The Loons 课后习题详解
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Lesson 11
The Loons
( from Nov.
1
st
to Nov. 23th )
II. Look up the italicized words in the
dictionary and explain:
1)
a small square cabin
chinked
with mud...
chinked
:
filled.
2) was a chaos of
lean-tos
lean-tos
:
a
small
roughly-made
building
that
is
built
against
the
side
of
a
larger
building.
3) The Tonnerres were
halfbreeds
...
halfbreeds
:
a
person whose parents are from different races.
4) working at
odd
jobs or as
section
hands
odd:
temporary
section
:
a
department in an organization
5) they lived on
relief
relief:
financial help
6) but she had failed
several
grades
grades:
the levels in a
school
7) had to get back
to his
practice
practice
:
habit
8) how the coyote
reared
her young
reared:
cared for or kept
9) If you walk just around
the
point
there...
point:
main idea
10) her hair was cut short
and frizzily
permed
permed:
curled
I. Give brief answers to the following
questions, using your own words as much
as possible:
1.
Were the Tonnerres rich or poor?
Substantiate your answer with facts.
1
The basis of their
family
’
s shack was a small
square cabin and was chinked
with mud.
Piquette always did housework for the family
regardless of her illness.
2.
What
would
happen
sometimes
to
old
Jules
or
his
son
Lazarus
on
Saturday nights?
They often got drunk and
would be put in prison for a night for
fighting.
3.
Why
did
the
doctor
propose
taking
Piquette
to
Diamond
Lake
for
the
summer?
Because she had
tuberculosis of the bone, and she needed a good
rest. Staying
in her house could only
make it worse for she must work hard for her
family.
4.
Why did the narrator's mother first
object and then agree to take Piquette
along?
Her mother didn
’
t
like Piquette, but her mother-in-law said she
wouldn
’
t go
there
if Piquette went together. She would rather stay
with Piquette than stay with
her
mother-in-law.
5.
What was the cottage on the lake
called? What was the scenery there like?
It was ther family name:
Macleod
6.
Why
did
the
narrator
ask
Piquette
respectfully:
bet
you
know
a
lot
about the woods and all that. eh.
The
narrator
knew
she
was
an
Indian,
and
she
thought
she
might
know
something about woods and could tell
her that.
7.
Why
was
the
narrator
startled
and
her
feelings
hurt
by
Piquette's
rude
answers to her questions?
She just wanted
to
talk to
her, and she
didin
’
t
expect
Piquette could
say that
cold words, which upset her.
8.
Why did the
narrator say that all that summer Piquette
remained as both
a reproach and a
mystery to her?
She failed to meet her
father
’
s expectation to be
friends with Piquette. Besides,
she
didn
’
t know what it was
beneath her cold face.
9.
What does the
narrator mean when she says:
I saw
her.
2
Only at that moment could
she see Piquette
’
s lively
face and see through her
heart.
10.
What is the
full name of the narrator of the story?
Vanessa Macleod
11.
How is the
disappearance of the loons related to the theme of
this story?
The loons disappear with the
development of the lakeside and the growing of
the population. They
can
’
t find their position.
Piquette and her people are similar to
this, they can
’
t
find their position in this society, which makes
them homeless, then
causes
Piquette
’
s death.
Ⅱ
. Paraphrase
1.
…with a face
that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter
(para. 2 )
with a face that never
laughed
2.
Sometimes old Jules, or his son
Lazarus, would get mixed up in a
Saturday-
night brawl… (para.
2)
Sometimes, ole Jules, or his son
Lazarus, would get involved in a noisy fight
for being drunk on a Saturday
night.
3.
…her
attendance
had
always
been
sporadic
and
her
interest
in
schoolwork negligible (para. 3)
She
often missed classes and had little interest in
schoolwork.
4.
she existed for me only as a vaguely
embarrassing presence (para. 3)
She always made
me feel embarrassed
5.
She dwelt and
moved somewhere within my scope of vision (para.
3)
She lived and moved somewhere I could
see.
6.
If
it
came
to
a
choice
between
Grandmother
MacLeod
and
Piquette,
Piquette would win
hands down, nits or not. (para. 14)
If my mother
had to make choices between my grandmother and
Piquette, she
would rather choose
Piquette, no matter she had nits or not.
7.
Her defiant face, momentarily, became
unguarded and unmasked, and in
her eyes
there was a terrifying hope. (para. 60)
3
At that moment, her face was unguarded
and unmasked with a determination
of
challenge, and she had an intense hope for
life.
8.
she looked a mess, to tell you the
truth, a real slattern, dressed any old
how (para. 69)
She
looked
unclean,
to
tell
you
the
truth,
she
was
a
dirty,
untidy
woman,
dressed in a careless
way.
9.
She was up in court a couple of times
—
drunk and disorderly, of
course.
(para. 69)
She
was
caught
up
in
court
for
several
times,
because
she
had
too
much
alcohol
and was disordered in life.
IV
.
All
the
following
words
are
adjectives
with
different
suffixes.
Give
further
examples of adjectives with the same
suffixes.
1)
contagious:
luxurious, ambiguous,
ferocious, oblivious, obnoxious,
abstemious
2) negligible:
irreconcilable, responsible,
extensible, irascible, invincible,
frangible
3) enviable:
navigable, respectable, unbearable,
unobjectionable, remarkable
4)
friendly:
homely, lovely,
godly, earthly, costly, brotherly, sickly,
orderly
5) plaintive:
interactive,
sensitive, respective, comparative,
exclusive,initiative
6)
tuneful:
graceful, handful, lawful,
meaningful, thankful,successful, peaceful
7)
expressionless:
motionless,
meaningless, homeless, loveless,
emotionless
8)
wavy:
classy, thirsty, snowy, furry,
curly, dirty, bloody, windy, healthy
9)
conventional:
functional,
international, emotional, additional, educational
10)tubercular:
vernacular, circular, polar,
particular,
quadrangular,
regular
V
. The following phrases are
taken from the text, all with a participle as an
adjective. Explain why a present or
past participle is used in each case and then
translate the phrases into Chinese:
1.
walk in
limping manner
一瘸一拐地走路
2.
presence that
causes embarrassment
令人尴尬的人
(
或事
)
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