UnitTheDiscusThrower习题答案综合教程四.doc

Unit 8 The Discus Thrower Key to the Exercises Text comprehension I . Decide which of the following best states the authors purpose of writing. C II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. 1. F (Refer to Paragraph 1.) 2. F (Refer to Paragraph 2. Here it is stated that the patients skin is not brown from the sun, though it looks deeply tanned from a distance. Rather, his skin becomes reddish because he was in his last stage of life, that is, he was approaching death.) 3. F (Refer to Paragraph 7. When the doctor offered his help, the patient remained silent for a long time, and then in real earnest he asked for a pair of shoes, hoping against hope that the doctor would make him a whole being again.) 4. T (Refer to Paragraph 7.) III. Answer the following questions. 1. Refer to Paragraph 1. No, he doesnt. Instead, he finds the activity justifiable. For one thing, he thinks the activity is well-meant, i.e. he wants to collect more pathological evidence in order to give the patients more effective treatment. For another, his activity is not spying in the true sense, for the act is far from furtive. 2. Refer to Paragraph 2. The fact that there are no get-well cards, no small, private caches of food and day-old flowers shows that he has been abandoned by his family and friends. 3. Refer to Paragraph 7. As a blind man, he is restrained in activity. Now without legs he is completely confined to bed. Like a caged bird, he longs for freedom and dreams of going back to his career. Thus it is understandable why he repeatedly asks for shoes. 4. Refer to Paragraphs 9?0. This is the way he expresses his wrath with the unfair fate. He is deprived of sight and now his legs. Deserted by society, he is left with very little. Indignant as he is, he can avenge himself upon nobody. What he can do is only to crash his plate against the wall to vent his anger and despair. Moreover, he would rather die in a stroke like the plate than li