高级英语Lessn 15 No Signposts in the Sea 课后练习及答案.docVIP

EXERCISES 15 Ⅰ. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:　 1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr get by observing Laura without her knowing it? What compliment does he pay her?　 2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty? Was he always like that?　 3) What effect does the moon and the cool water of the swimming pool have on him?　 4) What kind of coastline does he like? Why?　 5) Who is in charge of the lighthouse? Does he like his job?　 6) Why does Edmund Carr like islands?　 7) Why does he say: God, is there no escape from suffering and sin? 　 8) What is the green flash?Ⅱ. Paraphrase:　 1) The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs　 2) Or maybe Lauras unwitting influence has called it out.　 3) Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane.　 4) And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colours of sunsets!　 5) I want my fill of beauty before I go.　 6) Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution.　 7) there is a touch of rough poetry about him　 8) I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence　 9) I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the Colonels otherwise not very interesting mind.　 10) This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.Ⅲ.Translate the following into Chinese:　 1) What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high alti tudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Lauras character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome