高级英语课后练习答案下.docx

1、高级英语课后练习答案下The Company in Which I Work by Joseph Heller 课后练习 (Exercises on the text) A. Answer the following questions on the text. 1. In the company, everyone is afraid of al least one person. 2. Because their position is the lowest. 3. Because they fear that they may, start doing worse and they sh

2、ould begin doing better. 4. They live and work under pressure that is extraordinary. 5. Yes. 6. Because first their salaries are small, arid they know they will not have much trouble finding jobs paying just as little in other companies if they lose their jobs here. 7. They are not expected to chang

3、e reality, but merely to find it if they can and suggest ingenious ways of disguising it. 8. He is bored with his work very often now. 9. On days when hes especially melancholy, he began constructing tables of organization classifying people in the company on the basis of envy, hope, fear, ambition,

4、 frustration, rivalry, hatred, or disappointment. 10. The passage is a satire on the companys ruining the normal human feelings and on the sad fact that people scramble for power and profit at the cost of sacrificing their dignity. B. Translate the following into Chinese. 1他们召开会议，研究该提升谁，别人准备并发布的声明上也

5、要署上他们的名 字。 2他不时地让我清楚一个事实，即他希望我的部门所出的成果在显示给其他部门 之前先给他看看。 3把统计数字复印，分发，这种做法的结果是公司每个部门的每个销售办公室的 推销员在任何时期内业绩的好坏都不断地处于公众的审查和评论之中。 4纪律和指令激励并驱使他们。 5他们的经费很少，因为不再允许他们承担大的项目。 6不仅推销员认为（我们所做的是重要的），而且那些精明的。能力强的高级管 理层的人员也这样认为。 7做令人厌烦的事情是否比把令人厌烦的事情交给别人去做而自己却无所事事更 令人厌烦呢？这真是一个要做出决定的问题。 8我时常感到我被利用只是因为我被要求去做能付我工资的工作。 C

6、. Fill in the blanks in each sentence with the best word or expression from the box below, changing its from when necessary. 1. having fallen victim to 2. with honors 3. have trouble 4. was held to blame 5. credited with 6. regardless of 7. squandered 8. motivated D. Circle the right word or express

7、ion in the brackets in each of the following sentences. 1. incurred 2. ingenuous 3. explicit 4. compliment 5. simulated 6. brooded 7. grudge 8. shrewd E. Explain the underlined words in English. 1. how much they sold in the same week 2. they tend to lose temper unreasonably 3. after several months o

8、f feeling sorry for his wifes death, he usually takes up managerial position. 4. which they have to obey. 5. Usually, they are happy, full of confidence and glad to be with people. 6. its a stupid person who believes. 7. except a temporary feeling of pride and highly spirited, I only feel bored and

9、hopeless. 8. after a difficult period of time, an emotion of enormous disappointment comes over me F. Translate the following into English. It s not easy to work in a big company. There is the rigid hierarchy in such company. If you want to achieve success and promotion, youll have to do your work w

10、ell under great pressure and be subjected to the discipline and direction. Every day you work under strict supervision with great fear. If you re doing a job without any opportunity to be promoted, and you can t find another job for certain reasons, youll be bored with the present work and feel tire

11、d of it. You will lose hope for the future and lose your ambition and motivation for the work, and finally turn to be a mediocre person. G. Write a short passage of 150 - 200 words in English on the topic Do You Like to Be a Salesman in a Big Company? Why or Why Not?. I Like to Be a Salesman in a Bi

12、g Company There are many kinds of positions in a big company. If I can choose one of them, Id like to be a salesman. For one thing, I 11 be able to fully explore my latent power by working under pressure, facing challenges from the highly competitive market. To be a salesman, I can usually be vigoro

13、us, friendly, generous and confident. Travelling will be part of my job as a salesman which allows me to meet people of different culture, different personalities. And travelling also enables me to see the world. Another reason I like to be a salesman is that I can have a feeling of being proud and

14、important, since a company exists to sell. All the work done by others is only a pavement of a road for me to walk upon. Furthermore, it will bring me great pleasure if I can keep a friendly relationship and good cooperation with the previous customers, and bring in new ones. This will be of much be

15、nefit both to the company and to myself. Evelineby James Joyce 课后练习 (Exercises on the text) A. Answer the following questions on the text. 1. There had been seven people in her family, now there are five. Her mother and Ernest died. 2. She was a waitress in a shop. No, she didnt find it pleasant. 3.

