5．他一向独断专行，当他自己决定了某件事时，这件事就要执行。在他的臣民都循规蹈矩的按照他的意志来行事时，他性情和蔼可亲；但是每当出现一些小小的麻烦，他的臣民行为越轨时，他会变得更为和蔼可亲，因为没有什么事情能比打抱不平，维护公正更令他高兴的了。
IV. Cloze
But even here the exuberant and barbaric fancy asserted itself. The arena of the king was built, not to give the people an (1)o of hearing the rhapsodies of dying gladiators, nor to (2)e them to view the inevitable conclusion of a conflict (3)b religious opinions and hungry jaws, but (4)f purposes far better adapted (5)t widen and develop the mental energies of the (6)p . The vast amphitheater, (7)w its encircling galleries, its mysterious vaults, and its unseen passages, was an agent of poetic (8)j , in which crime was (9)p , or virtue rewarded, by the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible (10)c . When a subject was accused of a crime of sufficient importance to interest the king, public notice was given (11)t on an appointed day the fate of the (12)a person would be decided in the king?s arena --- a structure which well (13)d its name; although its form and plan were (14)b from afar, its purpose emanated solely (15)f___ the brain of this man, who, every barleycorn a king, knew no tradition to (16)w he owed more allegiance (17)t pleased his fancy, and (18)w ingrafted on every adopted (19)f of human thought and action (20)t rich growth of his barbaric idealism.
The institution was a very popular one. When the (21)p gathered together on one of the great trial (22)d they never knew whether they were to (23)w a bloody a slaughter or a hilarious wedding. This element of uncertainty (24)l an interest to the occasion (25)w it could not (26)o have attained. Thus the (27)m were entertained and pleased, and the thinking part of the community (28)c bring no charge of unfairness (29)a this plan; for did not the accused person have the whole (30)m ___ in his own hands?
V. Proofreading: In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, 1.florid, and untrammeled, became the half of him which was 1. 2.barbaric. He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of 2. 3.authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied 3. 4.fancies into facts. He was greatly given to be 4. 5.self-communing; and, while he and himself agreed upon 5. 6.anything, the thing was done. When every member of his 6. 7.domestic and political systems moving smoothly in its 7. 8.appointed course, his nature was so bland and genial; but 8. 9.whenever there was little hitch, and some of his orbs got out 9. 10.of their orbits, he was blander and even genial still, for 10. nothing pleased him so much as to make the crooked straight, and crush down uneven places. 10
Text II
Rewrite the following
For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as close in meaning as possible to the original sentence by using the given words as the beginning.
1. She was not permitted to have wooden blocks or china dolls or rubber dogs or linen books,
because such materials were considered cheap for the daughter of a king.
Such materials as 2. The king sent a royal ambassador to the courts of five neighboring kingdoms to announce
that he would give his daughter?s hand in marriage to the prince who brought her the gift she liked the most.
The king would 3. The princess examined the gift and squealed with delight, for she had never seen tin
before or mica or feldspar or hornblende.
The princess was so delighted 4. The other princes roared with disdainful laughter when they saw the tawdry gift the fifth
prince had brought to the princess.
At the 5. He was a poor king whose realm bad been overrun by mice and locusts and wizards and
mining engineers so that there was nothing much of value left in it.
There was nothing TEXT I
Unit Five
THE LADY, OR THE TIGER?
II. Rewrite the following
For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as close in meaning as possible to the original sentence by using the given words as the beginning.
1. Among his courtiers was a young man of that fineness of blood and lowness of station
common to the conventional heroes of romance who love royal maidens.
Like the conventional heroes of romance who love royal maidens, a young man among______________________________ 2. She loved him with an ardor that had enough of barbarism in it to make it exceedingly
warm and strong.
Her love for him appeared exceedingly warm and strong_______ 3. The king did not hesitate nor waver in regard to his duty in the premises.
The king was always impatient _______________________ 11
4. The king would not think of allowing any fact of this kind to interfere with the workings
of the tribunal, in which he took such great delight and satisfaction.
According to the king, any fact of this kind would never________ 5. It involves a study of the human heart which leads us through devious mazes of passion,
out of which it is difficult to find our way.
