UnitHowIFoundMyVoice习题答案综合教程四.doc

Unit 9 How I Found My Voice Key to the Exercises Text comprehension I . Decide which of the following best states the authors purpose of writing. A II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. 1. T (Refer to Paragraph 2.) 2. T (Refer to Paragraph 4.) 3. F (Refer to Paragraph 7. The narrator did not communicate with the farm animals in their language. As he could not speak before strangers due to his timidity, he could only talk to animals as a way of venting his feelings.) 4. F (Refer to Paragraph 13. The professor challenged him over his authorship not because he did not believe he had written the poem but because he wanted to provoke the boy to speak the words in public and tried to help him overcome his stuttering in this way.) 5. F (Refer to Paragraph 14. He stared at Professor Crouch in disbelief and even felt angry at what he said.) 6. T (Refer to Paragraph 29.) III. Answer the following questions. 1. Refer to Paragraph 2. Because the great achievements were far beyond the expectations of such a poor stutterer as he used to be. When he was young he was completely unable to speak in public due to his serious stuttering. Thus he could never imagine that he would make such good achievements. 2. Refer to Paragraph 4. Because he felt that the place he moved to was drastically different climatically and culturally from where he had been. 3. Refer to Paragraph 6. Because he wanted to avoid the humiliation he suffered there for his stuttering. 4. Refer to Paragraph 7. Because the animals never laughed at him and he was not nervous at all when he talked to them as a way of venting his feelings. 5. Refer to Paragraph 9. Because he loved English classics, especially poetry, which was one of the subjects taught at the narrators school. His deep love for poetry was vividly described in the metaphor: He held a book of poems as if it were a diamond necklace, turning pages as if uncovering treasures. 6. Refer t