1、 8） Why did Maggie want 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
2、 one hand 2）”no” is a word 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 w
3、e didnt necessarily need 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
4、 beyond the Civil War through 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
5、 the winter I wear flannel 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
6、steaming from the hog. 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
7、like an uncooked barley 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
8、in the eye? It seems to 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-fo
9、re we raised the money, 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 kno
10、wledge we didnt necessarily 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
11、 questions than they do 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
12、guess just sing church 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 t
13、he following italicized 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-turne
14、d phrases 5） I heard Maggie 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 t
15、he beef-cattle people down 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, ne
16、xt. A dress down to the 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
17、 down the hay. 9） “Uncle 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: .
18、my skin like an uncooked 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 famil
19、y of ignorant flashy people. 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.
20、8） “Mama, “ Wangero said, 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
21、like an extended living 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
22、 I am ushered into a bright 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） w
23、ent to the trunk at the 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.
24、1） A pleasant surprise, 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
25、dont you take one or two of the others?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 ha
26、ng backto carry 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
27、Committee meeting 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.
28、9） The waterfall 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 fro
29、ck away, for 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 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 a
