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1、Unit 8 The Discus Thrower Key to the Exercises Text comprehension I . Decide which of the following best states the authors purpose of writing. C II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. 1. F (Refer to Paragraph 1.) 2. F (Refer to Paragraph 2. Here it is

2、stated that the patients skin is not brown from the sun, though it looks deeply tanned from a distance. Rather, his skin becomes reddish because he was in his last stage of life, that is, he was approaching death.) 3. F (Refer to Paragraph 7. When the doctor offered his help, the patient remained si

3、lent for a long time, and then in real earnest he asked for a pair of shoes, hoping against hope that the doctor would make him a whole being again.) 4. T (Refer to Paragraph 7.) III. Answer the following questions. 1. Refer to Paragraph 1. No, he doesnt. Instead, he finds the activity justifiable.

4、For one thing, he thinks the activity is well-meant, i.e. he wants to collect more pathological evidence in order to give the patients more effective treatment. For another, his activity is not spying in the true sense, for the act is far from furtive. 2. Refer to Paragraph 2. The fact that there ar

5、e no get-well cards, no small, private caches of food and day-old flowers shows that he has been abandoned by his family and friends. 3. Refer to Paragraph 7. As a blind man, he is restrained in activity. Now without legs he is completely confined to bed. Like a caged bird, he longs for freedom and

6、dreams of going back to his career. Thus it is understandable why he repeatedly asks for shoes. 4. Refer to Paragraphs 9?0. This is the way he expresses his wrath with the unfair fate. He is deprived of sight and now his legs. Deserted by society, he is left with very little. Indignant as he is, he

7、can avenge himself upon nobody. What he can do is only to crash his plate against the wall to vent his anger and despair. Moreover, he would rather die in a stroke like the plate than linger in agony. 5. Refer to Paragraph 11. The laughter is unique as is indicated in Paragraph 11. It comes both fro

8、m the pleasure after revenge by crashing the plate and the hope to extricate himself from his agony by means of an abrupt death like the plate. Since freedom in this material world is impossible to him, he wishes to have it in the other world. 名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

9、 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 1 页，共 6 页 - - - - - - - - - IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences. 1. Yes, I am going down, he says, meaning literally that he is going down with the bed but metaphorically that his physical condition is going from bad to worse. 2. The wild, relaxed laughter i

10、s a totally new sound in the world that nobody has ever heard. The joyful laughter could even give a promising future to cancer patients. 3. The aide looks across at me, shaking her head to express her frustration and pursing her lips to signal her annoyance. Structural analysis of the text This tex

11、t can be divided into three parts. Part 1, i.e. Paragraph 1, serves as an introduction to the background of the story. Part 2, i.e. Paragraphs 2?3, describes the strange behaviour of a particular patient dubbed the discus thrower and his conflict with the health workers. Part 3, i.e. Paragraphs 14?5

12、, tells the reader about the death of the patient. Here are the suggested headlines for the three parts: Part 1: Spying on Patients: a Habit of Mine; Part 2: Encounters with a Particular Patient; Part 3: The Death of the Patient. Rhetorical features of the text 1. The questions he asks himself: Ough

13、t not a doctor to observe his patients by any means and from any stance, that he might the more fully assemble evidence? Is he mute as well as blind? What is he thinking behind those lids that do not blink? Is he remembering a time when he was whole? Does he dream of feet? Or when his body was not a

14、 rotting log? These questions call for no answer but they reveal the inner thoughts of the narrator. He seems to be trying to place himself in the position of the patient for a better understanding of the patients psychology. 2. The questions he asks in his dialogue with the patient: How are you? Ho

15、w do you feel? Anything more I can do for you? These questions help to show that the narrator is very patient with and responsible for his patient. Vocabulary exercises I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words. 1. reddish brown 2. low-growing 3. almost unbearable degree 名师资料

16、总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 2 页，共 6 页 - - - - - - - - - 4. brings the spoon into light contact with 5. visit the patients II. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word from the box in its appropriate form. 1. accomplice 2. probing 3. furtive 4. so

17、lid 5. pruned 6. acknowledging 7. hefted 8. unwrapped III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words. 1. peculiar 2. impression 3. dwellings 4. delivery 5. disinfectants 6. assembly 7. probings 8. awkwardly IV. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part in

18、each sentence without changing its original meaning. 1. B 2. A 3. A 4. C 5. D 6. C 7. A 8. A V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used. 1. Synonym: stare (watch, look) 2. Synonym: live (reside, inhabit, lodge, stay) 3. Synonym: sway 4. Synonym: s