To study the human heart, we find it just ____________________
III. Translate the following into English
1. 然而，更多地浮现在她脑海的是，他站在另一扇门前！在难熬的幻觉中，当她看到
他打开少女的门时，脸上洋溢着狂喜的模样时，她气愤得咬牙切齿，撕扯头发。她看到他大步向前，迎接那面颊通红，喜气洋洋的女孩；她看到他拉着那个女孩儿，为自己命不该绝而狂喜；她听到在场的观众的欢呼声，和刺耳的庆贺钟声；她看到那牧师，捧着欢乐的花朵，向那对新人走去，当着她的面宣布他们结成合法夫妻，她还看到他和新娘手牵手，愉快的走在撒满鲜花的通道上，背后还跟着一大群欢呼雀跃的观众，她那绝望的尖叫声也被欢呼声所淹没。此时此刻，她的精神上所受的情感煎熬是何等的痛苦啊！
2. 这个爱情幸福地持续了好几个月，终于有一天被国王偶然察觉。国王当机立断，毫
不犹豫地行使其管辖权，年轻人马上被投入监狱，同时，在国王的竞技场受审的日子也定了下来。这个当然是一个空前重要的日子，举国上下和国王陛下对这次审判的进展都甚感兴趣。这是一个前所未有的案例，从来没有哪个平民斗胆爱上国王的千金。虽然在若干年后这类事情已变得很平常，但是在当时仍然是新奇而令人吃惊的。
3． 这个问题我们越是思考就越是难以解答。它涉及到对于人的心理研究，这种研究有
助于我们通过复杂诱惑的感情迷宫。因为这些感情迷宫使人难以辨明方向，找到出口。公正的读者，请设想一下，假如这个问题不是由你，而是由那位性格冲动而半野蛮的并受到绝望和妒嫉的烈火双重煎熬的公主来做出决定，结果会怎么样呢？她已经失去了他，而又是谁会拥有他呢？
4． 这个半开化的国王有个正处在豆蔻年华的女儿，其绝伦的美貌和他那异想天开的古
怪念头 一样令人难以形容，其狂野与蛮横与他如出一辙。自然，她是父亲的掌上明珠，国王爱她胜于一切。在他的朝臣中，有一个年轻人，他也像那些浪漫爱情故事里爱上公主的主人公一样，血统高贵，但地位卑微。这位公主对她的情人甚感满意，因为他英俊勇敢，在这个王国里无人能及。她狂热地爱着他，那充满野性的爱使她的热情超乎寻常的炽热。
IV. Cloze
This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid (1)f , and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his (2)o . As is usual in such cases, she was the (3)a of his eye, and was loved by him above all humanity. (4)A his courtiers was a (5)y man of that fineness of (6)b and lowness of station common to the conventional (7)h of romance who love royal maidens. This royal maiden was well satisfied with her lover, for he was (8)h and brave to a degree unsurpassed in all this kingdom; and she loved him (9)w an ardor that had enough of barbarism in it to
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(10)m_____ it exceedingly warm and strong.
This love affair moved on happily for many months, (11)u one day the king happened to (12)d its existence. He did not hesitate nor waver in (13)r to his duty in the premises. The youth (14)w immediately cast into prison, and a day was appointed (15)f his trial in the king?s arena. This, of course, was an especially important (16)o ; and his majesty as well as all the people, was greatly (17)i in the workings and development of this trial. (18)N before had such a case occurred; never before had a subject dared to love the (19)d of a king. In after-years such things (20)b___ commonplace enough; but then they were, in no slight degree, novel and startling.
The more we reflect upon this question, the harder it is to (21)a . It (22)i a study of the human heart which leads us (23)t devious mazes of passion, out of which it is (24)d to find our way. Think of it, fair reader, not as if the decision of the (25)q____ depended (26)u yourself, (27)b upon that hot-blooded, semi-barbaric princess, her soul at a white (28)h beneath the (29)c fires of despair and jealousy. She had lost him, but who (30)s have him?
V. Proofreading: But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door! How in her grievous reveries had she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair, when she saw his start of rapturous 1.delight as he opened the door of the lady! How her soul 1. 2.had burned agony when she had seen him rush to meet 2. 3.that woman, upon her flushing cheek and sparkling eye of 3. 4.triumph; when she had seen him led her forth, his whole 4. 5.frame kindled with the joy of recovered life; when she had 5. 6.heard of the glad shouts from the multitude, and the wild 6. 7.ringings of the happy bells; when she had seen the priest, 7. 8.with his joyous followers, advance the couple, and make 8. 9.them man and wife before her very eyes; and when she had 9. 10.seen them walk off away together on their path of 10. flowers, followed by the tremendous shouts of the hilarious multitude, in which her one despairing shriek was lost and drowned! Text II
Rewrite the following
For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as close in meaning as possible to the original sentence by using the given words as the beginning.
1. Not that the desire to kill had suddenly come to her, or that she felt she would leave India
safer than she had found it, with one wild beast less.
It was not out of her sudden desire for_________________________ 13
2. In a world that is supposed by some people to be moved by hunger and by love, Mrs.
Packletide was an exception; her movement and motives were largely governed by dislike of Loona Bimberton.
As an exception in a world that _______________________________ 3. The one great anxiety was lest he should die of old age before the day of Mrs. Packletide?s
shoot.
People were greatly anxious__________________________________ 4. A goat, with a loud bleat, such as even a partially deaf tiger might be expected to hear on a
still night, was tied down at a correct distance.
A goat, with so ____________________________________________ 5. Mothers carrying their babies through the jungle after the day?s work in the fields hushed
their singing lest they might disturb the restful sleep of the old tiger.
For fear of disturbing the restful sleep of the old tiger,______________ TEXT I
Unit Six
DULL WORK
II. Rewrite the following
For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as close in meaning as possible to the original sentence by using the given words as the beginning.
1. The outstanding characteristic of man?s creativeness is the ability to transmute trivial
impulses into momentous consequences.
Man?s creativeness is especially shown in the fact that_________ 2. The greatness of man is in what he can do with petty grievances and joys, and with
common physiological pressures and hungers.
Man?s ability to ____________________________________ 3. An eventful life exhausts rather than stimulates.
In an eventful life, man?s creativity is _________________ 4. Chances are that had my work been of absorbing interest I could not have done any
thinking and composing on the company?s time or even on my own time after returning from work.
It would have been impossible for me to _________________ 5. People who find dull jobs unendurable are often dull people who do not know what to do
themselves when at leisure.
Finding dull jobs unendurable, those people, _____________
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