高级英语Lesson 1 (Book 2)Face to Face with Hurricane Camille 课后练习及答案
Suggested Reference books [SRB]
1. any standard dictionary
2. Walker's Rhyming Dictionary
3. any book on lexicology or word building
Ⅸ. In this narration, the writer makes effective use of verbs. List 10 verbs you consider used most effectively and give your reasons.
Ⅹ. Mention two examples of each of the following: simile, metaphor, personification.
Ⅺ. Why does the writer use so many elliptical and short simple sentences? Illustrate your answer with a few examples.
Ⅻ. Analyse paragraph 1. Does it have a topic sentence, a central idea? How is the paragraph developed? What is the function of the last sentence?
ⅩⅢ. Correct the mistakes in the following sentences. Avoid run-on sentences, sentence fragments, dangling modifiers, illogical or faulty parallelism and unnecessary shifts in point of view.
1. The basketball game was canceled. Because half of the players were in bed with the flu.
2. These snakes are dangerous however, most snakes are quite harmless.
3. Looking out toward the horizon, she saw only the old cabin in which Mary had been born. A single cottonwood that had escaped the drought. The apparently boundless expanse of sunburned prairie.
4. With the knowledge that, although the documents have been stolen, they have not yet been seen by a foreign agent.
5. Last year, after graduating from high school, my father put me to work in his office.
6. To appreciate the poem, it must be read aloud.
7. I helped my mother wash clothes last Sunday, thus causing me to miss that film.
8. Driving across the state, many beautiful lakes were seen.
9. Unselfish people not only are happier but they are more successful.
10. I finally realized that my daydreaming was not making me beautiful, slender, or friends.
11. He is a man of wide experience and who is also very popular with the farmers.
12. I am interested in electronics, because it is a new field and which offers interesting opportunities to one who knows science