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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 mother2) 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 kind

2、 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 the quil

3、t?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 hand2)”no” is a word the world

4、never learned to say to her3) 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 flight5) She washed us in a river of make-believe6) Burned us with a lot of knowledge we didnt necessarily need to know|7) Like

5、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 through the branches.12

6、) 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 flannel nightgowns to bed and

7、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. One winter I knocked a bul

8、l 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 pancake. My hair glistens

9、 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 me I have talked to them a

10、lways 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, the church and me, to send

11、 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 necessarily need to know. Pressed

12、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 now. Sometimes Maggie reads

13、 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 songs to myself. Although I

14、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 words with more formal word

15、s 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 phrases5) I heard Maggie go “Uhnnnh” again. ( )6) It

16、 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 down the road,” I said. ( )10) She ta

17、lked 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 ground, in this hot weather.5) Earrings

18、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) “Uncle Buddy whittle that, too?” asked the barber.1

19、0) “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 uncooked barley pancake.2) It seems to me I have talke

20、d 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 people.5) And she stops and tries to dig a well in t

21、he 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 said, sweet as a bird.9) She gasped like a bee had stung

22、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 room. (large)2) She will stand hopelessly in corners, ho

23、mely 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 bright room filled with many people. (car)|5) Furtive boys in

24、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 foot of my bed and started rifling through it. (suitcase, sea

25、rching)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, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the sh

26、ow 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 two of the others?” I asked.IX. Choose the appropriate set phrase from

27、the list below for each blank. Make changes where necessary.to put up to bring up to bring togetherto crop up to keep up with to hand downout of style with a style to stick toby hand to hang to hang aboutto hang down to hang back to carry back1) Serious trouble_ when Martin thought the problem of hi

28、s 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 meeting that very afternoon.5) Im not sure that John and Mary can be_6

29、) 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 waterfall was running down from the high cliff so smoothly that it looked like

30、 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 it is already_13) All the paintings were exquisite. It was obvious that the

31、 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 of animals in describing people or things. Point them out and then put them int

32、o 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?XII. Translate the following sentences into English, (using the following words

33、 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

34、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 composition on: My Family习题全解 I .1)In real life the mother was a large, big-boned w

35、oman 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 the eye and is ready to go away. 4)Maggie is an innocent, timid and kind-hearted girl

36、.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 thinks is shameful. This tells us that Dee is somewhat a snob. Another instance to pr

37、ove 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 quilt because she could remember her grandma better, who taught her to do needle work.9

38、)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 love was transferred to a dislike because of Dees egotism, which was obviously revealed

39、 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 ordinary old thing may be something precious for the young. .1)She thinks that her sister

40、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, has to try hard if he wants to catch up with me. 4)It seems to me that I have talked to them

41、 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 us7)She is not bright just as she is neither good-looking rich.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.