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1、,.Everyday Use for Your Grandmama I. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible: 1) In real life what kind of woman is the mother 2) What kind of woman would Dee like her mother to be? 3) How does the mother act when she meets a strange white man? 4) What

2、 kind of girl is Maggie? 5) Why do you think colored people asked fewer questions in 1927? 6) Why does the mother say Dee will never bring her friends to visit them? What does this tell about Dee? Give other instances to prove your point. 7) Why did Dee want the quilt so much? 8) Why did Maggie want

3、 the quilt? 9) Why did Dee visit her mother and sister? 10) What is the mothers feeling toward Dee? How is it changed in the course of the story? 11) What is implied by the subtitle for your grandmama?II. Paraphrase: 1) She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand 2)”no” is a w

4、ord the world never learned to say to her 3) Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue. 4) It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight 5) She washed us in a river of make-believe 6) Burned us with a lot of knowledge we didnt necessarily nee

5、d to know 7) Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by. 8) A dress to the ground, in this hot weather. 9) You can see me trying to move a second or two before I make it. 10) Anyhow, he soon gives up on Maggie. 11) Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War t

6、hrough the branches. 12) Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head. 13) Less than that. 14) This was the way she knew God to work.III. Translate the following into Chinese: 1) In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flan

7、nel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog.

8、One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. But of course all this does hot show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley

9、 pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue. 2) But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up.Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to

10、 me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee, though. She would always look anyone in the eye, Hesitation was no part of her nature. 3) I used to think she hated Maggie, too. But that was be-fore we raised the money,

11、 the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school. She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didnt necessa

12、rily need to know. Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand. 4) I never had an education myself. After second grade the school was closed down. Dont ask me why: in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do

13、 now. Sometimes Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along good-naturedly but cant see well. She knows she is not bright. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by. She will marry John Thomas (who has mossy teeth in an earnest face) and then Ill be free to sit here and I guess just sing church

14、songs to myself. Although I never was a good singer. Never could carry a tune. I was always better at a mans job. I used to love to milk till I was hooked in the side in 49. Cows are soothing and slow and dont bother you, unless you try to milk them the wrong way.IV. Replace the following italicized

15、 words with more formal words or expressions: 1) even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers. 2) like dimwits, w e seem to understand. ( ) 3) and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail ( ) 4) Impressed with her they worshiped her well-turned phrases 5) I heard Ma

16、ggie go “Uhnnnh” again. ( ) 6) It looks like Asalamalakim wants to shake hands but want to do it fancy. ( ) 7) “Well,” said Asalamalakim, “There you are.” ( ) 8) After I tripped over it two or three times he told me to just call him Hakim-a-barber. ( ) 9) “You must belong to the beef-cattle people d

17、own the road,” I said. ( ) 10) She talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes. ( )V. Complete the following elliptical sentences: 1) Dee, though. 2) Never could carry a tune. 3) Like when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your foot on the road. 4) Dee, next. A dress down to the

18、 ground, in this hot weather. 5) Earrings gold, too, and hanging down to her shoulders. 6) “No, Mama,” she says. “Not Dee, Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo!” 7) “Why shouldnt I?” I asked. 8)Always too busy: feeding the cattle, fixing the fences,putting up salt-lick shelters, throwing down the hay. 9) “Uncl

19、e Buddy whittle that, too?” asked the barber. 10) “Imagine!” she breathed again, clutching them to her bosom. The following sentences all contain metaphors or similes. Ex-plain their meaning in plain, non-figurative language. 1) I am the way my daughter would want me to be: . my skin like an uncooke

20、d barley pancake. 2) It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight. 3) Impressed with her they worshiped her well-turned phrases,the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. 4) He flew to marry a cheap city girl from a family of ignorant flashy pe

21、ople. 5) And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. 6) “Maggies brain is like an elephants,” Wangero said, laughing. 7) You didnt even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood. 8) “Mama, “ Wangero sai

22、d, sweet as a bird. 9) She gasped like a bee had stung her. 10) Its really a new day for us.VII. Explain how the meaning of the sentences is affected when the italicized words are replaced by the words in brackets. Pay attention to the shades of meaning of the words. 1) It is like an extended living

23、 room. (large) 2) She will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs. (helplessly, embarrassed by) 3) Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. (like this one) 4) Out of a dark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into a br

24、ight room filled with many people. (car) 5) Furtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on washday after school. (sly) 6) Bracelets dangling and making noises when she moves her arms up to shake the folds of the dress out of her armpits. (hanging) 7) After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the

25、 foot of my bed and started rifling through it. (suitcase, searching) 8) “Imagine!” she breathed again, clutching them closely to her bosom. (breathed)VIII. The following are rhetorical questions requiring no answers. Turn them into statements without changing the main ideas. 1) A pleasant surprise,

26、 of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other? 2) Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? 3) Who can ever imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? 4) Why dont you do a dance around the ashes? 5) “Why dont you take one or tw

27、o of the others?” I asked.IX. Choose the appropriate set phrase from the list below for each blank. Make changes where necessary. to put upto bring upto bring together to crop upto keep up withto hand down out of stylewith a styleto stick to by handto hangto hang about to hang downto hang backto car

28、ry back 1) Serious trouble_ when Martin thought the problem of his college education was solved. 2) The soldiers_ barricades of live wire around the whole area. 3) The work that Group A is doing is too difficult for me. Im afraid that I wont be able to_ them. 4) That matter was_ at the Committee mee

