大学英语专业-高级英语教材第1单元课后答案

Unit 1 Key to exercises

Text comprehension

Ⅰ. Decide which of the following best states the author’s purpose.

Ⅱ. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.

1. T. Refer to Paragraph 1.

2. F. Refer to Paragraph 1. What the author stated in the paragraph is that her sister graduated from high school.

3. F. Refer to Paragraph 3. They took a railroad train during the day.

4. F. Refer to Paragraph 5. The conditions of the dining car might not be like what the author’s mother had told them. She said so for fear that her kids could have been hurt by the fact that Black people were not allowed into railroad dining cars.

5. F. Refer to Paragraph 6. She simply did not go with the other girls in the class because, as the nuns had told her, they would be staying in a hotel which would not rent rooms to blacks.

6. T. Refer to Paragraph 12.

7. T. Refer to Paragraph 17.

8. F. Refer to Paragraph 18. Her father only promised she could type it out on the office typewriter, but whether she managed to send the letter to the president was not mentioned.

Ⅲ.Answer the following questions.

1. Refer to Paragraph 1. Washington D.C. is known to all for its special position, as capital of the nation. The author, like many children who had never been to Washington D.C. before, could have only learned about it through story telling, as if it were a place existing in fables.

2. Refer to Paragraph 3 and 4. A mobile feast implies a large quantity and variety of food in a box including two roasted chickens, packed slices of brown bread and butter, green pepper and carrot sticks, a spice bun and rock-cakes, iced cakes and tea, sweet pickles, dill pickles, and peaches, which were prepared by their mother for them to eat on their way to Washington, D.C.

3. Refer to Paragraph 3, 4, and 5. She must be kind, prudent, responsible, considerate and caring for her family.

4. Refer to Paragraph 7. They lodged in one large room with two double beds, in a black-street hotel that belonged to a friend of her father’s who was in real estate.

5. Refer to Paragraph 8 and 9. She had long before realized the national day celebration in her country was nothing but mockery for the Black people. As a black girl, she was in that silent agony that characterized all of her childhood summers. Apparently she hated the Fourth of July, but in essence, what agonized her was the racial discrimination and segregation.

6. Refer to Paragraph 16. The waitress dropped her eyes looking very embarrassed.

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