Translate the follo

33、wing passage into Chinese.19世纪，南达科他州戴德伍德镇发现黄金，吸引了许多心地善良或心怀叵测、但都一心想发财的人，进而使它被称作是“胆小鬼决不敢动身前往，不中用的则死于途中”的地方。但是在戴德伍德镇，最出名的歹徒一直是一样东西：火灾。小镇建筑在峻峭的山坡上，下面深谷蜿蜒。假如发生火灾，这山谷就成了个烟囱，把火焰一直吸上房屋。在我们这个时代，大火再一次威胁过这个小镇。有一些废纸在山谷脚下烧着了，然后大火就熊熊而起，不到一小时，火焰就穿过树顶。大风在深林中呼啸而过，几乎把火焰引到了小镇的边缘。受到惊吓的居民们准备离开，他们尽量多带一些财物，街头到处都是衣服堆得高高的卡车。风向在变化，卡车也不断被迫改变撤退的路线。消防队员奋不顾身地与火搏斗了24小时，最后飞机也用上了。飞机开始用水“轰炸”大