16、 She did the whole housework: cleaning, cooking, shopping, etc. 4. Her father threatened her by saying he would beat her if not for her dead mothers sake. 5. Frank was a sailor who came from Buenos Ayres. 6. Her father thought that all the sailors were bad men so he forbade her seeing Frank. 7. He a

17、sked her to go with him and become his wife. 8. She wanted to have a new life but didnt have enough courage to have a try. 9. The vision of her mothers miserable life made her suddenly decide to go to the boat station. 10. After reading the story I felt sympathetic for Eveline. She lived an unpleasa

18、nt life. But when the chance was there to change it, she was not brave enough to embrace it. Its certain that she would feel worse. B. Translate the following into Chinese. 1她的头靠在窗帘上，鼻孔上是提花窗帘布上的尘土气。 2她的父亲常用他那根黑刺李木棍到地里把他们赶出来。 3也许她再也看不到她做梦都没想过要与之分开的一切所熟悉的东西了。 4干教堂装修业的哈里几乎总是在乡下什么地方。 5他站在大门口，尖顶帽推在后脑勺上；头

19、发向前散乱会在晒得黝黑的脸 上。 6她好像又一次回到客厅另一侧的那间闷热阴暗的房间中，听见外面在奏 着一首忧伤的意大利曲子。 7从棚子的大宽门看出去，她看了一眼黑糊糊的船体，舷窗亮着灯光。 8她面对着他，脸色苍白，表情麻木，就像一只无助的动物。 C. Fill in the blank in each sentence with the best word or expression from the box below, changing its form when necessary. 1. tumbling 2. unaccustomed 3. Where on earth 4. spe

20、ll 5. inhaled 6. went for 7. was laid up 8. anguish D. Circle the right word or expression in the brackets in each of the following sentences. 1. Invariably 2. undesirable 3. squabbles 4. pitiful 5. melancholy 6. stumbled 7. unspeakably 8. spell E. Explain the underlined words in English: 1. the dar

21、kness covering the avenue gradually 2. and someone would be hired to take her place in the shop through advertisement 3. Be more cheerful 4. Harry always tried to offer as much as he could 5. do her shopping 6. for the sake of amusement 7. Her departure time is approaching. 8. that a common people e

22、nds his life in such a foolish way F. Translate the following into English: Eveline had agreed to marry Frank, an Irish sailor living in Buenos Ayres. They got to know each other not long after Frank came over to Dublin for a holiday. They were about to take a passage for Buenos Ayres that night. Th

23、e boat was leaving in a few hours. But she still doubted if it s wise to go with Frank to such a distant country. She disliked her work in the stores and her father didnt treat her well. Anyway this was the life she was familiar with. Whats more, before her mother died she had promised her to keep t

24、he house together as long as she could. But the memory of her mothers sad life made her feel an impulse of terror. She wanted to enjoy a happy life with Frank! She changed her mind just before stepping on the boat. Then the boat was away with Frank. Everyone dreams of living a happy life, but it nee

25、ds courage to make the dream come true. G. Write a short passage of 150 - 200 words in English on the topic I Think Eveline Should (Not) Leave Home. I Think Eveline Should Leave Home Eveline seemed to have spent a rather happy childhood. But as time went by, everything has changed. As her mother was

26、 dead, she had to carry on the load of housekeeping and the task of keeping the family together. She had to make sure that the two young children went to school on time and got their meals regularly. She had to face the violent threat from her father without anybody to protect her. At the same time,

27、 she had to work in a Store and gave out all her hard - earned wages for the familys sake. As luck would have it, Eveline got to know Frank, a sailor who was kind, manly and open - hearted. Shes happy and excited to be together with Frank who brought her to see operas; and even sang a little to her.

28、 Frank was the first person who was able to bring her hope, opportunity and perhaps love for the future life. Yet, at the crossroad of her life she hesitated and decided not to follow Frank, but to return to her routine and hopeless life. I think Eveline really should leave home with Frank to explor

29、e a new life. Even though it might turn out to be a failure, it would still be much better than passively live in the memory with regret.Whats Wrong with Our Press?by Marya Mannes课后练习 (Exercises on the text) A. Answer the following questions on he text. 1. It is ironic to say that newspapers have tw

30、o advantages, by saying so, the author wants to say that newspapers have lost its function of informing people. 2. In TV programs, there is no intense partisanship. TV provides a wide range of opinion. TV does not tolerate the kind of distortion of fact, the kind of virulence and personal peeve. TV

31、doesnt feed the appetite for hate, etc. 3. The resistance to change marks the end of newspapers usefulness. The author thinks that the resistance to change is the end of growth, which, in turn, marks the end of usefulness. 4. TV does a better job in informing the public than the nations press as a whole, but television coverage of news is superficial and inadequate. 5. On local newspapers, you will find no enjoyment or interest. Local newspapers are not worth reading. 6. The author is a newspaper woman