19、atire (sarcasm, derision, ridicule) 5. Antonym: tense (nervous, stressed, anxious) 6. Synonym: remarkable (extraordinary, notable, striking) 7. Antonym: desirable (pleasant, agreeable) 8. Synonym: stretch (extend) VI. Explain the meaning of the underlined part in each sentence. 1. location 2. praise

20、s 3. much 4. Supporting 5. usually 6. bring together Grammar exercises I. Make comments on the following situations, using the words and structures given. 1. you have enjoyed it 名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 3 页，共 6 页 - - - - - - - - - 2. she needs a

21、 good rest 3. you have had a good time 4. someone has / had smoked in here 5. I had run a marathon 6. Susan isnt coming 7. he were an old man 8. the world were coming to an end II. Complete the following sentences according to the situations given in italics. 1. I were/was a child 2. it happened onl

22、y yesterday 3. she knew everything 4. to let the painful memories pass 5. awakened from some dream 6. searching for something 7. she were the Queen 8. he were a patient III. M atch the sentences or sentence fragments in Column A with those in Column B. 1. J 2. D 3. B 4. A 5. G 6. H 7. E 8. F 9. I 10

23、. C IV. Rewrite the following sentences, putting as many words as possible in the plural with other necessary changes. 1. Apes are the animals nearest to men in appearance. 2. These articles are well written, but there is still room for improvement. 3. Crises often occur in the best-regulated famili

24、es. 4. The passers-by stopped and put their hands into their trouser pockets. 5. Traffic accidents often occur at crossroads. 6. Telephones are a necessity in the modern world. 7. The storms did great damage to the crops. 8. We have a very high opinion of the old professors. V. Fill in the blanks wi

25、th is or are. 1. are 2. is 3. are / is 4. is 5. is / are 6. is / are 7. are 8. Is 名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 4 页，共 6 页 - - - - - - - - - VI. Make sentences of your own after the sentences given below, keeping the underlined structures in your sent

26、ences. (Reference version) 1. When she came in from the rainstorm, she looked as though she had just taken a shower with her clothes on. 2. Diana stood motionless at the end of the diving board, hands at her sides, heels slightly raised, every muscle anticipating action. Translation exercises I. Tra

27、nslate the following sentences into Chinese. 1. 这让他看上去像一盘盆景，树根和树枝都被修剪掉了，一棵大树只剩下矮小的树干。2. 他两腿的残肢，失去了腿和脚的负荷，翘在半空，露出双腿的病况。3. 他双手端起盘子，放到右手上，移到手心里，然后把它稳住。4. 传来盘子在他床头对面墙上撞碎的声音以及湿漉漉的炒蛋轻轻地掉到地板上的声音。II. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words or phrases given in brackets. 1. Searchlight

28、s fingered across the black water. 2. Since a robbery happened in this building, the night watchman has become more careful and makes his rounds once every hour. 3. He stuck to his plan, though there was nothing left to prop him up. 4. He is paid by the police to spy on the activities of the terrori

29、sts. 5. In time they will come to accept the harsh reality. 6. That mans behaviour looks very suspicious. He is pretending to sleep, but now and then he steals a furtive glance at the passers-by. 7. The social and economic changes that have taken place in this country are so sweeping that it has dwa

30、rfed all its neighbours. 8. In the dim light of the daybreak, I saw a dark shape looming athwart the door. III. Translate the following passage into Chinese. 父亲那些浆得发硬的衬衫是个问题。他穿衬衫时， 把它套住头往下拉， 两只手左右乱伸，寻找袖子。新衬衫非常结实，经得起这样拉扯，不会撕裂，但经父亲穿过后，很快就不那么结实了。首先他知道，他会听到它开始撕裂的声音，这使他感到讨厌。他憎恨任何脆弱的表现，不管是人还是物。他愤怒时摸索袖子会比以

31、前更加用力，接着会传来衬衫撕裂时刺耳的噼啪声和母亲大声的抱怨。Exercises for integrated skills I. Dictation The longer I live, / the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. / Attitude to me is 名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 5 页，共 6 页 - - - - - - - - - more important than fact

32、s. / It is more important than the past, / than education, than money, / than circumstances, than failures, than successes, / than what other people think or say or do. / It is more important than appearance, gifted ability, or skill. / It will make or break a company, a church, a home. / The remark

33、able thing is / we have a choice every day / regarding the attitude we will embrace from that day. / We cannot change our past, / we cannot change the fact / that people will act in certain ways. / We cannot change the inevitable. / The only thing that we can do / is play on the one string that we h

34、ave / and this string is Attitude. / I am convinced / life is 10 percent what happens to me / and 90 percent how I react to it. / And so it is with you. II. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE appropriate word. (1) on (2) under (3) even (4) how (5) where (6) at (7) true (8) camps (9) as (10) either 名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 6 页，共 6 页 - - - - - - - - -