29、ting that very afternoon. 5) Im not sure that John and Mary can be_ 6) He noticed several furtive and rough-looking guys_ the bus stop. 7) Everyone approved of the project but when we asked for volunteers they all _ 8) A colored reproduction of Raphael _ on the wall over the fireplace. 9) The waterf

30、all was running down from the high cliff so smoothly that it looked like a piece of silver cloth _from the sky. 10) These ceremonies have been _through the centuries, and remain practically unchanged. 11) What surprised me most was the amount of work still done_ 12) You can put that frock away, for

31、it is already_ 13) All the paintings were exquisite. It was obvious that the artist did every one of them_ 14) Did the letter arrive or through the post? 15) Ive got some glue my fingers. 16) The sound of the seagull me to my childhood holidays to the seaside.X. The narrator uses a number of images

32、of animals in describing people or things. Point them out and then put them into Chinese.XI. The narrator says, “I never had an education myself.” What are some of the characteristics of her use of language (such as choice of words, sentence structure and grammar) that suit this background of hers?X

33、II. Translate the following sentences into English, (using the following words or expressions- to look sb. in the eyes, to burn . to the ground, to match, over, despite, to confront, to recompose, to imagine, to stick to, to trace . to): 1)一场大火把贫民区三百多座房子夷为平地。 2)只要你为人正直，不怕失去什么，那你对任何人都不会畏惧。 3)尽管发了水灾，今

34、年的农业生产损失并不严重。 4)这件衬衫与裙子的颜色和式样都不相配。 5)咱们一边喝咖啡一边谈这件事吧。 6)我怎么也不能想象你能做出不光彩的事来。 7)他无法想象为什么人们反对他的看法。 8)这位官员在下汽车时碰到两个恐怖分子。 9)只要我们坚持这些原则，我们就会成功。 10)这个消息使她大为震惊，但她很快就镇定了下来。 11）这段引文的来源很难查找到。 12）他们的生活方式可以追溯到一千多年前他们的祖先所开创的古老传统。XIII. Topic for oral work: Compare the three women in the story.XIV. Write a short com

35、position on: My Family习题全解 I . 1)In real life the mother was a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. 2)Dee like her mother to have a slender figure and a fair skin, glistening hair and a quick and witty tongue. 3)When she meets a strange white man, she always avoids looking him in th

36、e eye and is ready to go away. 4)Maggie is an innocent, timid and kind-hearted girl. 5) Because they were more seriously looked down upon by white men at that time, and they were not as awaken as they are today. 6)Because Dee doesnt like her friends to see the poor state her family is in, which she

37、thinks is shameful. This tells us that Dee is somewhat a snob. Another instance to prove this is that she wants nice things. 7)Because it was old and stitched by hand instead of by machine. So that she could use them for decoration showing to the people she was associated with. 8)Maggie wanted the q

38、uilt because she could remember her grandma better, who taught her to do needle work. 9)Because she wanted to get some valuable heritages of the family, mainly out of her vanity. 10)At first the mother liked Dee because of her beauty, taste, and education. But with the development of the story, her

39、love was transferred to a dislike because of Dees egotism, which was obviously revealed when she insisted on taking the quilts while her sister Maggie gave up keeping it willingly to satisfy her desire. 11)Its implied that the story is written in honor of the grandma mentioned in it and that the ord

40、inary old thing may be something precious for the young. . 1)She thinks that her sister has a firm control of her life. 2)She could always have anything she wanted, and life was extremely generous to her. 3)The popular TV talk show star, Johnny Carson, who is famous for his witty and glib tongue, ha

41、s to try hard if he wants to catch up with me. 4)It seems to me that I have talked to them always ready to leave as quickly as possible. 5)She imposed on us lots of falsity. 6)imposed on us a lot of knowledge that is totally useless to us 7)She is not bright just as she is neither good-looking rich.

42、 8)Dee wore a very long dress even on such a hot day. 9)You can see me trying to move my body a couple of seconds before I finally manage to push myself up. 10)Soon he knows that wont do for Maggie, so he stops trying to shake hands with Maggie. 11)As I see Dee is getting tired of this, I dont want

43、to go on either. In fact, I could have traced it far back before the Civil War along the branches of the family tree. 12)Now and then he and Dee communicated through eye contact in a secretive way. 13)If Maggie put the old quilts on the bed, they would be in rags less than five years. 14)She knew th

44、is was Gods arrangement. See the translation of the text.IV. 1)inelegant 2)a stupid person/a simpleton 3)tightly curled 4)expressed or worded well/felicitous 5)say (used to describe dialogue) 6)as if shake hands in a fancy and elaborate way 7)I knew you couldnt trace it further back 8)mispronounced,

45、 failed to pronounce it correctly 9)people who bred and fatten cattle for meat 10)talked much and rapidlyV. 1)Dee, however, is not like me. 2)I could never carry a tune. 3)It was like the reaction you have when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your foot on the road. 4)Dee comes

46、out of the car next. She is wearing a dress long enough to touch the ground, in spite of this hot weather. 5)Her earrings are gold，too，and they are hanging down to her shoulders 6) “No，Mama，”she says “My name is not Dee now，it has changed into Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo!” 7) “Why shouldnt I call you

47、by your new name? 8)Those people were always too busy： 9) “Did Uncle Buddy whittle that one, too?” asked the barber 10) “Imagine that she did all the stitching by hand!” she breathed again，clutching them to her bosom 1)my complexion had a smooth and creamy texture 2)uncomfortably and nervously，wanting to get away as soon as possible 3)the quick and great humor that would make everybody laugh immediately 4)He wasted no time in marrying a contemptible ci